00:00What a disgrace what's happening in MacArthur Park.
00:05What theater.
00:06On the six-month anniversary, after all, of these fires, that's the message from the
00:12polluted heart of the President of the United States, the polluted heart of Stephen Miller.
00:19Those National Guard men and women that were out there protecting people are now being
00:23used as political pawns, out there on horsebacks running through soccer fields in the middle
00:28of the day, timed around announcements and events like this, says everything you and
00:39I need to know about the state of mind of the President of the United States in this administration.
00:48So to those that feel torn asunder by everything that's happened over the course of the last
00:55six months.
00:57Notably highlighted and reinforced last six weeks and over the course last 60 minutes day.
01:04Like today.
01:06I want folks to know we have your back.
01:08And we'll continue to come back and do what we can to protect our diverse communities.
01:14To protect the spirit that defines the best of this city and our state.
01:19And to push back against this cruelty.
01:22To push back against this cruelty.
01:26That is being perpetuated by the President of the United States.
01:32Well, look, you got estimated 41 percent of our workforce in the construction side.
01:36And that's a unique California stat.
01:38We have much higher Texas and California of the two highest percentage of people without documentation,
01:43immigrants working in our constructions, unions and trades.
01:47People that are also not in the unions and trades.
01:50And so it's foundational to our recovery for him to, you know, intentionally do what he did today.
02:00They know what they're doing and and then again, they have no idea what they're doing.
02:07And their ignorance is legendary and the impacts of this will be felt in the recovery and that's on them.
02:15Donald Trump owns that.
02:17He owns the cruelty.
02:18He owns the arrogance, not just the ignorance.
02:23It's by definition weakness, only a weak person puts on a show like that with horses and bringing the National Guard.
02:35At this moment, it's appropriate to remind ourselves that there are people that are not here.
02:41Thirty lives that were lost because of this tragedy.
02:45Altadena, the average life lost was 77 years old.
02:49You had great grandparents, not just grandparents.
02:53You had a father and a son that died.
02:55You had brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles that perished in this fire.
03:00Thirty lives lost, I hope, puts in perspective the moment we're in.
03:07And I hope it also puts in perspective how blessed, Bishop, we are to be here.
03:15To be members, many of you, of this remarkable community.
03:22And to have the opportunity to be part of this recovery.
03:27Recovery, after all, is what defines us.
03:30It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond to what happens to us.
03:36And I just want to thank President Joe Biden for being there and initiating this process
03:41and affording us the opportunity to be in the position we are today.
03:50The baton was passed to the Trump administration, and they have honored that commitment.
03:58As a consequence of that, we went through phase one and phase two, with over $2 billion of
04:04federal resources invested.
04:07We secured an additional $3-plus billion for many Angelino South, the Woolsey Fire, 132 homes
04:14per month.
04:15We are now entering the next phase.
04:19And again, an historic pace.
04:21And we have to maintain that same mindset, that same intentionality, the same deliberative
04:26focus.
04:27And we have to be, I think, mindful with humility and grace of the magnitude of what is being
04:34asked of us going forward.
04:36But one thing that is critical is that we go forward together.
05:09Beep
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