He cannot unilaterally change that. But that's the conversation and the chaos. He wants to create.

I don't think so. I think Washington and the beltway are so out of touch with ordinary Americans.

It's tone deaf. It's a bunch of Washington politicians listening to the foreign policy blob and totally out of touch with Americans.

It's a little different world now, today, with batteries, not just car batteries, but battery packs, people with solar, those Tesla wall batteries and the like. So the hazmat side of this is made a little bit more complicated.

If we can't stipulate to a set of facts, how are we going to work together to lead, not just this nation, but to lead the world?

President Jimmy Carter loved our country. He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.

There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.

But again, that's going to be determined by the local.

Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete…

Rest assured, we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable any body department, individual, et cetera.

The budget cut did not impact their ability to fight the fire.

We need answers to ensure this does not happen again. And we have every resource available to fight these catastrophic fires.

This is, I think, where we have such a challenge to present the counter to the Trump-Musk-Vance presidency.

The government hasn’t often delivered the things we said it should deliver.

I think he leaves us a huge opening to say, Look, this, this is the ideology that’s really failed the working and middle class.

I've been in constant contact with our fire commanders, with county, state and federal officials. I took the fastest route back, which included being on a military plane, which facilitated our communications.

There were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation.

There is already a real focus on the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and what could have been done differently.