Speaker 1: As far as the first week is going on, I'm
Speaker 1: told that from Republicans, not only on Trump's team but
Speaker 1: also on Capitol Hill, promises made, promises kept, they're very
Speaker 1: thrilled with how this first week went.
Speaker 2: From terminating federal diversity programs to deporting immigrants on military aircraft.
Speaker 2: President Trump aggressively begins his first week back in office
Speaker 2: with a blitz of executive action.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's scary music. Thing with Martha radd It's.
Speaker 4: From terminating doing away with diversity in America.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ending DEI. Yeah, a lot of people are in
Speaker 3: favor of that. Military airplanes and up blitz.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yes, yes, practically everybody is in favor of
Speaker 4: booting out the illegal criminals.
Speaker 3: So why are you using your scary music. Indeed, let's
Speaker 3: talk about that in other matters with Kevin Kylee, who
Speaker 3: serves California's third district in the House of Representatives. Kevin's
Speaker 3: bio points out that he is dedicated to using his
Speaker 3: position to promote fiscally sound policies to our inflation, increased
Speaker 3: choice in education, responsibly manage our public LANs, to preserve
Speaker 3: our beautiful for us, and prevent catastrophic wildfires, and we
Speaker 3: will get to that. Talking indeed, Kevin, how are you, sir?
Speaker 5: Doing well?
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. Good to be with you.
Speaker 3: Excellent, and likewise it's good to talk to you. So
Speaker 3: your take on the first week the Trump administration and
Speaker 3: specifically the scary, scary deportations that Martha Raddott seemed so concerned.
Speaker 6: About, Well, I mean, you know, he is fulfilling his
Speaker 6: promises and I don't think anyone should be at all surprised.
Speaker 6: It's not like he was ambiguous about the change that
Speaker 6: he thought the country needed. And you know, when you
Speaker 6: look at the situation at the border, the absolute disaster
Speaker 6: of the last four years, the president was very clear
Speaker 6: that we need a clean break, we need a reset,
Speaker 6: we need to prioritize you know, border security once again.
Speaker 6: And that's a big reason why he was elected. And
Speaker 6: so he, you know, has not wasted any time and
Speaker 6: fulfilling that promise and bringing some sanity back to US
Speaker 6: immigration policy.
Speaker 3: And sanity is a great word for it, because it's
Speaker 3: as if we've been in some sort of dream or
Speaker 3: a fond because it's not like the immigration policy was
Speaker 3: I don't know, the corporate tax rate ought to be
Speaker 3: changed by two percent because that would yield a better
Speaker 3: curve indicator of blah blah blah. No, we were permitting
Speaker 3: illegal aliens who'd committed crimes to stay here for reasons
Speaker 3: nobody can explain. It was crazy, that's right.
Speaker 6: I mean, the numbers are just so far beyond anything
Speaker 6: we had ever seen before in terms of the millions
Speaker 6: and millions of people that are allowed to just walk
Speaker 6: right in without any understanding on our part of who
Speaker 6: they even were. Folks were on the terrorists watch list
Speaker 6: we know got in. And California, of course, is that
Speaker 6: it made things even worse by saying, come on here,
Speaker 6: you get free health care. We're a sanctuary state, so
Speaker 6: we'll do everything we possibly can to interfere with federal
Speaker 6: immigration enforcement. So, you know, the Trump administration has come
Speaker 6: in and I think with an understanding of how much
Speaker 6: damage there was to undo, and that's why I think
Speaker 6: they've been acting with this sense of urgency and have
Speaker 6: not been at all hesitant to, you know, restore some
Speaker 6: common sense to our policies.
Speaker 4: So you're a California congressman. California's had the worst disaster
Speaker 4: in its state's history. We were making a lot out
Speaker 4: of the drama on Friday before Trump got here, that
Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom had been reaching out to Trump, not hearing
Speaker 4: from Trump. Trump was going to Land, there was no
Speaker 4: scheduled meeting, then Gavin was going to show up there
Speaker 4: and try to meet. How do you think that whole
Speaker 4: thing played out, and what's your take on all that?
Speaker 6: Well, I think that the President was incredibly gracious. You know,
Speaker 6: Gavin Newsom. Since the moment that Trump was first elected,
Speaker 6: I mean probably even before that, Newsom has you know,
Speaker 6: basically spent you know, the majority of his time or
Speaker 6: a good amount of his time taunting President Trump, trying
Speaker 6: to you know, build his own national profile by going
Speaker 6: after President Trump. It's been one stunt after another, and
Speaker 6: so you know, the President has every reason to not
Speaker 6: have particularly warm feelings towards Gavin Newsom, not to mention
Speaker 6: the fact that Gavin Newsom has been absolutely destroying so
Speaker 6: many things in California, the largest state in the country,
Speaker 6: and that's caused a lot of problems for the federal
Speaker 6: government as well. So, you know, when you saw Newsom
Speaker 6: there kind of standing awkwardly on the tarmac waiting for
Speaker 6: the president, you know, you wouldn't have been surprised, maybe
Speaker 6: if the President had been a little cold towards him,
Speaker 6: but he wasn't. He said, I want to work with you.
Speaker 6: This is important for us to work together to fix this,
Speaker 6: fix this, to get help to folks who need it.
Speaker 6: And so I thought he was very gracious. But the
Speaker 6: important thing is that we need to make sure that
Speaker 6: we enact the sort of policy changes for California that
Speaker 6: are going to be necessary to make sure that these
Speaker 6: things don't keep happening again.
Speaker 3: Read my mind. I was just going to say, you know, us,
Speaker 3: we're more than willing to make an ideological point and
Speaker 3: try to pitch it to the good people, but we
Speaker 3: also just try to understand what's actually going on, you know,
Speaker 3: in that spirit, how could policy have yielded a different
Speaker 3: outcome in the disastrous LA fires? What went wrong that?
Speaker 3: I mean, mother nature is going to do what mother
Speaker 3: nature does. But what did human beings get wrong? Well,
Speaker 3: what didn't they get wrong?
Speaker 6: I mean, it is probably the better question when you
Speaker 6: look at the way California has managed its forests and
Speaker 6: managed its water supply, it is just the exact opposite
Speaker 6: of what both science and common sense stay that we
Speaker 6: ought to do. And so you know, our forests are
Speaker 6: just staggeringly overgrown, millions of acres with so much fuel
Speaker 6: out there that turned them into tinderboxes. And the big
Speaker 6: reason for that is not only Di Gavin Newsom actually
Speaker 6: cut the fire prevention budget, but we have these just
Speaker 6: crazy laws that stop us from removing trees, from removing vegetation,
Speaker 6: from clearing out areas around power lines and everything else.
Speaker 6: And you know, they even had one project in the
Speaker 6: Tabanga Canyon where they're trying to update these one hundred
Speaker 6: year old wooden power lines and with fire resistant material,
Speaker 6: and the California Coastal Commission came in and said, no,
Speaker 6: stop that there's a rare.
Speaker 3: Plant around here. You're not about to do it.
Speaker 6: And so then when it comes to water, you know,
Speaker 6: we haven't built new water in this state in decades,
Speaker 6: really the State water storage that is, since the State
Speaker 6: Water Project, as the President has talked about. We have
Speaker 6: these just absolutely mind boggling laws and regulations that will
Speaker 6: require water to be diverted and sent to the ocean.
Speaker 6: I mean, we have more than enough water that comes
Speaker 6: to us by the grace of God, but we just
Speaker 6: wasted and so those are the two sort of key
Speaker 6: policy areas that we saw play out in the LA fires,
Speaker 6: when we saw obviously the conflagrations themselves, and then the
Speaker 6: ability inability to respond to them with the immediacy that
Speaker 6: was required because of water not coming out of fire
Speaker 6: hydrant reservoirs that were empty. So, you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of us have been talking about these things for a
Speaker 6: long time, and in fact, my distript has suffered several
Speaker 6: truly catastrophic wildfires as well. But now that just the sheer,
Speaker 6: shock and scale of these fires has really captured the
Speaker 6: world's attention. Hopefully this can be a turning point where
Speaker 6: we start doing things in a more sensible way.
Speaker 3: We really enjoyed last week.
Speaker 4: I was trying to find the actual tweet, but I
Speaker 4: can't find it from Gavin Newsom where he talked.
Speaker 5: About we're getting rid of regular the regulatory red tape
Speaker 5: and the bureaucratic mess so that you can hello, why
Speaker 5: only now California finishes fiftieth out of fifty every single
Speaker 5: year and all kinds of business friendliness?
Speaker 3: Why is it okay now? Why wouldn't it have been
Speaker 3: okay before? That's such a.
Speaker 6: Great point, you know, why hasn't he made it a
Speaker 6: priority for actual prevention. It's great that, you know, we
Speaker 6: can maybe we'll see what he's actually doing, but it'd
Speaker 6: be nice if he had bought ahead a little bit
Speaker 6: and said, maybe we should do these things in order
Speaker 6: to prevent fires from actually happening. And you know what's
Speaker 6: worse is that he actually had been going around in
Speaker 6: the first early years of his governorship saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm doing all this forest prevention work. We're doing all
Speaker 6: this fire mitigation work. And then someone looked at it
Speaker 6: was actually a Capital Public Radio, the MPR affiliate. They
Speaker 6: did an investigation and found that he was completely making
Speaker 6: this up, that he was exaggerating the work they were
Speaker 6: doing by a factor of seven. They said it was
Speaker 6: a staggering six and ninety percent that he exaggerated the
Speaker 6: work that was being done. And again, this isn't shouldn't
Speaker 6: have come as a surprise that this.
Speaker 3: Is a major risk.
Speaker 6: Because we've even we've had fires, catastrophic fires, again and
Speaker 6: again and again in this state, and unfortunately it's cost
Speaker 6: us so much in terms of loss of life, of property,
Speaker 6: in terms of the insurance crisis that has absolutely spun
Speaker 6: out of Hey, I.
Speaker 3: Hate I hate but I found his tweet, and I
Speaker 3: just know you you'd like it so much.
Speaker 4: His actual tweet, goodbye red tape, good Bye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 3: What my god, wid nonsense? Are you kidding me? This
Speaker 3: is his own bureaucracy, right, You've been.
Speaker 4: In charge, your party has been in charge of the
Speaker 4: state forever. Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense. Oh my god, I have
Speaker 4: the balls to say that.
Speaker 6: Unbelievable, not to mention she's been governor for but over
Speaker 6: six years now, And by the way, it's not I
Speaker 6: don't know what he's actually doing. I've seen he's suspended
Speaker 6: a few walls, but these are only temporary suspensions.
Speaker 3: But they're not going goodbye.
Speaker 6: If you wanted to go goodbye, then that would require
Speaker 6: him to actually be proactive, have legislation and work with
Speaker 6: the legislature.
Speaker 3: Humankind has never seen a politician run against their own
Speaker 3: record like Kevin C. Newsom would have to. Kamala Harris
Speaker 3: was a good warm up act.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because everyone now recognizes how terrible the record was,
Speaker 6: so he has no choice and it's on every issue,
Speaker 6: by the way, as you mentioned, California's lawns and so
Speaker 6: many things like at homelessness Newsom. I think we recently
Speaker 6: hit the twenty year anniversary of Newsom's tenure planned and
Speaker 6: homelessness in California. So every year he gets tells it's
Speaker 6: homelessess in California. It's such a disgrace.
Speaker 3: It's the pro Bowl.
Speaker 6: No one is more responsible for the homeless crisis we
Speaker 6: have in California than the way you put it is
Speaker 6: exactly right. It's like he has this habit of continually
Speaker 6: running against his own record because that's really the only
Speaker 6: option he has available.
Speaker 3: We need to talk more about that sometime downe road.
Speaker 3: We know you're pressed for time, but just real quickly,
Speaker 3: the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives a fairly
Speaker 3: narrow majority. What are the top priorities we ought to
Speaker 3: be looking for?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean there's there's a lot. We actually are
Speaker 6: meeting of the conference today and President Trump is joining us,
Speaker 6: and we're sort of laying out what the next few
Speaker 6: months are going to look like. And so we have
Speaker 6: this opportunity with what's called the budget reconciliation process where
Speaker 6: you can actually get a lot of big ticket items
Speaker 6: done at once. And so I'd say the big three
Speaker 6: right now are Number one is the border. We will
Speaker 6: obviously the President taking an executive action, but we want
Speaker 6: to put those changes into statute as well, so a
Speaker 6: future Joe Biden or Majorcus or whoever couldn't come in
Speaker 6: and put our country through again what we just went through.
Speaker 6: Second thing is the economy is getting common sense regulatory
Speaker 6: reform and promoting energy and dependence and other tools we
Speaker 6: can use to drive down costs and revitalize the economy.
Speaker 6: And then three is probably the tax pots that we
Speaker 6: need to extend from twenty seventeen and do so in
Speaker 6: a way I'm working on to see that actually California
Speaker 6: gets so much needed tax really.
Speaker 3: Finally, Kevin Kylie represents the California's third district. Kevin, always
Speaker 3: a pleasure to keep fighting, a good fight. We'll talk
Speaker 3: again soon.
Speaker 6: Well do, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: You know, there are a couple of things that may
Speaker 3: have gone by so quickly people didn't catch them or
Speaker 3: didn't fully comprehend them. First of all, the utility company said, hey,
Speaker 3: these old antiquated wooden poles are going to snap in
Speaker 3: a high wind, and if they do, the power lines
Speaker 3: are going to ignite all the brush and it's going
Speaker 3: to burn all these people out of our homes, out
Speaker 3: of their homes. And the California Coastal Commission, which is
Speaker 3: as close to a monarchy as exists in the United States,
Speaker 3: that they said, no, you cannot, for there is the
Speaker 3: bisotted milkweed that grows in abundance. There your poles, and
Speaker 3: we will not have you stepping up on them. And
Speaker 3: so they could not replace the poles. That's insanity.
Speaker 4: Second, is it really is crazy? The environmental wackos are wackos. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's the same thing with why the Santa Cruz Pier
Speaker 4: got washed away because for years and years and years
Speaker 4: they've been they've been knowing they got to shore up
Speaker 4: that really old historic landmark. But there's some sort of
Speaker 4: special clam or something that was on there, barnacle and
Speaker 4: it's just nuts.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah. And then the controlled burns. I've seen the statistics.
Speaker 3: If the forestry experts came in and said, hey, this forest,
Speaker 3: the undergrowth is way too thick. This is a tinder box.
Speaker 3: It's gonna go kurk blue. We need to do a
Speaker 3: controlled burn to make sure it doesn't. If there is
Speaker 3: no dispute, it takes you something like four years, three
Speaker 3: and a half four years to get an approval for that,
Speaker 3: if the experts say it, If the environmental wackadoos come
Speaker 3: along and say, put the tough to dead mouse, it'll
Speaker 3: take nine years in California to do what the forestry
Speaker 3: experts say.
Speaker 5: Must be goodbye red tape, goodbye bureaucratic nonsense.
Speaker 3: And finally, how do you have the nerve to say
Speaker 3: that he's got balls like coconuts like you just said.
Speaker 3: Sorry for the frank talk, folks. You gotta do something
Speaker 3: about all these homeless wait whoa wait wait, just crazy?
Speaker 3: And then finally, we need to do this. This must
Speaker 3: be archie hot. Make mayorcus, a term that is used
Speaker 3: for generations to describe a useless piece of garbage. There
Speaker 3: you go. Is that boss here still giving you a hell? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 3: my god? What a mayork is he is? Yeah? Make
Speaker 3: it a slur? Gotta be Come on, folks, join with us,