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We spent much of the first hour on the incredible, absolute failure of the city of Los Angeles, including management, L.A. Fire Department,

L.A. police, the emergency services, just a total lack of planning, a total lack of preparation.

And everybody was left on their own, and that's why things were so difficult when it came to evacuation out of the palisades.

And, you know, we haven't even touched all the usual stories.

By the way, nobody in the fire department, nobody at City Hall, nobody at Department of Water and Power.

To this day, it's been three weeks, has commented, three weeks, four weeks now, has said one

word about all the failures.

Nobody has even acknowledged the failures.

Nobody is talking about the reservoir yet.

Every time I go through these various news stories, it's L.A. City Fire refuses to comment. L.A. County

Fire refuses to comment. The emergency management refuses to comment. Everybody's refusing to comment.

Karen Bass hasn't said one word about the massive failures. Instead, she put a cherry on the cake

over the weekend by deciding they were going to open up the palisades,

no more checkpoints, and you

heard David Howard, a KFI

sales manager who lost his home,

he said that everybody went berserk.

Everybody went crazy.

Because the looters

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