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I want to get right into this today.

They didn't make unusual hour because, in a way, I'm going to have two co-hosts here, not in person or on the phone, but recorded from yesterday's hearing, a Senate hearing on the Palisades Fire.

We had Rick Scott, the senator from Florida, on yesterday.

He and Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Senator, ran this hearing in Washington, investigating everything about the Palisades Fire.

The lack of preparation, the terrible response, and then the god-awful follow-up for a year.

It has been a complete failure of Los Angeles government, complete failure of the Bass administration, complete failure of Gavin Newsom's administration.

State and local government, zero, on a scale of zero to 100.

It could not have been worse.

It could not have been worse if you had designed a plan to destroy a big section of Los Angeles.

And the hearing is being run by two senators, one from Florida, one from Wisconsin,

because the two senators from California, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, don't care.

They're not interested.

So I'm going to play for you excerpts from the testimony of two men.

One of them, his name is Patrick Butler.

Both of these men, I have mentioned before, being quoted in the Los Angeles Times, their investigations.

Patrick Butler is the fire chief and harbor master of the Redondo Beach Fire Department,

and he served for 31 years as assistant chief with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

He was involved in the 92 riots, the 94 Northridge earthquake, and on and on and on.

And he has a doctorate degree from USC, master's degree from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.

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