Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and Senator, the entire world, and certainly in the United States.

The focal point is the wildfires that are happening out in Los Angeles.

It is not just catastrophic.

It looks like a war zone, a nuclear disaster has gone off in the palisades,

where all of these homes are just gone. You see these houses on the beach, they are gone,

and our hearts go out to the people there, but there also is a reality that much of this was

caused by the politicians that didn't do their basic job, and that's why so many

people are angry right now in California.

Well, we are in the midst of one of the worst disasters in our nation's history.

What is unfolding right now in Los Angeles is truly heartbreaking and horrific, and you and I are recording this at 11

p.m. on Thursday as of now more than 9,000 homes and structures have been damaged or destroyed

in the palisades and eaten fires five people that we know of have died. And officials are saying the death toll is

likely to be higher. And at least 130,000 residents are right now under evacuation orders. And these fires

have the potential to be the single costliest wildfire disaster in American history,

and they are raging as we speak. It is a hell on earth. And so let me start by saying,

what I know our listeners are doing, what our family is doing, which is just lifting up

the people of California in prayer,

lifting up those who are in harm's way, lifting up those who are seeing their families endangered,

their homes potentially burned to the ground, the utter horror of what is unfolding there is just stunning. You know, Heidi is a native

Californian and her entire extended family lives out in California. And we've been,

Heidi and I have both been reaching out to friends of ours who live there, who are dealing

with this. And it is, it is horrific horrific I'll say at the same time as we're

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