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On today's show, Joe Biden delivers his final foreign policy address to kick off his last week as president.

We'll talk about the speech and his farewell tour. I can't believe it's the last week.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you have.

I made it more of like...

You're going to miss them. Oh shit. Trump's coming. Yeah, it's happening. It's real. I know.

We'll also talk about the latest in the precarious marriage between MAGA and big tech with Mark Zuckerberg doing more Trump ass kissing on Joe Rogan and Steve Bannon making new threats to Elon Musk. Then I talked to Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota DFL. That's the state's Democratic Party, about his bid for chair of the DNC.

But first, the fires in Los Angeles are still burning. As of this taping on Monday afternoon,

the Eaton Palisades and Hearst fires have burned over 36,000 acres. To put that in context,

that is a larger area than the entire city of San Francisco.

More than 12,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. That's just so far. That number will

probably go up. The fires have taken the lives of 24 Angelinos. Fortunately, that number is expected

to go up as well. As we are recording this, the winds have subsided, which has allowed firefighting crews over the weekend to contain more of the blaze, but really bad, powerful new winds are expected throughout the week, especially Tuesday and Wednesday, creating dangerous conditions and the possibility of new fires. Of course, the continued danger has not prevented Republicans from politicizing recovery efforts and spreading misinformation, such as Vice President-elect J.D. Vance's claim on Fox News Sunday that some of Los Angeles's reservoirs have been dry for decades. But the worst reaction has come from Trump and a growing number of Republicans in Congress who are already talking about placing conditions on disaster

relief sent to California. Here's Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso,

Tennessee Senator Bill Haggerty, and Speaker Mike Johnson. Why should other states be bailing out

California for choosing the wrong people to run their state? We shouldn't be. They got 40 million

people in that state and they've voting these these embezzles in office. If you go to California,

you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people, and I hate it for them, but they are just

overwhelmed by these inner city woke policies with the people that vote for

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