Devastating wildfires in Los Angeles prompt a round of angry finger-pointing and disaster politics from the GOP. The most extreme reaction comes from Trump and a growing number of Republicans in Congress, who are already talking about placing conditions on disaster relief for California. Meanwhile, President Biden kicks off his final week in office with a farewell speech defending his foreign policy legacy. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy break down what he got right, and what’s at risk as Trump returns to D.C. On another front, MAGA’s messy relationship with Big Tech heats up. Zuckerberg sits down with Trump on Joe Rogan, while Steve Bannon takes aim at Elon Musk. Finally, Ken Martin, Chair the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, drops by to talk about his campaign for Chair of the Democratic National Committee. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
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Hey, Cricket listeners. There's a new show hosted by Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov that we think you'll enjoy. It's called Raging Moderates. I was just on it a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun. We talked about the election and what's next for Democrats. And Scott and Jessica are just fantastic. It was a really fun conversation.
Raging Moderates is a podcast for those who reside somewhere between the center left and the center right. And it can be found wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.
I'm Jon Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor.
Cool. On today's show, Joe Biden delivers his final foreign policy address to kick off his last week as president. We'll talk about the speech and his farewell tour. I can't believe it's the last week.
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
I made it more of like, oh shit, Trump's coming. It's happening, it's real. We'll also talk about the latest in the precarious marriage between MAGA and Big Tech, with Mark Zuckerberg doing more Trump ass-kissing on Joe Rogan, and Steve Bannon making new threats to Elon Musk.
Then I talked to Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota DFL, that's the state's Democratic Party, about his bid for chair of the DNC. But first, the fires in Los Angeles are still burning. As of this taping on Monday afternoon, the Eaton Palisades and Hearst fires have burned over 36,000 acres. To put that in context, that is a larger area than the entire city of San Francisco.
More than 12,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. That's just so far. That number will probably go up.
and the fires have taken the lives of 24 angelinos fortunately that number uh is expected to go up as well as we are recording this the winds have subsided which has allowed firefighting crews over the weekend to contain more of the blaze but really bad powerful new winds are expected throughout the week especially tuesday and wednesday creating dangerous conditions and the possibility of new fires of course the continued danger has not prevented republicans from politicizing recovery efforts and spreading misinformation such as
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