Anderson Cooper Stunned by Gavin Newsom Blaming Locals for Fire Problems
The Rubin Report
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4.6 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Dr. Drew Pinsky about the catastrophic wildfires raging through Los Angeles; California Governor Gavin Newsom stunning CNN's Anderson Cooper with his response to a question about why fire hydrants have been running out of water; a look back on an eerie resurfaced clip in which Donald Trump warned Gavin Newsom about the importance of proper forest management and controlled burns for controlling California's wildfires; Donald Trump telling Joe Rogan the increased dangers from Gavin Newsom's prioritizing of fish over California's water supply; Gavin Newsom's resurfaced boasting about the Klamath dam removal to protect certain fish species; how Mayor Karen Bass' ill-timed trip to Ghana during the Los Angeles wildfires is backfiring and leading for some to call for her to resign; how Matt Mammone and many other members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were fired after refusing to get the COVID vaccine; and much more.
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| 0:39.1 | All right, guys, we are live. |
| 0:40.6 | It's January 9th, 2025. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Dave Rubin. |
| 0:42.3 | This is the Rubin Report. |
| 0:43.1 | We're live streaming. As always, Rumble YouTube Locals. |
| 0:45.2 | Join us for the postgame show, RubenReport.orgals.com. |
| 0:47.7 | I apologize that we're two or three minutes late today. |
| 0:50.4 | Dr. Drew Pinsky, one of my good friends and Native Californian who lives in Pasadena, which is one of the areas affected right now by these fires. |
| 0:58.7 | He'll be joining us in about four minutes, and obviously with everything going on there, there's some internet issues, and we'll see if we can get the full video. |
| 1:05.7 | It was a little choppy as we were doing our tests, but that's why we're a minute or two late here. |
| 1:10.7 | We're going to be focusing |
| 1:11.5 | on the fire, the sort of immediacy of what's going on and the safety of all of the people. |
| 1:16.5 | It sounds like, well, we'll ask Dr. Drey this in just a sec. It sounds like where he is in Pasadena |
| 1:20.4 | should be okay, but these winds are moving fast, the fires are moving fast, Pacific Palisades is largely destroyed. So we're going to spend the 40 or 45 minutes of the show today just dissecting this, |
| 1:30.3 | but also connecting it to everything else we talk about on this show, which is how mismanagement |
| 1:36.3 | and poor governance can actually lead to all of these things. |
| 1:40.3 | As a few people pointed out to me on Twitter this morning, my last book was called |
| 1:44.6 | Don't Burn This Country, and I suppose I did mean it literally. It was a metaphor when I wrote it, |
| 1:52.1 | but all of this bad management does actually lead to quite literally burning things down, |
| 2:00.4 | and good governance can quite literally prevent that. |
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