they would do it. but he doesn't does he. because he is just as an implicit in this at all the. rest >> ali, -- that is. all the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris my friend. much appreciated. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris. thanks for joining us at home this hour. happy to have you join us tonight. are you ready to time travel with me? shall we do this together? we're not time traveling very far, so you're not going to need like a victorian costume. we will not require a spacesuit. we're going to time travel, but we're only going to time travel into the future 26 hours. it turns out we can leapfrog magically into the future 26 hours tonight at this website. it is the campaign website for

the main republican challenger trying to unseat california's democratic governor gavin newsom. that election in which california voters will decide whether or not they want to recall governor newsom, that is tomorrow. polls close at 8:00 p.m. pacific time tomorrow, which is 11:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow, but if you would like to see what that future is like, go to that campaign website t top republican trying to unseat governor newsom, and click at the top where it says "stop fraud." you click on the tab, and, look, it looks like this dude has already lost, governor newsom has already won. we can see the future. the republicans are very, very mad they've lost the recall election, and they're claiming they only lost it because of all the fraud they saw on election day, which in real life hasn't happened yet.

but, look, they live in the future. they say, quote, we implore you to join us in this fight as you are able by signing our petition demanding a special session of the california legislature to investigate and ameliorate the twisted results of this 2021 recall. what twisted results? this time machine is a powerful thing. they say, quote, statistical analyses used to detect fraud held in elections in third world nations such as russia, venezuela, and iran, have detected fraud in california, resulting in governor gavin newsom being reinstated as governor. again, this is what they've got live on larry elder's website. it hasn't happened yet. governor new sochl has not been

recalled. the election is not until tomorrow, but already the republicans talk candidate to replace newsome. they say he've lost the election. newsom is not being recalled and it's because of the fraud they know happened, that they statistically analyzed lie iran, so they know what happened tomorrow, even though tomorrow is technically in the future. but, oh, by the way, if you do not believe them, if you do not take these claims of theirs very, very seriously, they want you to know, the top wants you to know if you don't go along with this, if you resist, there's going to be some shooting. here is the opening salvo on that part of the website for larry elder, your republican candidate for governor for california. they say there are four boxes of liberty, the soapbox, the ballot

box, the jury box, and the ammo box. we trust in our elected officials to safeguard that ballot box, however, when they allow thieves to steal in the dead of night and steal the ballot box, we can no longer rely on its contents. will we now have to fight the california jury box in the hope that the final box, the one most akin to pandora's, remains closed? remember in this setup the final box is the ammo box. in other words, this is republicans proclaiming, saying basically, you know, join us in proclaiming an advance that any election won by a democrat doesn't count? we will turn to the ammunition box to get our way, return to the ammo box. that's not leak a random screen shot from youtube comments from some bug-eyed video where you

should take your dog's flee collar off and puttet in your underpants to protect yourself from covid. this is not some right-wing paranoia. this is up right now while trying to recall the governor of california, and you should leave your dog's flee collar exactly where it is while we're on the subject. even that page with the ammo threat and all that, it says at the bottom, paid for by larry elder ballot marsh committee recall newsom. they're telling you even though tomorrow even though they don't respect the results, join with them. to join a shooting war? it has become an article of faith and a central organizing

principle of campaigning in 2021 that elections themselves are not something we should do anymore. election results are not real. only suckers believe in the vote count at the end of an election. only suckers believe in the proclamation of a winner. republicans don't believe those things. we're here. this is where we are now. it turns out it's not some distant dystopian future where one of two major parties in the united states of america have decided elections are no longer the way. they want to participate in american politics. it's not some faraway future. it's 26 hours from now, tomorrow night. it means it's here. apparently they already know they're going to lose that election and why. president biden tonight is in california. we are awaiting his speech tonight at a rally for governor gavin newsom in long beach, california. president biden spent the day today reviewing wildfire damage

in the state of idaho and also in california. he made an announcement today in idaho about something his administration did about fires this year that was a surprise, something we didn't know about before the president announced it today. we're going to have more on that in a few minutes coming up later in this hour. president biden talked about the growing intensity of the dangers imposed by climate change. he did that not just to get specific about the wildfire threat in the west but also to promote his signature legislation, his big infrastructure bill, which includes all of his major proposals on climate, climate resiliency, building up our ability to survive these increasingly large storms and fire seasons, getting us on to cleaner energy and off of the kinds of fuels and processes that make climate change worse. that's something the democrats are going to dpig figure out how

to pass. it's something they're going to figure out. we're awaiting word any day, any hour as to whether there might be some serious immigration reforms in the big bill the democrats want to pass. on friday -- i'm surprised this didn't get more attention. on friday democrats pled their case to the parliamentarian of the senate that they want to fold some big immigration reforms into their bill. the parliamentarian will consider that request. she gets to rule on that request whenever she feels like it. we're essentially on watch for that to happen. it could happen any time. the parliamentarian doesn't have a calendar on which she has to respond, but depending on her answer, this could be the best chance for real immigration reform in decades, and if it can't be done in this big bill that's called a reconciliation bill that the democrats are

trying to pass, it's hard to imagine getting it done any other way. this is kind of a do-or-die high-stakes decision on which washington has been stagnating for decades. today the democratic leader in the senate chuck schumer also announced since democrats have come up with a new compromised bill on voting rights. republicans have thus far used the filibuster to block proceeding toward a voting rights bill to pass the house, but chuck schumer says over their break, it was a group of nine senators who came up with a new voting rights bill. they call it a compromised bill. we don't know what's in it. but we know conservative joe manchin helped draft this compromised bill and he does support it. since senator manchin is the one who keeps insisting that surely, surely republican senators will vote for this, surely republicans aren't against voting rights, of course, they'll vote for this.

since senator joe manchin has apparently convinced himself of that idea, schumer has put joe manchin in charge of approving it. he's in charge of rounding up the voting rights that joe manchin says he's sure are out there. >> senator manchin has been having discussions with our republican colleagues to try and garner support for this important legislation. this is a good proposal, and i encourage all my senate colleagues to support it. so the senate must act. i intend to hold a vote as early as next week on voting rights legislation. time, time is of the essence. i yield the floor. >> a vote, perhaps, next week on voting rights. we shall see. i will tell you, we've been trying to report this out over the course of today and tonight. i'll tell you the status of our reporting right now. one democratic staffer who's in

talks says the voting rights, it's a question whether they'll carve something out. we'll see. one democratic staffer familiar with the state of the talks tells us that this new voting rights compromised bill could be introduced as early as tonight by senators joe manchin, raphael warnock, amy klobuchar. we shall see. it will happen tomorrow morning if it doesn't happen tonight. if the timing is that imminent, there's not much reason to speculate at this point. we'll know when, in fact, it happens. again, with sourcing like that, talking to us -- sources like that telling us about a pace that fast, it does look like it's happening soon with senator manchin saying it's moving and may get the final vote next week, it does seem like this is happening. the process is also moving on

biden's signature big legislation, the big budget reconciliation bill which means infrastructure, which means climate change, which could mean immigration reform at some level. that's all real policy, substantive stuff with real prospects, and it is all on the move, all here on earth one, where it is monday night and the california election is tuesday, and tuesday comes after monday, so it hasn't happened yet and we don't know the results yet. any advance notice is not possible. here on earth one, that's what's happening. an election tomorrow that we can forecast but not yet complain about the results of since there are no results. that's what's going on right now. because the other party in america doesn't really live on

earth one anymore, all the democrats working in washington t leaders in the house an senate had to fit into their day security briefings on what the capitol police are having to do this week to try to physically protect the u.s. capitol from the trump supporters coming back this week for the first time since their january 6th violent attack on the u.s. capitol to try to keep trump in office. this time they're coming back this saturday to praise the january 6th attackers and to demand that they be released from prison. >> can you talk a little bit about what you briefed this morning? >> yeah. we briefed about the demonstration scheduled for september 18th, just the intelligence information that we're aware of and a little bit about our operational plan and what we plan to do. [ indiscernible ] >> yes. [ indiscernible brts.

>> the fence will go up the day or two before and if everything goals well, it will comdon soon after. yes, the trump folks are coming to the capitol again to proclaim that they don't believe in the election results and to proclaim specifically that the people who attacked the capitol january 6th to try to keep trump in power after he lost the election, those people are heroes and political leaders and they're being persecuted and they should all be released. so this week the protective fencing around the capitol has to go back up. today politico was the first to report in a new book, the chief of staff stephanie grisham said on january 6th, she says she texted the first lady, do

you want to tweet that protest? one minute later, one minute after grisham sent that text to the first lady, she replied with a one word answer, quote, no, no, i do not want to tweet that. melania trump and the chief of staff ended up resigning later on january 6th. here we are. one of the two political parties in our country has been trying to contend with what happened there? that attack on our country and investigating it and trying to get who is behind it and how we can prevent it from happening again, and on the other side, well, there's the rally celebrated the attacker this weekend, so the fence has to go back up around the capitol. the leading republican running in the california governor's

recall race says in advance that tomorrow's election in california shouldn't count and they will claim fraud. and for good measure they'll go to the ammo box unless everyone goes along with that. today trump called it rigged, calling it just another giant election scam, no different than the 2020 presidential election scam. today he also issued an endorsement for a republican candidate who is vying for the statewide office that runs elections in arizona. he endorsed a republican candidate for arizona's secretary of state. the man is a state representative right now in a and he has supported the bogus audit of the election in arizona. this is a guy who last week somewhat hilariously tried to personally proclaim the election results in arizona should definitely be flipped to trump.

last week he said i'm calling it. oh, are you. i'm recalling it. i'm recalling the electors. there is already enough evidence to show clear and convincing fraud. have a duty to act. last week he said that. today trump gave him the endorsement to be arizona's next secretary of state, which means -- what's more valuable than a trump endorsement in a republican primary, right? in a republican primary for secretary of state with this guy having trump's endorsement now, he'll probably win, right, which will make him the republican candidate for secretary of state in arizona running on the platform that arizona should have its election results of 20 2020 tossed out, and even though trump got the endorsement. it should be thrown out. this nomination will give him a shot at getting that job. i will tell you this is the

third of these that has happened in a row. this is the third white secretary of state endorsement trump has made this year. one of them is this guy in arizona who says the victory should will thrown out and he should be endorsed. trump has endorsed a candidate in georgia who says biden's victory in georgia should be thrown out and the state be given to trump and also in michigan who says it should be throughout out and the state be given to trump. those are the three he made this year. notice a pattern? if you're a republican politician, you look at this pattern, you look at trump's sway in the republican party right now. what do you think it takes to be nominated by the republican party to be secretary of state in any state in the country? do you think anybody's going to be a republican primary whoutd

pledging first that trump should be given that state's electoral votes? things on earth two are definitely weird, but never let it be said that they are complicated. it's getting more and more simple all the time there. back here on earth one, democrats are working on policy, and we may get their new voting rights bill as early as tonight. back here on earth one it's the night before the california recall election, which means it hasn't happened yet, which means we should talk to steve kornacki about how the polls look. we are live from earth one tonight and every night. watch this space.

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in the city of los angeles alone, there are currently three efforts under way right now to recall members of the los angeles city council and "the new york times" is saying, quote, another day, another recall notice. in the city of los angeles, you need a grand total of five voters to get together to begin the process of calling for a recall for a los angeles official. literally you can start a recall with the number of people you can fit in your camry, and it's not just l.a. across the state of california, there are more than 70 elected officials who are facing the threat of recall just this year because that's how they do it in california. california asks for recalls all the time. you can mount a recall campaign against any statewide elected official for any reason at all if you can achieve the grand result of collecting signatures from just 12% of people who voted in the last election for

that seat. not 12% of registered voters, but 12% of the number of people who voted in the last election for that seat specifically. that's all you need to be able to get that statewide elected official put up fur recall. as far as low bars go, this is so low it sits on the floor and invites you to walk on it. and so every glonch in the estate of california for the past 60 years has faced at least one attempt to recall them. and you will, of course, recall the successful 2003 recall of governor gray davis. that's how beended up with arnold schwarzenegger for a hot minute. now they're trying again with this recall they're mounting against governor gavin newsom. the polls close at 8:00 p.m. specific time. right now as we speak, the president is with governor

newsom for a final get out the vote push. i'd love to tell you how it's all likely to go. republicans are already complaining newsom has one. there are no results yet but good to know how you guys are planning to approach this in good faith. california is so weird about recalls and recalls are such weird birds among elections, i feel like i have more answers than questions about what to expect tomorrow. what are the odds of governor newsom being actually recalled? are there specific variables we need to watch for that differ from a normal election? when do we gect to see results? the polls close at 8:00 pchl pacific, 11:00 p.m. on the 'em. joining me now is steve

kornacki, msnbc's political analyst. the history of it is so bizarre, so easy to start a recall effort. actually getting somebody recalled is pretty difficult at the statewide level. ballpark figure, first question, how likely do you think, based on the polling, that newsom has survived this recall effort? >> gavin newsom has got to belief the polls are right. if they're accurate, he's going to survive. these are the most recent polls. this is the final week of the campaign. keep newsom. no on the recall. keeps leading. double digits in all but one of the polls this week. one even over 20 points. the average is to keep newsom by

a margin of 14 points. rare to have a precedent here. went back and looked thoechlt 2003 is when gray davis was recalled and schwarzenegger game the governor. the polls in the final week of the 2003 recall were yes on the recall by an average of 16 points. so that's a significant difference in the polg for the run-up to this one versus the one in 2003. it ended up passing by a margin of ten points. >> steve, when you're looking at specific voting groups, projected turnouts, signs of affected fieldwork, that sort of stuff, when we approach it in normal circumstances state by state, you get to learn where to look, bellwether counties, bellwether staffing groups. for a recall election and this one in particular is there something specific you're looking at that could be

determinative that we could have an early idea of when we see the exit polls in terms of who's actually turns out to vote? >> we'll get exit polls. i think what's going to happen to take you through the pe cue yarts of it, we're going to get a lot of returns in that 11:00 p.m. eastern time to midnight eastern hour tomorrow night that may basically tell us the result result. if it's real close, it may take days. the first hour, the first 90 minutes could be determinative. what you're seeing -- i put this up -- this is biden over california, a 30-point margin for biden. very similar result in 2016 with hillary clinton. very similar with gavin newsom when he won in 2018. what you're looking at on the map is a sort of democratic victory. that's the key to this recall. if the recall is going to have any chance of succeeding, you

can talk about one particular demographic group. the big picture thing that has to happen for recall supporters, they need lots of people who voted for biden in 20, who voted for newsom in 2018, who voted for clinton in 2015, who typically vote democratic. they need a lot of them to vote for the recall. take a look at this map. you see some red area. the red area you see on the typical map in california tend to be rural, smaller population areas. the big population centers are the blue areas on the state. so, for instance, this is one interesting way of looking at it. l.a. county, there's 10 million people in l.a. county right here. that's bigger than new jersey. this is 25% of all the vote in the state of california is going to come out of l.a. county. if you just add in orange county to the south, san diego, and the inland empire, san bernardino and river side forecast you look at this block of votes here,

more than half the votes statewide is going to come out of this small pocket right here. you see it's all blue. the challenge for recall supporters, for instance, if you take orange county, biden won by nine points over trump. trump got 44 points. if the recall is going to succeed tomorrow and you're looking at a place like orange county, the number has to be at least 60%. it's got to be getting a county like orange to get to 60%. if they do that, a lot of people who voted for biden, a lot of democratic voters have got to support this thing. that's the big challenge recall supports have to do. they're trying to do this in one of the bluest states in the country. >> steve, i want to ask you about something that may be hard to model or get quantitative on because it's a relatively new phenomenon, on one side of the ledger, republican voices and leaders telling those core

voters that the election's rigged, that their vote won't be counted, that the system is stacked against them. there was a lot of questioning after the georgia senate races following november 2020. there was a lot of questions whether or not republican voters actually sat home because they had been essentially demoralized about the integrity of democracy, because of the way trump was questioning the presidential result and a lot of speculation that that contributed to those democrats winning those two senate seats in georgia is. that a want finally dynamic since we're seeing the republicans hit that line so hard hitting the california recall tomorrow. >> there's a couple of things. when we do get the final results, we'll look and see how the turnout was relative to the republican areas, you know, was there sort of a disparity there. we ended up seeing that when we looked at georgia.

one thing i will say about california unlike georgia, everyone was mailed a ballot and they've been mailed them back in for weeks. there is some question. they say they voted before this latest sort of messaging you're describing starting going out. there i think that's one variable. the other variable is if you were looking at polling a month ago and there wasn't a ton of it but there was enough a month ago that people across the country were getting curious about this race because a month ago the recall was within single digits in the polling. there was even a poll, you can quibble with the methodology, but curiosity had piqued when it came to california. the polls now almost uniformly showing so italy for newsom for senior vieving. there has been a shift in the interest level. it's working in the democrats' favorite. it's a 35-point biden state.

democrats started getting the word out. started getting media coverage and it does seem like that democratic electorate woke up in the last few weeks. at least that's what the polling is suggesting. >> that hangs over our head every day like a damocles. steve kornacki. as always it's wonderful to have you on tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> much more to get to tonight. stay with us. uch more to get tot stay with us

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the town of cullman is in north alabama right between birmingham and huntsville. the local paper there is the "cullman times." and a few days ago the story that led their print edition was an obituary. antiques and auctioneering. businessman ray demonia remembered for community service. it's their lead story.

and there's a reason it was at the top of the paper. he was clearly a beloved local figure. for decades he'd been dealing antiques and hosting auctions in cullman, alabama. many of them for charity. the paper printed a great old photo of him hosting an auction in his younger days and included an excerpt from a profile the "cullman times" had done about him a decade ago. it said, "his showmanship makes for a fun day, watching him encourage, cajole, and entice his audience is a thing of beauty. he knows his customers. he plays to them. he elicits moans and bursts of laughter at his antics." ray demonia lived his whole life in cullman, alabama. but he did not die there. he had a cardiac emergency that he suffered in cullman on august 23rd. but he ended up dying nine days later and 200 miles away from home in a hospital across state lines in mississippi. and here's why. here's why mr. demonia's warm, loving sweet obituary in his

hometown paper is not just a local story about this loss for his family and cullman who will no longer get to enjoy his auctioneering antics. because when mr. demonia's family of him, they included this at the end, "in honor of ray please get vaccinated. in an effort to free up resources for non-covid related emergencies. due to covid-19 cullman emergency center staff contacted 43 hospitals in three states in search of a cardiac icu bed and finally located one in meridian, mississippi. he would not want any other family to go through what his did." i mean, for everyone who says that getting a vaccine is a personal choice that doesn't affect anyone else, line that up with ray demonia's obituary and what his family has just said about his death. right? i mean, your decision about your vaccine may feel personal to you. i get it.

but you live in a society. you live in a country. and your decision about your vaccine is ultimately the decision that fills up hospital beds, that makes all the difference to your society, your community, your country. it makes all the difference as to whether a man like ray demonia gets that icu bed or not. other people's decisions about their vaccine made the decision for him as to whether or not he could get the critical care he needed. his daughter tells the "cullman tribune," "dad was a team player always. he was vaccinated for his health and everyone else's health. he did everything he was supposed to do." if that time named cullman, alabama is reagan bell for you, if you feel like the town sounds familiar from something else recently in the news, you are correct. cullman, alabama was recently the site of a giant donald trump rally. this was last month. the state republican party claimed 50,000 people attended,

which would make it the largest political event in alabama history if true. do we believe it's true? i don't know. it was a big event. two days after that event ray demonia went to the cullman hospital with his cardiac emergency and it did take calls to 43 different hospitals to find him that cardiac icu bed. and to be clear, it's not like we can say that giant trump event caused mr. demonia's death. but a place where tens of thousands of people show up and at that rally booed vaccines, that's the kind of place where the local hospital is probably going to be filled up with mostly unvaccinated covid patients. and whatever the reason that the hospital is full, if the hospital's full people who need those hospital beds are not going to get them in a timely way. and for some people, that's going to be the end of their life. alabama is one of the least vaccinated states in the country. the only states with a lower vaccination rates than alabama are west virginia, wyoming, and idaho. in idaho crisis standards of care have been formally implemented in a huge swath of the state. patients from idaho are also now starting to overwhelm hospitals

in neighboring washington state. as of today, the state of alabama does not just have zero icu beds available. the state's icu bed availability is in negative territory. they have 0.7% negative icu bed capacity. ray demonia's daughter telling the "washington post," quote, dad would just want things to get back to normal. if people would realize the strain on hospital resources that's happening right now then that would really be amazing." but they don't flow if that will ever happen. joining us now is dr. jeanne marrazzo, director of the division of infectious diseases at the university of alabama at birmingham. dr. marrazzo, it's an honor to have you with us tonight. thank you so much for taking the time. >> my pleasure, rachel. good to see you. >> so you were warning a month ago that alabama was out of icu beds. you warned publicly that if things continued the way they were going you said that this month could be apocalyptic. how are things in alabama right now? it feels like that icu capacity

number has been negative for a while. >> right. exactly. and when i used that term, you know, some people took it in the literal biblical sense. but what i was really referring to was a breakdown of a social order, a breakdown of our ability to expect that we as a community, especially a medical community, can care for each other, right? if your father like mr. demonia is in need of acute care because he's having a cardiac emergency, you assume in a normal world where we do take care of each other, that you can actually go to an emergency department, maybe not the one right next to your house, but maybe within a 20-mile radius and get care. his story is unfortunately incredibly sad and tragic, just heartbreaking. and we're seeing that play out. this is not an isolated event. most of our emergency departments in the state are really overwhelmed.

and we're boarding people there, taking care of people who really need the icu beds that you mentioned are in such short supply. right now our icus are mostly filled with people who require to be on a ventilator. and that means we're taking care of some incredibly sick patients in the rooms outside of the icu. these are people who could use an icu bed, but at this point, the bar is so high to get into the icu, you really need to be on a ventilator. and that is a very stressful situation for families, for nurses who are taking care of these patients on the floors and in the e.r.s, and for everybody who's involved in that care. not to mention the patient. >> i think about what it must mean for health care staff working with patients on ventilators who are that sick, who are that close to the end and working in an environment that isn't by design as resource-intensive as it could

be. i want to put something to you that you actually said here on this show back in june of last year. you were here last summer and you told me this. you said, "i think people aren't paying attention that much" -- excuse me. "i think people aren't paying attention that the health care workforce is not an exhaustive supply." you said the people who are working really, really hard to care for these patients are facing serious exhaustion not to mention the psychological stress of seeing patients die and having to deal with all the concerns about getting infected themselves. you were talking about that stress in a way that really struck with me and moved me more than a year ago. now more than a year later it's the same staff. i have to ask how you feel the workforce is keeping given how bad it's been for so long. >> yeah. thank you so much for remembering that. i will say that it's gone from a feeling of really fear, anxiety, all the sort of stuff i was conveying to you back then, to a sort of numbness.

and that's so much worse because when you start to feel like, you know, you can't see an end to this, right, we don't know what's going to happen. hopefully delta will decline like it has in other countries. the uk, israel. but nobody's really sure that's going to happen. plus we have the mu variant in the waiting room. hopefully that won't take off. but the bottom line is this exhaustion coupled with uncertainty about when this is going to end and when we're going to be able to get back to taking care of people for all the other things they really need. so i think people are at a very dangerous level of almost disassociation and emotional exhaustion because you've got to get through the day. the other thing that's making it very hard is -- and i think people probably aren't talking about this enough -- is that a lot of health care workers are really angry because this was preventable, right? mr. demonia did not need to die

in the way he did. and he had gotten vaccinated. so the negative feelings when you're trying to take care of patients really is something that people are having to deal with, converse about, and talk about, and really acknowledge. >> dr. jeanne marrazzo is director of the division of infectious diseases at the university of alabama at birmingham. thank you for being with us, thank you for coming back and talking to us again. i've seen the hospital census numbers tick down a little bit, a little bit in recent days. >> yeah. >> and that is a blessing, and i hope there is much more of that to come. good luck. >> thanks. appreciate it. bye-bye. >> thank you. we'll be right back. stay with us.

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who are unparalleled resources for fighting remote hard-to-get-to fires because the way they get to the fire is by literally jumping out of an airplane to get there. it turns out that is a much faster way to get to the fire than trying to drive there when roads and trails might not be accessible or they might not exist at all. it takes a lot of rigorous training to learn to be a smoke jumper, and you need to be in really good shape. you have to carry 85 pounds of equipment on your back while you parachute down to the blaze. and that's before you start work. just remarkable stuff, smoke jumpers. today president biden visited the national interagency fire center in boise, idaho, which is basically the command center for fighting wildfires all over the country. the president met there with a team of smoke jumpers based in boise. he got a tour of the facility and leading the response to one

of the worst wild fire seasons we've ever had. the president in his visit today stressed the correlation between these increasingly devastating wildfires all over the west and climate change. he says the u.s. should be investing in solutions to protect the country from more extreme weather in the future especially since we're already starting to live with its consequences. but in the midst of that big picture stuff, he also brought up a very small picture problem. a more immediately, more granular right-now problem facing the smoke jumpers he met with today and facing other firefighters. it is a very specific problem that has a pretty direct fix. >> believe it or not, the massive shortage of fire hoses, i think you all get it. the idea that we went into this fire season with a shortage of fire hoses? that's all i heard from my guys back east and the midwest, more fire hoses. >> no fire hoses?

the president saying today the firefighters not just fighting the wildfires in the west but all over the country have been hobbled this year by a shortage of fire hoses of all things. the pandemic affects everything. it affects couches and computer chips and also the hoses that your local firefighters need to put out fires everywhere. today president biden said he was fixing the fire hose shortage. today president biden announced he was fixing the fire hose shortage. he has invoked the defense production act, the wartime-era law that lets the federal government essentially take over private business functions to manufacture essential supplies that the country needs. he first used it to boost the production of covid vaccines earlier this year. today he announced he has invoked the law for the second time in his presidency, to manufacture 22,000 new fire hoses. these hoses are manufactured by an american company based in

oklahoma, and then they get into the hands of firefighters all over the country. honestly, it's a fascinating story, right? the president using this tool from another era to basically magic up 22,000 fire hoses to fight this absolutely brutal fire season out west, but in the biggest picture of all, president biden keeps saying what he feels like he needs to prove to the world right now is that the u.s. government can work, that democracy can work, that our federal government has the authority it needs to solve problems large and small. using the defense production act to get more fire hoses built, this is government working in its own weird way. we'll be right back. its own weird way. we'll be right back.

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all right. that is going to do it for us for tonight. i will see you again here tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. california, i mean this sincerely, the eyes of the nation are on you. i'm not joking. i'm not joking about this. you've got to vote no on recall. keep gavin as governor. the rest of america is counting on you, and so am i. >> it's election day in california. today the state will decide whether governor gavin newsom should be removed from office, and if so, who should replace him? the question is, where do things stand this morning? pl