Hey, pull up a chair. It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

Respectful lawful authority, you have made statements to your platoon after being briefed by a jag officer

well by the way would you explain what a jagoff is i don't think i need to sir why not because

the men and women watching understand well perhaps some of my colleagues don't think I need to, sir. Why not? Because the men and women watching understand.

Well, perhaps some of my colleagues don't understand.

It would be a JAG officer who puts his or her own priorities in front of the war fighters.

All right, there you go.

We're off to a flying start here.

So I'd want to get the word fly in there.

John Heilman and our buddy J-Mart, Jonathan Martin, from Politico.

We're going to get to all of that.

But before we have a call-in from our buddy, Mike Murphy, who has been in fire-plagued Los Angeles where he lives.

And Mike, we just want to check in with you before we get on with other business and see how you're doing and how Los Angeles is doing.

Well, thank you, actually.

I thought I had the week off, and then all of a sudden everything turned orange here.

So we're doing great.

Not in tribute to the 47 president, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's a grim time here in Los Angeles. These fires have been devastating. We're fine. We live in kind of the central area of the city. And so the fires are mostly to the north and to the northwest, Pacific Palisage, kind of tickling the Mandeville Canyon,

threatening Brentwood and even threatening Encino up north. And then, of course, there's a new fire today,

the auto fire up in Ventura. We've got about 72 hours of these super winds coming, which is really

how this all works. Things are very dry.

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