Speaker 1: All right, thanks Scott Chat an hour or two Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity's show. One week from today, it is inauguration day.
Speaker 1: It's a new day for the country and maybe an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get every one hundred years. And I really
Speaker 1: believe if Republicans stick together, if they are strategic, if
Speaker 1: they stick to the Trump agenda, and the Trump promises
Speaker 1: very simple and that is secure the border, to port
Speaker 1: those people that enter the country illegally, find the terrorists,
Speaker 1: the cartel members, the murderers, the rapists, gang members that
Speaker 1: are known to be in the country. If they become
Speaker 1: energy super dominant and we've become an energy wealthy country,
Speaker 1: we can begin the process of restoring the economy. Tax
Speaker 1: cuts being permanent, no tax on tips, no tax on
Speaker 1: social security, no tax on overtime, shoring up social security
Speaker 1: and medicare, which are headed towards insolvency. You building the
Speaker 1: next generation of weaponry, knowing that future wars likely won't
Speaker 1: be on a battlefield, but be fought in air conditioned offices.
Speaker 1: That would be transformational in every way. Anyway, New king
Speaker 1: Rich is with us, former Speaker of the House, author
Speaker 1: of March to the Majority, and anyway he has a
Speaker 1: new documentary that he's put out following the lives of
Speaker 1: the lives of nine successful legal immigrants. Journey to America
Speaker 1: is what it's called. For example, there's there's a conflict
Speaker 1: even within MAGA over H one v one uh visas.
Speaker 1: I have no problem if we vet people, and we
Speaker 1: should first bring in the world's best, brightest engineers, medical researchers, doctors, lawyers,
Speaker 1: you know that, just the top people, and maybe they
Speaker 1: can help us with the artificial intelligence and building out
Speaker 1: the next generation of warfare and the weaponry that we
Speaker 1: will need. Considering we have a gap of vulnerability now
Speaker 1: where China and Russia hypersonic missile technology and other other
Speaker 1: weapons systems, and we've fallen behind. Anyway, mister speaker, great
Speaker 1: to have you back. Congratulations on the new documentary.
Speaker 2: Well, we're thrilled. It's gonna be on PBS tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock and called Journey to American. Twiss and
Speaker 2: I worked on it because we're very much opposed to
Speaker 2: illegal immigration, and we strongly support both closing the border
Speaker 2: and deporting people like the criminals you were describing, but
Speaker 2: at the same time we believe that legal immigration. I
Speaker 2: mean President Trump's mother came from Scotland, Callissa's grandmother came
Speaker 2: through Ellis Island from Poland in nineteen oh seven, and
Speaker 2: almost everybody listening to us knows somebody who's either a
Speaker 2: first or second generation immigrant or a descendant of relatively
Speaker 2: recent immigrants, and they brought huge diversity and energy and
Speaker 2: capability of the country. So I draw a very sharp distink.
Speaker 2: And I was surprised and frankly delighted last week to
Speaker 2: see that in both the House and the Senate the
Speaker 2: lakeln Rally bill actually got a good number of Democratic votes.
Speaker 2: And I think it may be a sign of how
Speaker 2: really big the transitions about to become that Democrats, who
Speaker 2: in Trump's first administration would have been hard line a
Speaker 2: lot of them are now trying to look for a
Speaker 2: way to cooperate and to vote with us on a
Speaker 2: bipartisan basis. And I thought that was very encouraging in
Speaker 2: terms of the big bills that will be coming up
Speaker 2: later on this year.
Speaker 1: Why am I less optimistic? Why do I suspect with
Speaker 1: the beginning of these hearings for Trump's nominees that you know,
Speaker 1: the real Adam Schiff, the real Chuck Schumer, the real
Speaker 1: Dick Dermott, will you know, rear their ugly heads and
Speaker 1: they'll try to go full on hardcore Robert Vohr, Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 1: Justice Kavanaugh and smear, slander, bes merch, and attack Trump
Speaker 1: like they always do.
Speaker 2: Sounds about right, But remember when Reagan passed those great
Speaker 2: tax cuts in nineteen eighty one, he only he got
Speaker 2: forty six Democrats, which was enough to win, but he
Speaker 2: didn't get you know, the other one hundred and eighty. Similarly,
Speaker 2: when we passed welfare reform, which the country desperately wanted,
Speaker 2: we got one hundred and one Democrats. We had one
Speaker 2: hundred and one voting no, including some of them who
Speaker 2: got to the Florence that we were Nazis because we
Speaker 2: were going to target the children. Of course, when people
Speaker 2: went to work, their incomes went up. The largest number
Speaker 2: of children leaving poverty in American history came after welfare reform.
Speaker 2: But the left wing of their party, it is there,
Speaker 2: It is real, it is insane, and it's not going
Speaker 2: to change. But if we can split off anywhere from
Speaker 2: twenty to forty percent, so you have sort of an
Speaker 2: internal struggle within the Democratic Party. That's a huge advantage.
Speaker 2: And I just did some research. There are thirteen Democrats
Speaker 2: in that Trump carried and another twenty one Democrats in
Speaker 2: districts where Trump came within five percent. That means that
Speaker 2: there's a potential marketplace of thirty four House Democrats that
Speaker 2: if the President decides this spring to go out and
Speaker 2: do a barnstorming series of rallies in favor of a
Speaker 2: tax cut, energy production, higher take home pay, more affordability,
Speaker 2: along with the border and immigration. I suspect he's going
Speaker 2: to get a surprising number of Democrats who decide to
Speaker 2: go with him.
Speaker 1: I tend to think you're probably right. I look at
Speaker 1: what's going on in California, and I look at the
Speaker 1: excuse making. I look at the finger pointing. There's certain
Speaker 1: truths and realities that the California can't run away from
Speaker 1: that they've rejected the science of forestry and that would
Speaker 1: be including clearing brush and controlled burns because of the
Speaker 1: quote environment. We look at a state that also has
Speaker 1: fire hydrants that weren't working, reservoirs that were empty, and
Speaker 1: a very defensive governor. And now we've got three more
Speaker 1: days of Santa Anna wins. You know one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour plus, and we're expecting, you know, these fires
Speaker 1: to get out of control yet again. And I just
Speaker 1: sit here in amazement. You know, LA's fire chief warned
Speaker 1: the mayor, Karen Bass, just two months ago that her
Speaker 1: her department only had half the staff that they needed
Speaker 1: to fight wildfires, and of course, you know, the mayor
Speaker 1: was missing in action, wouldn't answer any questions from the press, initially,
Speaker 1: didn't even know where to direct people in terms of
Speaker 1: getting help. Wealthy La liberals are, you know, calling in
Speaker 1: private firefighters to save their homes. I really don't blame
Speaker 1: them if the city's not going to protect them and
Speaker 1: they can hire their own people.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I can't fault them for that,
Speaker 3: can you.
Speaker 2: No, Let's tell you a lot about the decay of
Speaker 2: government in California that people think they need private guards,
Speaker 2: they need private firefighters, go down the West. In all fairness,
Speaker 2: I think that the mayor of Los Angeles is now
Speaker 2: in a competition with the mayor of Chicago to be
Speaker 2: the worst mayor in the country, and it's a close
Speaker 2: run thing. I think she's ahead right now for being
Speaker 2: the worst mayor. But we haven't seen the Mayor of
Speaker 2: Chicago try to do anything. But the deeper point is
Speaker 2: there are two different stories here. One, we have to
Speaker 2: have three things in mind. Stop the fires, whatever it
Speaker 2: takes them that we have to move in the American military,
Speaker 2: if we have to move in lots of other aircraft
Speaker 2: from around the country to be able to dump enough
Speaker 2: fire retardant whatever tastes, stop the fires. That's number one.
Speaker 2: Number two, find a way. What is the least expensive,
Speaker 2: fastest way to help people rebuild? I mean, we saw
Speaker 2: the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy one, the earthquake
Speaker 2: in San Francisco in nineteen oh six, the great earthquake
Speaker 2: in Tokyo in nineteen twenty three, the degree to which
Speaker 2: we bomb both Hamburg and Tokyo in World War two.
Speaker 2: People can come back, they can come back remarkably fast.
Speaker 2: But under California's current rules and current bureaucracy, they'll never
Speaker 2: come back because it's too expensive, it takes too long,
Speaker 2: the bureaucrats have too much power, and the trial warriors
Speaker 2: have too much power. So our second big job should
Speaker 2: be clear out all the things that make it more
Speaker 2: expensive and takes longer, and clean it out, and I
Speaker 2: think President Trump may have the executive authority to declare
Speaker 2: a national emergency. This is going to be such a
Speaker 2: big issue that he may be able to use national
Speaker 2: emergency status to just sweepingly clear it on behalf of
Speaker 2: saving lives and saving people, and then third, let's look
Speaker 2: at imposing new rules that make sense. Now, of course
Speaker 2: you have on the side and Governor Knews, a man
Speaker 2: who lives in a fantasy land, who just set aside
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars to fight the Trump administration. The thing
Speaker 2: with this, he's gonna have to turn to Trump for
Speaker 2: an amazing amount of money, for an extraordinary amount of help.
Speaker 2: And what are they doing. They're putting us out of
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars state fund to fight Trump. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is like insanity.
Speaker 1: Well, you really can't make it up. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the times that we're living in here. One week from
Speaker 1: today's inauguration day, we'll be in DC. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you'll you will be there quick, pus And okay, so
Speaker 1: you have I'm looking at this as a chance that
Speaker 1: maybe you get every hundred hundred and fifty years if
Speaker 1: Donald Trump just fulfills his promises to literally cut two
Speaker 1: trillion dollars and reduce the size and scope and influence
Speaker 1: of government and return to the principles constitutional principles of
Speaker 1: limited government, greater freedom that envisioned by our founders and
Speaker 1: by our framers. That will be trans if if in fact,
Speaker 1: he secures the borders and he deports those people in
Speaker 1: here illegally, that will be transformational. If he makes us
Speaker 1: the most energy dominant country on Earth, that is the
Speaker 1: greatest opportunity. I think we have to become a wealthy country.
Speaker 1: If he re establishes America's military, I am very worried
Speaker 1: about that gap of vulnerability that I described and the
Speaker 1: lead into this segment that will be transformational and will
Speaker 1: protect the country hopefully for decades to come. It is
Speaker 1: a bigger under undertaking.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know there's been discussions. I know more senators want
Speaker 1: two bills, not one bill. You want one big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1: Trump and talked about one big beautiful bill. If I
Speaker 1: had to guess, it's leaning now towards the two bill strategy.
Speaker 1: Can all of this be accomplished?
Speaker 2: Well? I worry very much about how slow the Senate
Speaker 2: is capable be If you go with the two bills strategy,
Speaker 2: and you put the easy stuff, the border, etc. In
Speaker 2: the first bill, and then you have to come back
Speaker 2: and pass the much bigger, more complicated bill. I was
Speaker 2: just and I've written about this at Ginger three sixty.
Speaker 2: I lived through this. In nineteen eighty one, Reagan had
Speaker 2: a great victory. We passed a three year tax but
Speaker 2: none of us fully understood. It didn't go into effect
Speaker 2: until nineteen eighty three. Well, guess what, everybody stopped investing
Speaker 2: for all of nineteen eighty two, waiting for the tax
Speaker 2: advantage of investing eighty three. We lost twenty six seats
Speaker 2: in the House twenty seventeen. I really wanted them to
Speaker 2: start with infrastructure and taxes. Ryan and McConnell insisted that
Speaker 2: they had to start by repealing Obamacare. They failed to
Speaker 2: appeal Obamacare, and they don't pass the tax bill until December,
Speaker 2: when it doesn't have any effect. We moved forty seats
Speaker 2: in the House. Now, you know, I would just say,
Speaker 2: unless they get every Senator to sign on the dotted
Speaker 2: line a public document pledging to get the second bill
Speaker 2: out by the end of May, I would never go
Speaker 2: with a two bill model. And I would urge Speaker
Speaker 2: Johnson to just ignore them. I mean, if he insists
Speaker 2: on one bill, it's going to come out of the
Speaker 2: House as one bill and the Senate's going to have
Speaker 2: to eat it. But I would not get play games.
Speaker 2: I mean, I frankly believe the Senate rules are so complicated,
Speaker 2: the ability of senators to slow everything down is so
Speaker 2: great that if you let them play games of this,
Speaker 2: you're going to have a disaster in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break, we'll continue more with new king Rich.
Speaker 1: By the way, a link to his new documentary on
Speaker 1: Hannity dot Com. It's called Journey to America. We'll get
Speaker 1: more of his take on the inauguration one week from
Speaker 1: today and what Republicans need to do if they want
Speaker 1: to be transformational and effective. Continue now, New Gingrich is
Speaker 1: with us. Don't forget his new documentary. We have a
Speaker 1: link to it. It's on Hannity dot Com. It's called
Speaker 1: a Journey to America. This, to me, is what I've
Speaker 1: been warning this audience about. You just can't vote for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and think that Congress is going to do
Speaker 1: the right thing. We have two slim a majority, especially
Speaker 1: in the House, and they're going to need to they're
Speaker 1: going to need to hear from their constituents that they
Speaker 1: want this done and at the right time. At that moment,
Speaker 1: we'll give out the phone number. People can be respectful
Speaker 1: and call in. I want to shift a little bit
Speaker 1: here and ask you this question. You address the issue
Speaker 1: of the danger of an electro magnetic pulse attack on
Speaker 1: this country. And when I read what you had written
Speaker 1: and said it scared the living daylights out of me.
Speaker 2: Well it should. There's a brilliant novel a good friend
Speaker 2: of mine, Arthur though Fortune, called One Second After, which
Speaker 2: is a technically accurate study of a small town in
Speaker 2: North Carolina after an an electromagnetic pulse attack. This is
Speaker 2: a form of very high intense energy rate which which
Speaker 2: burns out for example, electric generator. It burns out your
Speaker 2: car if it had anything in your car that is electric.
Speaker 2: And he describes what it means when all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you don't have electricity. And these giant generators take
Speaker 2: years to build, and we don't build them here anymore.
Speaker 2: They're both places in Switzerland. And so you look at that,
Speaker 2: and I would say, if there's any short term gap
Speaker 2: in American defenses, it's the absolute incompetence of the government
Speaker 2: to sort out a defense against an electromagnetic pulse attack, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, if you've set off an electromagnetic bomb
Speaker 2: at about one hundred thousand feet over Omaha, you cover
Speaker 2: one half of the country without one weapon. And we're
Speaker 2: watching North Korea acquire the ability to put things in orbit,
Speaker 2: and they could put an electromagnetic weapon in orbit and
Speaker 2: you'd never know it till they used it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty chilling. New king Rich, Congratulations. New documentary is
Speaker 1: out as called Journey to America. We have a link
Speaker 1: on hannity dot com. We appreciate your time as always,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Thank you. Eight hundred nine one, Shawn
Speaker 1: our number. You want to be a part of the
Speaker 1: program next week will be in DC. Will be there Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and Wednesday of next week. We'll explain why in a
Speaker 1: couple of days.
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Speaker 1: disaster out in California. Now we have three more days
Speaker 1: of Santa Anna wins. On top of everything else we
Speaker 1: did learn over the weekend, and it shouldn't be a
Speaker 1: surprise to anybody, apparently one little inconvenient detail on top
Speaker 1: of the fire hydrants that don't work, on top of
Speaker 1: the reservoir being emptied, on top of the lack of
Speaker 1: manpower and the warning of LA's fire chief to Karen
Speaker 1: Bass months ago that her department only had half the
Speaker 1: staff they would need to fight a wildfire. Now we're
Speaker 1: learning that the guy that they caught wandering around Los
Speaker 1: Angeles on Friday as the as he allegedly was torching
Speaker 1: this carded Christmas trees with a flamethrower. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: Harris Biden illegal. I've yet to see anybody in the
Speaker 1: fake news state run media mob asked any of the
Speaker 1: elected officials in California about that it is a sanctuary state.
Speaker 1: LA is a sanctuary city. New York Post had a headline,
Speaker 1: so suspect arrested with flamethrower near LA fire is an
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant, according to sources. As we've been vetting out
Speaker 1: all of these stories, but the devastation is real. We
Speaker 1: have now twenty four people dead in this people worn
Speaker 1: now to brace for the next seventy two hours of hell.
Speaker 1: Three years ago, Karen Bass, the mayor, promised to cut
Speaker 1: back on her world travel. She was in Ghana when
Speaker 1: this story, when this tragedy was beginning to unfold. She
Speaker 1: gave city contractors very rich, you know, promotions and raises
Speaker 1: before cutting the fire department. As we've pointed out many times,
Speaker 1: there're seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Water
Speaker 1: chief knew about at the empty reservoir, knew about the
Speaker 1: hydrants not working months before the fires. Gavin Newsom was
Speaker 1: corrected by reporters after making one hundred and seventeen million
Speaker 1: gallon mistake while hitting out at Donald Trump, and you know,
Speaker 1: the fact checking is not coming out too well on
Speaker 1: his particular side. And anyway, Democrats are now turning on
Speaker 1: each other. The LA Fire chief is detailing the devastation
Speaker 1: because of the cuts that she warned the mayor about.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of anger that a lot of wealthy
Speaker 1: people in the area have been shelling out two thousand
Speaker 1: dollars an hour for private firefighters. If you're not going
Speaker 1: to get help from the city, can you really blame
Speaker 1: people if for attempting to hire people to help save
Speaker 1: their home, considering what it means to rebuild your entire
Speaker 1: life like that, and it's pretty unbelievable. And anyway, so
Speaker 1: we have let me play for you. Kristin Crowley, the
Speaker 1: LA Fire chiefs saying that city officials failed us. We
Speaker 1: expect water in hydrants. This should be one on one.
Speaker 4: Listen, the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
Speaker 4: department and our city. It's my job to stand up
Speaker 4: as a chief and exactly say, justifiably what the fire
Speaker 4: department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community.
Speaker 3: Did they fail you?
Speaker 4: That is our job and I tell you that's why
Speaker 4: I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
Speaker 4: firefighters can do their jobs.
Speaker 3: Did they fail you, yes, Chief Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 5: The question is about the Santa Inez reservoir being empty.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of questions about that. Sure.
Speaker 4: So my stance on this is when a firefighter comes
Speaker 4: up to a hydrant, we expect there's going to be water.
Speaker 4: We don't control the water supply. Our firefighters are there
Speaker 4: to protect lives and property and to make sure that
Speaker 4: we're properly trained and equipped.
Speaker 3: That's my position on this.
Speaker 1: Now, she says that firefighters were not made aware at
Speaker 1: the Santa Inez Reservoir was even empty, and Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 1: answer was, well, that's a local one.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: Listen, Sandra Endo, one of our angers wants to know
Speaker 4: if the department is advised that the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Speaker 3: Was going to be emptied, were you aware that there
Speaker 3: was no water there? No, we weren't aware of that.
Speaker 4: They don't have to advise you, not that I'm aware
Speaker 4: of now, So you had no idea that there wasn't
Speaker 4: need such needed resources.
Speaker 3: No, we weren't.
Speaker 1: I mean, kudos to the fire chief for being honest. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: in that same press conference, she was very clear that
Speaker 1: the LA Fire Department is underfunded and understaffed, and we
Speaker 1: now know that she had been warning the mayor not
Speaker 1: to cut the budget and that they needed it. They
Speaker 1: only had half the staff that they would need for
Speaker 1: a wildfire such as the one they've experienced out there.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the pictures, I mean now
Speaker 1: we have over twelve thousand, you know, structures that have
Speaker 1: burned on the ground.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 6: I have also requested multiple budgets interim budget to show
Speaker 6: how understaffed, under resource and underfunded the LAFD is. So
Speaker 6: with that, also, we have clear data that shows the
Speaker 6: LFD needs more help. We need sixty two more fire stations.
Speaker 6: These reports also show that we've had a fifty five
Speaker 6: percent increase in overall call volume since twenty ten. And
Speaker 6: guess what we're doing it with less firefighters.
Speaker 3: You can't make it up.
Speaker 1: And now the biggest spear two as this now comes
Speaker 1: to an end, is potential looting that's going to be
Speaker 1: taking place in these areas. Joel Pollock and John conn
Speaker 1: of Breitbart here to talk about their home California, where
Speaker 1: they live and what has happened over the past week
Speaker 1: and what's happened to this One's beautiful state now riddled
Speaker 1: with fire and ash because of woke policies. In part
Speaker 1: the sad reality is John himself lost his home. There
Speaker 1: was nothing left. I saw an ex post of his
Speaker 1: the only there was nothing recognizable pretty much in his
Speaker 1: house when he went back. Welcome both of you to
Speaker 1: the program. And John con I'm so sorry that you
Speaker 1: lost your home. I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1: It just is so this was so preventable and predictable.
Speaker 3: Santa Ana.
Speaker 1: Wins are predictable, but the need for fire hydrants is
Speaker 1: one oh one.
Speaker 3: The need for a full reservoir is basic, right.
Speaker 5: You know, Son's truly you know, I might have a
Speaker 5: different perspective on this, you know, because I'm right in
Speaker 5: the middle of it. But we're all news guys, and
Speaker 5: it's really interesting to look at a story like this.
Speaker 5: We always see it through the lens of the news
Speaker 5: and it's always over there. It's never you never think
Speaker 5: you're going to be part of the story. And as
Speaker 5: someone Joe and I are both.
Speaker 7: Part of this story.
Speaker 5: And to drive through our neighborhoods, you've never seen anything
Speaker 5: quite like it. And I'm having sort of an odd
Speaker 5: reaction to it, because I know that they're going to
Speaker 5: be investigations and it should be investigated, why this, how
Speaker 5: this could possibly have happened. But for me personally, I'm
Speaker 5: not at the anger stage. I'm not sure I'm even
Speaker 5: going to get there, because when you see all the devastation,
Speaker 5: and I can just tell you the level of grief
Speaker 5: and loss that I feel is just beyond anything I
Speaker 5: can comprehend it. When you see all the other people
Speaker 5: and all the destruction and all those houses, and you
Speaker 5: know they.
Speaker 7: Have that grief as well.
Speaker 5: And so for me personally, I'm sort of focusing on
Speaker 5: the positive things that could come out of this and
Speaker 5: all the love and the outpouring of prayers and everything
Speaker 5: that Joel and I are receiving specifically, and I'm sure
Speaker 5: everybody else is, but it's you know, I think this,
Speaker 5: you know, clearly needs to be investigated, but you know
Speaker 5: we're you know, we're strong people, and we're going to
Speaker 5: get back up and move forward from it.
Speaker 1: Gavin said that he would streamline the process and allowed
Speaker 1: the little build back quickly. But we had Jillian Michael's
Speaker 1: on the program her home burn of the ground in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It took well over a year year and
Speaker 1: a half for her to get the permitting to build
Speaker 1: back up. It was taking Susanne Summers and her husband
Speaker 1: seven plus years to rebuild their Malibu home. I don't
Speaker 1: even think they've even got back to rebuilding it. All right,
Speaker 1: quick break right back more with Joel Pollock, John Kahn
Speaker 1: on the other side as they talk about the devastation
Speaker 1: John losing his home in these California wildfires, Joel almost
Speaker 1: losing his home. Eight hundred and nine to four one.
Speaker 1: Shawn is on number one, So get to your calls.
Speaker 1: Coming up straight ahead on this Monday, one week from today,
Speaker 1: Inauguration Day, we will be in DC.
Speaker 3: Who would want to miss this? I we can take you.
Speaker 1: Now with Joel Pollock and John Connor Breidbart. John lost
Speaker 1: his home in these California wildfires, and Joel nearly lost
Speaker 1: his home. Every home around where he lives was burned
Speaker 1: to the ground. Joel, my understanding is while you didn't
Speaker 1: lose your home, a lot of homes near you did
Speaker 1: burn to the ground.
Speaker 7: That's right, Sean. I arrived on Wednesday in the middle
Speaker 7: of the fire, once it became barely safe enough to
Speaker 7: start to go into the Pacific Palisades, and I saw
Speaker 7: my home was still standing, but the fence was on
Speaker 7: fire and there was no running water at all. So
Speaker 7: I grabbed a bucket and I dipped it into the
Speaker 7: gutter where water was running downhill from homes that had
Speaker 7: been destroyed further into the neighborhood, and I started pouring
Speaker 7: water on the fence and on my neighbor's fence.
Speaker 3: What century are we living in here? I'm just checking.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, when government news, Simon said, locals, we'll figure
Speaker 7: it out. This is how we figured it out. A
Speaker 7: couple of guys and men from the neighborhood showed up
Speaker 7: in a truck. They jumped out, We found two more buckets.
Speaker 7: We formed an assembly line, and we put out the
Speaker 7: fires on my fence and my neighbor's fence, and we
Speaker 7: helped save the neighborhood. But I have to tell tell
Speaker 7: you most of the neighborhood is destroyed, and it's yesterday.
Speaker 7: John came into the palisade with me, and he actually
Speaker 7: noticed there was smoke a couple of doors down at
Speaker 7: one of the other houses that was still standing. So
Speaker 7: he helped save the neighborhood too, And when I got
Speaker 7: to my on Wednesday, I saw that the garden hose
Speaker 7: was fully extended across my yard, which means that some
Speaker 7: neighbor had tried to put out the fire on his
Speaker 7: own or her own. And we're all looking out for
Speaker 7: each other or It's an incredible spirit of togetherness and strength,
Speaker 7: but it is absolutely devastating because when I stand on
Speaker 7: my street corner now, my house is the only one standing,
Speaker 7: and every other house on the corner is gone. The
Speaker 7: seven houses that are the first houses on my street survived,
Speaker 7: but almost nothing else did. And the school next door
Speaker 7: that my kids go who has been destroyed except for
Speaker 7: the murals that the kids painted. They are murals of
Speaker 7: ringbows and doves, which you know, has that biblical imagery
Speaker 7: of Noah after the flood, and God's promised not to
Speaker 7: destroy the world again. So we're taking hope in those
Speaker 7: little symbols. But I've had public officials who I'm supposed
Speaker 7: to interview crying on my shoulder and asking me what
Speaker 7: they should do, and what John's saying is right. We
Speaker 7: do have to find the answers, and we do have
Speaker 7: to talk about what went wrong. Honestly, But we also
Speaker 7: have to support those who now have responsibilities to rebuild.
Speaker 7: And I have told them, if you do the right thing,
Speaker 7: you're a full support of the community.
Speaker 1: Well, I also think, and I know Donald Trump pretty well,
Speaker 1: that I think that he's going to understand the devastation
Speaker 1: of the people out there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: But while that's the case, you know, Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: what organizing a state effort to trump prove the state
Speaker 1: of California to the tune of fifty million lawsuits, you know.
Speaker 1: And I was out there in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: and I went to the San Joaquin Valley where they
Speaker 1: there was thousands and thousands of acres of farmland that
Speaker 1: nobody could farm on because all of the water was
Speaker 1: being saved for the Delta smelt. Now we learn that
Speaker 1: waters being portant to the Pacific every year from northern
Speaker 1: California instead of funneled down into the reservoirs when and
Speaker 1: by the way, they were supposed to build five of
Speaker 1: them that they had a referendum in twenty fourteen. You
Speaker 1: have the fire department budget cut, You have hydrants that
Speaker 1: don't work, you have reservoirs that are empty, You have
Speaker 1: half the manpower that they fired. Chief said that they
Speaker 1: would have needed months ago, and nobody wants to take responsibility.
Speaker 1: And in the meantime, you know, now you're at the
Speaker 1: point John that you you have to rebuild your life.
Speaker 1: I admire your fighting spirit, but I mean your life
Speaker 1: is completely turned upside down right now now.
Speaker 5: It is. But you know, some as we all know,
Speaker 5: the American spirit is to get up and keep flighting.
Speaker 5: And there's nothing. The houses are gone, the neighborhood's gone.
Speaker 5: This is a town I grew up in and my
Speaker 5: brother's house miraculously made it, but everything else is gone,
Speaker 5: and you kind of, you know, for me, it's just
Speaker 5: is what's next. I don't know. There's a lot of fear.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of grief, but you know, we get
Speaker 5: up and we keep going. And when I found, like
Speaker 5: like you mentioned earlier, I found an American flag picture
Speaker 5: water picture in the rubble of my house. It was
Speaker 5: the only thing I could identify, and I thought, Okay,
Speaker 5: well that's the fining spirit of Americans. And I'm going
Speaker 5: to help anybody I can and receive, you know, the
Speaker 5: prayers and amazing thoughts that everybody's reached out. People I
Speaker 5: don't even know and in one day at a time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you have our prayers with you, our thoughts
Speaker 1: with you and all the victims in this case. And
Speaker 1: it's so frustrating as an outsider to know that all
Speaker 1: of this, my view, was preventable, you know, practicing the
Speaker 1: science of forestry. Maybe we'll start there. We do appreciate
Speaker 1: your time, John con Joel Pollock, Thank you both. Prayers
Speaker 1: for both your families, your neighbors, and everybody in California.
Speaker 1: And the next three days are going to be very telling.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they learned anything and whether or not
Speaker 1: they're going to do a better job. I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in that. Thank you both, and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll update this story is needed over time.