WEBVTT - Aftermath of Pacific Palisades 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.040 Hour two Sean Hannity Show, Toolfrey, here's on numbers eight 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.320 hundred and nine to four one, Sean. If you want 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.159 to be a part of the program. You know, the 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:13.080 country right now is, whether people are conscious of it 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.919 or not, are going through a massive amount of reflection 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.640 about what they're expecting out of their government. I mean, 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.000 if you look at this lunatic running in Maine with 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.000 his Nazi tattoo, and you know, a New Green Deal, radical, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.080 cradle to gray, womb to the tomb, socialist is I 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.000 never thought Karen Bass and Los Angeles, the mayor out 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.120 there is incompetent as she could be whatever be challenged 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.640 from the left. You have this new Seattle mayor who 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:47.400 up until defeating the incumbent democrat, another Mom Donnie radical socialist, 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.519 slash communist, whatever you want to call them, and then 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.600 Mam Donnie in New York. This is now and they're 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.480 saying it, this is now the new model for the 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.400 Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders said it. He wants to spread 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.920 a nationwide Now. I urge everybody and the Green New 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.119 Deal in AOC, who's the real leader in the House 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.960 of Representatives will defeat Chucky Schumer. If she challenges him. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.199 But I want you to think of these things, those 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.120 of you that look towards the government to be the 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.839 answer to all of the problems in your life. Ask 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.880 yourself and your town, in your city, and your state. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.119 How are your government schools doing now? In my free 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.160 state of Florida, they're actually doing very well. And yet 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.959 it is some of the lowest taxes in the entire country. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.640 But if you look at blue cities, blue states, it 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:41.120 is atrocious. We spend nationally, per capita, more on education 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.959 for our children than any other country in the industrialized world, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.000 and we have the worst results. How's that Obamacare thing 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.280 working out for you? Keep your doctor, keep your plan. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.920 Average family saves twenty five hundred dollars per family per year. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.800 Millions lost doctors, millions lost plans. For over forty percent 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.200 of the country, they have one Obamacare exchange option. If 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.640 they're lucky, they have two, but neither one is any good. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.440 And you're paying a whopping two hundred and twenty five 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.200 to three hundred plus percent more for Obamacare and it's 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.240 not working for people. You know? How is that defundismantled 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.760 no bail law? Reimagine the police working out in your 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.959 blue city or your blue town or your blue state, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.880 not very well in most cases, which is why Donald 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.119 Trump is sending you know, troops to places like Memphis 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.720 and d C. And Chicago, et cetera to restore law 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.080 and order. Now North Carolina, so a lot of people 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.760 put their faith, their hope, their trust, their belief in 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.919 government and putting aside the Department of War. I don't 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.360 know that much that the government has a great track 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.760 record of doing particularly well. Remember they told all of 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.920 us that they would put your money that you have 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.720 paid in all of your working life into a Social 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.280 Security lock box. Well, those guys in Washington, with the 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.080 decades have rated the lock box and it's headed towards insolvency, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.200 just like you know, Medicaid, Medicare and states, they're all 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.400 headed towards insolvency because they've been mismanaged. And this is 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.040 the lunacy and the false promise of socialism. I wrote 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.760 a whole chapter live Free or Die Socialism. It's history 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.880 of failure. You know. Now we're learning a lot about 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.799 the Pacific Palisades. It's you know, over ten months later, 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.079 nearly a year later, and where are we when we've 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.240 learned new revelations thanks to the La Times and a 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.960 series of articles that they've written, that days before the 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.200 major fire, there had been a smaller fire. Firefighters alerted 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.400 their battalion chief that there was still smoldering areas that 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.040 needed to be monitored, and lo and behold, they were 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:55.120 taken off the job rather than monitoring it, and before 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.720 this reignited into the massive fire days later, thousands of 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.280 homes destroyed, twelve people killed. And then we learned something else. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.960 We learned of incredible failure on the state local level 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:14.320 in terms of they, for example, we had reservoirs specifically 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.200 designed for fires that are predictable. In this area, wild 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.800 fires are very predictable. They don't practice the science of 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.240 forestry in California because of environmental concerns. In other words, 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.520 they don't clear the kindling in the brush that is 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.200 around you know, these homes, and that just adds fuel 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.120 to the fire. Literally, we have the science of forestry, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.280 we have, you know, for example, they put in you know, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.440 we had fire hydrants that had no water, we had 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:47.479 reservoirs that were empty, and all of this happened. And 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.920 now we're being told, oh, yeah, they pulled out the 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:57.120 firefighters before the previous fire was completely extinguished, which makes 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.880 absolutely no sense at all. You might call at the time, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.960 Gavin Newsom. At least he was in the state. I 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.279 give him credit for that. Who's confronted by a woman 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.160 who's now working for Steve Hilton and trying to get 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.280 him elected governor as a Republican which is a near 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.839 impossibility of my view in the state of California. Remember, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.200 she desperately goes up to the governor and this is 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.919 what the governor said, that was my daughter's school. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.599 Governor, please tell me what you're going to do. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.039 I'm can hurt of my promise. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.839 I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.280 answer the question of what we can do for you 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:30.920 and your daughter? 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:31.599 Can I hear it? 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.000 Can I hear your call? 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.279 Because I don't believe it? 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.800 I'm sorry, can I There's literally I've tried five times. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.240 That's why I'm walking around, Jamake, I'm a president not 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.120 taking your call because it's not going through. Why I 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.200 have to get self service. Oh, I'm talking to the 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:53.120 president literally right now, and can I hear? Well? I'm 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.479 trying to get the president interesting answer, and of course 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.680 Karen bass Well, she wasn't even in town. She was 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.680 at the swearing in of the new president of Ghana, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.839 an event I'm sure that obviously requires the attendance of 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.840 the mayor of Los Angeles. But here's what she is 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.839 being peppered with questions upon her return, and she is very, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.920 very detailed, very articulate answers. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.840 Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.440 their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.400 department budget by millions of dollars? 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:25.920 Madam Mayor? 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:33.239 Have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.279 to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.560 you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor? 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.000 Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:53.440 Her dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.960 you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.080 was unfolding? Back homes. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.840 Thing, not a peep joining us. John conn Breitbart Editor, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.920 by the way, the artist behind the hit song Fighter 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:11.800 that brought America's resilience to life. Following the attempted assassination 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.160 of President Trump, he lost his house in the Pacific 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.200 Palisades fire, and by the way, I had a guest 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.720 on last night and said, not one home has been rebuilt. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.800 Not one. Also with us, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.040 listen to the victims and witnesses of the Pacific Palisades 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.960 fire who are being suppressed and shunned by the entire state. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.640 Welcome both of you. John Let me first offer my 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.160 deepest condolences. I'm so sorry. The mayor, the governor all 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.160 said they'd expedite these permits. My understanding is nobody can 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.000 get a permit. What's happening out there. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.880 It's very difficult right now, Sean, thanks for having me back. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.640 I just want to thank Senator Scott and Senator Johnson 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.080 for leading this crusade to get to the bottom of this. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.760 It's stunning to me that two Republican senators who are 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.920 not even from the state are the ones the charge 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.080 to get to the bottom of what happened to what 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.560 is essentially a Democrat thronghold of the Palasage with all 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.920 the Hollywood folks. But from what I understand, it's insane 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.200 to get a permit. People are wrestling with insurance. I 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.400 was back in LA a couple of months ago and 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.160 my neighborhood has completely leveled still, and there almost seems like, 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.480 you know, it's this ram Emmanuel quote about never let 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.880 a good crisis go to waste. It almost feels like 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.880 between the insurance companies and the local government and state 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.800 government that they're trying to break the collective will of 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.079 the Palisadians, and sadly from the folks I've talked to 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.880 you that are there right now. I'm currently in Nashville. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.840 It seems to be working because people are throwing up 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.960 their hands saying, I don't want to start my life 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.040 again in two or four years. I want to start now. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.319 Well, I mean, I don't know what they're supposed to 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.360 do now. I'm very fortunate that I live in the 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.120 Free State of Florida. Senator Rick Scott was governor of 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.559 the state, and he was phenomenal in the midst of 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:02.240 many crises, including natural des including how many hurricanes did 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.120 you have when you were a governor of the state 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.640 of Florida, Don, I had. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.520 Four major hurricanes. One arm was bigger than the state 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.920 of Florida. I went out John. First off, I just 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.200 will tell you my heart goes out to you listening 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.720 your home. I watched this after hurricanes and and the 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.400 fact that you know the local and state government doesn't 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.600 do anything to help you is just you just get 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.679 the whole community restarted. I went out there and met 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.440 with Spencer Pridde in August, and I just was shocked. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.640 I mean, street after street, there's just nothing. I mean 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.440 it just burnt down home, street after street after street, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.120 and there's like there's nothing happening. There's there's there's almost 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.800 no construction. And so you know, we're gonna look. My 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.640 my goal is to get to the bottom of this. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.800 Number One, it's unfair to these families. Number Two, the 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.679 federal government has spent a fortune on wild wildfire suppression. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.160 This should never ever have happened. Ever and then there 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.319 and then as we know that there was a fire, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.319 they they left before it was put out. I'm not 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.640 a firefighter, but I've been around when they put out. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.920 We have you know, the Everglade catches on fire a 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.080 little bit, you know, every year or two. And we 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.079 spent a lot of time there putting water and water 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.640 and water and turning over the dirt, and they said 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.559 it was smoldering. Then they left and then not fill 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.680 up the reservoirs. Spencer craze. There's a there's a reservoir 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.280 three doors for his house. He always thought it was 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.760 full of watering and there hadn't been any water in forever, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.920 he said. And then the other reservoir they it was empty, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.959 the big reservoir for the palace. So the firefighters that did, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.160 they came, I mean, there was no water for him. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.520 And then you heard from these residents there was no plan. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.680 There's no evacuation plans, there's no evacuation routes. And then 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.160 you can't get a permit to rebuild. I mean, this 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.920 is so unfair. And then the state insurance plan, right, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.559 it doesn't cover your costs, Spencer says. Spencer says, you know, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.640 the money he got will barely pay for pilings for 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.000 his house. And then they change the rules for what 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.560 you have to build now so much more expensive, and 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.560 his property taxes are going to go up. And of 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.360 course if you can get property insurance, you know, which 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.760 is very difficult because of you have a new simbel 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.880 what he's done to the states, and church companies don't 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.320 want to do business there. He's feel so sorry for 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.400 the people. So we had great we had six you know, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.800 victims out there, including Spencer, and then some people from 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.839 the audience typed up and brought the issues they had. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.679 So you just your heart goes out to what's going 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.640 on out there. Just it's just empty shot. It's just 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.400 you're just shocked. It's just nothing built. It's just a 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.280 burnt down areaful a centater. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.640 I've known you forever, We've been friends forever. When you 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.959 were governor, We've became very good friends because you were 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.520 always visiting New York with Bobby Jendle and Governor Rick Perry, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.560 and you were all up in New York and you 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.440 were you were courting businesses to move to your respective states, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.120 and you were very successful at it, let's be honest. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.840 And it cracked me up because every time you guys 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.880 were in New York, I put you in studio and 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.959 we became good friends. And I'm honored to have you 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.679 as my senator. And if this happened and you were 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.760 the governor, where would we be right now? First of all, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.360 these are predictable wildfires, predictable Santa Ana wins. I know 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.400 because I lived there in the eighties. I know all 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.880 about southern California well, and you. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.880 Know Sean, they did. It's like we do prescribe burns 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.040 on our state property. So what you do is you 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.000 get rid of the brush because if you know it's 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.719 the rushing to get there and it gets right, it's 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.960 going to catch on fire. Shocking, Right, in California, they 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.439 have all this brush that they don't get rid of 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.559 the brush. You have you have to do that. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.040 That's called forestry. You can get a degree and then 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.280 from so many schools around the country. 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.520 Yeah, and they just let them. And it's around these 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.280 beautiful areas like the Palisades and Malibu and this stuff, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.960 and so they just they it's a tinderbox. And then 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.640 they're they're shocked. And then they were saying that because 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.680 put so much money because she I guess she wants 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.640 more homeless people in California. So you have homeless people 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.439 out there, and they'll they'll start a right because they're 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.600 trying to stay warm when it gets when it goes down. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.120 So sometimes that's what starts to this stuff. So but 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.720 it's like it's no one cares. It's like fast and newsome. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.400 You know, whatever the system is, they don't care if 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.920 they don't show up. The other thing, Sean when I 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.280 had a hurricane, I showed up. I got six million 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.760 people to evacuate before. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.600 Not only I know for a fact, not only did 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.480 you show up, you didn't sleep, you worked around the clock. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.960 You didn't leave. You didn't leave people hanging. People were 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:37.280 taking care of you know, before, during, and after, and 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.040 the follow through was complete. You'd never gave in. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.360 No, these are people right, You're like, my goal was 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.840 nobody die, nobody die, keep them alive. We can rebuild everything. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.960 You're gonna have a hurricane. I can't stop the hurricane. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.160 And then what we did. Then, what we did is 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.600 we help people rebuild as quickly quickly as you can. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.120 I mean, this is this is what John ten months 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.720 since the house is burned down, and so it's almost 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.160 like nothing like him ten months nothing. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.520 Let me ask John, John, how many homes have been rebuilt? 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.560 And do you also have to pay your normal property 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:12.920 taxes on these properties? 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.400 Well, they gave us a little break on the property taxes. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.560 Thought with how much you pay normally, it's not a 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.640 break for the land you can't do anything with. And 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.000 what's worse is you have to hold onto your insurance policy. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.120 So now I'm paying for a year of insurance a 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.800 couple thousand dollars or so for in case somebody stumbles 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.320 onto my dirt and falls reliability. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.200 Let me come back to both of you, because this 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.000 is too important. I don't want to rush through it. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.280 If you both can stay just like five more minutes, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.080 I promise we'll get right back to you. Eight hundred 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.520 and nine four one. Sean will continue with John conn 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.600 and my Senator Rick Scott of Florida. I mean, it's 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.000 taken Rick Scott in Florida to help the people in 0:14:51.040 --> 0:15:01.560 the Pacific Palisades. Pretty spectacular. We'll continue. Ya listens to 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:08.480 Sean Hennedy and he's on on on right now, all right, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.280 we continue. I mean, it's unremarkable to me. We are 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.880 ten months out. You know, the before we had empty 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.240 hydrants and empty reservoirs out in California. There's no the 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.200 science of forestry was not practiced in the state of California. Rather, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.840 and in California, you know, all these homes burned down, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.640 twelve people dead, and people have to still pay an 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.680 enormous amount of money for insurance and property taxes even 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.360 uh and they cannot get a permit to rebuild their home. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.440 And their life. It is a spectacular failure. I applaud 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.160 my Senator Rick Scott were going out there and trying 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.760 to help the people of California because the government out 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:53.760 there is that incompetent. But John con Breitbart editor, lost 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.479 his house. I was asking you before the break about 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.560 you know, you have to maintain insurance on the property 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.960 even though there's no house there, and you have to 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.840 do you have to pay some property taxes also, I 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:06.960 wasn't quite clear on that. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.680 Yeah, yeah, you do. I mean they waived some of it. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.840 But it's still what do you mean waves some of it? 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.560 I mean, how much do you have to spend a 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.280 year for your burnt down house? 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.760 Well, it's it's about I think I own like another 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.320 ten grand in a couple months. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.880 And I'm sorry, how much do you spend a year? 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.880 Well, that's that's what I owe in a couple of months. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.600 I think it's about ten thousand dollars for property tax 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.240 and that's. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.640 With a break. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.320 They're charging you ten thousand dollars in property taxes, but 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.280 they won't give you a permit to rebuild your home. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.440 You've got to be kidding me. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:42.160 Yeah, it's crazy. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.480 In the thing and how much do you pay annually 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.240 for the insurance for a home that doesn't exist on 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:48.960 that property? 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.440 Well, that's that's about I think it was about fifteen hundred. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.560 That's just in case somebody stumbles onto your dirt and tricks. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:57.880 That's for liability. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.480 So eleven five hundred dollars a year year. And now 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.080 on top of not having your home, not getting a permit, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.520 having to find in another place to live. Now you 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:07.520 moved to Tennessee. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:12.040 Correct, I'm in Nashville now, yes, are you going back? 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.840 Are you going to sell your lot and probably lose 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.040 a fortune on that end of this deal? 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:17.119 You know? 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.480 I don't know yet, Sean. I mean the problem is 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.360 the insurance is a big problem as well, because it's 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.360 like whack them all with like for State Farm, it's 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.000 whack them all with their adjusters. You start dealing with 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.360 one and then they switch to another one. I think 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.199 I've been through five, and every time you have a 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.399 new one, you have to start over and they have 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.240 to get familiar with your case. I don't have my money. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.040 My house is to rebuild. My house would be well 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.560 worth well over the cap that they owe me. But 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.080 they're delaying and delaying and delaying, so until you know 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.480 what money you are going to get, you don't even 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.680 know if you can rebuild, so you can't even apply 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:54.280 for a permit. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.120 Let me go back to Senator Rick Scott, Senator, honestly, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.120 you do such a great job for us here in Florida. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.320 I really do applaud you for trying to help people 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.600 out because this is this is an unmitigated disaster. And 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.400 you know all about this because there's there are wildfires. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.600 But we've practiced forestry here in Florida, so you mitigate 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.119 the damage. And you're all over natural disasters as governor, 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.360 and the same with Governor DeSantis. You guys are all 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.040 over disasters. We're the best at it, uh to be honest, 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.160 and we get we get a lot of natural disasters 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.680 out here, Sean. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.199 The other issue that John's deal with them people have 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.280 Palin States is you have to apply for a permit, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.520 and it's not cheap. It's not like five bucks. What 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.879 I was told there was tens of thousands of dollars 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.399 to apply for a permit and they've barely given they've siding, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.080 you know, John, what I was told is they just 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.560 in permit fee. So far, they've raised thirty million dollars 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.000 and just like a couple hundred people have gotten permits. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:54.800 When I was out there last week with siner Ron 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.120 Johnson doing this investigation hearing, there was almost no houses 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.479 being built. And when I talk to people, they said, well, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.520 if they are building the house, they got that permit 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.359 before before things were burnt down. So I don't know 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.120 if that's what you're hearing, but it's also thousands of dollars. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.760 And then that they've changed the rules on what you 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.280 have to build, so it costs way more money to build, 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.600 all right. And then they've ruined the insurance market, so 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.160 the insurance never covers all the costs. So it's it's 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.720 like it's like it's everybody that it's like the whole 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.680 government's against the Palistates. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.959 And then there are people Senator, and I know you 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.679 have to run in a minute. That's why I'm going 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.960 to ask you one last question. And then there are 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.199 people now pushing and you see this all over the 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.680 country cradle to grave, womb to the tomb zoron Marxist 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.680 Kami Mumdani politics. We see it in Seattle, we see 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.480 it in Maine, even La Mayor bass is being challenged 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.520 from the left. I mean, if she's if she's not 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.280 left enough, I don't know. I mean, this is insanity 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.320 to me. Nobody should die. If I was in call point, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.199 get out leave now. Well, a lot of people already have. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.920 Well you know when I when I became governor back 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.760 in twenty January twenty eleventh, you know, very few people 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.479 from California were moving. Actually nope, we had lost more 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.280 people in twenty ten because the economy is so bad 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.520 in Florida. So we add at one point seven million 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.800 jobs down as governor. But I recruited people like you said, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.119 New York. It was easier in New York and New Jersey. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.119 You were, you were, It was hilarious. I saw you 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.480 up there all the time. We became best friends. 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:27.920 But I went to out to California. We ran ads 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.080 for Perry and I ran ads out there. But now 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.960 there's so many people leaving California and thinking about California 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.280 is beautiful, but it's it's you know, unless you're wealthy, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.560 you can't afford to live out there, or you have 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.560 to be really poor where they give you everything for free. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:46.439 So think about this. The taxes are so high. But 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.080 their schools are not as good as Florida. The universities 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.000 are not as good as Florida. The law enforcement, right, 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.400 you know, they don't like their law enforcement. They want 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.520