i saw that it's processed through actblue.t newsom's team told fox news digital that the donations made will be directed. none of it, excuse me, will be directed to the governor or his pack and they go on to say they raised $450,000. even if that's the case, it's a bad look to have actblue processing this. it's a bad look when you go on the website, and they have all of these, what they call lies, listed out, and misinformation and rebuttals to all of this. this fire has been going on less than a week and your team managed to have the time to put together what i would call a misinformation website. it's a horrible look. look, i know people say it all the time. if a republican had been doing it, it would be -- they'd be going crazy in the media. >> people need help, rachel, and they need help directly. to kayleigh's point, fine, why not put the link directly, and showing what it is doing than their sites. it sounds like it's top-down in california. >> they must be worried about the next political campaigns. a lot of the people

i'd ask him, take this actblue money and give it directly to the people who are in need. don't take 4% off the top. >> congressman, thank you for your time tonight. i appreciate you joining us here on set. my political sources are also here. kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director, and sarah matthews, the former deputy press secretary for president trump when he was in the white house the last time. sarah, this is not a position that is only held by by some republicans in the house. we're seeing senate republicans like tommy tuberville from from my home state also expressing support for this. you worked in the white house when trump was in office last time. and disasters like this hit. what is your view of this demand that is percolating? >> i think although you're going to see some republicans who agree with this sentiment, we've also seen some come out of the senate who have pushed back on this, particularly from states who understand the importance of disaster relief. and it being nonpartisan. rick scott from florida has already said he doesn

and they had their own issues sending donations through actblue, the democratic party vehicle which takes cut of him. that's number one. number two. but also like i think there's a lot less tolerance for the kind of line of argument megan was talking about, about politicizing this on the right, because we remember very clearly desantis brought this up when kamala was trying to make hay out of phone calls during the campaign, how desantis wouldn't answer. and i just looked it up over the break to, you know, we often hear this and are on this sort of thing when we get mass shootings, god forbid, with republicans how we kind of have a very similar thing. let's not politicize this. let's not do that. and gavin newsom, on the day of one of the tennessee shootings in march of 23, and then two months later, a north hollywood beach shooting in florida, i just looked it up on x, was posting blaming desantis for certain policies on the ap's original post. and then also marsha blackburn in the tennessee one. so the cries ring very hollow to me when newsom talks about this. >> i mean, this is inheren

and we need to figure out a way to, you know, if we have to go to actblue and tell them you can't treat our donors like this anymore. they don't exist without us. we don't exist without them. we might have to do that because experts are telling me it's not just annoying, but it's destructive and destabilizing to our entire ecosystem of wanting to be involved in this. you know, it's a joke. it's a meme joke, and i would say we need to get into the entire ecosystem and not throw up our hands and say, well, this isn't us, this isn't the dnc, . you know, i will say that char whickler's emails from the democratic party of wisconsin are all, i don't find there are a lot of them, but i don't find them to be at that level. but you know, when people think that it's us doing it, if it says democrat, that's us whether we want it to be us or not. so stop the damn texts. >> thank you. all very good answers. i appreciate the, the dialogue on that. now i've watched prior forums, so i have a good sense of everybody's philosophy on how the democratic party presidential nominating process should be handl

resist the notion that most of the members here who all raise tens of millions of dollars through actblue that has a sub page that only until senator butler finally told them to take it down after a spent a year renting about it on their a ctblue had all cops are bastards. would it be fair for me to say president biden is embracing an organization that hangs all cops are bastards and you should have a fundraising run forth 13.12 miles and protest outside of of police departments and put pressure on them. saying that president trump or you or anybody else or somehow have -- kash patel have any illusions. that is so absurd to think in a big hearing like this, we actually just talked about that with that. we actually think someone of the stature and experience that would come before this committee would actually think a bunch of people eating cabals controlling the innards of government was real. let's just be -- and i get the theatrical. get the marketing department thought to be really cool if it was said. but guys, that's not us at our best. and i just thought it was kind of funny. that i