Rick Caruso Says Trump & Newsom Have to Put Aside Beef for L.A. Fire Relief

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Rick Caruso is calling on President Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom to put aside their petty political beef and band together to help folks reeling from the Los Angeles wildfires.

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00:00President Trump is scheduled to come to Los Angeles tomorrow, and Gavin Newsom, I'm guessing,

00:12may actually be there.

00:14And these two guys who detest each other, how do they interact?

00:19How does Newsom, how should Newsom play this when each knows the other can't stand them?

00:26Well, I would tell you, tell them each very directly that these problems are bigger than

00:32politics.

00:34You are public servants, both of you, and you need to work together, find common ground,

00:41and go help people that are really suffering.

00:44Nobody wants to hear about your political grievances about each other, and nobody wants

00:47to hear about your political differences.

00:49There are thousands of people out of jobs, out of their homes.

00:53Simple as that.

00:54You get paid to be a public servant, and we really need both of you.

00:58So I'm hopeful that they're going to rise above it and do the right thing.

01:02It seemed like they were going to get the right, the number of signatures needed for

01:09the recall with Mayor Bass.

01:10I don't know if they're going to actually get to it, but that effort seemed pretty strong

01:14a couple of weeks ago, immediately after the fire.

01:18Your take on if it should actually play out that there is a recall, what can we expect,

01:26what you would do if there were a recall?

01:28Are you going to run?

01:29Honestly, I'm not thinking about it at all.

01:32The recall is going to play itself out.

01:35That's going to be the will of the people.

01:37I think Mayor Bass has to figure out her future on her own, for sure.

01:43My focus right now is leaning in everywhere I can for the rebuilding, to get the red tape

01:49cut, to get the right policies in place so we can get people their homes back.

01:54We've got to put infrastructure into the Palisades.

01:57We can't go put power lines behind people's homes again.

02:00We've got to underground it.

02:02So I really want to be an advocate for that community, and also Altadena.

02:06Let's get out of people's way.

02:07Let's get it cleaned up quickly.

02:09We've got to have a mobilization by federal force, FEMA, to come in here and get all the

02:15toxins out, redo the infrastructure, and cut through the red tape so people can build their

02:20homes.

02:21We've got to have something similar to COVID.

02:23Federal government, state government comes in and provides federal assistance to keep

02:27people going.

02:28We've got to have a moratorium on mortgage payments, a moratorium on tax payments for

02:33people's land in their homes.

02:35So everybody's got to lean in.

02:37Let's take a little bit of a playbook from COVID.

02:40We all hope that would never come back.

02:42Well, some of it's come back, and we've got to reinstate a lot of those things that kept

02:47people's lives going.

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