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Environmental Radicalism - January 13th, Hour 1
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Um Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the forty-seventh president of the United States, only the second time that that somebody in this country has been president and come back after uh after a period of not being president.
Uh it's going to be an interesting week to see what Joe does in terms of preemptive pardons.
Hearing his brother Jim, maybe himself.
Uh we keep hearing Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, uh, let's see, Benny Thompson wants one, Michael Cohn was on TV this weekend begging for one.
We'll see how that all plays out.
My guess is there will be more pardons to come and preemptive pardons.
And uh, you know, later on we have, you know, and this is a great point made in James Colmer's new book, which is the all the president's money investigating the secret foreign schemes that made the Biden family rich.
One of the points he makes in the book is, you know, Joe Biden for most of his adult life, like fifty years, made less than two hundred thousand dollars a year, and you know, he was able to buy you know a number to a second multi-million dollar mansion.
Well, how is that financially feasible?
My understanding is his wife is a teacher.
Not exactly does not lend itself to buying multi-million dollar ocean front homes, but I guess they were able to do it.
He goes through great depth and and incredible footnoting.
Uh I'm sure that there is the threat of a lawsuit probably hanging over his head.
Um, but you read the book, you decide on your own.
Uh certainly uh we know we were lied to, and we know that Hunter's laptop, and by the way, Hunter, when he received the pardon, that eliminates any ability of him now to claim the fifth, and he wouldn't maybe have to answer if there's an investigation.
Questions like, well, what do you mean you give half your income to Pops?
Well, what do you mean that you know all these conversations with your financial guy out of what account you need to take the money out of to pay for Pops' home repairs?
Uh, then he's gonna have to answer other questions, and Joe himself lied when he said he never once talked to his son, his brother, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business deals.
You know, Comer has it somewhere around thirty plus million million dollars that they took in with no apparent work done.
We know all about Parisma, the energy giant in Ukraine.
We know all about CEFC, the energy giant out of China.
We know about the WhatsApp message.
I'm sitting here with my father and with everybody he knows and my ability to hold the grudge, you're gonna regret not giving us the money, but anyway, we'll get into that in some specificity in detail, but Joe Biden has a week to issue whatever other pardons he's gonna issue.
Uh we go now to the disaster that is out in California, and I'm not sure how they're gonna deal with another seventy-two hours of hell and 100 mile per hour winds.
Santa Anna wins a kicking back in again, and different areas now in California bracing for the absolute worst.
Uh apparently the fires are spreading, now threatening Bel Air.
A lot of these fires still have not been fully contained, not even close to fully contained.
Uh, you have many historic landmarks that have been lost here, including, by the way, the Getty Arts Center is facing flames.
Uh Hollywood stars, interestingly, more than ever, are speaking out against the the radical left leadership out in California from Gavin Newsom, the governor to to Karen Bass, the the mayor out there.
The you know, we now have over twelve thousand plus structures that have been destroyed, twenty-four people now.
The death toll has risen to twenty-four that we know of.
That number likely to go higher.
I hope it does not.
Um, and you know, then we have you know, other issues that have come up.
You know, it comes down to the basics.
If anyone can explain to me why they cut the fire department budget uh while simultaneously planning to spend billions and billions of dollars on wind turbines, why they were spending between federal and state dollars six hundred and fifty million to make the port of Los Angeles green, and why they didn't prioritize hydrants.
Governor Newsom was asked by Anderson Cooper about why the hydrants weren't working.
Well, that's a local issue.
Well, the state is known for wire fire wildfires, and the state, you know, is known for Santa Ana winds.
All of these things are predictable.
And it goes back to my point that I kept making last week.
You know, that there is a science to forestry.
You can get a degree in it, and and why they didn't have controlled burns and they you know they gave into environmental radicalism as an extremism than not cleaning out the brush.
It might hurt some endangered species, why they were dumping so much water into the Pacific Ocean from Northern California rather than following through on a 2014 referendum that allocated monies by the taxpayers directly.
They they're the ones that approved it for five separate reservoirs, and not one of them were ever built.
How is it that the reservoir in the Pacific Palace was empty?
And then, you know, when asked about it, some people just just flat out denied the reality that it was empty.
Uh we'll play later in the in the program.
I think this is important.
You know, Gavin Newsom now is in the middle of Trump proof in California.
I think they're planning to spend fifty million dollars to put aside for lawsuits against Donald Trump and blasting Donald Trump for pointing out obvious criticisms, legitimate criticisms, not gratuitous criticisms about the handling of what's gone out on out there.
Um, Trump is threatening first responders with the threat to withhold federal support.
I I think Donald Trump is saying that there are gonna have to be conditions you're gonna have to change the way you approach firefighting and wildfires, knowing you have predictable Santa Ana wins, and that's just common sense.
And Gavin telling a reporter that I I have you know, I I have the same questions you're asking about what happened to our water system.
Um he's he's been either lieutenant governor or governor or mayor in of a big city for decades now.
I'm not I'm not exactly sure where that question's coming from.
Or let's stop the finger pointing.
Let's assess the truth.
I'm not interested in who's to blame.
We need to know who's to blame here.
Now the LA fire chief, who's been under criticism for implementing DEI policies, had a very honest press conference saying that city officials failed us as it in in terms of not having water in hydrants, uh, also going on to say that the firefighters were not made aware that the Santa Inez reservoir was empty.
I don't know how that's possible.
These are questions that have to be answered, or how the LA Fire Department is underfunded and understaffed, but she made that warning long before they ever made the cuts to the LAFD.
And it's it's pretty remarkable that this is where we now find ourselves.
You know, three years ago, Karen Bass, the mayor, promised to cut back on her world travel and focus on the city, but she was in Ghana at the time that the fires broke out, didn't seem to have any urgency to get back any faster.
Last year you have this water chief who's being paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, apparently knew about the empty reservoir and broken hydrants months before the fires did nothing about it.
Uh there was an awkward moment when Gavin was corrected by a reporter after making 117 million gallon mistake while while hitting out against Donald Trump and Newsom defending the fire response with of a fact check site linking to Democratic Party fundraising platforms.
I mean, this is we're gonna raise money off the fires now.
I don't think people in California really want the money to go to the Democratic Party.
No, thank you.
Um the LA Fire Chief saying, I warned, I rang the bell.
Details how these devastating cuts, you know, led to a lot of this.
Um anyway, uh the fire chief warned Karen Bass two months ago that the department only had half the staff, according to the Washington Free Beacon, that it needed to fight wildfires.
And she warned these city officials in November.
Her department had about half as many firefighter fighters as they needed.
And still months ago they they cut the budget by 17.6 million dollars.
Again, while still simultaneously planning billions in spending for wind turbines and six hundred and fifty million to make the port of LA green.
I don't think they're prioritizing their money well.
There's a lot of criticism.
A lot of people in the Pacific Palisades, it's a pretty affluent area, and it looks like some of the people that live there that have money in left wing Los Angeles were able to fire uh uh hire rather, and I guess I never knew this was even possible, but you can hire firefighters that work privately to prioritize and protect your home, and they're under heavy fire for doing so.
And I and I'm sorry, I don't criticize these people.
If if the answer is this is a legitimate business and these people can protect your home, and the city is not going to protect your home because they have an empty empty reservoir and they have hydrants that don't work and there's not enough firefighters to begin with.
The idea that you want to protect your home is is not so far fetched to me.
And if they had the money to pay for private firefighters to protect their homes, you know, I I mean, I I guess good for them, but you know, then it comes down to, you know, well, what about the equity?
What about the people that can't afford it?
Well, they're not going to be able to afford it.
That's the answer.
And um I I don't think you can criticize them.
The ideal situation would be that the government does its job and protects everybody.
That would be the real answer.
And firefighting has to be a top priority, especially in a state known for wildfires and drought like California, although this was not a drought year out there.
A critical LA firefighting plane was grounded after a civilian drone put a hole in its wing, you know, adding insult to injury here.
The FBI is investigating this troubling incident.
We have an ex-con who was caught torching LA neighborhoods, turns out to be a Biden illegal.
What does that mean if that person was an ex-con?
That means that they were in custody.
But of course, sanctuary status in LA and in California would never allow them to be turned over to ICE, which means they go back into the public.
But according to the New York Post, it's kind of an inconvenient detail about the fires.
Uh I doubt the mainstream mob state run media is going to say anything about it.
It turns out the guy they caught wandering around Los Angeles Friday as he was allegedly torching discarded Christmas trees with a flamethrower is a Biden illegal.
I wonder if anyone's going to ask these politicians about their sanctuary status after this.
Probably not.
But the headline is suspect arrested with flamethrower near LA fire is an illegal immigrant, according to sources.
And this homeless guy tackled and zip tied by onlookers who say he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near LA.
By the way, how did he get a blowtorch?
Is an illegal immigrant who will likely be protected by California's sanctuary status?
Well, that's about to come to an end in a week.
The suspect in Mexican National in the U.S. illegally.
Anyway, he was arrested in Woodland Hills near the Kenneth Fire on Thursday.
The Kenneth fires burned more than uh a thousand acres, one point six square miles over three days in LA and Ventura counties, and video that went viral shows neighbors cornering and then detaining this guy as he holds up holds what one resident described as a flamethrower on the street with one man yelling at him, put it down, put it down.
One neighbor telling KTLA that she was in her backyard when she heard a car screech to a stop and a man yelling that someone was trying to start a fire.
A few People surrounded him, got him on his knees.
They got some zip ties and a rope, were able to do a citizen's arrest.
And that it's not the job of the people in Ventura and the people of California to be arresting this guy, who apparently, if he was an ex con, had no business being there to start with.
You know, now apparently the these wildfires threatened California's 2028 Olympics, which is supposed to be at Sofi Stadium, located nineteen miles away from sections of the city that have been ravaged by this fire.
The hundred-year-old Riviera Golf Club with the world's best golfers will compete for gold, is only five miles from the Pacific Palisades fire and within a designated evacuation zone, so we'll see what happens there.
The Pentagon is calling for Mayor Karen Bass's resignation, or the I'm sorry, the petition, not the Pentagon.
Um it was uh at 122,574 earlier today.
If they could find these people, I think they probably all would sign on to it.
It's just it's uh you know this is a preventable tragedy.
And now we have at least 72 hours of Santa Anna wins.
Now it's threatening Bel Air and other parts of Los Angeles.
I can only imagine what it's gonna look like tonight.
Twelve thousand structures destroyed, 24 dead, and you know, everyone's pointing fingers at each other.
And I'm gonna tell you who's gonna end up paying for this.
We, the American taxpayers.
Watch, you you you'll see.
Oh, and Mexico is and Canada are sending firefighters, and Ukraine is sending firefighters.
Why they didn't prepare for this, I don't know.
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Um the winds called Santa Ana winds, if you don't live in California, I mean, they're predictable.
They happen often when they happen simultaneously with wildfires.
This is the predictable result.
it just is and if you look at the palisades fire alone grew to more than 23 000 acres that's That's half the size of Brooklyn, New York, if if you want a comparison.
It was only as of yesterday, eleven percent contain.
We expect strong gusts now for the next three days, which is going to complicate things.
Um it seems to be headed the fire that is to the neighborhood of Brentwood, which is a uh uh small enclave crammed with multi-million dollar mansions.
That's where Vice President Harris lives, LeBron James uh lives, uh, also home to like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Dr. Dre.
But that uh that's the next community in the crosshairs of the one of the worst fire disasters in history.
And it is yeah, and I gotta give credit.
We got to give props to all of the people.
I'll say thank you to Canada, Mexico, but also to the states of Utah, Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.
You know, they've all gotten on board.
They're all sending in help, but that does not excuse the fact that the LA Fire Chief said we we have only half the manpower we would need to deal with a wildfire.
And, you know, now coming in after 24 are dead, you know, is is hardly reassuring to anybody.
And then we had all the criticisms.
There were there was a point where the LA Fire Chief on Friday was called into Karen Bass's office, and a lot of his speculation.
There was even one article that came out believing that she was fired, she was not, but she had was summoned, I guess, on Friday afternoon, fueling that speculation.
And among the uh thousands of structured uh structures, I mean, yeah, names that you know, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Spencer Pratt, what is it, Heidi Montag?
I don't even know.
I I don't know these people.
I don't care about Hollywood.
I don't I really don't care.
Hollywood's influence, by the way, in the political arena, you know, this so hardcore leftist liberal Democrat.
This is the government they they help fight for, and this is the government that is this incompetent.
And it it may not seem relevant, but it really is.
These are the policies that would have been implemented had Kamala Harris won this election.
Because this is the radical environmentalism.
What do you think the whole new Green New Deal is rooted in?
It is rooted in this.
And, you know, Governor Newsom is playing defense, and you know, he he was playing verbal gymnastics.
He was asked, you know, saying, well, the state reservoirs were completely full.
Well, the Pacific Palisades Reservoir was not.
In 2014, the state passed a referendum.
That means the people vote directly on whether they want to fund reservoirs in the state of California.
They voted for that referendum, and they voted to build five reservoirs.
Most people understanding that it is a state heavy with drought often.
This was not a drought year, and understanding the need for water during during during these times, and so they approved the money.
And it's hard to get people to approve money when you put out a referendum, a refer referendum.
But the reservoirs, what Gavin was saying this week were they completely full.
The state reservoirs in Southern California.
You know, that mistake and disinformation, I don't think advantages anybody, he said to MBC News.
Then the reporter pressed Newsom on his response, you know, pointing out how the LA County run, Santa Inez Reservoir was bone dry.
Something that even has prompted a uh a probe from the governor.
You know, that's exactly what triggered my desire to get to the investigation.
Well, why didn't they prepare ahead of time?
And I'll play later in the program.
My governor, Don DeSantis, was at Mar-a-Lago and asked about this and said if it would have been a Republican state run by a Republican governor, we'd be excoriated for this response.
Um, but Gavin's argument is that this is not a state-run system, which the president-elect was referring to.
The president-elect did not say it was a state-run system.
You cannot negate these facts.
The facts are, and and Newsom addressed this on very early on, saying, well, these hydrants are not designed to take care of a wildfire.
Well, okay, then how do you get the water that is needed to put out fires when you have Santa Anna winds that are predictable in neighborhoods that are like this?
Why aren't you practicing the science of forestry?
Nobody's ever asked them that question that I've been able to see.
But anyway, they missed the point that the water pressure was a major debilitating issue.
Not having hydrants that work is a debilitating issue.
You know, the fact that as they fight this wildfire, we learn more about in a video defending the DEI hiring practices.
The deputy chief of the fire department who has the equity and human resources bureau addressed accusations that female firefighters aren't strong enough to carry a man out of a burning building saying he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry meaning the victim would be in the wrong place if if I have to carry him out in a fire which went viral.
I mean, was apparently caught caught off guard, and the most devastating blaze in California history is incinerated 26,000 acres that in a very populated area.
And critics arguing that the L.A. Fire Department had too much preoccupation with DEI vanity projects.
This DEI head was paid $307,000 a year in 2023.
And the deputy chief says when people's houses are burning down, they want a firefighter to show up, you know, uh that's able to do the job.
And people just want someone to show up that's going to stop their house from Burning down.
And then the people that that just gave up on the state and hired their own firefighters, which I didn't know such such services existed.
I mean, why are you why are we blaming them?
I mean, they're just they just have come to a recognition that the state's not going to be there for them.
And they're just trying to protect the home that they work so hard to purchase and live in and don't want to have burned to the ground.
Anyway, there's a lot of criticism and other criticism is, you know, the governor soliciting donations for victims via his super PAC, which pushed users to add their personal information to a democratic fundraising site.
I'm like, really?
We're going to talk about politics now?
It's pretty bad.
And the next thing they're worried about is the potential of looting.
A Southern California TikToker caught a group of careless idiots launching lantern balloons with lit candles.
Anyway, you have grim satellite photos taken by NASA show the out of control fires.
I mean, for all the talk about the environment, the environment, the environment, what's the air quality now?
Arrests now are soaring in fire ravaged Los Angeles County, mainly for looting.
One guy caught dressed as a firefighter while stealing from a home, prompting the more National Guard uh reinforcements.
I'm not sure why they weren't called in earlier.
Uh anyway, uh many people are upset.
Vice President Harris's home is in the enclave of of Brentwood, which has now been evacuated.
Harris had an aid tweet last night, the vice president's neighborhood in Los Angeles was put under an evacuation order.
No one was in her home at the time.
She and her sec the second gentleman are now praying for the safety of their fellow Californians.
Well, when is she going to be asked about this?
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It doesn't take away my thoughts and prayers for the people of California.
And then they have this whole insurance issue.
And let me tell let me interpret that for you right up front.
That's going to mean the taxpayers of this country are going to have to pay for California's radical environmental extremism, which created conditions for a fire like this to occur.
That's what's going to end up happening.
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The LA County supervisor, this was pretty interesting.
The County Board of Supervisors Chair sent a letter to President elect Donald Trump to tour the devastation.
Actually, I have no doubt he probably will.
Vice President Harris has been called out over a claim about canceled insurance, and the insurance industry calls Harris's claim that insurance carriers are canceling policies false, wrong, and dangerous.
I mean, is this going to, you know, Motivate somebody like the United Healthcare incident.
If it's not happening, it's not happening.
Thankfully, the North Carolina governor, Josh Stein, said he will continue to use every resource at his disposal to ensure that residents impacted by Hurricane Aline.
We told you the deadline was Friday that 3,500 families might have to leave their temporary shelter that was provided by FEMA, which is what FEMA is for, and their housing assistance.
And I believe we have a stay on that, the last that I had heard.
And it's getting it's getting insane out there.
This is what environmental radicalism is.
This is what it does.
Anyway, let me move on to uh some of the other business.
Um foreign leaders are clamoring for invitations to Donald Trump's inauguration.
I mean, it's kind of interesting.
They're going crazy.
Chile, Peru, Nigeria, Mozambique, according to one foreign, one registered foreign agent who added leaders were chomping at the bit to attend.
For the most part, the answer is likely no.
Uh, one world leader who's been making furious overtures is uh President Zelensky of Ukraine, who publicly expressed interest in wanting to go.
Trump is not formally invited uh the Ukrainian leader, but said if he'd like to come, I'd like to have him.
Um week from today is going to be very interesting.
It really will.
It's just it can't come soon enough.
Here's an interesting poll out of Greenland.
It found that its residents agree with Donald Trump's suggestion that the country join the U.S. 57% of respondents in a survey were in favor of it becoming a state, another 37.4% against it, while five percent remain undecided.
Denmark sent private messages in recent days to Donald Trump's team expressing a willingness to discuss boosting security in Greenland and increasing the U.S. military presence there.
The Danish government wants to give convince Trump, including through the messages, you know, passed to his advisors that his security concerns can be addressed without claiming Greenland.
Maybe they should have treated Greenland better.
There was a meeting apparently yesterday with Donald Trump and John Fetterman that went extraordinarily well.
Uh Washington Examiner reported after an hour-long conversation with Fetterman and his wife, President Trump, said it's totally a totally fascinating meeting.
He's a fascinating man and a common sense person.
He's not a liberal or a conservative, just common sense, which he said is great.
Without going into too much detail, their private conversation.
But I I uh uh John Fetterman, I think I might have just gotten him wrong, or maybe all that he's been through changed him.
I don't know because I don't know him well.
Um, but the guy that I see now that stands up for Israel and stands up for secure borders, and the guy that wants energy independence, he's I he's not a part of this radicalized Democratic Party.
The guy that wants law and order.
That that is, you know, four parts of the seven parts of the big Trump agenda.
And he also believes that a president should get the cabinet that he wants, and he's been meeting with Trump's you know, cabinet picks and and his vote is going to be critical.
I mean, if Trump loses people like Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins or Mitch McConnell, uh somebody like John Fetterman can come in and have a huge impact on that.
That would be very, very powerful, in my view.
Uh so we'll watch that.
Um, you know, Christopher Ray and his exit interview on 60 minutes was a waste of time.
Uh I I really don't have words.
The fact that Trump called up the National Guard, they never reported on it.
The Trump that the fact that the sergeant at arms was never called in, the fact that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer never called in, the fact that Muriel Bowser in writing declined the use of the guard that Trump had authorized, never examined.
Uh the Capitol Police Chief Sunned requesting the National Guard, five different people in the room, all confirming Donald Trump called for the National Guard.
And then Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson, they both want these these pardons, preemptive pardons by Joe Biden, because they're afraid, well, they got rid of the information that they were obligated to preserve.
Number one, and Number two, they put on a show trial, and they thought that they would absolutely be able to stop Trump from becoming president.
And now all of a sudden, oopsie daisy, Michael Cohn now on MSDNC, pretty much begging for a pardon, a preemptive pardon.
There was one thing Dershu had said about Juan Mershon that I thought was pretty revealing.
He said it on my TV show.
And in this effort to ward off the Supreme Court's intervention, you know, that's the only reason that he revealed ahead of time that the president in his sentencing would not be going to jail and that there wouldn't be any real punishment.
And he said, I've been doing this for years, and I've never been told by a judge what the sentence is going to be.
When I got into the courtroom with my client, I tell him to bring a toothbrush because he doesn't know whether he's going home or going to Rikers or some other lockup.
And I think that's probably dead on accurate.
All right, we have New Gingrich at the top of the hour later on.
Uh, friends of ours in California, Joel Pollack, John Conn lost his home.
Joel nearly lost his home.
Uh, and James Comer's new book is Blockbuster about the Biden family syndicate.
We'll get to that.
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