WEBVTT - Bill O'Reilly - January 8th, Hour 2 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.160 All right, Leonard Skinner simple man that can only be 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.880 one thing on this radio program, all things self proclaimed 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.000 simple man, which means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:16.480 Bill O'Reilly at billooreilly dot com. Mister O'Reilly, sir, Happy 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.639 New year. Great to talk to you. I'm sure you 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.920 agree with me that our prayers are with the people 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:27.240 of California, although it is frustrating that the state has 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:33.200 done nothing to lessen the likelihood of these wildfires because 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:39.360 of their extreme environmental policies. You know, and this isn't 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.400 a time for politics, but however, you ought to be 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.640 able to clear out the brush. The LA Mayor shouldn't 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:51.240 have cut seventeen million dollars of the firefighters budget. Scores 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.600 of broken hydrants in Los Angeles we've discovered, and he 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.640 could be a lot of this could be prevented if, 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.400 in fact, actly if they would get rid of the 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:08.440 overgrowth in California forests, which makes this all the more likely. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.040 In much of California, landowner that undertakes the start of 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.480 controlled burn on their property has to jump through a 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.200 series of hoops proving that they have the expertise to 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.360 do so. But they should be doing it as a 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.680 state and lives and property would be saved. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.000 Bill, Well, there's any question the state of California is 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.319 derelict and protecting its citizens from natural disasters. Did you 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:42.000 know that the state approved five water plants a number 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.320 of years ago. We're trying to track down exactly when 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.560 that happened, and none of them have been built. And 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.000 why that's important is that California is always in particularly 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.840 southern California, always in the state of drought. And if 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:03.720 you have water plants that horrid water, you can much 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:10.000 easier irrigate the land and keep the dry brush from 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.519 overwhelming the topography. I was out there a week ago. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.600 I was in almost exactly the place where these fires are, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:23.640 very near Pacific Palisades, very calm out there. It was 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:28.760 no problem. Nobody was anticipating this. And what the unbelievable 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.320 thing about it is this just happened about twenty four 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.880 hours ago. It's not that this is an ongoing It 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.680 just the fire started and the ferocious winds just ripped 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.679 it into a catastrophe. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.760 But that's the other part of this. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.720 They know that they regularly have Santa Anna Wins I 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.000 lived in California for five years. I'm very familiar with it, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.080 and I saw these fires up close and personal. I 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.960 remember going back and visiting years later in an entire 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.639 neighborhood very close to where I had lived, was burned 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.000 to the ground. It was a pretty affluent neighborhood, not 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.880 the part that I lived in, but I mean everything 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.440 was destroyed. You see, you know the Pacific Palisades being destroyed, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.880 and they do nothing, They don't take the necessary steps. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.360 Back then, they were talking about desalinization plants, plants because 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.799 they didn't have enough water, because you rightly point out 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.320 that they they're constantly in a state of drought, so 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.440 that's a big problem. Then they have all the brush, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.359 but you're not allowed to clear the brush because you're 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.160 clearing the natural habitat of this snake or that lizard. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:43.360 It's insane and as a result, these wildfires now are 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.520 very predictable, but I would argue some of them at 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.600 least would be very preventable if they take common sense measures. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.120 Okay, and I think that most people would agree with that. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.360 The Getty Museum, which is a big attraction in Los Angeles, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.720 did clear of the brush and in a very dramatic way. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.520 I don't know whether they got a waiver or not 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.120 from the city, but they did it and that prevented 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.080 the getting Museum from being overwhelmed by the flames. So 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.280 what you're saying is absolutely you can't prevent the fires. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:24.120 What you can prevent is the catastrophe, the rapid spread. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.440 And you know, but the environmentalist control California, and as 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.120 you said, they'll come up with snail darters or this 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.760 little fish that, and then you get nothing done. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.800 So while I'm on vacation, I see a headline bill 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.520 O'Reilly summoned Tomorrow Lago. That was the exact headline. I'm 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.400 sure you saw the article yourself. In your latest column, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.320 you discuss a trip that you made down Tomorrow Lago. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.400 How much would you like to reveal about that trip? 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.120 So I'm on vacation. We left the day after Christmaster California. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:08.479 I went to Yosemite, Monterey, Carmel Down, LA. And very 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.719 soon after I left New York, I got a request 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.680 from President Trump, Hey, you got to come down to 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.640 mar A Lago. Didn't say why all right, now, I'm 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.920 not buying a membership that's like one hundred and twenty 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.880 five thousand, right, So I'm not doing that. And I 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.159 didn't know why. But when the President of the United 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.520 States says he wants to see you. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.680 You go, and then you know that's correct, Yeah you go. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:44.240 And you would say why, you just say, okay, that's 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.840 being a patriot is all about. So anyway, I diverted 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.160 coming back from LA to New York. I went to 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.800 LA to Miami and by the way, don't do that. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.320 No NonStop flights from LA to Palm Beach. But it's 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.040 like Matt max on nine ninety in South Florida. I mean, really, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.960 it's insane. Would my son and I watching these cars 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.160 go one hundred and twenty? I thought it was in 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.760 Germany on the Autoba and it was crazy. So we 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.479 go up to mar Lago and I had been there before, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.520 and I know the drill and we were rabb at 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.520 seven thirty last Thursday. And he's got a good staff. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.599 He's always had a good staff. Donald Trump, and a 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.840 young guy comes instead of President like to see Okay, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.240 So my son and I go over to the office, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.479 which is almost attached to the main residence, and we 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.560 go and I mush it into a room and there 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.120 is a cabinet meeting underway, and I went, WHOA. So 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.719 next to me is Stephen Miller, and then there's Navarro, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.320 there's Lutnicking, three guys I didn't know, and the President 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.920 is behind his desk. And I write all about this 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.479 in a column that you refer to can reference it 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.680 on Billoreilly dot com. But the gist of the meeting 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:06.440 was worldwide about tariffs, and about Panama, on about Greenland, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.880 and about Gaza and China. And it was just unbelievably 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.800 fascinating for a journalist's historian to hear that back and forth. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.600 And then President Trump asked me my opinion, which you know, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.440 I'm very shy about giving my opinion. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.520 Henny, you know that very shy. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.960 I mean that demure, shy. Those are adjectives that immediately 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:29.600 come to mind. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.720 That's right, and everyone knows. But I gave him my 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.360 opinion because I am a patriot and when asked by 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.960 a president, and it was very interesting to see how 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.120 in command Donald Trump was. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.200 Bill. Here's a fact. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.160 Most people we have both known him for about thirty years, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:53.560 the two of us, independently. Most people do not understand 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.280 Donald Trump. They have no idea how smart he is, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.520 how funny, he is, how generous he is, how witty 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:07.920 he is. They don't understand his psychology. Everything is a negotiation, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.760 and they don't understand when, for example, he says he's 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.520 going to put tariffs on Canada and Mexico, he's that 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.560 that is the beginning of the negotiation. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:20.640 I don't think he's negotiating. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.880 When he says they'll be hell to pay if the 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.120 hostages aren't released, I think he means that. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.520 What really offended me the corrupt media coverage of the 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.520 press conference yesterday was the headline Trump doesn't rule out 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:42.880 military action against Panama. And you and I understand that 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:48.079 he always opens a negotiation and has to read The 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.160 United States or Trump, the best book on Trump, and 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.800 has since he was a young man in real estate. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:01.479 Always opens with a hand grenade boom, the most outrageous 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:06.640 thing he can say to throw off the other side. Now, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.640 Canada is not going to become the fifty first state. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.199 The US Marines are not going to go into Panama. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.720 None of that will happen. But if you step back 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:18.160 and you. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.920 Understand that if Panama wants three billion dollars in repair 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.400 assistance from the US, there's going to be changes otherwise 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:27.960 run change. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.840 And I actually said this in the cabinet meeting, is 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.280 that a contract, a new contract has to be written 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.319 whereby our shipping, us shipping gets a substantial discount going 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:40.080 through that canal. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.720 And it's our priority, considering we are largely responsible for 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.160 all the engineering, and the Panama Canal wouldn't exist. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.520 But for the United States. That's true. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:54.959 Jimmy Carter giving it away was a debacle of monumental proportions. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.440 And God rest his soul, he was a much better 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.960 host president then he was a president. In my view, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.359 he did a lot of great work after his presidency, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.960 habitat for humanity. But this was the worst deal ever 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.920 that I can think of in the modern era of 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.040 a president giving away that canal that wouldn't exist, but 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.920 for us, it got us. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.800 Nowhere, It got us Noriega Bush had to go in 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.800 and get him. He was a drug dealer. I mean, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.280 it was insane. But Carter was not a good president. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.559 But anyway, now we have two Chinese companies providing security 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.160 for the canal. That can't happen. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.120 It has to stop. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.079 It can't happen. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.600 It has to And Trump said it very well. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.120 He said this was a gift, and it was a 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.560 gift from the United States, and you're abusing the gift 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.600 and that has to change. And if it doesn't change, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.800 then I would imagine that there'll be severe consequences for Panama. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.719 And I'm not talking about an invasion, no, but the. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.720 Press launched to everybody. That's what they do, so irresponsible, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.240 so dishonest, and in the Greenland thing, I mean, that's 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.040 an easy negotiation with Copenhagen. My message of the day 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.960 on Bill O'Reilly dot com is about King Frederick the tenth. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:20.240 You know, it's a kingdom Denmark and King fred will 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.880 make a deal in a minute because it'll be good 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.240 for Denmark because they're never going to harvest the fossil 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.400 fuels and the lithnium underneath that permafrost, and we can. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.880 But the big part of that deal is once we get. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.000 In there, don't you We may not even need them, Bill, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.479 because they do have autonomy, they do have their own parliament, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.320 and they might vote for their own independence, and if 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.840 they do, they can then align with the United States 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.680 anyway they want. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.480 But that's not what is at issue the government today 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.840 and the king is a part of it, and the 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.720 king is a descendant from gorm the old. Did you 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.359 know that? I did know that, Yes, the oral tenth century. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.440 Now I know Gorham would have made that deal with Trump. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.760 I know that, by the way, and the people of 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.079 Greenland are not happy with ted Mark. They feel like 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.440 they're treated like second and third class citizens, and that 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.880 there's a level of racism when they make a visits 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.679 to Denmark. There's only about fifty eight thousand people on 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.120 this island of about one point three eight million acres. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.680 If are country would be the fifth largest country on 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.040 the planet. But I heard a rumor that because Don 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.760 Junior went there, they already made a deal. If he 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.839 leaves immediately, Denmark will give Trump anything he wants. Do 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:43.840 you think that's true. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.360 I think it's a possibility. I do. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.120 I think things are going to change. I think the 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.080 world order is going to change. I think everything already 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.839 has changed. I think things will change in the Middle East. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.960 I think we'll see an end to war in Europe. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.360 I do believe that, in spite of the sabotage of 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.800 Joe Biden with you know, by trying to sell off 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.360 the wall of pennies on the dollar, which really hurts 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.880 the American people, him trying to ban fracking and drilling 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.640 and putting a moratorium on such. I don't believe any 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.120 of this will stand, and I believe Donald Trump's agenda 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.520 will move forward. And if he is able to achieve 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.280 what he set outs to what he's setting out to achieve, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.800 I think he has the chance to be the most 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.800 transformational president in one hundred hundred plus years. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.920 Okay, well, I don't want to say we'll see, because 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.120 that's ridiculous, but certainly the potential is there. Now here's 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:35.920 my beef today. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.480 Well, if we. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.200 Cut two trillion dollars in spending, if we if we 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.040 deported illegal immigrants, if we secured our borders, if we 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.800 became the most energy dominant country on Earth, if we 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.520 rebuild our military for the next generation of weaponry and 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.960 become the baddest military on the face of the earth. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.439 You don't think that's transformative. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.520 Of course it is. And if it happens, then President 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.640 trumbled down in history is one of the great presidents. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.160 But here's my beef today, Hannah, are you ready for 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:05.640 my beef? 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:07.439 We got twenty seconds go. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.160 So Biden is going to Italy. You know, I mu 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.760 shud cost the taxpayer about fifteen million dollars. Kamala is 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:21.320 going to Asia and around the world. Why the cryptors 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:27.080 they're using a taxpayer money and taking long vacations. It's outrageous. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.400 It's outrageous. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.160 All things simple, man, Bill O'Reilly happened New Year, my friend, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.880 And if you get summoned to Palm Beach, you may 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.840 want to stop by, you know, and catch up with 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.840 your buddy Hannady next time. You didn't even give me 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.640 a call. Unbelievable. Eight hundred and nine four one Seawn 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.280 our number. If you want to be a part of 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.200 the program, quick break right back Hi twenty five now 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.480 till the top of the hour. 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I talked to two friends of mine 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:32.520 out there yesterday and they both had to evacuate their homes. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.040 I got to get an update how things went for them. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.040 They just wanted to get out with their life. We 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:44.840 have residents furious at the LA Mayor, Karen Bass. She 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.960 happens to be in Ghana. Why she's seventy four hundred 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.960 miles away, I don't know, but a lot of people 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.560 in La are furious. We also discovered firehouse dot com 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.840 that LA firefighters are at their wits end after finding 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.120 scores of broken fire hydrants as they struggled to gain 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:08.199 control over one of the worst or worst wildfires in 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:13.120 their city's history. You have the mayor slashing LA firefighter 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.280 budgeting by seventeen million dollars. That was only months before 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.720 the city now is up in flames. The LA Fire 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.359 Department at its budget cut by staggering seventeen point six 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:31.760 million dollars this financial year. And this California wild fire problem, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.520 which we have gone into great specificity in detail about 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.879 a lot of this. It would be preventable if they 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.840 would do controlled burns, if they would clear out a 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.359 lot of a lot of the material that is burned, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.000 that they'd create areas where they'd cut down trees and barriers. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.800 There's all sorts of you know, fire safety, fire management, forestry. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.199 It's a science if they actually would follow it, but 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.760 they don't because they give into the environmental extremists. It 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.840 was only four months ago Donald Trump was in California 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.199 speaking about the need for California to send more water 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:14.960 downstate to prevent fires. Now, it's interesting that years ago 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.640 they did fund five water plants for this very purpose 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.399 and none of them were built. And somebody needs to 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:23.639 be held responsible for that. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.160 Listen, cleaned out and protected. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.359 We got to take care of the floors, you know, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.199 the floors of the forest very important. You look at 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.119 other countries where they do it differently, and it's a 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.560 whole different story. I was with the President of Finland 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.280 and he said, we have much different We're a forest nation. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.080 He called it a forest nation. And they spent a 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.359 lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.199 and they don't have any problem. And when it is, 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:57.680 it's a very small problem. So I know everybody's looking 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.480 at that to that end, it's going. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:00.920 To work out. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.520 You have so much water and all those fields that 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.320 are right now barren. The farmers would have all the 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.360 water they needed, and you could revert water up into 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.640 the hills where you have all the dead forests, where 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.840 the forests are so brittle, because no places like California. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.000 I go to Austria, the head of Ostria tells me, 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.159 you know, we have trees that are much more flammable 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.359 than what you have in California. We never have forest 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:27.240 forest because they maintained their forests, and you have all 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.080 that water that could be used to as water what 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.840 they call waterflow where you know where the land would 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.720 be damp, and you'd stop many of these horrible fires 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.280 that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:41.520 federal government, et cetera. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.560 So one thing I'm going to do for California. Vote 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:45.560 for me, California. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.000 I'm going to give you safety, I'm going to give 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.119 you a great border, and I'm going to give you 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.480 more water than almost anybody has. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.080 And by the way, he's not wrong on the water part. 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.120 I mean, many of you may remember that years ago 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.920 I went out to the San Joaquin Valley and they 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:07.119 would not allow water to be given to farmers, and 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.840 I'd walk through you know, literally thousands and thousands of 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.280 acres of farms were pretty much shut down because of 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:18.080 a government policy to protect this little what looked like 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.600 a minnow fish called the Delta smelt. And they cared 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.520 more about the delta smelt and their environmental agenda than 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.439 they did about farmers and their ability to make a 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:33.120 living and provide food for people. It's insanity. Well that's 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.119 you know, that's what they're doing. All right, Let's get 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.440 to our busy, busy phones. Let us say hi to Chris. 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.320 He's in the great state of Texas. God bless Texas. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:43.320 Happy New Year, Chris. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:43.880 How are you. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.480 Happy New Year, sir? I've got at Texas for related question. 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.399 When it comes to Biden's sabotage in this wall and 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.440 selling is for five cents on the dollar. I don't 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.440 understand why no one in the state of Texas, in 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.800 the county, at the county level made an attempt to 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.000 purchase these things to cure them. And I know that 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.760 you can do that with if you join the there's 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.960 a federal website to register to put things out to bid. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.760 And I know I was in law enforcement, and I 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.879 know my contacts back in New Jersey. You're still involved 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.000 in that. And it's a pretty simple thing. 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:23.159 Listen, It's a very simple thing. This is only vindictiveness. 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.560 This is this is pettiness. This is this is not 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.639 gonna It's not something that really will personally hurt Donald Trump. 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:34.240 This will hurt the American people by trying to put 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:38.480 limitations moratoriums on drilling and fracking. That's not gonna hurt 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.320 Donald Trump. Donald Trump will be able to overcome that, 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.040 most likely first with an executive order. It may take 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.800 court litigation action later, it may take legislation in the end, 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.000 but he's he's going to drill and he's going to 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.399 make this country energy dominant. He's not going to give up. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:00.720