1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: All right, thanks Scott Chat an hour or two Sean 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Hannity's show. One week from today, it is inauguration day. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: It's a new day for the country and maybe an 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: opportunity to get every one hundred years. And I really 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: believe if Republicans stick together, if they are strategic, if 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: they stick to the Trump agenda, and the Trump promises 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: very simple and that is secure the border, to port 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: those people that enter the country illegally, find the terrorists, 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: the cartel members, the murderers, the rapists, gang members that 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: are known to be in the country. If they become 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,959 Speaker 1: energy super dominant and we've become an energy wealthy country, 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: we can begin the process of restoring the economy. Tax 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: cuts being permanent, no tax on tips, no tax on 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: social security, no tax on overtime, shoring up social security 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: and medicare, which are headed towards insolvency. You building the 16 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: next generation of weaponry, knowing that future wars likely won't 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: be on a battlefield, but be fought in air conditioned offices. 18 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: That would be transformational in every way. Anyway, New king 19 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,639 Speaker 1: Rich is with us, former Speaker of the House, author 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 1: of March to the Majority, and anyway he has a 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: new documentary that he's put out following the lives of 22 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: the lives of nine successful legal immigrants. Journey to America 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: is what it's called. For example, there's there's a conflict 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: even within MAGA over H one v one uh visas. 25 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: I have no problem if we vet people, and we 26 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: should first bring in the world's best, brightest engineers, medical researchers, doctors, lawyers, 27 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: you know that, just the top people, and maybe they 28 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: can help us with the artificial intelligence and building out 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: the next generation of warfare and the weaponry that we 30 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: will need. Considering we have a gap of vulnerability now 31 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: where China and Russia hypersonic missile technology and other other 32 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: weapons systems, and we've fallen behind. Anyway, mister speaker, great 33 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 1: to have you back. Congratulations on the new documentary. 34 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: Well, we're thrilled. It's gonna be on PBS tomorrow night 35 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: at ten o'clock and called Journey to American. Twiss and 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: I worked on it because we're very much opposed to 37 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: illegal immigration, and we strongly support both closing the border 38 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: and deporting people like the criminals you were describing, but 39 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 2: at the same time we believe that legal immigration. I 40 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 2: mean President Trump's mother came from Scotland, Callissa's grandmother came 41 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: through Ellis Island from Poland in nineteen oh seven, and 42 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: almost everybody listening to us knows somebody who's either a 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 2: first or second generation immigrant or a descendant of relatively 44 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 2: recent immigrants, and they brought huge diversity and energy and 45 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 2: capability of the country. So I draw a very sharp distink. 46 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 2: And I was surprised and frankly delighted last week to 47 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: see that in both the House and the Senate the 48 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 2: lakeln Rally bill actually got a good number of Democratic votes. 49 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: And I think it may be a sign of how 50 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 2: really big the transitions about to become that Democrats, who 51 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: in Trump's first administration would have been hard line a 52 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: lot of them are now trying to look for a 53 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 2: way to cooperate and to vote with us on a 54 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 2: bipartisan basis. And I thought that was very encouraging in 55 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 2: terms of the big bills that will be coming up 56 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 2: later on this year. 57 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: Why am I less optimistic? Why do I suspect with 58 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: the beginning of these hearings for Trump's nominees that you know, 59 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: the real Adam Schiff, the real Chuck Schumer, the real 60 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: Dick Dermott, will you know, rear their ugly heads and 61 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: they'll try to go full on hardcore Robert Vohr, Clarence Thomas, 62 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: Justice Kavanaugh and smear, slander, bes merch, and attack Trump 63 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: like they always do. 64 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: Sounds about right, But remember when Reagan passed those great 65 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: tax cuts in nineteen eighty one, he only he got 66 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: forty six Democrats, which was enough to win, but he 67 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: didn't get you know, the other one hundred and eighty. Similarly, 68 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: when we passed welfare reform, which the country desperately wanted, 69 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 2: we got one hundred and one Democrats. We had one 70 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 2: hundred and one voting no, including some of them who 71 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 2: got to the Florence that we were Nazis because we 72 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: were going to target the children. Of course, when people 73 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 2: went to work, their incomes went up. The largest number 74 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: of children leaving poverty in American history came after welfare reform. 75 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: But the left wing of their party, it is there, 76 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: It is real, it is insane, and it's not going 77 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 2: to change. But if we can split off anywhere from 78 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 2: twenty to forty percent, so you have sort of an 79 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: internal struggle within the Democratic Party. That's a huge advantage. 80 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: And I just did some research. There are thirteen Democrats 81 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 2: in that Trump carried and another twenty one Democrats in 82 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 2: districts where Trump came within five percent. That means that 83 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 2: there's a potential marketplace of thirty four House Democrats that 84 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 2: if the President decides this spring to go out and 85 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: do a barnstorming series of rallies in favor of a 86 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 2: tax cut, energy production, higher take home pay, more affordability, 87 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 2: along with the border and immigration. I suspect he's going 88 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: to get a surprising number of Democrats who decide to 89 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 2: go with him. 90 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: I tend to think you're probably right. I look at 91 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: what's going on in California, and I look at the 92 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: excuse making. I look at the finger pointing. There's certain 93 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: truths and realities that the California can't run away from 94 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: that they've rejected the science of forestry and that would 95 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: be including clearing brush and controlled burns because of the 96 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: quote environment. We look at a state that also has 97 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: fire hydrants that weren't working, reservoirs that were empty, and 98 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: a very defensive governor. And now we've got three more 99 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: days of Santa Anna wins. You know one hundred miles 100 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: an hour plus, and we're expecting, you know, these fires 101 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: to get out of control yet again. And I just 102 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: sit here in amazement. You know, LA's fire chief warned 103 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: the mayor, Karen Bass, just two months ago that her 104 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: her department only had half the staff that they needed 105 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: to fight wildfires, and of course, you know, the mayor 106 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: was missing in action, wouldn't answer any questions from the press, initially, 107 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: didn't even know where to direct people in terms of 108 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: getting help. Wealthy La liberals are, you know, calling in 109 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: private firefighters to save their homes. I really don't blame 110 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: them if the city's not going to protect them and 111 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:52,799 Speaker 1: they can hire their own people. 112 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I can't fault them for that, 113 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 3: can you. 114 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 2: No, Let's tell you a lot about the decay of 115 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 2: government in California that people think they need private guards, 116 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: they need private firefighters, go down the West. In all fairness, 117 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 2: I think that the mayor of Los Angeles is now 118 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: in a competition with the mayor of Chicago to be 119 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 2: the worst mayor in the country, and it's a close 120 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 2: run thing. I think she's ahead right now for being 121 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: the worst mayor. But we haven't seen the Mayor of 122 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 2: Chicago try to do anything. But the deeper point is 123 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 2: there are two different stories here. One, we have to 124 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 2: have three things in mind. Stop the fires, whatever it 125 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: takes them that we have to move in the American military, 126 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: if we have to move in lots of other aircraft 127 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 2: from around the country to be able to dump enough 128 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: fire retardant whatever tastes, stop the fires. That's number one. 129 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: Number two, find a way. What is the least expensive, 130 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 2: fastest way to help people rebuild? I mean, we saw 131 00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 2: the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy one, the earthquake 132 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 2: in San Francisco in nineteen oh six, the great earthquake 133 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 2: in Tokyo in nineteen twenty three, the degree to which 134 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 2: we bomb both Hamburg and Tokyo in World War two. 135 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 2: People can come back, they can come back remarkably fast. 136 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 2: But under California's current rules and current bureaucracy, they'll never 137 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: come back because it's too expensive, it takes too long, 138 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: the bureaucrats have too much power, and the trial warriors 139 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: have too much power. So our second big job should 140 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 2: be clear out all the things that make it more 141 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 2: expensive and takes longer, and clean it out, and I 142 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: think President Trump may have the executive authority to declare 143 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 2: a national emergency. This is going to be such a 144 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: big issue that he may be able to use national 145 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 2: emergency status to just sweepingly clear it on behalf of 146 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: saving lives and saving people, and then third, let's look 147 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 2: at imposing new rules that make sense. Now, of course 148 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 2: you have on the side and Governor Knews, a man 149 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 2: who lives in a fantasy land, who just set aside 150 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars to fight the Trump administration. The thing 151 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 2: with this, he's gonna have to turn to Trump for 152 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: an amazing amount of money, for an extraordinary amount of help. 153 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: And what are they doing. They're putting us out of 154 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 2: fifty million dollars state fund to fight Trump. I mean, 155 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 2: this is like insanity. 156 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: Well, you really can't make it up. Let's talk about 157 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: the times that we're living in here. One week from 158 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: today's inauguration day, we'll be in DC. I'm pretty sure 159 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: you'll you will be there quick, pus And okay, so 160 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: you have I'm looking at this as a chance that 161 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: maybe you get every hundred hundred and fifty years if 162 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump just fulfills his promises to literally cut two 163 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: trillion dollars and reduce the size and scope and influence 164 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: of government and return to the principles constitutional principles of 165 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: limited government, greater freedom that envisioned by our founders and 166 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: by our framers. That will be trans if if in fact, 167 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: he secures the borders and he deports those people in 168 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: here illegally, that will be transformational. If he makes us 169 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: the most energy dominant country on Earth, that is the 170 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: greatest opportunity. I think we have to become a wealthy country. 171 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: If he re establishes America's military, I am very worried 172 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: about that gap of vulnerability that I described and the 173 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: lead into this segment that will be transformational and will 174 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: protect the country hopefully for decades to come. It is 175 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: a bigger under undertaking. 176 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 3: Now. 177 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: I know there's been discussions. I know more senators want 178 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: two bills, not one bill. You want one big beautiful bill. 179 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: Trump and talked about one big beautiful bill. If I 180 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: had to guess, it's leaning now towards the two bill strategy. 181 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: Can all of this be accomplished? 182 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: Well? I worry very much about how slow the Senate 183 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 2: is capable be If you go with the two bills strategy, 184 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 2: and you put the easy stuff, the border, etc. In 185 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: the first bill, and then you have to come back 186 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 2: and pass the much bigger, more complicated bill. I was 187 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 2: just and I've written about this at Ginger three sixty. 188 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 2: I lived through this. In nineteen eighty one, Reagan had 189 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: a great victory. We passed a three year tax but 190 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 2: none of us fully understood. It didn't go into effect 191 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 2: until nineteen eighty three. Well, guess what, everybody stopped investing 192 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 2: for all of nineteen eighty two, waiting for the tax 193 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 2: advantage of investing eighty three. We lost twenty six seats 194 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: in the House twenty seventeen. I really wanted them to 195 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 2: start with infrastructure and taxes. Ryan and McConnell insisted that 196 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 2: they had to start by repealing Obamacare. They failed to 197 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 2: appeal Obamacare, and they don't pass the tax bill until December, 198 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 2: when it doesn't have any effect. We moved forty seats 199 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 2: in the House. Now, you know, I would just say, 200 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: unless they get every Senator to sign on the dotted 201 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 2: line a public document pledging to get the second bill 202 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 2: out by the end of May, I would never go 203 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: with a two bill model. And I would urge Speaker 204 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 2: Johnson to just ignore them. I mean, if he insists 205 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 2: on one bill, it's going to come out of the 206 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 2: House as one bill and the Senate's going to have 207 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 2: to eat it. But I would not get play games. 208 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 2: I mean, I frankly believe the Senate rules are so complicated, 209 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: the ability of senators to slow everything down is so 210 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 2: great that if you let them play games of this, 211 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: you're going to have a disaster in twenty twenty six. 212 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: All right, quick break, we'll continue more with new king Rich. 213 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: By the way, a link to his new documentary on 214 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: Hannity dot Com. It's called Journey to America. We'll get 215 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: more of his take on the inauguration one week from 216 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: today and what Republicans need to do if they want 217 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: to be transformational and effective. Continue now, New Gingrich is 218 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: with us. Don't forget his new documentary. We have a 219 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: link to it. It's on Hannity dot Com. It's called 220 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: a Journey to America. This, to me, is what I've 221 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: been warning this audience about. You just can't vote for 222 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and think that Congress is going to do 223 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: the right thing. We have two slim a majority, especially 224 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: in the House, and they're going to need to they're 225 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: going to need to hear from their constituents that they 226 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: want this done and at the right time. At that moment, 227 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: we'll give out the phone number. People can be respectful 228 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: and call in. I want to shift a little bit 229 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: here and ask you this question. You address the issue 230 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: of the danger of an electro magnetic pulse attack on 231 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,199 Speaker 1: this country. And when I read what you had written 232 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: and said it scared the living daylights out of me. 233 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 2: Well it should. There's a brilliant novel a good friend 234 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: of mine, Arthur though Fortune, called One Second After, which 235 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: is a technically accurate study of a small town in 236 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,599 Speaker 2: North Carolina after an an electromagnetic pulse attack. This is 237 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 2: a form of very high intense energy rate which which 238 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: burns out for example, electric generator. It burns out your 239 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 2: car if it had anything in your car that is electric. 240 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 2: And he describes what it means when all of a 241 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 2: sudden you don't have electricity. And these giant generators take 242 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 2: years to build, and we don't build them here anymore. 243 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 2: They're both places in Switzerland. And so you look at that, 244 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 2: and I would say, if there's any short term gap 245 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 2: in American defenses, it's the absolute incompetence of the government 246 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 2: to sort out a defense against an electromagnetic pulse attack, which, 247 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 2: by the way, if you've set off an electromagnetic bomb 248 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 2: at about one hundred thousand feet over Omaha, you cover 249 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 2: one half of the country without one weapon. And we're 250 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: watching North Korea acquire the ability to put things in orbit, 251 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 2: and they could put an electromagnetic weapon in orbit and 252 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 2: you'd never know it till they used it. 253 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: That's pretty chilling. New king Rich, Congratulations. New documentary is 254 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: out as called Journey to America. We have a link 255 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: on hannity dot com. We appreciate your time as always, 256 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Thank you. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn 257 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: our number. You want to be a part of the 258 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: program next week will be in DC. Will be there Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 259 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: and Wednesday of next week. 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On top of everything else we 298 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: did learn over the weekend, and it shouldn't be a 299 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 1: surprise to anybody, apparently one little inconvenient detail on top 300 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: of the fire hydrants that don't work, on top of 301 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: the reservoir being emptied, on top of the lack of 302 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: manpower and the warning of LA's fire chief to Karen 303 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: Bass months ago that her department only had half the 304 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: staff they would need to fight a wildfire. Now we're 305 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: learning that the guy that they caught wandering around Los 306 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: Angeles on Friday as the as he allegedly was torching 307 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: this carded Christmas trees with a flamethrower. Yeah, it's a 308 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: Harris Biden illegal. I've yet to see anybody in the 309 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,239 Speaker 1: fake news state run media mob asked any of the 310 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: elected officials in California about that it is a sanctuary state. 311 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: LA is a sanctuary city. New York Post had a headline, 312 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 1: so suspect arrested with flamethrower near LA fire is an 313 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: illegal immigrant, according to sources. As we've been vetting out 314 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: all of these stories, but the devastation is real. We 315 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: have now twenty four people dead in this people worn 316 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: now to brace for the next seventy two hours of hell. 317 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: Three years ago, Karen Bass, the mayor, promised to cut 318 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: back on her world travel. She was in Ghana when 319 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: this story, when this tragedy was beginning to unfold. She 320 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: gave city contractors very rich, you know, promotions and raises 321 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: before cutting the fire department. As we've pointed out many times, 322 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: there're seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Water 323 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: chief knew about at the empty reservoir, knew about the 324 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 1: hydrants not working months before the fires. Gavin Newsom was 325 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 1: corrected by reporters after making one hundred and seventeen million 326 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: gallon mistake while hitting out at Donald Trump, and you know, 327 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: the fact checking is not coming out too well on 328 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: his particular side. And anyway, Democrats are now turning on 329 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: each other. The LA Fire chief is detailing the devastation 330 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: because of the cuts that she warned the mayor about. 331 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: There's a lot of anger that a lot of wealthy 332 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: people in the area have been shelling out two thousand 333 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: dollars an hour for private firefighters. If you're not going 334 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: to get help from the city, can you really blame 335 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: people if for attempting to hire people to help save 336 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: their home, considering what it means to rebuild your entire 337 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: life like that, and it's pretty unbelievable. And anyway, so 338 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: we have let me play for you. Kristin Crowley, the 339 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: LA Fire chiefs saying that city officials failed us. We 340 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: expect water in hydrants. This should be one on one. 341 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 4: Listen, the City of Los Angeles fail you and your 342 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 4: department and our city. It's my job to stand up 343 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 4: as a chief and exactly say, justifiably what the fire 344 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 4: department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community. 345 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 3: Did they fail you? 346 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 4: That is our job and I tell you that's why 347 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 4: I'm here. So let's get us what we need so 348 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 4: firefighters can do their jobs. 349 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,199 Speaker 3: Did they fail you, yes, Chief Kristin Crowley. 350 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 5: The question is about the Santa Inez reservoir being empty. 351 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 3: There's been a lot of questions about that. Sure. 352 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 4: So my stance on this is when a firefighter comes 353 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: up to a hydrant, we expect there's going to be water. 354 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 4: We don't control the water supply. Our firefighters are there 355 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 4: to protect lives and property and to make sure that 356 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 4: we're properly trained and equipped. 357 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 3: That's my position on this. 358 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: Now, she says that firefighters were not made aware at 359 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: the Santa Inez Reservoir was even empty, and Gavin Newsom's 360 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: answer was, well, that's a local one. 361 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 5: Here. 362 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 4: Listen, Sandra Endo, one of our angers wants to know 363 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 4: if the department is advised that the Santa Ynez Reservoir. 364 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 3: Was going to be emptied, were you aware that there 365 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 3: was no water there? No, we weren't aware of that. 366 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 4: They don't have to advise you, not that I'm aware 367 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 4: of now, So you had no idea that there wasn't 368 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 4: need such needed resources. 369 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 3: No, we weren't. 370 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: I mean, kudos to the fire chief for being honest. Furthermore, 371 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: in that same press conference, she was very clear that 372 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: the LA Fire Department is underfunded and understaffed, and we 373 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: now know that she had been warning the mayor not 374 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 1: to cut the budget and that they needed it. They 375 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: only had half the staff that they would need for 376 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: a wildfire such as the one they've experienced out there. 377 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: And if you look at the pictures, I mean now 378 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: we have over twelve thousand, you know, structures that have 379 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: burned on the ground. 380 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 3: Listen. 381 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 6: I have also requested multiple budgets interim budget to show 382 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 6: how understaffed, under resource and underfunded the LAFD is. So 383 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 6: with that, also, we have clear data that shows the 384 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 6: LFD needs more help. We need sixty two more fire stations. 385 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 6: These reports also show that we've had a fifty five 386 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 6: percent increase in overall call volume since twenty ten. And 387 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 6: guess what we're doing it with less firefighters. 388 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 3: You can't make it up. 389 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: And now the biggest spear two as this now comes 390 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: to an end, is potential looting that's going to be 391 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: taking place in these areas. Joel Pollock and John conn 392 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: of Breitbart here to talk about their home California, where 393 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: they live and what has happened over the past week 394 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: and what's happened to this One's beautiful state now riddled 395 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: with fire and ash because of woke policies. In part 396 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: the sad reality is John himself lost his home. There 397 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: was nothing left. I saw an ex post of his 398 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: the only there was nothing recognizable pretty much in his 399 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: house when he went back. Welcome both of you to 400 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: the program. And John con I'm so sorry that you 401 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: lost your home. I don't even know what to say. 402 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: It just is so this was so preventable and predictable. 403 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 3: Santa Ana. 404 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: Wins are predictable, but the need for fire hydrants is 405 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: one oh one. 406 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 3: The need for a full reservoir is basic, right. 407 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 5: You know, Son's truly you know, I might have a 408 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 5: different perspective on this, you know, because I'm right in 409 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 5: the middle of it. But we're all news guys, and 410 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 5: it's really interesting to look at a story like this. 411 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 5: We always see it through the lens of the news 412 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 5: and it's always over there. It's never you never think 413 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 5: you're going to be part of the story. And as 414 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 5: someone Joe and I are both. 415 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 7: Part of this story. 416 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 5: And to drive through our neighborhoods, you've never seen anything 417 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 5: quite like it. And I'm having sort of an odd 418 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 5: reaction to it, because I know that they're going to 419 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 5: be investigations and it should be investigated, why this, how 420 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 5: this could possibly have happened. But for me personally, I'm 421 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 5: not at the anger stage. I'm not sure I'm even 422 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 5: going to get there, because when you see all the devastation, 423 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 5: and I can just tell you the level of grief 424 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 5: and loss that I feel is just beyond anything I 425 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 5: can comprehend it. When you see all the other people 426 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 5: and all the destruction and all those houses, and you 427 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 5: know they. 428 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 7: Have that grief as well. 429 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 5: And so for me personally, I'm sort of focusing on 430 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 5: the positive things that could come out of this and 431 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 5: all the love and the outpouring of prayers and everything 432 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 5: that Joel and I are receiving specifically, and I'm sure 433 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 5: everybody else is, but it's you know, I think this, 434 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 5: you know, clearly needs to be investigated, but you know 435 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 5: we're you know, we're strong people, and we're going to 436 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 5: get back up and move forward from it. 437 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: Gavin said that he would streamline the process and allowed 438 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: the little build back quickly. But we had Jillian Michael's 439 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: on the program her home burn of the ground in 440 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It took well over a year year and 441 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: a half for her to get the permitting to build 442 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: back up. It was taking Susanne Summers and her husband 443 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 1: seven plus years to rebuild their Malibu home. I don't 444 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 1: even think they've even got back to rebuilding it. All right, 445 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: quick break right back more with Joel Pollock, John Kahn 446 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: on the other side as they talk about the devastation 447 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: John losing his home in these California wildfires, Joel almost 448 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: losing his home. Eight hundred and nine to four one. 449 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: Shawn is on number one, So get to your calls. 450 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: Coming up straight ahead on this Monday, one week from today, 451 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: Inauguration Day, we will be in DC. 452 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: Who would want to miss this? I we can take you. 453 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: Now with Joel Pollock and John Connor Breidbart. John lost 454 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: his home in these California wildfires, and Joel nearly lost 455 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: his home. Every home around where he lives was burned 456 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: to the ground. Joel, my understanding is while you didn't 457 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: lose your home, a lot of homes near you did 458 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: burn to the ground. 459 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 7: That's right, Sean. I arrived on Wednesday in the middle 460 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 7: of the fire, once it became barely safe enough to 461 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 7: start to go into the Pacific Palisades, and I saw 462 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 7: my home was still standing, but the fence was on 463 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 7: fire and there was no running water at all. So 464 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 7: I grabbed a bucket and I dipped it into the 465 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 7: gutter where water was running downhill from homes that had 466 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 7: been destroyed further into the neighborhood, and I started pouring 467 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 7: water on the fence and on my neighbor's fence. 468 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 3: What century are we living in here? I'm just checking. 469 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, when government news, Simon said, locals, we'll figure 470 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 7: it out. This is how we figured it out. A 471 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 7: couple of guys and men from the neighborhood showed up 472 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 7: in a truck. They jumped out, We found two more buckets. 473 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 7: We formed an assembly line, and we put out the 474 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 7: fires on my fence and my neighbor's fence, and we 475 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 7: helped save the neighborhood. But I have to tell tell 476 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 7: you most of the neighborhood is destroyed, and it's yesterday. 477 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 7: John came into the palisade with me, and he actually 478 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 7: noticed there was smoke a couple of doors down at 479 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 7: one of the other houses that was still standing. So 480 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 7: he helped save the neighborhood too, And when I got 481 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 7: to my on Wednesday, I saw that the garden hose 482 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 7: was fully extended across my yard, which means that some 483 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 7: neighbor had tried to put out the fire on his 484 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 7: own or her own. And we're all looking out for 485 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 7: each other or It's an incredible spirit of togetherness and strength, 486 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 7: but it is absolutely devastating because when I stand on 487 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 7: my street corner now, my house is the only one standing, 488 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 7: and every other house on the corner is gone. The 489 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 7: seven houses that are the first houses on my street survived, 490 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 7: but almost nothing else did. And the school next door 491 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 7: that my kids go who has been destroyed except for 492 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 7: the murals that the kids painted. They are murals of 493 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 7: ringbows and doves, which you know, has that biblical imagery 494 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 7: of Noah after the flood, and God's promised not to 495 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 7: destroy the world again. So we're taking hope in those 496 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 7: little symbols. But I've had public officials who I'm supposed 497 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 7: to interview crying on my shoulder and asking me what 498 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 7: they should do, and what John's saying is right. We 499 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 7: do have to find the answers, and we do have 500 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 7: to talk about what went wrong. Honestly, But we also 501 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 7: have to support those who now have responsibilities to rebuild. 502 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 7: And I have told them, if you do the right thing, 503 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 7: you're a full support of the community. 504 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: Well, I also think, and I know Donald Trump pretty well, 505 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: that I think that he's going to understand the devastation 506 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: of the people out there. 507 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 3: You know. 508 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: But while that's the case, you know, Gavin Newsom is 509 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: what organizing a state effort to trump prove the state 510 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: of California to the tune of fifty million lawsuits, you know. 511 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: And I was out there in two thousand and nine, 512 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: and I went to the San Joaquin Valley where they 513 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: there was thousands and thousands of acres of farmland that 514 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: nobody could farm on because all of the water was 515 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: being saved for the Delta smelt. Now we learn that 516 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: waters being portant to the Pacific every year from northern 517 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: California instead of funneled down into the reservoirs when and 518 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: by the way, they were supposed to build five of 519 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: them that they had a referendum in twenty fourteen. You 520 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,239 Speaker 1: have the fire department budget cut, You have hydrants that 521 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: don't work, you have reservoirs that are empty, You have 522 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: half the manpower that they fired. Chief said that they 523 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: would have needed months ago, and nobody wants to take responsibility. 524 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, you know, now you're at the 525 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: point John that you you have to rebuild your life. 526 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: I admire your fighting spirit, but I mean your life 527 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: is completely turned upside down right now now. 528 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 5: It is. But you know, some as we all know, 529 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 5: the American spirit is to get up and keep flighting. 530 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 5: And there's nothing. The houses are gone, the neighborhood's gone. 531 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 5: This is a town I grew up in and my 532 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 5: brother's house miraculously made it, but everything else is gone, 533 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 5: and you kind of, you know, for me, it's just 534 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 5: is what's next. I don't know. There's a lot of fear. 535 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 5: There's a lot of grief, but you know, we get 536 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 5: up and we keep going. And when I found, like 537 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 5: like you mentioned earlier, I found an American flag picture 538 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 5: water picture in the rubble of my house. It was 539 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 5: the only thing I could identify, and I thought, Okay, 540 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 5: well that's the fining spirit of Americans. And I'm going 541 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 5: to help anybody I can and receive, you know, the 542 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 5: prayers and amazing thoughts that everybody's reached out. People I 543 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 5: don't even know and in one day at a time. 544 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you have our prayers with you, our thoughts 545 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: with you and all the victims in this case. And 546 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: it's so frustrating as an outsider to know that all 547 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: of this, my view, was preventable, you know, practicing the 548 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: science of forestry. Maybe we'll start there. We do appreciate 549 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: your time, John con Joel Pollock, Thank you both. Prayers 550 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: for both your families, your neighbors, and everybody in California. 551 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: And the next three days are going to be very telling. 552 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: Let's see if they learned anything and whether or not 553 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: they're going to do a better job. I don't have 554 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in that. Thank you both, and 555 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: we'll we'll update this story is needed over time.