get. but it s always ironic when the east winds stop blowing, the on shore winds start it blows the fire right back into our face. chief, you and everybody in your county, everybody up and down the southern california coast line are in our thoughts and prayers tonight. can t thank you enough for the work you ve all been doing. thank you very much for finding time to talk with us. thank you very much, brian. we appreciate you sharing our story. happy to do it. mark is chief of ventura county fire department. coming up for us, south koreans trying to sell the quickly approaching winter olympics are not getting much help from the white house. we ll explain when we continue.
you re right up on top of it.. today california used the statewide cell phone alert system to notify 22 million people. they were in the extreme fire danger area. that encompasses seven counties along 300 miles of that state. we are for ttunate to be joinedy an important guy, very tired gentleman, ventura county fire chief mark l oren zen. thanks for being with us. to an audience of folks not in california, how do you describe these santa ana winds? well, first of all, thank you for having me, brian. the santa ana wind conditions is something we re faced with all the time here, but this has been a particularly strong wind. i mean, they re truly amazing. we ve been faced with winds upwards of 80 miles per hour and it pushes the fire hard, hard. the winds push out of the east and push the fire hard to the west. we saw just tonight in san
but as far as executive assistant director gattis, as i said, he s been a complete professional. by that i mean to include a political himself with political bias against the trump administration? no. josh kabuki kool? no. marissa men ser? i actually d antoni know who that is. all right, thank you, fair enough. brian par man. no. thank you. i have begun to have serious doubts about some in the fbi, serious doubts about the integrity of some of the highest levels of the fbi. did bob mueller recruit people to his probe that had a bias against the president? so, that s what s going on in congress and in the media on this effort to diminish the mueller investigation and bob mueller. today former bush white house aide and mccain presidential campaign senior advisor steve schmidt in this studio called out these attacks on robert mueller with perhaps the most