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different parts of the l.a. county. the latest flaring up in the hollywood hills area threatening iconic land marks. >> lawrence: at least five people are dead and more than 100,000 are under evacuation orders. scenes of heart breaking loss playing out all across the region. >> steve's pet store is gone.

fox's gone. al patron gone. everything in this neighborhood. altadena. we have been here since 8:00 a.m. fighting them ourselves. no one is safe from this. >> it's really scary when you can see the flames coming up over the houses two blocks away and you're just getting out of the driveway and the smoke and the ash is so thick, you can't even see. >> brian: pacific palisades fire burning over 17,000 acres so far and the eaton fire outside of pasadena charring over 10,000 acres. both at zero percent containment. >> as you have seen lye here on fox, a lot of people have lost their houses, including celebrities like screen right. paris hilton who says she is heart broken beyond words after watching her malibu home go up in flames on tv. yesterday we brought you three hours of live coverage of a long row of ocean property. little houses, wooden houses

along the pacific coast highway in malibu, they all burned to the ground. >> ainsley: let's go now to william la jeunesse for the latest on the ground in pacific palisades, california. william? >> hey, good morning, ainsley. you know, relatively, this is a small fire. it's 17,000 acres. for context the campfire 2018 that was 150,000-acre causing 150,000 acres causing 18 billion in damage. this one, they estimate will be the most expensive in u.s. history at 50 to $57 billion. when you look at the video, you can see why. you mentioned malibu, basically the entire coast line almost south of know buoy from santa monica destroyed, turned to rubble. beachfront homes 150 homes possibly. these are 10 to $50 million turned to rubble each. then you look at the palisades.

here the homes of celebrities as we mentioned. hollywood producers. the rivera as we call it overlooking the pacific on a bluff. the streets like where tom hanks lives, that neighborhood, also destroyed. then you have the business district where i am right now, per square footage basis, this is the most expensive real estate in los angeles. turned to rubble. block after block. smoldering steel and brick. the residents here are stunned that it all disappeared in about 12 hours. >> it's a lot but nature wins and saw a lot of friends homes go down, luckily my place saved we lost a lot of homes. a lot of homes. >> the eaton fire, as you guys mentioned near pasadena that's

11,000 acres. five fatalities here have not been identified yet. they are bringing in canines as well to make sure that is the maximum. the sunset fire this one started last night near runnion cannon hiking trail. they have the helicopters, night hawk backup it was amazing. there were new fires and the helicopters just came boom, and they were -- you know we have 3,000 gallons dumped on a fire it can stop it almost immediately. that, of course, did not happen with this fire. they didn't have that kind of air support. and now we have, i think, 10 or 1 national guard helicopters coming in to help in case there is any flare-ups but it's about a day and a half late but that's another story. brian, for your benefit, i did a little research because i know your neighborhood now. so the reel inn gone.

moon shadows one of your favorites was destroyed as well. wiley's bait shop. rosenthal. basically glen glad stones and nobu as you saw along there 150 homes taken out. you are going to see it and go -- it doesn't look the same. it's gone. >> brian: duke's is there, still. duke's was -- when i was out there was a sea lion. so you said they opened up their door you said, steve, they opened up their doors yesterday? >> steve: a staging area. >> brian: let people get in. the question is, william, things are calm and it doesn't seem the fire is raging can people go back and see what's left? >> you know, no. and because i take pch every day it's going to be closed for probably a long time because we had the franklin fire last month and they kept it closed for almost no reason. and then when you see the amount of debris and rubble there. they close that thing for a week can you just imagine what it's

like that's a major artery. no, unless you have a press pass, you can't get past the checkpoints. and so, there is going to be a lot of frustration and, you know, people have asked me to go through to eyeball to see if their home is still there because they don't know. that's the frustration that lawrence, you mentioned last hour, yeah, a lot of people don't know if their homes are still there or not. but they are not going to be able to use pch for probably another week at least. >> steve: it is heart breaking. >> ainsley: pacific coast highway if you are out there and wondering. >> brian: a friend we all know, i can't use his name yet, but hopefully i will be able to eventually, said that got back up hopped news crew and wrought him back up. you can't get a hotel room. people who are dislodged i don't care if you are a billionaire or working class guy. >> ainsley: your rooms are gone your rooms are gone. >> brian: got to quickly get a

hotel room and tell them i'm staying there for a month and hopefully you get reimbursed if you are paycheck to paycheck person. you got to do that and tape everything possible that you know and that you have. write it down. california is great at this. they offer specials like gap 25% off here. serious was out there then. they give you 50% of everything you bought as long as it has to do. health clubs open up their doors. you got take advantage of all that quickly. what about is you can't buy clothes, especially now. you can't get amazon to deliver because the roads are all screwed up. you got to act quick. everything has got to be quick. >> steve: that's right. here, the thing, if you have got tens of thousands of people calling their insurance companies, the insurance company is going to be slow to get back to you. in california, this is the advice. they say if your house is destroyed, the insurance company is required to immediately pay you a minimum of a third of the estimated value of your contents, your belongings, they

got to give you the money right up front. and then they got to give amin mum of four months rent. and you can ask the insurance provider to give you a cash advance. and i would imagine your wait will be two hours because ains ainsley don't sign anything immediately. >> brian: don't agree with the deal immediately. if you can get an adjustor to quickly assess then move things in action. the other thing fema does step in and places for you to meet central locations for you to meet to show up to say i have no insurance. and i need something. there will be a quick turn around but not like that. other thing is don't blame state farm, necessarily for pulling out of california. because they were asked i can't do this if you don't let me raise rates. california said we are not going to let anybody's rates go up?

so what happens is they leave. so who is left? they are all left without insurance. evidently 1.7% of california residents were told they had no insurance over the last year. >> ainsley: trying to fix it but it hasn't happened yet. it's happening in a few weeks, i believe. then i also hear you could buy into the state plan they are not sure if that's a good plan, how much that will cover. >> steve: right, exactly. here's the thing. there is coverage available but it's astronomical if you live in an area where that could happen to your house, you are going to pay a lot. >> ainsley: senior meteorologist janice dean is packing the powerful wind gusts. janice, it's a lot better today than it was yesterday, right? >> yes, this time yesterday we were dealing with winds close to or surpassing 100 miles per hour. that was impossible for firefighters to go anywhere with those wind gusts. they couldn't get above to, you know, get water, if there there was water or flame retardant to get over the homes. it was just impossible. but, today, is a better day in

terms of the winds calming down. not going to be at zero or completely calm. we will have periods where we have wind gusts of 30 to 50 miles per hour. but not certainly the wind gusts that we saw yesterday of hurricane force. here are the containment numbers over 17,000 palisades acres burned. zero percent containment. 10,000 in eaton, and we still have other fires that are burning not as big, here are the wind gusts as we go through time. so, we could see 20, 30, 50 mile-per-hour winds spurts. that would spread system of those wildfires and embers that could bring more wildfire danger. as we get into friday, look at that, much calmer weather. i wish i could tell you there is rain in the forecast though. because there is no foreseeable rain. as we look ahead at least 10 days. power outages. we haven't talked about that. over 300,000. some of those power outages were preemptive as they saw the

wildfires burning. they didn't want to have power outage problems or more fires burning because of the power being on. wind alerts throughout the day today. we still have fire weather alerts through friday. and then the smoke. that is going to be huge concern. not only today but through friday and not only for areas that are burning but that's going to spread in towards the southern part of even down towards san diego. so people with respiratory issues, those first responders that are out there, that's not just, you know, homes burning and the wood. that's the particulates that are out there that are very, very dangerous. that's going to be a health concern certainly as we go forward. back to you. >> steve: anybody who had some of those n-95 masks left over from covid, but the them to use this week. >> brian: brian especially reporters. president-elect trump calling out california governor's gavin newsom on over the state's response on the fires and long-term planning. >> lawrence: nate foy is live from west palm beach, florida. hey, nate.

>> nate: hey, guys, good morning. president-elect donald trump is highly critical of california governor gavin newsom and how he has responded to these los angeles fires. and really what newsom did or did not do in the years leading up to this. trump says that newsom failed to sign a water restoration declaration. newsom has a different story. but trump says that it could have provided more water for southern california to fight these fires. >> trying to get gavin newsom to allow water to come. you would have tremendous water up there. they send it out to the pacific because they are trying to protect a tiny little fish. and for the sake of a smelt, they have no water no. water in the fire hydrants a true tragedy and mistake of the governor and you could say the administration. >> so what trump is referring to is a 2020 memorandum that he signed. it was meant to bring more water to los angeles and other parts of california. but, california said it wasn't

scientifically justified. and sued to block it for concerns about endangered species. according to newsom's office. quote: there is no such document as the water restoration declaration. that is pure fiction. but, trump kept applying pressure. calling on newsom to resign. writing on truth social, quote: one of the best and most beautiful parts of the united states of america is burning down to the ground. its ashes and newscum should resign. this is all his fault. here is newsom responding last night. >> one can't even respond to it. i mean, it's -- people are literally fleeing. people have lost their lives. kids lost their schools. families completely torn asunder. churches burned down. this guy wanted to politicize it. >> what is the situation with the water, obviously, in palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. >> local folks are trying to figure that out. when you have a system but it's

not dissimilar to what we have seen in other large scale fires whether it be pipe, electricity or the complete overwhelm of the system. >> nate: so trump will head back to palm beach tonight from washington, d.c. after attending former president jimmy carter's funeral. he will meet with republican governors at mar-a-lago tonight as he awaits decision from the u.s. supreme court to possibly delay the sentencing in new york criminal case which is scheduled for tomorrow. if that happens, trump will have to attend virtually or in person. he has indicated that he would attend virtually. we will send it back to you. >> steve: all right. nate, thank you very much. in talking about the water restrictions and different things, back and forth between trump and environmentalists back in the day. the "new york post" was referring to this smelt that it's all about and according to the post, it has been declared functionally extinct. so, for anybody who didn't have

a fire truck that could pour water on their house, it was because of a fish that is functionally extinct. if that's true, people are going to be up in arms. >> ainsley: it's true they have been protecting that delta smelt for decades. we have been covering it here on fox for as long as -- they are protecting this tiny little minnow. and that is more important. people feel like that little minnow that is virtually exticket is more important than the people. they are going to be up in arms. you can't get the water. the tanks couldn't be filled fast enough. they get the water from the san joaquin valley steve that's what you were saying earlier? >> steve: san joaquin delta. >> ainsley: they protect that area. occasionally they will shut down the water supply or limit how much water can you use so the farmers can't grow their crops because of that delta smelt. >> brian: trump consistently argued we should be getting -- california more water from northern california and northern

states, and even from canada. and let it flow into southern california for the farmers as well as for the firefighters. and they reversed it. joe biden, governor newsom with environmental causes in mind reversed it. they said we want to maximize the use of 113-year-old ache i can't duct. this is what bothers them. i don't know how voted for, but if you are in the pacific palisades and they tend to lean left. and you go to -- your fighters do show up and a lot of them were outnumbered. when they do show up and they open up the fire hydrant and no water is flowing out and the fire is only hours old, it's hard to blame trump. right? when he has been saying this has been a problem before and you can't say well governor newsom, we weren't filling up the tanks quick enough. well, if you are not filling up the tanks quick enough, you are not preparing for wildfires. if you are not preparing for wildfires, don't ask to be governor. don't ask to be mayor.

>> lawrence: speaking of the mayor, karen bass was given notice, just like many other people in government that this can be bad. this can be -- they didn't know how severe, but she declared a state of emergency. and then she jetted off. it made absolutely no sense. she went there for inauguration. >> ainsley: to guana. >> lawrence: and then all hell breaks loose, literally in l.a. and she is nowhere to be found. finally comes back to the city. and she was questioned as she arrived by a reporter with sky news. this is what she had to say. >> duo 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? >> back up? i appreciate it. >> have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? elon musk says that you are utterly incompetent. are you considering your

position? madam mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? no apology for them? do you think you should have been visiting guana while this was unfolding back home? >> lawrence: no comment. >> brian: cut 17 million from the budget and proposed cutting # 3 million from the firefighter budget which is 65% of the homeless budget. that's the emphasis. these people just like the vice president. they want to be ambassadors. they want to do -- they want to be the queen and the princess or the king and the prince, which is ceremonial duties. if you want this job, it is 20 hours a day. it is nonstop. you can't take a holiday. same with the fbi in new orleans. if you know the terror alert is high, you are not taking off. and the same thing with this mayor. you are not going to gahannana. that's the problem go to guana

when you are done. you are dying to go to gahannana, don't run for mayor. >> steve: we just put up for a moment, brian, you were talking about how the budget for the fire department was reduced. you know, and karen bass, the mayor, referred to that big budget cut as a reset. take a look at that so year over year down $17 million. but, here's the thing. i was listening to a firefighter and said well, you know, what can you do with extra money or any of that other stuff? you know what that could have done? it could have allowed them plan and predeploy and mobilize things ahead of time. they will didn't have enough people. to that point, apparently there were -- and i believe this was in the "l.a. times" this morning. apparently there were firefighters who were in the fire stations who were not being sent out because there was not enough equipment. and that is because of budgets. >> ainsley: so i have a problem with -- maybe i'm -- correct me

if i am wrong, that seems like a lot for homelessness, $1.3 billion. >> brian: can you belief that? ains the l.a. fire department gets 837 million. we are talking vs. billions. the homeless money as we have reported, half went unspent. so get that half back to the fire department, the one that you cut all of this money from, karen bass, and do you know what? this gave the rick caruso who ran against her in 2022 the opportunity to step up to the plate. he filled that information gap while she is in guana. he was talking to reporters. he was talking about what their community needed. >> steve: he was talking about how the hydrants were dry in the village. honors lawrence such an embarrassment. we have done extensive reporting on homelessness. there has been no improvement. you spent all this money. it's not impacting the problem there. and then people can't get water. you don't have enough firemen

with equipment. this is a management issue. and i think this is -- i don't want to take it to this past election. but i'm going to because this is common sense. that they are putting this green energy stuff over people's public safety. you are not going to have a green environment if it's burnt down. >> one thing they did increase the homeless population by tens of thousands. because almost everybody is homeless now in southern california. >> ainsley: that's why they need billions of dollars. gavin newsom said if you are homeless, come out here. >> steve: it's all about priorities. that was apparently a big priority for them. >> ainsley: that's why so many people are leaving. >> steve: the problem with them running out of water is they had three $1 million tanks. why do they only have three? maybe they should have six. going forward. >> lawrence: problem with fires. >> steve: they are going to put more on those hill tops in the coming years. they should have seen this coming and cutting the budget -- >> ainsley: they are going to lose so much money after this. not only rebuilding money but people are going to leave

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fire was ignited in the hollywood hills the sunset fire we were right there following firefighters in. have a watch. [sirens] >> hollywood hills fire it erupted on wednesday. and now you see firefighters are very quickly trying to get in here and get water into these hoses so they are having a challenge with that move the fire up. you see they have been able to get some of the hoses in there and extinguish some of the fire in here so had does not hit the structures here in the hollywood hills. and not too far from sunset boulevard. big time activity happening here right now as firefighters are here runnion canyon park right at the entrance. you see the embers on the palm trees and in the hills. dangerous situation here one of

many fires. >> step bang. >> we are. >> trying to show what the first responders are doing and the bravery going on here tonight. as multiple fires are still in very serious scenarios throughout the los angeles area. and you see we counted at least 12 fire trucks on the ground here. and you could just take in all the smoke and the wind coming off the energy of these hills here tonight. as yet another fire has erupted the hollywood hills here at runion canyon park. >> and evacuations abundant during that scene as we came down the hill, seeing people get into vehicles and try to get out. using sunset boulevard, guys. >> that may change as the sun comes up and winds have died

down helicopters and planes get up in the air and try to extinguish some of these fires. that's the good news. unfortunate and sad news is five people have lost their lives and many others are in hospitals right now getting treatment for very bad burns and other injuries back to you. >> brian: all right. thanks so much, robert. meanwhile 30 minutes now before the top of the hour. >> ainsley: president biden's ice director set to retire from the post tomorrow. tomorrow is he speaking out about his time at the agency, the crisis at the border and the challenges that his agents are facing. >> acting ice director patrick likener. p.j. you don't do this to get rich. you do it because you care about the country. just right now the state of ice. you guys are going to get a lot of attention. there is going to be a lot of money flowing your direction and a chance to build up the force. how much is needed? >> to do what the new administration is proposing. working for the transition, we

are going to need a lot more people and lot more resources because, you know, if you double what we have currently. then we are going to need double the money to do it. so, the numbers are going to be flexible. new administration has knows. and i'm not privy to that because that's the new administration. but it's going to be a lot more. they are saying, you know, upwards of, you know, maybe 10 times the amount of detention space that we have if not more, who knows. but, you know, just depends on how many detention beds you want. right now we have about 41.5. if you are doubling that. you got to double the money. >> 125,000. >> it's triple. just triple the money to do it. given the resources. and given the time meet the mission we have always done that. >> lawrence: you put a lot of time into this agency. you have served different administrations, republican and democrat. what was the biggest challenge with this administration?

>> it's always a challenge understanding where the nation wants to go and what their priorities are whenever administrations change you got to adapt to that, right? workforce just want to do their job. go out, do your job, and do it well. one of the problems and the issues is just kind of communicating that from a leadership side like keep your head down, do your job. don't worry about it and we got your back and workforce empowerment. >> steve: p.j., you were talking about how the incoming administration is going to take a lot more money because of different priorities. trump priorities different than joe biden's obviously we have heard from ice agents they were frustrated that they didn't get to do their job sudden bely removing criminal aliens is a priority. if you had one do-over or if joe biden would have ever called you on the phone and said p.j., what should ice be doing?

>> i would like to see the executive order implemented a year ago that would have helped a lot and could have gotten that implemented a long time before that. it would have helped a lot. >> steve: why didn't they do it earlier? >> i don't know. i don't know. i run the agency, i execute, i enforce. i don't know about why they didn't do that earlier. i know it was in process a long time. i would have liked to have seen it earlier. it did really help our mission. but i wanted to see that earlier. we have been drawn out of our core mission to help cbp. we are going to help all the time when we do that at the border. we also get pulled to help secret service we have had thousands of agents pulled from ssi to help secret service. we have to. secret service needs more money. give them more money to do their job the right way. give more money to the border so cbp can do their job and lock that down better. don't pull us off our core mission sets interior

enforcement for fugitive operation teams going out there and getting these. we have almost 8 million people on the non-detained docket now we have to go find. it's a big challenge are people are going to do it. i'm going to be cheering from the sidelines i'm going to be supporting them. it's not a small challenge. currently serving in the biden administration. you retire tomorrow. your men and women victimized. criticized and demonized we were talking about this in the break before for just doing their job. you say we follow the law. we are a law enforcement agency. we are not political. what's your advice for the incoming ice director his name is caleb vitiello. >> um-huh. >> ainsley: you know him well. tom homan have you all worked together. what's your advice going in as the new acting ice director under donald trump. >> he knows. this good man. keep supporting that ice workforce make sure we have our eyes on them and make sure they are adequately, you know, resourced. he knows that but just recently the new administration is not even in yet.

and there is already vandalism at some of our offices they are spraying abolish ice again and all this nonsense. we are just doing our job. it's vilification of public servants, first responders and my heart goes out to the first responders who are in l.a. right now it's my whole life doing. this preposterous. people vilify first responders taking life in own hands, going out and supporting the communities and, you know, people just disregard that demonize us and vilify us. >> brian: where does that come from? certain political rhetoric who thinks you are doing a bad job. who wishes you didn't exist it's not donald trump. >> no, we should never vilify these folks. ever. it's nonsense we do this on either side of this. >> brian: you should be outraged by it? >> i am outraged. it is absolutely preposterous. these people are doing their job enforcing the law. do you end go i can it. talk to your elected representatives. >> ainsley: or change your

elected representatives. >> or change them. >> steve: thanks for stopping by. we hope you have a fantastic retirement. >> i will figure out. >> ainsley: i'm retiring tomorrow. >> pretty interesting. first time in my life i don't have a plan but i will figure it out. >> brian: thank you so much. >> steve: you have a big party planned, right? >> nothing yet. [laughter] >> steve: thank you, sir. >> ainsley: thank you. it is 36 minutes after the top of the hour. lives left in ruins. five wildfires are burning through southern california right now with five crews running out of water. is mismanagement to blame? we'll talk about it. ♪

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washington national cathedral just hours jimmy carter official state funeral begins. all five living u.s. presidents are set attend that funeral. david spunt is there ahead of today's service for the 39th president. hey, david. >> hey, lawrence. good morning to you. and it's notable, president biden will deliver a eulogy today. and as you mentioned. his four predecessors, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama and president-elect donald trump will also be in attendance today to pay their respects to jimmy carter. an exclusive club. president of the united states. also tributes from steven ford, the son of gerald ford. a once political enemy turned ally of jimmy carter and close friend. carter defeated him in the '76 election. what is notable gerald ford wrote the carter tribute before he passed away in 2006. dead mondale son of walter mondale also will read attribute written by the former vice president by jimmy carter. jimmy carter is the only u.s.

president to graduate from the naval academy. he studied nuclear power as father of nuclear navy. i interviewed him as a local reporter in georgia in 2009. he told me, guys his dream as a 5-year-old was to go to the naval academy and retire in hawaii or annapolis. in 1953 after his father died jimmy rushed home to plains, georgia to take care of the family peanut business. later today he will be buried in plains. there will be a service at home church where he taught sunday school for decades. he will be laid to rest next to his wife of 77 years, rosalynn carter on his family property in plains, georgia. back to you. >> lawrence: we will be watching, thanks, david. so right now firefighters in los angeles are spread thin. fighting five raging wildfires from l.a. wild land firefighter steve gutierrez. thank you so much for joining the program. the big question is what do you need right now?

i know you are fighting to win so you can't get the resources in the air like you want. but, if you could have a wish list, what is the top thing on that list? >> the biggest thing i think right now is for federal wild land firefighters to be paid correctly. they have a low living wage. they start off at $15 an hour and federal wild land firefighters are leaving in droves. we need to increase the recruitment and retention and fully fund the forest service. >> lawrence: i totally agree with you giving them more money. i'm curious. specifically when it comes to fighting this fire climate you guys are working with. what tools do you all need to fight this fire? would need more firefighters, we need more craft in the air. part of the recovery effort of a disaster area that is part of like the eaton fire,

specifically. justifies devastating what i saw yesterday. >> you know it all too well one of the questions we continue to get from our viewers how do you select which house to rescue versus some you decide to let burn because you are trying not to have the fire spread? so can you give us insights of the decision making of firefighters there on the scene right now? everybody has the opportunity to create a fuel break at their own home. they have the ability to good trim brush. reduce fuels. we have to take that into account every time we are looking at triaging every one of these homes. so, some have a bigger potential. some have the ability where we can do some work real quick and some are just a complete write off because some folks haven't done anything. so, we are trying to maximize the most amount of homes that we can save. and also, lives. how many folks can we save to get lives out? and sometimes these fires are

just so intense and moving so fast, there is strictly no time but to get people out and save lives. >> lawrence: we are praying for you all, steve, we know have you folks on the ground. difficult job. i was a fire explorer when i was in high school. i respect everything that you guys do. thank you so much for joining the program. >> thank you so much, sir. i appreciate your time. >> lawrence: you got it. so president biden's ban on offshore drilling under scrutiny. and new legal trouble. once the a.g. now threatened to sue over it, that's next.ne ♪ a with mucinex kickstart. aaaaaaaaaaaaa. - headache? - better now. mucinex kickstart gives all-in-one and done relief with a morning jolt of instant cooling sensation. it's comeback season. lowe's knows it's easier to make the right calls, when you have the right team. cj stroud putting up points with mylowe's rewards. he is really cleaning up. c'mon, man. 'cause the cart, he's got all the cleaning supplies in his cart.

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>> steve: well, the state of louisiana is planning to sue the biden administration over last-minute offshore drilling ban and while it doesn't extend to their shores, it could have major implications for louisiana's economy. because that is one of the top states in cr crude oil reservesd productions and home to half the storage sites for our strategic petroleum reserve it's very important. here to discuss is pending lawsuit is louisiana attorney general liz merril. liz, good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you this morning? >> steve: i'm doing okay. but i'm sure we heard from president trump a couple days ago on the way out joe biden is

trying to stab him in the back when it comes to his plan to on day one drill, baby drill, now with joe biden it's kind of like you got to go to court first. >> well, it's kind of one last kick if the gut before he walks out the door and we have been fighting these policies from the day he took office. and started this assault on the oil and gas industry. and, you know, louisiana certainly has been a leader in that fight, and i'll continue to do that. we just, you know, can't let this kind of action stand. >> steve: right. it, you know, donald trump has said that as soon as he takes office, he will, you know, get rid of it, but it's not that easy. because the way the biden people put it in, it's pretty much law. that's why you are filing the lawsuit. so, you know, the lawsuit comes out, let's say next week. the biden administration would defend their position in court but then when donald trump takes over. suddenly you got the trump people at the doj, that's probably going to be a different

outcome, you would think? it is kind of interesting. there would be an interesting delegation problem with the way congress has handed this power over to the president where can he exercise purely by executive order and not have it challenged any other way. we certainly will ask and hope that congress acts quickly to undo this. we will litigate those issues and make sure that we are not utcts standing idly by to see if congress can do something. >> steve: right. louisiana as you know has been in the news. it was just a week or so ago you are calling into investigation what went wrong had my review is just starting.

that will be methodical process of collecting interviews and other studies that have been done in that area to kind of get a better understanding of how we got here kind of inside the political and legal and cultural structure in new orleans. and i think that, you know, what we want to do is kind of walk through it carefully and see all of the different influences that kind of led us to the place that we are at today. and i can tell that you there is substantial changes that have been put in place leading into the super bowl. but we want to make sure that we're making some permanent changes when all the federal resources are gone. >> steve: absolutely. because one of those fixed barriers was broken for a very long time. everybody knew it wasn't working and that is the vulnerability that the driver took advantage of. liz mueller, the attorney general for the great state of louisiana. liz, thank you very much. >> thank you so much for having me. >> steve: los angeles homes and

businesses left in ruins as wildfires have breast braced through their communities. keep it here. continuing coverage in two minutes right here on fox.nimi ♪ ♪ when medicine gets better, all of us can get better.

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