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Donald Trump: “You already lost 25,000 houses to fires.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Lunch with the President of the Argentine Republic

Published | Video Starts at 1:10:04

Gavin Newsom, he's got to get his act together, because had we not gone in at the beginning of my term, had we not gone in with a very strong, powerful force, they would have lost L. A. Now, You already lost 25,000 houses to fires. You got a big scar right in the middle of the city. And that should have never happened because they should have had the water flowing in from the Pacific Northwest. (1:10:04–1:10:09)

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