President Biden has just one week left in office, and the raging wildfires in California have become fodder for political debate.

For the political stakes of the moment, we are joined tonight by Tamara Keith of NPR and Andrew Desiderio of Punch Bowl News.

Amy Walter is away with a welcome to you both.

Tam, as we continue covering these destructive wildfires out west,

the state's governor, LA's mayor, they are really fending off attacks from Donald Trump and his

allies, namely Elon Musk, who are blaming them for the destruction. Help us understand how this is

unfolding. And what's at stake if Donald Trump, who this time next week, will be president if he cuts off or withholds federal disaster relief?

And, you know, to be fair, they are also fending off criticism from residents of their own states who are frustrated with the response.

And, you know, there are also, the reality is that these fires

moved so fast and so furious, it was like hundreds of simultaneous house fires that they

were trying to fight. So there's only so much that can or could be done in that moment.

But, yeah, the politics broke out immediately.

I mean, the fires were zero percent contained when the politicization of the fires was well

underway. The question is, what does that mean for California? And, you know, it probably does not help California that there is a Republican trifecta in Washington,

and California is a blue state.

And where this happened in California is a blue part of a blue state.

And Trump, in the past, has openly speculated about not helping states that he didn't agree with or withheld a disaster

declaration in Washington state for an extended period of time back when he was president.

It's not, he isn't projecting exactly what he would do this time.

President Biden has in some ways tried to lock it in.

We'll see if he succeeds. But he has

offered the state of California, you know, 100% coverage of recovery efforts from the federal

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