In a fiery exchange, President Donald Trump and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass clashed over the response to the devastating Southern California wildfires. Trump criticized the city's handling of recovery efforts, suggesting that evacuated residents should clear hazardous waste themselves to expedite the rebuilding process, while Bass emphasized the need for safety measures. Tensions escalated over the timeline for recovery and the role of federal aid in the disaster.
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00:00And we want you to be back in your homes immediately.
00:03But the people are willing to clean out their own debris.
00:05It doesn't cost a lot.
00:06Yes, and they can.
00:07You should let them do it because by the time you hire contractors, it's gonna be two years.
00:12If a family-
00:14People are willing to get, you have to exercise them also.
00:16I did exercise them.
00:18Because I looked, I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power.
00:21And you can do everything within 24 hours.
00:24Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property, they can.
00:28We protect those who will come afterwards.
00:31As we speak, there are 6,000 acres burning in my district on the Mexican border.
00:36But we are gonna move as fast as we can.
00:40But we want you to be safe.
00:42We want you to be back in your homes immediately.
00:45But the people are willing to clean out their own debris.
00:47It doesn't cost a lot.
00:48Yes, and they can.
00:49You should let them do it because by the time you hire contractors, it's gonna be two years.
00:54If a family-
00:56People are willing to get a dumpster and do it themselves and clean it out.
01:01And they can do that.
01:02There's not that much left.
01:03It's all incinerated.
01:04That's right.
01:05And it's just gonna take a long time if you do.
01:08You can do some of it.
01:09But a lot of these people, I know that guy right there that's talking.
01:12I know my people.
01:13You'll be on that thing tonight, throwing the stuff away.
01:16And your site will be, it'll look perfect within 24 hours.
01:19And that's what he wants to do.
01:20He doesn't wanna wait around for seven months till the city hires some demolition contract.
01:25That's gonna charge him $25,000 to do his lot.
01:29I think you have to, you have emergency powers just like I do.
01:33And I'm exercising my emergency powers.
01:36You have to exercise them also.
01:38I did exercise them.
01:39Because I looked, I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power.
01:42And you can do everything within 24 hours.
01:45Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property, they can.
01:49Yes, but you know that you will be able to go back soon.
01:57Mr. President.
01:58We think within a week.
02:02That's a long time, a week.
02:04I'll be honest.
02:04To me, everyone's standing in front of the house.
02:07They wanna go to work and they're not allowed to do it.
02:09And the most important thing is for people to be safe.
02:13They're safe, they're safe.
02:14You know what they're not safe?
02:15They're not safe now.
02:17They're gonna be much safer.
02:20A week is actually a long time the way I look at it.
02:23I watched hundreds of people standing in front of their lots.
02:27And they're not allowed to go in.
02:29It's all burned.
02:30It's gone.
02:31It's done.
02:32Nothing's gonna happen to it.
02:33It's not gonna burn anymore.
02:34There's nothing to burn.
02:34There's almost nothing to burn.
02:36And they wanna go in there.
02:38The people are all over the place.
02:39They're standing.
02:40And I say, Warren, you're going in.
02:42We're trying to get a permit.
02:43And the permit's gonna take them.
02:45Everybody said 18 months.
02:47You said 18 months.
02:48You said 18 months.
02:49That was last night.
02:53And that was last night.
02:54On that.
02:59Right.
03:02Yesterday.
03:03Mr. President, we're gonna be together next week.
03:07And during the interim, many of us are involved in,
03:11and Tom McClintock, who you know, has been an expert on this for years.
03:15We are going to be putting conditions on the money that do two things.
03:20Require that it be done timely and affordable.
03:23And then secondly, that we protect those who will come afterwards.
03:28As we speak, there are 6,000 acres burning in my district on the Mexican border.
03:33There will be more fires until we include, in any disaster relief,
03:40items which will prevent it or at least mitigate it from happening again.
03:44You're gonna see us proposing both of those.
03:48Like water.
03:50Little things like water.
03:51You know, the party of common sense.
03:53See, Brad, we're the party of common sense.
03:55You're not, in all fairness.
03:57Yes, sir.
03:58We like water to put out fires.
03:59It's really quite efficient.
04:01All right.
04:02Thank you, Mr. President.
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