now let's cross live to laurie johnson from i see on the list in the car and see you of the associates joining us right now. laurie is good to have you, do i be so thank you, bike, terrible devastation across southern california. then not the spot where do you think this could have been prevented? yes, they are. if nothing else minimized. i never one of the california to authorities this, this really is falls upon governor new central national, failed to enact and measures declare brush dead would see the drum because the result they allow the growth to take place and then not gets dried out in a drought it's very combustible material, so we have all the 2nd element was they failed to ensure those who had reservoirs filled with water. how long that could be used to drive to combat fires. so there's always an annual threat of wildfire off in california. but the failure to have any kind of control here is just uh, you know, one more reminder that the united states has no clear plan or priority for weeks of reading such that go. all right, talking about priorities. now this catastrophe ha

destroyed the home of joe biden, san honda, or you can see his malibu mansion and these images that laurie johnson, that ceo of the to also seats and the for my c r e anomaly. said that the cut runs us a business ration has been rife with mismanagement. hundreds of firefighters were released from their job because they would not get a covered vaccine years ago. so this, this was government in action or government malevolence. that helped create the conditions where the, you know, you may not be able to control who starts to fire, but you sure as heck can control, how many firefighters do you have available? how much equipment do you have available? how much water do you have on hand? how many? what steps have you taken? the clean up dead brush so that you don't have fire hazards a line about in the hill sites. the current number in terms of aid to ukraine is approaching $76000000000.00. so what, what this highlights is the norm as the amount of money that the united states has dedicated to ukraine and money. that frankly has it's not winding up in the neighborhoods in the infrastructure here in th

the think tank. laurie johnson, much appreciated. thanks, charlotte. what 30 days are port st. lucie king 15, the prison sentences for 5 i system and both these amended the suspected aging. the terrorist who carried out the most go crew, chris called cit, whole shooting back in march of last year. it's hack was of course, one of the deadliest that russia has f a c plus costs to all correspondent. yes. and that gives us a new stumble for us now for more. yes, and thanks for joining us, just to construe what new information that we have being reported on the suspected terrorists. a state run until the agency achieved some documents pertaining to the indictments. could documents essentially tying it to the step of the prosecutor's office and we understand 5 individuals, 5 suspects are being indicted, which will be expected to serve terms up to 15 years. the suspects that have ties to the ices car organization as well as the perpetrators in the mosque of attack, getting back to march of last year. and we understand that the prosecutor's office is currently

verification on that or to correspond to honest to see if a lot of the think before i say analysts, laurie johnson suggests there may be more to both deadly incidents. them, the authorities are currently reading odd. on the one hand, we like to proclaim that isis is this great village. and yes, isis has carried out her roof. it attacks around the world by my old outfit, the c i a is been dealing with them, funding them arming the equipping them. so does this kind of blow back? it's like it's, it's taught it out when it's convenient to say all we've got to do it rally against isis. for god's sakes quit, we're, we're sending the money in weapons. we're training and these cats. and then we get surprised when the old, some of them go decide to turn on and attack us. i'm actually beginning to think more more that this whole ice, this thing is a big, shiny object to distract from what's really going on. because right now, part of the narrative in the us media is all the so we got to tighten up with the border security. the 2 events, the one this one in new orleans, and the one in las vegas were done by

the something that does smell something, not right about this. former ca analysts, laurie johnson. ok, another story to bring you today. the russian embassy in australia had either raleigh held in vienna, commemorating the life and deeds of infamous you printing and nazi collaborators. step and bunder. nothing but discussed is caused by the outburst of a handful of ukrainian nationalists who settled in austria and decided on january 1st to celebrate the birthday of hitler's accomplice, the war, criminal step on bun, dera in the center of vienna. again, we strongly condemn the holding of even such a marginal action with the connivance of the local authorities. the nazi sabbath looks especially blasphemous in vienna in the year of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of austria from fascism. similar rallies were also held in the western ukrainian city of level. hundreds were seen carrying torches and calling the nazi collaborate, or a hero t a rule that thunder as birth date. january 1st become a national holiday back in 2018. he let and see printing and nationalist during world wa

johnson foundation. i'm going to go. all right. we'll get everyone. and thank you, laurie. the introduction as laurie mentioned, my name is shanti abedin and i'm the vice president of housing and community at the national fair housing, the national housing alliance is a national civil organization dedicated to ending discrimination in all of its forms and also addressing the lingering impacts of housing discrimination that has happened historically and is ongoing in our communities across the country. so the topic of today's panel, which is all about the impact of climate risk on health and wealth in communities of color, is a really, really important one for us at the national fair housing. and you know we we are really focused on how the issue of climate risk on health and wealth outcomes particularly. when we talk about homeowners of color is really at the forefront of our conversations today. when we think about risks that are facing. stable homeownership, sustainable homeownership and as we see worsening climate related disaster or heat conditions, the related insuranc

chamber soon whenever you are in boston, laurie, thank you so much for having me and with that, i want to bring on the one, the only the rock star, professor kc johnson, who is going to take this as an inspired nation and give us the an amazing seminar about legislative violence in the united states and using using the cane as inspiration. hey, steve, a stage is yours. all right. thank you. and my thanks to laurie first for setting this up, because the the the sumner caning, this is an artistic rendition is is i think without a doubt the most famous of the the attacks on congress. but sadly, this is a topic the violence against members of congress that is something of long standing. and so what i'm going to try to do tonight is go through it relatively quickly. but i sort of hit some of the the high points, what probably was the first instance of of of violence on the on the floor of of congress occurred in the 1790s after of of a fight again captured here on the the screen artistically between matthew lion. it was a jeffersonian congressman from from vermont. he's holding in his hand tongs from the fireplace that heated the then house of representat

policy as johnson pursues trump's agenda and james foley as the dollar pulls back from two-year highs. stocks rising after a five-game losing streak on friday, getting a boost from big tech. lauries keeping a close eye on the sector writing we remain market weight s&p 500 tech, our favorite sectors heading into 2025. a financial analogy along with communication services. good to see you. good morning, let's talk about a year and not just the sectors, let's talk about policy. have we got a better idea about how policy will look like down in washington, d.c.? >> i think we are optimistic we are going to get some clarity soon and chatting with annmarie earlier about the one big powerful bill, i instantly thought back to my european beatings in december right before the holidays when i was kind of doing the death march across the continent. in every single meeting people wanted to talk about taxes and tariffs and what exactly is trump going to do and what are we going to know? i had to tell them i think we got to get past the inauguration first but if you go back to 2017 what i remember about the tax sale as i was trying to put out a forecast and i kept having to change my earnings