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the work done? >> we had a great meeting with almost every senator, republican senator. and i would say that it was a love fest. this is a love fest. maria: optimism and hope this weekend from republicans on executing president trump's agenda. coming up, senators bill hagertyty and roger marshall along with congressman mike lawler zero in on the details of policy changes coming as president trump readies to unleash 100 executive orders right after inauguration in eight days' time. plus, is it a natural disaster or outside agitators attacking america? we're asking questions into how phi deadly wildfires started and have been able to destroy lives, burning down parts of los angeles leaving less residents with nothing. former california congressman devon nunez on the failed policies in california that put residents at risk and the questions that remain. plus, some of the richest neighborhoods in the country now look like war zones.

malibu and and palisades is unrecognizable from these fires. actress the candace cameron bure with an on the ground look at the homes and businesses swallowed by flames and the work ahead. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with president-elect donald trump's agenda now colliding with devastation and emergency in california. wildfires killing at least 16 people while destroying tens of thousands of acres in los angeles, burning at least 12,000 homes to the ground and other buildings. the wildfires forcing lawmakers to now prioritize federal aid the california to rebuild on top of the president-elect's other priorities. but not without change to policy failures that got us here. here's ohio congressman warren davidson with me this week on "mornings with maria" on fox

business. >> california wants the money without changing the policies that are making the problem badr or worse, and i don't see how republicans could possibly if support that. we support the people that are plagued by disaster, but we have to put pressure on the california government to change course here. when it comes to congressional funding, the idea that we're going to have an open checkbook no matter how bad your policies are is crazy. maria: we will have more on the california policies that got us here coming up with former california congressman devin nuñes as republican leadership in the senate and house decide on the best path forward to executing president trump's agenda with either putting force one all-encompassing bill with military funding, tax cuts and energy anytime or do it piecemeal with trump's tax cuts later in the year. the incoming president spoke about the process after meeting with senate republicans on wednesday night. >> we had a meeting, but it was a really good meeting, very strong.

and we'll get something done. one bill, two bill, doesn't matter to me. they're going to work that out. but the end result is going to be the same. maria: as for timing, house speaker mike johnson told me here in an exclusive last weekend he's aiming to pass trump's agenda within the first 100 days of his second term. >> -- getting a vote in the house, it may be in the first week of april. now, everything's got to move in the right sequence , and along the the way i think we're going the keep those trains moving in the right direction and on time. if that happens, we'll get it out of the house in early april p maybe as soon as april 3rd, and then move it over to the senate. that would put that bill on the president's desk for signature by the end of april. that would be fantastic. maria: so you're talking about the first 100 days? >> -- memorial day. we are. that's the whole idea. maria: yeah. and the worst case, you say, will be memorial day. >> that's right. that's right. maria: joining me now in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is tennessee senator bill hagerty.

senator, it's always a pleasure. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> it's wonderful to be with you, maria, thank you. maria: first, on the california funding and aid that is need ifed, has this been a topic of discussion? how will you and the if rest of congress deal with this? >> well, it certainly is a topic of discussion, maria, and at this point we still don't know the full extent of the damage, and we may not know for some time. what we can see is the a failure of policy there and the failure of leadership in california that's men egregious whether it's gavin newsom prioritizing a fish over his citizens or a leader like karen bass, the mayor, who prioritizes dei initiatives over the readiness of first responders. it's absolutely pathetic, what has happened there. and i think we're going to have to have real accountability. we need to have hearings to the understand, to get to the bottom of what's taken place, what the failures have been. those pa failures, when we get a new fema director in, when vivek ramaswamy and elon musk take a hard look at how we efficiently

and effectively deploy resources here, we're going to have to see some real changes. i hope california wakes up. certainly, this white house hasn't woken up. joe biden flies out for a photo op and shut down the air space, grounding the helicopters responsible for putting if fires out just so he could brag about being a grandfather. whether it's the president or gavin newsom, karen bass, we've got to bring accountability to bear here. and before we put funds into place, we've got to find out exactly how we're going to hold these leaders accountable and what sort of policy changes are required. maria: well, that's incredible about joe biden, i didn't even think of that, that that actually dampened the ability to actually get water there -- >> of course. maria: but what is the number that you're talking about? i believe there was one estimate of $150 billion needed to rebuild -- >>ive seen that. maria: yep. >> i've seen that number, maria, $150 billion, and i think that number may continue to rise. you know, one of the concerns i've got is from a policy standpoint if, california came in and basically inserted

marxist price controls on the insurance industry there. what does that lead to? well, of course, the exit of private sector insurers. so many people i've spoken with over the course of the week in southern california are either uninsured or underinsured. this pain is going to be felt by the taxpayers, by the rate pa payers there for some time to to come. and if you think about the time to rebuild given the heat that has been,, you know, rolling through these neighborhoods, the intensity of the fires, the destruction, i talked to the an insurance executive early this morning that told me about the contamination of the soil that's going to have to be remediated, and if you're in the pal a said, you have to deal with the coastal commission. permitting there will take years. this is going to be devastating and will take a very long time to rebuild. significant policy change is going to be required. maria: you just heard what we were talking about with regard to the agenda and getting all that you want done, done. are you poised to do it in one bill? do you think the timing mike johnson is talking about is

realistic, by memorial day? >> maria, when i saw that interview last week, i was very pleased to see the the pace of play that he's got in the mind. we need to be moving expeditiously. when the senate met with president trump this week, it was a very unifying meeting there. we talked about the various strategies to get there. the main point is we need the entirety of in this agenda implemented as quickly as possible. we need to get our border repaired, we need to get back in the energy business, we need to extend the tax cuts so we don't see the most massive tax hike many history. we've got to get this done quickly, and i think all of my colleagues understand this, and we're going to work night and and day to make sure that happens. maria: let me move on to the to confirmation hearings. from the standpoint of you and your colleagues, do you have optimism that all of president trump's nominees get with confirmed? the hearings, of course, beginning on tuesday. >> well, i certainly do. i think the most parent important aspect of this, maria, is the fact that we need to move quickly.

just look at the crises happening in california right now, look at what's happening around the globe from a national security standpoint. our border is still collapsed. we have very urgent crisis -- crises that have to be dealt with. president trump needs his cabinet in place right now. my greatest concern is the democrats don't use procedural opportunities to slow us down. we need to be moving quickly. every one of these nominees needs to get a fair hearing, and we need to get them in place as quickly as possible so president trump can move out. you've seen president trump make many, many steps to be ready to to go and hit the ground on january the 20th running, and we need the his cabinet in place to support -- maria: and he's talking about 100 executive orders, is that right? >> yes. i've heard that and maybe more, maria. i would not be surprised at all to see even more. and there are a number of things he can do with executive orders right away, for example, to deal the with the crisis at the southern border. but we need legislative action as well to help fund these activities to make certain that he's got every arrow in his quiver that's available to make certain we get america safe

again, we bring crime down, we get our economy moving full bore and get back in the energy business. maria: senator, at the same time you've got president biden basically, i mean, doing everything he can to make things hard aer for president trump as -- harder for president trump as he comes in from, you know, selling the border wall materials for cents on the dollar to making trade deals. i want to get your take on this journal op-ed, biden's midnight trade saab tap, something -- sabotage, something that you been zeroing in on. >> maria, it's an absolute shame, what joe biden is willing to do. so much for a smooth transition. he's trying to make it as difficult as possible not only for the incoming trump administration, but for the american economy and private sector. whether it's banning our ability to have gas water heaters -- maria: right. >> -- barring lands that can be used for exploration or freeing criminals without any if sort of concern for the families who have been forever scarred and marred by what they've done, joe biden has taken every opportunity to wage war on the

economy and the private sector. in this case you've got vulcan material, an iconic american company, that this has used american dollars to the build a massive quarry operation and a deepwater port, for decades they've been operating. what america needs to do is stand up for its private sector. mexico has stepped in and stolen this property, it's expropriated it. and the biden administration is trying to hand this over to mexico. it's amazing that they would let the mexican government come in and expropriate a strategic deepwater port that i'm certain if mention mexico's -- mexico's able to get this, it will be exploited to the highest bidder. and if you think about the criticality of the stone that comes from that port, we rely on this in the entirety of the southeastern united states the build our infrastructure. biden wants to allow vulcan materials to be crushed by the mexican government, again with impunity. this type of thing at the 11th hour just underscores the fact that this administration and the radical left believe in central government control of every asset. they're happy to surrender our

sovereignty, to surrender the rights of the u.s. private sector in order to see central control even if it's in the hands of an unfriendly government like mexico that has allowed fentanyl to cross the border, allowed criminals to come into our country, that has allowed the mass, you know, influx of 10 million, 15 million or more to completely invade our country during the biden administration. they're going to reward the mexican government for this. i'm going to spend every moment i can to try to stop them so this does not happen in america. maria: that is incredible. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you so much, maria. maria: bill hagerty joining us this morning. and now this. >> if you hold border security hostage the get tax cuts, you're playing russian roulette with our national security. i'm saying that as we negotiate tax cuts, there are tax-cutting people, and i'm one of them, that a won't vote for border until they get all of their tax. i'm not a big fan of the s.a.l.t. deduction. i live in south carolina.

why should people in south carolina subsidize california and new york? maria: and that's senate budget committee chairman lindsey graham with me here last weekend on why he's against lifting the state and local tax deduction cap of $10,000, otherwise known as s.a.l.t.. my next guest was among a handful of republican lawmakers who met with president trump at mar-a-lago yesterday about lifting that cap. joining me now with the details of that meeting is new york republican congressman mike lawler, an influential member of the house financial services committee who is still in palm beach right now. congressman, it's good to see you. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me, maria with. appreciate it. maria: well, you just heard senator lindsey graham. why should he subsidize new york and california given your high taxes there? make the case. >> well, there's no question that that new york and california have terrible leadership under kathy hochul and gavin newsom. we don't dispute that. but the fact is that we are a high donor state to the federal

government. new york sends more federal dollars than almost any other state down to the federal government, so the fact is this our folks are not subsidized by, you know, red states. we, in fact, are helping subsidize the federal government on an annual basis. if you look at south carolina, for instance, they are one of biggest recipients of federal dollars in comparison to other states by a percentage. so, look, i understand the arguments, i get it. but the fact is that it's double taxation, and our residents should not be penalized simply because, you know, some folks don't like blue state policies. we get it. we don't like 'em either. we're fighting back existence them. but that doesn't -- against them. but that that a doesn't mean we should penalize our tax base. maria: you had a very important meeting with president trump, and i know he gets this. he was a resident of new york, understands the tax policy in a

very sophisticated way. what did he say to you this weekend? do you isn't -- expect the s.a.l.t. cap to be lifted? >> he understands it completely. he agrees the cap on sam needs to be lifted concern on s.a.l.t. needs to be lifted. it did have a negative impact on states like new york. the fact is we have among the highest tax burden. i represent westchester and rockland counties, the highest property tax counties in america. and so, you know, the combination of taxes is devastating, and $10,000 is just insufficient. and i would remind my colleagues, here's the reality: if we don't pass a tax bill, the cap on s.a.l.t. expires completely, and we go back to unlimited. the problem is that it would be associated with the largest tax increase in american history, the rates would go up, the alternative minimum tax would come back. so there's reason for all of us to negotiate in good faith. that's' why we went down to meet with president trump. he understands this.

and he said to us, look, i'm with you. come back with a number and let's work through it. and that that's our objective. we're going to negotiate in good faith with our colleagues and with the president to cop with a number on s.a.l.t. that works. the fact is that, you know, if you lift it to, say, $60,000 for an individual, it covers most everybody. so we're working through this. we'll come up with the numbers and back for -- come back for a honest negotiation with our colleagues. but we need a tax bill that that works for the american people and that provides real tax relief coupled with border security, coupled with increasing domestic production of energy, dealing with our debt and long-term spending and really getting america on the right track. that requires us all working together as one team, maria. maria: so the cap is $10,000 right now. what's your number? what does your gut say?

>> look, i introduced legislation to lift it to $100,000 for individuals, $200,000 for married couples. we will work through this negotiation with the president, with our leadership and come up with a number that works as part of the overall tax bill because, again, we don't want the alternative minimum tax coming back, we don't want the rates to go up. so you've got to work through this as part of an overall negotiation. maria: what about your vote on the overall agenda? i mean, let's say you know the two the different tracks here. you've been talking with colleagues about how you're goinged the to do this, one big, beautiful bill as president trump likes to say or two separate bills. if you've got one bill and taxes is not part of that, will you still vote for the other things like border, military funding and energy permitting? >> look, the president and leadership are going to make the ultimate determination on whether it's one bill or two bills. i want to make sure that we get

the agenda passed inclusive of taxes. if there -- the only red line i have is that if there is a tax bill that does not lift the cap on s.a.l.t., i would not support that. if the tax bill ends up in a second bill, obviously we'll deal with that. i want to secure the border, i want to increase domestic production of energy, and i want to provide real tack relief. i -- tax relief. i fundamentally believe that is best accomplished in one bill because the reality is our margin in the house is too small to screw around, and we all gotta work together. and we all have to recognize if none of us are going to get everything we want, but we all have to get the bill across the finish line. so my fundamental view is one bill is the best way to accomplish that. ultimately, the president and leadership will make that decision. maria: so just to be clear, if you've got with one bill and tax extensions are in there but the

s.a.l.t. deduction, is not, you won't vote for it? >> i've said from the very beginning if s.a.l.t. is not lifted, i will not support a tax bill that does not do that. that is critically important for my constituents. i have been clear about that for over two years. and, again, that's why we're here negotiating in good faith. i have every reason to believe that it will be included. president trump has been very clear about that, he reiterated that last night. and, again, i want to thank the president because he invited us to come down to hear from us directly about what matters, and he reiterated the the point that he made on the campaign trail that he supports lifting the cap on s.a.l.t.. i have every reason to believe we will get that done. maria: real quick on congestion pricing, because we know new york has a lot of issues. taxes is just one of them. now we've got an additional cost to residents of just passing 60th street or 6 2nd street, you've got to pay $9. what is the impact, and will you

work to change it? >> it's a scam, maria. it's a money grab. kathy hochul is trying to to raise a billion dollars in revenue to borrow $15 billion. the mta has more debt than 80% of the states. the fact is this entity, this authority needs a complete overhaul, congestion pricing needs to be stopped. kathy hochul is charging new york residents $2500 just for the privilege to commute to work, peen while spend -- meanwhile spending billions of dollars on a taxpayer money on health care and education for illegal immigrants. maria: yeah. >> california, same thing. gavin newsom cutting $100 million for fire prevention while spending billions on illegal immigrants. this is why these two to states are so screwed up. i agree, we need to change course in them, but we can't penalize new yorkers and hard working taxpayers that live there. maria: all right, congressman, we are watching your work closely, and we so appreciate

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maria: welcome back. confirmation if hearings for president trump's cabinet kicking off this week on tuesday with senate hearings beginning for pete hegseth for secretary

of defense, doug collins for veterans a affairs and doug burgum for secretary of interior. on wednesday, senate hearings for seven nominees including kristi noem for secretary of homeland security, marco rubio for secretary of state is, pam bondi for u.s. attorney general and john rat cliff for cia director. a look ahead at the confirmation process is kansas senator roger marshall. great to see you, senator. thanks so much for being here this morning. >> you bet, maria. it's great to be with you. happy new year to you and everybody. listen, president trump's going to go in on day number one and sign a hundred executive orders, but those orders go nowhere unless we get these nominees across the finish line. he signs the executive order, then these secretaries help write the rules surrounding them, and then they have to implement them, and that's why it's so important we get this ball rolling and have a bunch of nominations ready for the president to sign on day one. maria: you met with president trump this week along with your

colleagues. do you believe you have the votes in the senate to actually confirm all of his nominees? >> look, you know, i hate to count my chickens before they catch -- they hatch, but, yes, i do. they're going to get beat up by the legacy media and the left as well, but i think the votes are there. and as i've interviewed these people one-on-one, they're been great communicators, they're great leader, they're very accomplished. yes, some of them are outside the box, but i do think we have the votes. many. maria: that's what president trump said, he wants to drain the swamp. he wants outside the box. that was the whole point. you have also spent a lot of time with robert kennedy jr. as well as dr. oz and the medical field. tell me what you've learned from that time. >> look, i'm excited to help dre america healthy again, and we're talking about what that platform looks like. i think it starts with healthy quality nutrition, i think it starts with addressing the chronic disease issues and

really addressing this mental health crisis. so i think we're talking about, well, how do we do that? how do we make sure that all a americans have affordable access to healthy food? how do we have more affordable access the mental health? if what's causing the mental health challenges? when it comes to treating chronic diseases, how do we treat that as well? put some meat on the bone, so to speak, of how we accomplish that. maria: i'm a glad you've been meeting with these medical-related nominees. you're obviously a doctor yourself, and i did not realize 90% of americans have chronic -- 60% of americans have chronic diseases, chronic liver problems, diabetes, crohn's. these are things you could get ahead of with different behavior, nutrition. >> yeah. when we think about chronic diseases, when i was growing up maybe the incidence in america was 6%, now it's 90. -- 60. and a lot of these, we think, are exacerbated by our diet as well as the toxins we're exposed

to, to our environment. look, about 70% of your health outcomes are determined by you, it's determined by what you eat and what you're surrounded by. by the time you come to the my office as a doctor, i can impact maybe 10-20% of your health outcomes. as an obstetrician, give me a healthy mom was the most important thing you could do for the mom and the baby. absolutely. and then we need to make these healthy foods affordable, available and try to eliminate and minimize the toxins that we're exthosed -- exposed to. we're coming after ultra-processed foods. they have a big problem and big challenge. think about alzheimer's. i think it's really type iii diabetes in many ways as well. so there's huge opportunities ahead of us. maria: wow, that is incredible. real quicken military spending, are you going to try to to get that in before the continuing resolution on march 14th? i know you have got lots of deadlines here, but what is a realistic timing to get your military spending bump as well

as the debt ceiling issue resolved? >> right. and i think the the point here is you can't look at just each issue in a silo. that reconciliation, when does the funding end for the government, when does the debt ceiling happen, what of those could we address in these particular -- in the reconciliation bills. i think you're going to see congress, the house and the senate, go down two parallel roads, and we'll see where we are by march. but i think if we could get some military funding in before that march 14th deadline for the funding of the government, that would make that process much simpler as well. if we could somehow if address the debt ceiling as well before then, that would be great as well. so look at all these problems together, not by themselves. maria: senator, it's good to see you. i know there's a lot of optimism, and we look forward to your work. thank you, sir. >> thanks, maria. maria: senator roger marshall. coming up, the deadly wildfires in southern california reducing dozens of neighborhoods to smoldering rubble as

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>> right now if you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available. all of this can be found at url. finish. maria: go to url. that's los angeles democrat mayor with karen bass at a news conference apparently reading verbatim from a script instead of directing victims to emergency web sites where they can actually receive help. bass a had no answer for resources -- do reporters as she faces fierce backlash over her handling of wildfires having been in ghana to attend the inauguration of a new president

when the wildfires first broke out even though the national weather service warned of extreme weather conditions before she departed. she also signed off on $17 million worth of cuts to the fire department last year. gavin newsom also under scrutiny for not focus on fire prevention during his six years in office. he cut $100 million from the fire prevention budget in 2024. president-elect trump in a post on x, this was back in 2019, calling out newsom over his handling of forest management writing in part that newsom, quote, must clean his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, demand of him. joining me now with the devastating impact democrat policies having on the golden state is former california congressman and trump media ceo devin nuñes. delaware vin, thank you so much for being here -- devin. >> as always, thank you, maria. maria: i me that what drove you into politics initially is your farming background.

i've spoken with you many times when you're standing in front of tractors, and you've talked so much about growing up in the farm grounds of california. now you are identifying specific policies that needed to be done that weren't which got us here to to these wildfires. tell us what went wrong. >> well, really lack of common sense and how the world already actually functions is what a went wrong with politicians who lack common sense. the has been pointed out by republicans for many, many decades. it's about 30, 40 years of bad policies, radical environmental groups who brought lawsuits who then influenced politicians in sacramento, and the democrats have kept doing the same thing over and over and over again. and guess what? we're having the same catastrophic results in california. so there's a short-term issue that happened that's not unusual. we had a very wet year last year. is a mediterranean climate. it's one of the most rich and

most beautiful place on the planet. it's the largest agricultural state. so what happens when you mix good soil, sun and water? you get vegetation growth. and if you look at the way that los angeles has been built, it's surrounded by these hillsides that for a century and a half largely were managed by farmers and ranchers where you would have grazing that was done. so this year, as we went through the dry summer that's totally number, we actually have not -- california has not received much rainfall this year. so you get the winds, and it almost acts as if it just dries it out, becomes brittle. so the minute one fire starts ask you get 50, 100 mile-an-hour winds, embers go everywhere, and it's likounding your house -- a0 million people in the los angeles basin. think of it, should be thinking of it as jet fuel surrounding your house. when you have brush that grows

up at a level that's 5 feet tall, you better do something about it. president trump had pointed this out. now, there are about 40 years of policies that are very, very critical to this. but it's pretty simple. it's water, it's grazing, it's logging. those industries have all been hampered if you look at agriculture. we're down because of lack of water. when farms don't get water, guess what? the l.a. basin also doesn't get water. so as you're building out and adding people and homes in the los angeles basin, if if you don't have an add adequate, abundant water supply and you're with rationing water, the people that are building those homes, the city planners, they're not putting in green areas or building fire breaks. if you run the farmers and ranchers out of california, guess what? you don't have the animals to sit there and graze. a combination the of the proper land management would solve all of this problem.

now what's going to happen? they're going to -- just like they've done the for the last 20 years, california's going to run to the federal government and ask for money. and i think this time, hopefully, i think president trump and the republicans in congress will say, look, we're just not going to keep doing the same thing again. so california's going to need a lot of money, and i feel bad, i have friends that lost homes. some of the most wealthy real estate on the planet has burnt to a crisp, is burnt to the ground, and it all should be built back. but it has to be built back when california decides that they're actually going to use the water infrastructure that's been built in the state for the last hundred years. they've going to actually use iy use it and allow water to flow into places like los angeles. they're going to bring the timber industry back so you can efficiently get the logs and dead trees and everything out of the forest so that you can actually -- and then the, also, managing that vegetation growth and building in fire breaks. that's what has to happen. now, what i'm concerned about is there these people that lost

their home who have consistently voted for people like gavin newsom, jerry brown before that who have given money the these radical, green causes, who have embraced the green new deal, are they going to sing from the same verse they've been singing from for 30 years, and are hay going to to tell the people, oh, this is global warmingsome there's no issue here, this is all about climate change? if the politicians in california say that again, hopefully the voters in california will say we're not going to take this nonsense sense anymore. let's just let the water flow, let the animals back on the land, let's mow the grass, let's clean the forest, let's build proper fire breaks, let's have green areas. that's' how you solve this problem, maria. maria: so you're saying as a result of the green new deal, as a result of the climate change agenda of the democrats and the biden administration and the gavin newsom administration, they stopped logger -- logging? they stopped the timber industry from coming down, cutting trees, logging? they stopped the the farmers from allowing the animals to

graze, and they stopped storing water because of the climate change agenda? >> yeah. this radical idea. i mean, this green, new economy is really a red one. it's one that a brings on death and devastation. and these policies have been going on in california for a long time. so much so -- think about this. california is in population decline right now. there's people in california who actually celebrate this. as if the people and this land should not be used, which is preposterous. this is the number one agriculture state. it's a beautiful state, and it's one that deserves common sense policies. but in order to get those common sense policies, i think it's going to depend on finally somebody like president trump who in 2016 came out -- he owns properties in los angeles county. he came and visited the rest of the state where we've been experiencing this since i was a young child. we've been experiencing this nonsense where you've taken land

out of production. and i think the president looked at these, this massive water infrastructure, the greatest that's ever been built in the history of the planet and said, now, why aren't we moving some of this water? why is this water going out to the pacific ocean? i don't think president trump -- at that time he was a candidate back in 2016. we were driving down the freeway, he's talked about this many times, ask and he would ask, why is one side of the field dry, one is it green? maria: yeah. >> there were catastrophic fires during the trump administration and what happened? basically, trump left office and now we're left with the same policies came back. and so so hopefully, i think, you'll see the trump administration who will not partake in this nonsense again. and there's going the to be really policy changes that come out of sacramento. maria: before the money goes to sacramento, is what you're saying. this is just extraordinary. deaf vin, before you go -- devin, i've got two items before you go. number one, meta. i thought of you when i saw mark

zuckerberg completely do a 180 tosaying we're not going to censor anybody anymore. for a year or two they've been saying we haven't been censoring anyone. as the head of truth social and trump media group, your reaction to what went on at meta. and i also want your take on the fact that jack smith resigning prosecute department of justice, devin. >> well, look, president trump didn't need a company, i didn't need a job. we had to build truth social because of twitter and facebook. and i would say this, if zuckerberg is having a mea culpa moment, that's great. but let's remember, he spent $450 million of his own money to sway the 2020 the election in favor of the left. so if he wants to do a mea culpa, i think he should spend $450, maybe you add some interest, maybe it's $550 million, and he ought to help companies that are out there like fox news, truth social, now twitter with x, rumble that have been fighting this censorship every single day. we wake up and fight this

censorship. he a ought to take that money and join the fight and go after these woke corporations that are continuing to try the starve fox and and others of advertising. maria: yeah, great point. >> as it relates to jack smith, don't let the door hit you on the way out. one of the most corrupt politicians in history at a place where we don't need politicians in the the president the of justice. we need -- in the department of justice. we need a fair justice system so the that criminals are held accountable. that's not what this guy did. he that a horrible, horrible record and good riddance to us. maria: yeah. does kash patel get confirmed as fbi directer? >> i think so. if anybody can glean it up, it'll be kash patel. maria: devin, great that talk to you. >> thank you. maria: up next, the emotional impact the devastating wildfires having on southern california. actress and author candace cameron bure is here with a firsthand account of what she has seen on the ground. she's next.

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who lived in one of the hardest hit areas. candace, thank you so much for joining us this morning. give us an accounting of what took place in the home that you raised your family in, in palisades. >> yeah. we lived in the pal said for 30 years -- palisades. we just moved out last year with, although i'm in los angeles very often because i work here. i did look out my window on tuesday, and i saw immediately that there was a big fire. and, you know, because we've been in this area for so long, we were very much involved in the woolsey fire in 2022, and so we know the impact of having to evacuate and leave. and and as the days have gone on and you've just seen the whole entire mountainside burning, it's been unlike anything i've ever seen or witnessed here many los angeles and then seeing the devastation through the video, through the photos with the news

and just seeing my entire neighborhood that we raised our kids in decimated. i mean, there's not one house left. and it's utterly heartbreaking. we, we, you know, aside from the home, just seeing the neighborhood because it's still very much our community, all of my friends are here, but you think of all the memories. you think of our church, our elementary school, gone. pali high, my kids went to, gone. you look at the grocery store, the yogurt shop where we have so many pictures and fun memories just in the village, the neighborhood of palisades, gone. the theater. all the things that really brought this community together, gone. it's devastating. and it's been so emotional and so overwhelming. and, you know, i think i was if many shock the first two days just watching the news. and if then it was like, okay, i

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