Good evening. The show begins tonight with Jeff Bliss reporting on the Ventura County Fire. Wildfire, winds, dry conditions, lots of brush to burn, very little contained. I do not follow wildfires independently. I depend upon Jeff's guidance. And he said, they're hoping for better weather. There have been winds up to 100 miles per hour throughout Southern California,

driving the sparks from fire to fire.

This is one great big fire.

It's already said to have destroyed more than 100 buildings.

California lives with fire season fantastically, able, vigorous.

It's not something I know much about.

I did the reporting on Australia wildfires, bushfires I call them in Australia.

I followed Jeff's lead here.

Then, conversation about Puerto Rico with Mary Anastasia Grady of the Wall Street Journal.

In the news recently, the late campaign for partisan advantage.

However, the story of Puerto Rico is more compelling because after it was overwhelmed by debts in 2016, Congress created a board called Premesa, an oversight board called the O board, the junta.

And it is a parallel governance, financial governance, to the government, the governor and his office, her office right now.

So what we're looking at here is confused leadership at the same time. The pharmaceutical

companies that have enjoyed tax cutouts do not in any way help what is described as the way

which is the small businesses of Puerto Rico that are heavily burdened with tax.

Mary said something like the worst tax or the second worst tax on corporate business in Puerto Rico.

Why is that? I don't know. I'm learning.

Gene Marks returns from the road to talk about his visit to the Kitchen Cabinet Association.

He visited them in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

And they're very unhappy with Chinese kitchen cabinets that are not in any fashion

something they can compete with because the market is subsidized. They want tariffs to protect their

market in a small business kitchen cabinet business. Other parts of small business also want

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