watch. >> the "los angeles times" we endorse karen bass.right now upfront that is a mistake and we admit that. >> trace: that is a bad declaration if you were karen bass to have the guy who runs the biggest paper in town to say it was a bad decision to endorse. >> that is right. and i bet they feel like they are eating a little bit of a crow right now why he felt the need to replace the entire editorial board at the "los angeles times" and mayor bass is in the same boat as gavin newsom. she has refused to answer for how ill-prepared the state was for this type of wildfire. in fact, her and gavin newsom were actually pointing fingers at people calling out their lack of preparedness accusing them of spreading misinformation and singing they are distracting from the assistance efforts it is actually discussing. >> trace: amber duke, kevin barker, thank you both. >> thank you. >> trace: billionaire real estate developer rick caruso who lost to karen bass for l.a. it mayor hired private firefighters to protect a soma and luxury outdoor mall from

we talk about karen bass in africa. priority is not on fire prevention but on climate change, on ep mandates. you know who is paying for this? the citizens in california because just like myself, i'm in my evacuation close and sleeping clothes. you don't know what's going to happen. what happened to pacific palisades and altadena should not have happened. one final point, why did the mayor cut $17,000 out of the fire department budget? it is not a priority, todd. >> todd: that mirror karen bass when pressed by reporters didn't have a lot to say. >> do you regret cutting some fire department by millions of dollars, mayor? have you nothing to say today? have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? no apology for them? do you think you should have been visiting ghana when this was unfolding back home? >> todd: you had a long flight from africa to craft a response. yet, that is what she gives the reporter. where is the accountability, l leo? here is the leadership? >> it does not exist in california, todd becau

is anyone investigating kin eurozone necessary and karen bass for allow -- karen bass for allowing that reservoir to have been drained 117 million gones of water? this isn't fiction, this isn't politics, this is human decency. she rowed -- allowed that a to happen on her watch. on tuesday night when i'm sitting in my home in pasadena and i'm hearing about winds predicted of 80 to 100 miles per hour, alicia, that's hurricane force. where was her team sitting there the with the electric grid across all of l.a. county trying to figure out where to potentially turn off electricity to make sure lines don't go down, because i think you're going to find at the end of the day lines went down causing these fires. how are you not there with your team? who gives a heck about ghana? what is her butt doing in ghana? who cares about an inauguration in ghana? get your butt in town and take care of your people. and now we're dealing with what you're talking about in pasadena we have contaminated water, contaminated. people can't drink water, can't shower. what is she doing about that? s what is she doi

was brilliant in your last hour saying look, you can have gavin newsom and arnett bass resign -- karen bassn, but will another newsom and bass come? in adam schiff and nancy pelosi and eric swayl well be leaders in california? till you change the quarterback, the game snout going to do too well and another quarterback that's like the first qb, that's a problem too. if leadership changes, then yes, but californians now for quite some time have been elected democrats over and over again despite horrible records so will this be the tipping point? i think it will be, stu. this isn't a story that next week we're not talking about it. we could be talking about this for years. a generational story because to your point, if it takes a year just to get jillian michael's pool fixed, how long does it take to rebuild all the homes and get through all the insurance and red tape and talking about tens of thousands of homes that were either destroyed or affected here, it's an absolute mess and unless leadership changes, it's going to continue to be a mess. stuart: i want you to listen to what one analyst

s mayor, karen bass, had nothing to say when she returned to california. she'd left on a trip the ghana just as the emergency began. if she had cut the fire department's budgets by $17 million. some firefighters couldn't be sent out because of a shortage of equipment. bass now blames the weather for the disaster. well, there is other news. in a half hour, the funeral service for jimmy carter quinns. presidents biden, obama and clinton will be there, and so will president-elect trump. the service begins at 9:30 eastern. the markets, closed today to on everybody the passion of america's 39th president. it is thursday, january the 9th, 2025. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right. we are going to start by taking you to the heart of california's fire disaster. max gorden joins us from los angeles county. bring it all together, please. what's it like where you are, max? >> reporter: good morning, stu. well, what's been most shocking for me is this is not necessarily what you think of when you think of a wildland fire. we're in a residential

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la mayor karen bass is going to speak in just a moment. i'm going to come back to her in just a second when she does. but right now i want to go to brant pasqua. he's a battalion chief for cal fire. he's standing by at the palisades. fire chief, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. i am going to interrupt you when karen bass starts talking again, but i want to mention something that the sheriff pointed out earlier and that that in some of these places that have been hit by fire, that people are waiting to get back into, including where you are, there's no power, there's no water, there are no gas lines. the buildings may be unstable even if they look like they're standing and power lines are down. this is what firefighters deal with all the time. you know that those are dangers that are not obvious to the resident who says fires out. i need to get back to my house. >> absolutely. >> and it's understandable to think, you know, to see it from their perspective as well. but i tell you, it's still like a war zone up there. >> it

gavin newsom and karen bass in the same category, they are in the wrong job.hey are not comfortable in front of people or issues and they don't solve problems. they want to be queen of england. >> ainsley: she issued emergency declaration two days before she left on the way out and still decided this is an emergency situation, if you are mayor, you stay with your community and people and solve problems when the emergency happens. instead she goes to africa -- 17 hours. >> lawrence: ainsley, i have some hope because of mandate in last election and amount of independent voters that want common sense. this is a common sense moment for people in california. greg made the point yesterday, people will take a lot of stuff, maybe crime in california, maybe take other issues, they are not going to forget their house being burned down. >> brian: and no insurance. >> steve: the thing, we'll talk about insurance next segment. you are assuming those people who lost everything because of ink incompetence will stay in california. if i was them, i would move to texas, florida

also today, mayor karen bass and fire chief kristen crowley defended their preparations and responsee fires. at a news conference to two also addressed their differences saying they are focussed on getting the city out of the current crisis. now, overnight the palisades fire, the largest of them, grew by about 1,000 acres, leading to new evacuations. and national guard troops are deployed to keep properties safe. 22 people have been arrested, including suspected looters. we have a team of cbs news correspondents covering this disaster. we begin with the latest fire developments. good evening to you, lilia. >> reporter: good evening, maurice. and you're right, the winds are picking up and we are not far at all from that house you just mentioned. as you can see, there is smoke around. and i can see from the leaves and from the running firefighters that the situation could be a little bit heavier in the coming hours. >> reporter: firefighters in los angeles are making an all-out aerial assault with helicopters dumping water on the spreading flames. while planes dropped fire retardant in

those were -- karen bass.definitely for donald trump. >> and they gave him a fire hat with 47 on it. rachel: president trump ended up sparring with karen bass over this cutting of the red tape in order to -- he wants to get things done and said i'm coming in to help but, california, your rules and regulationings better not vow me down. >> you have emergency powers like i do and i'm exercising my emergency powers. you have to exercise them also. >> i did exercise them. >> i look, you have a very powerful emergency power, and you can do everything within 24 lores. >> yes. and if individuals want to clear out their property, they (&.k >> everyone standing in front of the house wants to go to work and they're not allowed. >> but we need people to be safe. >> they're safe, they're safe. tare not safe now. they're going to be much safer a week, a week is actually a long time the way i look at it. i watched hups of people standing in front of their lots and not allowed to go in. it's all burned, gone, done. it's not

you've got the funding of the fire department cut by karen bass, the mayor.at the policies now to try to understand how we arrived here. >> you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. priorities matter. and the priorities in the budget of california for the past few years and for the city of los angeles have shown what they care about and cutting funding, cutting mitigation efforts, not paying attention to the core basics of what government should be doing when they are working for us and we see what that looks like unfortunately live here. maria: yeah. a lot of focus on dei, on transgenderism, not enough focus on putting the money where it need todd be. ed to be. thank you. >> thank you for having me. maria: thank you. fox corporation has made a $1 million donation to the red cross' call i california wildfie release efforts. you can help by visiting go.fox/redcross or scan the qr code on the screen right there. we'll be right back. stay with us. where ya headed? susan: where am i headed? am i just gonna take what the markets gives me? no. i can do some res

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then karen bass, the mayor, said in response to that, that is not accurate.ve been backgrounding to reporters -- i presume it's karen bass' team that the budget actually increased after the fiscal year, and increased by 7%. that is measuring just within one fiscal year. there's the dust-up, and there was confusion as to whether she was fired or not. i want to point out "the wall wl street journal," and this gates to the heart, and they spent on pension and benefits, and much of that would have been better spent on the fire department's budget. and both goes to what are missing. >> harris: i watched every news conference, and karen bass gets farther and farther down the list of guests, and happen at 11 a.m., and i am listening to who goes first. she is not going first. today she is fourth. they are not looking to her to fight the fires right now. they are not looking to her to do much of anything. there is something going on in the background there and we can't focus on that. i don't want to focus on that. when the time comes, lots of questions about the money

mayor karen bass, who's going to have updates on the response. joining me now, first, nbc news correspondent ellison barber, who is joining us live from pacific palisades, california, with more. ellison, glad to see that you are safe. thanks for joining us. what are the conditions right now as you are on the ground there? >> hey, katie. yeah. i mean, look, firefighters are still working day and night. we were at the eaton fire last night, watching them deal with a number of hotspots that had popped up in buildings where it looked like the fire was gone, but there were still pockets of heat underneath, layers of collapsed buildings that were reigniting. and they were working diligently late into the evening trying to get all of that under control. look, we're now in the area near the palisades fire, and you can see behind me just the scale of the destruction that you talked about. we're waiting to hear from mayor karen bass, and there are a lot of questions in this community and all of los angeles county about how something like this could happen.

karen bass does not serve the interests of l.a. residents. the decisions are nonsensical, such as cutting 17.6 million dollars from l.a. fire department's budget, but instead prioritizing homelessness where roughly half of the funds of 1.3.dollars was not even spent and it just doesn't make any sense. you know, where are her priorities? what is her strategy? where is the plan? she doesn't have one. we need a proven leader that is effective, that understands priorities, that understands business, like rick caruso. >> sandra: well, that palisades fire is still at zero percent containment, so there is a lot still at risk here. the threat is still very real. we appreciate you joining us, ste steve, on all of that. our best to you. >> thank you very much. >> what's happened is a tragedy and the governor has not done a good job. with that being said, i got along well with him when he was governor and we worked together very well and we would work together, i guess it looks like we're going to be the one having to rebuild it. >> john: president-elec

there was an aslert and karen bass goes over to guana and flies back. she was asked to apologize to the community, do you want to apologize for cutting the firefighter budget. homeless are getting money and firefighters are getting cut. >> steve: yesterday, 100 mile per hour wind, water will not put that out. as fire crews have been able to go in, they have been able to use existing facility. they have big tanks, city of los angeles had tanks filled at the beginning, nobody was expecting that kind of demand and it rab out. so going forward, your point about criticizing leadership is accurate. who decided we would only have this number of things, this number of tanks and trucks and stuff like this and go ing forward, people in california will say, we could have had more water coming from the delta thing if not so many environmental protection for a tiny fish that has been declared extinct. >> ainsley: donald trump in 2018, almost nine years ago, he was in the woods with gavin newsom saying, you need to fix your forest, austria and finland have more trees

as karen bass says. well, we're going to, you know, when this is done, we're going to look back and people are going to pay. you're going to look back. you've had years to look back. who's going to pay? karen, you are you going to pay? people are devastated. i mean, and this is the beginning, sean, i you know, adam carolla has gone viral for saying that it's going to be impossible to rebuild. i can speak from personal experience in telling you that it took me a year just to clean up the disaster that happened at my home in 2018, just to get a permit. we haven't even seen the beginning of what chaos this is going to wreck. >> explain what happened in 2018. it took you how long to begin the process to build back your home. >> well, why don't we talk about first how the fire started? so the fire started because pg and e, which is a privately owned utility company, never updated their power lines. so they had equipment on the power lines. that was 80 to 100 years old, failed. they supported gavin newsom's ru

the mayor of los angeles, karen bass, a former colleague up heren capitol hill, she's saying there's water in the hydrants, but the fire department has said on multiple occasions there is not enough water in these hydrants. it is an epic if disaster of mismanagement. and so what really happens is people suffer. look, the people of california at the end of the day have a respondent to elect competent leadership starting with the governor, through the state assembly and and into local government. instead of following the far-left, woke policy of california which have been disastrous throughout the entire country -- that's what joe biden and kamala harris brought capitol hill -- the american people have said enough, and now it's time for the people of california to say they've had enough. they need new leadership if they want the avoid these type of

. >> if you want an endangered fish, it is the karen bass.rybody thinks you are an idiot who should resign. i think you will see rage in the next couple of years because you cannot fight fire with platitudes, pronouns and politics. you need practical solutions. the people who offer practical solutions were ignored. you don't fight it with a climate agenda or a political agenda and you hear democrats are in the media criticizing trump and others were speaking out is a tragedy unfolds as if they don't do it during every mass shooting, but here is the difference. you can speak out if you were warning people years before. trump was talking about this years ago. he warned democrats that offered them solutions. you can't accuse people of exploiting the political nature of a story if they were giving you advice well before it publicly to help you and what did you do? joe biden called him a climate arsonist. he is offering practical solutions and biden is calling him and arsonist. don't blame this on climate change. that doesn't offer practical solut

mayor karen bass and their team. you lived in california for nearly five decades.ave you ever seen anything this bad? >> no, i haven't, and thank you for having me, liz. gavin newsom should go back to the to the french laundry and have a nice if cocktail and retire with karen bass. look, in five decades, 46 years i lived in california. it was a great state, and i'm not blaming just the politicians. liz, the culpability has to to go to the hollywood community. because all those stars in malibu and all those executive producers and all those directors and all those people -- and i feel terrible about the loss of house that everyone, of homes and their personal possessions. that's a terrible thing. no one wishes that. but they for decades have sniffed up the smell of the left wing if america. and they've done this to hollywood. they started with crime. we had two years of our cities burning, and hollywood was beating the drum for whatever it was, for wokeness. this is where gavin newsom was trying -- larry elder should have won that election and rick ca caruso, but mo

mayor karen bass. thank you, karen. it's nice to meet you. representatives jay, where is jay?h period, jay, right? vince song, kevin kylie, vince and kevin. hi. hi, vince a man i know very well, i know him too well, actually. and i say that actually with love because he is a great -- he has actually been a great congressman for a long time and he is a great leader and he loves the area as much as anybody, right, darryl? darrell issa. young kim, congratulations on an excellent career. i appreciate it another one i know pretty well to put it mildly is tom mcclintock. and he has been with us for a long time. we have some interesting things going on in washington and it's an honor that you guys are here. thank you, darryl, very much, tom. george whitessides. good george, thanks. great name, too by the way. brad sherman, oh i know brad well. i know brad but that's all right. woo we're on the same side of this one, we will work together, bret, very well. a lot of respect. and presidential envoy ric grenell who has done a fantastic job for me over the years he was ambassador to germa

b1 karen bass, gavin newsom are on defence amid california's devastating wildfires. they launched a fact-checked website to try to save face but it's a catch. it includes links to a democratic party fund-raising platform and when he's not soliciting donations for the democratic party, he has spent the last week deflecting blame to local officials and of course donald trump. i think you will be a great ambassador. we start with you. how do you make it, if you have empty reservoirs and you say that's up to the local people, if you have fire hydrants in a state known for wildfires and known for santa ana winds, how do you blame the local officials? how do you justify billions to ... for the l.a. port going green and not have a fire hydrant that works everywhere? can you explain that? >> i can explain that this is the way the left sees leadership. gavin newsom could have done all of these things to help prevent this horrific, awful disaster. he didn't because he was more interested in virtue signalling and placating to these green groups that are drifting off of the amer

mayor karen bass. the two democrats are getting the brunt of the anger for the response and everything that led to the catastrophe. their calls are growing for their dismissal, both from the left and from the right. but is this a moment enough to convert some democratic voters? >> you guys all voted for karen bass, the mayor of los angeles. you all voted for gavin newsom, and now you get what you get. oh, now that your house is on fire. well, now you're thinking about something else. you're going to see a lot of people in malibu who may have voted blue. start voting red if their permitting. and the coastal commission and all the bureaucracy starts getting involved. >> are they going to tell the people, oh, this is global warming. there's no there's no issue here. this is all about climate change. if the politicians in california say that again, hopefully the voters in california will say, we're not going to take this nonsense anymore. >> now, you may be tempted to dismiss this as just conservatives glo

karen bass can just give money to whatever, said he, she's not in charge of. there is something to be said about whether or not those funds were divested correctly or you know, put out directly to the departments that were needed by that. they were not the funded. and that's something that a lot of people just took and ran with a lot of people, spread misinformation that everyone in l a can can afford to rebuild as a, as one of the members of the panel was talking about earlier here. most people in los angeles are living either close to or below the poverty line. most of us in los angeles are just regular every day people who are trying to survive. and it's sad to see that the misinformation has gone to the point where people are lacking empathy for the everyday human being. and it causes harm. and it causes us to overlook the systems that are in place that are contributing to this when you focus on the fact on some false narrative that the fire department was, was under funded. then we don't get to to look at things like climate change. we don't get to look a

karen bass has no issue being mayor of los angeles. newsom it's been nothing but an epic failure and let's get competent people in their and i hope the voters of california wake up to this. you put them in office i voted against them both. other voters will put them in and look at the consequences. this is the result of those decisions. was put some competent people in there who make real decisions that aren't so, having the reservoirs and something everyone will jump up and down a bit until this happens. we don't love your firefighters and police officers until you need them and then boy do you really love them. same thing with doctors and first responders. when you need them they'll be there and they've done the work and they will take care of you. us get competent people back in office. please wake up people of california. >> martha: karen bass, in the allocated 5% of the fire budget to preparation. doesn't show you where your priorities are. she also when she was running, she had been on the house foreign relations services committ

just like karen bass.now, james borow,ke california resident whose house like so many others burned down and the l.a. fires. james, get up in the middle of the night and i get text from friends from the palisadesbu an malibu. in reading their text is hard enoughthro. lifting what they are going through is horrendous. so we are so sorry for your loss of property and everything that's gone along with it.s a tell us a little bit about that and then, do you think any ofic these officials deserviae some blame here? >> yeah, i mean, it's been a i'm horrible week.ve unfortunate my family safe that my entire neighborhood burned down and it is totally decimated. every single neighbor i have, their house is gone. and i have a 5-year-old in a 3-year-old and my 5-year-old school is gone. the 3-year-old school is gone. the library is gone e and the place they went to music is gonw and the place they went to music class is gone and the place they went to gymnastics is gone.an everything single thing is gone right now. i

mayor karen bass a joke. actor robert davi echoed many others in saying gavin newsom should be thrown out of office. robert left california three years ago. he lives in my free state of florida and he joins us now with more. why did you leave california? how many? i think you were there 30 years. >> first off, thank you. 46 years, sean, and thank you for having me. and congratulations with you and ainsley. and my heart goes out to all my friends in california that have lost their homes. i left california first off, because the woke policies, the liberal policies in the schools that i saw encroaching on my kids, i have a five year old is my youngest. i have eight kids encroaching on their mental health in terms of wokeism and the confusion. but beyond that, also the policies of gavin newsom. when rick caruso lost the election, even though he went as a democrat for political reasons, of course he had good policies. the left of hollywood. i blame the left of hollywood. those politicians gavin newsom, karen bass,

you saw karen bass couldn't even read a freaking web address. she couldn't pronounce the word heroism. die is a luxury that only matters when real crisis doesn't arise. and gavin newsom as governor five straight years, sean, u-haul has said california leads the nation in people moving out, including, as you well remember, his own in-laws who moved to live alongside a ron desantis governance in florida. people are overwhelmingly voting, and i hope this is a realization moment for them. who you elect has consequences. rick caruso, he would have been able to handle this. you don't even have water in the fire hydrants. and now they're looking into it. they're turning on each other. i don't know if you've seen the clip. the la fire department chair is now saying yes, the city of los angeles failed them. and we're finding out that these elections, one thing was right. barack obama when he said elections have consequences. yeah. when you pick crappy leaders, you get crappy results. california is a beautiful place, but they have destroyed it with left w

powering possibilities™. >>> california governor gavin newsom and los angeles mayor karen bass facingd the state in cities preparedness for wildfires. bass who returned from a trip to ghana yesterday taking questions from some frustrated reporters moments ago. >> we watched as hundreds of homes in our neighborhood burned to the ground we did not see a single fire engine. we watched as good samaritans guided traffic. there was fear and there is a lot of confusion. you are out of the country at the time and shortly after the fire started a press release was put out warning of this fire behavior. my question to you is what explains this lack of preparation and rapid response? >> we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked back what didn't work and to correct or hold accountable any buddy are department are individual et cetera a front my focus right now is on the lives and homes. >>> see if that satisfies the people of california a trace gallagher our chief breaking news correspondent and anchor of fox news at night of course based in los angeles joins us now from pacific

by the way the mayor karen bass is in the palisades here now do a tour of some of the devastation.tos to our viewers a little later but she is one of the people from whom a lot of residents want a lot of answers and they want those answers as soon as they can possibly get them as they begin to thank about the monumental task of rebuilding here. >> martha: we'd love to see the images of karen she is under a lot of pressure and walking around that area right now. we know president-elect trump is going there after his inauguration at some point be a jonathan thank you very much. so the los angeles mayor karen bass former member of congress faces yet another grilling from reporters around her responses to the fires and her choice to travel to africa two days after severe fire warnings were ramping up and she was notified of that. >> looking back now what would you have done differently quick. >> let me just say that while i am in the midst of it i'm not looking back. >> looking back would you have taken the trip overseas? >> you know, i'm going to focus on what -- no. >> martha: meanwh

i loved every bit about this interchange between karen bass.ee the difference between a bureaucrat, somebody that's just not interested in action. that's not her priority. and somebody who's all about action. and then in the middle of it, you can't mis-it, melania trump just sort of above it all kind of cool. the whole thing as you said, charlie, a bit of a reality show. if you're a california, la person whose house was burned down and trying to figure out what was their next move, who do. in charge? of course donald trump. charlie: in the last hour we spoke to mona roper part of a church in north carolina and welcomed president trump and melania yesterday saying they brought hope. >> it was a breathtaking moment, very uplifting and encouraging. it was hope. there was no nerve nows about it and they -- nerviness about it and they both got there and they were so real. giving hope topher. everyone was talking about how they just couldn't believe the atmosphere and the peace that we all felt. fema hasn't been any help. i've tried to fema since day

. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity" and in los angeles karen bass now facing calls to resigned.ernor gavin newsom passing the blaine, florida governor ron desantis blasting the media mob for not holding democrats accountable. what would happen if this happened in my free state of florida? we will also ask our democratic friend from "the five" harold ford jr. to defend the parties terrible policies, high leadership, high taxes, and lack of services. but we begin with good news tonight. against all odds after years of sketchy warrants and subpoenas and early morning raids, dozens of cooked up charges one after the other, far left judges, and truncating juries, donald trump has eviscerated the left law fair campaign. today new york judge democratic donor juan marchand announced trump would receive no jail time, no fine, no probation after a manhattan jury convicted trump on what is a bizarre legal theories surrounding the case that had no victims. it was a legal and d.a. put together by a lawyer and it was chronic code has a legal defense. the judge told trump sir, i wish you godsp

karen bass initially faced a lot of statute nhl and criticism for going abroad and was coming back ats broke out. so she is very much seen as weak in this situation. but going back to the trump-newsom if dynamic, look, uh-uh think it's good to see, you know, for americans to see that interaction between the two of them despite the war of words that has been going on for weeks now and predating the situation with the wildfires. i think it was good, obviously, for the president to be out there, but there's clearly a difference in opinion on the strategy as to how to move forward between president trump and people like karen bass. jonathan: julia manchester, thank you so much for being with us today. >> thanks, jonathan. alicia: the cia under new leadership and or already issuing a new analysis on the covid-19 pandemic. plus, new missile threats from north korea in trump's first week in office. those details next. ♪ ♪ ic cities and unforgettable scenery with viking. unpack once and get closer to iconic landmarks, local life and cultural treasures. because when you experience europe on a

sense is returning the owner of the "los angeles times" just admitted his papers and endorsement of karen bassor was in error. you think that's a gutsy take next you'll say it was a mistake to smoke cigarettes on the hindenburg. it seems common sense is spreading faster than crabs at larry kudlow's seafood bonanza and the backlash and the bottom line january 20th is about the return of the adults. so enjoy your playtime kiddos in six days or recess is over. let's welcome tonight's guests. he was a shark tank and now he's in my hot. shark tank star kevin o'leary. [ cheers and applause ] somebody gave her a baby shower but she still uses her regular one. "new york times" best-selling author and contributor kat timpf and for him all the golf is miniature golf. and give you a former world heavyweight champion, author and comedian and fox news contributor tyrus. kevin you are a businessman and a wealthy one at that and you're watching this unfold. what is your take on this and as a builder who knows businesses comes into power. >> until everybody about trump you need to learn how to distinguish the

kris van cleave, cbs news, altadena, california. >>> and los angeles mayor karen bass is facing sharpdepartment. cbs' jonathan vigliotti put some hard questions to the mayor. >> reporter: when you see these images over pacific palisades, it's clear, the extent of loss is horrifying. what's also coming into focus are some hard truths. a month before the disaster, l.a.'s fire chief kristin crowley warned of the impact of millions of dollars in budget cuts. the city's fire commission sent mayor karen bass a report december 17th claiming the fire department's ability to respond to large scale emergencies such as wildfires is significantly diminished, increasing risks to both public and firefighters' safety. >> i don't know if they're trying to get reinforcements or something, but they didn't stop. >> reporter: it's what we saw repeatedly. >> this home is going to go up in flames. there are not firefighters around here. >> reporter: we put the question to mayor bass. >> mayor, l.a. county is in a panic state for several hours we watched as hundreds of homes in a neighborhood burned to the

mayor karen bass. critics point to fire budget reductions, which were soon after restored as a contributing factor for the infernos. they say the administration should shoulder the blame. >> obviously, any budget cut is going to impact our ability to provide service. that's that's at this point, that is a ground truth. >> national guard units are now assisting local police patrols in cities such as pasadena, azusa, santa monica, arcadia and los angeles to keep evacuated areas safe. >> we're not doing this to inconvenience anybody. we're doing it to protect the structures, the houses that people have left. if somebody is caught doing this, they are not going to get cited and released. they're going to get booked. we are not screwing around with this. >> eventually we will get to the causes of those fires. and that part. the da's office will be working with law enforcement to go after anyone who's guilty of the crime of arson. >> jesse gary, ktvu, fox two news. >> today, fema officials are addressing con

karen bass has also been attacked by the fire department chief.nd one way or another, i think one of the lasting images of this fire is the fact that there was not water coming out of the fire hydrants, but i think it's important, like there's distinguishing between there's legitimate criticism to make about governance in california, whether it's about the inability to bury the power lines or it's about water policy or whatever it is. >> and then there's also criticism that's happening where it's just like, oh, the die policies of the fire department. and they're two many. it's like there are too many lesbians who are working in the fire department. that sort of thing gets really mixed in there, and it becomes unclear from a viewership standpoint which one is actually going to get attacked. and it seems like over and over you don't actually see the real governance problems get changed in the aftermath. you just see the sort of facially a culture war style politics really take, take hold. >> um, meghan we do know, newsom obviously has very high pro

karen bass cut $20 million from the firefighter budget.ked memo that said she wanted to cut an additional 43 million from the budget. the left wants to change climate change. it didn't cause the fire hydrants to run dry, it didn't cause the reservoir in the pacific p palisades to be bone y because of a tear in the tarp, it didn't cause the man power shortages, a couple hundred firefighters were let go because they refused to take the vaccine. when the mandate was lifted not all of them came back. it is at the hands of mismanagement done by the democrats. i want to warn the voters in california to rethink their actions. maria: these people have lost everything. and you don't hear any mea culpa from either of them in terms of the policy failures. >> never. for example, gavin newsom signed a bill to jack up the minimum wage for fast food workers. as soon as he signed the bill, before it went into effect, pizza hut laid off 12,000 workers, between now and then fast food workers have lost their jobs. have any of the politicians said maybe i wen

typical liberal elite just like karen bass.nia resident whose house like so many others burned down in the l.a. fires. james, i have been -- i mean, i get up in the middle of the night. i get texts from friends from the palisades, from malibu. and reading their texts is hard enough, living what they're going through is horrendous. so, we're so sorry for your loss of property and everything that's gone along with it. tell us a little bit about that do you think these officials deserve some blame here? >> yeah. it's been a horrible week. i'm fortunate my family is safe but my entire house burned down. our entire neighborhood burned down. i lived nut area called the alma streets. totally disseminated every single neighbor i have their house is gone. i have a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old, my 5-year-old's school is gone the library is gone. the place they went to art class is gone. the place they went to music class is gone. the place they went to gymnastics is gone. every single thing is gone in the town right now. and it's hard to

karen bass wanted a bigger cut and the city legislature said no, it can't be that big.ted $23 million cut. and here is this poor excuse for a mayor who chose guana, despite the threat of these fires. a trip there. once she lands, instead of embracing it, trying to tackle it, listen to a sky news reporter try to get answers from the mayor of los angeles. >> you owe the citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? do you regret cutting the fire department department by millions of dollars, madam mayor? have you nothing to say today? >> brian: dean? >> absolutely stunning. that is an elected official. the mayor of los angeles cannot answer a direct question in the middle of an absolute emergency. it's insane to me. that's the kind of failure of leadership that i'm talking about. it's crazy and, you know, anybody who could lead l.a., like myself kind of has. i see so many people i had to get out of there. i had to get out of there. this is why. this kind of failure of leadership leads to death and destruction and things just falling apart. that's wha

after those initial warnings in january come la mayor karen bass, flew to ghana on a junket to the details and cover-up in just a second this bring in former gubernatorial candidate larry elder for america pack founder and larry, you had to evacuate your home and you been personally her by the fires and when is your response which were hearing because the santa i need is reservoir for the palisades was empty of water. an been shown for a year for repairs. larry: there's plenty of time i supposed to say that i told you so that i told you so to write about after my race to recall gavin newsom go california and talk about the failure of us to properly have a kind of infrastructure necessary for population of 40 million californians not in any real way into the infrastructure since estate was half the population for seven up and then gavin is quite about the deborah acres that he thinned and you write about it turned out that the exaggerated number of acres by a factor of seven. and we've had two years pretty significant rain here in 700 california because of failure to build the water reservo

. >>> in moments los angeles mayor karen bass, she's going to to hold a press conference about the fireswe'll bring it to you live if she takes questions. >>> donald trump has been sentenced to unconditional discharge in his new york criminal case. trump says this was a pathetic loss for democrats in their un-american witch hunt. he's still calling for the case to be fully dismissed. we'll have a full breakdown of his sentencing later this hour. and now this. the extent of the wildfire damage is stunning. i think we're all in shock when we see those drone shots of pacific palisades with block after block of burned-out ruins. how will los angeles recover and rebuild? two obvious problems. first, insurance. let's get real. many companies have withdrawn from the state because regulators would not let them charge premiums that reflect risk. that leaves the insurer of last resort holding the bag. that insurer is called fair. it is backed by the state of california. of government summon. government money. the "wall street journal" saws it has over $450 billion worth of liability and only $700

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he was a donor for karen bass.id if she left after knowing this was going to happen or possibly going to happen, that is, quote, a dereliction of duty. i think that's a pretty common sentiment around the city. so no matter i have like ktla on in my office here all day long, is during these fires. you see her on camera. she's deferring to all these other officials here in the city. but, you know, once you again lose the public trust, you lose that integrity. people just stop giving you the benefit of the doubt. and i will say also, you mentioned her campaign. i went back and watched some old campaign ads from 2022 when she ran for mayor, literally verbatim. caitlyn in the ads, she says if there is a crisis, i will run to it. she also said in another ad, i'm coming home to l.a. from congress because the city is on fire. so like two ads that she has, you know, invalidated based just on these last few days, there are other officials doing great work. the sheriff robert luna is all over television. the fire chief, the.

of urgency one of the best things was when he went out to california hectored, los angeles mayor karen bassbout get people in their house what are you waiting for let's get this done i think look i think there is far too much government, innft dispiriting to americans i applaud this president energy, and the fact, plumbers liberal media don't know what to focus on that is good too. maria: they don't, just let me say two focuses we've got to get to this morning that is scott bessent will be confirmed, as treasury secretary, likely this morning, as president trump stops in las vegas over weekend proposing sending nearly 90,000 irs agents hired under joe biden to southern border the report found that more than 90% aggregation audits between 2019 and 2023 were on taxpayers making less than 400,000 dollars a year, president trump's treasury will take this up confirmed by senate likely today, i would expect questions about the crypto legislation how he sees digital assets how he sees, sanctions as well. cheryl: right case proposals about digital dollar thousand keep dollar globally strong continu

city mayor karen bass other officials. >> let's listen. >> is prepared. these winds, combined with low relative humidities and low fuel moistures, will keep the fire threat in los angeles county, very high. i asked our county residents in wildfire prone areas to understand that the necessary public safety, power shut offs are important for our collective safety in preventing the next wildfire. natural disaster. i would like to express my gratitude to the los angeles county board chair, supervisor kathryn barger, and supervisor lindsey horvath for their leadership and unwavering support of our residents. my fire department and me as fire chief to our first responders battling these wildfires. thank you for your relentless and fearless dedication in protecting residents and property throughout this great county. and finally, to all l.a. county residents, please be assured that we will continue to battle these wildfires from the air and on the ground until they are fully contained. we stand alongside all of you as we begin repopulation of evacuated areas. es

karen bass ran for mayor in 2022 against rick caruso. she said i am a real pro choice democrat implying he is notes pro-choice and i. the palisadeiss is only structue ouldin the village. he could protect property and life and obviously, karen bass cannot.. >> laura: dr. hemmati, joel, thank you to all of your friend and family, please stay safe ina reour prayers with all of you. join fox support of families who have been impacted by the california wildfires.o your donation really does help the red cross respond and to help people recover from this horrific disaster. so visit go. fox/red crossfox/red crosstosupr ts and/or scan the qr code on your screen. test the y head coach of the dems hnever believe there lies about trump and we have proof plus breaking news on trump sentencing. that is next. z's bakery is looking to add a pizza oven, arissa's hair salon wants to expand their space, and steve's t-shirt shop wants to bring on more help. with the comcast business 5-year price lock guarantee, they can think more about possibilities for th

now karen bass, you know, even "the l.a.es" now, congratulations to them coming out and saying that patrick the owner of it say that it was a mistake. everyone knew it was a mistake but we have to now hold hollywood, jeffrey katsenberg has to be held accountable but they are afraid to because he's powerful and that whole bunch of guys in hollywood, the higher ebrahim eschelon,the old days d come out and tell about the problems in los angeles and people would do something about it and there was an equal footing of conservative voices that balanced the woke left that we see today that's absolutely taken over. thank god donald trump in 2015. thank god, because and thank god elon musk, because none of this , we be silenced. we were silenced on x and twitter and facebook and now things are turning around but we have to hold hollywood community responsible to now speak up and change this nonsense. also, the way they are handling the fires, liz. i have a cousin who has the largest animal sanctuary, 115 acres in santa clarita. he ha