multimillion dollar homes. it is colonization and repeating itself all over again in a different format. it is disaster capitalism at its finest. you are throwing spears to the people of lahaina when they are already down. the very first hawaiians crossed oceans with sacred callow plans in their canoes and pellegrino is now using descendents of those plants to make point for president joe biden s welcome lunch but he says this kind of a lowball can only last if there is enough water for every living thing. the west maui land company did not return a call for comment. the president is expected to be on the ground and lahaina within the hour. landon martin will be constant and he will be hearing all day. erica.
efforts. and to please not let this become an opportunity for disaster capitalism. keani, thank you for sharing your story with us today. we are set to hear from joe biden at any moment. we hope he has some words for the folks in maui. jim? we are watching events at camp david, where joe biden is putting together the leaders bringing together the leaders of japan and south korea. the president of south korea, the japanese prime minister fumio kishida. the first time there s been a trilateral summit. the u.s. has deep relations with south korea and japan, but south korea and japan have often had tense relations. the three coming together in a new military agreement. not quite alliance, says the u.s. china has a different view. joining me now are my guests.
people to physically remove us, remove native hawaiians from the land. so that they can use this opportunity, this disaster to profit off of. keani, you re speaking of predatory folks that are now showing up where people have lost property and they re offering them a fraction of what their property is worth in order to take it on? that is exactly what i m talking about. i guess this is called disaster capitalism, where, you know, they are using this disaster to as people are suffering from the trauma, and are in desperate condition to buy out property so that later they can build it for profit. and our governor just had our
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Formerly the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Lahaina on the