[winds] >> don't let it touch the ground. grab this end. >> bret: think of that in the midst of all of that, an act of patriotism among the flames in los angeles. wildfires raging, you see in the background, a firefighter makes the decision to climb up a nearby flag pole and rescue an american flag from being burned. a voice can be heard telling him not to let the flag touch the ground. one of 1400 firefighters are now tackling this deadly fire, we salute them all not just because of that act of patriotism but what they're doing every day out there. tomorrow on "special report" the latest on the fires plus the state funeral for former president jimmy carter. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. >> "the ingraham angle" starts now. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. >> this is a fox news alert. we are awaiting a press

conference from police and fire officials in pass deanna, california. on those horrific wildfires raging across the area. five people now confirmed dead. and the number is expected to go hire as deputies search through the burned areas. [sirens] [crackling] >> laura: it's scorched earth. i was up half the night watching. this i couldn't stop watching it. it is so devastating. as far as the eye can see from malibu to the pacific palisades. this bank of america burned to the ground. ditto for the berkshire hathaway office and all that's left of the michelle international salon. >> you can barely see 5 feet in front of you. it's like armageddon. it looked like pandemonium. >> it is like driving through hell in south town here.

literally through hell. this is madness down here. these homes feel the heat from the flames even inside your car. >> laura: residential areas completely destroyed by the fires. we're seeing smaller ones pop up. smaller fires. independent journalist anthony can a bass is a on the ground says the gas lines to these homes appear to be still on but residents who lost everything are feeling tonight lucky to be alive. [inaudible]

[high winds] [sobbing] why have got to say prayer force all of these people pacific palisades correspondent matt finn is standing by. matt, what can you tell us? >> laura, i was on this show last night report g from the palisades. here we are 24 hours later and there are still fires burning around us, including this large retail and office space but right on the famed sunset boulevard which runs through the palisades. we have been watching this building slowly burn to the ground over the past couple hours. fire crews initially responded to it but then they moved on. we have seen other homes and structures burning throughout the day, so it seems like they are playing whack-a-mole with

fires. responding to the most important one. and to my right, out towards north, you know, malibu and looking into the mountain sides and hills. you could see the thick suffocating smoke out there. plumes still rising. to the north of the palisades where homes are burning. and to my far right, laura, you can just get a sense of the devastation here. we did a quick tour and it's not home after home, it's row after row. neighborhood after neighborhood, that is gutted here in the palisades. of course, businesses and schools burn to the ground as well. the palisades is a very charging community. really a family-oriented community here in los angeles. yes, there are mega million mansions but there is also -- >> laura: one moment, i hate to cut you off but we have to go to the ongoing press conference palisades pasadena excuse me, fire department. let's dip in. >> have all those individuals and their families and friends in our thoughts and prayers.

we have experienced the tremendous tragedy here in our community. to date, we have over 100,000 people under mandatory evacuation. we have had five fatalities and then close to another 100,000 people who have been warned to evacuate because they're in a danger zone. hundreds of homes have been lost. i will let the police chief and fire chief talk about that. but this is an opportunity for us as a community, as a people, to ban together to and work to support one another whether you are affected or not, please take the opportunity to help a neighbor, help a friend. check in on friends and neighbors and certainly check in on family members. here with me today are council

member jason lyon, counsel member justin jones, council member, jessica revas. my colleagues on the city council. also with us today is city manager miguel marquez. our supervisor, l.a. county supervisor catherine barger. congress member judy chew. state senator sasha perez. assembly member john. the spunt superintendent. president of pass demean city college. dr. who he sadz perez. a representative from the humane society. also with us today are neighbors assembly members assembly member colaza and assembly member nic schultz. you will also hear from fire chief chad augustine and police chief gene harris. so, again, i just want to assure

people that pasadena is working in conjunction with our neighboring jurisdictions, including the county of los angeles, particularly the county of los angeles. we, supervisor barger and i had the opportunity to sit down with the governor of california this afternoon, not too long ago. maybe an hour ago. and the governor has assured us that he will provide whatever assistance that we may request and so on behalf supervisor margaret and i, i would like to thank the governor for coming and seeing for himself and committing the guard and other resources to pasadena. we will certainly be in touch. with that, let me and i will go over these points in spanish at the end as well. let me turn it over to city manager miguel marquez.

>> good afternoon. my name is miguel marquez, miguel, marquez marquez. i'm the city manager for the city of pasadena. >> laura: we're going to come back to this press conference in pasadena as it warrant. but no one has been spared from this inferno. including celebrities. like james woods. >> standing in my driveway getting ready to evacuate. we have got a lot of planes going over. dropping water. but [bleep] >> laura: james woods joins me now. james, you posted video that i watched last night, i think it was right after you posted it. coming right up to your deck. we're watching it now. i'm so sorry for everything you

and all of your friends and all the residents of california are going through tonight. do you know what has happened to your home since? >> it's -- it's astonishing that what happened during this experience was that we found out that knob of us is a celebrity. none of us is a poor person or rich person, a democrat or a republican. we were just neighbors just really helping each other. that one video was my neighbor who after we had evacuated before he evacuated ran down to my house to try to stop that fire coming over my deck. he saw it from his deck. amazing. a fellow named robert trenteller, as devastating as it was, it was an extraordinary experience of realizing how essential good neighbors, good

friends, good relatives. i have had people call me. i did a movie with walter goggins, wonderful actor years ago. i talked to him once or twice. i just got a call, a long text from him. here is my address. the keys are in the car. i'm out of town. use our house. here's all the codes. i mean, people offering us their homes and so on. and that's my beautiful home there. -- it was my beautiful home. so, all i know now from him, he stayed overnight which he shouldn't have done. fighting a fire. there was no water pressure. all the fire hydrants are dead. the fire trucks were there but couldn't pump water as we found out. he fought the fire of himself with his house of a bucket in the pool. and this morning texted me and said i had three hours' sleep. i just got up. the houses on either side of are you burned down.

every house across the street from you is burned down but i can see your roof. now, i have a wooden house with wooden beams. if he did see my roof. it may be gutted. it may be -- we don't know. all we know is that at midnight when the trucks were there. all the fire alarms were going off in our house remotely to our phones, sarah and i were both getting hallway monitor is on. bedroom monitor is on. as if you could, you know, track the fire as it was going through your house. but it could have been the smoke from the houses next door. i don't know. so, it's possible. i don't think it's very likely. but it's possible our one house is is standing although our wonderful neighbors and every one of them is a friend and wonderful to us. and us, i hope to them. you know, it's a little paradise in the hills. >> laura: your comments about neighbors being critically important, and so oftentimes now

in our busy lives, we don't even know our neighbors. or people cocoon themselves but i think your point at such a time of great tragedy is one that we should all take in tonight. get to know the people around you. get to know them. >> well, there are people who probably say oh, you know, you sound like you are doing a hallmark movie talking about the love of your neighbors. well, next door to us, the house below us, and i think you have a video. right where that fire is the house next to us. right to the right of that tree. in fact that tree is on his property, believe it or not, is a 94-year-old gentleman who has advanced di dementia. he has a caregiver. he was in the hospital. so thank god he wasn't there during the fire, we thought. we get down the hill after we evacuate. robert was still up the hill. we get down the hill and i said to sarah, you know, we have got to call francis, his son who lives in, i think he is a

professor at harvard or something. just make sure his dad isn't in the house. i think he is in the hospital. i'm pretty sure. we called and he said what is going on? i said there is a fire in the palisades. oh no, i have been in a meeting. it was right at the beginning. at the center of the beginning of the fire. and i said your dad is in the hospital, right? he goes no, he is in the house with a new caregiver. i don't know who they are. it turns out what happened was, i call 911. i finally got through to somebody. the fire department, that's the house right there. that's his house. and we could look down into his window and i got someone from the fire department wanted i said look this 94-year-old guy with dementia doesn't know you got to get to your house. we will get there, we will get there robert went down. it turned out he said no, there is nobody there. and he said the front door is open. it turned out later that the fire department had said to the caregiver who was new, and not from this country and probably a little afraid of authority and i

say that kindly. you know, they said you must evacuate, we will come back for him. don't worry. and they either forgot or they hadn't gotten there yet. so robert went in the house. he said nobody here. you know, they keep him in a little room that used to be the so-called maid's room. it's around the kitchen. i have been in the house because he used to fall out of his chair and we would go over. >> laura: did they get him out, james? >> they got him out and the house burned down an hour later. >> laura: i mean, there are probably so many stories like that. that we are going to hear thousands of stories of people who are elderly, alone, might live alone. trying to save their pets go back in. >> oh, yeah. his son was -- he was out of his mind. got here. he said we don't even know how to find him because he is at the hospital. he doesn't know his name. he just found him. we found out about an hour ago. >> laura: james, i want to ask you about something when you said last night we couldn't get

any water. there was no water. at the hydrants. >> yeah. >> a lot has been discussed today about why that is. we're going to get into a little bit more of that in the next segment. wibut you guys pay, i think, the highest taxes in the united states. if not you and new york are kind of tied, illinois. >> yeah. >> laura: no water in the hydrants. 17.6 million cut from the fire department. karen bass recent headline i think you might have tweeted that out from the "new york post." >> yeah. and our new fire chief, you know, has -- and by the way l.a. fire department is fantastic. the people it's like the people who work for the federal government so many of them are good people. but, people in charge, she took over. and she put on her biothat her priority, my highest priority is inclusion, diversity, and equity. that is my priority. and somebody forgot to fill all the reservoirs, i guess, with

water because when i was smoke alarms a fire truck parked in front of my house they couldn't pump any water there was none because they didn't put them in the reservoirs, okay? they are busy cutting, you know, it's the same we have with all the crime we have in our neighborhood. you know, in our -- in los angeles. when we had that idiot gascon. they didn't care. everybody was running loose. smashing places. you couldn't walk down the street. >> laura: a return to competent leadership, this may be a wake-up call. we're not trying to make this political. but when you can't get water, and your homes are burning. and you have people trapped in their homes who don't have the ability to walk out, that's a problem. that's a real problem that has to be solved. so, james, i'm glad -- i think you were the first one to actually get -- put that out there last night. >> laura, with all due respect, if it is true that things were handled this way, if it is true that gavin newsom is the

absolute elizabethering idiot that i believe he is and the way he has handled fire management in this state again and again and again and again this isn't a wake-up call. this is the kind of thing they have tribunals for where they try people and say you had an oath of office to perform when you are the fire chief this isn't a social justice exercise that you are in charge of this is you getting water to areas that need water because there are fires and 100 mile-per-hour winds burning houses to the ground i watched on the ring camera a guy have to watch his pet burn to death. those are issues of the heart when you watch a cherished little pet or, you know, look, my home is a building. it was our -- we worked three years putting the home together. we loved our little house. but it means nothing compared to the five people who lost their

lives. so the wake-up call. >> laura: yeah, i hear you. and, again, we're going to learn a lot more about this. but we know a lot already. and we are going to get into some of this next segment. not all was kum ba yah out there today. specifically one individual who goes by ya at piper k faculty member at that zoo. karen piper she tweeted and she since deleted the tweets. jameswood's house burning down it's karma calling. retired prof. university. >> yeah. i mean, that's -- you know, when i read that i look for a place to swipe her off my shoe. i'm more concerned about my neighbors and homes they lost. i don't really care what she has

to say. she means nothing to me. she is to me a fleck of spit on the arc of infinity. >> laura: that anyone would think any of that about anyone at a moment like this, especially someone who suffered such a loss and whose neighbors have suffered everything. like, when you are driving down the pch now and a lot of the videos from last night and continuing today, james, i lived in california on and off, i couldn't stop watching this. i was like wait a second, is that where the reel inn is many. gone. you know. restaurants, gone. >> give you an example of that. >> there is a little restaurant there. they have a billboard and every day they will have some joke about fish with a saying. it's very funny. sarah thinks of everything for her instagram and so on. it's just a charming little kind

of surfer shack. you know, you were showing a little area palisades by the village there. and it was a little square. i don't know if you recall just a few moments ago. on the fourth of july in the palisades folding chairs that we set out with their names on it and would have a little fourth of july parade. everybody had flags. it was like america at its best. you know, nobody cared whether you were a democrat or a republican or black or white or green or yellow or gay or straight. it was people celebrating the fourth of july. feel safe and there is no tents and needles and crap. it is paradise. >> laura: james, the devastation is going to be -- i can't even. it's beyond comprehension right now. thank you for reminding us what

mawrts. matters. our family, our faith. neighbors. be a neighbor, james. that is not hallmark. that is the truth. you reminded us of something we should already know. >> i'm so honored to be on your show, laura i have to say. >> laura: thank you very much. first responders are facing new challenges as now the hurricane force winds are fueling these deadly fires. seems to be getting worse. at least in the next few hours. so, is there any relief in sight? fox news meteorologist bob van dillen is here to explain. these are unreal these winds. >> put it in perspective for you, laura. this is the strongest santa ana winds event. it's a huge veend going on right now. here is los angeles, can you see all the fires that are spread across the board. that's the pasadena fire. 10,000 acres burned. palisades 15,000 acres burned and counting.

what about the peak winds? you talk about hurricane force strength, absolutely. we had them clocked in last night through early this morning. a look at the current situation, winds have come way down but elevated overnight tonight. look at burbank 29 minor wind yesterday clocked in 84 miles per hour hour. chino gusting to 39. palisades fire santa peak. elevated for the rest of the evening. eaton fire by pasadena. these winds have come way down but they goal back up again overnight tonight. here is the forecast go to 3:00 a.m. pacific time. 20 to 304 c calabasas. l.a. cacalled me da. so tomorrow critical fire danger again. same exact region. it's all about the winds and the low relative humidity. 8% relative humidity. red flag warning. high fire danger area going to

last tomorrow. by friday winds finally subside and things hopefully get back to normal. >> bob, thank you very much. >> yep. >> laura: all right, california on fire. that's the focus of tonight's angle. well, the live pictures coming out of the l.a. area are heart breaking as we discussed with james woods. firefighters are bravely battling the flames and as we just heard an impossibly windy conditions. [winds] >> laura: when this nightmare finally end, thousands of families who just two days ago blissfully going ba their lives will have lost everything. few moments to round up their children, grab essential documents and maybe their animals. >> how many more horses do you have? >> we have a couple we just let loose over there we are tracking

as many as we can now. >> are any homes out there on fire? >> honestly, did i not pay attention. i just drove straight to the barn to get my horses out. get the rest of these guys out. >> how much would you say that you have lost? >> everything. i got my car. whatever is in my car. i hope the cat is okay. she lives in the neighborhood. hopefully she made it out safely. >> roadways. >> at the bottom of the canyon, there was cars three of them fell off the canyon that was on fire. that was in the middle of the road where people in their cars unfathom fairly low. forget the climate fanatics. natural disasters going to

happen. hurricane, floods, mud slides, droughts, and, yes, wildfires. but disasters in leadership naturally occurring even worse. and california has suffered more than it should because it has screwed up priorities from top to bottom. >> were you guys prepared enough for this? do we have enough resources. >> no, l.a. are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster. there are not enough firefighters in l.a. county to address four separate fires of this magnitude. we're doing the very best we can. but no we don't have enough fire personnel in l.a. county. between all of the departments to handle this. >> california residents and businesses are among the most highly taxed in the united states.

we just heard there are not enough fire personnel? well, naturally, the public's frustration and fury is beginning to show. >> i don't know where my mayor was when this was happening. nobody told us where to go. what to do. i didn't even have an evacuation order. i love the fire department. i love our fire personnel. we need more. where were they? >> well, of course, we know where california liberals choose to spend billions and we do know that their environmental fanaticism has shoved common sense thinking out the door. while the winds are horrific. experts insist that bad forest management can make a bad situation worse. and trump called this out six years ago. >> california ought to get their act together and clean up their forest and manage their forest because it's disgraceful. what is happening should never happen. i go all over the country. and i meet with governors, the first thing they say there is no reason for forest fires like

that in california. it's costing our country hundreds of billions of dollars because of incompetence. >> laura: is he right. incompetence kills. and it's not just the refusal to clear the underbrush. as early as last night firefighters as james said were reporting finding hydrants without any water. happened throughout the pacific palisades. in the situation continued into today. >> that crew, jake, has now left. they left shortly after we did that interview. they simply -- there was nothing more they could do here. they didn't have the water to do it. this is slightly uphill area. that is what has contributed to the water problem here. >> so why the lack of water. >> ask governor newsom, his focus has been shrinking the water supply by removing four huge dams in his state. largest river restoration project in u.s. history. the river once supported one of

the largest runs of salmon in the western united states. for decades along the river blocked sammon from migrating hurting ecosystem and communities who rely on fish. work is already underway to take those dams out. by removing the dams we are helping to restore sammon, steel head and ramp ray population. >> fish lives matter. >> native culture matters. what about the people who need the water and in a time of crisis? could full reservoirs created by some of these dams now prohibited under california regulations could that have helped? again, trump warned about this with joe rogan before the election. >> we have nauert i said do you have a drought? no. we don't have a drought. i said why don't have you no water because the water isn't allowed to flow down. it's got a natural flow from canada. all the way up north. more water than they could ever use. and in order to protect it atiny little fish, the water up north

gets routed into the pacific ocean. dei are hiring of personnel throughout the state. all the challenges facing california, she has made a point of focusing on diversity, and inclusion. because fires care about the color of your skin or your gender or your sexual preference. >> the city of los angeles swore in a new fire chief yesterday and for the first time in history, the department she is a woman. kristin crowley will lead the nation's third largest fire fighting force as a push for diversity continues in a male dominated field. >> really perfect position to start and to prioritize that work environment, especially from the diversity, equity and inclusion side.

many. >> laura: it's pathetic. maybe she can tell us if she still thinks sending surplus fire fighting equipment to ukraine was also a good idea because they did that, too. yeah. and to add insult to injury, the biden administration sent another $500 million in weapons to ukraine today. so, the people of california are going to need billions in aid to recover from this, but we're sending 500 million to ukraine. we shipped our excess equipment, fire fighting equipment to ukraine. this is insanity. biden should be ashamed of himself. newsom should be ashamed of himself. dei, illegal immigrants. that is a priority for california, sanctuary cities. spending billions on those. that's a priority for california. obviously environmental concerns. the climate fanatic. that's a priority for california. but the people of california who

need water when their homes are burning, when their livestock is threatened. businesses burning to the ground. apparently they are out of luck. so, yes, they should be ashamed of themselves. but, of course, none of them have any shame. it's america last, as usual. and by the way, no one thought biden's briefing today in santa monica is going to reassure a single victim of these fires. it was all performative. he stood there with a screen in the middle with a fire chief on one side and biden looking with a dazed look into the screen on the other side of the screen. it was ridiculous. so, when this crisis is over, every politician who prioritized spending billions on woke nonsense, or on migrants, sanction area cities, they should be thrown out on their butts. they should never work in politics again. and, at the same time, sensible

politicians, republicans, common sense democrats, people like john fetterman, i hope they take this horrible moment to support the people of california and tell them, remind them. doesn't have to be this way. president trump, senator thune, speaker johnson, all should travel to los angeles. help california, help them save themselves. politicians out there aren't going to do it. after these fires are put out, it's time for california to come home with a return to common sense. and that's the angle. joining me now is kevin mccarthy, former speaker of the house. and, of course, california congressman, long-time resident. kevin, i have to get your reaction to what karen bass just said or rather did not say, watch. >> you owe the citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? do you regret cutting the fire department by millions of

dollars madam mayor? >> have you nothing to say today? >> have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? >> laura: she cut $17.6 million from the fire department's budget. your reaction to all this in this horrible tragedy tonight? >> this is just horrific. and, i have had other jobs. but i am the son of a firefighter. i did three years as a seasonal firefighter. this is an unbelievable fire. but what upsets me the most. six years ago, november 17th, 2018. we had a fire in california where it was paradise, where 85 people died. we had at the same time frame down in malibu. president trump and i flew out to california, spending time with governor elect gavin newsom and governor jerry brown. i watched president trump tell them exactly what they need to do. we know winds are going to come

in california. we know fires are going to come. but it would not be this devastation if the fire did not have the fuel, if the fire had better planning for evacuation, or if people would not have gotten out of cars. gavin newsom knew already being elected but not sworn in what he should focus on. and he did not. he perpetuated this problem as we went forward. and you know another thing that's going to be devastation to these families? i know many of them there totally wiped out. his lack of movement when it came to insurance. there is a lot of these homes there that have no insurance. because they pulled out. my 82-year-old mother a year ago lost her insurance from geico when she had no claims. he has run california into a hole. he let the -- he let the vegetation overgrow. he didn't help prepare the fire department to have the resources they need. and he didn't help to cut down the vegetation. but i do want to give two democrats credit who worked with

me on saving our sequoias. congressman scott peters and co-eta. they co-authored a bill that they have in the house because we are losing the giant sequoias for the same reason they are being proactive as well. the work you do ahead determines whether this night ever happened again but he failed knowing. >> laura: mr. speaker, biden was out there his grand daughter was having a baby. so he is out there. and he did this ridiculous briefing where he just looked at a screen and was kind of staring aimlessly into the screen. i guess we don't have the vl, i don't know why. most ridiculous thing that's supposed to assure americans? it's insanity. >> i listened to james woods that is a powerful interview. here he is losing his house. it not only his house but you look in this tragedy what he is really looking at. it was neighbors helping neighbors. could you imagine a poor fireman coming in there and trying to

put out a fire with no water? gavin newsom fought president trump. he came in and changed the biological opinion. people know this in california the little delta smelt to bring the water down. he fought us on the dams. we wanted to build more dams and raise it up. california continues to grow and we built no new dams with all new population. >> laura: he got rid of four dams. the big ceremony with the tribal leaders. and deb haaland. we got to call her out, too. she is the interior secretary. another dei hire of the biden administration. i'm sure she is a lovely person. she is completely incompetent. completely incompetent. totally. >> what january 20th comes i know president trump, i have already talked to stephen miller about an executive order for the water in california. >> well, mr. speaker, your unique voice today much needed, thank you very much. and just ahead, more on the deadly california wildfires. we will take you back live on the ground, talk to a resident, barely escaped the inferno, next.

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♪ >> laura: fox news alert. wildfires continuing to rage across southern california as five people have been killed so far tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate. max gorden, fox business correspondent and former fox weather correspondent live on the ground with the late latest. max? >> good evening, it's been a devastating day of fire coverage here in pacific palisades. so many scenes like this neighborhood have been wiped out by the palisades fire. right now an engine that just pulled up. looks like they are checking out hot spots that emerged. we continue to see flare-ups as this fire has grown to 16,800 acres. six fires continue to burn. eaton fire to our east has killed five people according to the los angeles county sheriff's

office. that fire has grown to 10,600 acres. so many sceeption, so much devastation. so much loss as so many people will return to scenes like this max, thank you. joining me now another evacuee attorney brian claypool. i know you had about, what, 15 minutes at 5:00 a.m. to leave what did you leave with? >> >> this has been chaos. urban carnage. and we were blindsided. there is absolutely no preparation for this at all. nobody on tv last night at the neighbor's house. i was at the neighbor's house. the fire was getting closer. there wasn't one political leader on tv saying here's what to do. here is where to look if you need to evacuate. about 1:30 in the morning. you know, i got it my house next door and looked at the time, laura like the fire was going a

little bit east. i live above the rose bowl football stadium in pasadena. i'm a little bit west of the fire, right? about 5:00 in the morning police everywhere knocking on doors, get out of your house. apparently the wind changed and it went to the west and the fire was, you know, right up the street a mile away. less than a mile away. and, you know, this is real life stuff. i have got a nine month old daughter, single dad with a nanny, knocking on her door get the baby, get a bag. you seen me. i got a sweatshirt and sweats and that's all i grabbed. my teenage daughter grabbed a couple of pictures and her bag and we're out the door. and we are sitting here now in a hotel wondering if our house is okay. brian, i find it shocking, especially in contrast to when president trump is in charge of a crisis. he is out there front and center. i'm reminded of ron desantis in florida during the horrible

hurricanes there brian kemp in georgia. there is real leadership and i know gavin newsom has been, you know, touring some of the areas and he has been on camera, i understand that. you see him there with biden. it seems more performative if you are not getting information where to evacuate to -- where to evacuate, that's a problem. >> it was horrible. a dog and pony show yesterday. just talking. he talked and talked and talked about what's happening the fact of the matter is zero leadership in l.a. county to help us through the worst fire disaster in the history of our country. blindsided, sucker punched. mugged and carjacked in our own communities and people losing homes and lives. it's inexcusable, laura. >> laura: people abandoning cars and literally running it the ocean. the videos of that last night i have never seen anything like it. i know those neighborhoods so well. shocking. brian, i'm so glad you are okay.

i hope your home is okay. i'm just glad you were able to get out of there. >> thank you, laura. >> laura: as we were talking about the water in california seems to be running out. the hydrants seem to be running dry. what happens now? coming up. i live in bloomington, illinois. i'm not an actor. ♪ reg

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>> laura: first responders using every tool to battle these california infernos including airplanes to try to water bomb the fires. and before he made his way to congress, montana senator tim sheehy ran an aerial fire fighting company. he joins me now. to get to that meeting with trump in a moment. the high winds, the lack of water pressure on the ground. and the federal government saying they can surge assets but they couldn't get the planes in the air but i guess because the fires are so bad and the winds are so bad? tell us about that. >> what we're seeing here is a modern of wild land function, laura. this has been going on for years. people are sick and tired of it lahaina in maui, texas earlier last year and of course now seeing in malibu. this is the big one we have all been warning about for years we would have a massive wild land urban face fire which is what

this is. wildfire interfacing with urban structures causing massive damage killing a lot of people. this is out of control. mismanagement from our federal agencies and state agencies and just left a meeting with president trump discussed this very subject and time for comprehensive wildfire reform in this country. we need empower emergency management agencies to actually fight these fires. as you said there is not enough airplanes ready to launch. there is not water in the fire hydrants we need to be ready to protect our people. when people ask about the america first agenda this is front and center. america first. let's make sure we can protect our communities. >> laura: we also found out that they sent a bunch of so-called excess fire fighting equipment to ukraine. that's what they did in the l.a. fire department. i guess that was authorized by congress to do that. everyone feels all noble and they feel all altruistic about it. in the end they don't have the tools to fight this. they don't have the water to fight it. they got rid of four major dams. i think all four of them they are either, you know, gone or

they are going to be gone. but that was a cause for great celebration by gavin newsom last year. >> and those exact planes you showed on the screen the yellow and red. >> laura: senator hold on one second live to capitol hill where president trump is speaking. >> most expensive structure ever built in the history of our country relatively speaking. the most -- by far lost 38,000 people. they gave it to them for $1. and then they charge more for our ships. it's not going to happen. china is running the panama canal. that's not going to happen. [shouting questions] >> california, mr. president, during the pandemic, you often said that you didn't believe that you should bail out blue states who have been mismanaged. given your criticism of gavin newsom. are you willing to work with him? and do you believe aid should be provided to california as long as it takes. >> it's very sad i have been trying to let gavin newsom water to come. you would have tremendous water they send it out to the pacific

because they are trying to protect a tiny little fish which is in other areas by the way called a smelt. and for the sake of a smelt, they have no water. they have no water in the fire hydrants today in los angeles. it was a terrible thing. and we're going to get that done. it's going to finally be done. i got it done from the federal side. and he didn't want to sign it. but, it's not going to happen again like that. there is no reason, can you imagine you have farmers that don't have any water in california. they have plenty of water. they don't have a drought. they send it out to the pacific. and it's crazy. so, what's happening in california is true tragedy. i know those areas very well. i have many friends living in those houses. that is a true tragedy. nobody ever thought -- i mean virtually beverly hills and areas around beverly hills are being disseminated. the biggest homes, some of the most valuable homes in the world are just destroyed. i don't even know. you talk about a tax base. if those people leave, you are going to lose half your tax base of california. this is a true tragedy. and it's a mistake of the

governor and you can say the administration. they don't have any water. they didn't have water in the fire hydrants. this don't have water. and, yet, they have the water comes from, you know where? up north and it comes down at levels and they give millions and millions of barrels of gallons of water that they have and they send it out into the pacific for the pacific it's like a drop. it's nothing. but for california it would take care of the whole state. so what has happened this is a tragedy. and the governor has not done a good job. with that being said, i got along well with him when he was governor. we worked together very well and we would work together, i guess it looks like we are going to be the one having to rebuild it. but what happened there, i don't think there is anything that i have ever seen quite like it. and the insurance companies are going to have a big problem. because you are talking about big, big dollars. [shouting questions] >> what's your message for president biden? >> i have no -- i thought it was

ridiculous that he did that we have more important things to talk about. liz cheney was -- she lost in the republican party as you know in her state by the biggest margin in the history of a politician running for congress. she lost by like 42 points. nobody has ever lost like that. so i have -- i don't care about liz cheney. i care about these people. [shouting questions] [inaudible] >> number one we are closing the border. going to be closed very strongly. it's going to be closed. and we're going to have to take people out that are criminals. we have people from jails from all over the world and from mental institutions. and as you know, they are going to have to be removed. it's one of the reasons i won the election in a landslide. the people of this country don't want murderers walking down their farms or their streets or their cities. as you know, we had thousands of people that murdered other people that were in jail and were released into our country. many of those people murdered more than one person. many of them.

about 42% supposedly. we want them out of our country and we're going to get a country back again and we're going to be really governed by common sense. these are the principles of common sense. we're not going to be governed by stupid people. we're going to common sense. we're going to be respected all over the world again very soon. thank you. [shouting questions] >> laura: well, president trump chiming in on not just the california wildfires but liz cheney, the medal of freedom recipient, most recent with george soros and, of course, others over the last few days. a week or so. tim sheehy continues with us. of course, senator, new senator from the great state of montana who has a little experience in fighting firefighters. senator, tell us about that meeting with president trump today. he is raring to go. i saw him on saturday night.

had a chance to meet giorgia meloni briefly. tell us about what he said and what the future looks like. >> it was a fantastic meeting. and, like you said, we actually started off the meeting talking about wildfires for several minutes. you know, those red and yellow planes you showed on the screen i used to personally fly those. aircraft, we don't have enough planes and firefighters. president trump is committed to put our first. we are not going to put the asian smelt fish first. not going to wrong headed. we are going to make sure protect communities wildfire from coast to coast. we discussed panama canal. that's been top of news lately. like you said a national security priority. we lost 38,000 lives. spent, i don't know, how many billions of dollars in today's money building engineering feat changed the face of the globe. we have to be able to move our ships from the atlantic to the pacific. free commerce. china controls that canal. they have been taking advantage of it. violating the treaty obligations

about time we take it back and support them fully in that it's a commercial and national security priority for us. and of course we talked about the mandate we have coming out of this election and the fact that the american people are not going to sit around and wait and they are not going to listen for process excuses. they want results. so we need to pass these bills. one big beautiful bill. five bills, 10 bills, whatever it takes. need to get to work to secure the border. bring inflation down and get common sense back to this government. >> >> laura: still looking at pictures from the pacific palisades from california. thinking about what trump just said, senator, this really is a national priority. i know states have their own forest management programs and plans and priorities. and i'm a states' rights person. but, when the federal government is going to have to spend, i don't even -- i can't even imagine how much money they are going to need to restore california, something has got to be done with about this water and forest management issue. >> a national response time standard in every city of this

country the mfpa sets a response time in five minutes a fire engine at your front door. if you pull the fire alarm or call 9 is 1. there is no standard that requires a response to a wildfire. time to change that pay firefighters a living wage. hell bombers all 50 states. not too much to ask for et get it done. >> laura: also is o-to-have water that's available as president trump said in damming up rivers dozen lou for a water supply to be consistent. and the firefighters repeatedly said they needed that today. >> well, again you are seeing the results. all these policies death by a thousand cuts. environmental policies endangered species act. wrong headed policies these add up and have impacts. >> laura: senator we got to roll a big 's. >> are you good?