Gavin Newsom
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PBD Podcast
Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
We're dealing with a myriad of issues. I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii. You had some ideas around some land use concerns he has, around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like. So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward. And we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
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Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
The future looks bright. My handshake is better than anything I ever signed, right here.
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Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
My humble position, and it's not... just being naively optimistic, that only reinforces the imperative moving quickly, doing it in the spirit of collaboration and cooperation. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in getting the Olympics to the United States of America, to get it down here in L.A. We thank him for that.
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Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
This is an opportunity for him to shine, for this country to shine, for California and this community to shine. The opportunity with all of that and all that opportunity and that pride and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall Plan.
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Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
And we're making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on the coast, people here. that were ravaged by this disaster.
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Newsom Wildfire Response, Zuckerberg & Rogan, Trump Frees 33 Hamas Hostages | PBD Podcast | Ep. 533
Tell us about this Marshall Plan. We're just starting to lay out. I mean, we're still fighting these fires. It's funny. So we're already talking to city leaders. We're already talking to civic leaders. We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits. We're talking to labor leaders.
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Trump Wants The Panama Canal & Greenland, NYC Subway Fire, Newsom Confronted | PBD Podcast | Ep. 525
One of the vaccine issues that was highlighted in the audit was local. And each city and county has different strategies and approaches. We've tried to level set that.
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Trump Wants The Panama Canal & Greenland, NYC Subway Fire, Newsom Confronted | PBD Podcast | Ep. 525
The audit did not surprise me. The state has advanced unprecedented investments. You're correct. And unprecedented interventions demanding more accountability with state money at the local level.
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Trump Wants The Panama Canal & Greenland, NYC Subway Fire, Newsom Confronted | PBD Podcast | Ep. 525
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Yeah, I mean, these are precisely the kinds of things. There are thousands and thousands of things that happen, some big, some small, some you read about, some you never know about, some you experience, something someone else experiences, all part of an AAP, which is the after-action report that we put out.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
In fact, I encourage people, I was just looking at the Woolsey after-action report, and there were a lot of good lessons learned from that. Of course, we had fires in November down here, fires in December down here, went so far, the Franklin scar that actually was, we were able to hold the line. That's around the Franklin scar right there. That was because it was burned just recently in December.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
So all those things are analyzed. But let me just say this on the technology. We have people all around the world coming to California because we're leaders in technology. on artificial intelligence. We did a procurement sprint called RFI2, where we're literally doing sandbox. We changed the whole procurement strategy on how we adopt technology and we pay for performance.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We have a program called Technosilver, which does predictive mapping, fire risk systems. We have a DOD contract work for years and years, finally got into the Biden administration for satellite technology, drone technology, and surveillance. All of these alert cameras, 1,000 plus AI alert cameras that are calling before 911. Someone calls 911 to get to early suppression.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
As I say, double traditional workforce as it relates to boots on the ground. We have 2,000 more firefighters that are in the budget for the next few years. We put out a forest management plan with 99 specific actions to address vegetation management, forest management. $4 billion to back that up, $2.5 billion that's been spent, $1.5 billion that's in this year's new budget.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And on that, 100%, I'm not making this up, we had a big press conference a few months ago on this, 100% of those 99 actions are either adopted or are being adopted. We waived CEQA and environmental rules as it relates to getting defensible spaces. We've tried to move heaven and earth.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
as it relates to forest fire, forest management, vegetation management, et cetera, to support locals and to address the anxiety people have. We had the National Guard doing hand crew work here on day one. We call them the rattlesnake teams.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I got 855 National Guard as we speak working not just the lines on the fire, but also offline doing traffic management and supporting and supplementing a lot of the police force. But again, technology is a big part of this. We're not just running
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
The old fire strategies were leaders in adaptation and adoption, and a lot of that at scale at the state level, not fully implemented, to your point, at the local level, but that's starting to change, and we're seeing a lot of the private sector, not just the public sector, begin to advance some partnerships that maintain a state-of-the-art mindset.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Yeah, I was just talking to both legislative leaders today. We were text exchanging because we had lousy cell service up there. And we're going to get together on whether we need to do that. I'm already working on the executive orders. We're looking to codify some of the executive orders through legislative action. Do we need a special session to do that? Or we can do it in regular session.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I'm open to either. I'm happy to do whatever moves the needle forward. We already have tracks on insurance. in the state's fair plan, reinsurance. I got to track on utilities, what this means to the utility sector more broadly. Obviously, we're investigating responsibility, culpability. Is it arson? Is it a public power agency? Is it a private power agency?
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
All those things are being determined in real time. We're working on a recovery posture as it relates to if an atmospheric river comes here in the next few weeks, floods and mitigations as it relates to hazardous waste, traffic management. All teams are running these parallel tracks in real time as, again, we're trying to suppress these five fires.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
There was an estimate of $5.9 billion, which I think you're referring to. These are back-of-the-envelope estimates. Wall Street Journal did some $57 billion. People haven't even been in. I just got an area that no one, trust me, had been in. So I don't know how the hell you've assessed all the damage. It's some aerial assessments and there's damage happening in real time. But they're catastrophic.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
The number of buildings still estimated. I mean, it's well north of 10,000, 12,000, 15,000. I mean, it changes by the hour. Structures. And what's a structure? Is it a full home or is it an ADU? Is it, you know, what is exactly? So all that's going to be stress test. Here's the concern.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
You've had an insurance market all across the country, not even unique to California, that has been stretched and impacted by climate change. Let's just be candid. And the inability in some states like California to do climate modeling as it relates to rate structures as well. We've made reforms in the last year to include climate modeling.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We've made some reforms, ironically, that just last week... led to, and this is not my words, led to, they announced because of the reforms, led to a new insurer going into Paradise, California to reinsure people there that have already recovered and moved back in. So we're finally making progress on that and obviously this is going to set us back. That said, FairPlan has a reinsurance plan.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
It reimburses anywhere from 30 to 90% depending on the size of the claim. There's a socialization as it relates to the fair plan. It's not a state plan. It's not a public plan. It's run through this insurance, this pool of which the current insurers market participate. And so there may be a bleed into the pockets of those and we'll see the impacts more broadly the rates across the state.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
You have a lot of higher end homes. that were insured not by your traditional California insurers, but by international insurers. That's also being assessed. All of that is happening real time. Like I said, we have a whole team just on the insurance market looking at utilities.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Remember, in Paradise, it led to the bankruptcy of PG&E, the largest investor-owned utility in the United States of America, where we created a new fund under SB 1054, a wildlife fund, which we're also stress testing right now. All of these things, again, in real time.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
So, you know, all this legislation I just signed and I'm glad he exercised it. And he also called. for a voluntary extension of that for an additional six months. We want to get into the commercial sector as well. So that was timely that we at least were able to do that.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
So anyone that did lose their home, they cannot cancel your insurance, legally cannot cancel your insurance for a minimum of a year. Again, we'd love to see that extended, and we may need to look at legislation. Again, trying to find the balance between market pressures, realities, and costs, meaning the burden on the monthly plans. So, look, people were pulling back, seen it across the country.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Rates here, I mean, it's ironic. California has, and trust me, I'm on the receiving end. I lost one of our homes, which is in the WUI. We're on the fair plan because we lost private insurance. We pay more than the mortgage on the property just for insurance, and it's significantly underinsured.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Got it. So I intimately understand the challenges of this. That said, the market was beginning to stabilize again. Farmers made announcements. They were moving back in. So all of this, we need to unpack and figure out what it's going to do in the market. But adjustments will need to be made.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And again, we'll move quickly since we're back in session, be it a special session or regular session, and drive this.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And the executive order I did a year ago where we talked about the prospect of allowing forward-thinking climate modeling for the first time to allow for rates to be established and also working the insurance commissioner led this effort, it requires if you're entering the market and you're going to increase rates a certain percent, that you have to insure within these WUI areas.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
So there's an actual prescriptive requirement that requires in return for any rate increases a comparable commitment to actually insure and not just run out of the market. So again, this is the balance. You've seen it all throughout the United States, obviously in the South, the impacts of these hurricanes, a place like Florida, the rates are off the charts.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
California is ironically a little below the national average. No one feels that way. I certainly don't as a rate payer. This obviously is going to impact all that. Look, it's going to impact, we have tax collection issues, property tax issues. We're putting our budget together. Clearly the IRS under a major disaster declaration is going to extend taxes.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We'll have to conform with that appropriately in the state of California. So you're going to budgeting a little differently with economic. This is a tentpole economy in the state, among the tentpoles, in a state that's a tentpole of the U.S. economy, the fifth largest economy, $3.86 trillion a year economy, where, by the way,
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
economy started to boom again, our revenues, we just announced today of $16.5 billion. From what we projected just six months ago, that was announced today, in terms of the top line. And so this comes at an inopportune time. And obviously, with the transition and power in Washington, DC, so a lot of challenges.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Well, it's the new reality. I mean, we say it all the time. The hots are getting hotter. Dries are getting drier. Wets are getting a lot wetter. These atmospheric rivers, you know, just these just rain bombs. that we're all experiencing. We have changed everything. I mean, I've put out a new water management plan in the state of California.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We fund it with billions and billions of unprecedented investments in infrastructure. In that space, got to change conveyance, got to change the way you capture water, not just above ground, but below ground. We've got to change some of our environmental rules, which we've been proactive about. And that's constant challenge. And that's, again, what Donald Trump was speaking to specifically.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Good to be with you under difficult circumstances.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We may have more in common than he thinks. We may have a lot less in common in other ways than he thinks on that.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Yeah, I mean, we... the simplicity to which he marks uh this it's i it's on it's a deeper dive though i think you did a pretty damn you did a master class on this i think it was yesterday oh yeah we learned all about the smell yeah no so i i just i would refer to the previous podcast which you know so we don't have to uh try it on on all grounds here uh but but that's what trump's doing and um
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And these are golden oldies going back decades and decades in California. But it's not a binary. I want more flexibility. I'm ready to work with anyone in terms of modernization. Back to the point, not just on infrastructure as it relates to capturing water, but recognizing we have to change the way we design and build our communities. Ingress, egress.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
redundancy systems perfect example what that letter represents to understand what's going on by the way that letter wasn't just for this it was for every other community and what's going on what other similarly situated communities are there i mean if there's no there's we no one denies this there is no fire season if someone says that it's become laughable
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I just said, I reminded everyone, we just had the Franklin Fire in December. We had the Mountain Fire in November, just down here in Southern California. There hasn't been any meaningful rain since last May. And here we are in January with the prospects the next 10 days. It's been dry. It's 72 degrees out here. And so that's reality. You should deal with reality. And so you're going to rebuild.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
You've got to rebuild, as the president said today, better in the context of materials. And we need to reward better construction with lower rates for insurance. We've got to design our communities with public safety in mind. And that's what we learned in Paradise, which had a PO box to your question of should we move into the WUI that goes back to the gold rush. Who came first?
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And so you tell communities that have been around since the beginning of this state being around, you've got to vacate because now you're too proximate in a world of climate change to the beauty and the majesty of the state. So it's tough, but obviously land use has to radically be rethinked.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Well, we've been hammering, hammering the last six years on... reforming housing and reforming our regulatory system. I created a housing accountability unit because I wasn't satisfied. 540 actions, tens of thousands of units we've unlocked. We're suing cities because they're not zoning.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
They're not building housing fast enough, not even market rate housing, let alone workforce housing and low income housing. And so we're going to continue to drive accountability. In fact, we strengthened our accountability rules and regulations last year. We're reforming our environmental rules. As I said, 42 CEQA reforms, but specific to your question around this rebuild, the executive orders.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We run executive orders. I want to work with the legislature to codify those executive orders. Time value to construction. Get the permits. State Deal with all of those, create a specific timeline, making it up. We're working on the exact date, so don't hold me to it. 120 days. Get the permit.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And do it in a way that we've done it with the experience at hand in other communities that have been severely ravaged by wildfires. I remind you, Tubbs, 5,600 units impact. And we're rebuilding that community, 18,000 in Paradise. So we know how to do this. We've done it in the past. We learn, we iterate, but the scale of this is gonna require us to be better and do better.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And I'm not waiting back to doing everything at once. We are gonna be making announcements quite literally in the next few days to specifically answer that question through the executive authority that's vested in me and then get to work with the legislature in this legislative session.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
That's not in our DNA. It's just not in our DNA. Look, maybe it's nature and nurture, five generations. I grew up in San Francisco. The flag of San Francisco is the phoenix, phoenix rising. I mean, San Francisco pre-1906 versus San Francisco today? We built back stronger, better, more vibrant, more dominant in every category, every way, shape or form, our spirit, sense of pride, purpose, mission.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And that's exactly what's gonna happen down here. I mean, I told you, the campfire, there was no way that was ever gonna be repopulated. The fact that kids are back in school, We never turned our back on those folks.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We'll never turn our back on the folks down here, not just here on the coast, but those folks and that very diverse community near Pasadena and Altadena and those communities that have been impacted by the Eden fire. We will be back. We have their back. I was with the FEMA director today. I want that disasterassistance.gov at disasterassistance.gov.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
anyone that's been impacted go to that we've got this major disaster declaration i always said to the fema no one's going to you're not turning your back in the short run we want you back i don't care what the administration is they still have by the way a fema office from 1994
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
related to impacts uh here in disasters in 1994 and we're actually expanding that office in pasadena for being the new female office today they never left we're not going to turn our back we're not leaving governor newsome thank you uh thanks for joining pod save america thanks for having me it's a busy day thank you sorry about everything happening man
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
He's been pretty straightforward about that. He's tried to do it in the past. He's not just done it here in California. He's done it in states all across the country. I mean, he did it in Puerto Rico. He did it even in Utah. I didn't think. In Connecticut, in other states, Georgia, he got upset and withheld emergency dollars.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
In 2018, even before I was governor of California, he tried to withhold money down in Orange County until apparently a staff member, and this has been well reported, staff member said there were a lot of Trump supporters, and he decided to change his mind. And so the rhetoric is very familiar, and it's increasingly acute, and obviously we all have reason to be concerned about it.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Well, I mean, look, what the president-elect was saying about State Water Project and the Delta smelt somehow being culpable of, you know, somehow leading to some of the challenges that we face down here was, it's words, it's a salad. It's the form and substance of fog. It's made up. It's delusional. And it's a consistent mantra from Trump going back years and years and years.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And it's reinforced over and over and over within the right wing. And so it's become gospel. And it's so profoundly ignorant. And yet he absolutely believes it. It's not an ignorance on his part. It's sort of an indelible misinformation that he sort of manifested. a falsehood, and he decided to bring it into this crisis. in a profoundly demeaning and damaging way.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I say demeaning to the facts, demeaning to the people that were suffering and struggling, to the kids, literally, who were watching their schools burn down. I was just talking to a staff member, a good friend, whose house was burned down and whose four-year-old, as they're driving away, said, Daddy, do you remember, did you get my bunny? And, you know, I got four kids.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
No empathy, no compassion, no capacity to even to understand. Just a guy wants to be understood. And yeah, that's hard because a lot of people were misled.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And it's, I think, led to a lot of finger pointing and consternation at a time when we're quite literally, and I say literally because second before I was here, I just got the latest briefing, we're bringing cadaver dogs out there in some parts of the fire where people are still potentially missing and we've already lost 11 lives.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
You always have to have some humility and grace as it relates to that question. And I'm very self-critical in that respect. And so we, in every incident, do an after-action report. And we will take a sober and reflective look at that. But let's just look at the facts. Just in the last few years I've been governor, we've close to doubled the investments in CAL FIRE, the state firefighting force.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Close to doubled the number of personnel We've increased the size of our aerial fleet by 16 new helicopters. We were finally able to get from the Pentagon seven C-130s. We got the first one up there. You saw it up there in the CAL FIRE flag on this fire. We had pre-positioned Saturday our State Office of Emergency Service.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We all got together before this event, days before the event, and we agreed to pre-position in six counties here in Southern California, hundreds and hundreds of assets. Let me be specific about that. On Sunday, we had 110 engines, hundreds of personnel, specialty crews, dozers, water tenders, helicopters. We pre-positioned them strategically in multiple counties.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
And because we had pre-positioned them, they were first on the scene. Many of these people supplementing the resources of this local fire department, dealing with overwhelming winds in this overwhelming fire that I happened to be present at within its first few hours and saw firsthand the hurricane winds and the embers going as far as two miles. That was overwhelming for the thousands of people
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
that were down there fighting them concurrent, not just here in the Palisades, with the fire out there at Eaton and some other fires. Five current active fires that we're dealing with today, 12,000 personnel currently working, 175 engines that have come from five different states.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We have people from around the world offering resources, notably from Canada and Mexico, and we're putting everything we have at it.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
it may be the absolute explanation but there's so much mistrust and finger pointing let's just get the facts and let's get them out quickly let's stop the finger pointing let's just assess the truth i'm not interested in who's to blame i want to know what happened it's a perfectly plausible analysis on the basis of personal experience with some of the biggest fires in u.s history the tubs fire what happened at the campfire what happened in maui
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
uh that you get systems that are completely tapped out and overwhelmed they weren't designed for these level of fires and so that explanation is the one that sort of almost i won't say universally uh but i bet if you talk to nine out of ten of the folks that are out here at the command they would subscribe to that point of view others are saying no it was the pump that went down it's the pipes it was the electricity um so let's just get the facts it's dwp
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
that ran this system, and we want to make sure this never happens again. Do we need more redundancy? Do we need to harden? I remember as mayor of San Francisco, we did a bond to significantly upgrade our infrastructure because we're concerned about a catastrophic earthquake and how that could overwhelm our pumping and fire suppression system.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
So we want to determine all those facts, not on the basis, again, of finger pointing and assigning blame, but accountability, and we want transparency.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Of course. I want to know the answers. So I'm the governor of California. I want to know the answer. I've got that question. I can't tell you about how many people. What happened? on my own team saying, what happened? And I want to get the answers. And I'll be candid with you, I wasn't getting straight answers. I watched the press conference. I met with some of those leaders.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We had my team start talking to local leaders saying what's going on.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I was getting different answers. And so for me, that's not a story. When you start getting different answers, then I'm not getting the actual story. And they're assessing it. And I get that as well. You have a little bit of grace, back to the point. We're in this emergency environment and everything else. So I just want to determine the facts. But no one has any patience anymore.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
In this weaponized, back to the grievance of Trump, everyone else, people, there's immediacy. And lies travel the proverbial world. And it's hard to get the facts out there unless you have the backing of those facts. and you can communicate them soberly. And so that's what we're trying to achieve as it relates to this. But I have 10 other things we're doing concurrently as well.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I mean, across the board on recovery, on disaster assistance, getting the major disaster declaration. It may be the first one in US history over a text. with the White House within literally 36 hours to get 100% reimbursement for folks out here. We've been working concurrently in all of these areas.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
We're doing executive orders as I speak as it relates to recovery and land use, dealing with speculation and fraud and trying to address issues on the Coastal Commission here and address the issue of planning permits and how we address all of the myriad of needs for small businesses, all of this in real time.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
as the state, even though this is not a state responsibility, are to support the city and the county that are overwhelmed at this moment.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I literally can't judge it. I don't know when she left Ghana. I can't assess that. It's not, and I mean this like, at peril, my response appears to be political, because I literally do not know when she left. I know when she came back.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
I know that when I was on the scene a few hours after the original 10 Acres was announced that her team was on the phone and we were coordinating and we were hand in glove in that respect and I was grateful for that and I felt confident in the command response and the team that was assembled at the site.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
That said, I was not confident on the basis of the hurricane winds that we were experiencing that we were going to be successful in saving a lot. of those homes for one reason that the firefighters were coming down saying, our focus right now is creating safety corridors. Our focus right now is saving lives and making sure people get out. Then we focus on property and then we'll get to perimeter.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
because of the acuity, the extreme, unprecedented hurricane force winds and how they were swirling in every conceivable direction. This is not a big deal at all, but we went up to one of the canyons on the fire, sitting there feeling we're,
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
a good quarter mile away, I'm not making this up, video to bear it out, all of a sudden we see an ember, hits the tree, tree goes on fire, 100 seconds, God is my witness, may have been 90 seconds, the house is in flames, I have embers of flames, they're taking it off my hair, and we're running back into the car. Winds are swirling around, garbage cans were in the air,
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
and we were getting the hell out of there. That's how quick, and we were with experts. We were the leaders with the force who said, we're good, we just want to take you close, keep you safe, and all of a sudden they were like, they all said, never experience anything. In January, in January, And I remind people that. Drought, you know, everybody, how dare you bring up drought? Well, it's real.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
But plenty of water down here. I mean, all the reservoirs, more than full. Though this one reservoir, this local reservoir, that's part of the inquiry, that was something that wasn't communicated originally. That was one of the reasons to answer the question of your friend and others as well about getting straight answers that triggered me saying, enough.
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Breaking: Gavin Newsom On the LA Fires
Let's get these facts and let's get them out today.
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Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait
never in california questioned whether or not we as taxpayers in the largest state in the union should support the people louisiana at a time of emergency and need we never conditioned it we never talked about putting the full fate in credit of the united states of america with the debt ceiling bill see if we can get tax cuts for billionaires and corporations that don't need it and then put at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of americans that happen to live in california
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Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait
a state with millions and millions of Trump supporters, Speaker Johnson and Mr. President-elect. Millions of your supporters are out here. They need your help. They need your empathy. They need your care.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
When he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs, the reservoirs are completely full. The state reservoirs here in Southern California, that mis and disinformation, I don't think advantages or aids any of us. Responding to Donald Trump's insults, we would spend another month. I'm very familiar with them. Every elected official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
We do know, though, from reporting here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full. And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
I want to know the answers. So I'm the governor of California. I want to know the answer. I've got that question. I can't tell you about how many people. What happened? My own team saying what happened? And I want to get the answer. You're the governor. I'll be candid with you. I'm getting straight answers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
I watched the press conference. I met with some of those leaders. We had my team start talking to local leaders saying what's going on. You weren't getting straight answers. I was getting different answers. When you start getting different answers, then I'm not getting the actual story.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
We went up to one of the canyons on the fire, sitting there, feeling we're a good quarter mile away. I'm not making this up, video to bear it out. All of a sudden, we see an ember, hits the tree, tree goes on fire, 100 seconds, God is my witness, may have been 90 seconds. The house is in flames. I have embers of flames, they're taking it off my hair, and we're running back into the car.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Newsom Tries to Salvage Political Career, and Woke Policies Backfire, with Stu Burguiere and Ilya Shapiro | Ep. 981
Winds are swirling around, garbage cans were in the air, and we were getting the hell out of there.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
But Let's get the facts and truth out and let's give our first responders the resources they need. And let's help people in Los Angeles who have been devastated. Let's make sure they're our first priority. But the MAGA Republicans are going to consistently spread disinformation. Here's another example of this.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Ted Cruz responded to this other video that California Governor Gavin Newsom put out by saying the following. This is from Ted Cruz's account. Misguided California policies. One, limited fire mitigation efforts. That's false. Two, produced water shortages. That's false. And three, underfunded firefighters. False, false, false, false. But it is a barrage of
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
falsehoods that these MAGA Republicans spread. And then Ted Cruz goes, now Dem politicians are making it harder for those devastated by the wildfires to sell their destroyed properties. This will only hurt
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
the victims and in this video i'm going to play it for you what governor newsom was talking about was stopping land developers who are exploiting people who are victims from selling their properties at completely unfair amounts by exploiting the tragedy governor newsom said the following Openly shilling for scammers and bottom feeder land speculators is a weird play.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Even for you, Ted, our executive order doesn't prevent anyone from selling their property. It prohibits scammers from making unsolicited offers to buy property for pennies on the dollar. This is the video that Gavin Newsom put out that Ted Cruz attacked. Here, play this clip.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
to preserving the unique character of this community for generations to come and you see i mean look california governor gavin newsom i mean he's made for this moment he's quick on his feet smart articulate good looking knows how to use media but even he's having trouble with the whack-a-mole of all of the lies i mean it's so much easier to spread a thousand lies
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Then do what California Governor Newsom is trying to do, which is unite the community, provide necessary resources, govern and manage in the middle of a crisis. While all of these magas are behaving like Internet trolls, including Donald Trump was saying Newsom did this Newsom. Let's release the water. You're holding the water hostage. Just falsehoods after falsehoods.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
But I actually do think California Governor Newsom is pushing back on this. I have noticed the tides kind of shifting with the first few days where there were all of those lies out there and people were buying into the lies. And now it's just it's come down a little bit. But it's because Governor Newsom has been pushing back here. Governor Newsom addresses the fact that the MAGA Republicans.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
want to condition aid to Los Angeles and California on other Trump priorities, like Trump wants to remove the debt ceiling so he can further his tax cuts for the billionaires. And MAGA Mike Johnson and these other MAGA Republicans are saying, we're not going to give aid to Los Angeles unless you agree to get rid of the debt ceiling.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Take a look at how California Governor Gavin Newsom addresses that. Play this clip.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
The thing also that's going on is not it's not just Trump. It's not just MAGA Republican politicians like Ted Cruz. And it's not just MAGA Republican propagandist media like Fox. It's also these accounts that masquerade as being accounts about sports, football. Finance, the environment, history. But they're actually, in my opinion, stealth MAGA accounts who just prop up Donald Trump.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
So this account, Wall Street Apes, which gives a lot of financial advice and posts a lot about the market. But when these crises strike, there's a lot of accounts like this that then spread a bunch of lies. And they have lots of followers who think they're getting lies. like finance news, and they don't realize they're getting red-pilled. So here's what this Wall Street Apes account says.
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Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
California Governor Newsom officially set the stage for developers to come and buy up the devastated land in the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fire. Newsom says it on camera on national TV. Another conspiracy proven true. The fires were not an accident. And then Gavin Newsom responds, this is absolutely false.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
I signed an executive order to protect residents from predatory land speculators and developers. So this is why I say it's so much easier to spread a thousand lies than to try to debunk them in the middle of a crisis because the lies aren't even consistent.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
You know, on the one hand, you have Ted Cruz saying you're screwing the people of Los Angeles over by not letting the predatory land developers buy the property for pennies on the dollar. And Newsom's like, you're defending the predatory land speculators.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
And then on the other hand, you have another set of lies saying Newsom is purposefully helping the land speculators scoop up the land at discount prices. Totally inconsistent. But for the liars, it doesn't matter because they just want to hit as many people with the lies to piss you off. And then you get this on an app where there's no real significant editorial judgment.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
And people just ultimately... you know, end up getting pissed. Let me just show you a few of the things that Gavin Newsom is talking about as well. So this is Newsom responding to a question about Trump and misinformation. This is how he answers it. Play the clip.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
And this is Gavin Newsom saying, look, Donald, rather than call me new scum and spread lies, why don't you come here to California? And why don't you meet with the communities impacted? Here, play this clip.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $4 million. But he's doing a masterclass in how you have to whack-a-mole the disinformation. But you see how challenging it can be. especially in the middle of the crisis when the disinfo is just coming from all sides from the MAGA Republicans. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Newsom GOES BALLISTIC on Trump in STUNNING RESPONSE
That's California Governor Gavin Newsom continuing to hit back hard at Donald Trump's just immature, just despicable behavior where Trump keeps calling California Governor Gavin Newsom new scum. Governor Newsom's like, you want to call me names? You can call me names. That's what seventh grade petulant bullies do. No offense to them, by the way, because they don't even behave as badly as Trump.
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MeidasTouch RESPONDS to Breaking New…Ben & Brett EVACUATED
One can't even respond to it. I mean, it's... People are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools. Families completely torn asunder. Churches burned down. This guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say. I won't. I stood next to a president of the United States of America today, and I was proud to be with Joe Biden.
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MeidasTouch RESPONDS to Breaking New…Ben & Brett EVACUATED
And he had the backs of every single person in this community. He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.