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Mike Johnson: “The natural occurrence of a wildfire, the damage was…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson joins The Lead with Jake Tapper

Published | Video Starts at 14:17

This is not dereliction of duty in Louisiana, it is in California because they forced these radical leftist policies and bad governance, frankly, that put them in position where The natural occurrence of a wildfire, the damage was exacerbated exponentially [in California]. It was the result of bad policy choices. So what we've said I think is very common sense. They're going to have to upon that if they want federal taxpayers to bail them out. (14:17–14:34)

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Asserts that California's policies have exponentially worsened wildfire damage.

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