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Speaker 1: January twenty first. And guess who's saying that. It ain't me,
Speaker 1: It's liberals in the state of California. I guess wildfire
Speaker 1: as would do that to you. Huh. You see how
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Speaker 1: news out of southern California and the wildfires that have
Speaker 1: devastated the region. At least ten people are dead this week,
Speaker 1: and more than ten thousand structures have been destroyed by
Speaker 1: fires fueled by unprecedented wind blowing through several counties. Whole
Speaker 1: neighborhoods have been devastated by the Coastal Palisades fire, and
Speaker 1: official who say this could be the costliest fire in
Speaker 1: US history. All this while tens of thousands of residents
Speaker 1: have been forced to evacuate their homes and many have
Speaker 1: already lost their houses altogether. Some high profile names who
Speaker 1: have lost their homes include actor Billy Crystal Head coach
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Lakers, coach JJ Reddick, star of
Speaker 1: Young and the Wrestless soap opera player Victor Newman, the
Speaker 1: One and Only Eric Braden, who I spoke to yesterday
Speaker 1: as well. Meanwhile, firefighting teams are expecting more wind and
Speaker 1: dry conditions to continue to complicate efforts into next week.
Speaker 1: Police have detained a suspect allegedly responsible for starting one
Speaker 1: of the fires raging in Los Angeles, a homeless man
Speaker 1: in his thirties. But the biggest concern coming out of
Speaker 1: the fires are the questions around the city's fire budget.
Speaker 1: Records show the fire budget for this fiscal year was
Speaker 1: cut by more than seventeen and a half million dollars.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Mey and Caaron Bass signed a budget seven
Speaker 1: months ago that went from eight hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 1: million dollars to eight hundred and nineteen million dollars. However,
Speaker 1: the city council in November approved a four year, two
Speaker 1: hundred and three million dollar contract with the firefighters Union
Speaker 1: to helped boost wages and health benefits for staff drawing
Speaker 1: from the budget general fund. Mayor Bass was away in
Speaker 1: Ghana when the fire started. Take a look at this
Speaker 1: video from earlier this week when she was confronted by
Speaker 1: a reporter coming off a plane as she returned.
Speaker 2: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
Speaker 2: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
Speaker 2: department budget by millions of dollars? Mount of Mayor? Have
Speaker 2: you nothing to say today? That you absolutely nothing to
Speaker 2: say to the citizens today? Halon Mosk says that you're
Speaker 2: utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor? Have
Speaker 2: you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? You're
Speaker 2: dealing with this disaster? No apology for them? Do you
Speaker 2: think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding?
Speaker 1: Back home? That is beyond bad, That is utterly pathetic.
Speaker 1: You couldn't say not at this time. I'll have answers
Speaker 1: for you later. I just got back in. Once I
Speaker 1: huddle with my staff, once I huddle with my cabinet,
Speaker 1: we will be back and we will speak to the
Speaker 1: citizens of Los Angeles in the state of California. Can
Speaker 1: do that? Can do that? You see, this is the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that annoys the living hell out of me.
Speaker 1: Let me be very very clear, Karen Bass is responsible
Speaker 1: for the city of Los Angeles, not Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: She doesn't She doesn't have to answer for those folks, Okay,
Speaker 1: And she's certainly not responsible for the wildfire that has
Speaker 1: engulfed the surrounding areas of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, et cetera.
Speaker 1: We get that part. That's a natural disaster. That's not
Speaker 1: on her. What is on her is the apparent lack
Speaker 1: of a plan, the incompetence, the dereliction of duty because
Speaker 1: you knew two days in advance that the fires were coming,
Speaker 1: although you didn't know how severe it would be, and
Speaker 1: you decided to depart for Ghana. What the hell is
Speaker 1: going on in Ghana that you had to be gone
Speaker 1: when you knew that fires could engulf the city, if
Speaker 1: not the state. Where were you? Why were you there?
Speaker 1: What purpose did that serve to the citizens that you
Speaker 1: were elected to govern over. So that's one thing when
Speaker 1: it comes to her. The other thing is Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: it's a local issue. It's not really a state issue.
Speaker 1: Did you really try to pass the buck to local
Speaker 1: authorities instead of you? Did you try to do that?
Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And just to get
Speaker 1: into somewhat of a history lesson, did you know that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump wanted to pump water from Canada into California
Speaker 1: when he was the president of the United States from
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one, and Gavin Newsom resisted?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Did you know that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: had been speaking about the potential of such a disaster
Speaker 1: taking place and was utterly ignored. I've got two quotes
Speaker 1: I'd like to show you from Donald Trump right now.
Speaker 1: Here's the first one. Take a look at this. The
Speaker 1: governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has done the terrible job
Speaker 1: of forest management. I told him from the first day
Speaker 1: we met that he must clean his forest floors, regardless
Speaker 1: of what his bosses the environmentalist demand of him. Must
Speaker 1: also do burns and cut fire stoppers every year. Is
Speaker 1: the fire's rage in California burns. It is the same thing,
Speaker 1: and then he comes to the federal government for dollars
Speaker 1: for help. No more, get your act together, governor. You
Speaker 1: don't see close to the level of burn in other states.
Speaker 1: That was Donald Trump President Donald Trump on x slash
Speaker 1: Twitter in twenty nineteen. Fast forward nearly six years later.
Speaker 1: Let's look at what Donald Trump had to say. Just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to
Speaker 1: sign a water restoration declaration put before him that would
Speaker 1: have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain
Speaker 1: and snow melt from the north to flow daily in
Speaker 1: the many parts of California, including the areas that are
Speaker 1: currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way. He wanted to
Speaker 1: protect an essentially worthless fish, caught a smelt by giving
Speaker 1: it less water. It didn't work, but didn't care about
Speaker 1: the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid.
Speaker 1: I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean,
Speaker 1: fresh water to flow into California. He is the blame
Speaker 1: for this. On top of it all, no water for
Speaker 1: fire hydrants, not firefighting planes, a true disaster, So firefighting planes,
Speaker 1: fire hydrants non existent, water and fire hydrants non existent.
Speaker 1: We saw firefighters standing outside looking at homes burning, and
Speaker 1: when they were asked why they weren't doing anything, they said,
Speaker 1: we put the holes connected it to the fire hydrants.
Speaker 1: We turned it on and no water came out. No
Speaker 1: water was available. This in a state that's collected nearly
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty one billion in taxpayer revenue, the
Speaker 1: highest of any state in the Union. You got nine
Speaker 1: states in the United States of America, including New York,
Speaker 1: who shelled down in excess of one billion dollars for
Speaker 1: the migrant crisis. This is according to my leader. To
Speaker 1: my research, yet, California led the country with expenses of
Speaker 1: nearly thirty one billion dollars to take care of illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants and their children, according to the Fair study. We're
Speaker 1: talking about one hundred and fifty nine million allocated by
Speaker 1: the federal government to the state of California through FEMA
Speaker 1: funding for funding to provide humanitarian services to non citizen migrants.
Speaker 1: You're talking about California being a sanctuary state since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: You're talking about California recently providing four billion per year
Speaker 1: in funding to extend taxpayer funded healthcare to an additional
Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand undocumented immigrants. Scaling those courts up to
Speaker 1: one point nine million estimated totally in California results in
Speaker 1: rough total course of eleven billion dollars a year, the
Speaker 1: state having cut the lad or shifted forty seven billion
Speaker 1: to balance the budget in the year twenty twenty four alone.
Speaker 1: California is talking about cutting services or raising taxes even
Speaker 1: more so than the fourteen point four percent that they
Speaker 1: put on you right now, and you're trying to tell
Speaker 1: me you don't have any water. No water. My personal
Speaker 1: belief is that the political career of Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: in peril, not flat out over. His presidential aspirations have
Speaker 1: been eviscerated. There is no way he overcomes this. No way.
Speaker 1: And in regards to Karen Bass to say nothing, you
Speaker 1: can come and speak out, but that video will live
Speaker 1: in infamy. You had absolutely nothing to say, flying all
Speaker 1: away from God about a fifteen hour flight to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and you're telling me you couldn't answer reporter's question, no comment.
Speaker 1: We'll talk later, or let me huddle with my staff
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to You couldn't even think to
Speaker 1: say that nobody on your staff prepared you for what
Speaker 1: has been transpiring in California. Nobody gave you a warning
Speaker 1: the head's up. You didn't have anything to say, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. I'll never say that California is gonna turn red.
Speaker 1: But I guess if something was blue and transition into red,
Speaker 1: I guess the colors or something like that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: whatever the hell of color is, that's where it's gonna
Speaker 1: get aim towards. That's just the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: But that's enough for me. I want to get to
Speaker 1: my man, Kevin Fraser right now. Okay, because this man
Speaker 1: right here, Kevin Fraser, he'll be up next, works for
Speaker 1: entertainment tonight, but he's covering the fires. He's a resident
Speaker 1: of the city of Los Angeles. He knows what the
Speaker 1: hell he's talking about. You see him daily hosting entertainment tonight.
Speaker 1: He has details about what's transpiring and what's being said
Speaker 1: and what's going on in the midst of these wildfires.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with him in a moment. All right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: Joining me now is a longtime LA resident and friend
Speaker 1: of the program, one of my best friends in the world.
Speaker 1: You see him daily as the host of Entertainment Tonight.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back to the show, the one and only
Speaker 1: Kevin Fraser. First of all, Kevin Fraser, how are you?
Speaker 1: How are you and your family?
Speaker 3: We are safe and we are sound, but there are
Speaker 3: so many families who are suffering.
Speaker 4: Steven I just came.
Speaker 3: Back from the fires and TV he does not really
Speaker 3: show you the depths of the devastation. And this isn't
Speaker 3: something that's going to be solved in a year or
Speaker 3: three years. It looks like an atomic bomb went on
Speaker 3: off in the Palisades area in Alta Dina. These places
Speaker 3: are destroyed, and these are folks who will need help
Speaker 3: for five seven years to come as they all try
Speaker 3: to rebuild.
Speaker 1: Crystallize for us the kind of damage that you've witnessed
Speaker 1: with your own two eyes, and what people are saying
Speaker 1: to you about the damage they've witnessed.
Speaker 3: Sure, what you see is literally standing in a neighborhood
Speaker 3: and you can see all the way across the neighborhood
Speaker 3: because every house is gone. And when I say every
Speaker 3: house is gone, the houses are ashes.
Speaker 4: They have burned to the ground. And imagine this, Steve.
Speaker 4: We arrive there and.
Speaker 3: We are starting to shoot stand ups, and by the
Speaker 3: time we're done stand ups, two more houses burned down.
Speaker 3: The fires were active, they were never under control while
Speaker 3: we were there, and so it is devastating to see that.
Speaker 3: And then it's devastating to see people return to their home.
Speaker 3: Like your good friend Eric Brayden. I can't put into
Speaker 3: words watching him, watching the tears roll down his face
Speaker 3: as he looked at his home of over thirty five
Speaker 3: forty years. It was ashes and today and I know
Speaker 3: you were going to his son's premiere if it had
Speaker 3: happened here in La but it's not down because of
Speaker 3: the fires.
Speaker 4: But he was pointing out the room where his son wrote.
Speaker 3: Most of his new movie, and it's just tears just
Speaker 3: flowed as he thought about all that had.
Speaker 1: Been built to give a personal insight, you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people realize how close
Speaker 1: he and I are. We're very close to the point
Speaker 1: that you saw that the house had burned down before
Speaker 1: he was notified, and you called me to get in
Speaker 1: touch with his son so his son can give him
Speaker 1: the information. So he didn't just go in there blind
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden see what he didn't think
Speaker 1: he would see, which is the house being burnt down.
Speaker 1: And he was devastated, to say the least. And his
Speaker 1: son is flying back from London. And as it was
Speaker 1: flying back from London last night, as we speak, go ahead,
Speaker 1: keV golheada Steve.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say that he didn't. You know, Eric's
Speaker 3: a tough old guy. He's been through everything, through World
Speaker 3: War Two and the rebuilding of his homeland in Germany.
Speaker 4: He's been through cancer and so many other things.
Speaker 3: So I don't think he thought that it would hit
Speaker 3: him like it did. And he said to me, he said,
Speaker 3: now I understand. I understand what people are going through
Speaker 3: when they come to their house and everything is gone
Speaker 3: because he didn't take that much with him. He didn't
Speaker 3: think the fires were gonna jump the canyon and come
Speaker 3: to his house. So everything is gone.
Speaker 1: What are people in Los Angeles saying now? Are they
Speaker 1: saying this is a natural disaster? Are they pointing the
Speaker 1: finger as I am at the politicians throughout the state
Speaker 1: of California, that's from Gavin Newsom on down to me
Speaker 1: and Karen Bass and others, it is an absolute travesty
Speaker 1: in the state, obviously in Los Angeles and the surrounding
Speaker 1: areas Pacific Palisades, Malibu, etc. What are they saying about
Speaker 1: their elected officials at this particular moment in time, and
Speaker 1: be specific as to what they're saying and why they're
Speaker 1: saying it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Number one, people are scared.
Speaker 3: They're terrified because there has never been anything like this before.
Speaker 3: And what happened the first day was basically a hurricane
Speaker 3: of fire and no one can prepare for that. No
Speaker 3: one can be ready for that. And you understand. But
Speaker 3: in the days coming, as more fires popped up and
Speaker 3: people began to question, how are these fires just popping
Speaker 3: up and can't just be And as they've seen with
Speaker 3: the fire out in Calabasas, they believe it was arson.
Speaker 3: People are frustrated because the firefighters literally could not react
Speaker 3: fast enough to save homes.
Speaker 4: Literally.
Speaker 3: They they would come to one house, it's on fire,
Speaker 3: they try to stop it, they can't.
Speaker 4: They've got to move on to the next house.
Speaker 3: And people are like, why weren't the city and even
Speaker 3: the state more prepared for this? Now? Fingers were pointed
Speaker 3: immediately at Karen Bass she was out of town. There
Speaker 3: was that interview where she was coming home with a
Speaker 3: Sky with a reporter from Sky News who was asking
Speaker 3: her some very pointed questions. There is no way Karen
Speaker 3: Bass could have done anything, and that's the video of
Speaker 3: the interview. There's no way she could have done anything
Speaker 3: about that hurricane that happened, those hundred miles an hour winds.
Speaker 4: There is nothing she could have done about.
Speaker 1: That could have spend. She could have she could have
Speaker 1: had some answers.
Speaker 3: This is the one thing people now need help. They
Speaker 3: don't know where they're going. They don't know where their
Speaker 3: kids are going to school, they don't know where they're
Speaker 3: going to live.
Speaker 4: There was already a housing shortage in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Where are these people going to go?
Speaker 3: The people in Altadena in the other fire, regular folks
Speaker 3: who don't have that celebrity money.
Speaker 4: Where they're going? Where are they going to go?
Speaker 3: They elected officials to help them take care of this situation.
Speaker 3: And I think that the concern is that there hasn't
Speaker 3: been a real direction laid of what is next?
Speaker 4: How can we help? I saw Gavin Newsom yesterday.
Speaker 1: I saw him.
Speaker 3: I ran ran into him and ran out and jumped
Speaker 3: out of the car to talk to him, and he said,
Speaker 3: I can't talk. I'm on the phone with the President,
Speaker 3: and I understand that. But they have to fix this situation.
Speaker 3: They have to take care of these people, the people
Speaker 3: who had the faith to vote you in.
Speaker 4: Now you must take care of your constitution.
Speaker 1: Well, keV, here's my issue. You didn't elaborate extensively on
Speaker 1: firefighters saying there was no water. How do you not
Speaker 1: have enough water in the state of California. I'm wondering
Speaker 1: about that. And before we go further, I want to play.
Speaker 1: I want to show you this quote that was put
Speaker 1: out by former President Donald Trump, soon to be president
Speaker 1: again come January twenty first with his inauguration, But in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he put this quote on x slash Twitter quote,
Speaker 1: the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has done the terrible
Speaker 1: job of forest management. I told him from the first
Speaker 1: day we met that he must clean his forest floors,
Speaker 1: regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists demand of him.
Speaker 1: Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers every year
Speaker 1: as the fires rage in California burns. It is the
Speaker 1: same thing. And then he comes to the federal government
Speaker 1: for help, meaning dollars no more. Get your act together, Governor.
Speaker 1: You don't see close to the level of burn in
Speaker 1: other states. That was Donald Trump. That was in twenty nineteen. Kevin,
Speaker 1: I want to play this quote for you right here.
Speaker 1: I want to show you this quote rather because it's
Speaker 1: incredibly important. I'm trying to find it here. I apologize.
Speaker 1: I can't find it. I will in a second, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to know your thoughts. You saw it there,
Speaker 1: It is there, It is right there, yea, there is.
Speaker 1: Governor Gaven Newsom refused to sign the water Restoration Declaration
Speaker 1: put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons
Speaker 1: of water from excess rain and snow melt from the
Speaker 1: north to flow daily into many parts of California, including, okay,
Speaker 1: the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.
Speaker 1: He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish caught a
Speaker 1: smelt by giving it less water. It didn't work, but
Speaker 1: didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate
Speaker 1: price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent
Speaker 1: governor allowed beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow into California.
Speaker 1: He is the blame for this on top of it all,
Speaker 1: no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster.
Speaker 1: And the only comeback that Gavin Newsom had on Anderson
Speaker 1: Cooper on CNN when Anderson Cooper a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: was there are things that I want to say, but
Speaker 1: I can't. But it's a shame that he would politicize this.
Speaker 1: That's all the comeback that Gavin Newsom had. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: Kevin Floor is yours.
Speaker 3: Steve, let me say this, okay, there are some points
Speaker 3: that are valid about California being prepared for the fire
Speaker 3: season or for fires each and every year. I will
Speaker 3: say again, the fire that burned down Palisades was a
Speaker 3: once in a lifetime anomaly of one hundred mile an
Speaker 3: hour winds and fire pushing it through a neighborhood. Now
Speaker 3: that being said, once it starts and once it happens,
Speaker 3: you have to call in the cavalry. It was one
Speaker 3: night basically where the entire Palisades burned down and they
Speaker 3: were gone.
Speaker 4: But there has to.
Speaker 3: Be a plan in place so that this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 3: We know we're in an area where the Santa Ana
Speaker 3: winds come through each and every year, and it was
Speaker 3: so heartbreaking to see the fires just jumping from.
Speaker 4: House to house to house.
Speaker 3: And the next day, while the fires were still burning,
Speaker 3: firefighters were there from all over the state. They did come,
Speaker 3: and they came from all over the state. But it
Speaker 3: was too late. It was too late. People's houses were gone.
Speaker 3: The California economy is one of the biggest in the world.
Speaker 3: Right if you put it up against other country, you
Speaker 3: could put it up against other countries, it would be
Speaker 3: ranked very highly. But the problem is is that the
Speaker 3: little things are falling through the cracks, and this is
Speaker 3: one of those things that fell through the cracks and
Speaker 3: turned into armageddon. And now the rebuild and what California
Speaker 3: is gonna lose is what really worries me.
Speaker 1: Well, it should worry you. You got no money. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this right here, Kevin. Seventeen thousand acres have
Speaker 1: been burned.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's more than that, now, see it's twenty acres.
Speaker 4: It's more than.
Speaker 1: Manhattan twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: In Manhattan twenty eight, imagine all of Manhattan burning.
Speaker 1: That's right. Number two. Officials ordered one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: thousand to evacuate. That number is probably larger now, okay,
Speaker 1: large it's much larger than that. Now, more than four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand people are estimated to be without power.
Speaker 1: That's roughly the population of Minneapolis, and the largest city
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. One estimate puts damage in economic losses at
Speaker 1: anywhere from fifty two to fifty seven billion. But that
Speaker 1: was yesterday. It could be more today. Sixty it's over
Speaker 1: sixty billion.
Speaker 3: It's over sixty billion dollars, Steven, Let's not get this twisted.
Speaker 4: This is a shit show.
Speaker 3: It is an incredible nightmare of epic proportions. And Eric
Speaker 3: Braden said it best when he said, this looks like
Speaker 3: Germany after.
Speaker 4: World War two.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And now you have to rebuild in areas where some
Speaker 3: people don't even have insurance anymore, where their fire insurance
Speaker 3: was taken away.
Speaker 1: And why was their fire insurance taken away? Why did
Speaker 1: the why did the insurance company take their fire insurance away?
Speaker 4: Kevin, Listen, this is more of and let's understand something.
Speaker 3: Whether it's it's it's the insurance industry as a whole.
Speaker 3: The insurance industry as a whole has been taking advantage
Speaker 3: of Americans for a long time, and they dropped people's
Speaker 3: fire insurance and by dropping their fire insurance because they
Speaker 3: were like, oh, you're in Pacific Palisades, You're never gonna burn,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna drop your insurre karrance and people said, okay,
Speaker 3: well we have to gamble. They gambled, and now look
Speaker 3: at they're lost. These are multimillion dollar homes, and some
Speaker 3: of these homes are legacy homes with families that have
Speaker 3: kept them forever. And it's people's nest egg and how
Speaker 3: they're going to live their life, and now it's gone.
Speaker 3: So I say to Gavin Newsom, I say to Karen Bass,
Speaker 3: you now have to step up and you have to
Speaker 3: show leadership because I don't think and I voted for
Speaker 3: Karen Bass. I was excited for her to be the
Speaker 3: mayor of Los Angeles, and now I want to see
Speaker 3: her be the leader that we expect her to be.
Speaker 3: Being that leader means you are going to have to
Speaker 3: take care of some people who are in dire straits.
Speaker 1: You are a California resident, a homeowner. I have a
Speaker 1: place in California. I just rent it. I can get
Speaker 1: rid of it is on a month to month basis,
Speaker 1: to be specific. But let me throw this out at you.
Speaker 1: My Brother. Fiscal year twenty twenty three, this is the
Speaker 1: state of California collected the total of two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty point fifty nine billion dollars US dollars in tax revenue,
Speaker 1: the highest of any state. You got nineteen different states
Speaker 1: in America who shelled out in excess of one billion
Speaker 1: dollars for the migrant crisis. California led the country with
Speaker 1: expenses of nearly thirty one billion to take care of
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants and their children, according to the Fair study.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at that, I'm looking at one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine million allocated to the state of California
Speaker 1: by FEMA. I'm looking at the four billion a year
Speaker 1: in funding California recently exceededs received to extend tax taxpayer
Speaker 1: funded healthcare to an additional seven hundred thousand undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 1: Then I'm thinking about Donald Trump coming into office as
Speaker 1: the president elect and the things he remembers that Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom said up about him, the things he pointed out
Speaker 1: about the state that Gavin Newsom wouldn't listen to, and
Speaker 1: as a result, he's in this kind of quandary, this quagmire.
Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen to the
Speaker 1: state of California based on those facts that I just
Speaker 1: gave you.
Speaker 3: Well, Stephen, if all of those if Donald Trump really
Speaker 3: imposes his immigration initiatives, if he starts to round up people,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be no one here to really help to
Speaker 3: rebuild this city. Because understand that the Latino population.
Speaker 4: Because we are in Mexico, basically.
Speaker 3: The Latino population fuels this city. And don't get it twisted.
Speaker 3: And so that's a problem now, the immigration status of
Speaker 3: people and fixing the immigration laws, that is something that
Speaker 3: needs to be worked on, but it needs to be
Speaker 3: worked on in a collective way.
Speaker 4: California is screwed right now.
Speaker 3: You're right, there's an imbalance and that's up to the
Speaker 3: governor and the mayor to fix it. One of the
Speaker 3: things that people expected from Karen Bass is to fix
Speaker 3: the homeless situation.
Speaker 4: It's a nightmare in la and.
Speaker 1: It believed and by the way, the homeless population is
Speaker 1: according to statistics, is responsible for more than fifty percent
Speaker 1: of the fires in California.
Speaker 3: And that is true, and that is true, and that
Speaker 3: is why we expected the mayor to start to fix
Speaker 3: that and the same problems that you're having in San
Speaker 3: Francisco you're having in Los Angeles. There is no doubt
Speaker 3: about it. But we expect them to fix them. That's
Speaker 3: why they're elected. And I think that now they are
Speaker 3: teetering on the edge of a recall. I would not
Speaker 3: be surprised if there was not a recall for Karen Bass.
Speaker 1: There's already been a recall for Gavin Newsom. He survived, Yep,
Speaker 1: he survived that. I think he's got a little more
Speaker 1: a little less than two years left in office, of course,
Speaker 1: approximately twenty two twenty one to twenty two months to
Speaker 1: go for him. But you expect there to be a
Speaker 1: recall for me and Karen Bass after this.
Speaker 4: I believe that there could be a recall.
Speaker 3: And I also think that you know, this damage is
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom's presidential aspirations. Wow, question they have. They have
Speaker 3: a chance to fix this and I and I was
Speaker 3: one of the people who believed that Gavin Newsom would
Speaker 3: make a fantastic Democratic nominee for the presidency.
Speaker 4: I think that he is smart, he is a great orator.
Speaker 3: He is has compassion, He really does believe in his constituents,
Speaker 3: and the way he governs is the way I would
Speaker 3: want someone to govern. V.
Speaker 4: Now you've got to fix some things.
Speaker 1: You're my brother. You know I love you, and you
Speaker 1: know we talk a lot. We disagree with me. I
Speaker 1: think he's done after this. I think he's done. Kevin.
Speaker 1: You cannot, you cannot look at it. This is a
Speaker 1: natural disase, I get, but it was exacerbated by clear
Speaker 1: incompetence or dereliction of duty, one of the two. When
Speaker 1: you combine that with it being a homeless individual that
Speaker 1: has been accused of stoking this fire, when you.
Speaker 3: Consider starting the firing, starting the firing, calabasas, when you.
Speaker 1: Consider the fact that it's a homeless issue that has
Speaker 1: now come to the forefront along with a migrant issue
Speaker 1: to some degree, because you're talking about money and funds
Speaker 1: and what's lacking and how that compromised what the firefighters
Speaker 1: could do. I don't know how you get over this, Calv.
Speaker 3: I don't Okay, Well, hold on, Stein, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3: I think there's a couple of things to clarify. Number
Speaker 3: one is that La City is one thing. La County
Speaker 3: is another thing. La County is where a lot of
Speaker 3: these fires have happened, not in La City, but La County,
Speaker 3: and so that is outside of Mayor Karen Bassas jurisdiction.
Speaker 3: She is La City, so we give her that and
Speaker 3: we give her a grace there. Also, we have to
Speaker 3: stand that the main fire that burned everything down was
Speaker 3: a once in a lifetime anomaly. That being said, and
Speaker 3: also I think we need to point out that the
Speaker 3: budget that was cut for the fire department was administrative jobs,
Speaker 3: but money was also moved around. They did not lose
Speaker 3: they did not lose any firefighters. All that being said,
Speaker 3: the system is archaic. There wasn't enough water, and there
Speaker 3: weren't enough firefighters on the ground, and at one point
Speaker 3: it was too dangerous for those firefighters to be there
Speaker 3: when everything really really burned down.
Speaker 4: The winds were just too chaotic.
Speaker 3: Planes could not get up in the air, and that's
Speaker 3: why you saw it spread so quickly.
Speaker 4: But my big.
Speaker 3: Problem is when you are the mayor, come back with
Speaker 3: a plan. Come back and reassure me, because you know what,
Speaker 3: you're the parent. Be the parent, be the adult in
Speaker 3: the room, and show me that you have a plan
Speaker 3: and that we, your constituents, will be cared for.
Speaker 4: That's what I want to hear. I haven't heard that yet.
Speaker 3: I've heard a bunch of talk, but I haven't heard
Speaker 3: a plan, and I haven't heard saying that we're going.
Speaker 3: You know, in Hawaii they opened up some of the
Speaker 3: resorts for the people that were affected by the fires
Speaker 3: there so that they had somewhere to go immediately, because
Speaker 3: people were suffering, they needed a place to go. Where
Speaker 3: are you sending the people into la You can't just
Speaker 3: send them to a random gym and let me You
Speaker 3: can't send them.
Speaker 1: To a random and let me stop you there, Let
Speaker 1: me stop you there, Kevin. Last question, yep, you have
Speaker 1: poor people. We know that. As unfortunate as it is
Speaker 1: for those who are affluent that have suffered losing their
Speaker 1: homes and the fires, we know they have the means
Speaker 1: to cover themselves. Some some we know they have the
Speaker 1: means to cover themselves. Poor people do not. Their homes
Speaker 1: have been burned, they've been displaced, and in a city
Speaker 1: like Los Angeles, in a state like California, this hemorrhaging money.
Speaker 1: They don't have much and somehow, some way, all of
Speaker 1: this is true when you've collected over nearly two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one billion in tax revenue, the highest of
Speaker 1: any state in this country. keV I don't even know
Speaker 1: what to say anymore about these elected officials in California
Speaker 1: to meet the first order of businesses? How you gonna
Speaker 1: find someplace? You just talked about the home shortage, all
Speaker 1: right in California. Where the hell you're gonna take these
Speaker 1: people were gonna do?
Speaker 4: But see, that's what I'm talking about. That's leadership.
Speaker 3: That's when you are going to whether it's hotels and
Speaker 3: Airbnb right now is giving people free albums stays. But
Speaker 3: there are kids who are going to be out of school,
Speaker 3: they've lost everything, they don't have a place to go.
Speaker 4: Where are you sending all these people? Where are they
Speaker 4: going to stay?
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm what happened in a while in
Speaker 3: Lahina they literally took some of the resorts and said.
Speaker 4: We're moving people into these resorts.
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 3: And whether it's you start building, you know, whether you
Speaker 3: put people.
Speaker 4: In mobile homes or whatever. You need to figure this
Speaker 4: out and I need to hear a plan from leadership.
Speaker 3: Also, I just want to mention this because I think
Speaker 3: it's important to say, listen, in California, you pay.
Speaker 4: A lot of taxes.
Speaker 3: Hell yes, and you know what the people in Palisades,
Speaker 3: they paid a lot of damn taxes. That's going to
Speaker 3: be very interesting to see how this plays out, because
Speaker 3: those people who have been paying that boatload of taxes
Speaker 3: millions of dollars into the system are now the neediest
Speaker 3: in the state.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they're the ones that put Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom and people like Karen Bass in office.
Speaker 3: That is a power source for the Democratic Party that
Speaker 3: Palisades area where you so not their money.
Speaker 1: So now you realize you have Democrats who helped put
Speaker 1: them in office screaming about their level of incompetence and
Speaker 1: neglect and clamoring for Donald Trump to be back in office.
Speaker 3: You realize that, right I don't know if they're clamoring
Speaker 3: for Donald Trump to be back in offic right now,
Speaker 3: clamoring for help right now? No no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no no, because listen, Steve, Steve, Donald Trump is
Speaker 3: gonna go and round up folks once he starts this
Speaker 3: immigration suite. Who the hell's gonna build the houses, who's
Speaker 3: gonna build the houses, who's gonna help with the construction
Speaker 3: the people who are here that do the the mountain
Speaker 3: share of the labor in this city.
Speaker 4: Are you ready for this or Latino.
Speaker 1: Do you want my Latino? Do you want my answer?
Speaker 4: Sure? I want to hear your answer.
Speaker 1: He's going back up off for all of that because
Speaker 1: it's gonna make him look good that he utilized them
Speaker 1: to come to the rescue for the second largest state
Speaker 1: in the Union and hopes that it'll turn it red
Speaker 1: from blue. He's gonna put and if he pulls that off,
Speaker 1: the citizens of California gonna remember that. They're gonna look
Speaker 1: at the Democratic leadership and say, we've given y'all enough
Speaker 1: money and enough time. That's what I think is going
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm not with what. I don't care about it,
Speaker 1: but it is politics right now. It is politics right now.
Speaker 1: That's why you clamoring for leadership. You ain't clamoring for
Speaker 1: leadership from the five chief You ain't clamoring for it
Speaker 1: for the head of the water Department. You ain't clamoring
Speaker 1: for it for anybody else. You're looking at the politicians
Speaker 1: and you're saying we need leadership from them. You a
Speaker 1: California resident, Ain't that what you're looking for? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yet, listen, she got my vote, and she damn sure
Speaker 3: has my money. I live in the city. She has
Speaker 3: my money, Gavin has my money, so I feel like
Speaker 3: I have a right to call them out and say,
Speaker 3: what the hell are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: And I need a plan.
Speaker 3: And that's why it bothered me yesterday when I got
Speaker 3: out of my car and I said, hey, mister governor,
Speaker 3: can we talk to you for a second, And he
Speaker 3: said he could do on the phone with the president.
Speaker 3: I'm on the phone with the president. But that's a
Speaker 3: line he seemed to have told somebody else.
Speaker 1: And they were lying when they asked. They said, I
Speaker 1: want to hear the call I want The woman said,
Speaker 1: I want to hear a call. I want to hit
Speaker 1: a call. And he says, I'm trying to get him
Speaker 1: on a fall right now. Well, you said you had
Speaker 1: him on the phone, and then he said, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get him on the phone.
Speaker 3: Stephen, I will wrap this up, say go ahead. Nothing
Speaker 3: will make me happier then Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass
Speaker 3: pulling it together and taking care of these people and
Speaker 3: riding the ship in Los Angeles and.
Speaker 4: In the state of California. But if not, if not,
Speaker 4: then they gotta go.
Speaker 1: They gotta go, you know what, they gotta go. I
Speaker 1: don't give a damn if they do. They after what
Speaker 1: I've seen last we day, they gotta go. I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm done, Kevin. I'm done.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there are Steve, Sometimes there are natural disasters.
Speaker 4: You can't do a damn thing about.
Speaker 3: When a hurricane hits your house down in South in Florida,
Speaker 3: what can you do?
Speaker 4: Are you yelling at the politicians.
Speaker 3: I'm not out there and stop the win, keV.
Speaker 1: I'm not going off about the fires. The fires is
Speaker 1: not their fault. But when firefighters are standing there and
Speaker 1: saying there's not enough water in the fire, that's true.
Speaker 1: When when Donald Trump asked for water to be pumped
Speaker 1: from Canada into the LA system and Gavin Newsom opposed that,
Speaker 1: When you're hearing about environmentalists compelling him to protect smelt
Speaker 1: and little fish and salmon at the expense of LA citizens,
Speaker 1: of California citizens, Kevin, I don't need much else than that.
Speaker 1: I just don't. Maybe you're nicer than me, Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: too cruel. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it.
Speaker 3: If you walk down any street in the Pali stage
Speaker 3: right now, you'd see that it is.
Speaker 4: I understand being sick of it. If that was my house.
Speaker 4: I'd be sleeping at theirs.
Speaker 1: Well, Eric's house is gone. That's my buddy. I'll be
Speaker 1: there to see him this week. My heart's broken for.
Speaker 3: He will love to see him. He will love to
Speaker 3: see you because his heart is broken right now.
Speaker 1: keV, Love you, bro, Appreciate you, my man. Be safe,
Speaker 1: say because I know you have been reporting on this
Speaker 1: stuff in healing all that here. Hey, I hope you
Speaker 1: wearing a mask and covering yourself with some degree. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't get sick on.
Speaker 4: Me, Steve. I'm taking care of myself.
Speaker 1: Love you. I disagree with Kevin on some of that,
Speaker 1: but all of his points are very, very valid, and
Speaker 1: I can't dismiss that. Before I go to commercial, I
Speaker 1: want to stay in politics because that's what I considered
Speaker 1: the wildfire situation to have regressed to politics. I want
Speaker 1: to stay right here in politics where Donald Trump once
Speaker 1: again made history. Today, the President elect was sentenced to
Speaker 1: a quote unconditional discharge end quote in a New York
Speaker 1: Hushmany case. This makes him the first president to have
Speaker 1: been sentenced for a criminal conviction once he's sworn into
Speaker 1: office on January twentieth. The unconditional discharge allows Trump's conviction
Speaker 1: on thirty four counts of falsifying business records to stand
Speaker 1: with no further penalties such as jail time. The sentencing
Speaker 1: was allowed to proceed after the Supreme Court decided five
Speaker 1: to four yesterday to reject his requests to drop the proceeding.
Speaker 1: The President elect said he thought it was a quote
Speaker 1: fair decision and refer to possible further appeals of the verdict.
Speaker 1: Trump did issue a quote, and he was basically calling
Speaker 1: it a witch hunt. Do we have that quote here?
Speaker 1: Here it is. This is the quote from the President
Speaker 1: elect of the United States, due to be sworn in
Speaker 1: on January twentieth, two thousand and twenty five. This is
Speaker 1: the quote from the president himself. The radical Democrats have
Speaker 1: lost another pathetic, Unamerican witch hunt. There was never he said,
Speaker 1: which there is no case. There was never a case,
Speaker 1: and this whole scam needs to be dismissed. The real jury.
Speaker 1: The American people have spoken by re electing me with
Speaker 1: an overwhelming mandate. Today's event was a despicable charade, and
Speaker 1: now that it is over, we will appeal this hoax,
Speaker 1: which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans
Speaker 1: and our once great system of justice. The idiocy of
Speaker 1: the left never ceases to amaze me. He's not going
Speaker 1: to jail, you're not finding him. But you wanted to
Speaker 1: make a point of giving a sentence so his conviction
Speaker 1: would be on the record. Refusing evidently to recognize the
Speaker 1: fact that that's probably what God him elected. You engaged
Speaker 1: in law fare. You use the system to politicize it
Speaker 1: for your own means in going after him. We know
Speaker 1: this because of what you just did. The American people
Speaker 1: voted for him. He is going to be the president
Speaker 1: of the United States, and a judge who Trump has
Speaker 1: clapped back at in the past, along with his daughter,
Speaker 1: who worked for democratic causes, decides that it's in the
Speaker 1: best interest of the American public to ensure and to
Speaker 1: the world, remind you to ensure that his conviction of
Speaker 1: as a felon, his conviction as a felon, remains on
Speaker 1: the books. So it's important to you as the judge,
Speaker 1: and it's important to folks on the left that the
Speaker 1: world knows our president is a convict, and you think
Speaker 1: that serves us as American people. Now, you have a
Speaker 1: point if he had lost the election, you'd have a
Speaker 1: point if it had kept him from running for reelection,
Speaker 1: but when both of those things had failed in very
Speaker 1: very flagrant fashion, knowing that in less than three weeks,
Speaker 1: this man, I'm sorry, in less than two weeks, this
Speaker 1: man is about to be sworn in as the forty
Speaker 1: seventh president of the United States, and you're preoccupied with
Speaker 1: making sure he goes in as a convictor Fela. It
Speaker 1: just shows that he was right all along when he
Speaker 1: accused you of politicizing it because you can beat him
Speaker 1: in a fair election. That's all you did. You diminished
Speaker 1: your argument as liberals against him by prioritizing all of
Speaker 1: this pomp and circumstance, which absolutely at this moment in
Speaker 1: time means nothing. Not only is he going to be
Speaker 1: sworn in as the president of the United States, did
Speaker 1: y'all know that Trump, even as a convicted Fela, is
Speaker 1: still allowed to vote. Other fellas who can't vote. It
Speaker 1: depends on the state, and it depends on their specific crimes.
Speaker 1: But he is still allowed to vote, according to my research,
Speaker 1: which I believe is on point. So he can still vote,
Speaker 1: he can still be the president, he can still pardon
Speaker 1: folks or grant clemency, he can still do all of
Speaker 1: these things come January twentieth, and you, as a judge voter,
Speaker 1: was important that everybody knows he's a convicted felon and
Speaker 1: it's a matter of recking.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: You just made his case for him, and you know
Speaker 1: what you did in the process, in all likelihoods, you
Speaker 1: assured that the Republicans win the midterms and you're probably
Speaker 1: going to elect JD. Vance as your next President of
Speaker 1: the United States in twenty twenty eight. All they gonna
Speaker 1: do is lean on this to show how far you
Speaker 1: were willing to go to take him down. Your idiots,
Speaker 1: not all not talking about democrats. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: people who believe in that system, you idiots. You just
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Speaker 1: Because on the back of the car it's supposed to
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Speaker 1: very rude.
Speaker 5: So I'm not sure if it reflected yet. But a
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Speaker 1: It's just you know, I was a big tip, too
Speaker 1: big tip. Pose. Let's go with the tweets before we
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Speaker 1: First tweet is up uh at what is that?
Speaker 3: At?
Speaker 1: Time? Captails right, Steven A. Smith? Who are your top
Speaker 1: three US presidents of all time? Well, damn it, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, hell, okay, I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this though, two of them. Listen
Speaker 1: Barack Obama because he's a brother and he was classed
Speaker 1: personified and that's how I feel about him. And regardless
Speaker 1: of what the Republicans want to complain about, universal healthcare
Speaker 1: is universal health care that I didn't get. Heal care
Speaker 1: for everybody, but millions of Americans didn't have health care.
Speaker 1: He helped pull that off, and I appreciate that. Plus
Speaker 1: he gave Donald Trump a decent economy, so we got
Speaker 1: to remember that Donald Trump didn't inherit a bad economy.
Speaker 1: So I look at those two things. Number one. Number two,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think about Bill Clinton, but for reasons that
Speaker 1: you may not like. In nineteen ninety four, when the
Speaker 1: Republicans took over the House led by Newt Gingrich, fiscal
Speaker 1: or responsibility ended up in Clinton departing with a surplus.
Speaker 1: We hadn't seen that from too many presidents in history.
Speaker 1: So I got to give credit where credit is due
Speaker 1: in regard to that. Although Clinton did have a lot
Speaker 1: to do with the Crime Bill and incarcerating a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of black men. So I take that back, okay,
Speaker 1: with Hillary Clinton, which came back to haunting. When Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton was running for office, I would tell you Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: all right, because I like the way Reagan governed, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, So gonna go with Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Ronald Reagan. And the I really
Speaker 1: really don't know, I really don't know it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be Trump. It damn sure, ain't gonna be Biden, can't
Speaker 1: do Joe J. W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know then he then he eradicated slavery or contributed to
Speaker 1: the eradication of slavery. I gotta do my research on that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm inclined to go that route.
Speaker 1: Those are my three. I won't even ask you because
Speaker 1: you too damnit the rent my three?
Speaker 5: What my three would be Barack Obama one because this
Speaker 5: is all about relatability. Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: We know why.
Speaker 5: Bill Clinton, me and him could relate for different reasons.
Speaker 1: And Leon Rose, oh my god, Leon Rose for the
Speaker 1: nixt We're talking about the United States presidents.
Speaker 5: No president that's in the United States. And Leon Rose
Speaker 5: is doing a great job. We're going to the finals
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 1: Baby. Next tweet please at Nick Grantham for l right.
Speaker 1: Steve niy Smith, would you rather be in Dallas when
Speaker 1: it's noose or New York when there is a one
Speaker 1: hundred degree heat wave? New York because i can deal
Speaker 1: with the heat wave of New York and I'm familiar
Speaker 1: with the surroundings. I don't think stecks Texas can handle
Speaker 1: a blizzard, snow and all that suf I don't think
Speaker 1: you can handle that. That's my answer to of course,
Speaker 1: what Jordan, so what that's easy?
Speaker 5: Would you rather see them in turtlenecks a bikinis.
Speaker 1: Get the hell out of here. Last tweet give it
Speaker 1: to me at underscore KMD right, Stephen ack Smith. You
Speaker 1: take a dump, You take a dump, then shower, and
Speaker 1: your bathroom stinks while showering or shower, then dump to
Speaker 1: avoid the smell. I take a dump, and then I
Speaker 1: take a shower. I don't give a damn howard smells.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. When I get in
Speaker 1: the shower and I'm wi and I'm I shouldn't off
Speaker 1: my filth and all of that stuff, the smell ain't
Speaker 1: gonna stay with me once I depart from the bathroom.
Speaker 1: So I took a shower, I bathed in the whole bit,
Speaker 1: and then after that I get the hell up out
Speaker 1: of there. I'm not gonna take a shower and then
Speaker 1: stink up myself by taking the dump. It's the dump,
Speaker 1: then the shower, not the shower, then the dump. You're
Speaker 1: sorry as probably takes a shower and then dump and
Speaker 1: walks around stinking the rest of the day.
Speaker 5: Well, well, I know I don't want to smell stephen
Speaker 5: A after neither with all the ozempic invitamins, he be
Speaker 5: popping right, So I'm.
Speaker 1: Taking ose epic down. You're I'm taking those epic. That's
Speaker 1: what rich people take. That's what you are absolutely right though.
Speaker 1: Rich people do take that. Who don't go to the gym.
Speaker 1: People who do go to the gym don't need Olympic.
Speaker 1: They work it off. You wouldn't know anything about that
Speaker 1: because work and you are oxymorns and me they don't
Speaker 1: go together. Me and don't go together. I know, does
Speaker 1: it for me? Baby? That's it for my my my
Speaker 1: episode of nephew tism. You see what I got to
Speaker 1: deal with that to my nephew Josh, To Kevin Frazier
Speaker 1: and the grew. Thank y'all so much for joining. I
Speaker 1: hope you all enjoyed the show. Have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 1: I'll be back after the playoff week and take it easy.
Speaker 1: Piece of love.