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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app The Conway Show.
It's Friday, and we have I think we look out
the window.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I think we're fire free.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think for the first time in three weeks, yesterday
we are pretty light. Today light again, and I hope
it's over. You know, if you look at that app,
that duty Watch, and and you and you look at
the map of the United States, the only place where
they're fires, they're twenty five of them over last week.
(00:39):
Southern k Watch, Study Watch, Study Watch, Dirty Watch. The
better duty Watch is the one that Leno owns. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Like it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, fire for fighting, but duty Watch is what it is.
All right, Let's take a Trump here, watch duty whatever.
Let's take a Trump here on five and four and
seven and Fox and CNN see what he's doing here. Uh,
he's going to be talking here momentarily. Let's find out
how big a check he's willing to lay on us.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
These are the people you meet with, and.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Uh live in Pacific Palace saying, and if.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You don't meet with individuals who represent the area where
this disaster took place, that's that's a bad look, not
just for them, but for you as well, because what
people don't want Democrat Republican, whether they voted for you
or not, is for you to bring politics into their
effort to get their lives back in order.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Was this Conan Nolan, Yes, let's get him off.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's horrible with this. Let's go to Channel five. Codon
Nolan hates Trump and he and he speaking of bringing
politics into it. Codon Nolan always brings politics into it.
Let's go channel.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's it. They're just chatting.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Then she's showing him a picture of what her house
he used to be having.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Okay, when they speak, we'll pick that up.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
But this meeting is supposed to be taking place anytime now.
It's interesting because they keep showing the flash. They're at
La Fire Department Station sixty nine where the mayor bas is,
some congressional representatives. Catherine Barger's there. They're all just sitting
around this horseshoe shaped table waiting for him as he
takes a stroll here through palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I love Conan Nolan, but he had to be told
by his wife to stop slamming Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
His wife said, hey, you're really overdoing it. What's going
on with you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
On TV?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're supposed to be, you know, a guy just giving
us the news.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But Conny Nolan hates Trump, hates him, and so for
him to say you shouldn't bring politics into it, that
guy brings politics into it and everything.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So that's odd. That's odd.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I mean, look, I love the guy, but he's more
political than anybody else on TV. All right, let's get
what about Trump and Newsome here they meant Let's find
out what they had to say to each other.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We're talking a little bit.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
We want to get it fixed. We want to get
the problem fixed. And there will be some ways.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But is Donald Trump meeting with Governor Newsom?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There'll be, but it's like.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You got hit by a bomb, right, like you got
hit by a mom.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We would like to say that most importantly, thank you
for being here me.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
It's a great deal to all of us, not just
the folks in Ballisades.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The folks in Altadena that were devastated.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We're gonna need your support.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We're going to need your help.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
If you were there for us during COVID, I don't
forget that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
God bless this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Newsh Man he hates the Donald Trump, but he's he
knows that Trumps got he knows that Trump's got a
wallet in him with billions and billions of dollars, and
we need to shake some of that money loose.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
And I have all the expectations, so we'll be to
work together.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
We want to get the speedy recoverment.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Very well. You got to get it done.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Tremendous numbers of lives have been affected, a lot of
real estate has been affected. Nobody's ever probably seen anything
like this.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, he did almost say since the Second World War,
what do you think of it? I mean, nothing like
this has happened.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And we're gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So we'll get it perpetently fixed so it.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Can't happen again. And again we'll be talking a little
bit later and we'll get it worked out.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, I appreciate it, mister Preston.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Thank you, God, I expect you.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
How do you have this agued?
Speaker 11 (04:33):
God?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
God blessed you some man. You know, he didn't attack him.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He knows they've got to have federal money in here
to put this place back together.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And he bit his tongue.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Well and vice versa. I mean, Trump was very cordial.
It's like, this is the way it kind of should
be instead of this when they're in separate rooms or
in separate parts of the country, when they just just
bash each other constantly. When they're face to face, this
is what can come out of it, right. It's like
that old commercial.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, when you're in a on the way, you'll
cut somebody off and zip around them and be rude
to them and flip them off. But if you're in
the supermarket, you don't cut people off like that and
flip them off and run to another aisle because you're.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They're right in your in your space.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And and that's what's going on here in the Palisades
right now.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You have seen.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A lot over the past week over what has happened
in this state.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How do you plan to We gotta get We're looking.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
To get something completed, and the way you get it
completed is going to work together. It's the governor of
the state, and we're gonna get it completed. They're gonna
need a lot of federal help.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Unless you don't need any, would you be up.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
We're gonna need a lot of federal help. So we're
gonna take care of things.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Shut that helicopter Offussor.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Jessica Levinson from Loyal Marymounta University, American law professor. I
feel like it must be so interesting in your field
right now, because again we were just talking earlier. Can
he make can he make a condition for California in
order for us to receive the FEMA federal aid if
(06:13):
he says he wants to see voters having identification, which
is he brought it up earlier today in North Carolina,
can you kind of expand on why he wants this?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 12 (06:26):
I mean, he knows, and we just heard the governor
say no, we need that money. I mean he gave
that moment of unless you don't need it. Governor Newsom
is being quite honest. We have just suffered a horrendous
natural disaster. We're going to need a lot of federal funds,
and so the question is what are the strings attached?
I think President Trump is trying to implement some of
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the policies that he wants California to implement. He wants
when he talks about voter ID, we of course already
have Voter I D for registration. I think what he
might be talking about is Voter I D, particularly photo
id at the polls. He's also talking about changing our
water policy, which I understand may or may not be
just practically feasible. But the legal question, can you say
(07:09):
you're not getting these federal funds until I see from
you this new legislation and changing water policy, And the
answer don't hate me is kind of yes, kind of no.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So if you do.
Speaker 12 (07:22):
Something like create a new federal program people are thinking
back maybe to Obamacare, then there are only so many
strings attached to that new federal funding that you can
place on states, because states are separate sovereigns, and you
can't put, as the justice to say, a gun to
their head, but you can put certain conditions. Now, the
(07:45):
issue I see here is that voter idea has nothing
to do with wildfire aid. Separately, we need to think
about the fact that we're not looking at a new
spending program. What President Trump may frankly be saying is
I won't sign that bill for federal funding until.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I see that you do X, Y, and Z.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
And that's a different constitutional question and a closer one.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you possibly have the money? You know, he's talking
about having states being able to control their funds to
help with disaster funds.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Can you do that?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And I don't know, you know how much knowledge any
of us have on exactly that part of government. But
would that make it easier, because that's what he's saying,
is that it would make for a speedier recovery. People
would be able to get the money much faster.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
Let's find out he's saying if states controlled all of
their disaster funds, If the states so, I will say,
that's just, you know, very quick response, that's just not
how the federal government is organized, and it's not how
the state governments are organized. Think back to hurricanes, think
(08:53):
back to tornadoes, take back to earthquakes, now, think back
to the fires. In all in instances, states are not
organized to provide all of the federal excuse me, all
of the disaster relief needed. That's why we have FEMA.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
In part.
Speaker 12 (09:09):
We also have a system where California pays a lot
of money to the federal government, in fact more than
many other states.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right, we don't get as much back as all the
other states.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
And that's in part based on an understanding that when
we really need the federal government. Again, this is a
quintessential example. An earthquake would be another quintessential example that
that funding would be there. So is it possible in
the abstract to say we are not going to have
a federal government that provides any state with emergency funding.
(09:41):
Certainly you could have you could think about having that
sort of type of radical reorganization. But I guess I
just want to caution that is so far from our
current understanding of how we provide.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Aid to states and cities that would make a major
challenge to everybody. I'm just curious, as a law professor,
do you find the number of referendums and changes that
President Trump has made in the first few days.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Is it surprising to you?
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Certainly there's no historical analogue here. So we started off
a little bit by talking about executive orders, and we've
already seen that a number of these orders are being
challenged in court. I think, just generally speaking, what we're
going to see for the next few weeks is a
president who is approaching a kind of shock and awe
(10:28):
approach to governing. I think the first day of the
first Trump term he issued one executive order. Of course,
the first day of the second Trump term he ordered
he issued dozens of executive orders. I don't know any
other president who has issued that many executive orders on
the first day. So the first thing we need to
look at is just obviously the sheer amount. But second
(10:50):
then we need to go order by order and figure
out whether or not that is a change that can
be accomplished by executive order or does it need to
be accomplished by allegedi.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay, all right, as soon as Trump there's a big
as Krozer said, there's this big table where he's gonna
be sitting there with Newsom. I think Karen Bass will
be out there too. Some of the firefighters, yeah, Christan Crowley,
some of the first responders are out there. I think
the LA FD chief is out there, and LA County
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chief is out there as well. There's some reporters and
it looks like, yeah, it looks like that's about it.
Oh then the chief of police is out there as
well LAPD and so everybody's out there. They're all sitting
around the table in Pacific Calistad. Yeah, it looks like
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a fire station. Is that a fire fire station?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Sixty L A F T.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
All right, all right, So when we come back or
if they're speaking during the commercial, we will interrupt and
we'll give you immediate live Donald Trump, how he's gonna pay,
how he's going to help us out here with all
the other politicians that are surrounding the area as well.
Speaker 13 (12:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The Conway Show. Donald Trump is in town.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It looks like with Malania Trump there and this is
Channel eleven there, it's not all this TV stations here
two four, five, seven, nine eleven.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He went down and shook all the hands.
Speaker 14 (12:26):
Capture on camera that these firefighters.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Of the first responders.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Let's forget meeting the president of the United States during
a very very delix.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Michaelson's out there, you're on camera here.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
What's going on, Alex Yeah, go ahead, your yeah, and
whatever you think about whatever you think about Donald Trump politically,
and we know that there are very dramatically different thoughts
on him politically. If you ever get an opportunity to
spend time with him personally, which I have, he's an
extraordinarily charismatic person in the room. It's part of the
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reason he got to be the President of the United States.
That is also the case you think of democratic presidents
like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Georgia Zellich.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We'll toss you out that really.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Have these sort of outsized personalities that when they are
with you, they make you feel like you're the center
of the universe at fun are engaging in person, and
they have the ability to lift up the people around them.
That is true when it comes to Donald Trump, and
you're seeing that impact caught you out of this the
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offense itself being around the person who is the president
of the Secret Service and Marine one and all of that.
But Trump himself does.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Have Trump's holding a hat that says forty seven on it.
They gave him a white helmet, which I think is
the top helmet there, the chiefs.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Helmet or at least fire captain's helmet. I think it's a.
Speaker 14 (13:47):
Cheap water management and perhaps the way this fire was
battled or not.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, So Donald Trump is in the Palisades and
will have a round table meeting or a horseshoe tape
meeting momentarily inside of fire Station sixty nine, and all
the big wigs from la are sitting there, from Mayor
Bass to the chief of police. The sheriff is there
as well, some other politicians the head of La Fire Department,
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the head of La Fire, La County Fire is there.
They're all sitting there inside this fire station, fire Station
sixty nine in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Your president on the ground. You want to see your
president make a visit and meet with the lawmakers like
Mayor Karen Bass, Supervisor Catherine Barger, who're going to be
dealing with this and dealing with California's recovery.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
And we're now getting our first look inside of the
roundtable that is set up and ready to go for
the president. You know, I don't think the president is
very far. I think it's a few blocks from where
we are right now, which is just a step few
steps away from that firehouse where that roundtable is. So
once he gets in, of course, there's no traffic when
you're when you're driving in the beast as.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They there's Congressman up there. Congressman Sherman's in there as well, be.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Able to get over here pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But as the head of the fire department.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Get a sense of some of the folks that are
are assembled there, and you see it is uh, you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Know, some folks.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
From the different members of Congress from La County Sheriff.
It looks like some representatives of the National Guard. You
see Congressman Brad Sherman there, and so it is nice
to see, we see the sign that says we're in
this together, and it is nice to see that we
really do have a a bipartisan contingent, which you don't
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see on that many issues. And you think about LA
Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump, they certainly have so
many political differences, but it's nice to see that she's
seated so closely to where the president is going to
be as well.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
I believe to my right there, I believe that was
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald, and it possibly is the fire
chief there as.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
Well to meet with them.
Speaker 14 (16:11):
We see Sup possibly as well. We're in this together, Alix.
I'm wondering your perspective. We have this delegation of Republican
congress members invited into this Palisades area and it is
their chance to meet with their president.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Who was just had his inauguration.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
But what message they are meant to carry back to
Washington when it comes to fighting for southern California, Because
not all of them are from the Los Angeles area,
how important is it that they hear what's going on
here in Southern California hours.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So all right, we're gonna take a little break, and
then as soon as President Trump is speaking with Mayor
Bass and the rest of the dignitaries in there, we
will bring that to you live.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh there's Ted Lewis in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right, So everybody's representing southern California politically, and first
responders are all in this room in this fire station,
fire Station sixty nine out of the Palisades, and as
soon as he starts speaking, we will carry that live
uninterrupted right here on your news station KFI.
Speaker 13 (17:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Donald Trump is at Los Angeles Fire Department Station sixty nine.
For people that don't know where that is, it's on
Sunset Boulevard, about four blocks three blocks west of Gelson,
So what's left of Glson's there on Sunset Boulevard, and
it's right across there's a there's a big school there
that's right across the street. I think that's I think
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it's Corpus CHRISTI there's a Catholic church and school across
the street. It's right where Ralphs Is. It's literally probably
about one hundred yards from where the Ralphs Fresh Fair
is out there, and it's right on Sunset Boulevard in
the heart of Pacific Palisades, and that the station is
one of the best stations for a response time. They're
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constantly getting awards the EMS. The call processing takes a
minute in six seconds, they get out of the fire
station in another fifty four seconds, and the travel time
is five minutes and twenty two seconds. So if you're
hurt injured in that area, those guys get too quick.
Those guys get too quick the EMS. So that's a
(18:27):
cool station. I think the reason why it's there is
because everything around it has been wiped out. A lot
of stores, a lot of homes have been wiped out.
So Donald Trump is there with his wife Malania, and
they're about to speak, and all of the dignitaries, all
of the politicians, all the first responders are there as well.
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I don't see Adam Schiff. I think he's still in Washington,
d C. With all the confirmation hearings going on when
it comes to Trump's cabinet, So I don't see him there,
but there the chief of police the chief of the
fire department. Looks like the sheriff is there as well,
and a lot of the firefighters. He just spent ten
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or fifteen minutes talking to the firefighters and a lot
of them. You know, you can hear them very faintly
because the cameras were so far away, saying, hey, glad
you're back. Nice to see if thanks for coming. A
very warm welcome from the first responders. So as soon
as he starts talking, he's gonna be sitting in the
middle of there. There's a board that says we're in
this together, and there's a flag of the Pacific Palisades,
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an American flag there and fire station sixty nine. I
don't know who is I know Mayor Bass will be
sitting on his right, but I don't know who that
guy is on his left. Is that a FEMA guy
must be the mayor.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now the mayor is.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
On the we'll be on Trump's right on our left,
that's Mayor Bass, But I don't know who is the
Oh I don't know about oh yeah, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Maybe you're right, yeah, maybe that is the mayor of Palisades.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's possible.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That certainly as possible I'm sure there's FEMA guys out
there and they're all waiting for Donald Trump to talk.
They all have, you know, their water bottles there and
their notes with them. I don't know who's going to talk,
but almost everybody has microphones. There's a microphone set up
in front of Christy Crawley's desk or her area right there.
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There's a microphone also there for Jim McDonald, the head
of the chief of the LAPD. Microphone in front of
Mayor Bass, and one where Donald Trump was speaking.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I think you're right, Crozier. I think that is the
mayor of Pacific. They have a mayor.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, I think they do. I think they do. I
think I heard him talking earlier. So Donald Trump is
at the station. There's some kind of delay though, and
not really sure what the what the hold up is here,
but there is some kind of delay.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Let me flip this station on.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
This taking photos and meeting some of the homeowners that
watch seven. And then that building to the right hand side,
that's the fire station station sixty nine. It doesn't have
a ton of damage, so that's where they're able to
have this round table discussion. So the president and according
to Carlos is just a few hundred feet away. There's
that patrol on horseback that has been following the president
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and providing some extra security. The fact that they're on
the move eland might mean.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Something that is a good sign. And keep in mind
Governor Newsom will not be at this round table discussion.
But earlier he did greet the President when he came
off Air Force one and basically said, it means a
great deal for us for you to be here, not
just the folks and palisades, but the folks find.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Out how much money's coming in.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Quote, we're going to need your support. We're going to
need your help, and he says, you were there for
us during COVID. I don't forget that. And I have
all the expectations that we'll be able to work together
to get this speedy recovery.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
So local and federal officials, dignitaries, politicians are all taking
part in this meeting. Some of it may fall onto
the States. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks,
the President thinks about how we fund disasters going forward.
And as you mentioned, Ellen, he did make some hints
that he thinks the States should take it over and
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the relinquish the federal government from taking part in this.
But that was just a comment, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He did say.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Donald Trump did say that we are looking to get
something completed, and the way you get it completed is
to work together, he says, taking of Gavin Newsom, he
is the governor of the state, and we're going to
get it completed, and you're going to need a lot
of federal help.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
So that is a room that this conversation is going
to take part in. I think it looks like the
garage where they hold normally one of the fire trucks.
They've set up a pretty big round table here. I mean,
so many people are part of this. Who knows who's
going to be able to participate in the actual conversation here,
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but everybody as many people as possible that may have
something to do with disaster relief and helping their constituents.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They're all all the local TV stations are on it,
Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, and eleven. Everybody's on
this thing, just waiting for Donald Trump to get there
and probably have a lengthy discussion. I imagine a lot
of people are going to want to speak and find out,
you know, where the money is here.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
How many?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How long do you think it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
We'd like to thank and I am coming before we
actually get to anything substantitional.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I hope it doesn't go on forever. That would be
the worst. But everybody standing up, all right, there we go,
and we might have some action here.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
We flip this back on the new normal, but we
have entered into a new chapter of severe events with
climate change, and decisions that are made today could potentially
kind of echo into the future into how we handle
these massive disasters and how we partner with the federal
government on getting relief.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Absolutely, and on the right side of your screen, seen
earlier footage just from about twenty minutes ago of President
Trump and First Lady Malania Trump meeting with some homeowners
that were affected by this fire. And we are under
the impression we don't know for sure that they were Ellen.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
He's looking at something. We think the homeowners were showing
them photos of their home prefuning.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
You're right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
So he can get an idea of what they lost
and the amount of devastation they're dealing with and of course,
you've got a couple that thousands of times over, and
that's how you kind of get to the incredible devastation.
Of course, when we're over these breaking news and we
see the fire of one person's home, it's a tragedy,
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it's devastating, but this is ten thousandfold.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Yeah, I was moved yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
When I went to visit my home.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I had to meet my insurance adjuster there and it
is standing, but it's badly damaged. But just the seat
house upon house.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, you know, we forget that all these a lot
of these reporters, you know, a lot of them live
in that area and they've they're going through their own
devastation while still having to report on it on TV.
So they you know, they're on the air for eight
hours a day and they don't know what happened, what's
happening to their home, and they've got to, you know,
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keep us straight face while they're reporting on this disaster.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's got to be challenging. All right, I think those
are the firefighters doing that?
Speaker 13 (25:33):
Is it?
Speaker 14 (25:33):
President makes his way around there?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Is that steph Oushen Croche do the.
Speaker 14 (25:37):
Members of Congress invited to this roundtable they're running about
forty five minutes late. They were supposed to start around
four oh five. It is a short visit here in
southern California. The President then is going to make his
way to Las Vegas, being there with Congressman Brad Sherman,
a Democrat. Part of his territory is there in the Palisades.
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And there you have the President making sure to say
pretty much hello to everybody in the room, even members
of a military there in the back. And Ted lou
As Alex had mentioned a Democrat who's been critical, Supervisor
Catherine Barger there in the yellow jacket as well. So
there you.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Have quite a funny and Donald Trump.
Speaker 14 (26:20):
As president during his second term after the inauguration, and
it is two disaster zones here in the United States,
North Carolina first hit by a hurricane and then here
in southern California our wildfires again.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He's Donald Trump's America Great.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I was going to say, make America again black hat?
Of course, is that what MAGA stands for. I didn't
know that make America great again. He's got that hat on.
Speaker 14 (26:49):
Pro and con people have weighed in on what she
has worn into different locations. But there you have them
ready to meet finally with lawmakers there. We've been waiting.
We've seen this picture with those.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Empires here to finish this. He's talking to mare baths
right now.
Speaker 14 (27:06):
It was first an aerial tour by helicopter marine.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Now let's get this thing rolling.
Speaker 14 (27:10):
Meeting here we go, residents affected by the wildfires. Let's
go ahead and take a listen in here as a
president addresses the.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
Round here, this is an honor to be with you.
Unfortunately it's a very sad.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Period.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
But what makes you feel good? Has I met so
many of the homeowners and every one of them, a
lot of them, and every one of them said to
me they want to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I said, will you go elsewhere? No?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
No, no, no, It wasn't even like a question. They
love the area, They love the people that it's like
a family. It's incredible actually when you see some things
like that. We just left North Carolina and we had
just a similar type of disaster. It was water instead
of fire, but boy, that water did damage like I've
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never seen before.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And then you come here and you see this.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
But the people are so amazing, and you fired apartment
were so beautiful, every one of us in perfect physical shape.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I said, what do you guys do? They have very
high standards.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
I could tell you, and we took pictures with all
of them, but very nicely. They gave us a little
helmet and I said, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You really you wear this? Huh?
Speaker 11 (28:23):
This is real and they said yeah. I said, it's
awfully heavy. You have to be very strong to wear that.
But that's the original, right, So it's pretty good. But
I just want to thank everybody. We're going to be
with you. Your governor met us at the plane and
we had a good talk, very very positive talk. We
have to work together to get this really worked out.
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I don't think you can realize how how rough it is,
how devastating is until you see it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I didn't realize.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
I mean, I saw a lot of bad things on television,
but the extent of it, the side of it. We
flew over it in a helicopter. We flew to a
few of the areas, and it is devastation.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's incredible. It's really an incineration.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Even some of the chimneys came down. Okay, when you
have the chimneys come down, you know, that's pretty hot stuff.
And a lot of them were down. That was a
bad sign too, But I just want to commiserate and
we're going to celebrate. We'll be back to celebrate one
day soon, I hope soon. The federal government standing behind
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you one hundred percent. The first Lady and I are
in California to express a great love for the people
of California. We've had I've had great support always in California.
We did very well recently, as you know, relatively speaking,
at least I can say, and it's it's been amazing.
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I have property in California, not too far away, actually
right up the road in PALASBURTI is a big propert,
and I've always loved it.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I've always loved being here.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
But we have degree for the twenty eight Californians who
have tragically perished, and sadly, you're going to be finding more.
And that's going to be very sad because I know
people are missing, and when you look at that kind
of incineration, you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You're going to find some more.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
But with all that we've gone through, I watched your
firefighters and they were really fighting at a big disadvantage.
I got to know a lot of them just now
and they're incredible people. They were so happy, they were
saying congratulations there. You know, they're thinking about country, maybe even.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Before this location that they all love.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
But I'm pleased to be joined by many of the
great California leaders, both Democrat and Republican. And it's an
honor to meet some of you. I didn't know, but
I know every one of you by name. LA County
Supervisor Katherine Barger, thank you very much. Mayor Karen Bess,
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Thank you, Karen. It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Representatives Jay Obernulty, Where's Jay, Jay?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Jay, It's been a tough period.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Jay Right, Vince Fong, Kevin Kylie, Vince Vince and Kevin
Hi Hi.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Vince A man I know very well.
Speaker 11 (31:29):
I know him too well, actually, and I say that
actually with love, because he's a great he's actually been
a great congressman for a long time, and he's a
great leader, and he loves the area as much as anybody. Right,
Darryl so Daryl, I say, Young Kim can congratulations in
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an excellent career.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Another one I know pretty well, is to put it mildly,
as Tom McLintock, and he's with he's been with us
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We have some interesting things going on in Washington, and.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
It's an honor that you have that you guys are here.
Thank you, Darryl very much.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Tom, George Whiteside, good Jeworge Sinks.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
It's a great name too.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
By the way, Brad Sherman, oh, I know Brad well,
I know Brad, But that's all right. We're on the
same side of this one. I know that we'll work together.
The bread very well, A lot of respect and President
Joe Envoy Rick Grinnell, who's done a fantastic job for
me over the years. He was ambassador to Germany and
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he was fantastic. So two and a half weeks ago,
over one hundred mile an hour winds transformed the Palisades
fire and other areas too, into absolute infernos of death
and destruction. And this is already the most expensive natural
disaster they say in American history. That's pretty amazing. The
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numbers are going to be staggering. Most importantly, we have
to get it built and we have to hopefully find
as few people as possible. We have already too many,
too many twenty eight at least. They say, we're going
to work very hard with the mayor, the governor, the
supervisor and everybody, and get the resources behind you. And
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we have some amazing people, and we have some amazing
fighters for things like this. I also had the concept
of getting some of the best developers in the country.
I've had so many calls from developers and they want
to come in.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They don't want.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
Anything, they just want to come in and help, and
they really know how to get things done and get
things built. I would ask that the local officials, because
we're going to wave just about essentially waive all federal permits,
We're going to have you go very quickly. Because the
federal permit can take ten years. We're not going to
do that.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
We're not going to we don't want to take ten days.
I would so we're declaring this a national emergency.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
By doing that, I can give you immediate, immediate permits.
I'd ask that the local permitting process be the same.
Some of the people were saying they're going to have
to they're going to be forced to wait eighteen months
for their permits, and I don't think you're going to
do that.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I can't imagine that. So they are literally in a
position right now.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
They'd like to start tonight and they'll clean their site,
they'll do everything.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They just want to start.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
And they were very concerned with the eighteen months, So
I'm sure you can get it down to I would
say not even eighteen days. They are ready mayor they
are ready to start there. I met so many of
them the fire took place. It's nice and cool there now,
and they want to start taking the debris. They want
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to take the debris, want to do everything. They'll get
rid of everything. They're going to do it by their
own hand, and you're going to see some amazing things happen.
So we're waving the federal permits, either wave them or
give them to so rapidly it's it's going to be
essentially the same thing, but we're going to try and
just wave them and we'll rely on the local. But
the local, I hope, is going to do the same
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exact thing. They're literally ready to start right away tonight.
So if you could do almost the same thing or
the same thing, would be great for building permits. You're
gonna have to, you know, check things out a little bit.
A lot of them, every single one of them said.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
They're going to rebuild.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
I didn't have one person say they're selling or they're leaving,
or they're disgusted. They love their community and it's incredible.
We even had one from your neck of the.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Woods, right, do you want to stand up? It was
so nice the way.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
You she greeted, she greeted my wife, and they very
different and a very different language, and it was very
nice to see. And you're staying and you're going to
rebuild and everything else. Everybody, everybody, So it's really good.
So I'm starting an executive order to open up the
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pumps and valves.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
In the north.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
We want to get that water pouring down here as
quickly as possible. Let hundreds of millions of gallons of
water flow down into southern California, and that'll be a
big benefit to you. Look, if you don't want it,
you're going to tell me, but just I can't imagine it.
I tell you who does like it is the fire Department.
When I said that, they were very happy with that.
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They didn't mind hearing that. But we have a lot
of water that is available, and I hope you can
work that out among yourselves. But I think this will
show that we have.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
To have that water. We have to have that water.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
You're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest,
even coming up from parts of Canada, and it pours
down naturally, it has for a million years, for a
million years, it pours down. You'll never run out, you'll
never have shortages, and you won't have things like this,
and when you do, you'll have a lot of water
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to put it out. So I'm going to ask that
you figure that out.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
But I.
Speaker 11 (37:19):
Really strongly recommended this seven years ago, and I think
I'm going to just do it. If you have big problems,
you're gonna let me know. But I just can't even
imagine it. But we're also surging federal resources and assistance
to the state and California mists adopt the common sense
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policies to prevent fires.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
And we all know that. You know, we were talking
seven or eight years ago.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
I was talking to people from Austria, people from Finland,
people that live in forests.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
One of the gentlemen, one.
Speaker 11 (37:57):
Of the top great leaders of Austria said, we don't
have forest. We have trees that are actually far more
flammable than they have in California. But they literally rake
their forest, they take down if a tree comes down,
they take it down. They say you have eighteen months
after that. It's like a matchstick. And I know environmentally,
some environmental groups like the trees to just melt into
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the ground. But when they do melt into the ground,
they become an inferno. So I think you're gonna have
to change your ways in terms of that.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You have thirty years of leaves.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
And those leaves are dry as a bone and they burn.
You know, interestingly, because I was at Paradise, who is
the genry right a long time ago? How is it Paradise?
What a beautiful paradise that it was, and how is
it doing? By the way, are they rebuilding right?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Remember one he said you were up here? President, I
went there. I never saw anything like it.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
But you know what amazed me. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 11 (38:54):
The trees were okay because the trees are loaded with water,
they suck that water the ground. And this was an inferno,
just like I would say, no different than this. And
it was also the wind that caused a lot of problem.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I mean, you had.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Tremendous winds that there's not a lot you're going to
do with it was we had up to one hundred mile.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
An hour winds. That's unheard of.
Speaker 11 (39:15):
But when I was in Paradise, I noticed that the trees,
they were dark on the bottom, but they were absolutely living,
and they lived because they're silken wet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
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It's Friday, and we have I think we look out
the window.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I think we're fire free.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I think for the first time in three weeks, yesterday
we are pretty light. Today light again, and I hope
it's over. You know, if you look at that app,
that duty Watch, and and you and you look at
the map of the United States, the only place where
they're fires, they're twenty five of them over last week.
(00:39):
Southern k Watch, Study Watch, Study Watch, Dirty Watch. The
better duty Watch is the one that Leno owns. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Like it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, fire for fighting, but duty Watch is what it is.
All right, Let's take a Trump here, watch duty whatever.
Let's take a Trump here on five and four and
seven and Fox and CNN see what he's doing here. Uh,
he's going to be talking here momentarily. Let's find out
how big a check he's willing to lay on us.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
These are the people you meet with, and.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Uh live in Pacific Palace saying, and if.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
You don't meet with individuals who represent the area where
this disaster took place, that's that's a bad look, not
just for them, but for you as well, because what
people don't want Democrat Republican, whether they voted for you
or not, is for you to bring politics into their
effort to get their lives back in order.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Was this Conan Nolan, Yes, let's get him off.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's horrible with this. Let's go to Channel five. Codon
Nolan hates Trump and he and he speaking of bringing
politics into it. Codon Nolan always brings politics into it.
Let's go channel.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's it. They're just chatting.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Then she's showing him a picture of what her house
he used to be having.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Okay, when they speak, we'll pick that up.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
But this meeting is supposed to be taking place anytime now.
It's interesting because they keep showing the flash. They're at
La Fire Department Station sixty nine where the mayor bas is,
some congressional representatives. Catherine Barger's there. They're all just sitting
around this horseshoe shaped table waiting for him as he
takes a stroll here through palisades.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I love Conan Nolan, but he had to be told
by his wife to stop slamming Trump.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
His wife said, hey, you're really overdoing it. What's going
on with you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
On TV?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're supposed to be, you know, a guy just giving
us the news.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But Conny Nolan hates Trump, hates him, and so for
him to say you shouldn't bring politics into it, that
guy brings politics into it and everything.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So that's odd. That's odd.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I mean, look, I love the guy, but he's more
political than anybody else on TV. All right, let's get
what about Trump and Newsome here they meant Let's find
out what they had to say to each other.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
We're talking a little bit.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
We want to get it fixed. We want to get
the problem fixed. And there will be some ways.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But is Donald Trump meeting with Governor Newsom?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
There'll be, but it's like.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You got hit by a bomb, right, like you got
hit by a mom.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We would like to say that most importantly, thank you
for being here me.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
It's a great deal to all of us, not just
the folks in Ballisades.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
The folks in Altadena that were devastated.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
We're gonna need your support.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We're going to need your help.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
If you were there for us during COVID, I don't
forget that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
God bless this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Newsh Man he hates the Donald Trump, but he's he
knows that Trumps got he knows that Trump's got a
wallet in him with billions and billions of dollars, and
we need to shake some of that money loose.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
And I have all the expectations, so we'll be to
work together.
Speaker 10 (04:00):
We want to get the speedy recoverment.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Very well. You got to get it done.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Tremendous numbers of lives have been affected, a lot of
real estate has been affected. Nobody's ever probably seen anything
like this.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, he did almost say since the Second World War,
what do you think of it? I mean, nothing like
this has happened.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And we're gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So we'll get it perpetently fixed so it.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Can't happen again. And again we'll be talking a little
bit later and we'll get it worked out.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, I appreciate it, mister Preston.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Thank you, God, I expect you.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
How do you have this agued?
Speaker 11 (04:33):
God?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
God blessed you some man. You know, he didn't attack him.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He knows they've got to have federal money in here
to put this place back together.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And he bit his tongue.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Well and vice versa. I mean, Trump was very cordial.
It's like, this is the way it kind of should
be instead of this when they're in separate rooms or
in separate parts of the country, when they just just
bash each other constantly. When they're face to face, this
is what can come out of it, right. It's like
that old commercial.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, when you're in a on the way, you'll
cut somebody off and zip around them and be rude
to them and flip them off. But if you're in
the supermarket, you don't cut people off like that and
flip them off and run to another aisle because you're.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
They're right in your in your space.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And and that's what's going on here in the Palisades
right now.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You have seen.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
A lot over the past week over what has happened
in this state.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How do you plan to We gotta get We're looking.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
To get something completed, and the way you get it
completed is going to work together. It's the governor of
the state, and we're gonna get it completed. They're gonna
need a lot of federal help.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Unless you don't need any, would you be up.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
We're gonna need a lot of federal help. So we're
gonna take care of things.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Shut that helicopter Offussor.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Jessica Levinson from Loyal Marymounta University, American law professor. I
feel like it must be so interesting in your field
right now, because again we were just talking earlier. Can
he make can he make a condition for California in
order for us to receive the FEMA federal aid if
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he says he wants to see voters having identification, which
is he brought it up earlier today in North Carolina,
can you kind of expand on why he wants this?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 12 (06:26):
I mean, he knows, and we just heard the governor
say no, we need that money. I mean he gave
that moment of unless you don't need it. Governor Newsom
is being quite honest. We have just suffered a horrendous
natural disaster. We're going to need a lot of federal funds,
and so the question is what are the strings attached?
I think President Trump is trying to implement some of
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the policies that he wants California to implement. He wants
when he talks about voter ID, we of course already
have Voter I D for registration. I think what he
might be talking about is Voter I D, particularly photo
id at the polls. He's also talking about changing our
water policy, which I understand may or may not be
just practically feasible. But the legal question, can you say
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you're not getting these federal funds until I see from
you this new legislation and changing water policy, And the
answer don't hate me is kind of yes, kind of no.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So if you do.
Speaker 12 (07:22):
Something like create a new federal program people are thinking
back maybe to Obamacare, then there are only so many
strings attached to that new federal funding that you can
place on states, because states are separate sovereigns, and you
can't put, as the justice to say, a gun to
their head, but you can put certain conditions. Now, the
(07:45):
issue I see here is that voter idea has nothing
to do with wildfire aid. Separately, we need to think
about the fact that we're not looking at a new
spending program. What President Trump may frankly be saying is
I won't sign that bill for federal funding until.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I see that you do X, Y, and Z.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
And that's a different constitutional question and a closer one.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you possibly have the money? You know, he's talking
about having states being able to control their funds to
help with disaster funds.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Can you do that?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And I don't know, you know how much knowledge any
of us have on exactly that part of government. But
would that make it easier, because that's what he's saying,
is that it would make for a speedier recovery. People
would be able to get the money much faster.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
Let's find out he's saying if states controlled all of
their disaster funds, If the states so, I will say,
that's just, you know, very quick response, that's just not
how the federal government is organized, and it's not how
the state governments are organized. Think back to hurricanes, think
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back to tornadoes, take back to earthquakes, now, think back
to the fires. In all in instances, states are not
organized to provide all of the federal excuse me, all
of the disaster relief needed. That's why we have FEMA.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
In part.
Speaker 12 (09:09):
We also have a system where California pays a lot
of money to the federal government, in fact more than
many other states.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Right, we don't get as much back as all the
other states.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
And that's in part based on an understanding that when
we really need the federal government. Again, this is a
quintessential example. An earthquake would be another quintessential example that
that funding would be there. So is it possible in
the abstract to say we are not going to have
a federal government that provides any state with emergency funding.
(09:41):
Certainly you could have you could think about having that
sort of type of radical reorganization. But I guess I
just want to caution that is so far from our
current understanding of how we provide.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Aid to states and cities that would make a major
challenge to everybody. I'm just curious, as a law professor,
do you find the number of referendums and changes that
President Trump has made in the first few days.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Is it surprising to you?
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Certainly there's no historical analogue here. So we started off
a little bit by talking about executive orders, and we've
already seen that a number of these orders are being
challenged in court. I think, just generally speaking, what we're
going to see for the next few weeks is a
president who is approaching a kind of shock and awe
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approach to governing. I think the first day of the
first Trump term he issued one executive order. Of course,
the first day of the second Trump term he ordered
he issued dozens of executive orders. I don't know any
other president who has issued that many executive orders on
the first day. So the first thing we need to
look at is just obviously the sheer amount. But second
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then we need to go order by order and figure
out whether or not that is a change that can
be accomplished by executive order or does it need to
be accomplished by allegedi.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Okay, all right, as soon as Trump there's a big
as Krozer said, there's this big table where he's gonna
be sitting there with Newsom. I think Karen Bass will
be out there too. Some of the firefighters, yeah, Christan Crowley,
some of the first responders are out there. I think
the LA FD chief is out there, and LA County
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chief is out there as well. There's some reporters and
it looks like, yeah, it looks like that's about it.
Oh then the chief of police is out there as
well LAPD and so everybody's out there. They're all sitting
around the table in Pacific Calistad. Yeah, it looks like
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a fire station. Is that a fire fire station?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Sixty L A F T.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
All right, all right, So when we come back or
if they're speaking during the commercial, we will interrupt and
we'll give you immediate live Donald Trump, how he's gonna pay,
how he's going to help us out here with all
the other politicians that are surrounding the area as well.
Speaker 13 (12:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The Conway Show. Donald Trump is in town.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It looks like with Malania Trump there and this is
Channel eleven there, it's not all this TV stations here
two four, five, seven, nine eleven.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He went down and shook all the hands.
Speaker 14 (12:26):
Capture on camera that these firefighters.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Of the first responders.
Speaker 14 (12:30):
Let's forget meeting the president of the United States during
a very very delix.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Michaelson's out there, you're on camera here.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
What's going on, Alex Yeah, go ahead, your yeah, and
whatever you think about whatever you think about Donald Trump politically,
and we know that there are very dramatically different thoughts
on him politically. If you ever get an opportunity to
spend time with him personally, which I have, he's an
extraordinarily charismatic person in the room. It's part of the
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reason he got to be the President of the United States.
That is also the case you think of democratic presidents
like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or Georgia Zellich.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
We'll toss you out that really.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Have these sort of outsized personalities that when they are
with you, they make you feel like you're the center
of the universe at fun are engaging in person, and
they have the ability to lift up the people around them.
That is true when it comes to Donald Trump, and
you're seeing that impact caught you out of this the
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offense itself being around the person who is the president
of the Secret Service and Marine one and all of that.
But Trump himself does.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Have Trump's holding a hat that says forty seven on it.
They gave him a white helmet, which I think is
the top helmet there, the chiefs.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Helmet or at least fire captain's helmet. I think it's a.
Speaker 14 (13:47):
Cheap water management and perhaps the way this fire was
battled or not.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, So Donald Trump is in the Palisades and
will have a round table meeting or a horseshoe tape
meeting momentarily inside of fire Station sixty nine, and all
the big wigs from la are sitting there, from Mayor
Bass to the chief of police. The sheriff is there
as well, some other politicians the head of La Fire Department,
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the head of La Fire, La County Fire is there.
They're all sitting there inside this fire station, fire Station
sixty nine in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 14 (14:31):
Your president on the ground. You want to see your
president make a visit and meet with the lawmakers like
Mayor Karen Bass, Supervisor Catherine Barger, who're going to be
dealing with this and dealing with California's recovery.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
And we're now getting our first look inside of the
roundtable that is set up and ready to go for
the president. You know, I don't think the president is
very far. I think it's a few blocks from where
we are right now, which is just a step few
steps away from that firehouse where that roundtable is. So
once he gets in, of course, there's no traffic when
you're when you're driving in the beast as.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
They there's Congressman up there. Congressman Sherman's in there as well, be.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Able to get over here pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
But as the head of the fire department.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Get a sense of some of the folks that are
are assembled there, and you see it is uh, you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Know, some folks.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
From the different members of Congress from La County Sheriff.
It looks like some representatives of the National Guard. You
see Congressman Brad Sherman there, and so it is nice
to see, we see the sign that says we're in
this together, and it is nice to see that we
really do have a a bipartisan contingent, which you don't
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see on that many issues. And you think about LA
Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump, they certainly have so
many political differences, but it's nice to see that she's
seated so closely to where the president is going to
be as well.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
I believe to my right there, I believe that was
LAPD Chief Jim McDonald, and it possibly is the fire
chief there as.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
Well to meet with them.
Speaker 14 (16:11):
We see Sup possibly as well. We're in this together, Alix.
I'm wondering your perspective. We have this delegation of Republican
congress members invited into this Palisades area and it is
their chance to meet with their president.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Who was just had his inauguration.
Speaker 14 (16:31):
But what message they are meant to carry back to
Washington when it comes to fighting for southern California, Because
not all of them are from the Los Angeles area,
how important is it that they hear what's going on
here in Southern California hours.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So all right, we're gonna take a little break, and
then as soon as President Trump is speaking with Mayor
Bass and the rest of the dignitaries in there, we
will bring that to you live.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh there's Ted Lewis in there too.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right, So everybody's representing southern California politically, and first
responders are all in this room in this fire station,
fire Station sixty nine out of the Palisades, and as
soon as he starts speaking, we will carry that live
uninterrupted right here on your news station KFI.
Speaker 13 (17:14):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Donald Trump is at Los Angeles Fire Department Station sixty nine.
For people that don't know where that is, it's on
Sunset Boulevard, about four blocks three blocks west of Gelson,
So what's left of Glson's there on Sunset Boulevard, and
it's right across there's a there's a big school there
that's right across the street. I think that's I think
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it's Corpus CHRISTI there's a Catholic church and school across
the street. It's right where Ralphs Is. It's literally probably
about one hundred yards from where the Ralphs Fresh Fair
is out there, and it's right on Sunset Boulevard in
the heart of Pacific Palisades, and that the station is
one of the best stations for a response time. They're
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constantly getting awards the EMS. The call processing takes a
minute in six seconds, they get out of the fire
station in another fifty four seconds, and the travel time
is five minutes and twenty two seconds. So if you're
hurt injured in that area, those guys get too quick.
Those guys get too quick the EMS. So that's a
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cool station. I think the reason why it's there is
because everything around it has been wiped out. A lot
of stores, a lot of homes have been wiped out.
So Donald Trump is there with his wife Malania, and
they're about to speak, and all of the dignitaries, all
of the politicians, all the first responders are there as well.
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I don't see Adam Schiff. I think he's still in Washington,
d C. With all the confirmation hearings going on when
it comes to Trump's cabinet, So I don't see him there,
but there the chief of police the chief of the
fire department. Looks like the sheriff is there as well,
and a lot of the firefighters. He just spent ten
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or fifteen minutes talking to the firefighters and a lot
of them. You know, you can hear them very faintly
because the cameras were so far away, saying, hey, glad
you're back. Nice to see if thanks for coming. A
very warm welcome from the first responders. So as soon
as he starts talking, he's gonna be sitting in the
middle of there. There's a board that says we're in
this together, and there's a flag of the Pacific Palisades,
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an American flag there and fire station sixty nine. I
don't know who is I know Mayor Bass will be
sitting on his right, but I don't know who that
guy is on his left. Is that a FEMA guy
must be the mayor.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now the mayor is.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
On the we'll be on Trump's right on our left,
that's Mayor Bass, But I don't know who is the
Oh I don't know about oh yeah, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Maybe you're right, yeah, maybe that is the mayor of Palisades.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's possible.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
That certainly as possible I'm sure there's FEMA guys out
there and they're all waiting for Donald Trump to talk.
They all have, you know, their water bottles there and
their notes with them. I don't know who's going to talk,
but almost everybody has microphones. There's a microphone set up
in front of Christy Crawley's desk or her area right there.
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There's a microphone also there for Jim McDonald, the head
of the chief of the LAPD. Microphone in front of
Mayor Bass, and one where Donald Trump was speaking.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I think you're right, Crozier. I think that is the
mayor of Pacific. They have a mayor.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
No, I think they do. I think they do. I
think I heard him talking earlier. So Donald Trump is
at the station. There's some kind of delay though, and
not really sure what the what the hold up is here,
but there is some kind of delay.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Let me flip this station on.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
This taking photos and meeting some of the homeowners that
watch seven. And then that building to the right hand side,
that's the fire station station sixty nine. It doesn't have
a ton of damage, so that's where they're able to
have this round table discussion. So the president and according
to Carlos is just a few hundred feet away. There's
that patrol on horseback that has been following the president
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and providing some extra security. The fact that they're on
the move eland might mean.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Something that is a good sign. And keep in mind
Governor Newsom will not be at this round table discussion.
But earlier he did greet the President when he came
off Air Force one and basically said, it means a
great deal for us for you to be here, not
just the folks and palisades, but the folks find.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Out how much money's coming in.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
Quote, we're going to need your support. We're going to
need your help, and he says, you were there for
us during COVID. I don't forget that. And I have
all the expectations that we'll be able to work together
to get this speedy recovery.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
So local and federal officials, dignitaries, politicians are all taking
part in this meeting. Some of it may fall onto
the States. It'll be interesting to see what he thinks,
the President thinks about how we fund disasters going forward.
And as you mentioned, Ellen, he did make some hints
that he thinks the States should take it over and
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the relinquish the federal government from taking part in this.
But that was just a comment, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He did say.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Donald Trump did say that we are looking to get
something completed, and the way you get it completed is
to work together, he says, taking of Gavin Newsom, he
is the governor of the state, and we're going to
get it completed, and you're going to need a lot
of federal help.
Speaker 10 (22:36):
So that is a room that this conversation is going
to take part in. I think it looks like the
garage where they hold normally one of the fire trucks.
They've set up a pretty big round table here. I mean,
so many people are part of this. Who knows who's
going to be able to participate in the actual conversation here,
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but everybody as many people as possible that may have
something to do with disaster relief and helping their constituents.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They're all all the local TV stations are on it,
Channel two, four, five, seven, nine, and eleven. Everybody's on
this thing, just waiting for Donald Trump to get there
and probably have a lengthy discussion. I imagine a lot
of people are going to want to speak and find out,
you know, where the money is here.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
How many?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How long do you think it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
We'd like to thank and I am coming before we
actually get to anything substantitional.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I hope it doesn't go on forever. That would be
the worst. But everybody standing up, all right, there we go,
and we might have some action here.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
We flip this back on the new normal, but we
have entered into a new chapter of severe events with
climate change, and decisions that are made today could potentially
kind of echo into the future into how we handle
these massive disasters and how we partner with the federal
government on getting relief.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Absolutely, and on the right side of your screen, seen
earlier footage just from about twenty minutes ago of President
Trump and First Lady Malania Trump meeting with some homeowners
that were affected by this fire. And we are under
the impression we don't know for sure that they were Ellen.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
He's looking at something. We think the homeowners were showing
them photos of their home prefuning.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
You're right, you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
So he can get an idea of what they lost
and the amount of devastation they're dealing with and of course,
you've got a couple that thousands of times over, and
that's how you kind of get to the incredible devastation.
Of course, when we're over these breaking news and we
see the fire of one person's home, it's a tragedy,
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it's devastating, but this is ten thousandfold.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Yeah, I was moved yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
When I went to visit my home.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I had to meet my insurance adjuster there and it
is standing, but it's badly damaged. But just the seat
house upon house.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, you know, we forget that all these a lot
of these reporters, you know, a lot of them live
in that area and they've they're going through their own
devastation while still having to report on it on TV.
So they you know, they're on the air for eight
hours a day and they don't know what happened, what's
happening to their home, and they've got to, you know,
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keep us straight face while they're reporting on this disaster.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That's got to be challenging. All right, I think those
are the firefighters doing that?
Speaker 13 (25:33):
Is it?
Speaker 14 (25:33):
President makes his way around there?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Is that steph Oushen Croche do the.
Speaker 14 (25:37):
Members of Congress invited to this roundtable they're running about
forty five minutes late. They were supposed to start around
four oh five. It is a short visit here in
southern California. The President then is going to make his
way to Las Vegas, being there with Congressman Brad Sherman,
a Democrat. Part of his territory is there in the Palisades.
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And there you have the President making sure to say
pretty much hello to everybody in the room, even members
of a military there in the back. And Ted lou
As Alex had mentioned a Democrat who's been critical, Supervisor
Catherine Barger there in the yellow jacket as well. So
there you.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Have quite a funny and Donald Trump.
Speaker 14 (26:20):
As president during his second term after the inauguration, and
it is two disaster zones here in the United States,
North Carolina first hit by a hurricane and then here
in southern California our wildfires again.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
He's Donald Trump's America Great.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I was going to say, make America again black hat?
Of course, is that what MAGA stands for. I didn't
know that make America great again. He's got that hat on.
Speaker 14 (26:49):
Pro and con people have weighed in on what she
has worn into different locations. But there you have them
ready to meet finally with lawmakers there. We've been waiting.
We've seen this picture with those.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Empires here to finish this. He's talking to mare baths
right now.
Speaker 14 (27:06):
It was first an aerial tour by helicopter marine.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Now let's get this thing rolling.
Speaker 14 (27:10):
Meeting here we go, residents affected by the wildfires. Let's
go ahead and take a listen in here as a
president addresses the.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
Round here, this is an honor to be with you.
Unfortunately it's a very sad.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Period.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
But what makes you feel good? Has I met so
many of the homeowners and every one of them, a
lot of them, and every one of them said to
me they want to rebuild.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I said, will you go elsewhere? No?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
No, no, no, It wasn't even like a question. They
love the area, They love the people that it's like
a family. It's incredible actually when you see some things
like that. We just left North Carolina and we had
just a similar type of disaster. It was water instead
of fire, but boy, that water did damage like I've
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never seen before.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And then you come here and you see this.
Speaker 11 (28:02):
But the people are so amazing, and you fired apartment
were so beautiful, every one of us in perfect physical shape.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I said, what do you guys do? They have very
high standards.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
I could tell you, and we took pictures with all
of them, but very nicely. They gave us a little
helmet and I said, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You really you wear this? Huh?
Speaker 11 (28:23):
This is real and they said yeah. I said, it's
awfully heavy. You have to be very strong to wear that.
But that's the original, right, So it's pretty good. But
I just want to thank everybody. We're going to be
with you. Your governor met us at the plane and
we had a good talk, very very positive talk. We
have to work together to get this really worked out.
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I don't think you can realize how how rough it is,
how devastating is until you see it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I didn't realize.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
I mean, I saw a lot of bad things on television,
but the extent of it, the side of it. We
flew over it in a helicopter. We flew to a
few of the areas, and it is devastation.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's incredible. It's really an incineration.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
Even some of the chimneys came down. Okay, when you
have the chimneys come down, you know, that's pretty hot stuff.
And a lot of them were down. That was a
bad sign too, But I just want to commiserate and
we're going to celebrate. We'll be back to celebrate one
day soon, I hope soon. The federal government standing behind
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you one hundred percent. The first Lady and I are
in California to express a great love for the people
of California. We've had I've had great support always in California.
We did very well recently, as you know, relatively speaking,
at least I can say, and it's it's been amazing.
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I have property in California, not too far away, actually
right up the road in PALASBURTI is a big propert,
and I've always loved it.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I've always loved being here.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
But we have degree for the twenty eight Californians who
have tragically perished, and sadly, you're going to be finding more.
And that's going to be very sad because I know
people are missing, and when you look at that kind
of incineration, you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You're going to find some more.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
But with all that we've gone through, I watched your
firefighters and they were really fighting at a big disadvantage.
I got to know a lot of them just now
and they're incredible people. They were so happy, they were
saying congratulations there. You know, they're thinking about country, maybe even.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Before this location that they all love.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
But I'm pleased to be joined by many of the
great California leaders, both Democrat and Republican. And it's an
honor to meet some of you. I didn't know, but
I know every one of you by name. LA County
Supervisor Katherine Barger, thank you very much. Mayor Karen Bess,
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Thank you, Karen. It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Representatives Jay Obernulty, Where's Jay, Jay?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Jay, It's been a tough period.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Jay Right, Vince Fong, Kevin Kylie, Vince Vince and Kevin
Hi Hi.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Vince A man I know very well.
Speaker 11 (31:29):
I know him too well, actually, and I say that
actually with love, because he's a great he's actually been
a great congressman for a long time, and he's a
great leader, and he loves the area as much as anybody. Right,
Darryl so Daryl, I say, Young Kim can congratulations in
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an excellent career.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Another one I know pretty well, is to put it mildly,
as Tom McLintock, and he's with he's been with us
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
We have some interesting things going on in Washington, and.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
It's an honor that you have that you guys are here.
Thank you, Darryl very much.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Tom, George Whiteside, good Jeworge Sinks.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
It's a great name too.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
By the way, Brad Sherman, oh, I know Brad well,
I know Brad, But that's all right. We're on the
same side of this one. I know that we'll work together.
The bread very well, A lot of respect and President
Joe Envoy Rick Grinnell, who's done a fantastic job for
me over the years. He was ambassador to Germany and
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he was fantastic. So two and a half weeks ago,
over one hundred mile an hour winds transformed the Palisades
fire and other areas too, into absolute infernos of death
and destruction. And this is already the most expensive natural
disaster they say in American history. That's pretty amazing. The
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numbers are going to be staggering. Most importantly, we have
to get it built and we have to hopefully find
as few people as possible. We have already too many,
too many twenty eight at least. They say, we're going
to work very hard with the mayor, the governor, the
supervisor and everybody, and get the resources behind you. And
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we have some amazing people, and we have some amazing
fighters for things like this. I also had the concept
of getting some of the best developers in the country.
I've had so many calls from developers and they want
to come in.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They don't want.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
Anything, they just want to come in and help, and
they really know how to get things done and get
things built. I would ask that the local officials, because
we're going to wave just about essentially waive all federal permits,
We're going to have you go very quickly. Because the
federal permit can take ten years. We're not going to
do that.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
We're not going to we don't want to take ten days.
I would so we're declaring this a national emergency.
Speaker 11 (34:12):
By doing that, I can give you immediate, immediate permits.
I'd ask that the local permitting process be the same.
Some of the people were saying they're going to have
to they're going to be forced to wait eighteen months
for their permits, and I don't think you're going to
do that.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I can't imagine that. So they are literally in a
position right now.
Speaker 11 (34:32):
They'd like to start tonight and they'll clean their site,
they'll do everything.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They just want to start.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
And they were very concerned with the eighteen months, So
I'm sure you can get it down to I would
say not even eighteen days. They are ready mayor they
are ready to start there. I met so many of
them the fire took place. It's nice and cool there now,
and they want to start taking the debris. They want
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to take the debris, want to do everything. They'll get
rid of everything. They're going to do it by their
own hand, and you're going to see some amazing things happen.
So we're waving the federal permits, either wave them or
give them to so rapidly it's it's going to be
essentially the same thing, but we're going to try and
just wave them and we'll rely on the local. But
the local, I hope, is going to do the same
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exact thing. They're literally ready to start right away tonight.
So if you could do almost the same thing or
the same thing, would be great for building permits. You're
gonna have to, you know, check things out a little bit.
A lot of them, every single one of them said.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
They're going to rebuild.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
I didn't have one person say they're selling or they're leaving,
or they're disgusted. They love their community and it's incredible.
We even had one from your neck of the.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Woods, right, do you want to stand up? It was
so nice the way.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
You she greeted, she greeted my wife, and they very
different and a very different language, and it was very
nice to see. And you're staying and you're going to
rebuild and everything else. Everybody, everybody, So it's really good.
So I'm starting an executive order to open up the
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pumps and valves.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
In the north.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
We want to get that water pouring down here as
quickly as possible. Let hundreds of millions of gallons of
water flow down into southern California, and that'll be a
big benefit to you. Look, if you don't want it,
you're going to tell me, but just I can't imagine it.
I tell you who does like it is the fire Department.
When I said that, they were very happy with that.
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They didn't mind hearing that. But we have a lot
of water that is available, and I hope you can
work that out among yourselves. But I think this will
show that we have.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
To have that water. We have to have that water.
Speaker 11 (36:51):
You're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest,
even coming up from parts of Canada, and it pours
down naturally, it has for a million years, for a
million years, it pours down. You'll never run out, you'll
never have shortages, and you won't have things like this,
and when you do, you'll have a lot of water
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to put it out. So I'm going to ask that
you figure that out.
Speaker 9 (37:16):
But I.
Speaker 11 (37:19):
Really strongly recommended this seven years ago, and I think
I'm going to just do it. If you have big problems,
you're gonna let me know. But I just can't even
imagine it. But we're also surging federal resources and assistance
to the state and California mists adopt the common sense
(37:40):
policies to prevent fires.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
And we all know that. You know, we were talking
seven or eight years ago.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
I was talking to people from Austria, people from Finland,
people that live in forests.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
One of the gentlemen, one.
Speaker 11 (37:57):
Of the top great leaders of Austria said, we don't
have forest. We have trees that are actually far more
flammable than they have in California. But they literally rake
their forest, they take down if a tree comes down,
they take it down. They say you have eighteen months
after that. It's like a matchstick. And I know environmentally,
some environmental groups like the trees to just melt into
(38:19):
the ground. But when they do melt into the ground,
they become an inferno. So I think you're gonna have
to change your ways in terms of that.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
You have thirty years of leaves.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
And those leaves are dry as a bone and they burn.
You know, interestingly, because I was at Paradise, who is
the genry right a long time ago? How is it Paradise?
What a beautiful paradise that it was, and how is
it doing? By the way, are they rebuilding right?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Remember one he said you were up here? President, I
went there. I never saw anything like it.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
But you know what amazed me. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 11 (38:54):
The trees were okay because the trees are loaded with water,
they suck that water the ground. And this was an inferno,
just like I would say, no different than this. And
it was also the wind that caused a lot of problem.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I mean, you had.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Tremendous winds that there's not a lot you're going to
do with it was we had up to one hundred mile.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
An hour winds. That's unheard of.
Speaker 11 (39:15):
But when I was in Paradise, I noticed that the trees,
they were dark on the bottom, but they were absolutely living,
and they lived because they're silken wet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
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