On Wednesday morning, President-elect Trump weighed in on the fires raging through Los Angeles County, blaming California Governor Gavin Newsom for the disaster. During an Inside Politics panel discussion on the matter, CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson accused Trump of having “no sense that Californians are Americans” and lacking empathy because of his feuds with “Democrat[s] in general.”
Host Dana Bash first turned to NPR’s Tamara Keith in an attempt to get to the bottom of Trump’s accusation. However, the reporter offered a weak excuse in response, stating that “trying to explain water politics in California is almost impossible.”
Keith further claimed that the “larger issue” was a future president “seemingly trying to start a feud with the governor of a state in the middle of a crisis,” which she boiled down to Santa Ana winds and “it hasn't rained. It's been very dry in California.”