This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchew with Jeff Bliss' Pacific Watch.

And we've been watching very carefully the fire moving, threatening Brentwood and Encino.

And starting up again in the Pacific Palisades, which is where it started. It's the largest area.

Now we turn to the politics, and I start at the top.

By that, I mean the President of the United States, saying as long as it takes.

And, Jeff, you noted in your report of 24 hours past that California scratched his head

when it heard the President say, as long as it takes, and then proposed to advance paying for people's salaries

and whatnot for the next six months in order to help them either rebuild or relocate.

And the people of North Carolina heard that harshly. Why so, Jeff?

Well, here we are, six months out from the hurricane damage in the Carolinas and Appalachian areas,

Southern Appalachia.

And some of them are still living in tents or they're being told by the federal government that they can't live in tents anymore.

They have to find some of their shelter.

You know, there was always that $750 check they got from FEMA that really stuck on the

craw of a lot of people and in here you have this this very blue set of enclaves in California

being told don't worry we'll take care of you 100 percent and so it leaves the people in the east

saying aren't we Americans too?

Don't we deserve the same kind of treatment?

And there seems to be a lot of things going back and forth about special treatment for people that are more Democrat than others.

California is going to need everything that the federal government can provide over this next year or more.

So we go immediately to the reigning politician in

California that is Gavin Newsom, and he has survived recall. He's been elected twice. He's very popular.

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