and look, governor gavin newsom there to greet him. greetings between two men who have battled quite a bit publicly. not able to pick up their conversation. it is very loud. of course, not a lip reader, but we can certainly saw that greetings were exchanged and it was cordial but short. and president trump is now going to be taken to view pacific palisades, the areas that have burned in the southern california wildfires. and now he's stopping. and perhaps we can hear some of the reporter questions. we have that in very good shape. we have the congressman in charge and michael whatley. and we're going to do a lot of work. we have the army corps of engineers working as they are here. and i think you're going to see some very big progress. they left them high and dry. and now we're going to be taking a little tour with some of the people from the area. i appreciate the governor coming out and meeting me. kevin, we very much. and we'll be talking a little bit. we want to get it fixed. we want to get the problem fixed. and there'll be some

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward. and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing ne

the president-elect says governor newsom should resign. trump blames him for blocking the transfer of water to the los angeles area. newsom if says trump is just politicizing the disaster. l.a.'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, pleas

and gavin newsom is a smart guy. he knows to improve his own position and to improve the lives of the people who have been affected by this fire, he can't just be dug in against donald trump. he is going to have to work with him all along. although last night i was in touch with the governor's office. and they said they were happy that the president accepted their invitation to california before he was sworn in. but, they were not tracking any kind of an official meeting. obviously, if gavin newsom was able to get that close, the secret service, phoned somebody on the plane. the president was probably watching us and he could see that he was just standing there at the bottom of the stairs by himself. i don't think it was an ambush by any means but it's a savvy move by a governor who has been in office for 12 years. he knows how these things go. he was always going to have to work it out with president trump. i would be fascinated to know what is going on with their private conversation right now if it's in the helico

liz: that was in battle to governor gavin newsom, will dig into why is accusing misleading again about that empty reservoir serving the palisades in american majority net ryan is here and moments write that down and also it is president trump's agenda, hit is full steam ahead and new details coming in right now on the senate confirmation hearings for trump's cabinet that began tomorrow we have more more depressed now that they will work with president trump and now jp morgan and diamond tell cbs that americans you want trumps pro policies that americans are done with the dc small car they don't like it an impressively are done with the democrats lecturing them on their moral superiority and customer the story. >> they pushed us super hard to dig down the things that were honestly, more true. >> these people from the biden administration would call a team and say won't like scream at them and curse. liz: were digging into the story that was facebook ceo, mark zuckerberg, telling joe rogan about censorship by the biden white house and we will show you what they were saying about that cen

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward. and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introduci

so governor newsom has a lot on his plate. politically, it's not playing out perfectly as it never really does in these disasters. >> but let me ask you about that. right. because he's walking that tightrope of being governor and maybe setting himself up for president and also correcting misinformation while improving his image. >> yeah. well, governor newsom has been really on the offensive now for a few years. he basically has cast himself as the combative champion of democrats and saying that we need to take the fight to republicans as a party rather than sit back and just let misinformation lies and just talking points be spread like wildfire, no pun intended. sorry about that on social media. but what i would say is that, you know, there comes a time when, like, actually combating the way people feel and the anger with data and heavy stats, as we've seen him do before. when you go for these photo ops with your aviator shades and almost looking a little bit too polished, it's not playing out the way that maybe he hopes it

newsom could have taken millions of gallons of fresh snow melt undrained but newsom made sure that itpointlessly into the pacific ocean all in the name of environmentalism. i was the environment to look it around los angeles now, governor? that call today was so insulting from newsom to biden thanking the president to fight what he deems to be misinformation. like what? not having water and fire hydrants a? all of the millions cut from the l.a. fire department? that is not misinformation that is accurate. here is the good news for those who like truth and objectivity. the current incarnations of twitter and now x and even facebook aren't going to play along the way they did with covid for gavin newsom. the climate change card, the misinformation card, those are as that is gavin newsom's prospects in the future has risen being the next president of the united states after donald trump. >> sean: hydrants that have no water, water being poured into the pacific ocean, they don't clean out the brush they don't do controlled burns. there is a science to full restraint and they do not practi

but governor newsom's approach to combating it certainly is.is very own fact check website using his personal domain. interestingly, he never directly fact checks president trump. you might call it social media diplomacy. instead, he fact checks posts from people who echo the president's sentiments. while some of his fact checks are easily verifiable, like the hollywood sign was not on fire. others require some nuance. which brings us to fact check. number one did governor newsom cut california's fire budget ahead of the l.a. fires? newsweek was first to publish the headline, but the governor didn't respond until it was picked up by fox news. for his stupidity and stunning incompetence from california's democrat leaders. newsom called the reports that he cut california's fire budget by $100 million in the months before the fire, a ridiculous lie. except it's not a lie. let's start with the governor's fact check. it is a fact that since he took office, the number of cal fire personnel in cal fire's budget has increased significantly. it did not

and kimberly guilfoyle used to be married to gavin newsom. and so she helped to sort of officiate or manage that relationship a little bit. but kimberly guilfoyle is now out of the picture, no longer with don jr.. and so there is been a real breakdown in terms of the relationship. and trump is going into office finding someone to blame for these fires. and that's what he does. he finds someone to blame. so the problem isn't his. the problem is someone else's. >> and speaking of someone to blame, i mean, look at the social media posts from trump just in the past week, he's been all over social media attacking gavin newsom, sometimes calling him newscum. that's what he said. even in the wake, immediate wake of this crisis was unfolding. and then he has been attacking him publicly as well, including saying this on thursday. >> i think that gavin is largely incompetent. >> i think it's one of the great catastrophes in the history of our nation. this is not just in los angeles. i've never seen anything like that. devastation, but again, they're go

>> a top story at 6.30, governor newsom is beginning the year with a preview of his proposed state budget. >> our capitol correspondent eytan wallace has a look at the governor's spending priorities and shares why republicans say newsom's budget proposal. it's fiscally irresponsible. a balanced budget know deficits. governor gavin newsom saying that right off the top as he spoke about his proposed preliminary 322.2 billion dollar spending plan for the next fiscal year. opportunity for all his original goal was to deliver a combined budget and state of the state presentation this thursday. but those plans were scrapped. >> after he announced he'll be in our nation's capitol that day to attend the funeral for the late president. jimmy carter. that's why newsom instead decided to give what he calls a budget preview here at cal state university. stanislaus. we're all taxpayers. we all want to make sure money is being well invested, not wasted. he says that's why he's proposed. preliminary budget includes more than 118 billion dollars for public school education from transitional kindergarten

gavin newsom was asked about that.en to how he responded. >> on this block when you have a system that's not dissimilar. piker whether there be electricity or the complete overwhelm of the system and the hydrants and the scale but then that's local. >> you're passing it off on the locals. >> sandra: absolutely it is a state issue. water has been a top issue since california's been around. there are different issues. president trump was highlighting how the central valley has had its agriculture completely destroyed over this desire to protect the delta smelt which has made it very difficult farmers and orchards growers and this issue in southern california is really how they should have been building reservoirs to collect rain water. the last couple of years, we saw record rain in the region and there was no way to collect this water. >> we saw it all running down the roads and the hills and out into the pacific ocean. i remember the coverage of the atmospheric rivers and all that rain. they filled the reservoirs but l

>> the mood of the public is anti-newsom.ybody to's going to fully go against their religion. [laughter] i will say this, the mood of the public is helpful. and i've got to tell you with, stuart, people have been so good about helping each other out throughout this entire thing and not actually starting the internal fights about this because everybody agrees it's newsom. now let's help the people out and get this ya baroni out of here. [laughter] stuart: nice use of language right there. andrew gruel, thank you for joining us. a fine effort on your part for helping those people. thank you, andrew. jason with me still. i don't see how los angeles rebuilds under the current political leadership. >> if you want different results, you're going to have to elect different people. the key thesis for democrats is we need more government, big government. but i think what the country is now saying, and you saw that when donald trump was elected, they want competency. so if you look at los angeles, where they prioritized in california,

newsome. giuliana from abilene, texas. i'm ordering my pizza tonight with pineapple and delta smelt. you'd be the first person to ever eat the delta smelt stolen from tennessee. mark zuckerberg looked like a narc at the skate park. you mean the cabbage and the necklace fools you. eddie from san jose. did johnny ever make it back from canada? unfortunately he did. open borders, baby. i'm watters, and this is my world.

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom deliveringt message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward. and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing n

you can see newsom there waiting for him.ms of the wildfires while touring the disaster area in pacific palisades. earlier in the day, the president proposed withholding disaster relief funding

newsome. giuliana from abilene, texas. i'm ordering my pizza tonight with pineapple and delta smelt. you'd be the first person to ever eat the delta smelt stolen from tennessee. mark zuckerberg looked like a narc at the skate park. you mean the cabbage and the necklace fools you. eddie from san jose. did johnny ever make it back from canada? unfortunately he did. open borders, baby. i'm watters, and this is my world. and welcome to hannity. and tonight in los angeles, it is in ruins. mayor karen bass, now facing calls to resign. governor gavin newsom passing the blame. florida governor ron desantis. >> he is blasting the media mob for not holding democrats accountable. imagine for a second what their response would be if this happened in my free state of florida. we'll have a lot more coming up. also, we will ask our democratic friend from the five, harold ford jr, to defend the party's terrible policies, failed leadership, high taxes and lack of services. but we begin with good news tonight, against all odds, after years

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing n

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom deliveringt message on this new year's day. comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing new b

system and gavin newsom opposed that.g about environmentalist compelling him to protect smelt and little fishing salmon at the expense of l.a. citizens, i'm sick of it. >> okay actor mel gibson he also went after california officials watch this. >> one suspects this might happen but one thing resources and the capabilities of our will be able to cope with any situation that comes up but apparently some people were asleep on the job mainly our leaders, someone should answer for but we will see i think we know the culprits. stuart: i think were at a pivotal point. >> i do to i appreciate what stephen a smith said these guys have to go but this is the problem you can't say that bass and newsom have to go but replace them with the next bass and newsom standing in line that will have the california somebody gets thrown out they bring the same ideological act and in the same result if they have to go has to be somebody with a different governing philosophy that has role california is not just a different person is a whole diffe

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducin

and governor newsom says this is a local issue.are tankers all around, you have emergency response and national guard you can deploy, get people moving and start fighting this fire. >> brian: if you're a leader and asked in middle of a catastrophe and you blame somebody else, you should turn in your leadership card. 100%, hand over your captain's band. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me on. >> brian: talk to you again soon. 2000 california homes and businesses burned to the ground, one palisades resident who lost his home will join us next >> after last month's massive solar flare added a 25th hour to the day, businesses are wondering "what should we do with it?" i'm thinking company wide power nap. [ employees snoring ] anything can change the world of work. from hr to payroll, adp designs for the next anything. >> ainsley: this is a fox news alert. huge walls of fire are tearing through the hills of los angeles. winds fanning the flames are not expected to die down and this is sending clouds of thick smoke across the r

i call him gavin newsom because he really is bad. guys like gavin newsom is is he's a disaster. gavin newsom, he's a terrible governor. >> and maybe when you're faced with having to respond, those things go to go by the wayside. but do you see these two leaders working together on this? >> i think gavin. >> newsom showing up. >> was actually really smart, because he wanted. >> to show. >> that he is the governor of this state, and he is. welcoming the president to his territory. >> so i think. >> it was a good moment. for both of them. i think it also shows that president trump can put that aside for a moment and. >> sort of. >> speak up for the federal government. but, you know, to what david sherborne was saying, if he was really there to bring. >> the aid. >> of the federal government, he wouldn't be talking about actually disbanding. >> and. >> getting rid of fema, the federal agency that deals. >> with disasters. >> so. >> you know. >> there is there are two lulu, i, i disagree with you there, lulu. >> there are two different things in. conflict here, which is one thing we'

newsom for his part says mr. trump has it all wrong. >> that miss and disinformation i don't think advantages or aids any of us. responding to donald trump's insults we would spend another month i'm very familiar with them every elected official that he disagrees with very familiar with them. >> as for the possible threat of not getting timely aid from the incoming administration gavin newsom says that it's just trump style and while he takes the threat seriously, trace, he expects him to eventually help. >> trace: kevin corke live and d.c. more on how the coordinator should have responded to the wildfires. we bring in steve. you held a news conference today and you said this is part of one of your statements. watch. >> this is america's second safety. it needs to be rebuilt quickly. this will be a nightmare for people for years and thus we do something about it. >> trace: they are talking about cutting red tape but this is the red tape capital of the world it will be such a long call. i talked to an art attack i

gavin newsom explore some new career options.adcast her charity.en we have an inaugural update, "seen and unseen," raymond arroyo was up next. >> laura: it is time for "seen and unseen" where we reveal the stories for him for badly. we turned to fox newsco ntcontributor, raymond arroyo. raymond, i know you have beenth watching the officials in california and their reactions to this horrific tragedy. >> laura, governor gavin newsom is a silver tongue politicianms who can talk himself out of every situation, adultery,atio homelessness, looting, but youls watch what his body is doing ann it tells a different story.en i don't know if he has wrapping his answers now or if he is exploring his next career as a replacement to the -- >> some ideas around some speculators coming in. >> laura, what is that? it is like a snake lowering its victim with a rhythm until it strikes. but is a w very odd proclivity d he worms and wiggles his way through answers, very strange. just be when he has always been a slick, raymond.yo u he is a talented po

but as always with newsom, it's kind of a catch. the website includes links to a democratic party fundraising platform, and when he's not soliciting donations for the democratic party, well, he has spent the last week deflecting blame to local officials and, of course, donald trump. anyway, here with reaction, fox news contributor katie pavlich, nominee for u.s. ambassador to israel. i think he'll be a great one. mike huckabee is with us. katie, start with you. i mean, how do you make if you have empty reservoirs and you're going to say, well, 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 for turbines, hundreds of millions for the la porte going green and not have a fire hydrant that works everywhere? can you explain that? >> well, i can explain that this is just the way the left sees, quote, leadership. you know, gavin newsom could have done all of these things to help prevent this horrific, awf

and, monica, will any of this impact newsom's white house ambitions? we'll see. >> that's still far away. while these fires are set to be the worst in california history, let's not forget that the electorate can have a short memory. and political consultants consider newsom to be politically resilient. surviving pr crises throughout his career, whether it was a sordid affair, a pandemic party or a failed recall, governor gavin newsom is something of a phoenix rising from the ashes of political turmoil. again and again, gavin newsom was never more popular than when they were trying to recall him. this time, the governor is fighting off criticism of his handling of the wildfires ravaging los angeles county. >> i think that gavin is largely incompetent. >> i think he's doing about as good as you can do in this situation. >> political consultant jim ross worked with newsom in his first run for san francisco mayor. if anything, ross speculates, the attacks from the right might bolster the governor's aspirations for higher office. >> a response to a wildfire

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push h% back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year. mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introduci

i mean, gavin newsom wants to take this opportunity to rebuild.e's considering it of a sort of a marshall plan to rebuild l.a. once we get through this chapter. but he may not have a willing partner in the in the white house, given donald trump's track record on not just california, but natural disasters in places where he may not like the politics of that place. >> look, donald trump is going to demand that governor newsom either fly to the white house or to mar-a-lago and kiss the ring. that is exactly what he's going to expect and demand until before california gets a penny from the federal government. he's got supposedly kristi noem, who's known for politicizing her own tragedies and her own state by sending the national guard down to the border, as opposed to actually addressing problems in her own state with the national guard. she's going to be in charge of fema by virtue of being in the agency overseeing fema. and so this is not even a situation where if you're a californian, you will expect anything from this federal government until gavi

but governor newsom and his team have long acknowledged they feel an easy about remarks. president elect donald trump has made threatening to withhold certain wildfire disaster relief funding. if newsom does not approve certain trump backed policies trum says will result in more water for california. newsom disputes that walking into headwinds. and as a consequence, we need. >> to be prepared. we hope we continue to the support that federal government has for - other spending priorities. the budget allocates more than 118 billion dollars for public schools and 100 million dollars for local governments to address encampments. while the newsom administration says the budget comes with a 363 million dollars surplus, the non-partisan legislative analyst's office recently released this report showing the state faces 20 to 30 billion dollar project a deficit future years. >> 2, 2029 republicans accuse newsom of presenting a budget that spends too much and focuses on results. 2 little we need to look at outcomes. what's good is spending if you don't know what you're going to acc

governor gavin newsom vowing to cut the red tape.environmental laws it is tough. so what would that look like? we bring in the president of the california building industry association and that is something i was out there i got there last tuesday i left on friday night and that was one of the big issues. obviously people losing their insurance their house insurance some just months ago on the eve of all of this. and then some of the caps on this insurance they were able to get won't be enough and that is part of the problem is in it? >> you are right we are definitely in a very tough situation here in california the virus are still burning we have an insurance crisis, a housing policy crisis. all of this is coming to the forefront on the national scene that california is struggling as we deal with these fires on the rebuild afterwards. >> charles: i'm looking at a list of some of the regulations. density restrictions, land use restrictions, construction permit fees, prevailing wage requirements, environmental regulations, propositio

even gavin newsom himself has a lot of questions he is doing an investigation. at the same time, we know that diversity often trumped merit in hiring and promotions and it still does in california. we also know that millions could have been directed toward better emergency services that were, instead, spent on illegals that california happily welcomes in. >> and, of course, we know that that helped fuel homelessness which is skyrocketing still in california and at points also posed own fire risk people lighting fires outside for cooking and so forth. of course, we know that will strain the school system which now ranks a pathetic 34th in the nation, despite the highest taxes in the nation for the people who live there we know there is exodus of businesses already from california and that the wealthy are leaving and the middle class think are picking up and leaving the state it's simply expensive. california is so incredibly beautiful and so much promise. so much still brain power. such rich history courtesy of lurid liberal policies california has in metaphoric

calling on newsom to resign.riting on truth social, quote: one of the best and most beautiful parts of the united states of america is burning down to the ground. its ashes and newscum should resign. this is all his fault. here is newsom responding last night. >> one can't even respond to it. i mean, it's -- people are literally fleeing. people have lost their lives. kids lost their schools. families completely torn asunder. churches burned down. this guy wanted to politicize it. >> what is the situation with the water, obviously, in palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. >> local folks are trying to figure that out. when you have a system but it's not dissimilar to what we have seen in other large scale fires whether it be pipe, electricity or the complete overwhelm of the system. >> nate: so trump will head back to palm beach tonight from washington, d.c. after attending former president jimmy carter's funeral. he will meet with republican governors at mar-a-lago tonight as he awaits decision from the u.

i asked newsom the following. can you guarantee that this budget will not increase taxes. well, as a fight hard against that, as you know, have been against. >> many of these proposals over the course many last number years, know, there be no need. the bottom could completely fall. trump can impose 60% tariffs against china kidspost across the board 20% or have seek a move to move, deport millions and millions of undocumented people living in america. speaking of trump, this press conference comes as newsom calls a special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars to help attorney general rob bonta. >> from future lawsuits against the trump administration, republican party officials holding this press conference just blocks from where newsom was to urge him to work with trump. the californians that i speak to across the state tell me loud and clear that they want a governor who's interested in working with our president. >> and to improve our lives and not spend our money suing the president. >> and california's department of finance director joe stephen schott wi

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom deliveringhat message on this new year's day. comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california depertment of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward. and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing ne

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year. mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing ne

we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. it comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducin

he has criticized governor newsom's leadership and response, but the president and newsom have met and cooperated before during similar times of crises. like this video from 2018, when the two toured damaged from the camp fire in paradise. meantime, residents in southern california are figuring out how to move forward. multiple schools near altadena reopened since the eaton fire. some of my best friends might have lost their homes. i only know one whose house burned to the ground, so that was a sad thing. an attempt to return to normalcy with a long road to recovery. jocelyn moran, nbc, bay area news. and it is far from over. a red flag warning remains in effect for parts of the southland. crews are making progress on that huge fire that broke out yesterday in the castaic area, which is north of santa clarita, burned 10,000 acres, but now is 36% contained, which is a big jump from last night at this time. firefighters are also gaining ground on the palilisades fire, now 75% contained. more evacuations lifted today. two weeks after that fire swept through. also, the eaton fire near pasa

so we can expect a great big ask from newsom. and i think by all said and done, by the time all is said and done, congress will come up with some amount of it for fema to distribute here. and hopefully the president will go along and sign off it. but it will. it's no gimme. yeah. for certain. he'll make some jabs on the way to that. okay. thank you. okay. thank you larry. we will continue our coverage of the southern california wildfires in our 6:00 newscast. bigad shaban will join us live from la, where many students haven't been able to go to school since the fires erupted. plus, how local crews are still helping to get the flames under control. that's all. coming up at 6:00. a federal judge cleared the way today for a portion of the special counsel's report on former president trump to be released. that report deals with mr. trump's efforts to overturn the his 2020 election loss. the long awaited report into trump's election interference efforts leading up to the january 6th attack on the capitol is expected to come out just d

governor newsom, i should note, is not there. but trump said very positive things about them and said that they had a good conversation. so it is a remarkable side by side of what we hear from trump when he is in the white house on truth social, and what he says when he is side by side with governor newsom, who the white house did not know until they were flying to l.a. that he was going to be there waiting on the tarmac to greet him. >> it is. that is a fascinating detail, nick, what more can you tell us about president trump's tour of the devastated areas? >> you know, anderson, if you looked at this tour in isolation, you would think it was a very standard presidential tour of a disaster zone. but then, of course. secretary was again calling the governor new scum and saying that, you know, he'd done great harm to the people of his state. and, you know, governor newsom, aides have been telling us over the past few days that they feel like they've been fighting two wars, you know, one against the fire and one against the deluge

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we can all be proud governor gavin newsom and his wife first partner, jennifer siebel newsom delivering that message on this new year's day. comes just days before state lawmakers are set to return to the capitol and right away. they will take part in newsom's special legislative session to allocate 25 million dollars in state funding to california attorney general rob bonta and the california department of justice. all with the goal to help fund a future lawsuit against the trump administration. as we step in a 2025 newsom not mentioning trump by name in this new year's message, but he did say this no matter what challenges lie. ahead california, we will always stand strong. republicans vowing to push back against newsom. special session. they urge the governor to work with trump. there is a better path forward and unfortunately gavin newsom continues down the same old, tired path. >> 2025 is going to be a very busy year. mcgeorge school of law at and professor chris mckay lee says in addition to newsom, special legislative session this year, legislators will also focus on introducing

this is the fold of the democratic leadership gavin newsom and karen bass. me repeat that karen bass the mayor of the city of l.a. and gavin newsom. >> todd: leo, before we let you go, you are in west l.a. how worried that the fire is 0% contained? this will come out of mala blue pacific palisades and make its way to more populated area like santa monica, like brentwood. >> we are both lawyers. right now it is hope and prayer because we don't know. janice was talking about the winds. these flames and embers can go anywhere. case in point, look at palisades. everyone has to be on alert. there is no guarantee of this fire. sub right now, i don't know, but i have to be prepared to leave this house or make sure that i am prepared to leave his house. >> todd: leo, we are praying for you and thank you for joining us and please be safe and stay alert because this could change like that, leo, prayers. many residents cramping this morning to escape the deadly fires quickly spreading across southern california. >> carley: that is right, our next guest arrives in lax w

here is newsom last night. >> one can't even respond to it. mean, it's -- people are literally fleeing, people have lost their lives. kids lost their schools. families completely torn asunder. churches burned down. this guy wanted to politicize it. >> what is the situation with the water, obviously, in palisades ran out last night in the hydrants. >> look, the local folks are trying to figure that out. when you have a system but's it's not dissimilar large scale fires. whether it be pipe or electricity or just be the complete overwhelm of the system. >> president-elect trump will head back to palm beach tonight after attending former president jimmy carter's funeral in washington, d.c. he will meet with republican governors at mar-a-lago tonight after meeting with senate republicans yesterday in a meeting that he said went well. we will send it back to you. >> brian: we'll talk a little bit more about that. thanks, nate. just to get to the bottom. i want to get to the bottom of the water project reversed in 2019 by governor newsom. where the p

but governor newsom said the state faces a lot of uncertainty. so right now, this plan essentially is just a placeholder. >> this effort is so impactful and so meaningful. >> on monday, governor newsom painted a bright picture of california's economy. previewing a $322 billion budget without a deficit, fueled by big stock market gains by california's wealthiest residents and previous spending cuts. >> we're also walking into headwinds radically different moment in u.s. history, world history, arguably, and as a consequence, we need to be prepared. >> he warned that the budget could change depending on president elect trump's trade tariff and immigration policies. california will have to wait to see if the incoming president will follow through on threats to revoke billions in federal funding, which could affect health care and schools. >> he's also going to have to tap into the state's rainy day reserves. it's important here, therefore, since the budget is political, that you put forward a budget that shows a u. turn california around, this budge

but governor newsom and his team have long acknowledged they feel an easy about remarks.nt elect donald trump has made threatening to withhold certain wildfire disaster relief funding. if newsom does not approve certain trump backed policies trump says will result in more water for california. newsom disputes that walking into headwinds. lnd as a consequence, we need. >> to be prepared. we hope we continue to the support that we've always had from the federal government has for other spending priorities. the budget allocates more than 118 billion dollars for public schools and 100 million dollars for local governments to address encampments. while the newsom administration says the budget comes with a 363 million dollars surplus, the non-partisan legislative analyst's office recently released this report showing the state faces 20 to 30 billion dollar projected deficits in future years. >> 2, 2029 republicans accuse newsom of presenting a budget that spends too much and focuses on results. 2 little we need to look at outcomes. what's good is spending if you don't know wha

contradicts slamming newsom for a photo-op at palisades fire in video on your screen, anysome responded, however, to trump's criticism watch this. >> people are literally fleeing people lost lives, kids lost schools. families completely torn asunder churches burned down, this guy wanted to politicize it i have a lot of thoughts i know what i want to say. i won't i stood next to president of the united states of america, today, proud to be with joe biden he had backs of every single person in this community did not play politics to try i. >> congressional will take care of the state the governor has not done a good job with that being said i got along well with him when governor worked together very well would work together i guess looks like we are the one having to rebuild it, what happened i don't think is anything that up ever seen quite like it, insurance companies have a big problem big, big dollars. of. >> you know, there is a video going around on instagram, president trump back 2018 showed sound bite earlier basicallying criticizing gavin newsom in 2018 saying they do it differe