Bill Maher has a question for California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ... why does it take a massive disaster for the state to cut red tape?!?
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00:00Karen Bass is taking a lot of heat.
00:04So is Gavin Newsom, but there is going to be a recall on Karen Bass.
00:09We will see what happens.
00:10But a lot of people think she failed in terms of leadership
00:14and, you know, where budget cuts may have affected the fire department.
00:20And there are other people who are saying,
00:22how dare you even talk about that in the middle of the fire.
00:26So where do you stand?
00:27Well, we all took a lot of heat.
00:33I'm with the people who want to hold politicians accountable.
00:37You know, this we shouldn't talk about it now.
00:39It's so funny to hear that coming out of the mouths of liberals
00:42because they hate it when conservatives say that after a gun tragedy,
00:46which is what conservatives always say after a mass shooting.
00:49This is not the time to politicize it.
00:51And then it never is.
00:54It is absolutely the time to talk about it.
00:56This is what my editorial is about Friday night on the show.
01:01Was it always going to be bad?
01:03Of course, their arguments are not wrong.
01:06We built the city in a terrible place to build a city.
01:09Global warming absolutely does make hot stuff and weather worse.
01:16Winds were ridiculous.
01:18I get all that.
01:19And they also made a lot of errors.
01:23Bush accountable for Katrina and thought Rudy Giuliani was an idiot for
01:28putting the command center in the World Trade Center,
01:31which is the place they attack for and were most likely to attack again,
01:35which he was.
01:37Well,
01:38then you have to have some intellectual honesty and criticize your team
01:41when they don't do it right.
01:44And they've had a lot of a long time to get this writer.
01:47It was always going to be bad.
01:50All of these were always going to be bad.
01:52And they always seem to be the worst they ever possibly could be.
01:55So no,
01:57I think we,
01:58we should demand better.
01:59You know,
02:00I watch your show every Friday night when you're on.
02:03And I followed your journey.
02:06I'm trying to get the necessary permits to take down a shed in your
02:12backyard over a period of,
02:14I believe more than a year.
02:17And that's what I had to build.
02:19I was building the shade and solar.
02:21This is where your solar,
02:22the solar,
02:23trying to get the solar hooked up,
02:25which by the way is what the state wants you to do.
02:27If it took you a year and going on television every week,
02:31shaming the state to build a shed for solar,
02:35just to get solar panels.
02:36When you look at the red tape with the coastal commission,
02:39with building and safety,
02:41with all of the rigmarole you have to go through to build a house and
02:45especially after hillsides may be compromised and whatnot.
02:49And you look at the scope of this,
02:51how optimistic are you that that could change enough so that LA can
02:56rebuild?
02:57I always think there's a middle of the road,
02:59actual practical solution,
03:01everything.
03:02And for this,
03:03I would say,
03:04um,
03:05was California's Uber progressive politics,
03:08the cause of this fire?
03:10Of course not.
03:11Um,
03:12did it,
03:13did it,
03:14did it MP impede them to some degree?
03:16Absolutely.
03:17That's the margin of error.
03:19I'm saying we can't,
03:20uh,
03:21abide by anymore.
03:22Now,
03:23as far as the red tape,
03:24I see that they're all Newsome bass.
03:26They're all saying we're going to cut red tape as if they're doing us a
03:30favor.
03:31My question is,
03:32well,
03:33if you can do it now,
03:34why don't you always do it?
03:35Obviously it can be done.
03:37It's not a favor to us to cut the red tape.
03:39Why do we live in this state in this red tape?
03:42Nightmare.
03:43The other times of the year when we're not on fire.