Jacob Soboroff

And so this, too, was something that I hadn't thought a lot about when I was standing out there.

But in the aftermath, I've thought about to an extraordinary degree.

That's for sure.

Sure.

As we sit here, and again, nobody is absolved here.

Gavin Newsom, by the way, said to me when I interviewed him for Meet the Press,

that he was going to institute a Marshall Plan for Los Angeles to rebuild.

I haven't seen that Marshall Plan announced, and I haven't seen, you know, Governor Newsom with some extraordinary proposal to get Los Angeles rebuilt faster than ever.

But he did go to Washington, D.C.

just recently at the end of the year, 2025, to meet with congressional leaders.

And he says to attempt to meet with the administration after he has requested billions of dollars of additional federal aid, which he did get originally from the Biden administration.

And what his office has said is that he was rebuffed by the Trump administration to couldn't even get a meeting.

And the Trump administration, you know, again, rolls out the ad hominem insults, new scum, everything that you would anticipate that they would say instead of saying, here's how we're all working together.

Trump wants everybody to know that it's been the fastest environmental remediation in the history of the country and that he takes credit for that, but that Newsom is a failure and that he's doing nothing to help.

I don't think any of that helps anybody.

I don't think anybody thinks any of that helps anybody.

And it continues to play out.

He had suspended CEQA and the Coastal Act, a couple of sort of landmark environmental regulations in order to allow people to rebuild faster.

I think the challenge for so many people is not necessarily these regulations, but the cost, the prohibitive cost of finding their way back.

And, you know, my own experience.