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Speaker 1: Plus the DOJ plans to release special counsel Jack Smith's

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Speaker 3: Welcome to American Sunrise. Wellbert's culture. We have breaking news

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Speaker 2: Politics.

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Speaker 1: President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

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Speaker 2: We've got your copy.

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Speaker 1: This is what it looks like to be a patriot.

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Speaker 2: We have to protect the American family.

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Speaker 3: The American dream is still alive.

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Speaker 1: I'm David Brody, I'm Terrance, and.

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Speaker 3: I'm doctor Gina.

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Speaker 4: Good morning everybody. I'm doctor Gina. We are live with

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Speaker 4: Good morning, gentlemen. Let's get right to the California wildfire

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Speaker 4: ripping apart Los Angeles County. Five dead, three hundred and

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Speaker 4: I wrote about this in twenty fifteen, an entire decade ago.

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Speaker 4: You can google my name and it says man made drought,

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Speaker 3: No one did anything about it. Clear by then.

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Speaker 4: I talked about the infrastructure that the liberal politicians would

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Speaker 4: Right now, I warned about this a decade ago. The

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Speaker 4: And then in their new Green Deal, they instead of

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Speaker 4: She's a former congresswoman and physician to talk about these wildfires.

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Speaker 4: We saw a mayor, Doctor Hayworth, who was in Ghana.

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Speaker 4: you as well. Nan. I know you've seen all of

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Speaker 5: Smelt Yeah, Well, what we're seeing, unfortunately, is, as you've

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Speaker 3: And David is right.

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Speaker 5: The reservoir that would have helped was approved years ago,

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Speaker 5: Karen Bass cut seventeen and a half million dollars from

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Speaker 5: it does call on us to focus on government's fundamental

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Speaker 5: responsibility for public infrastructure, public safety, not social engineering. In California,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fire hydrants have run dry. That's just a head scratcher.

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Speaker 2: Fire hydrants don't have water to fight a massive blaze.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, no, not at all.

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Speaker 5: Fire hydrants indeed, are you know, designed to help with

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Speaker 5: The bigger issue, although that is obviously an issue with

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Speaker 5: President Trump did warn about these things as we know

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump was right again again, Absolutely, nan Hayworth, We

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Speaker 4: REV Newsroom with Tea Bates and later rooting out the

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Speaker 4: deep state. President elect Trump has full control of government,

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