This is another guy that thinks everybody likes him.

But unfortunately, he lacks in leadership. He does run one of the biggest companies in the world. This company is not called Nvidia. This company is not called Apple. It's not called Google. This company is called California. And his name is Gavin Newsom. And his state's got kind of a lot of problems. Rob, is that a clip of what's going on in California?

Yes, sir. It's so bad folks that the president tweeted something that we have to address today on the podcast.

Rob, go ahead and play the clip. Go for it. President Trump has signed an executive order which the White House claims will speed up rebuilding after the wildfire disaster. The order aims to allow residents who are using federal emergency funds to rebuild to bypass

the local permitting process.

California officials are expected to challenge the order.

Governor Gavin Newsom responded on X, asking the federal government to send funds to rebuild,

not take over the permitting process.

LA County supervisor,

Catherine Barger, issued a statement saying she welcomes any effort to responsibly accelerate

rebuilding. She says L.A. County already has a self-certification process and a streamlined

approval process for modular factory-built homes and pre-approved plans.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass called the executive order, quote,

a meaningless political stunt.

She sent us a statement that reads in part.

The president has no authority over the local permitting process,

but where he could actually be helpful is by providing the critical FEMA funding

we have been asking for by speeding up

and by regulating the industries that he alone can impact. Why give money to an organization

that is a cluster, you know what? Why give money to somebody like you? Brad, did you ever live in

California or no? Once, yes. Okay. And so I'll read this to you what happened.

So he's taken over in the area of the rebuilds.

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