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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Republicans politicize the Los Angeles wildfires

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with the LA wildfires, as families return to fire-ravaged homes, discovering their life's possessions destroyed, while firefighters brace for potentially severe weather conditions. Meanwhile, Fox weekend host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, faces confirmation hearings tomorrow amid concerns about his qualifications and past behavior. This hearing is just one in a series of contentious confirmation proceedings this week, described by a Republican senator as "a little bit of a train wreck." Listen now.

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As far as trophies, memories, diplomas,

0:09.0

everything else just went up in flames.

0:12.0

My mom just said it to me.

0:14.0

She's like, everything's gone.

0:16.0

You mean the books that we have?

0:18.0

Like nothing?

0:19.0

I'm just like, mom, it's all gone. All of it. Every memory, all those

0:23.6

things are gone. More families return to their fire-raveraged homes to find all of their

0:31.8

life's possessions gone. And tonight, firefighters are facing the possibility of new severe weather conditions on the way.

0:40.4

Also tonight, he's not qualified for the job.

0:43.1

And former colleagues said they worried about his drinking.

0:46.3

But tomorrow, the confirmation hearing will begin for Fox weekend host Pete Pegset, Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon.

0:56.7

That's just one in a long line of confirmation hearings this week, which one Republican

1:02.1

senator called a little bit of a train wreck to make the understatement of the year so

1:08.2

far.

1:10.5

But we begin tonight with the fires and the lies about the fires.

1:15.6

Now, it is particularly nasty work to use a massive human tragedy to advance your own greed.

1:21.6

But leave it to the billionaire right in America to do just that,

1:25.6

with the multiple inferno still engulfing Southern

1:29.1

California, which have killed at least 24 people and swept through 40,000 acres in the greater

1:37.0

Los Angeles area, destroying entire communities and more than 12,000 structures.

1:43.7

The risk is far from over.

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