Trump Challenges California Leaders on Wildfire Causes

Wade Crowfoot, the secretary of California's Natural Resources Agency, told Trump in a meeting in Sacramento on Monday that a warming climate is making the state's fires worse.

"We want to work with you to really recognize the changing climate and what it means to our forests, and actually work together with that science," Crowfoot told the president. "The science is going to be key. If we ignore that science and sort of put our head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management, we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians."

Trump responded: "It'll start getting cooler, you just watch."