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Chapter 1: What are the latest developments in California's wildfire situation?
so this is like nothing that people have really ever seen it's something that um quite frankly you know everybody knew was a possibility that could happen if the conditions were right and would just so happen to have um those nightmare conditions hit here in los angeles At the time.
And so just to see the constant spreading of the lies, it's honestly, it's a microcosm of the election that we just went through. And the last few years under President Biden and this new kind of media machine since Elon Musk took over Twitter and stuff. It's that the truth really doesn't matter.
They try to get these lies out there so quickly and the lies spread and the lies actually affect people. They infect people's minds because in times of crisis, people are broken. People are facing trauma. People are looking for someone to blame. They're looking to get angry about something.
And into that void comes Elon Musk saying, you're supposed to get angry at this person or you're supposed to get angry at the Delta smelter or whatever the issue. They should have raked the forest. There's nothing to do with raking the forests, especially when you have 100 mile an hour winds and fire. Nothing, nothing in the world is going to stop that.
But you got to figure out, okay, now what do we do? How do we actually figure out, how do we solve this issue?
And I've seen day in and day out, the LA Fire Department, all of the kind of workers around the city doing incredible work, all the volunteers around the city doing incredible work, limiting the amount of deaths that we've seen, a lot of property damage, but limiting the number of deaths that we've seen throughout the city. And that to me is inspiring.
And those are the people who are actually doing the real work right now, and there have been real resources for folks over here. There's an app called Watch Duty, which I've actually been able to follow along with for actual updates, and the local news has done a great job at letting people know what's going on.
But Twitter and social media in general, which used to be a place where you could get real-time updates, has become the opposite, has become a place where you go to and you don't know what's true, what's a lie, what's made up, but those lies spread.
Ben, like you said, Newsom has had to adapt to this and he is probably more adept at approaching these lies than probably anybody in history in terms of politicians being a modern kind of politician who understands the internet. His team releasing that video I thought was very effective and we see it. I'll try to pull it up again here. If I could find it one more time.
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Chapter 2: How is Gavin Newsom addressing misinformation during the crisis?
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toothbrushing i don't know we're gonna definitely need to have a cleanser after showing you this next clip from maga mike johnson speaker of the house he was asked by cnn if there would be conditions placed on providing aid to california first the very fact that that question even is asked is baffling. Like you have to ask the question, will you impose conditions?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of MAGA Republicans withholding aid?
what they want to do is artificially suppress the supply to increase the demand so they can make more money and they could focus on things like stock buybacks because actually we've pretty much geologically drilled in a lot of the areas where they're actually have the supply that they need there's been more drilling in the biden administration than in the trump administration so
Let's be fact-based. Let's talk about what's really going on here. And it may just be that Donald Trump, someone who's cared more about money than anything before and who's been a horrible manager of money, maybe he's conning you like he's kind of done his entire life. But let's end it with this. President Biden talking about his accomplishments as he did with me.
And I think my interview with President Biden was the last one-on-one that he did as a video.
Last video interview, yeah.
that he did in his presidency. What an incredible honor, not just for me, for the Midas mighty right here. The fact that this community, I'm glad to be in that seat, but it was really the community in that seat in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing. But this is what he kind of told me too.
And here he is in this foreign policy speech saying that his administration is leaving the next administration with a strong hand to play. Let's play it.
My administration is leaving the next administration with a very strong hand to play. And we're leaving them an America with more friends and stronger alliances, whose adversaries are weaker and under pressure. An America that once again is leading, uniting countries, setting the agenda, bringing others together behind our plans and visions. An America which is no longer war,
which has made historic investments in American workers, American energies, many American factories, generating the strongest economy in the world, which is now in a much better position to win the future against any competitor. These wins are not partisan. They're American. They benefit all Americans and reflect America's endless capacity for leadership and reinvention.
I'll show you this next clip right here as President Biden talks about throughout his career, the world has undergone tremendous change. But let me share this with you.
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