Fire and Fury: California’s Mismanagement Takes Center Stage

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're in the public safety face.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I hate to even ask this question, but the president
electures to attack you, blame you.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Four days one can't even respond to it. I mean,
it's people are literally flean. People have lost their lives,
kids lost their schools, families completely torn asunder, churches burned down.
This guy wanted to politicize it.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I have a lot of thoughts.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
And I know what I want to say, I won't.
I stood next to a president of the United States
of America today and I was proud to be with
Joe Biden, and he had the backs of every single
person in this community. Didn't play politics, didn't try to
divide any of it.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Wow, this is I'm telling you what I I How
do I put this? The incompetency that has been demonstrated
by Democrats with regards to this wildfire has been one

(01:02):
of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen in my life.
And I'm just I mean, I'm I'm I'm almost speechless.
Not because you know, I don't expect them to be
this incompetent, if that makes sense. I'm speechless because they

(01:27):
seem to think that nothing that they do is incorrect.
They seem they act like nothing that they do is
wrong and there's nothing to remedy. If you've listened to
any of these soundbites that they have given, it is
amazing too. It's not it's not even an act of

(01:50):
not being aware. It's just they think that they're they
don't do anything wrong. I was listening to Karen Bass.
I mean, we've got a lot to audio to play
for you guys today, and I mean, like I said,
it's just really amazing. She's she's this woman lives in

(02:10):
a bubble. Guys. She lives in a bubble. She believes
apparently that there's you know, she's not really culpable for anything.
Nothing is wrong. Can't imagine why. I mean, yes, it's
really devastating, but let's not politicize it. And that's the
big thing that you're gonna be hearing a lot about
and we're going to talk about it. Welcome to the program,

(02:31):
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And uh so we're just we're we're audio today, but
we have a ton of stuff, ton of stuff to
touch on, all right, So first and foremost, this the
latest with the devastating fire. I again, when you look

(03:58):
at and and I wanted to get all of the
things that they all of the all of the moves
that Democrats have made that ultimately contributed to this horrific
I think it's they're saying it's like the worst fire
in LA's history, and the whether it's the budget that

(04:22):
was cut for fire services. There was the budget cut
for fire services. There was the hydrants that were running out,
the reservoirs weren't filled. They said that a little over
half of the Pacific Palisades is gone, a little over

(04:42):
half of an entire community is gone. The Hollywood Hills
are burning, there is zero containment and all I mean
it's the sad thing is is that while wildfires happen,
a lot of this a station is preventable.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Now.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
As we said, Karen Bass was in she's the mayor.
She was in Ghana. This was what happened. She was
in the report. She was in the airport. She just
she comes in from Ghana. This is right at the airport,
and an Irish reporter just happens to be there at
the airport when she comes in and they confront her.

(05:23):
Audio sound bite one this was she You don't hear
her respond because she stares off into the distance. Listen
to this.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
their homes were burning. Do you regret cutting the fire
department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayer? Have you
nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say
to the citizens today? Elon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent.

(05:53):
Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor have you absolutely
not thing to say to the citizens today? You're dating
with this disaster?

Speaker 7 (06:05):
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
She just stares off into the distance, just stares off
into the distance, doesn't even answer, doesn't say anything, stares
off into the distance, has no answer for them at all, whatsoever.
Her aid just sort of shuffles the reporter to the side.
I mean, it's unreal, unreal. And then she had her

(06:32):
press conference audio number two. Listen to see if you
can catch her second gaff here. This is unbelievable. Build
stronger than ever right now.

Speaker 8 (06:44):
If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.
All of this can be found at URL Los Angeles.
Together is how we will get through this.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
So she says URL, oh, just you can find all
these resources at URL. She's just reading the script. She's
not prepared. There's no empathy. She hasn't demonstrated any empathy
for any of the citizenry, not a single bit. You
heard Gavin Newsom, he was trying his best to act emotional.

(07:22):
Wasn't working trying his best to act emotional. I mean,
it's just something, it's just really, I mean, your heart
breaks for all of these people. There's a ton of
people who know that have lost their homes. Their homes
are gone, their homes are gone. There are people who
are dead because of how this has been managed all

(07:47):
of these years of Democrat legislation. And I'm going to
tell you something. I'll be damned if I hear anybody say, oh, well,
you can't politicize this. No, that is so weak. It
is lame and weak. Shame on anyone who says that
they ought to be shamed out of human existence, because
that's an excuse that they are using to dodge accountability.

(08:09):
They're dodging accountability, and they're trying to say that, well,
you know, any kind of criticism of our actual inactions, well,
that's just politicizing it. It's politicizing it. To point out
that the mayor of Los Angeles cut the budget for
fire services, it's apparently politicizing to point out that they

(08:35):
didn't refill their reservoirs. Did you know that California had
record rainfall for two years in a row, record rainfall,
and they just let it all go to the ocean.
They didn't add anything to the reservoirs. They didn't. They didn't,
They didn't expand any reservoirs. They didn't do anything. They
were warned about it a year ago. They were warned
about it again last fall. So they're shamelessly now trying

(08:59):
to redefine accurate and deserved criticism as politicizing. There are
people who are dead because of their inaction and incompetence.
There's no excuse for it, no excuse. I mean, there's
We have friends who had evacuate last night and they

(09:25):
weren't even near where at first the first part of
the day, my friend wasn't even near the some of
the main fires as they were rolling through Pacific Palisades.
But then when it started hitting Hollywood Hills and just
mowing through the underbrush that's between the structures, it just

(09:45):
sped up. They said, it's like, you know, a thousand
feet in seconds. It's just it's unbelievable. And they were
prepared to evacuate, but once they got the order, you
have kind of minutes to get out. You can be
as prepared as possible, but nothing prepares you for the
speed of a wildfire just devouring all of the kindling

(10:08):
that the city refused to clear. A lot of celebrities
lost their houses. There was a guy who was slammed
on social media. He lives out in Pacific Palisades. He
deleted his social media account and everything. His name is
Keith Wasserman and he had tweeted quote, does anyone have

(10:32):
access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades?
Need to act fast here all neighbors' houses burning. Will
pay any amount thank you. People attacked him. They tried
to shame him for what they said was his privilege.
But the irony is that all of these people, if

(10:53):
they had the means, would have done the exact same thing.
They were mad at him because he had the money
to do something. He wasn't trying to flex. He wasn't
trying to, you know, showcase his wealth anything like that.
He just wanted to save his home. Apparently he's got kids.
He just wanted to save his home. And the left

(11:13):
lost their mind at this guy. Class warfare never fails,
even in the face of a catastrophe, and they just
they ran him off of Twitter, they doxed him, They
found out everything that they could about this guy, all
simply because he was trying to save his house and

(11:34):
it ultimately he wasn't able to He knew that it
was probably gonna burn. A friend shared a text with
him where he said that his house had was gone
and the people were aggravated him. Oh, he's a developer.
He skipped paying taxes. The left has no idea anything
about the economy. It's shameful. Some of these people need
to be dragged through the streets. He used every single deduction,

(11:58):
every single loophole that everybody else can use. And if
these people are mad that he's using a loophole that
they didn't know about, then there are morons who need
to be upset at either themselves or their accountants. But
this is just an excuse for the left to try
to shame people who aren't lazy like they are and
who want to go out and work hard. Infuriating we've

(12:18):
got headlines on the way, and then the press is
full court press because they're trying to save they're twenty
twenty eight nominee Gavin Newsom at the center.

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Speaker 4 (18:36):
Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you bottom
of this first hour, and we're audio only today. We
have a huge eye storm in Texas and that's prevented
the crew from coming in and that's too dangerous for them,
and so we are not having video portion today, but
you can still obviously we have the audio. We're going
to get to some of the moments from Jimmy Carter's funeral.

(18:57):
There's some few like to people watch, especially where it
concerned elected officials. We got some for you. But also
we are finally hearing from some of these elected officials
in the in terms of the devastation of the California wildfires. Now,
we were playing audio earlier of Karen Bass and we

(19:17):
came in with Gavin Newsom, and yesterday Joe Biden was
was actually out in Los Angeles. His granddaughter had a baby.
It's his first great grandchild. And the only really thing
that he said about these wildfires was this awkward like
whatever this was. This is audio SOMEBDYE six. He's at

(19:38):
this briefing for the California wildfires. And then he's still
he's gonna just choose it to talk about how he's
now a great grandpa and et cetera, et cetera, and
then the press was kicked out. Listen, got.

Speaker 12 (20:00):
The good news is I'm breaking So I'm not going to.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Just a weird time. It's a weird time to do it.
It's just I don't. I mean, it's it just was weird,
And there were a lot of accusations that when he
flew in, they had to suspend some of the water
dumps on the fire because they wouldn't when Marine Water
Air Force one flies in. They control the airspace there

(20:40):
and they shut it down. And there were some accusations
that some of the water drops from uh the fire
for the from the fire department, they're choppers, they weren't
able to launch because they had closed airspace. I have
not seen anything else to verify that claim. I will
say that they had someone with the LA Fire Department

(21:04):
saying that at one point the winds were too gusty
for them to get the choppers up safely to do
these water dumps. So I don't know if it was
one of those situations, but I mean, if you got
Marine one out there and it's too gusty for emergency choppers,
the Marine one's not going to be there. So I
don't know what's I don't know, but I wouldn't be
surprised because that's what happened with North Carolina. Remember that's

(21:28):
the thing that happened with North Carolina that actually did
happen where they had a close airspace when he came in,
and as a result, there were some supplies that couldn't
go out in a timely fashion as a result of that.
But it's just, I mean, more and more information keeps
coming out. And there were some celebrities that I always
thought were pretty left that were saying, no, no, Kevin

(21:49):
Newsom's got to resign his far left parties, of wrecked policies,
of wrecked the party. It was kind of wild to
see it. I don't know, though, as crazy as everything is,
as bad as the devastation is, I don't know if
it's enough to actually convince people to stop voting for Democrats.
I mean, I don't know how much worse it can

(22:10):
get out there. There are John Goodman's house burned down.
Anthony Hopkins, sweet, sweet old Anthony Hopkins, his house is
burned down. There were people who were complaining because the
fire department in their area couldn't get any water out
of the hydrants. And that's the thing, like this has
been such a long, a long standing problem, and they

(22:34):
had the this was I'm looking at this letter. So
at the beginning of last month, the LA Fire Chief
warned Karen Bass that these seventeen million dollars that Bass
cut from the Fire Department's budget quote severely limited the
department's capacity to prepare, for, train for, and respond to

(22:57):
large scale emergencies, including wildfires. They said that it affected
their operations. It created a major challenge due to the
elimination of some of these critical positions that they had
to get rid of. They had a seven million dollar
reduction in overtime variable staffing hours. They weren't able to

(23:21):
maintain core operations, particularly with training and fire prevention. They
said that this crippled them. She sent this report over
and it was dated on December fourth, and that didn't
move them to do anything. Nothing. I've just and they

(23:48):
know that they have fire season every year. They know
that Santa Anna wins at this time of the year,
gets a little gusty. It's like a known thing there.
And yet they didn't do anything, I mean, during this
whole thing. How did she I don't know. They can't.
The defensive Bass is that well, you can't criticize her.

(24:11):
It's mean, she's not a psychic. She could not have
possibly seen, folks that there were going to be such
destructive wildfires in Los Angeles she had no idea, but
she did.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Though.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
That was just one example. The letter that I shared
with you from the fire chief, a whole packet analysis.
I mean, it's the Weather Service was warning about this
days before she even left Los Angeles. Number one, the

(24:47):
National Weather Service sent out they said, the Santa Ana
wins are intense and as a result, you're going to
have significantly higher risk of wildfires. This was before she
ever left Forraghana. She went to go attend the inauguration
of the Gahanian president and she, I mean, I don't

(25:09):
know how you can be that oblivious to fire conditions,
but you still choose to leave your city. I mean
a week ago, over a week ago, they had posted
on social media and it's still up there on X
quote there is potential for moderate to strong Santa Ana

(25:30):
winds and extreme fire weather conditions next Tuesday through Thursday.
They were warning over and over again on social media,
so you know that they were telling the mayoral office
as well. They said use extra caution with potential fire sources.
California Department of Water Resources that same day had a

(25:50):
post on X also same time they said, the last
two years have shown fast improvements to the snowpack, but
they said that they're new normal. They can have significant
rain and snow, it gets struck because it's still a
desert climate. They said that we must always be prepared
by collecting and storing as much water and snow melt

(26:11):
runoff as possible. And it shows that even though they've
had record rainfall, they still are not meeting the quota
for storing water. And then, of course there was the
story that came out the La Times. By three am yesterday,
all the water storage tanks were dry. They had the

(26:38):
National Weather Service, they had the California Department of Water Resources,
they had meteorologists in WSLA. Everything. They were saying that
it's we are in the prime time for wildfires and
then still nothing, still nothing, record rainfall, and yet couldn't

(27:04):
even be bothered to do the bare minimum and make
sure that you had enough water to put it out.
Residents have been begging for help, begging for help. I mean,
there's been nothing contained. The Palisades fires has burned over
three thousand acres. That's crazy. They tens of thousands of

(27:28):
people had to evacuate. There are major mandatory evacuation zones
all over LA and so I'm just they refused. This
is like purposeful negligence. Purposeful negligence. There's not enough firefighters,

(27:49):
no water in the hydrants, not enough firefighters, not enough
infrastructure to fight the fires. And the firefighters doing everything
they can. God love them, they're doing everything that they can.
But it's just it wasn't It's not enough. They can't
fight this. The other thing too. People dug up Karen

(28:10):
Bass's old tweets. You remember when we had the last
ice storm, Ismageddon, where we lost power for like four days,
everything frozen Texas. So Karen Bass, you know, she goes
on this taxpayer, taxpayer funded trip to Ghana. Karen Bass.
People went out and I looked for tweets too. They're

(28:31):
still up there. She went after Ted Cruz, who is
not a state officials, he's a federal lawmakers. Was not
at all even in the planning or the response, or
in the chain of command for Texas's response to the

(28:51):
twenty twenty one ice storm. But she went after him.
She said, quote Ted Cruz feleeing Texas in the middle
of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern
of the GOP abandoned folks in crisis. We need to
build a movement to kick them all out. That's what
everybody said. Everybody said. They're actually using cruise now as

(29:11):
a way to defend Bass being on a taxpayer funded
trip to Ghana while her city burns. Except the difference
is she's the mayor of Los Angeles. She is a
state a city official. She is directly that's her job,
that's her one job. She's directly responsible for the response,

(29:34):
for the planning for all of it. Ted Cruz is
a federal lawmaker. The Governor's not gonna call Ted Cruz
and say, hey, I need you to come down to Austin.
We got a plan for a response to they storm.
That's not how that works. Karen Bass, though, as mayor
of LA does make that call. They're trying to protect
their lawmakers. I mean, Karen Bass is literally the single

(29:59):
most erect only authority on the ground when it comes
to response. She literally is the authority on the ground
for this. She absolutely abandoned her responsibilities. After the National
Weather Service, all California local media, everybody was saying and

(30:21):
reporting all on social media, on radio, on television that
they were in the prime wildfire season and every ingredient
was there for a big one and she left anyway.
She left anyway. By the way, a friend of mine

(30:45):
reminded me last night, do you know how close Karen
Bass came to being Biden's VP? Karen Bass almost was
the Vice President of the United States. Biden almost picked
her for a number of black female lawmakers that James
Clyburn had suggested to Joe Biden. Remember when James Clyburn

(31:07):
saved Joe Biden's campaign back in twenty twenty because he
was about to lose South Carolina and Clyburn delivered it
for him, And in exchange for Clyburn delivering the nomination
for the Democrat Party to Joe Biden, Joe Biden made
an agreement he was going to have a woman of
color as the VP, and on that list was Karen Bass.

(31:31):
She actually had more support to be Biden's Vice President
than Kamala Harris did, but the Obamas were pushing Harris
a little harder, so they went with Harris. Pretty wild
she was almost can you imagine having that as vice president?

(31:53):
This is unbelievable coming up. The media is circling the
wagons around Gavin Newsom and Republicans have an opportunity. Here
also a lot of interesting things to see. At Jimmy
Carter's funeral, Trump and Mike Pence shook hands, but Karen
Pence was not having anything to do with it, and
nor were the Bushes. This is weird. We're going to

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So the family with a poor little girl who is.

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Far up a news right now?

Speaker 4 (33:58):
Say that again?

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Why is there a fire out?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
I mean right now there are multiple fires that are
taking place. Yes, yeah, yeah, I'm useful.

Speaker 14 (34:06):
You're supposed to.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Know, well, I don't know how it started. We don't
know how it started.

Speaker 15 (34:09):
There.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
You know when all the all the all the gay
people in La, Oh my god. That's this Los Angeles
media entity. They do what they call Man on the
Street MOS's Man on the Street interviews, and that's when
they're out in the street and they just go up
to people and they ask them questions about whatever, you know,
whatever the issue is. And that guy just said all

(34:32):
the gay people, Oh my gosh, what did That's like
kind of a downside of MOS's. You gotta be careful
with some of that stuff, but that actually is it's hysterical.
It's hysterical. Welcome back to the program, Dana lash with you.
We're getting ready to launch into our second hour and
when we do so, this is when I'm going to
save the video, all the video of this for you

(34:53):
for tomorrow. Hopefully we'll be able to get the crew
and if you're listening, it's just audio today because we couldn't.
It's not safe enough for the crew to get on
the roads. There's I mean, it's still snowing and it
was all ice this morning, so we have had a
huge layer of ice and then snow over it. And
the Texas closes when that happens, like all of our
municipal offices are closed today. Everything's closed, there's nobody out

(35:17):
and Texas just waste toilet melts, that's all they do.
So hopefully we'll be able to do it tomorrow because
they got to bring you some of the you got
to see some of the video of the Carter funeral
when all of the presidents come in and they come
in and they sit. They all come in and they
sit in the order of their how they were elected,

(35:38):
and it was really it's it's very interesting because the
body language says a thousand words. It says the thousand words,
like Kamala Harris was visibly not comfortable, and they had
I mean, they had Obama sitting by, and then he

(36:01):
was sitting in between the Bushes and the Trumps, and
Karen Pence did not even look up to acknowledge Trump
would not do it, and Bush didn't acknowledge Trump. It's
very weird. The Bushes are mad, Bushes are don't like
Trump's and I think some of that is some of
what you said. I think Lorraine said this too, because
Jeb Bush was going to be the Golden Boy and

(36:22):
Trump into that. Back in twenty sixteen, Jeb Bush was
going to be the guy and that was done. So
there's a lot of animosity there. It's really weird. I've
never seen them not be nice to somebody and they're
just they don't have anything to do with Trump. Obama
is the only one that we'll see, like Mike Pinch
shook his hand, I'll Gore shook his hand Bush when
acknowledge him, Harris won acknowledge them. Obama was the only

(36:44):
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Despite what you have heard from Caruso, No, firefighters have
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Out of water.

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And let's go out to Gigi Grassie.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
She is live in Pacific Palisades.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
I know your signal's not the best, but GIGII can
tell us. Well, firefighters have told me they have no
water on this block. And you may be able to
make out the ember storm that we're in the middle
of room. Wow, all like within the same sixty seconds.
On one broadcast, the guy's like, well, you know, no
one's saying that, and yeah, that's that's wild. That's a

(39:00):
eleven out there in Los Angeles, just yesterday. Welcome to
the program, Dana Lash with you. It's a very snowy
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(39:23):
is covered in ice and right under all the snow
that's now falling pretty heavily. It's just a nice thick
layer of ice, so we know, we don't have snowplows
or anything. Everybody stays home and it just melts. That's
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So we've been I mean, the top story is and
it's for good reason. There are so many other stories
wrapped up in the giant, over arching story of the
California wildfires. Because you have government and competence, you have

(40:05):
political ideology that has gotten people killed. You have stories,
horrific stories of loss, stories that could have been prevented easily,
and all wrapped up in this also is the stage
that is being set not just for midterms, but for
twenty twenty eight. And that's why you have the media

(40:26):
all in trying to do everything that they can to
make it look as though their officials are in no
way culpable. They don't want any culpability, and they're working
over time to kind of protect from the criticisms of
all of that. But other officials are saying, nope, nope,
they get the criticism. Audia Sibide eleven. This is a
former La County sheriff who said that the money that

(40:49):
they got from taxpayers that was supposed to go to
capturing water. Remember California had two years of record rainfall
that only a fraction of that money was actually used
for that purpose. Listen to this.

Speaker 12 (41:03):
There was a bond.

Speaker 16 (41:04):
Measure in twenty fourteen, Proposition one, that allocated seven point
five billion dollars for the infrastructure for to capture water
in reservoirs. They had that available so our hygrants would
be basically full of water and then times of need,
and only a fraction of that money has been spent,
has all been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
H wild, just wild. Only a fraction of it has
been used for that, only a fraction, And that kind
of explained. I mean, this was one of the things
that Newsom had promised. I think he was like actually
promising this like something like ten years ago. Saying that

(41:46):
they were going to expand the water capturing and make
sure the reservoirs were filled. But that's not that's not happening.
It hasn't happened, and everything looks that looks like a
war zone. People are demanding that both Karen Bass and

(42:06):
Gavin Newsome resign. And there are so many like they
have all of these these stories of of the law
I mean, the wildfire, I mean it is, it's crazy
how much it's spread. But they have all these stories
of like, for instance, celebrity houses now nor I know,
don't roll your eyes. There's a reason why I don't

(42:27):
want you to roll your eyes. For the first time ever,
there are a number of far left celebrities that are
blasting Democrats right now all over social media, and it's weird.
I've never there's too many to name. I mean, we'd
sit here for the rest of this this hour. There's
too many to name. There's tons of them that have

(42:47):
been going on social media blasting uh.

Speaker 14 (42:51):
The.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Powers that be there because they have they for everything
that I just mentioned, for not using the money that
was set aside to fill reservoirs for that purpose, for
not using the allocated funds for water capture, for not
clearing the underbrush as they were warned a year ago,
two years ago, three years ago after the last big

(43:15):
wildfire that they had. And that's the thing you also
had because you had that record rainfall, you had a
lot of vegetation growth. But it's a desert climate. It's
not climate changed, it's desert climate. You have periods of
rain and then you have periods of drought, and that's

(43:35):
par for the course for this part of the United States.
So you had record rains and that's not you know,
it's not that they had the most rainfall ever. They've
had tons of rainfall, even more rainfall in prior seasons.
But for two years in a row, they had record rainfall.
That created a lot of vegetation growth, and then predictably,
when the rains left and the wind started up, you

(43:57):
had a lot of dry vegetation. And remember Gavin Newsome
declined earlier this fall to clear it out. That was
something from California, that was their their California Wildlife and
Land Management. They refused to clear it out. So you're
shocked because they said there was one analyst I didn't

(44:18):
even and I love that you can study fire science,
that studies fire science. And they were saying because they
worked in Los Angele, they worked in and around Los Angeles,
and they were saying that the vegetation growth like in
a lot of these canyons and in a lot of
these these places between developed areas, that's where you have
tons of this undergrowth and it just wasn't cleared out

(44:40):
from after all of this vegetation grew with the rain
and all of that, it just wasn't cleared out. And
so that's really what was providing a lot of kindling
for this. And these celebrities are just blasting They're blasting
Gavin News in their back. I mean, Sarah Michelle Geller
for crying out loud, who was the Hillary supporter, Democrats

(45:00):
right and left, and I it's justified. I don't look
at it as a political thing because these are people
that have lost everything. And when you have these celebrities
that get out there and start saying this, maybe, I
don't know, maybe the minions will start paying attention. I mean,

(45:22):
it went all the way to the ocean in Malibu.
Malibu's on fire, Hollywood Hills are on fire, part of
Sunset's on fire, and it's I mean, it's just sickening
because it's all preventable. You have the highest taxes in
the nation and you can't even keep your reservoirs filled,

(45:47):
highest taxes in the nation, and you have no water capture,
highest taxes in the nation and you can't you can't
get you don't have enough firefighters. It's like, what are
people paying for? That's what property tax goes for. If
you ever want to know why property taxes are a joke,
this is this is proof consumption tax the only way

(46:08):
to go, Graduated consumption tax only way to go. I mean,
what's the point of you know, owing you can't ever
really own your own property. But doesn't matter because if
it burns down that you know property, nobody does anything
in California, nobody does anything. Thirty thousand residents over that.
It's that. That was just sorry.

Speaker 11 (46:28):
That was.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
The last counting of that was early this morning. It's
more than that now because we've had since early this
morning to now, we've had a number of friends that
have had to evacuate now, so there's going to be more.
It's you're it's just so sad because there's a lot
of there are a lot of Republican voters that live
out there, and it doesn't matter how you vote. There

(46:53):
are just a lot of regular, average, everyday normal people
out there, and it's just you hate to see people
have to live through these consequences of what their votes mean.
And that's what it is. So when the media goes
out there and they say, don't politicize this, shut the
hell up, because you're not going to use that as

(47:15):
a way to shame people out of deservedly holding these
lawmakers accountable. Gavin Newsen was complaining about the politicization of it.
You politicized it when you refuse to do your job.
It was politicized when you refuse to use taxpayer dollars
for the services that they paid for the authority of
the consent of their vote, and their tax dollars was

(47:37):
so that they have these services. That's the understanding, right.
You pretend that property tax is a voluntary thing like
a social contract. You pretend that it is. You pretend
that it's not theft, and you pretend that the government
spends your money in an honest and appropriate way, and

(48:00):
then they don't they spend it all. I mean, you
know why, DEI I'm tired of the rankeeting criticized for
bringing up DEI. Here do you know why the right
is bringing up DEI Because when you look at the
breakdown of the budget, that's where the top dollars went.
It didn't go to fire prevention, it didn't go for

(48:21):
reservoirs or water capture or anything else that those all
got cut. It went to DEI programs, entitlement programs. That
is why the right is and it's not even the right,
that's why they're bringing it up. The media is trying

(48:43):
everything that they can to inoculate themselves and their Democrat
party preferences from this, and so they're saying, well, if
you criticize, if you try to hold anything accountable, it's
just politization. No, it's not. That's your job as a voter.
If you're elected, officials fail you, you hold them accountable.
That's not politicizing something that's called accountability. You're not going

(49:06):
to try to redefine what accountability is as a weak
method to dodge accountability. It's just it's all of this
was so preventable, so preventable, so residents have been fleeing.
There's beachfront homes that are totally destroyed so far, it's

(49:28):
over sixty eight billion dollars. Sixty eight billion dollars. But
is the smelt? Okay, the smelt? You know that little fish.
That's one of the reasons why they drained some of
the reservoirs because they wanted the uh, they wanted to
make that little bait fish, that little baitfish needed to

(49:49):
be out there. Oh and then some tribal nations wanted
to be able to fish for salmon, and so we
got to drain some of these reservoirs. That's unreal.

Speaker 5 (50:00):
And then.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Just I'm just can't even, I can't even. Someone else
says though, that it was the you know, the sultancy
in southern California. They said that has a huge lithium
reserve and that it contains a lot of lithium and
that might be it could be a major source, and
that that might be why. That's another reason why although
I think the smelt, because there's people out there for
that baitfish too, just wild. So are I think it's

(50:30):
too early to say it's still I mean, you're still
people are still trying to figure out where they're going
to live and what the what's the insurance going to
be like, I just don't know how California doesn't change
up for something that's catastrophic. Coming up, we're going to
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PFAS ban the toxic chemical stuff. So a cookwear group
has filed the lawsuit against the ban. It's the Cookwar
Sustainability Alliance. They filed it against the Commissioner of the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and they're trying the law one

(52:28):
to affect Inguary. First, they're trying to say it's unconstitutional
and unenforceable the forever chemicals that are in the distribute
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everything from rugs, cookwaar, all kinds of stuff. So they
said that it imposes a burden on interstate commerce and
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(52:50):
it violates the commerce clause in the Constitution. So that's
the angle that they're going for to try to stop
that ban. This girl Scouts are retiring to cookie flavors,
the s'mores, and I don't even know that these existed.
I haven't blot girls got cookies since they're playing parenthood stuff,
because I just thought it was inappropriate for young girls
selling cookies to be you know, for them to have

(53:11):
an association with planned parenthood. But they said that they
are discontinuing those. I didn't even know there was the
s'mores and the toast ya cookie. If it's not then men,
it's trash thin mint or they uh no, just then mint.
If it's not that, it's trash. So they are discontinuing those.
Let's see this, uh ooh, two hundred aggressive monkeys. There's

(53:34):
a war that has been launched on them. The macaque
monkey that's sent in Thailand. They have a huge problem
with us. They're actually violent and biting, uh and they
and they steal people's stuff. It's crazy. So they've tried
to sterilization campaign, but apparently that didn't get them the
results that they wanted, and so now they're in the

(53:55):
second phase of the war. They're planning to neud or
one hundred of these monkeys, and then they did one
hundred and twenty two of them in one district last year.
Now they're going to try to establish feeding zones to
prevent them from straying into residential spaces where they've been
attacking people. And you know, I just, I mean, why

(54:17):
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I started the year as an it would be a
Democratic presidential nominee, and we all know what happened after that. Again,
you didn't see a particularly warm greeting between the first
couple and the second couple. But again, we are at
a funeral, so one has to take that into account.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
They're not only super sad that they can't even greet
each other cordially. It's Jake Tapper who's an ar rating
because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris they did not like
seeing each other a Jimmy Carter's funeral. And it's like,
you could not even act for five seconds. You couldn't
act for the cameras for five seconds. When you walked
in and took your seat, you couldn't do that for

(56:36):
five seconds. Just it was weird watching all of that.
Welcome to the program, Dana Lash with you. We are
at the bottom of this third hour or sorry, second hour,
and I'm and if you're tuning in, there's no video
today because Texas is covered in ice. We had a

(56:56):
thick layer of ice laying down and then a big
o' thick layer of snow. It's not safe for the
crew to drive in because the roads are horrific, So
everybody stay safe out there, and of course we're praying
for everybody and his homes are being burned down. It's horrible.
The funeral for Jimmy Carter. You had all of the presidents,
all the surviving presidents that go in. They sit in
the order of when they took office. And you had

(57:20):
the Pences who were sitting next to Gore, and then
Trump and Milania come in and they shook hands with
Gore and Pence, who rose to greet them. Karen Pence stay,
she stayed seated. She did not look at Milania, nor
did she look at Trump. And then they took their seats,
and then you had Obama come in and he didn't

(57:45):
shake Trump or Malania's hand, but he briefly kind of,
you know, acknowledged them, and then he shook Mike Pence
and Karen Pence's hand, and then Al Gore, and then
he sat down. And then the Bushes come in and
George Bush comes in and wraps Obama on the stomach.
Just didn't even look at the Trumps, and then he
goes and greets the pencils and all Gore and then

(58:05):
the Clintons come in and everybody greets each other except
for Trump and Milania. It's so weird. So the only
people it was Mike Penson al Gore and Obama that
were actually the nicest and were actually uh greeting and
greeted Trump and Millenia. And it was weird to watch

(58:30):
because it seemed like Obama and Bush were the kind
of joyful ones, you know, they were the ones that
looked kind of joyful and happy and relaxed and normal.
Everyone else looked like they had except and Trump did too,
but you know, in terms of how people were treating
him and Milania, everybody else kind of looked stiff. It

(58:51):
was weird, but the Bushes did not acknowledge the Trumps
at all. I think Bush is still angry because Jeb
exclamation point was supposed to be Remember, he was supposed
to be the next in line. It didn't happen that way.
He was the next in line, He had an open
path and it didn't work out. Didn't work out that
way because Republicans, you know, you can't you can't give

(59:14):
us more of the same. If you're not you don't
change anything. I mean, Republicans were part of the immigration problem,
part of big spending, part of all of it. So
it's very very very interesting thing to see with all
of that.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
So this.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
And watching it I'm just it. You can tell that
they didn't like you said a Kamala and uh, what's
his name? We don't have to remember his name any
much longer. The second lady, Doug, Uh, what's what's her
husband's name? Kamala Harris's husband's name. Oh, that's right, Doug Elmhoff.
The second lady or dude or whatever the hell they

(59:52):
come in and she's just stony faced, and then the
Biden's nobody's greeting anybody. They did not look to be
like they were happy sitting next to each other. They
didn't acknowledge each other. How do you walk into if
you know, I don't care if it's a funeral. How
do you walk into a funeral and you're walking into
an aisle like a pew and you're sitting next to people,

(01:00:14):
the people who were your vice president and you don't
even acknowledge them. They didn't acknowledge them the entirety of
the surface. It is so wild. They hate each other.
And Hillary Clinton just recently learned how to style her
hair again, So she's got this big buffont eighties hair

(01:00:34):
going on. Did you see Steve saw her hair?

Speaker 13 (01:00:36):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:00:37):
Yeah, we'll let you roll a bit.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
I mean, it's wild, it's gotten bigger, and she keeps
her secrets in it. I don't know it's gotten bigger
those but they she just had like this weird not
a smile. I don't know how to describe it. It
was this weird expression just plastered on our face. And
Bill Clintons, he's kind of like Obama and Bush. They're

(01:01:03):
just sort of laid back and they can kind of
hang together. I think they purposefully also. I know that
they sit them in order that they've served, but I
really think that all the organizers were glad that they
weren't sitting in the bushes next to the Trumps, and
that Obama was the buffer. I think Obama had to
take one for the bushes because they because the bushes
can't stand the Trumps. It's just so fascinating to watch
all of the little pettiness play out because you don't

(01:01:25):
really get these sorts of You don't get these public
displays like this very often, and so when you get them,
it's completely acceptable to zuppruder level analyze them, and I
just I keep watching it. Did anything stick out to East?

Speaker 9 (01:01:41):
My favorite part was there was a moment that c
span caught where Trump kept whispering jokes to Obama and
Obama kept laughing at him, and then you see the
camera pan out and Kamala turns over her left shoulder,
sees them laughing, and then turns right back around with
like a pout and looks at Doug.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
It was the best.

Speaker 11 (01:01:58):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Yeah, he was cracking up. I want to know what
he said. Wasn't there there? I think they were like
lip readers or something saying that, Oh my gosh, that's
gonna be great. But I don't know. I just I
did the whole thing. It was very interesting, but it was.

Speaker 8 (01:02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
When when Bush came in, it was like he skipped
in and he he They all acted like they were
running late. When the Bushes came in, they like barreled
over and uh, Obama stood up. The Trumps didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
And he.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Bush wrapped Obama like an abdomen because he Obama apparently
get along very well. And it's just very fascinating. I'm
watching some of this now. I'm super fascinated by all
of this.

Speaker 9 (01:02:40):
Do the Bushes and the Trumps have beef or they?

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Bush and the Trumps, Yeah, oh yeah, they think that
so Jeb was going to be the guy, and then
Trump made fun of him and then just ripped it
right out of his hands. Remember that they are they
They did not like him for that. They did not
like him for that at all. I'm I mean, it
went so far that w would even defend Obama from
Trump's criticisms. He kept saying that he wasn't going to

(01:03:05):
get super political and politicize anything. And I don't know,
maybe there's other stuff that they know that we don't,
but I don't know. It was just very interesting. And
then when the Clintons came, Bush stood up for the
Clintons as Hillary and Bill approached, and Trump and Malania
just stay seated, and I thought it was interesting. Obama
stayed seated when Hillary walked up too, because Obama and

(01:03:26):
Hillary don't like each other. They never have liked each
other historically. I feel like we're sitting at the lunchroom
table and we're gossiping about people, and it's so worth
it because you never get these displays like this ever.
You never get to see stuff like this ever and
then all and it is really hard I think when
you get old like that too. One of the things
my grandmother told me is that as she got older,

(01:03:48):
she had less energy to pretend to like people that
she didn't want to like. And I always thought that
was hysterical when I was younger, but that now, you know,
I get it, Like, as you get older, you just
don't have time for the non and I think that
all plays out. I don't know if Biden knew where
he was, I don't know, but Obama and Trump were

(01:04:09):
cutting up and it was funny. It was funny to
watch them, like Trump would say something and then you know,
I wanted to switch gears here. We got to talk
about why are all the lesbians in California named Kristin?
I think they have to be. Lorraine found this interesting
thread specifically on these fire chiefs, and I mean, I

(01:04:34):
don't care if they're all lesbians named Kristin. I just
think it's hysterical that they are all lesbian's name Kristin
the first fire chief, that they have a gay woman,
Kristin Crowley, and then they have their assistant chief for
the fire department, Kristin Kepner. She went to the Harvard

(01:04:57):
Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations. I don't even know
what that means she apparently was accused of beating her girlfriend.
I don't know. And then there's the first I don't
know what. What is an equity bureau chief? What the
hell does that have to do with fire? The co

(01:05:19):
founder of Equity on Fire. It's the Los Angeles Fire
Department's equity bureau chief, the first lesbian equity bureau chief.
She makes three hundred and ninety nine thousand dollars a year.
I think for three hundred and ninety nine thousand dollars
a year, a lot of people would pretend to be
gay and interested in equity. I am amazed at this.

(01:05:41):
They're all named Christine or they're all named Kristen, all
of them. And then you get to the Los Angeles
Fire Department training commander. Now I will say, this chick
does look like a legit dude. Jamie Brown stands out
because her name isn't Kristin. So there, the entire Los

(01:06:07):
Angeles Fire Department is a bunch of old white lesbians,
with the exception of the one lesbian whose name is
still Kristin. Right, I don't even I golly, I cannot
even this is I can't even make this up. So
just to recap. In California, the entirety of the fire

(01:06:28):
department is run by old white lesbians named Kristen, with
the exception of one black lesbian named Kristin. Did they
like was that a goal? Did they set out to
have them all be like? What is the what is
in the what the world? And why do you what
the hell do you have to have an equity department for?

(01:06:49):
You're the fire department. You fight fires. That's all you
do is fires. What do you do fires? That's it?
You don't do anything else. I just you cannot make
this stuff up. This is and no wonder they're burning,
no wonder, this is crazy. I mean I feel like.

Speaker 11 (01:07:14):
This.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
Oh man. Now, I don't think anybody's arguing that the
alphabet stuff has anything to do with the fire. What
we are arguing is the priorities, clearly of Los Angeles,
because while they were allowing the i mean the accumulated
record rainfall to just drain into the ocean, they weren't

(01:07:39):
capturing the water, they weren't making sure their hydrants were working,
they weren't trying to talk with land management, especially in
federal land. Bureau of Land Management comes into play with
a lot of that. They did make sure that they
checked all the lesbian Christians and checked all those boxes.

(01:08:00):
Is to work in the fire department. That's you got
to admit it's weird. And clearly the priority wasn't on
actual fire. They created all of these other They can't
afford to hire more firefighters, but they can afford to
pay half a million dollars to someone who's an equity
bureau chief. Whatever the hell that is. Can anyone explain
that one to me? What the hell does an equity

(01:08:20):
bureau chief do? Like it's so prevalent, the equity that
you have to have like a whole bureau for it.
How do you what school do you go to for
that job?

Speaker 9 (01:08:32):
I'm all, it's all for women becoming firefighters, but like
not being good at it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
You know, yeah, be good at it, like, you know,
learn how to fight a damn fire and learn when
to deploy stuff. So they're apparently they're also getting criticism
because they waited so long to deploy. I'm just think
about that for a minute. When you've got I think
they said it's a thousand feet a second. Just think

(01:08:58):
about that in your head real quick. How that is
when seconds count? You can't wait to deploy your fire department.
You can't wait when seconds count, you cannot wait. So
they're getting a lot of criticism. And it's interesting because
the criticism is coming from withinside the department that they

(01:09:23):
took too long to deploy. That's a whole other man.
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Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
It's time for Florida man.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
Florida man Dylan Brewer from Clearwater Beach was sentenced to
probation and community service for vandalizing a feed crosswalk in
Delray Beach. So it's a graffiti crosswalk. They vandalized the
crosswalk and made a Pride flag on it, and then
he vandalized the vandalism and he got in trouble.

Speaker 11 (01:11:13):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
They said that he performed a burnout on the crosswalk
and that's that's why he was charged. Someone charged him
for driving and burning out on a crosswalk, specifically because
they painted the crosswalk with Pride colors. They revoked his
license for a year. He's got twelve months probation and

(01:11:34):
one hundred and fifty hours of community service. That's the
dumbest stuff I've ever heard of. That is so stupid,
That is so stupid, So so MU should give him
uber for a year. So goofy. Let's say, I mean,
since it's paint on the it's you're vandalizing a city street.
You can't van. You can't get in trouble for vandalizing

(01:11:54):
somebody else's vandalism. That's so dumb. A Florida man ordered
about five hundred dollars in food without paying at two
separate restaurants. And that's a lot of food.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Polk County, Florida. He ordered five hundred dollars in food
and drinks at two separate restaurants in less than fourteen days.
He was charged with defrauding an innkeeper. They didn't spell
innkeeper wrong over at the AOL website where the story
comes from. They pulled it from Fox thirty five or Lando.
Though he two different restaurants. I don't even know how
you can eat all the stuff that He ordered one

(01:12:26):
Sunset martini and after eating he just like would walk
out of the back doors and did an attempt to pay,
so they booked him in a polkinty jail. He bonded
out a couple of days later. Florida residents are worn.
It's that time of the year. Watch out for falling iguanas.
The temperature when it drops below the mid forties, iguanas

(01:12:47):
go into a dormant state, a cold, stunned state, and
a lot of times they fall out of the trees
where they perched. There was the story a couple of
years ago with someone getting killed because they got hit
in the head by an iguana that dropped out of
a tree. So they said that if the cold wave evolves,
the maximum temperature departures, you could see a lot more
iguanas falling out of the trees because of this cold,

(01:13:10):
this cold snap that's pushing through. And so they said
just look out for them. They're stunned. They can be
up to five feet long, they can wave up to
twenty five pounds, and they yeah, if you don't or
if you're not paying attention to them falling out of
the tree, you can get a hit. It's literally a
story that we have every year. It's crazy. So everybody
be careful out there with everything, and let's see less

(01:13:31):
but not least if we have time. Never buy fireworks
out of a van with a guy that is missing
two fingers, because that's what happened. This guy was illegally
apparently selling fireworks out of the back of a van
near a meat market. Yeah, don't do it. We'll have
more on that tomorrow. Stick with us third hour next.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
But there's just the lack of water is a problem
and the Palisades. The water issue is, according to authorities,
is a gravity issue. In order to get the water
through the hydrants up in the hills and the mountains,
you know, they have these giant water tanks that use gravity,
and those water tanks ran dry. Part of the problem
is a lot of people are using hoses, trying to
understandably hose down their lawns, hoping that will stop the fire.

(01:14:09):
A lot of firefighters will say, that's not going to
stop a fire like this from burning down your house.
You may keep your lawn, but it's not going.

Speaker 11 (01:14:16):
To keep your house.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
But you know, there's this huge water usage all of
a sudden, and those tanks on the top there may
be water in the system down below.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
But if the tanks on the top run dry.

Speaker 7 (01:14:25):
There's not enough.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Pressure for gravity to bring the water up into the hydrants.
That's in the Palisades. I don't know the water system
here in Altadena.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
So that's interesting Cooper on CNN, and it sounds like
he's blaming people using water to save their houses as
that is, like, it's not what he said, but it
it insinuates it. It's not the best thing he could
have said, because it seems to insinuate that. You know,
maybe the reason there'sn't enough water to fight fires is

(01:14:56):
because people were using it to save their houses, and
that's not the reason why. The reason is that there
was no water in any There's no water in the reservoirs.
They were drained. They didn't capture any of the record
rainfall for the past two years. They let it run
off into the ocean. It's not because a couple a
few people were trying to water their lawns down to
save their house. It's because city officials failed people. They

(01:15:18):
failed them to the point of devastation. That's why welcome
back to the program. They don't lash with you. We're
at the top of this third hour. It because it's
that was not the best thing that he could have said.
It's not the best way to put it because it
comes across poorly and it's just not the you know

(01:15:40):
that he was saying that hose water, the tanks were
in dry. People were trying to No people, No, it
wasn't people trying to save their homes they did it.
It was that there wasn't any water period. The reason
that people were using their hoses is because there weren't
enough firefighters because they had cut the budget. There weren't
an firefighters. And when there were firefighters, according to critics

(01:16:04):
within the municipal works, they were deployed late by the
chief and the city itself did nothing in preparation, So
that has nothing to do with it. And it's just
I mean again, they literally emptied a reservoir and they

(01:16:26):
directed the water flow right into the ocean to save
a stupid little fish that does not matter that we
don't eat and it's nearly extinct and it's bait. It's
called a smelt, a delta smelt. He literally wanted to
protect that little fish more than the people of California.

(01:16:49):
You literally allowed your water to run off a deluge
of extra water they had it run off into the
o It was like an entire river of runoff water
that they directed. There's video of it that exists. There's
video of the runoff water that they had captured for

(01:17:10):
rainfall that they literally let out into the ocean. There's
literally video of the reservoirs being drained for that fish.
And by the way, the complaints about that predate these
wildfires by over a year. That's what did this. The

(01:17:36):
media is all in doing everything that they can to
protect Gavin Newsome everything that they can. They cannot have
it to where Gavin Newsom that's their golden boy. That
is their golden boy. That's there, that's the guy that

(01:17:59):
is going to be running in twenty twenty eight, and
they have to be able. They got to protect him.
They already they lost Andrew Cuomo and there they didn't
get out ahead of it and try and protect Andrew
Cuomo from accountability enough. So now they're going to try
to do it with Gavin Newsom. I mean these photos

(01:18:21):
that I'm seeing because it's still blazing. The other fires
grown to almost eleven thousand acres. Now it's going to
be the costliest fires in US history. The economic losses
already or sixty eight billion. That includes the insured losses
of more than twenty billion, which is double the previous

(01:18:43):
costliest wildfire ever in the United States. Horrific and man,
it just they can't they can't get a hold of it.
They cannot get a hold of it. Again. The city
one of the biggest cities in the country, and.

Speaker 13 (01:19:05):
They have.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
The highest taxes and they and they can't, they can't
stop this. This is also spilling out, Steve, I'm dropping
audio for you, and this is also spilling out uh
On at the press conferences. So they had a press
conference earlier. This is new audio. A CBS reporter was

(01:19:31):
questioning Bass and Bass was not having it. Listen to
this really awkward exchange. Here listen in a panic state.

Speaker 14 (01:19:42):
It began two days ago with the Palisades fire. My
crew and I arrived shortly after it started, and for
several hours we watched as hundreds of homes in a
neighborhood burned to the ground. We did not see a
single fire engine. We watched as a Good Samaritan conference.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Mayor of Karen Bass is fear and there was.

Speaker 14 (01:20:01):
A lot of confusion. You were out of the country
at the time. Shortly after the fire started, a press
release was put out warning of this fire behavior. My
question to you is what explains this lack of preparation
and rapid response.

Speaker 15 (01:20:17):
Let me just say, first and foremost, my number one focus,
and I think the focus of all of us here
with one voice, is that we have to protect lives.
We have to save lives, and we have to save
this question.

Speaker 7 (01:20:32):
Rest assured? Rest assured. Let me finish, Rest assured. When
that is done, when we are safe, when lives have
been saved and homes have been saved, we will absolutely
do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn't work,
and to correct or to hold accountable any body of

(01:20:55):
the cardpeak, individual, et cetera.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
But my focus right now.

Speaker 15 (01:20:59):
Is on the line and on the homes.

Speaker 14 (01:21:01):
Oh really, Now, your leadership was effective while responding to
this disaster.

Speaker 15 (01:21:06):
I just said what I believe is the most important
thing for us to do right now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Oh my gosh, it's so awkward. She's you know what,
So her focus, her focus now is on saving lives.
Where was it a year ago? Where was it when
she was told that they needed to manage the undergrowth?
Where was it when she was working with the Governor
Gavin Newsom to release to drain the reservoirs. Where was
it when they were letting, when they were releasing all

(01:21:33):
this captured rain water from two years of record rain
back into the ocean. What in the world now this
is her focus? Seriously, this is crazy. I mean, they've
been debating on how to best deal with us for
years and they they haven't done it. Like they were told,
you need to establish a limited use of volunteer fighting

(01:21:55):
force specifically focused on brush fires, specifically, because that's how
it all starts. They have they they do reserve police,
but they don't have this, Like why why didn't they
not have reserve brigades to go out and fight fires?
And that was one of the proposals that was made
to her. She just totally ignored it. You have all

(01:22:15):
of these people who are civil engineers, they're in fire science,
all of this that were giving for free, all of
these suggestions to LA officials like, uh, people in areas
that want to choose and to stay home, why not
help people learn how to best to prepare their homes
to fire for fires, to ward off fires?

Speaker 5 (01:22:38):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
Tom Selleck years ago, like ripped out all of his landscaping.
There's an article about this, and I can't remember where
I saw it at, but he had after it was
after they it was after one of these big wildfires.
His home actually was undamaged, but he had done all
of this preparation work. He cleared out all the area
around his house, and he worked with his all the

(01:23:00):
other nearby property owners and they all cleared out underbrush.
They did all this thing, all this stuff to make
their properties is like fire proof as you can. And
I have a we have some friends of ours who
live in Beverly, Glenn I think it is. It's up

(01:23:20):
in the hills above the Hilton, and they when they
were redoing their home, they did the same thing. They
were inspired by what they read about Tom Selleck, and
they wanted to kind of like fireproof their home as
best as they can, and they worked with their neighbors
to do the same thing. It had to do with
even the landscaping, the fencing, the underbrush, their roof, everything.

(01:23:42):
They did everything that they could to make their home
as fireproof as possible, and they work with their neighbors
to do that. This is one of the things that
one of these engineers and one of these other there's
a guy who's in fire science. He's like all over
social media that they they apparently had had cobbled together
like a list of suggestions after the twenty ten wildfire,

(01:24:03):
and they proposed it to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles
apparently ignored it, like the law, and then they did
I think it was again in twenty sixteen, and they
ignored it. They ignored it. They wanted to also use
see if they could get marine or Navy volunteers to
help with brush fire. Train people in suburban areas, you know,

(01:24:27):
how to do everything you can to make your property
or your area fireproof. And they said that there were
laws that were put in place that actually block this stuff,
like you can't have volunteers like this in California. It's impossible.
And that's because they have firefighter union bosses. They wanted
more full time union firefighters. They don't. They don't want

(01:24:49):
to have the and that's an actual that's another issue
you got to talk about it. I appreciate our firefighters,
but again, when you got union bosses that are fighting
volunteers for these exceptional circumstances, that's kind of an issue,
especially when everything's burning now everything burning now, and then
there's the question of arson as well. There was one
video Kane found this. There was a video where apparently

(01:25:12):
there was an arsonist that was arrested. He was caught
and arrested in Cavazon, California. A driver noticed somebody literally
on the road trying to start a fire, and they
got cal Fire to investigate. He was apprehended. But it
was a good Samaritan who just happened to be at

(01:25:33):
the right place at the right time, saw this guy
and took video of him starting a fire. He literally
started a fire just like on the side of the
road and it started burning pretty quickly. And that's one
of the things you have to consider as well. Remember
a lot of the stuff with Canada. There was an
arsonist that was setting off fires there a couple of
years ago, and they were trying to say that it
was climate change. I'm curious as to how much of
this is arson. I do think that you have a

(01:25:56):
lot of, you know, fires like this, especially when it's
really and you have the embers and the winds that
you have, it's gonna spread so fast that it almost
defies reason and logic, and a lot of people might
think it's arson, but then there's some cases where it
could legitimately be arson, and that's a whole other thing.
But this mismanagement, this is what already we're in twenty

(01:26:16):
twenty five, and we already have one of the biggest
scandals ever, and that's the mismanagement of California and this
disastrous fire that was allowed to just to be as
bad as it was because of this poor, poor mismanagement.

Speaker 10 (01:26:30):

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
So first up this headline about coffee. It's been treated
like butter and red meat. They say it's bad for you,
it's good for you, it's bad fre you, it's good
for you. Now they're saying that coffee drinkers have a
health boost, but only if you drink it in the morning.
I can just drink it whenever you want to. It
doesn't matter. I don't like to put like a lot
of milk or sugar free syrup or anything like that

(01:26:58):
in there, but the morning or anytime other than the morning.
But no, there's nothing wrong with drinking coffee anytime. But
they say there's a study that was at two Lane
and they said that you know their dietary guidance. You know,
they think it's best for in the morning and just
and usual, and they like maybe like a couple of
cups a day, just do what you want. Because they

(01:27:19):
go back and forth on this all the time. And
oh my gosh, an Ohio woman was killed and partially
eaten by her neighbor's pigs. Pigs will eat anything, anything.
Seventy five year old Ohio woman she was attacked and
eaten by her neighbor's pigs on Christmas Day, of all days.
The Columbia Dispatch reported that it's not clear as to

(01:27:40):
whether or not criminal charges will be forthcoming. He said
it was a horrible situation. Police were called to perform
a welfare check on the seventy five year old woman
in Patascala because she had not arrived as planned at
her niece's home just outside of Akron. Family could not
reach her and that's when they found it. Oh, how
war're a fine. That's so horrible. In TSA at the

(01:28:06):
Boston Logan Airport, they I don't even it's so in
call of duty. There is a little clapping monkey that
you can get in call of duty and you throw
it and it's supposed to distract like the zombies or
has a bomb on it, and there was a replica
of that that this guy had. It's a controller holder

(01:28:29):
and it looks just like that, and he tried to
take it through TSA at Boston Logan and they were
not going to allow it to go through. It was
literally it's called a call of duty monkey bomb cable
holder and it claps and plays a jingle, then explodes.
The zombies getting her it. And this one is it's
it's a toy. It holds the controller, but they flagged it.

(01:28:52):
It was in a carry on bag and they confiscated it.
That's the dumbest thing ever. You can get it on Amazon.
They're like forty one dollars on Amazon. So goofy. So
I don't know TSA. You kind of had to know
that they were going to give you problems over that
because they freak out over everything. They freaked out one
time because I had a pen that was made of
brass and it looked bullity, not even making it up.

(01:29:12):
They freaked out one time over one of my kids protractors.
Let's see this, I got one more one more more, no, no, no, no,
MT's close it up. In Belgium, the Belgian Food Safety Authority,
they're telling you not to eat Christmas trees. Apparently Belgians
are eating Christmas trees. Why you have all this great
chocolate there, Why would you do that? They said, don't
eat Christmas trees recycled? Are people doing that in Belgium?

(01:29:38):
I don't know. We got more on the way as
we roll towards the bottom of this third hour. Stick
with us.

Speaker 11 (01:29:46):
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Speaker 17 (01:29:57):
Right one hundred and eleven, the nose to elect three
hundred and sixty four. The eyes to the right were
one hundred and eleven, the nose to the left three
hundred and sixty four. So the nose have it, the

(01:30:18):
nose have it unlocked?

Speaker 15 (01:30:20):
Wow?

Speaker 14 (01:30:22):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
So that what you were hearing were British MPs that
voted against an inquiry to investigate those grooming gangs. And
they voted against the Tories, which are technically like the
I guess conservatives over there. They voted against it. They

(01:30:45):
voted against the It was a Tory proposal, and they've
had this huge thing with these groomers, these we talked
about this, the Pakistani men that for like over like
fifteen years had been trafficking women. I mean, it's one
of the craziest stories because it was allowed to go

(01:31:07):
on for so long, and the stories are horrific, and
it's one of the biggest crimes and cover ups in
all of British history. Thousands and thousands of thousands of
young girls children, they were groomed and raped by gangs
of immigrants across the UK over decades, and police turned

(01:31:29):
them away. There was a dad who who was arrested
after he tried to warn police about what had happened
to his daughter. Journalists skipped it, politicians ignored it, and
they were all covered up because they why do they
cover them up because they wanted to preserve harmony. They

(01:31:54):
wanted to preserve harmony, and that's why they ended. That's
they didn't write about it. I just you and I
can't imagine anything like that. When politics get so horrific,
I mean, it's to where you politicize even trying to

(01:32:20):
defend young girls that are being trafficked and they don't
want to have it an inquiry into it at all. None.
There was one labor MP, Simon Danzuck, who said that
he was from one of these cities where they had
to deal with all of this stuff, and he came

(01:32:40):
out and said he was warned by leaders in his
own party not to mention who the people actually were
doing the trafficking. He said, quote it would affect the
labor vote. And he was shocked. Shocked. I mean, this
is you can't assimilate and coexist in a community and

(01:33:05):
call it a multicultural success when you can't even hold
accountable men who are praying on young children for fear
of upsetting the quote unquote societal harmony. That's not a
multicultural success. That's not a successful society. That's a bankrupt society.

(01:33:28):
And it's so sad because this happened. It's like two
decades that this was going on. Really, it was actually
well known. I mean we've talked about it before in
the program, well known, but no one they didn't want
to do anything about it. There all of these stories
of these the grooming and the violence and all of

(01:33:56):
the stuff that was being perpetrated on these young girls.
It's just it's horrible and they voted against it. This
bill was from the Tories that, like I said, that's
the I guess conservative for UK. They had this inquiry,

(01:34:16):
it was a new one and they wanted this. They
wanted a bill for child safety and the Labor Party
accused the Tories of playing politics. They accused the Conservatives
of playing politics. Not so much the Tories, but the
Conservative Party there and they were saying that the they

(01:34:39):
didn't think it was going to pass anyway because it
was still too many progressive officials that are in UK's government.
But man, it is uh. I mean, I'm just looking
at the votes on this. They wanted a fresh inquiry
into these gangs under this bill and instead they're killed.
They killed it, so I don't know what they're going

(01:35:03):
to have. It was a Labor introduced a bill. Conservatives
wanted to add this to it. Labor said no, absolutely,
absolutely not, so they rejected it three sixty four to
one hundred and eleven majority two fifty three. I I

(01:35:23):
you have a major sexual abuse scandal that all levels
of British government helped to cover up, and they won't
even won't even pass an inquiry for it, and they
kept in the Labor Party very similar to what you're
seeing with the way that the press is handling the
wildfire stuff. Here, the Labor Party was saying, oh, you're
playing politics. They're accusing the Conservatives of politicizing an inquiry

(01:35:49):
into a two decade long grooming scandal that every level
of British government ignored. They're accusing them of politicising the
issue because they want to protect children. I again, that's
like saying, well, to try to hold officials in Los

(01:36:10):
Angeles accountable for the wildfires is politization of the issue.
That's it's the same formula that they're trying to use
to deflect any kind of accountability. I mean, if you
can't find justice like that, if you can't find justice
in the West, you not find it anywhere. It's a
sad It's a sad, super sad day for justice if

(01:36:35):
it even exists anymore. So they voted against it, they
torpedoed it, but it was it was I mean two decades.
The stories are horrific. Some of them we can't even
talk about because they're very very I mean it's graphic stuff.
I mean absolute sexual exploitation of children, like little kids,

(01:36:58):
and they were declining again. They declined the request. Kures Starmer,
the PM, they declined the request for a nationally led inquiry,
weren't having it. It might be I don't know. I
maybe people are starting to wake up and see the
rod of progressivism. Maybe maybe they're seeing it. Maybe they'll

(01:37:24):
learn or we'll get more of the same. In the meantime,
we've been watching all of this with the horrific fire.
We got ice in we have ice and snow here
in uh Texas, And just a quick note, so hopefully
we'll keep power because when we had the big ice
Mageddon a couple of years ago, we ended up losing

(01:37:48):
power and so we got a pretty big We got
a Hoss generator. It's the size of a small car.
It's it's huge because in my home studio we built
out a portion a it's a total pro build out.
You know, We've got the cameras that you would see
at Fox, a total pro build out, Mike, the lights, everything,

(01:38:10):
and we got a lot of equipment in here. And
in order to run it, you have to have a
hoss of a generator. So it's a natural gas generator
that we got and had it installed. Again. It's huge.
And we got a Generac. Well, the Generak that we
got apparently there's a design flaw so it just gobbles part.

(01:38:32):
Because of the way it is manufactured, there is a
design flaw that prevents it from operating properly. And we
discover this because because ours is broken right now, and
it's not because of a user error, and if it
was a simple fix, it would already be fixed. The
problem is it's not a simple fix. So Generak, because

(01:38:55):
we do regular maintenance and that's how we know that's
it breaks all the time just from that, just when
you try to run it to maintain it, it'll bust.
It's crazy. So Generak told us a week last week
that it was going to send out a part that
we need. That it broke again this week and then
they explained this week, oops, they forgot to send it out.

(01:39:15):
They'll send it out next week, maybe, you know, after
the ice storm, so hopefully we won't lose power. But
I've never done this on air. I will tell you
do not buy a Generak. It is the worst generator
on the market. We spent an ungodly amount of money.
I didn't get it for free. I purchased it paid

(01:39:36):
for the installation, everything, and it is money down the drain.
I would have gotten warmer faster by setting the money
that I used to purchase this godforsaken generator on fire
in my driveway and warming my hands by it than
I did with the generator itself. They are non responsive.
They never ever. You can never get a hold of them.

(01:39:56):
Our service reps cannot ever get a hold of them.
The only time we were able to get ahold of
them is when they said, oh, they forgot to send
this thing out. And it's not again user error. It
is a design flaw within the generator itself. And I
can't just go and get a tiny little thing, because,
like I said, we have to have it has to
be a pretty powerful You got to have a steady,

(01:40:18):
have to have a steady and a sizeable amount of
power to power the studio and do all of this,
and a little bitty thing ain't gonna cut it. And
we had a smaller generator, and after the ice storm
we realized we needed a bigger one. So that's when
we got this one. Never again. So let me save
you the time in anguish. And I've heard from a
horde of people, tons of people have reached out when

(01:40:40):
I talked about this on X and they were like, yeah,
we have had major problems with ours. There are installers
that have reached out and said, yeah, I would not
install this in a million years. All these people that
are coming out now. Generatic is popular because they pay
for the advertising. They got great ads. But you are
better off getting something that doesn't have parts from China

(01:41:03):
and is you know, actually they can service it and
doesn't break down because it's not made with a design flaw.
So I'm pretty pissed off because they won't respond. We've
been dealing with this for months with Generak months so
it has been a months long thing and they just
are you can't when you get ahold of them, they
don't ever follow through. So now I'm on air and

(01:41:26):
I'm on social media talking about it. So let me
save you a lot of money in time. Don't even
consider generack. Generak is the Gavin Newsom of generators. Generak
is the Karen Bass of generators. It is worthless garbage.
And when all of a sudden done, I'm going to
drag this damn thing out to a field and I'm
going to blow it the hell up with some tanneride
and a fifty cow. That's what's gonna happen because it's worthless.

(01:41:50):
So don't make the mistake I made. They ought to
give us a refund for it, but I want to
save you money and I want to save you the hassle.
Don't even look a second glance at a generak, the
worst generator on the market, the worst customer service. And
I'm hearing from everybody how they everybody's been having problems. Everybody.
You can just look at my social media feeds, so

(01:42:12):
fingers crossed that we don't lose power, So we won't.
I would, I'd hate to do it. So if we're
not on air tomorrow because of that, that's because of Generac.
We uh, we have more to come as we roll
towards a conclusion of this third hour. Got some other
stuff for you as well, because we've got more developments
that we'll touch on. And of course, make sure you

(01:42:33):
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Speaker 13 (01:42:51):
Ah an apartment building in gulfedon flames. I saw the
fire inch and pull up this afternoon a fire captain
have one of his firefighters attach your home to a hydrant,
and that hose didn't fill up. Alex and I asked
the captain, out of every ten hydrants you attached to today,
on average, how many are you getting full water from?
He says little to none. And it was at that

(01:43:13):
point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at
this apartment building and they realized there was nothing they
could do.

Speaker 4 (01:43:22):
It's just crazy. It's so crazy. I welcome back to
the program, Dana Last with you. That's just more. It's
MSNBC even saying that they, you know, the fire department
is saying there's no water, there's no water in any
of the hoses or anything like that. I just I
was talking with a friend of mine. They had sent

(01:43:45):
a photo in because we I can't. I'm actually kind
of shocked at the number of people we know who
had to evacuate and had it neither had fire damage
or lost their houses. And another friend their house was
partially burned down, and there's house is gone. They sent
a photo. It's just it's wild. And these are I mean,
the people that we're talking about, these are conservatives. They're

(01:44:07):
they're not progressive. There's there are a lot of people
that voted Republican, Like in Beverly Hills. There's a Republican
town southern California that's a you know, Orange County and
all that that's Republican. A lot of people in Pacific Palisades,
Karen Bass barely won that area, barely won that area.
A lot of people there voted for Rich Cruso. Uh

(01:44:28):
So it's not all lefties. But the problem is is
you have a city that's not transparent about what it
is that they're doing with your tax dollars. And then
they drain reservoirs and they drain the any kind of
capture that they have from runoff. They they don't they

(01:44:49):
they don't do anything to bolster their water reserves, even
as everyone from you know, wildlife management to cal fire
everyone is saying you have to do this, and all
of these people are now seeing this is what it
looks like Democrat policies in action. You saw it in
North Carolina. You're seeing it again in California. Gavin Newson

(01:45:11):
needs to call Ron Decantis and Florida should just fix California.
Have Florida just lay out a planet action for them,
because remember in Florida they had a hurricane. I'll be
damn they had a bridge rebuilt in like two days.
Crazy they get it done. They didn't even they weren't
even remotely prepared in California, not even remotely. All Right,

(01:45:33):
we got today in stupidity. Caine is out because everything's
coated with ice. Wand's out, everything's coded with ice. Steve, Well,
they're in he's in DC. But they at least know
how to deal with snow there, Steve, Yeah, we.

Speaker 5 (01:45:45):
Just had snow.

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
It's he's a plow.

Speaker 9 (01:45:46):
But CNN yesterday they were talking about that old Greenland thing,
which you didn't touch on today, and one of the anchors,
Boris Sanchez, had a bit of a hot take about
what he reminds himself up to.

Speaker 18 (01:45:55):
Here agoin Ambassador. Perhaps on the merits, it makes sense
from any economic and security standpoint, you can argue those merits.
I do wonder about the approach, though, suggesting that the
US military might be involved in some kind of takeover
of Greenland that doesn't concern you. Does that not go
against what the United States is try to fight against it?

(01:46:16):
For example, Ukraine and other parts of the world, in
Iraq during the war and Saddam Husatians, Saddam Hussein's invasion
of Kuwait. Doesn't that stand against American doctrine?

Speaker 4 (01:46:29):
Wow, oh my gosh, the hot take of hot takes,
the hot take of hot takes. That's it. And of
course that starts today in stupidity. I just saw now
that they have fires that eat in California, fires reaching
critical broadcast towers. Now we'll have all the updates about
it and we'll be back on air with you tomorrow.
Stay safe, stay warm, Pray for victims.

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