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palisades and are now threatening to move east and ravage more neighborhoods in america's second most populous city. president elect trump, who will be leading the federal response to the disaster when he returns to office in just nine days, spent the week playing the blame game, blasting california's democratic lawmakers and indulging in conspiracy theories linking the fires to die and endangered and endangered fish. residents who lost everything are left with more real world concerns. how do they rebuild and can they ever feel safe again? a neighborhood scientists warn, are deeply vulnerable to the dangers of climate change. joining me now is democratic standby one moment. the fire of the los angeles fire department is holding a press conference on the wildfire. i'll come back to the congresswoman. let's go

there. they're talking about the wildfires burning in l.a. county right now. >> let's listen in. the white house makes the way for the rapid deployment of federal resources, including emergency personnel and financial assistance. while i was on my walk through today, i crossed paths with california assembly speaker rivas. and actually the entire i think assembly family was up in altadena. i told the speaker that the state has to be incredibly flexible and streamline all of their promises or processes, and he has promised to work with us. my goal is to help communities rebuild. like for like, if not better. but there are state and county requirements that can sometimes add an additional cost to the building process. my ask is that the state and the county

work to ensure that we rebuild safely, but we must remove any new costly requirements not related to health and safety that would otherwise make it cost prohibitive for residents to rebuild. government mandates cannot mean the difference between whether a community can afford to rebuild or not. we need to be extremely responsive to the individual needs of thousands, thousands of residents who are going to have to navigate this incredibly difficult process. our community's resilience has always been inspirational and will be our guiding light as we move forward together. i understand that many of our residents are looking and thinking rebuilding is not just a priority. it is an urgent need. i've talked to people who know their home is gone and they want to begin today. i will make sure that the county works

quickly to eliminate unnecessary red tape, ensuring permits are approved safely and swiftly so they can. reconstruction can begin as soon as possible. again, my priority is to ensure that government becomes a facilitator, not an obstacle, as we move toward recovery. i will also prioritize creating one stop service centers where all relevant departments are available in one place in real time. to answer your questions, provide guidance, and support your rebuilding efforts. this will be designed with one goal to make the recovery process as seamless and supportive as possible, and to make sure those resources are right there in the community where you are rebuilding. we're here to help, and we will continue to be here during every part of the process. with that, i'd like to

bring up los angeles county fire chief anthony. >> joining me now is democratic california. democratic california congresswoman sidney. kamala goodall. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. you represent the 37th district, which is made up of parts of downtown and western los angeles, not far from where the worst of these fires are burning. what have you been hearing from your constituents and what has been your reaction watching this tragedy play out? >> well, obviously, this has been incredibly devastating to see. >> we had a couple of small fires break out in my district, but many of my constituents have relatives that live in the areas that have been burned up, specifically because of the eaton fire in altadena, which is a predominantly african-american community. it's a place where black folks were redlined into. and so their generational wealth

are their homes. and so what we are hearing from constituents are, you know, how can i make sure that my grandmother, my aunt, my sister is able to rebuild will not have her land stolen from her and will be able to have it be insured when the reconstruction happens. >> yeah, i, i have been hearing a lot of that from our los angeles, the national action network office. a lot of people concerned in that black community. these are some of the photos that you sent us of your touring around just today. your governor, gavin newsom, has urged president elect trump to come see the fires for himself. as president biden has, rather than lob insults at public officials online and try to blame the disaster on policies he doesn't like, such as diversity programs, dei or environmental protection efforts. in your view, how could

trump help constructively at this moment? and when he takes office in a week and a half? >> well, we need help. >> agents in government, not chaos agents. it is incredibly destructive and counterproductive to have the next the incoming commander in chief, sowing discord and sharing disinformation. this isn't about, you know, california water policies. this is not about having a democratic governor running our state. this is about climate change. this is about mother nature. you know, this is a state that has had aggressive conservation policies. >> as we address the fact that we have had multiyear droughts, what we need is help from the federal government. >> constituents need their federal government working with the state and the county jurisdictions to allow them to go back home to rebuild. you know, i toured altadena, the community center, the business center is gone. churches are

gone. schools are gone. these are economic regions that now have to be, you know, rebuilt. and that can only come with help from the federal government. so stop the blame game. stop the chaos. >> what, what when you talk about rebuild, what can the congress do? is there legislation? is there anything that congress can do? >> well, you know, al, we are due $4 billion from the federal government, from fema to reimburse us for the covid costs. >> so we want that money now on top of an emergency supplemental. democrats and republicans have suffered because of this fire if people want to get partizan. so we need an emergency supplemental. we need to activate fema and make sure that the dollars are able to flow through fema, regardless of who is in the white house in the next nine days, so that reconstruction can begin immediately. >> well, what community needs the most help in your judgment?

>> well, the entire county has been impacted. you know, my community might not have suffered from having homes burned down, but we have folks that are working in the neighborhoods that have burned down. we have a diverse workforce tapestry of teachers, of educators, of caregivers, of domestic workers, you know, bus drivers, people who now don't have a job because the communities where they worked have burned down. so we are going to need a lot of engine, you know, we're going to need the federal government to really accelerate its economic engine into and across this county and the state. >> and it is insulting to me that they use any opportunity, including a tragedy like this, to blame it on di. this is absolutely offensive. thank you, congresswoman. thank you congresswoman. >> yes, you're absolutely right.

>> and we'll stay in touch with you now. now let's talk about president elect trump's sentencing this week in his new york hush money case. although trump avoided jail time, the unconditional discharge means he will be sworn into office as the first convicted felon to be president. we're joined now in the studio by michael cohen, former attorney for donald trump. he hosts two podcasts called mia culpa and political beatdown. he's also author of disloyal, a memoir and revenge how donald trump weaponized the u.s. justice department against his critics. mr. cohen, thank you for being here with us tonight. before we get into the trump sentencing, i must ask you some breaking news we got today. special counsel jack smith has officially resigned. smith has indicated in november he would

be leaving before trump took office. we learned of his resignation in a court filing to judge aileen cannon, the trump appointed judge who dismissed the classified documents case against him. cannon is at the center of a legal fight over the release of smith's final report on his trump investigation, which has been delivered to attorney general merrick garland. should the public see this full report, will they see it? and should president biden himself consider making the whole thing public before it's too late? i don't think so. i know a lot of people are going to say, oh my god, what are you doing? are you bending the knee? the answer is no. right now there's litigation by trump and he's entitled to that type of litigation that says that we don't believe that that this should be. and i know it's within the court system until the court ultimately decides that case, he is entitled to that. right. no different than

anybody else. and, you know, my feeling is if they release the report, look, we all want to read the report. there's obviously some salaciousness to it. so everybody has that prurient desire to, you know, to get down to the nitty gritty things that we don't get a chance to see, things that are generally kept away from the general public. but at the end of the day, the process is still the process. and if we want republicans to respect the process for democrats, we should, as democrats, respect the process for republicans. now to the sentencing. i want to play a little bit of the sound from the hearing yesterday. for those who missed it, here's donald trump now showing an ounce, just an ounce of remorse. >> it's been a political witch hunt. it was done to damage my reputation so that i would lose the election. and obviously that didn't work. and the people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom. they

got to see this firsthand. and then they voted, and i won and got the largest number of votes by far, of any republican candidate in history. >> now, listen to the lead prosecutor in the case, laying out why it is so important that the unanimous convictions be upheld in the probation report, which we just received this morning, the author, having interviewed the defendant, noted that the defendant sees himself as above the law and won't accept responsibility for his actions. >> and that's certainly consistent with everything else that we've seen. >> michael, your reaction? yeah. my reaction is, you know, you stated that there's an ounce of remorse. i didn't even see an ounce or feel an ounce of remorse. i was being kind. yes. you were being very kind. at the end of the day, he does believe himself to be above the law. in fact, he's actually demonstrated

that he's above the law in my entire legal career, which started going back, you know, many, many years, 1991. i have never even heard of an unconditional discharge. when i saw that in the decision of judge juan merchan. and i believe marshawn's decision was both judicious and appropriate, but i had no idea what it was. so i looked it up and i'm saying this doesn't i've never even heard of this. so i went to chatgpt. i started looking it up. i couldn't find a single case, not a single case that went to trial that a judge ultimately issued an unconditional discharge. and i i'm disappointed. i feel very unsatisfied with the decision. i respect the decision, but i don't understand it at all. why have an unconditional discharge where there is no accountability? and why then keep the case so that we can all turn around and take solace in the fact that we can now call him the first american felon

president. that doesn't bring me happiness. it doesn't bring me joy. you did hard time in connection with this case. after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to congress, you spent over a year in prison, a year at home, a year and a half in home confinement. i came to visit you and prayed with you. prayed with your family. how does it feel to watch trump walk away with just a slap on the wrist, on his way to returning to the white house in just nine days? i mean, deep down inside, do you wish he had spent any time in jail given. i mean, i prayed with your son while you were incarcerated. does in your heart do you wish he at least had spent some time in jail or some accountability? well, i definitely want to say, look, how do i feel? almost as bad as those photos of me that were done at the rendering when i was sitting on the witness stand? they're horrible, but i wanted to see some form of accountability at some point in time. i want him to understand

what i went through. but you know, when we always say, and you and i have talked about this so often, when i say that we're a country of laws without justice, this is just a perfect example of it. we are a country of laws. there's no justice here. there's no justice. when somebody commits a crime and because of who they are that they are able to escape the accountability. it's why i do truly believe that todd blanche's motion that they had made for the dismissal, i would not have been shocked. not one iota if mershone actually granted it as opposed to opposing it. now, in other news today, another former trump attorney, rudy giuliani, was found in contempt of court for a second time for continuing to defame two georgia election workers as he drags his feet on turning over the assets as the court has ordered. like you, rudy has had his life and career

badly damaged by his association with trump. but unlike you, he has shown no signs of coming to his senses. what are your thoughts about that? well, rudy very much thinks he's donald. he thinks that he's above the law. he's the great, you know, former mayor of new york who took us through nine over 11, america's mayor at one point in time. he doesn't believe that the law applies to him. he made incredibly defamatory, hurtful and life altering statements about two election workers improperly, and a jury made a determination on the damages. he doesn't believe he needs to turn over anything. he lies to the court, he says about this joe dimaggio signed jersey. i have no idea. but yet there it is. as an example, on his statement for the divorce proceeding. so we know that he has it. we know that there are assets. he won't

even turn over the document on the title to his mercedes. i mean, it's embarrassing to be honest with you. he believes that he is above the law. he believes he's donald trump. he believes that he can act and be donald trump, but he's not. michael cohen, thank you for coming in and being with us. and give my regards to your family. of course. coming up, los angeles is burning and president elect trump is fanning the flames of political chaos rather than rushing to the aid of families who've lost everything. that's next in this week's gotcha. and as we go to break a quick update on the largest of five wildfires burning now on the west coast in california. the palisades fire remains at 11% containment this evening, forcing officials to widen evacuation orders as the blaze grows and threatens more people to the east. more than 350,000

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>> you will be arrested, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. >> john, joining me now is susan del percio, republican strategist. also with me, juanita tolliver, democratic strategist, strategist. both are msnbc political analyst. thank you for being here tonight. susan, this wildfire tragedy will be waiting for donald trump when he returns to the white house in nine days. so far, he has chiefly been focused on placing blame for the fires on his political rivals, like democratic california governor gavin newsom. are you expecting any more leadership from him than that? >> perhaps. >> and here's why. rev, he will be president. he won't be able to just yell from the sidelines. as you mentioned in your gotcha moment. he will be held accountable. and a lot of his new friends happen to have homes

in california in those areas. so that may add some pressure. but he will be he will be held accountable for it. so i don't think he while he may make the cheap shots as he usually does, there's actually a chance for him to build up quite a bit of goodwill and maybe even put this, you know, getting the money that's going to be necessary to build back. he may be able to get that, you know, to people and negotiate a little bit, but i don't expect a great change in his attitude. >> juanita, let let's switch gears to the current commander in chief. president biden held a news conference last night and had this to say about the 2024 election. take a listen. i would have beaten trump, could have beaten trump, and i think that kamala could have beaten trump, would have beaten trump. it wasn't about. i thought it was important to unify the party. and when the party was worried

about whether or not i was going to be able to move, i thought it was even though i thought i could win again. i thought it was better to unify the party. the president was supposed to be talking about his latest job numbers. he has now created more jobs in his term than any other president this century. when he has another chance to address the country in primetime farewell message on wednesday, what would you like to hear from him when he does that address? >> instead of looking to the election, talk about all of the wins that he and the democrats have laid out for the people and the public, so that when programs from the build back better act, from the bipartisan infrastructure deal, from the executive action that he took on on guns and access to abortion and medications and lowering prescription drug prices and lowering housing costs, like when that can be the focus.

that's all i want to hear from president biden as he exits this white house. i would much rather that he step away from any effort to issue any postmortems or thoughts about 2024. at this point, just focus on the legacy that he wants to leave behind and the legislation that his administration, alongside vice president harris and the democrats in congress, was able to deliver for the american public. that's all he needs to talk about. >> susan. this week, meta announced it will do away with fact checking on his social media sites in favor of community notes, same as elon musk's x platform. meta boss mark zuckerberg also blasted biden's administration in an interview with podcast host joe rogan yesterday, saying officials would scream and curse when asking facebook execs to crack down on pandemic misinformation. zuckerberg seems to have been cozying up to trump since the summer. what do you think he's. why do you think

he's doing this? >> well, because zuckerberg, like many other executives that we've seen in all different industries, is cozying up to the president because they know how transactional the president is, and they know if they could perhaps get in his ear on 1 or 2 things that maybe they agree on, they could see it go forward. and as far as zuckerberg taking away, you know, the fact checking, i i'm kind of torn on it because i don't think the fact checking was so good that you could rely on it completely. and that was part of the problem. when you start seeing, you know, the lies out there. the ones that aren't fact checked still get disseminated. i think people need to start realizing what news, what sources they can trust as they get their information. and facebook and twitter were never meant to be news organizations. >> juanita, speaking of meta, this week they joined the list

of major american companies doing away with dei programs, something many of us in the civil rights community will be addressing on king day monday while the president is being inaugurated. others in that group of companies include amazon and mcdonald's. what do you make of these businesses abandoning diversity initiatives ahead of the incoming trump administration? and is there anything their customers can do to push back? >> i mean, rev, they're rolling out the carpet for the second trump administration because they know this is part of the package deal that comes from donald trump. and so when i see these policy rollbacks, it reminds me of the conversations from 2020 when they were first putting them into place. and the clarity in this moment is there was never a full commitment to addressing the deep seated issues of institutional racism in this country. it was merely for public relations because they thought it played well with their customers. and to those customers, i say your dollars are your power. you can pick and

choose which companies you spend your money with. and i point to companies that are pushing back against this trend of eliminating dei programs like costco, who had a big moment with their shareholders recently where they said, no, we're keeping our programs because we're committed to actually executing a plan of diversity and equity within our company. that's where customers have the chance to push back against what these policies and the policy rollbacks we're seeing from mcdonald's, from amazon, from meta and otherwise, use your time and your dollars to make your voices heard. >> you know, susan, many of us are talking about dealing with some of these companies in terms of consumer action and withdrawing some consumer dollars. you don't want diversity at the work site, but you want diversity in the consumer base. and we're going to talk about that king day in washington. is there any cost that they will have to pay with consumers, in your opinion, for rolling back these dei programs?

>> well, you know, only we'll only be able to see as that starts to happen. and i agree with juanita, your dollars are your voice. >> however, i do think that corporations on that lean right and lean left should not be leaning at all. >> they should be doing their business and pretty much staying out of politics unless it really affects their their community or their their business. i think they've gone too far into to politics and it's hurting their bottom line because as we can see for years, it's one way, for years it's the next. it probably should just be about dollars and cents for most businesses and having the right, you know, policies in place internally, but not trying to do it politically. >> msnbc political analyst susan del percio and juanita tolliver, thank you both for being with us. just ahead, how public health officials are bracing for the incoming trump

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joining me now is hannah handel, public health researcher at stanford university and also a delegate to the united nations climate change conferences. to start, you are from california. what have been your reflections as a scientist watching this devastation unfold in your state? >> thank you very much for having me, reverend. >> i really appreciate being with you. you know, the scale of destruction from these fires has been staggering. i have family based in los angeles who had to evacuate, and we as californians are typically no strangers to the threat of wildfires. however, the scale of destruction here is just unimaginable. you know, there's been 250,000 people still without power, 180,000 under evacuations, more than 12,000 pieces of infrastructure burned, 38,000 areas of land, acres of land burned. the death toll has climbed to 11. i mean, it is truly a visceral, visual,

painful portrait of a future under climate change. and that's what many of us have been screaming from the rooftops about. >> scientists are warning that climate change is supercharging many of the disasters that we are seeing these days, and there are real questions about whether it makes sense to rebuild in fire and flood prone areas without significant changes in infrastructure. are we starting to see climate change impact the way we live, and is there still time to reverse it? >> yeah, that's a great question, reverend. >> i think it's really important to remember that there is going to be a fact finding endeavor in the coming weeks, trying to really get granular about what went wrong here. but at the same time, it would do us well to have a conversation about how climate change has effectively turned the beautiful state of california and many parts around the world into a tinderbox, really created those hot and dry conditions. i mean, we know, for example, that climate change is tied to the increasing duration of these fire seasons, more

frequent wildfires, and also greater amounts of areas burned. and so, in the climate community, we often talk about adaptation and mitigation. adaptation means how do we actually manage and respond to these fires in the short term? but mitigation is taking the long view, thinking about how do we reduce the climate factors that make these fires so ferocious? and we definitely need both or both sides of the same coin. >> the incoming president has called climate change a hoax. his cabinet picks include fellow climate deniers and energy executives. the first spending bill of his administration is expected to include provisions to expand oil drilling, while at the same time, trump has talked about rolling back subsidies for electric vehicles and renewable energy sources. what will be the impact of all of that? >> you know, it is so heartbreaking, reverend. >> i mean, we in the climate community, we are bracing for impact. we are getting into crisis mode here. i think it's a

tragic irony, as you mentioned earlier, that 2024 was just confirmed as the hottest year on record, and now we have a climate denier sending to the white house in just a matter of days. i mean, i think this fire, more than anything, should really put into stark relief just how much we need to get a grip on the climate crisis and think about how do we actually move away from fossil fuels to prevent this from being the state of the future? i mean, we deserve so much better. >> i know you are also deeply involved in public health. this past week, the u.s. recorded its first death from bird flu in louisiana. concerns about h5n1 have intensified in recent months, and soon the incoming trump administration will be in charge of the federal response to the outbreak. as you know, trump has selected robert f kennedy jr as his health secretary, who more than 15,000 doctors have signed a letter urging the senate to reject his

nomination, calling him unqualified and dangerous. are you confident the nation will be ready to face another possible pandemic? >> you know, it's incredibly concerning, and i think what these fires actually illustrate is that humans are not separate from the environment. these ecosystems are connected. our human health is intimately tied to the health of the environment. and so climate change is exacerbating a lot of the conditions that have sparked and allowed these fires to propagate so rapidly. that affects our human health, right? when we think about cardiovascular respiratory issues, increases in morbidity and mortality due to exposure to this horrible air quality and fine particulate matter, we are intimately connected to the environment and there is a very deep interplay here. and so the bird flu issue that you mentioned as well, i think that's just another example of how we really have to take care of the environment to take care of ourselves. and that's what i think a lot of us fear with this incoming administration that there's a flagrant disregard for

both. >> lastly, going back to the environment, what is the most important thing that regular people can do to make a difference if they're concerned about the future? >> yeah, that's a great question, reverend. >> you know, what we need to do is we need to catalyze the transition away from fossil fuels. that's what scientists have been screaming about since 2015, when the paris agreement said that we need to keep global average temperature increase well below two degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, and preferably below 1.5°c. and so it's incredibly important that we get people in office that we vote for people who care about this issue, who recognize that we as humans, our health is intimately tied to the health of the environment, and who really use our voices to make sure that we have leaders who represent us, who actually take this matter seriously. >> and hondo, thank you for being with us. up next, a moment of unity for the country. my final thoughts. stay with us.

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