“Newsom fought me on forest fires. Now he finds out I'm right. Those fires in California, there's no reason to have them. The floors of the forests are filthy, dirty, meaning feet of leaves and fallen timber. You know, when a tree falls, if it's there for more than 18 months, it becomes like a matchstick. OK, it's dry. Dead, bone dry and the leaves underneath are bone dry in some cases for years. When you start, one little fire, it goes up, the whole thing goes up. If they would clean that out, you wouldn't have fires. You would have very few fires. I mean, you have cities that are called forest cities, there in forests in Europe. You take a look at, they have forest countries. You have countries that are in the mountains. They don't have anything like this and they have more flammable lumber of the type that California has, but more flammable than that, more inclined to burn.”