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Here is the Associated Press. Authorities update death toll working to identify bodies. It says that maui county confirmed thursday night the number of deaths increase to 55. Hawaii democratic senator was in hawaii and spoke about the damage done by the fires and is asking for federal assistance. [video clip] this is truly a all hands on deck situation and our people here who have not slept at all as they watch what is happening on maui. The Lieutenant Governor has mentioned and i thank her early leadership bringing all of us together and the governor who will land in hawaii couple of hours. We are all pulling together and 21st because i got this morning was from secretary mayorkas who assured me that they stand ready to do whatever they can to provide support. I reach out to the sba administrator because the businesses that have been devastated by these fires, i hope many of them will want to come back and get back to business and they will need the sba to provide the loans and other support. I have been getting phone calls from supporters from both the u. S. House and senate including chuck schumer, our majority leader, who has said to our entire delegation we stand ready. Please note every effort will be made to bring the federal resources. Host that was the senator of hawaii. You can see at the end of that portion images of the devastation. Here is the front page of usa today with a picture, the headline says national treasure, then ruin. It was that quick. As the picture of a 200 Year Old Church in lahaina, hawaii. That congregation celebrated their 200 anniversary three months ago. In washington post, at the syllable and fire scorched rally. The article says wildfire spanned by wind has toys toying communities for a second time in five years. Dozens are dead in this fire. The Historic Town has been all but leveled. Activists say that those of factors heightened fire risk and can trigger more disasters of action is not taken. Factors include spread of flammable not native grasses and a failure to manage the vegetation and harden communities against fire. In addition, changes in climate feeling stronger anger change that may contribute to conditions in hawaii. President biden discussed efforts to assist those in maui. [video clip] we just approved a major declaration for hawaii which will get aid into the hands of people desperate who need the help now. They have lost, and will has lost a a loved one, whose home is been destroyed will get help immediately and i direct that research the Emergency Personnel working at risking their lives. I just got off the phone with the governor this morning. I let him know i will make sure the state has everything it needs for federal government to recover. The fema administrator will be in maui tomorrow and i directed her to streamline any process with request for help and survivors which therefore federal assistant without delay. Fema is assisting disaster personnel and they will help survivors to get access to federal assistance. Anybody who wants to know out there were to go, this is televised, they can go to disaster assistance. Gov. Disaster assistance. Gov. To learn if youre eligible for assistance. Ive ordered all federal assets on the island including u. S. Coast guard, Navy Third Fleet and u. S. Army to assist local Emergency Response crews along with the Hawaiian National guard. We are working as possible to fight the fires and evacuate the residents and tourists. Host we are taking your calls on the top story of the week, what you thought was the top story, and regarding Public Policy the hawaii fire heres the washington examiner. By this is military aid to help with response. Since the 34 hours, President Biden ordered military aid to be sent to hawaii. White house issued a statement saying all available federal assets are being deployed to help quench the fire, conduct search and rescue, and evacuate hawaiian citizens. In other news, i want to share with you, politico and the headline is this, special Council Proposes january 2, 2020 for trial for trump on election charges. The aggressive timeline to put the alleged interference case first on trumped lists of upcoming criminal trials. The article says this, special Council Jackson is seeking to put donald trump on trial january 2, 2024 less than five months away on charges related to his bed to subvert the come to an election. The timeline will put the trial first on trumps crowded calendar of criminal proceedings and guaranteed excessive airing of the e allegations against him just before republican primary voters head to the polls. Also from politico is this news, james comer rolled out a new memo detailing foreign payments to the biden family members as part of a sprawling investigation. But the white house accuse the Kentucky Republican of moving the goalpost over the lack of direct payments to joe biden. It says the Kentucky Republican release a memo wednesday outlining the findings and so far on payments made from foreign entities or individuals in russia, ukraine, and pakistan to biden family members and in total according to the memo house identified has identified more than 20 million in payments from foreign sources or their associates. It says from the memo, President Biden defenders report a weak defense by setting the committee must show payments directly to the president to show corruption. It says this is a hollow claim, no other market will be afforded if the federal member accepted foreign payments or bribes. It says this, the disclosure immediately caught the intention of the white house and House Democrats who accuse the Kentucky Republican a movie the goalposts for investigation republicans characterize moving the goalposts of investigation republicans characterize about joe biden. Democrat says Committee Republicans release information on financial transaction that did not involve the president. If you would likeif you would lt memo i would encourage you to do that. It is at oversight. House. Above. Oversight. House. Gov. Regarding the memo i have a portion of what james comer said oh newsmax. [video clip] host i think we have that available . It confirms the president of the United States has been lying to the American People for years about involvement and family shady business dealings. We believe every person who wired the by this money for services we have no idea what they were for that joe biden in some form or fashion with every single one them even sitting down for lengthy dinners with the people. All of these people who sent the brightest millions of dollars are people who are in trouble is he some country around the world , usually their own country. They are all bad people. They are bad actors. All bad people. They are bad actors. And they are from adversarial countries from u. S. They all it needed something from the federal government. It is becoming more clear every day. The president s son was out front but jill biden was working behind the scenes communicating with every single one of these shady characters. You look at the money trail and i wonder what some of these people from foreign countries, why were they paying the biden grandchildren . I think that is more a part of the Money Laundering scheme per unit six different banks, major banks in america accuse the bidens of Money Laundering. Look at the payments we disclose, these payments would always go through one or two Shell Companies first. Look at the money that went to hunter biden for the car, the exact amount wired from the oligarch to a Shell Company at the Shell Company purchased the car. Never received the money directly. They always put it through a Shell Company first. That is called Money Laundering. We set up Shell Companies for sole purpose of Money Laundering, that is racketeering. Number of crimes the family has committed continues to grow on the weekly basis but the one thing that is most important to us is that jill biden knew who his family joe biden knew who his family was receiving millions of dollars from. Host we would like to hear what you think is the top story of this week. Inflation numbers came out yesterday. Here is the wall street journal. Kula july inflation of this storage of fed pause on race. Price pressure continue pulling. Fresh inflation figures show that leaders hearing the Federal Reserve from deterring the Federal Reserve from raising rates in september. A similar price index, measure of goods and services and prices across the economy, rose a mild 0. 2 in july, the same as in june. Core prices which excludes volatile food and Energy Categories also increase just 0. 2 percent in both months, extending a broader slow down in price pressures. The figures led to 3. 2 percent annual inflation in july, up 53 in june. Annual core inflation down to four point 7 in july from junes 4. 8 . This is an interview on the new cpi numbers with San Francisco fed president. She discussed the work if it has to do in stabilizing the economy. [video clip] i do know that theres a lot more information coming in between now and our next meeting and certainly between now and the year and i use the word information as to the data because i had an early part of your program that assessment with the fed looks only at headline whether that is inflation or labor market or housing prices, we are actually looking deeply within the data and asking questions like what our new rents doing, what would people feel when they released their first property, what do my contacts say if they will hire workers next year or coolingoff, how much price pressure to people feel when they are out in the marketplace. Those are all the information sets we have and to being data depend as of fed me you take that information in and to use it to project what you think will happen. As i look at that, i see slowing in the economy, but not there yet. Thats what my contacts across the district tell me whether i am in alaska, hawaii, california, arizona. I hear the same thing. Yes, the economy slowing down. It feels less frantic but it is still hard to find workers. If you are a worker, it is still hard to afford things. It is not really quite in balance and that is the work we continue to do as a fed. How we do that whether we raise another time or held rates steady, those are yet to be determined. It would be premature to project what i think would happen because theres a lot of information coming in between now and our next meeting. Host we go to your films now. Kamil in montana, independent. Good morning. Caller good morning. My story of the week is Climate Change. What happen in mably, my birth giver was there in maui, my birth giver it was in the town and theyre experiencing drought they have all that moisture created but they are drought. It should be a book of call that Climate Change is real. We should realize Climate Change is bad. It is not up to us as normal people to it, it is the corporations. They like to say we the people should have to do it read should be the corporations first and then as. Then there banana republics, they have banana there killing bananas and we are losing species of fruit and vegetables. Climate change will affect everything and call me, and this if you have to, but i think this radical stuff they could do. We have boomers who are just going to die off so they do not care about what is going to happen because theyre not going to have to experience that. We have people who fell in the hospital or had to go to a hospital. Host how old are you . Caller i am 33. Anyone who is around my age, run for office because we have the boomers in there theyre not doing anything. We have good people like Bernie Sanders but he is getting up there and we do not have a lot of young people to help and we need more young people to get out there and run for office because that is where the change will happen. We get our ideas out there because im tired of seeing the order people not understanding we have to do this. They do not care about our future. Host chris in maine, democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to go back to the james comer investigation of the biden crime family. Every time a republican because in i would love for you to ask them what crime was committed and ask them, a bunch of money went to members of the family, what policy did jill biden enact , do or engage in as a result of money going to the family members. I would love for you to ask them this, voucher discussion it was in the white house working on the middle east he received 1 billion loan from cutter at a time cutter was under blockade by other middle eastern nations oddly just coincidently i am certain blockade was lifted just before kushner got 1 billion to bail out his his property which was completely dying. He only had about 50 of the money needed to cover the loans. Six months after leaving the white house where he was an official working for the people, got 2 billion from the saudi arabians. Then this year in march he got another few hundred million from cutter and uae. Republicans are worried about a few million that went to some biden family members . Biden has been in politics his entire life so it is no big surprises his family will play off of his name. I would love for you to ask those questions. Whenever someone says biden family, biden crime family, please tell us what crime that was committed and what policies changed from money that went not to him but his family. Host james in virginia. Caller the pact act. Refuse treatment after age 18. The gentleman that just the fbi just killed, they do in the check to see if you might be involved with the pact act . Being screwed over . It would be something to check on. Host did you apply for benefits . James is gone. John in detroit, independent. Good morning. Caller hello. Top story to me is this military coup in niger. I guess they are trying to kick out the french military. They got rid of their old president and one of our own diplomats victoria nuland, deputy secretary of state acting, think joe biden promoted her but she visited niger and she met with the military people who overthrew their president last week and i guess they did not really give her a warm reception and our country which are aid but now we are withdrew aid but now secretary blinken approves invasion by other west african country so that is what im looking at. Host here is the Associated Press on that situation in niger. The headline is western officials, want date killed the post president of any military intervention. It says they told top u. S. Diplomat that they would show the post president if neighboring countries attempted any military intervention to restore his role. They spoke to the ap shortly before the western blot said it had directed the deployment of a Standby Force to restore democracy. Zach is next. Harrisburg, pennsylvania. Mcgrath. Democrat. Caller thank you for taking my call. When it comes to the crime family, we got to a Supreme Court justice who has been running around for 30 years taken money. My thing is bidens plans through congress is what we should be talking about. We should talk about the fact that most of the money of these bills will go to red states because they are the poorest. As a reason why they are the poorest. There politician skim and lie to them. While we do not extend medicare and youre in texas or alabama . But you got close to 4 Million People living in poverty. Then when biden put these policies in place, hes thinking about these people. I am old enough to remember that what got dr. King killed was not that was when he decided he was going to get to mississippi and deal with the poor white people. He was going to bring hope to them also. That is what got king killed. To this day, these People Living in obscurity. Most of them do not have teeth and how Social Security say government this coming government that did not take away my Social Security not even knowing Social Security is from the government or food programs for children in the morning who may be their only mill of the morning. Yet they are supposed to learn, go through a whole day of school on one meal. Get off the biden crime crap because Everybody Knows trumps family has made more m