Fox News senior national correspondent William La Jeunesse on Wednesday pushed back when anchor John Roberts asked him about President-elect Donald Trump's comments about devastating fires consuming California.
As La Jeunesse was covering the fires live from Malibu, Roberts asked him about why California had supposedly left itself open to such a disaster by not following Trump's recommendations for "clearing underbrush to make sure that the forests' floors were clean."
"Why does this keep happening again and again?" Roberts demanded to know.
La Jeunesse paused for a couple of seconds before answering.
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"Number one, this fire... started in a residential area," he replied. "That didn't have anything to do with the wild fires that we often see that start in the national forest or in what we call the urban-rural interface where a lot of people have moved into and where, frankly, they don't take proper care."
La Jeunesse then added that California right now has a "year-round fire season" because "we've had marginal rain the last few months."
"I think you can blame California on some things," he acknowledged. "But other things, I don't want to say it's Mother Nature, I haven't looked at the total statistics for acres burned, but in a situation like this, as I said, where it starts in the middle of a community, you're going to have problems."
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