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The Disaster Of Trump’s Disaster Management

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

León Krauze talks to Dr. Scott G. Knowles, disasters and public policy expert and author of the book “The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risks in Modern America,” on Trump’s response to the California wildfires and other disasters from a policy perspective, the realities of what it takes to effectively manage these events, and calling out the lighter-fluid effect Trump’s words have on people and policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

His idea that this is a good thing to do to give Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sort of the cover of the American presidency

0:08.0

because it's good for business, even that is factually wrong. It is not good for American business, it is not good for American fall and policy,

0:16.5

it is not good for America's interest in trying to contain Iran, it is the opposite of all those things.

0:22.4

Many people just left and right outraged by this murder and the fact that they think the president needs to have a stronger moral position for our country.

0:32.4

This is likely not the end, there are likely to be follow-up questions and the door is still open for Robert Mueller to seek an interview with President Trump.

0:44.4

That is only not off the table.

0:46.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Leon Krause. We are recording this podcast from Univision Studios in West Los Angeles, California, where I work as a new anchor.

0:59.4

I've been living here in LA for 70 years now and I have never experienced anything remotely like last week.

1:06.4

Late Wednesday night, a man walked into the borderline barren grill in Thousand Oaks, which until then was one of the safest cities in the country and opened fire.

1:15.4

He killed 12 people who were there celebrating college dance night.

1:19.4

The next day, as I stood outside the Thousand Oaks, Civic Plaza for an afternoon vigil in memory of the victims, I could see a widening cloud of smoke across a 101 freeway towards the Pacific.

1:31.4

And there was a mighty warm wind blowing from the east that tipped over one of our lights for the newscast.

1:39.4

These are known as the Santa Ana Winds and their consequences in the dry weather can be devastating.

1:47.4

By Friday morning, the effects of the winds on the fire in the Santa Monica Mountains was becoming tragically clear.

1:54.4

The region had never seen anything like this.

1:58.4

The Woolsey fire, as it has been called, has destroyed 1400 structures and turned the landscape into something apocalyptic.

2:07.4

It will take decades for the wildlife to recover in the area.

2:11.4

88% of the federal parkland is now gone.

2:16.4

In Northern California, the scene was even worse.

2:19.4

The campfire burnt the town of Paradise, population 25,000 to the ground, to ashes.

2:27.4

The place no longer exists, period.

2:30.4

10,000 structures are gone over there. The current death toll is 77,000 people.

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