WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: Spokane Wildfires, Abdul Wins Michigan Primary, Munition Shortage 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:09.119 Also media, there were some strange looking people at the RNC. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.639 This is it could happen here at Executive Disorder Hour, 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.920 with the newscast covering what's happening in the White House, 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.400 the crumbling world, and what this means for you. I'm 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.079 Garrison Davis to They am joined by Robert Evans and 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.120 Mia Wong, with a special segment later on by James Stout, 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.479 who is on the ground in Spokane. This episode recovering 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.919 the week of July twenty ninth to August fifth, And 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.760 let's actually start with James reporting from the wildfires in Spokane. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:39.879 Hi. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.879 Everyone, it's James. I'm in Washington State this week covering 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.960 the fires here. I will cover more in depth on 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.239 my new show Natural Courses, which you will soon be 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.120 able to download wherever quality podcasts given away for free. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.520 But I want to catch everyone up on the fires 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.520 here as an a little folk prefer to consume then 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.800 news this way and might otherwise not be aware of 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.560 what's going on. So on the first of August, the 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.960 National Weather Service in each of Washington and in Idaho 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:11.360 issued a PDS a Particularly Dangerous Situation Notice. Fires were 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.120 already burning across much of the state and across much 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.560 of the Pacific Northwest, including on the land of the 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.800 Colville Tribes and the Spokane Tribe. On Saturday, three fires 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.800 struck near the north part of the city of Spokane. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.600 The PDS doubtless helped some folks prepare other folks, I'm 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.479 sure will have missed it entirely. Very quickly. People went 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.680 from nothing to level three go now warnings. This was 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.520 somewhat compounded by things like a large travel volleyball tournament 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.039 happening in an area which got a level three go 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.520 now warning. What that means if you're not familiar. 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.200 There are three. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.160 Levels of warnings when you are evacuated for a fire, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.200 and their level three is the most severe one, that 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.480 being like you have to leave your home right now. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.760 Several people have related to me, and I want to 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.160 caveat here that I'm not being critical of the response, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.160 which has actually been very good. I'm giving information because 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.520 more people are going to find themselves in this situation 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.560 in the future, and I think it's important that people 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.080 understand that the level three warning that buzzed on people's 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 phones of the emergency alert came not very long before 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.000 they saw fires and even structures on fire in the neighborhood, right. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.520 I think people sometimes think that someone will come and 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.360 tell you when it is your time to leave. That's 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.280 not always going to be possible, right, And again, I'm 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.120 not conveying that to say that the response here was poor. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.000 I'm conveying that to say that people need to understand 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.360 this because we're all going to have to live with 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.680 fire in the West because there has always been fire here. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.760 The climate is changing and we are pushing our homes 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.920 further and further into the wildland urban interface, and that 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.800 is where this fire began. Right on Saturday. This state 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.040 was a tinderbox, and it was these neighborhoods along the 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.120 worldland urban interface that caught the brendt of these fast 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.520 moving fires that had a peninful source of fuel and 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.400 were pushed along by the wind. Currently, about a third 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.840 of the two hundred thousand people who live here in 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.760 Spokane have been placed under evacuations orders, and the community 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.840 is obviously feeling the way of that, along with the 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.080 hundreds of people who lost their homes and all their 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.919 possessions here. Notable points of the evacuations included buses evacuating 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.639 people from old folks homes and a VA hospital was 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.800 also evacuated by buses, And of course many people left 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.239 their homes in their cars with their possessions, their pets, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.680 their families, etc. And of course that resulted in very 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.120 slow moving traffic. Nonetheless, from what I heard this morning, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.840 seems everyone evacuated in time at least to save themselves. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:37.200 I know many people will be dealing with tragedies, right 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.680 They've lost their homes, people will have lost pets, people 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.640 will have lost things that are incredibly important to them. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:43.960 Right. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.760 I spoke to people out on the Covial Tribes reservation 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.280 who were saying they had lost homes that their father, mother, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.600 grandparents built with their hands, right, these intergenerational homes that 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.800 had gone. That is absolutely tragic. I want to give 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.440 an update that I got this morning from a public 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.960 information officer of the IMT that's managing this fire, so 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.720 we'll drop that in right now. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.560 My name's Tom Stokesbury. I'm the lead public information officer 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.840 for California Interagency Incident Management Team seven. So right now, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.320 there's three fires that make up the Spokane area fires. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.599 That's going to be the Fairview Fire, the Old Trails Fire, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.200 and the Autumn Lane fire. Currently all totaled in the 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.920 acres is ten thy, five hundred and forty. But over 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.719 the last twenty four hours, our firefighters have made tremendous 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.480 progress in putting control lines in around the entire perimeter 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.880 of all three fires. Now that doesn't mean the fires 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.839 contained or controlled. We just have those management and control lines. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.039 There still have an active firefights. They'll have active flames 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.839 in the interior. To the point on the Old Trails 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.359 and Fairview fire, we actually had a spot outside the 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.000 line on each one of those that went to about 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.320 an acre acre and a half, but we had the 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.120 resources in the right place and they were able to 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.320 pick those up at about one acre each. So that 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.599 just kind of proved that they're still active heat hot 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.320 spots in this interior. And that's why we have engines 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.640 and all three of these fires still protecting the structures 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.919 that have not been impacted yet because any kind of 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.760 wind can throw embers and right now, the receptive fuels 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.880 in this area, and by fuels, I mean the vegetation 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.800 that is so dry, right your grass, your brush, it's 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.479 very receptive to those embers. Proof being is the two 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.200 spot fires. But we have thirteen hundred firefighters here. We're 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.200 expected to be over two thousand by the end of 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:30.600 the week. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.120 I also asked about the number of structures impacted and 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.720 when people here can expect to return home. And here's 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:36.440 what Tom said. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.080 Right now, we're well over seven hundred structures that have 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.080 been impacted. We do have damage assessment personnel ordered and 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.000 en route. It's my understanding they'll be showing up today 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.480 and we'll have them on the ground tomorrow. So we're 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.720 going to start to get a more accurate number of 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.000 what those impacted structures look like versus a total loss 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.800 to just an impacted structure. And those structures include not 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.640 only people's personal homes, but garages, outbuildings, sheds. But we're 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.440 going to get a better accurate number on those over 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.320 these next few days, trying to get these communities back 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.160 to where we can get them repopulated. But in addition 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.080 to that, there's a tremendous amount of hasmat in there. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.760 We're talking burned solar panels, we're talking LPG, possible gas leaks, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.159 the building materials from homes that have been burnt, the 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.200 stuff that's inside those homes. There is a lot of hasmat. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.240 So we have to ensure the public is going to 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.880 be safe before we repopulate and let them back in there, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.360 because our ultimate goal is life first then property, and 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.640 that life is not just firefighters, it's the public safety. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:32.920 Yeah. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.360 Well, I was at the fire based camp also ran 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.400 into local community members and businesses who are helping out. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:44.560 People were constantly dropping off food and snacks and supplies. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.760 His One local business owner who explained his efforts. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.640 To me, So, my name is Tim Codzy. I'm with JK. Boots. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.880 I'm one of the owners with my brother, and. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.040 I asked him what him and his company we're doing 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:57.920 to support the community. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.360 On Wednesday, August fifth, we're doing some of the home 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.960 Front Day. We're going to donate one hundred percent of 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.480 all the profits of that day to the Spokane residents 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.200 who lost their homes. So they could do that. They 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.560 can participate just on our website and just do something, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.360 just get something, and that'll go to those people. The 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.240 other things you can do is you can come here 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.480 and you can offer to drop off you know again, drinks, wipes, essentials. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.120 You can look on Facebook, they've posted those things. The 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.760 other big thing is just there's other funds that are 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.680 set up that have like meal trains, and because there's 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.880 about sixty thousand people that are still not a not 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.080 able to go back to their homes. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:36.560 Yeah, what's happening in Spokane is tragic and it is 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.400 going to impact this community for years to come. It 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.280 will take a very long time for rebuilding to happen, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.680 and probably even longer for people to hear the emotionally, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.400 I want to make sure that we do not overlook 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.000 the several large ongoing fires that are impacting the Indigenous 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.400 communities around the city though, because as resources shift to 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.440 the fires then the city, these communities will see fewer resources, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.680 and indeed they already have seen fewer resources. I spent 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.280 the last couple of days visiting the Colville Tribes Reservations 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.720 Spokane Tribe Reservations. Today. I spoke to folks who would 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.480 cut their own fire lines around their homes and communities 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.600 who were prepared to fight the fire. And Indigenous people 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.680 here have lived with fire for thousands of years, right, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.760 they have a deep understanding of fire, and people there 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.480 had decided to stay and to defend their communities, even 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.840 in areas that were impacted by Level three evacuations. Not 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.880 everybody right. Some people who were more vulnerable, Some people 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.719 who were not able to pass this bit in that 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.760 response or didn't feel safe doing so, left, and the 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.360 folks stayed. As resources continue to be diverted to fight 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.600 these fires and spoken, and as news coverage will continue 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.680 to centerund the city, folks who lost their homes out 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.800 in these tribal communities will also need help, and it 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.040 might be harder for them to find it. Some of 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.840 these people are still in their homes. Just today, I 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.400 spoke to several people who determined to do the hardest 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.240 to save their homes and hoping the little wind doesn't 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.800 pick up. They're cutting their own fire lines in Several 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.319 forestry and mining workers as well as tribal community members 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.920 who are on contract fire crews, have been using their 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.880 machinery and their skills to clear space and create better 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.199 firebreaks around their communities. It's a really tragic and difficult situation, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.640 especially when combined with this reporting that I will link 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.840 to of Red Cross volunteers making racist from marks shelters 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.400 that made Indigenous folks feel unwelcome there. I don't think 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:25.880 I need to repeat those, but I will link to 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.920 the story if you'd like to read it. It is also, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.079 of course amazing to see the strengths and resilience of 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.520 communities coming together to take care of one another in 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:37.000 these tragic situations. I particularly want to highlight the work 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.680 of the River Warriors Society. I spent today with them 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.440 moving supplies from one reservation to another. I will include 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.319 a link to the Spokane Tribal Network, which people can 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.480 use if they'd like to donate to support that mutual 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.800 laid work. They're really doing excellent work. They're getting people 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.600 what they need, They're filling those gaps. They're moving more 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.320 quickly than big organizations of big government things can even 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.320 tribal governments where it will require paperwork, whereas what they're 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.080 doing is literally standing at gas stations using cards to 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.520 pay for people's gas so they can get where they 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.760 need to go right, getting people hotel rooms, getting people food, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.959 getting people the things they need to get through this 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.400 and to begin healing. Today I help load hundreds of 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.000 pounds of pet food and animal food into a trailer, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.360 for instance, so that people who need to feed their 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.000 animals don't have to drive for hours away from their homes, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.920 right when the risk of fire is high and they 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.600 want to stay home and do what they can to 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.040 protect their homes. They're really doing excellent work, and I 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.440 would encourage you to support them if you have the resources. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.640 I will have more of this when I get home. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.240 Currently really tired, smell like a campfire, and I am 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.840 in the bathroom of a motel because it is the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.760 only quiet place I could find. If you'd like to donate, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.240 I would suggest the Spoken Tribal Network and I'll include 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.400 their web address. It's Spoken Trible network dot org, not 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.959 hard to find. I will also include the Unovia Foundation 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.400 web page for donation to folks in Spokane and their 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.200 ongoing recovery. And yeah, I'll have more on this soon. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.400 Hey everyone, it's James again. Just a little pick up here. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.320 They wanted to add someone has been arrested for arson 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.960 in connection with the Autumn Trails fire. I want to 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.840 remind everyone that an arrest is not a conviction. There 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.959 were three fires that impacted Spokane, and that fire needs 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.280 more than ignition right to spread in the way that 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.319 they did here. It needs fuel crucially in this example, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.320 and that fuel was already there right. That's why I 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.640 wanted to highlight the PDS that was issued on the 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.360 first of August. Now, I also want to address these 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.280 conspiracy theories. Right the most common conspiracy theory seems to 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.480 be that this was an attempt by big data center 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.280 companies to clear a block of land in order to 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.839 have a place where they could put a data center. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.240 I can tell you that I've spent the last two 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.160 days driving hundreds of miles around eastern Washington. There is 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.199 plenty of land where you could put a data center 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.520 here without burning down a neighborhood. Data centers aren't that 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.240 they are destroying so many beautiful places and so many 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.839 wonderful things. It doesn't mean that they are comic book 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.360 evil all the time. I think we need to inject 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.160 a little rational thought here. We don't have any evidence 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.280 that it was a data center. We did, then people 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.959 would be presenting it. But the data center hypothesis seems 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.079 to rest on people want to build the data center 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:43.640 near here, therefore burn down neighborhoods. Or the relatively common 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:49.000 and frequently recurrent fifteen minute cities conspiracy theory, which suggests 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.160 that rather than fifteen minute cities being an aspirational goal 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.480 for urban planning and a framework around which you consider 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:01.000 permitting building and potentially growing our cities. They are some 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.360 kind of George Sorrows mandated dictat that is now being 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.959 enforced by burning people's neighborhoods down in suburban areas. Again, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.120 no evidence to support that other than this wasn't a 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.280 city that the fifteen minute city people consider to be 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.520 a fifteen minute city. I want to address these things 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.200 because they come up every single time there's a fire, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.920 and I think we need and we're going to talk 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.040 about this more in my show Natural Causes, which you 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.679 can hear from seventeenth of August wherever Good Podcast giving 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.160 away for free. There are going to be fires in 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.720 this ecosystem forever. There have been fires since there have 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:41.000 been plants to burn. Lightning started fires before people ever did. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.800 But the people who have been here for tens of 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.200 thousands of years have lived along side fire for all 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.880 that time. We can't entirely suppress fire and remove it 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.120 from our landscape. This landscape needs fire and evolved co 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.079 evolved with fire. But there are ways that we can 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.280 prevent fire from doing what happen and today. But they 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.280 require a lot of effort, They require a lot of resources, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.199 and they require some rethinking of how we live alongside fire. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.920 That's something I'd like to approach later and in more detail, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.040 but I guess I just wanted to address these conspiracy 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.160 theories because I see more and more of them. Also 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.400 want to point out that there is no meaningful restitution 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.640 that be astracted from one person if that person did 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:27.040 start the fire. Healing doesn't come from punishing someone, comes 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.560 from helping someone. And in this situation, there are hundreds 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.760 of families who lost their homes, both on the Coval 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.360 Tribes reservation, the Spoken Tribe Reservation and here in Spokane 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.920 the city, and I think the focus should be on 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.040 how to help those people and how to help them heal, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.280 rather than blaming one person who may have started this fire, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.560 who may not write. We haven't got a conviction yet, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.320 but either way, I want people to remember that this 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.760 is about a lot more than one person. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.920 Thank you, James. In other news, on Monday, a federal 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.920 judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking New York's ban on 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.480 ice agents wearing masks. The New York state is suing 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.200 to shut down Calshie for operating as an unregulated sports 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.360 betting platform that offers illegal underage gambling The state is 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.360 also seeking thirty six billion dollars in penalties, and this 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.800 lawsuit comes after a district court ruled against Calshi in 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.360 their bid to protect itself from the enforcement of New 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.120 York's gambling laws. Prior to this lawsuit from the state, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.520 Calshei attempted to bribe Governor Kathy Hokel by offering ten 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.560 billion in tax revenue over five years. The governor responded 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.080 on the everything app quote Calshi can promise one hundred 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.800 percent of its revenue. You can't buy yourself an exemption 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.880 from New York law. If an i legal bookie offers 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.560 this state a share of their profits, will still shut 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.680 them down unquote. In response to a lawsuit from Trump 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.240 A accusing Capital One of unlawfully closing his bank accounts 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.720 for political reasons, Capitol One is revealed in court filings 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.080 that the Trump organization bank accounts were closed in twenty 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:16.080 twenty one for quote unquote anti money laundering reasons following 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.880 quote months of analysis and careful review by the bank's 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.600 money laundering team. If he wants, Prior to the closure 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.920 of Trump's accounts, Capital One had to pay a three 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.800 hundred and ninety million dollar penalty to the Financial Crimes 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.440 Enforcement Network for not enforcing an effective anti money laundering program. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.360 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation hearing is coming up, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.280 but last week President Trump said he would keep Blanche 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.840 on as acting Attorney General if Blanche doesn't get confirmed, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.760 and just try to nominate him again after the mid terms. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.640 The US Attorney has dropped charges against three people who 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.240 were accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial reflecting Pool. The 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.760 motion to dismiss the felony charge against the former Olympic 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.680 athlete claims that it wasn't until after he was indicted 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.240 that the Department of Interior gave evidence over to prosecutors 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.480 that quote, damaged to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting Pool in 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.480 July twenty twenty six was the result of flawed installation 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.720 by the contractor and the rush to complete the project 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.439 prior to events associated with America two fifty celebration in 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.800 the weeks surrounding Independence Day twenty twenty six. The motion 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:33.000 also states, quote is difficult to attribute the widespread damage 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.680 to the reflecting pool to vandalism unquote. Of course, Trump 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.960 was not too happy about this, turning to truth social 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.399 to say, I disagree one hundred percent with the Chenin Piro, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.560 the US attorney for the District of Columbia, on the 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.040 reflecting pool. I don't know what she was thinking. To me, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.600 it was a pure case of vandalism in all caps. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.920 That includes the grass which had a big eighty six 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.760 forty seven emblazoned in giant letters on it, oh my god, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.800 and many other elements of the surrounding area. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.600 Ah god, ah god, oh God. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.400 There may have been some contract or difficulty, but the 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:18.440 major damage was caused by vandals. President dj T. The 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.080 President later said that Piro quote unquote, folded like an 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.159 umbrella end quote. Frankly, I think she choked because the 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.879 judge was really vicious unquote. There was some speculation that 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.600 he might fire the US attorney. That has not happened 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.000 as of yet, but who knows. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.760 You know, it's it's the Trump administration. Things could have 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.600 changed by the time we finished recording this. Yeah, there's 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.520 I got thirty percent chance things will have changed by 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:45.680 the time we finished recording this. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.960 Obviously, it's good that these charges were dropped. It was 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.840 very clear that the damage to the reflecting pool was 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.000 not done by vandals. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.600 No, and that fucking late, middle aged former olympian bending 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.480 briefly down to touch the water did not cost one 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.200 hundred and fifty foot cut in the fucking in this 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.399 central Absolutely not. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:08.200 Oh god. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.480 Ohio House Rep. Max Miller, who's accused of abuse and 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.359 breaking his two year old daughter's collarbone, which we covered 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.560 last week, posted a video this week addressing the allegations 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.359 made by his ex wife, saying, quote, if I had 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.160 assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.720 six days later? Un quote? The next day, Trump was 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.680 questioned about Miller and said this, it's. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.640 A very sad thing. I know Max. He said, it's 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.399 a good person. I mean I always thought he was 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.240 a very good person. And I'm gonna let the families 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.200 figure that out. Those families say, I know, they're working 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.919 on it. It's a very sad thing, especially when you 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.840 know somebody so well could be going through that when 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.120 it's accusations, and I'm gonna let them figure that out. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.359 On Tuesday, it was announced the House Ethics Committee would 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:03.400 open investigation after Mill himself requested a probe into the allegations. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.040 Let's go to an ad break and then return to 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.520 talk about the primary elections in Michigan and Missouri. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:25.560 Yeah, okay, we are back. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.119 This past Tuesday, left wing populist candidate Abdul al Said 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:36.000 beat corporate backed and APAC backed candidate Hailey Stevens in 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.600 the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. In the week prior 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.240 to the election, pulling and showed el Said pulling way 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.320 ahead by double digits, but from election night he won 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.840 by just one point forty eight point five percent to 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:55.000 Stephen's forty seven point five percent. Very close race. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:55.879 Great. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.240 The more traditional progressive candidate Mallorie mcmah borrow, who suspended 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.400 her campaign months ago, got four percent of the vote 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:08.200 over sixty thousand votes. El Sayid ended up winning by 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.520 just fifteen thousand votes. But the fact that Tuesday wasn't 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.800 a total blowout for El Sayid should not take away 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.560 from the magnitude of this victory. Hailey Stevens had nearly 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.760 seventy million dollars outside spending helping her in this race, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.320 about half of which came from APAC. El Sayid was 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:32.080 outspent eleven to one. For the past month, pro Stevens' 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.160 ads have completely dominated the airwaves. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.439 Jesus I didn't know it was that big a discrepancy 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:38.160 in funding. That's crazy. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.640 It's a brutal This is the most expensive Democratic Senate 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.000 primary and history. A pack and dark money really rallied 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.000 for Stevens, especially in this past month. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:49.560 Whoops. 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.360 Some of those ads and mailers just completely blanketing Michigan 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.320 falsely implied that Stevens was endorsed by Barack Obama, which 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.880 some voters cited as their reason for supporting Stevens. Other 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.600