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Ron Johnson: “What is so tragic about, you know, what we're learning…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Dems will continue to be 'nasty' during Senate hearings: Sen. Ron Johnson | Wake Up America

Published | Video Starts at 04:15

Well, they're probably just throw hundred $200 billion of the problem. But again, it should be conditioned on California waking up and starting to manage its environment properly. What is so tragic about, you know, what we're learning about, how this was not only predictable, it was predicted, which means it was probably entirely preventable. You can't prevent the fires, but you can prevent them from becoming the tragedy with, you know, dozens of people losing their lives and billions and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of lost property. (04:15–04:26)

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Asserts that the conditions leading to the wildfires were predictable and preventable.

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