Trump and the GOP skip the usual “thoughts and prayers” for victims of the devastating LA fires, and dive straight into blame and conspiracy theories. Jon and Dan debunk misinformation about FEMA and the government response, unpack the political fallout, and share resources to help fire victims. Plus, what’s behind MAGA’s new Manifest Destiny? Is Trump’s legal drama approaching its grand finale? Washington D.C. pauses for a moment while President Jimmy Carter is laid to rest. Finally, Lovett sits down with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy to talk about Democrats’ game plan to counter the Republican agenda in Congress. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.Support California wildfire relief with a donation to Vote Save America & Crooked Ideas Action Fund: votesaveamerica.com/relief.
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Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.
I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
On today's show, we'll get into maybe the last round of Trump legal drama, which includes our convicted felon president-elect possibly being sentenced on Friday. We'll also talk about Trump's MAGAfest destiny plans to seemingly take over the Western Hemisphere and name more places America. And later...
You'll hear Lovett's interview with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy about what's next for Democrats and how they plan to respond to the Republican agenda in Congress. But first, I am recording this from our studio in Los Angeles, where we are currently surrounded by the worst fires the city has ever seen and certainly the costliest in American history. To the west,
More than 5,000 homes and other buildings have been lost in Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood by the ocean that has been almost completely destroyed. To the east, around Pasadena, the Eaton Fire has destroyed at least another 1,000 homes. Six people have died, though the death toll is sadly expected to rise. More than 180,000 are under evacuation orders right now.
We are recording this Thursday afternoon. And the Santa Ana winds have made it very difficult for firefighters to contain all the fires. The two big fires in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire are currently at 0% containment.
uh la fire chief kristen crowley said on thursday quote we are absolutely not out of danger yet been a pretty scary few days here dan i can only imagine a lot of crooked staff have evacuated a lot of people know people who've lost homes who've lost everything my closest friend from high school and college dan you know my friend josh he had just moved to the palisades
A couple of months ago, just got settled into a new home with his wife and two young kids, got a new baby. And he was able to grab his kids and the two dogs and left and lost everything else. And there are so many people like that. A lot of our friends out here who've grown up in LA just know countless people who've lost their homes. We have a couple of friends
who are in Altadena, who lost their home, who just moved in as well. It is it is terrifying. And, you know, you've experienced this where you live. Like, there's just there's something about the speed at which these fires sort of come at you and you get the evacuation notice and you see the flames and you have to make the split second decision. Do we go? Do we stay?
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