Donald Trump Presser

President Trump meets with LA Officials

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
But the trees that were on the ground within twelve
to eighteen months, they say eighteen months at a maximum,
you have to cut them up, take them.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Away because they're matchsticks.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
But we saw that. You saw that with me. I
commented at the time. He said, look at this. The
house is burned down and the tree is standing, and
it's other than being a little different color on the bottom,
and it went through an inferno. It's amazing. It's soaking wet.
So I think they have to do it. It's called management
of the floor. And when the gentlemen from Austria and

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also Finland and other countries, they said, we manage the
forest floor very very carefully, and we don't have forest flowers.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
You're listening to.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The President Jump speaking of local leaders about the visiting
a fire damage here in southern California. This is KFI
and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's a fantastic
place and we're going to have a we're gonna have
a big celebration soon. We're going to come back and
we'll come back as much as you need, and we're

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going to turn it around and we're going to open
the coffers. You know, America wants us to be taken
care of. They this was a horrible thing to watch,
and the way it just kept going and going and
then they'd find another area.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It was like it was like a genius.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Was watching our coverage of the Fox eleven news that
four we're going to end here now and.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Says you When I got them, we're going to continue.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Boy, it's too bad I won't be president. Who knew
this was going to happen?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Right? I said I won't be president.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Because it would have been the four years and in fact,
i'd be retired by four days right now, I guess right.
So anyway, so I got them, and at least I'll
be able to celebrate the Olympics, the World Cup and
the two hundred and fifty years is going.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
To be a very big deal. So we have the
three biggest there are and it was an honor to get.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
If you have any questions, please let me know, and
if you have a statement to make, I'd love to
have politically, if you'd like to make a statement of
Brad goo Hester.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
President mister President, thank you for coming thk you to
the thirty second Congressional District, and thank you making feel
people Most people don't have adequate insurance because they couldn't
get it. One company dropped sixteen hundred policies just in
the last six months. We've got sixteen times as much

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property damage here as from Hawaii, and I'm hoping that
we get at least sixteen times the federal appropriation for
the CDBG program that helps people rebuild. And I know
you've talked about policies of California that you're not a
fan of, but I've been in Congress for twenty eight years.

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I really disagree with Louisiana on their abortion policy. I
disagree with them on their campaign finance policy. I disagree
with North Dakota on their gun policy. And I would
never turn to somebody from Louisiana and say you keep
living on your cousin's couch because we're not going to

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help you rebuild until Louisiana agrees with me on a
woman's right to choose. So I'm hoping that we can
get these funds and that we don't punish individuals for
the policies of their state. You can disagree with them,
and I think you've got some ideas. I look forward
to us listening also on tariffs. I often agree with

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you on tariffs, but how about no tariffs on building
materials for the next three years.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll take a look at that. Actually look mayor please yes.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
First of all, let me just take the opportunity to
officially welcome you to Los Angeles. Really appreciate you coming,
and especially you come just a few days after your inauguration,
so I want you to know that your presence here
is very much appreciated. Let me also say that I
know you had an opportunity to see the devastation. You've seen,
the extreme loss, the grief that people are going through here,

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and we are one hundred percent committed to getting this
neighborhood rebuilt again. You mentioned a couple of things in
terms of us expediting, so I signed executive directives right
away so that we could cut the red tape, we
could get people back building as fast as possible, and

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we're going to continue doing that.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
We're the one thing is they are saying they will
not be allowed to start for eighteen months. No, that
will not be the cast Okay, I just hope, well
you can hold me to it. This. Four groups said
that no, that would be they should be able to
do it, They should be able to start tonight.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
That will not be the case. You know.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
First we have to take care to make sure that
there's not the getting rid of the hazardous waste, cleaning
things up so that people can start right away. And
just like you said, if somebody had their house was
destroyed and they're going to rebuild essentially the same, maybe
a little bit longer, a little bit higher, they really
shouldn't have to go through much of a process. So
I want you to know that we are expediting, that

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we absolutely need your help. We need the federal help.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
You've got it.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I told you you will have no permit problem. There
will be zero delay, and as far as I'm concerned,
you already have.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
The permits and the reason.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So I am more worried because I met at least
eight groups of homeowners, and you know, I'm much more
worried about the fact that they said it's eighteen months exactly,
and they were devastated. They want to start now, they
want to start removing things. They're not allowed to do
it now. And you mentioned hazard is waste, Well, the

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hazard is waste. What's hazard is waste? I mean you're
going to have to define that. We're going to go
through a whole series of questions on determining what's hazard.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Nope, nope.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I just think you have to allow the people to
go on this site and start the process tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
And we will. Okay, good you.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Can mister back and check mister president. Yes, I'm congress
Member Judy Chu and I represent the areas of Altadena
and Pasadena. That's the Eaton Fire, and there is a
world of hurt there. I know that you've gone to
the Palisades and you've seen the devastation, but it's apocalyptic

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in Altadena, and thank goodness, I have a partner with
Supervisor Catherine Barger in working to help people get back
to normal and to rebuild. But right now they have
nothing and there have been ninety five hundred structures burned.
Most of the deaths have occurred in our area the

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Eaton Fire, and thousands of people are without homes. And
these are working people, These are working class people. They
are people like doctor Jackie Jacobs, who was an educator
all her life and then finally became the first black
administrator of her educational institution, Pasadena City College, and then

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retired now eighty eight years old, and then her home
of thirty years burned in Alta Dina. Yea, she has nothing.
She left without with only the clothes on her back.
She has nothing, and so they need this help. And
I just want to make sure that you remember the
people in Alta Dina and Pasadena and that you can

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come there and see how terrible the devastation has been
there so that they can get the help that they need.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Just remember one thing, And I like the way you
express yourself beautifully. Actually, but I've only been here three
days and I'll do a great job. But we had
another president and this took place during the life of another.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
President, not me.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
But I'm going to be the president that's going to
help you fix it, because he would not have been
able to help you fix it.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
So we'll we'll thank care of the word tech rible
and will work closer. Yeah, will work closely.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And I know your community was really devastated incredibly, so
we understand that.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Thank you, sir, mister President.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
I'm just going to follow up and I also represent
Altadena and what I tell people is people of alt
You are the exact people you talked to when you
were running. You've got individuals from every.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Every walk of life.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
And it is the actually, at one time was the
only place African Americans purchase homes. It was redlined, and
so you've got a lot of generational wealth there. And
one of the commitments I've made, and we've had meetings
with some of your people in HUD that you've you've
got there now to work with them and work with
your administration to see how.

Speaker 8 (08:49):
We can help. And I've been pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
I know on HUD we've got.

Speaker 9 (08:57):
Some asks that.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
We are going to be working with with you on.
But more importantly, I just really emphasis when I emphasize
what Congresswoman Chu said, and that is that these are
individuals who are feeling forgotten. And what I tell them
is and when we invited you out here, I told
when I went to the Ami Church, this president was

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talking to you when he was running. You understand the
difficulty in making ends meet. You understand the high cost
of living, and now their biggest fear is that that's
going to impact their ability to rebuild. And I have
made them this commitment because this is my last term
that for the next four years you talk about or
eighteen months. I've told our county staff that if you're

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going to get in the way, then get another job,
because we are an all hands on deck and quite frankly,
if the bureaucracy can't get out of.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
The way, we'll just roll over it.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
And we've said that, we've made it clear the Governor's
Wave SEQUE, which I feel should be completely reformed, if
not eliminated.

Speaker 8 (10:07):
And if it's being eliminated for this.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
How are they doing with SEQUA?

Speaker 10 (10:12):
How are they doing?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
How is it?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
What's what's been the attitude of the people running that
whole situation?

Speaker 7 (10:17):
It adds sometimes years on to an application to.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Do it, and and the governors and Coastal Commission also,
he waved that it's going to have to override the
Coastal Commission because I've dealt with the Coastal Commission for
a long time and they are they are considered the
most difficult in the entire country, and we cannot have
them play their games and wait ten years to give
somebody a permit. In fact, I'm going to override the

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Coastal Commission. I'm not going to let them get away
with their antics.

Speaker 11 (10:45):
Well, okay, thank you, thank you, mister President. I just
wanted I just want to thank you for your leadership
on California water policy. He made it a priority from
day one of us. In the Central Valley in northern California,
we have kind of startic wildfires as well. California as
a wildfire prone area. So ensuring reliable, stable water supplies

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is critical. And so your leadership, your executive order moving
more water, maximizing flows throughout the state of California, building
more water storage, can more conveniences, coordinating that.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
It would have a great impact on I know your
area very well. It would have an unbelievable impact on
your area.

Speaker 10 (11:25):
Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (11:25):
We just want thank you for making it a priority.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
You know, even beyond the fire stuff, the farms. I
drive up.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I was driving up with congressmen a few years ago
because they were complaining they had no water. And I
was driving up and you'll see all of this incredible land,
but it's absolutely bone dry, and then you'll see little
green patches and the green patches are so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
You know, they have that land.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
They say it's as good as Iowa farmland, but it
has no water, and it's artificial, has no water. They
send the water out into the Pacific Ocean. And when
we let that water come through your valleys and down
to Los Angeles and whatever, you're gonna have a different place.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It's gonna be a whole different place.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And you guys have to get together and say, gee,
we want it. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
So at least you.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Said that, and I appreciate it because your farmers will
be able to instead of having one acre out of
one hundred, which is all they have, they'll be able
to have one hundred acres out of one hundred. And
it's among the best. They say, it's the best farmland
just about in the country, as good as any place
there is. So but you can't it's so good without water.
So that's beyond the fire stuff. But today we're talking

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about fire.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
But it's good for everything. So I hope you can
lead a group, and Darryl, if you can lead a group,
I know how.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
You feel, and you know support what I'm doing because
what I'm doing, I guess is controversial.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
I don't know what's I don't know what's.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Controversial about sending millions of sending millions and millions of
gallons of beautiful fresh water from the Pacific Northwest and
further up than even that into an.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Area that's bone dry.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
We have to you know, I have a house in
Beverly Hills and you get notices every once in a
while they want you to go down to thirty eight
gallons per person or something per house per person. I say,
you mean you can only have you know, thirty eight
gallons sounds like a lot.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's not a lot, And they want to do.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
That every once in a while, and you just think
it's ridiculous when you have you have like just about
as much water as anybody in the country, and we
shouldn't be in a position where you have tumbleweed that's
dry as a bone. That even tumbleweed can be nice
and green and rich and loaded up with water and
it's not going to burn. You don't even have to
remove it. It's not going to burn. But it's just dry.

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So I hope you can all get together and say
I'm so happy with the water that's going to be
flowing down because I just don't see anything. They talk
about the delta smelt, which is a fish that's as
big but it is. It is really not. It doesn't
have to be protected because it's in other areas. It's
in numerous other so it doesn't have to be protected.
The people of California have to be protected.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
It's a president.

Speaker 12 (14:12):
There, mister president, Could I just speak for a moment.

Speaker 13 (14:15):
Kevin Kylie, California.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (14:16):
First of all, you're absolutely right about the Coastal Commission.
I've introduced legislation to rein them in. We've been talking
with Rick about this.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
They're out of control.

Speaker 13 (14:23):
Absolutely out of control. It's insane the things they've been
getting away with.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
I think they thrive on it. Actually so ridiculous. That's right.

Speaker 13 (14:30):
They even tried to stop SpaceX from launching rockets.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's true.

Speaker 13 (14:35):
But you mentioned your predecessor and how he didn't fix
the situation, which is absolutely right. Not only that, during
the Calder Fire, which is a few years ago, which
was in my district, six hundred people lost their homes
in a town called Grizzly Flat. He came and he
promised that he would help them out, but he broke
that promise many times. He never delivered them. The individual
assistance they were asking for. So this has underscored for

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me the importance of helping the victims, making sure this situation.
In every fire, we get money for the victims and
we make sure that nothing stands in the way of that.
But I just want to thank you for your focus
on bringing sanity to California water and fire policy. There
is no place that needs a revolution and common sense
quite like California.

Speaker 14 (15:16):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Do you have so much water, use it and be
happy about it.

Speaker 15 (15:28):
Mister President, Happy, mister President. My name is Joel Pollock
and I am a journalist with Breitbart News. But I
happened to live in the Pacific Palisades, as do other colleagues.
One colleague, John conn wrote the song Fighter, which you
played at your campaign rallies.

Speaker 12 (15:45):
He lost his house in the studio.

Speaker 15 (15:47):
He wrote that song in We were lucky because I
was able to fight the fire on my fence. But
when I got to my house, there was no water
in the pipes. So I got inside and I picked
up the flower vases because I gave my wife flowers
every week, and there was water there and we started
with that. Then I found my son's bucket of baseballs,

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and I dumped the baseballs on the ground and I
used the bucket. But there was still no water except
for the water in the gutter coming from the burnt
homes uphill. So I went to and fro to my
gutter and my fence with my bucket.

Speaker 12 (16:24):
Two guys showed up in a truck. Two neighbors.

Speaker 15 (16:26):
We found two more buckets, bucket after bucket after bucket.
Many of my neighbors, including some here, tried to fight
the fires.

Speaker 12 (16:35):
They couldn't.

Speaker 15 (16:35):
We were lucky our house was saved, but we should
not have to rely on buckets to put out a fire. Right,
you can't stop an eighty mile per hour wind or
one hundred mile per hour wind. But there were many
things that went wrong here that are basic and small.
We did not have traffic police to guide the evacuation,

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so there was gridlock on sunset.

Speaker 12 (16:57):
They've removed the.

Speaker 15 (16:58):
Vehicles now, but there were dozens of vehicles that were
abandoned by drivers who fled for their lives because there
were no traffic cops available. The fire department wasn't pre deployed,
even though there was an extreme wind event coming, and
many of my neighbors lost their fire insurance in the
days before the blaze. So I asked my neighbors what

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would they want to know if I could ask the
President a question?

Speaker 12 (17:25):
And the number one thing was insurance.

Speaker 15 (17:28):
Can you work with the insurance companies to get people
back to where they were before they lost the coverage
because of California's regulations? And can you make California change
its rules so that when we build again, we can
get fire insurance and we don't have to worry.

Speaker 12 (17:45):
And there's one other point I want to make.

Speaker 15 (17:47):
I really appreciate my congressmen advocating for money. We need
the money from the federal government, but I also understand
Americans who are tired of spending money on California and
disasters happen, and California government passes fifty million dollars to
oppose your policy, so they have fifty million for that,
but not for moving people into rental homes or helping

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people relocate or rebuild. I would like to ask you
to follow the nine to eleven Commission precedent and appoint
a special master to watch the money to make sure
that every federal dollar that gets spent here is spent
on fire relief and rebuilding and not on everything else.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Good idea, here's a good.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
One right over here. I don't know if you do.
We all like he's very busy ambassador to Germany. He
was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Angela Mercole's happiest day ever in her history, and she
had a long history, was the day I removed him
from there and put him in charge of a very
high level of intelligence and intelligent people. But they were
not intelligent enough to fool him. But Rick Rannell has
been fantastic and he lives here. And I don't know
if you'd want to either think about it or recommend

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some people or get together and recommend some people as
a group, which is fine, but Rick would be somebody
that I would certainly consider. And bright part is fantastic,
by the way, congratulations on that. And I was so
impressed with the firefighters I met before and they said that,
you know, I asked him how many of the pumps,

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how many of the hydrants were working, and it was
a you know, large percentage of them were not working
at all. They had no water, and the ones that
did have water didn't have a lot of pressure and
one of the things that was missing. Many of you
have sprinklers in over your living room, in your bathroom,
in your kitchen. I mean, if those sprinklers worked with
some pressure, you would have had a lot of you

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would have had a much different outcome.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
So we're going to work on that. I think in
terms of that, Rick Renel would be good.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Or Rick, you'll head up a group of people that
would recommend a few people to me, maybe a commission,
set up a commission.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
I like it because we're talking about a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
The other one is Kelly Loffler is now the head
of Small Business and small business is big business. It's
one of the it's actually one of the biggest banks
in the world. We call it the Small Business Administration.
And she's a cabinet member, full cabinet member.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
She's fantastic. Her husband is the head of.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
The New York Stock Exchange, so they know something about
money and other exchanges. Actually, you have fantastic people, and
she wants to come here almost immediately after she gets approved.
She wants to come here and open up small business
to the area because you can have they have a
lot of a lot of money I always say, the
small business is actually very big business when you add

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it all up.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
And she's going to come here, and it's a very
important thing.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I want to thank also the first lady, because she
wanted to come here.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
She wanted to be here.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
She has so many friends, and she also wanted to
see North Carolina because there was another disase esther that
was so bad, so different, but so bad, and she
just wanted to go there. We said we're gonna stop
at one and then we're going to the other. In
many respects, it was a depressing day, but in many
respects it was a beautiful day because the spirit is

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so incredible North Carolina and here, very very similar situation different,
so different, and yet so similar actually, And so I
just thought it was very nice. You wanted to be here,
and we appreciate appreciate that.

Speaker 16 (21:34):
It's okay, yeah, fine man, and made ye?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
So is that local? You got it? You got it.
I don't want to be the only one to give
you permits.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Like in one day and then I find out that
the cities, the towns and the state is not going
to give you permits because and you know the problem
with permits, it only takes one. You might need seven
different permits. You shouldn't have any at this point. You
should just let them build. But and you know, you're
only as good as the weakest one. So if you
have one that's going to hold you up, but the

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others are going to give it to you in twenty
four hours, it's not going to help.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
You very much.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
So they have to work on that.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
That's what everybody said.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Well, and let me just tell you that we are
going to do everything we can, slashing regulations, expediting everything
so that people can begin.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
The process right away.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know, we have the Disaster Recovery Center on Pico
and Westwood.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
We have building and safety there.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
People are are already contacting the local agencies. We're bringing
our city departments together so that people don't get caught
in the loop of going from one room to the next.
We want them all to be in the same room
so that you can get busy rebuilding a SAP. Absolutely, yes, yes,

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and we will clear the lots absolutely. In the city
and in the county.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
We are working together.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Both levels of government are working in unity.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yes. So now faster is it?

Speaker 17 (23:42):
Six months? Is it?

Speaker 13 (23:44):
I mean, all of our lives, rents all this stuff
is weighing on it.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
And the number one that we are going to do
immediately and you will see this happen, is to clear
out the debris. And you know, we're concerned right now
over the week because of the potential rain, but we
are going to move as fast as we can. But
we want you to be safe and we want you
to be back in your homes immediately.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
But the people are willing to clean out their own debris,
it doesn't cost they can.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
You should let them do it because another time, the
entire contractors it's going to be two years. If a
family people are willing to get a dumpster and do
it themselves and clean it out, and they can.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
There's not that much left.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's all incinerated, that's right, and you know it's just
going to take a long time.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
If you do, you can do some of it. But
a lot of.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
These people, I know that guy right there that's talking.
I know my people. You'll be in that thing tonight
throwing the stuff away, and your site will be it'll
look perfect within twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
And that's what he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till
the city hires some demolition contract and it's going to
charge him twenty five thousand dollars to do his lot.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I think you have to.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
You have emergency powers, just like I do, and I'm
exercised my emergency powers.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
You have to exercise them also. I did exercise them
because I look.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power, and
you can do everything within twenty four hours.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property
they can, well, yes, but you know that you will
be able to go back soon.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
We think within in a week. Every that's a long time.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
A week to me, everyone's standing in front of the house.
They want to go to work, and they're not allowed
to do it.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
In the most a week is alone people to be safe.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
They're safe, they're safe. You know what, They're not safe.
They're not safe.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Now they're going to be much safer a week. A
week is.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Actually a long time the way I look at it,
I watched hundreds of people standing in front of their
lots and they're not allowed to go in. It's all burned,
it's gone, it's done. Nothing's gonna happen to it's not
going to burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost something.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
To burn, and they want to go in there.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
The people are all over the place, this standing and
I say, warren't you going in. We're trying to get
a permit, and the permit's going to take them. Everybody
said eighteen months, You said eighteen months, you said eighteen months.

Speaker 9 (26:21):
We can't even see our homes right now.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
We are blocked from entering our street if you can't
even This.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Is our first time we sat our house was yesterday.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
Miss President Uh.

Speaker 18 (26:30):
We're going to be together next week and during the interim,
many of us are involved in and Tom McClintock, who
you know has been an expert on this for years,
we are going to be putting conditions on the money
that do two things.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Require that it be.

Speaker 18 (26:46):
Done timely and affordable, and then secondly that we protect
those who will come afterwards. As we speak, there are
six thousand acres burning in my district on the Mexican border.
There will be more fires until we include in any
disaster relief items which will prevent it or at least

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mitigated from happening again. So you're going to see us
proposing both of those.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Like water things, I do that for you know the
Party of common Sense, see with the bread with a
Party of common sense, you're not in all fairness, sir.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
We like water to put out fires. It's really quite efficient,
all right, thanks President.

Speaker 19 (27:28):
Mister President. Uh, I'm Jay Obernolty. My district is just
a bit east of here, and you were talking about
the need to better manage our forests and our wildlands
to prevent this from happening again.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
And you were so right about that.

Speaker 19 (27:44):
Just last year, a couple months ago in October, they
put out a fire. The line fire in my district
was over twice as big as the Palisades Fire, and
they put it out less than a mile from my
house in an area where we had done thinning, and
they stopped the fire, mister President, on a fire break
that we had built a couple of years ago. We
have an area just on the other side of my

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community that hasn't been thinned in decades because it's being
held up by a lawsuit from an environmental group that
says we're going to reduce habitat, mister President, we need
to in addition to getting resources and boots on the
ground to do this treatment, we need to reform our
legal system. To prevent these lawsuits from tying up these
projects for years and years and years. And not to

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say that they should the merit shouldn't be heard, but
we need to hear them, and we didn't move on
resolve of them.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Is this a state group, state a federal group?

Speaker 19 (28:35):
Now this is a local group actually, mister President, but
they have help from the state.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
They use the environment to make themselves feel good, and
they're destroying our country.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
And you've got it. At some point you've got to
put your foot down.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
I know exactly what you're talking. You have local and
state groups and you have federal groups too.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
And you got to fight them the right way because.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
You will never even if the mayor gives you're gonna
have a local group come in and sue you're not
allowed to go on your property. They're going to talk
about asbestos and every other thing. They want to go
on their property and they want to clean out their
property and you cannot let anything get in their way.
And you'll have this place built up quickly, beautiful. It'll
be more beautiful than before.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
And I would do one other thing.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'd give them a ten fifteen percent bonus on their
house because they went through Hell, and they should be
allowed to build a little bit give them a little
bit lot line bonus. Give them a bonus on size,
maybe a little bonus on height.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
They went through hell, you know some of.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Them had houses where they were restricted. They have to
have an eight foot ceiling. You let them have a
ten foot ceiling. Let them build a nice house, a
nicer house than they had before.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
But I would give them a.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Tenor of fifteen percent bonus on their plans.

Speaker 14 (29:48):
You're listening to Tim conwaytoon you're on demand from KFI
AM six forty, and I think it.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Would be I would be very well received because they'll
be able to build a little bit nicer house.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Do you like that idea?

Speaker 2 (30:02):
By the way, they deserve it, because you know what,
it's not their fault that this fire took place.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
This fire took place, could have been stopped. It's not
that fault. It's not the homeowner's fault.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
And I think they should they should be entitled to
a bonus on their house.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Okay, it's a.

Speaker 20 (30:20):
Press, Sure, go ahead, thank you. Some good news from Paradise.
We stood together there six years ago along with the governor,
that thirty four home thirty four hundred homes have been
rebuilt out of the eighteen thousand lost, and there's four
hundred more in the wings.

Speaker 10 (30:35):
And so FEMA was very helpful.

Speaker 20 (30:37):
Now, my colleague who has Alta Dina here, probably a
very similar situation clearing the lots. They're probably gonna have
to clear about a footworth of soil underneath those foundations
right to get the toxicity out, So they'll need a
lot of help.

Speaker 10 (30:49):
Those are working class folks in Alta Dina.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And we did a good job with you.

Speaker 10 (30:52):
FEMA was extremely helpful. Thirty.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
That was the old days when FEMA was good. FEMA's
no good anymore. That was when we ran it. FEMA
was very good. But now fam is not good.

Speaker 20 (31:01):
We've got to get him on track. But on the water,
thanks so much for your strong efforts on that. Right now,
Lake Shafts, which is in my district is dumping more
water than what is coming in Sola's fulsome lake. And
those are federal projects that should be building up because
we're ladder January ladder January here and there's not You
can't count on the rain and the snow coming every year,

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and so if we don't fill those projects, then my
colleague in Samwokin Valley isn't going to get his water
for his farmers. We might be all right up in
the north, they aren't gonna get it. And then the
water needs to go through aqueduct for southern col to
refill maybe the sandy As reservoir that was empty during.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
The No, you don't even need reservoirs with the water
coming down, you don't need the reservoir.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
You have so much water you don't need it.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
You only have reservoirs because you're trying to hold water.
But you have natural water coming down along the coast.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's for a million years. It's been coming you know that, right. Yeah.
In addition to that, you have a lot of halfpipe.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
In other words, you have the half pipe that's built
and it hasn't been used.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
You see, it's bone dry.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
No water has been in that half pipe for years
and years.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
It was closed up years ago.

Speaker 10 (32:11):
That's a reservoir story there.

Speaker 20 (32:13):
Yeah, you got the reservoir above San Salisade has been full.
They wouldn't have run out of water in a few hours.
It would have gone for at least a few days.
It's forty acre feet out of six hundred thousand.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Reservoirs been empty for a long time. Yeah, it shouldn't
have been empty. Okay, any other questions, yes.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Please, mister President. My name is Tracy Park. I represent
the people of the Pacific Palisades on the La City Council.
I wanted to thank you for your loyal support to
our military, our police officers, and especially our firefighters.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Rank.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
My top priority going forward is to get these men
and women home as soon as possible and open up
the pathway to begin their rebuilding process. It was the
Army Corps of Engineers who announced last night that it
would be eighteen months. I am fully committed to doing
my part on the ground with our state agencies and

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our city and our county partners to speed this up.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Good.

Speaker 9 (33:22):
I just ask for your ongoing partnership with FEMA and
the EPA and our other federal agencies to make sure
that we have a commitment across all layers of government
to get these people back home. Thank you, sir, I.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Do it, Thank you very much. It's well said. I
do have to say FEMA is a big disappointment. We
had it working well, we had great people, but FEMA's
not good anymore. What FEMA did in North Carolina. You know,
they still haven't even gone to certain areas. They don't
know what they're doing. And I say, you don't need FEMA.
You need a good state government. And when you have

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a problem in Los Angeles, or when you have problem
even in the state of California, you have your own
essentially FEMA.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
You fix it yourself.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
You don't have somebody coming in from a state where
they have no.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Idea, like Florida. They come in from hurricanes.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
They have people staying in Alaska and now they see, oh,
this is very nice, but by the time they get
familiar with it, they don't know anything. FEMA is a
very expensive, in my opinion, mostly failed situation. We had
great people, we did some great jobs, but each state
should take care of their problem and get money from
the federal government. It would be so much better, so

(34:32):
much more efficient. So we're looking at that because we
have had and you're gonna have problems with FEMA too.
You've already had problems with FEMA. FEMA doesn't even show up.
It takes weeks before they even show up. And what
happens is the state then relies on FEMA and nobody
does it I think is FEMA doesn't show up, so
it's not a good situation.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
So we'll make some recommendations in.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
That, but you have to push like hell to get
the permits, because I'm just hearing things that I don't
like to hear. I think you're not going to get
your permits as fast as people are saying we have
to get them in mayor If I can't help you
at all in that regard, you'll let me know. But
you're gonna have all your federal permits. That's going to
be the easy part, which by the way, is by
far the hardest part. Do you know what controls your

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water is Department of Commerce and I already have that
approval and that that's usually a very long process. But
that's that's the hard part, was the federal But we
already have that done.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
So anything I can do, please let me know.

Speaker 21 (35:30):
Please go ahead, people, community, the rebuilder are getting the schools,
the rec center, the libraries all rebuilt, and whatever federal
support and whatever support we can get from you working.

Speaker 12 (35:47):
With the local.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
You lost all your schools, you lost you lost your
four schools.

Speaker 22 (35:53):
Rec center, sports fields, library, and as you saw, this
is an incredible community of families and our kids. That's
that's what they did all day was go to school,
go to the rec center of the library.

Speaker 12 (36:04):
Like, we don't have any of that.

Speaker 10 (36:05):
So we can all rebuild our.

Speaker 22 (36:06):
Homes, which is great, but if none of that infrastructure
is here, then it's it's not the same community. So
we we need those.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Were they completely burned down the schools, Yeah, come on,
all of them, pretty much.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
All of them.

Speaker 22 (36:20):
Yeah, Palisates Elementary, which a number of our kids all
go to. I mean, the place is basically destroyed, So
we can't wait five.

Speaker 16 (36:28):
Years for that.

Speaker 10 (36:29):
We can't.

Speaker 22 (36:31):
So that that's an area where we would love your
help and support. I love the idea of having some
you know, local council that can use those federal dollars
implement them quickly into rebuilding those areas well.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
I'm going to ask to set I think right for
this table. You might put a couple of the fire
guys back there on that I just met, okay, because
they're really good. But get a group and figure out
how we can do the processing fast.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Or mister President, if I can just defend FEMA a
little bit. Yeah, they brought thousands of people in I
don't know how they're doing in other states. They're doing
a good job for us here. They've got a huge
center that's open from nine in the morning till late
at night. But also, when you have a disaster this size,

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you need to be able to deploy thousands of people,
which they've been able to do now California, if we
did it on our own, maybe we'd have thousands of people.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
You do.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
But if Rhode Island has a Palisades disaster, are they
then supposed to keep.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
How many people do you have in California thirty six?
What's how many million? How many?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
How many million people do you have? What you have
forty million people, You're not going to get a few
thousand people. The problem with FEMA is they come from
all over the country. They end up in arguments with
your people from California because they want to do it
a totally different way.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
And the good I can live either way.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
But you haven't gotten very much done with FEMA because
and all you have to do is look at North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
It's one of the great disasters of all time.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
And mister President, you can't have Rhode Island maintain a
staff of thousands and thousands of people waiting to see
if they have a disase.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
You know who came in and fixed North Carolina or
the process other states. People from all over the country
came and you have the same thing. You have a
lot of people from all over country. Getting the people
is not a problem. Getting the organization's a big problem.
FEMA is incompetently run, and it costs about three times
more than it should cost. I'm hoping we can spend
money on schools instead of giving money to bureaucracy.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
It takes you so much longer.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
With the president, I tank you so much long enough
for helping our people.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
FEMA has a standard read and I'm a builder. I build,
I was a very good builder. FEMA has a standard
that's so slow. They want permit on permit on permit,
and then they want permits on top of that.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
If you use FEMA, you'll be here for a long time.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
What I'm saying is, get the city, get the state
to give you immediate twenty four hour permits. These people
are going to build their own homes. They're going to
get them built fast. How many of the people, could
I ask you one question, how many of the people?
What are people going to do for financing, what are
people going to do? How many people can build a home?
A percentage was like.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Where they don't have to go out and get funds.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Some people are just not going to be able to
rebuild their home because they have a beautiful home, but
they don't have cash, right, So what are what are
people looking to do? In that case, You're going to
have a big percentage, I would assume Brad like that,
what are they going to do?

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Go ahead, mister president, without your help, they're only going
to get forty three thousand dollars from the federal government
even if they have alf you know, they take.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Something bread with.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Every insurance company in the country left California. That's why
you have no insurance because you made it so impossible.
People that think like you made it so impossible and
me insurance company.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't know, I don't know what I'll tell you this.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I've never seen a state where almost nobody has insurance.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
And they said, what happened?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
And they said, like six months ago they all left
and two years ago they had different you know, quadrants,
but they left, and.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
You have very little insurance here. I mean, I've never
seen anything like it.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
I have insurance companies actually have been warning you. Now,
I'm not a big fan of insurance companies. Okay, they
have their big drugbacks too, but the insurance company I've
been reading. I read the papers very well, and you
know they've been warning California for a long time. They've
also been saying, we want water. You don't have water.
You know you're supposed to get fire insurance, and the

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insurance company goes they you don't have any water in
your fire hydrants.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
So it's a tough situation. I'm not a big fan
of insurance companies.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
I get that they're pulling out a floor.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
And you lost your insurance companies six months ago.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Because the state wouldn't give them what they had to have.

Speaker 10 (41:00):
Mister President, I remember.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
The place go ahead.

Speaker 23 (41:05):
I am d Ring from the California Policy Center. In
the matter of prevention of fires, in the matter of
the cost of rebuilding, both of which affect insurance rates.
I think one to support something one of the other
participants said, a reform you might consider, and it could
be an Act of Congress, is that the losers in

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environmentalist lawsuits pays the legal fees, and I think that
would be a big step in the right direction.

Speaker 10 (41:36):
The losers a boss leaders should pay all deference.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Oh you mean loser pays. I love that.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Well, if you did loser pays, you could cut your
courts and about one about you could cut them down about.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Ninety loser pays. You know what would also benefit medical.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
If you had loser pays for medical, your medical costs
would go down.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
By fifty percent. That's an interesting thing, you know. I
bring that up.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
But you know the only problem the strongest.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Lobby in the world, you know what it is, the
lawyer lobby.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
So when you go back to your local congressman, Hello congressman,
how about how about going against the lawyers for a
little while. Now, loser pays, you know, very good in Europe.
They use it in certain parts of Europe and they
have very little litigations.

Speaker 12 (42:23):
Yes, please, mister President.

Speaker 24 (42:26):
I represent the twenty seventh Congressional District, which is on
the north side of the North San Fernando Valley through
Santa Clarida and Lancaster and PALMDA. I just wanted to
tell you a story of heroism. Yesterday we had another
big fire we had several big fires across.

Speaker 12 (42:41):
And this fire was moving fast. It was moving one
thousand feet per minute.

Speaker 24 (42:47):
But what these heroes did, the firefighters and the sheriffs
and the law enforcement officials. They mobilized four thousand people
within about six hours. They mobilized twenty air attack aircraft
and helicopters, and they saved the city of Castaic. And
so I just wanted to ask you to join us
in recognizing.

Speaker 16 (43:05):
Those I love that.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
I love it.

Speaker 24 (43:13):
I think the thing that we all and I'm very
encouraged by your words. We're all here to help the
folks here.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, right, that's right.

Speaker 24 (43:21):
And your words about building quickly, building well, but building
quickly is what I think we are all here to do.
And I think if we can take that spirit out
of today, it.

Speaker 12 (43:33):
Is really important that you and your wife are here.

Speaker 24 (43:36):
If we can take that spirit, we're going to help
these people as quickly as possible, get them back on
their feet and recreate these amazing communities that we can.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
You'll take the word spirit, such a great word, such
an important word. You'll take their guts away, You'll take
the spirit away. If you don't give the purpose, you're
going to take their guts. They're going to say, oh,
we all of a sudden they'll start looking for houses,
and your whole thing is going to blow up on you.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
These people want to get and this place can go quickly.

Speaker 14 (44:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
But you don't want to take this spirit away, and
that will take this spirit away. So you're one hundred
percent right, Yes, sir, thank you, My inlaws loves at home.

Speaker 17 (44:20):
I want to make you aware of something that I
know you know, I think or two about, which is intergrate.

Speaker 12 (44:26):
The banks.

Speaker 17 (44:26):
When the insurance company gives you the check on the
name of the mortgage company on you, they offer you
two percent interest on that money. The treasuries are four percent.
They're expanding that in net interest margin on the back
tragedy of father victims. Could you please, just as you
talk to the CEO of Bank of America, you.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Look at this guy, he studies that.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
No.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Bank of America, they're not nice.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Sounds very nice, the Bank of America, they're not nice.

Speaker 17 (44:58):
Hey's treasury for the money that the insurance sets aside.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Well, what we're starting to do when we went numbers
on banks. Yeah, we're doing it. Is that Leonard Boxer
next to you? Leonard? Huh? We have Leonard, we have
on this Skip, I have them all here. Huh.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Look at Skip. I haven't seen you in a long time.
Used to be a very good golfer. You're still a
good golfer. And he's a good guy too high.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Skip. You got them all? Huh got Leonard? Skip? Thank you,
go ahead please.

Speaker 25 (45:32):
It's just a president. I just wanted to say. Paradise
is coming back because of the help that you gave us,
and we really want to thank you for that. And
that's why we're here.

Speaker 10 (45:40):
Also is because we want to help.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Our We did a good job with Paradise. And what
a fire that was.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It was a ter we've had many many people were
found and only the the certain type of German shepherd
could even find it, right.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
You could. You could not tell the dog. We'd go
right up. There is the body. And the incineration was
so horrible, so horrible.

Speaker 25 (46:04):
And when we see what we see the same devastation.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Paradise is going good, right.

Speaker 12 (46:08):
It's going good. We're coming back.

Speaker 25 (46:10):
It's because of the help and we want to help
our brothers and sisters here in La to come back to,
and I know that's what you're gonna do, and so
we really appreciate that. But from Paradise to the Palisades,
the problem is fuel. It's the fuel, the vegetation, the
dry grasses, the chaparal. It's there's a tremendous amount of it,
and we're not.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Got to remove it.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
You got to remove it, and you got to remove it,
and you got to do the other things that we've
said ten times. I mean, you got to remove it.
You just can't have it. I see it even now.
I saw the fire. We flew over it and you
got a lot of dry stuff. It's bone dry.

Speaker 10 (46:44):
And the environmental you know.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
I predicted this seven years ago. I said do it,
get it done, and nobody. Everybody slaughed. They thought it
was I said forest management. They thought it was such
a funny term.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Ha haha. That's so funny. Now it's not funny anymore.

Speaker 25 (46:59):
You know, we were it's number one cause of these fires,
number one cost. You wouldn't have any fires, right And
if we just remove those environmental regulations nipa sequa at
the state level that get in the way of us
doing those projects. Oh it's all a conjob, you know, right,
so Very Creek Town of Very Creek in my district. Yeah,
sequa stop them from doing a fuel reduction project.

Speaker 10 (47:21):
They said eighteen months.

Speaker 25 (47:22):
That's where eighteen months comes from, because at least eighteen
months on a sequel review, that community is no longer
here today because of the North Complex fire. We didn't
build that project. We need to make sure that never
happens again. We have to stop those things from happening,
so we don't have.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
It will happen here unless you're very strong as a
group of people and demand that you have the right
to go onto your property and start the process immediately,
like tomorrow. How many people did I see on your street?
Where they're standing in front of the lot the house.
There's really not much demolition. It's incinerated, right, so it's

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not like a lot of stuff. It's not like you
have three stories worth a concrete. It's all incinerated. And
all of the people were standing there and they weren't
allowed to even go onto their lot. You gotta let
them do if you If you can do that, you're
gonna see this thing go like wildfare.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
And if you don't you're gonna have.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
See, You're gonna have those lots for years because people
are gonna leave. They're gonna as much as you love
your location and your place, and you're in the real
estate business, as much as you love your location and
your your site, your house housing sites, Uh, they're gonna leave.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
They're gonna leave, They're gonna find other things. They're not
gonna put up with it.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
They have spirit now, but in a year from now,
they won't have spirit if you don't let them go.
So dis harness it well, I think, Look, I'm gonna
give you everything you want. I'm gonna give you more
than any president would have ever given you. If most
presidents wouldn't be here number one, they certainly wouldn't be here.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
After three days, they would not be here. I can
tell you that.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
And we're going to override all of permitting. The only
thing you have to do is get your state people.
It should be very easy, because that's literally so easy
to do. And I know the mayor, and I know
she's working very hard, but she's got very powerful emergency.
It's called an emergency petition, and you can petition very quickly,

(49:17):
and I just hope you can give them, because it's
very rare that the federal government would be ahead of
the state government because the federal government federal permits are
much tougher.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
But you essentially already have your permits.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
You can just go and go wild bread as soon
as you can get those permits, whatever you can do.
If you can put that genius of yours to work
on getting a permit, you'll be doing.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Much better than some of the other things you've said.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Okay, but we do appreciate you, so mayor could I
just leave you with that.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
It's a big permitting deal.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
We're going to be back and I'm going to put
Rick in charge of just representing me for a period
of time until we figure out exactly who we want
to do it, whether we want to commission or an individual.
You know, if you have a good individual, if you
have a really good individual, and they are rare, but
if you have a really good individual, it's always better
than a commission because the commission gets bogged down a

(50:12):
little bit. Daryl, right, So it's if you had the
right individual, and I know we do. We have a
lot of great individuals in this community. But it's an
honor to be with you it was an honor to
be with your fireman before and your policemen. We met
some great people and these are people that are leaders
and they're.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Just it's a fantastic group of people. And they were
very brave.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
I want to tell you fire people are so well
thought of. You had big fires and it was hard
to put them out, but boy were they brave. They
were really fighting against a tough thing.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
And everybody in the country knows that. Everybody in the
country knows. And it was an honor to be with you.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
So I'll be back and we'll work very hard and
I hope you guys can start doing it end up
starting like tomorrow at around twelve o'clock. Okay, thank you
all very much, Thank you very much, thank you.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Thanks for that. Is it?

Speaker 8 (51:12):
Donald Trump?

Speaker 1 (51:13):
President Donald Trump meeting with all the politicians, all the
first responders there. And the big takeaway is everybody's on
board with speeding up these permits. They want to get
water to LA. I think that's a little late. It's
early for the next one, the late for this one.
And there was some contention there with some of the

(51:35):
politicians talking about, you know, giving FEMA money to Louisiana
and not being on board with their laws on abortion.
Why should their bitty strings attached to it? In California
and all that politics stuff is you know, will be
hashed out, But the big takeaway is the mayor, the Democrats,

(51:56):
the Republicans, the President, the first responders, everybody's on board
with It's got to start tonight. It's got to start tonight.
The permits have to be okayed. Donald Trump said, uh one, uh, well,
maybe more than one. Odd thing, but he said there
should not be any permits to rebuild.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
Well, I don't know that means you could.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Put a what a statue of liberty in your yard
or built yourself the twin towers in your yard.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
Odd.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
All right, we're gonna we We've been on almost an
hour commercial free listening to Donald Trump talk about all
the things that are coming to La.

Speaker 8 (52:34):
Lots of money, lots of help.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
They're gonna put somebody in charge of all this money
because it's California. And you know, when you put when
you put billions and billions of dollars into the hands
of people who are politicians and people who are you know,
out here to presumably help us out a lot of
that money disappears, A lot of it disappears, and they
want to keep a track, keep track of where all

(52:57):
that money is going. It was almost an hour. I
think it was an hour and twenty minutes or so,
a little over now because the lower started roughly around
quarter till. Okay, all right, So yeah, abou an hour
and ten minutes or so, and Donald Trump is in town.
He took a helicopter surveyed all the damage before he
came to California. He was down south in the Carolina's

(53:19):
looking all the damage that was done with the hurricane,
the rains, the floods, and then came out to Los Angeles,
arrived in La was met at the airport by Governor Newsom,
and they had a pleasant conversation about what California needs.
Both guys had to bite their tongue, mostly Newsome, because

(53:41):
we need the money out here. And he did a
good job of it. You know, they had a nice conversation.
He shows up, takes a helicopter around Palisades, around Malibu
to see the damage. I think a lot of people
are hoping also that maybe he would stay overnight and
tomorrow look at the damage done with the Eaton fire.

Speaker 8 (54:00):
But that's not happening.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
And he also was so newsombmediment the airport talked about
the damage. Trump took helicopter round saw the damage, then
went to Station sixty nine on Sunset Boulevard, which is
right in the heart of Pacific Palisades. If you're familiar
with that area, it's about three blocks west of the Gelsons.
The Gelsons seems to be like the landmark there that

(54:24):
everybody knows. It's across the street from the Ralphs. And
I think that's how we know everything. You know, where's
your closest store that we all go to get food
across the street from Ralph's Fresh Fair. There they met
with everybody, all the big politicians, all the first responders,
the mayor was there, a lot of the congress men
were there, Brad Sherman, and you know, the left was there,

(54:49):
the right was there. The whole group was there in
Station sixty nine, and they hammered out over and over
and over again. They even had people there from the
fire that was up north in Paradise, the Paradise Fire,
and they invited some of them down to speak on
what's going on. But a couple of things came out

(55:11):
of this one is Donald Trump's tremendous dislike for the
Coastal Commission. I guess he's had to deal with the
California Coastal Commission when building. I think he's either his
golf course or his resort and has had to deal
with those people and had a lot of negative reaction,
negative feeling towards towards that commission and some of the

(55:34):
other permits.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
He said, they're going to try. He wants everything done tonight.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
He wants everything, you know, starting tonight, to take the
debris away and start rebuilding.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
He said.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
He also talked to some family members. I think he
was eight or nine different groups of family members who
live in the Palisades, and he in talking to them.
It's not just them, but he said everybody that even
they know who lives in the Palisades said they're not
going anyway. They're not going anywhere. They want to stay
in the Palisades. It's a big family community, it's a

(56:04):
beautiful community. A lot of great people out there, and
they want that to be rebuilt, and they want that back,
and they're they're going to get it back. If if
a lot of what was said in that room tonight
comes together and so there's it was.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
It was a great hour.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
I think the Republicans and Democrats got along for the
most part. For the most part. Some brought politics into it,
but they tried to They tried to keep it cordial.
They tried to keep it, uh, you know, focused on
the people who have problems and not get into fighting.
But this is nearly after two weeks of you know,
of the fighting between Governor Newsom uh and and Donald Trump.

(56:43):
And they met there at the airport and said they're
gonna They're gonna work together.

Speaker 8 (56:46):
So I hope they do. I hope they do. I
think it was.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Mister Donald Trump said, I appreciate the governor coming out
and meeting me and uh wearing mister Donald Trump was
wearing a black blazer and a make Make America Great
Again baseball cap. But he said, uh, mister Newsom, I'm
glad you came out. Governor Newsom, glad you came out.
I hope we worked together and put this whole thing together.

Speaker 15 (57:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Donald Trump then shook his hand and Governor Newsom said,
thank you for being here. It means a great deal.
It means a great deal. Very short to the point
and that was it. But it was it was hard
to imagine these two people, uh, Donald Trump and Governor Newsom,
even five six weeks ago, let alone five or six

(57:36):
months ago, ever, sitting in the same room and talking
to each other. It was nothing but cross country insults
to each other. All right, So we're gonna take a
break here, We're gonna get some more news, and we'll
come back. And we've got more news when we come back,
including the estimate of the fire damage is ballooning. It
is gone up to a point where I'm not sure

(57:57):
where this money is coming from. The insurance companies don't
have it. I don't know if the government has it.
I know the state of California doesn't have it. And
on top of all this, we're looking at very cold
temperatures in southern California and rain potentially up to an
inch of rain, which is not great news for any
of the burned out areas. We are live right here

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