American Sunrise - July 8th, 2025 - Real America’s Voice

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Just ahead on American Sunrise, Democrats blaming President Trump for
the devastate, devastating floods in Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Do the facts back that up? We'll dissect.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Plus, President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
at the White House as a ceasefire negotiations with Hamas continue.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Will there be a deal?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
We have the latest and finally, the director of the
new Superman movie, James Gunn, says the film is about immigration.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
So much for truth justice in the American way.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Will Hollywood ever learn their lessons? We have those stories
and so much more. As American Sunrise starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good morning, America.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome to American Sunrise.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Robert's Culture.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
We have breaking news to share with you.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
Politics.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
You've got your cover.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
This is what it looks like to be a patriot.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
We have to protect the American family.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
The American dream is still alive.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm David Brody, I'm Terrence, and.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm doctor Tanna. Good morning everybody. I'm doctor g We
are live with you from the Palm Beaches. Let's bring
in David Brody, he's in Washington, DC. And t Bates
in our Denver newsroom.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning, doctor Gena and David. So
much to talk about, guys. I don't know about you,
but my house. That's all we're talking about. Is the
situation there in Florida. The death toll now up to
even more than one hundred people.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
In Texas, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Texas, Yes, the death
toll there up to more than one hundred people, one
hundred and four specifically, at least. Recovery efforts, of course,
are continuing in President Trump is expected to visit Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Probably on Friday.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Of course he's waiting to see He doesn't want to
be an impediment to the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts.
But we're thinking that probably Friday he's going to go
there to visit. I don't know a lot about either
of you, but if you happen to see the White
House press briefing yesterday, you know Caroline Levitt continuing to
have to answer questions from the left. That's just trying

(02:15):
to criticize the response and criticize what may have gone
wrong leading up to this, instead of just letting this
play out and letting people recover and try to move
forward from this tragedy. Guys, it's just sad to see
how it's all unfolding.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, you know, I didn't see Caroline's press conference yesterday,
but what I did do was watch the lamestream media
just for just almost for fun. You know, it's just
so fun to see the parallel universe they actually subsist
in the bottom feeders.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Of the world and how they think.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
And it was, you know, absolutely like watching a completely
different story take place then what all of us saw
and know to be true, you know, and you have
to remember too, remember how Joe and Kamala David I
know you were and they never went to the scenes
of tragedy. They didn't go to East Palestine, Palestine, they
didn't go. There were so many places they didn't bother

(03:06):
to go. And then President Trump would go when he
wasn't president, remember that, and to the border is a
big one. They never did anything about with all the
tragedy there, and so for them to sit back and
there was no criticism then. By the way, you never
heard Joe and Mika talking about that. But now that
it's President Trump, tables have turned and now they criticize

(03:29):
he can't do right right. If he goes, they'll criticize.
If he doesn't go, they'll criticize David now.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
And they couldn't even wait twenty four hours. I mean,
my goodness, you know, shame on them, Shame on all
of the liberal media today who are just starting to
question things that aren't even really questionable at this point.
You want to ask a few questions, fine, but could
you wait a little bit?

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Number one?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
But you know, President Trump is like Kevin Bacon. You know,
it's like that six degrees of separation right with Kevin Bacon.
I mean, everything's connected back to Trump. You know, global warming,
the floods are his problem. The cuts now that they
have we're dosee. You know, those are now the problems
for something that hasn't happened in like forever up there.

(04:09):
I mean in terms of this bad of a flood.
They've had floods there before, but nothing even this horrific,
even though there's been horrific floods up there. The point
is is that everything is associated back to President Trump.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
When will they learn?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
And the answer is they won't.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
It's retorted.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you even imagine being a parent or family member
of one of these people and having to look at
these ridiculous people. No pontificating, politicizing, all the rest of it.
All right, well, let's get to today's Bible verse. It's
from verse Corinthians thirteen twelve. For now we see in
a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part, but then I shall know, just as

(04:48):
I also am known great reassurance from our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and the Bible.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Democrats have been blaming President Trump, as we said, and
Doze for the deadly floods in Texas. Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer calling on the Commerce Department to open an
investigation to see if DOGE cuts at the National Weather
Service stations impacted the situation. But this is how White
House Post Secretary Caroline Lovett responded to the claims. After

(05:17):
Rav's own Brian Glynn asked the question, take.

Speaker 8 (05:19):
A look, do think those comments are depraved and despicable,
especially when so many Americans are mourning the loss of
their children. The National Weather Service, as I said, did
its job. Many experts, many meteorologists, have said that many
of you in the media and all fairness have said
that as well. Unfortunately, not all and many Democrat elected
officials are trying to turn this into a political game,

(05:41):
and it is not. This is a national tragedy. In
the administration is treating it as such. We know the
National Weather Service provided early and consistent warnings. They gave
out timely flash flood alerts. There were record breaking lead
times in the lead up to this catastrophe. There is
ongoing flood monitoring, and these offices were well staffed. In fact,

(06:02):
one of the offices was actually overstaffed. They had more
people than they need for.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
More Let's bring in Missouri Congressman Mark Alford, Congressman, you
know tragedy Missouri, my home state. We have tornadoes, we
have floods. We've had some really bad floods in Missouri.
And you know, if anything, if anything, it seems like
the warnings today under the Trump administration, if they really

(06:28):
want to push it to there, if the left really
wants to make us discuss this, are better and more
efficient than anything. Government as a whole is functioning better,
don't you think, Congressmen, under President Trump, and more accountably
and more authentically, I might add, than it ever has
under Democrat or really even recent Republican administrations.

Speaker 9 (06:50):
Well, doctor Geena David Terrence, thanks for having me on. Yeah,
it is working smoothly. It is more transparent than any
administration I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Speaker 10 (07:00):
Look, I grew up down.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
In the Houston area.

Speaker 9 (07:02):
We used to go to on the Guadalupe River every
summer to vacation. I know this area well. It is
prone to flash flooding. The warnings were there. The National
Weather Service and New bron Felds not too far from
there on the Guadaloupe downstream actually was staffed up ahead
of time, knowing that a storm like this was coming.
At about one in the morning or one in the

(07:22):
afternoon the day before, they issued the first flash flood warning,
and then again at one in the morning that morning
of the flooding they issued another warning. Look, there may
be problems that need to be fixed along the river.
There was not adequate cell phone service. I don't know
if anyone had a National Oceana NOAH radio that could.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Have gotten those alerts.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
And it is so unfortunate that these young people died,
and really everyone who died along this flooding route along
the Guadalupe River. But to place the blame on the
administration and President Trump. It is just a further signal
of the woke Democrat numb skulls who want to blame
Trump for everything. It is a sickness, it is a disease,

(08:07):
and it's manifesting itself with this blame game.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Amen to all of that, for sure, Congressman, there's so
much to get to.

Speaker 11 (08:13):
I want to get to what's.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Going on between Benjamin Netyah, who of course is in Washington,
met with President Trump yesterday. They had dinner and he
surprised Trump with this formal Nobel Peace Prize nomination during
an historic White House meeting, and then he during this meeting,
President Trump was asked about sending more weapons to Ukraine.

(08:39):
Will he send more weapons to Ukraine?

Speaker 7 (08:41):
And this was his answer, take.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
A look.

Speaker 12 (08:44):
More weapons.

Speaker 13 (08:47):
We're going to send some more weapons.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
We have to.

Speaker 14 (08:49):
They have to be able to defend themselves. They're getting
hit very hard. Now, they're getting hit very hard. We're
gonna have to send more weapons yet, defensive weapons primarily,
but they're getting hit very, very hard.

Speaker 15 (09:01):
So many people are dying in that mess.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Uh Maga is probably not signing up for this specifically,
So I'm curious to get your take though. His call
with Putin just what a couple of days ago or
so really was not a good one at all. And
now Putin's going on the offensive this summer, so things
are changing here a little bit.

Speaker 15 (09:26):
Well, a couple of things to play here, David.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
I certainly do not want to send any more money
to Ukraine.

Speaker 10 (09:32):
We've talked about this for years.

Speaker 9 (09:33):
We spent more than three hundred billion dollars, some of
that missing unaccounted for. We've used part of that money
to prop up their government and to pay for their
government pensions, when we can't even get a hold of
our own financial situation here in the United States of America.
The money's got to end. But if we can send
some armaments over there, some of our older equipment and
replace that and possibly get alone get them to borrow

(09:56):
the money from us to buy this equipment in the
first place, I think it's a win for the United
States of America.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
We've got to be careful about.

Speaker 9 (10:03):
Another thing, though, is that we don't deplete our own
munitions and resources. We've got to be ready for anything
that Jijingping throws our way. And if Vladimir Putin expands
into Europe. That's going to be a big problem. NATO
is very concerned about this. I told you we were
on a trip a couple of months ago to Denmark, Sweden,
and the Netherlands. They are very concerned, as Stony, Alatia,

(10:24):
all these countries that border Russia are very concerned that Plutin,
if he is successful in his aggressions towards Ukraine, is
not going to stop there. So we have to be ready.
I think the President's got a tough decision to make,
but I know the folks in my district do not
want any more money going to Ukraine, and I agree
with that.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
Yeah, Congressman, before we let you go, do want to
talk about the one big, beautiful bill. You and your
colleagues got it over the finish line, got it on
the President Trump's death, signed and into law.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
But what happens next?

Speaker 6 (10:54):
The last time we talked, we talked about the possibility
of a couple more reconciliation process to potentially add or
change the bill. What would you like to see added
or changed or tweaked in the bill?

Speaker 5 (11:06):
What happens next?

Speaker 9 (11:08):
Well, look, we have two more shots at this, two
more bites of the apple reconciliation. You can do three
packages in a term of a Congress, and so we
have got another. What you're almost two years to get
something done. You're in a half anyway. I don't know
exactly what would fit into there. What I'm really concerned
about right now, Terrence and Gina and David is the

(11:29):
appropriations process. I'm only Appropriations Committee. We start our August
break where we come back home and work in the district.
We only have eight days, eight legislative days until we
do that. And so we've got five appropriation bills passed
out of the committee.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
We have seven left to go.

Speaker 9 (11:46):
We're going to go back and hit the ground hard
under the direction of Tom Cole, our chair, and try
to get as many as we can done. But we
do not need another continuing resolution. I fear that's what
we're headed towards. We're still operating under a budget that's
several years old. Now, we've got to make these spending cuts,
all these dough suggestions that we are now taking to heart,
and we are making these hard cuts in these committees

(12:09):
to reduce our spending. We've got to get into this
new spending plan and not rely on another continuing resolution
under the old.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Spending Congressman Mark Alford, thank you so much for being.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
With us today.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
My pleasures, Congressman.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right, coming up, we.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Check out the latest headlines from the RAP newsroom with
Ta Bates, and later we have looked at the tragedy
in Texas from a response and recovery angle.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
What are the people saying.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
We have some heartbreaking stories just ahead on American So nice.

Speaker 15 (12:51):
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Speaker 3 (13:12):
Welcome back everybody to American Sunrise. I'm David Brody on
this Tuesday morning. Coming up more on the devastating flooding
down in Texas. We're going to talk to congress excuse me,
former Congressman Louis Gohmert, who has a lot to say.
He knows the area, he knows the region, and he
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Speaker 6 (13:52):
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this week than many people will accomplish in a lifetime.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
I want to.

Speaker 11 (14:00):
Present to you, as President the latter I sent to
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Speaker 15 (14:06):
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Speaker 7 (14:12):
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Speaker 6 (14:19):
That nomination coming is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo visited
President Trump at the White House on Monday to discuss peace.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
With the entire Middle East.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
The Israeli leader says with President Trump's leadership, he believes
peace can be achieved in the entire region, including a
scenario in which Palestinians would govern themselves but keeping security
in Gaza in Israel's control. In the meantime, the Trump
administration says it will meet with Iranian officials, perhaps within
a week. The sit down would come in the wake

(14:50):
of the US bombing of Iran's nuclear sites. More countries
will likely receive letters from President Trump today warning of
increased tariff starting all August first. On Monday, he sent
notice to fourteen countries, including Japan and South Korea, the
President even posting the notes on True Social as you
can see here. In his letters to Japan and South

(15:11):
Korea announcing twenty five percent tariffs, the President also writing,
and I'm quoting here, if for any reason you decide
to raise your tariffs, then whatever the number you choose
to raise them by, will be added on to the
twenty five percent that we charge. The latest tariff moves
come after the Commander in Chief put a ninety day
hold on implementation of tariffs in order to give countries

(15:34):
an opportunity to reach more equitable trade agreements with the
United States. Some trading partners are getting a bit of
a reprieve from Wednesday's deadline in order to get a
deal done, and will likely have until August first to
reach an agreement.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Or face a higher teriff.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Now to the very latest on the deadly flooding in Texas,
the number of debt has now surpassed one hundred people
in search and rescue crews are still looking for miss people.
President Trump scheduled to visit that region in the devastation
later this week, likely on Friday, so as to not
distract from the ongoing recovery efforts. In the meantime, questions

(16:12):
are being asked about weather warnings leading up to the
downpours that caused the flooding, and why some of the
kids summer camps that were affected didn't evacuate ahead of
the flooding. RAF's chief White House correspondent, Brian Glynn, taking
some of those questions directly to the White House on Monday.

Speaker 17 (16:29):
You shared your thoughts earlier on how the way the
left has really webinized this to blame the deaths, and
Juxa's on Trump call on that again.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
Yeah, I just do think those comments are depraved and despicable,
especially when so many Americans are mourning the loss of
their children. Of the National Weather Service, as I said.

Speaker 18 (16:48):
Did its job.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Many experts, many meteorologists have said that, many of you
in the media and all fairness have said that as well. Unfortunately,
not all and many Democrat elected officials are trying.

Speaker 19 (16:58):
To turn this into a polite and it is not.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
This is a national tragedy.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
The White House Press Secretary also pointing out that the
National Weather Service provided adequate early warning, plus NWS offices in.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
The region were fully staffed.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
As a quick chuck if your headlines, we'll have more
headlines coming your way shortly, including first responders have been
working day and night trying to rescue survivors from the
Texas flooding and recover those who died. Ahead hear some
of their stories first, though a quick look at this
day in history. It was on this day in twenty

(17:46):
eleven that space shuttle Atlantis smith law and was the
final mission of the US Space Shuttle program. All eyes
are now glued on NASA's next steps as President Trump's
Space force begins to take shape. We'll have more American
sunrise right after this of.

Speaker 11 (18:03):
The space shuttle.

Speaker 20 (18:04):
America will continue the dream.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Right a wrong.

Speaker 21 (18:11):
Atlanta Houston, now controlling the flight of Atlantis space Shuttle,
spreads its wings one final time from the start of
a sentimental journey into history. Twenty four seconds into the flight,
the role program complete. Atlanta's now heads down, wings level
on the proper alignment for its eight and to heaven
and ride at orbit four and a half million.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
You're looking at the aftermath a few days now after
those devastating floods in the Hill Country, about an hour
or so northwest of San Antonio. My goodness, it's still
so troublesome. It'll be that way for a while. Welcome
back everybody to American Center. So the recovery efforts continue

(19:02):
in Texas after those devastating floods. That's hold now standing
at one hundred and four twenty eight of them children
in Kerr County, Texas. People have had their lives literally upended.
They've lost loved ones, obviously in this tragedy. Here's how
one victim explain what he has seen.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
Take a look.

Speaker 15 (19:22):
But you've seen several of the victims' bodies, well.

Speaker 22 (19:25):
A couple of them. Yeah, I mean that you know
where they said. I didn't see this one, but I
sall the one down here by the road the other
day that they had covered up waiting for them foreigner
somebody to come pick it up.

Speaker 16 (19:37):
You know.

Speaker 15 (19:37):
I'm sorry you've had to see all that.

Speaker 22 (19:38):
That's true, you know, it's just sad. It's just really
sad for the community.

Speaker 23 (19:45):
Yeah, and I'm sorry. I'm trying to do that, but
no man toil.

Speaker 15 (19:56):
They understandable. I'm real.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
For more.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Let's bring in former Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert, Congressman, you
love your state, you love the people of your state.
Talk to us about some of the emotion that has
gone on for you in the last seventy two hours.
And well you could tell our audience about this just
unspeakable tragedy.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Well, it's just terrific.

Speaker 24 (20:23):
And most everybody I know, those people that send their
kids down to Camp Mystic and down into there's an area.
It's such a gorgeous area, and so many of us
have floated the Guadalupe River and taken our families in

(20:44):
these areas and it's a beautiful area.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
But it was just a.

Speaker 24 (20:53):
Convolution of circumstances here and as it was not the
fault of any administration, and it was just a perfect storm,
as some like from the National Weather Service and the
National Asthmas Ocean, Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and pointed out,

(21:17):
it was a perfect storm. You had remnants from Tropical
Storm Buryed coming up, and they knew that it was
going to be combining with another weather element there and
create a storm, so they put extra people on.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
That was not an issue.

Speaker 24 (21:35):
But what they didn't foresee and it's just it's weather.
How can you know exactly what it's going to do.
They knew it was going to be putting rain in
the area, and you've got to understand there are a
number of rivers in this area, and if you miss
exactly forecasting where the rain is going to fall, well

(21:58):
then it could be you know, two rivers over the
two river basins over that it's going to flood. And
what they didn't foresee is that this storm center system
was going to linger in this area that would flood
the south fork of the Guadalupe River. And so yeah,

(22:23):
they put out a general flash flood, but not in
the Curville area, not down in Camp Mystic area, because
they didn't see that that.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
That was earlier in the evening.

Speaker 24 (22:38):
But then it was after midnight one fourteen or so
before there was a flash flood.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
But that's different.

Speaker 10 (22:45):
We get flash flood.

Speaker 24 (22:47):
Warnings around here, and well they say if you're in
a creek area or a river area, go to higher ground,
But that's different from a river flood water warning. And
that didn't come until three fourteen am in the area affected,
and by then this water had come and it was rising,

(23:10):
you know, twenty five twenty nine feet in an hour
or two. That's just phenomenal. And really it brought back
to mind back in twenty fifteen, there was a flood
down near that area the Blanco River. It was a
Memorial Day weekend, but it wasn't nearly as heavily populated

(23:33):
at that time. But thirteen people were killed. And again
it was just this mass body of water. And to
the point, yeah, Obama had been president for seven years
about at that time, but there was no reason to
blame the Obama administration for the weather or for the staffing.

(23:58):
It was just a horrific storm on the Blanco River.
They just appeared out of nowhere, and it wasn't their fault,
just as it isn't the Trump administration fault.

Speaker 11 (24:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, as this sort of moves from a rescue event
to a recovery event, first responders are now telling their
stories of what happened in the initial.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Efforts to rescue people.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Here's what US Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, who
DHS Secretary Christi nom called an American Hero after his
valient efforts. This is what he had to say.

Speaker 25 (24:34):
We got on scene, we were kind of battling with
my crew on the six five five three. We were
kind of battling some pretty bad weather for maybe five
to six hours before we're able to.

Speaker 10 (24:42):
Get on scene.

Speaker 25 (24:43):
Once we got on scene, we're boots on the ground.
We made a decision to leave me there. We figured
we'd be able to hoste more people out on our
helicopter with me not on it, and then I'd be
able to help out the scene.

Speaker 10 (24:54):
That can't mistick a little bit better.

Speaker 25 (24:56):
Yeah, just a lot of a lot of people looking
very scared, very tired, cold, missing loved ones, probably terrified, honestly,
And I was just trying to be a voice to
calm and triogies.

Speaker 10 (25:06):
People want to get them the safety as soon.

Speaker 7 (25:08):
As you could.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, there's a great quote that I'm going to watch
completely about heroes not being born, that heroes are made
of events, and if he hadn't been in that spot
at that time, he wouldn't have been a hero.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
We may never know what a hero he was right
in his fiber.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
But at the same time, there are a lot of
heroes out there right now. Congressmen, These sorts of events
sort of sort of make them, don't they.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yes, they do.

Speaker 24 (25:37):
And a camp director at camp missed. It is one
of those heroes, but true to his character, he died
trying to save others at the camp. There was another
camp director, their camp wasn't open, but she also passed
away in the flood. But there were so many We

(26:01):
won't know all of their stories, but so many heroes
were made during this moment because they were trying to
help others. Just tragic circumstances create true show true character.

Speaker 10 (26:18):
It comes out.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
To your point, Congressman, Tragic circumstances force true character to
rise to the top. If you will talk about some
of the stories you've heard, talk about the spirit of
your fellow Texans when these sorts of tragedies happen in
terms of communities coming together to rebuild, to show what
I like to call that American exceptionalism, that real patriotism

(26:44):
where we come together and despite the circumstances, rise above
it well.

Speaker 24 (26:50):
And we've got to give credit to our state resources.
And the Trump administration has.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
Really come through.

Speaker 24 (26:58):
They've gotten people in the ear Christine Norman has gotten
DHS people so quickly in the area, unlike North Carolina.
I mean, they just surged into this area and are
helping those and they're helping themselves. But it's what we do.
We saw it with the hurricanes in the past. People

(27:21):
are out there helping themselves, helping others. But it sure
makes a difference when you have the resources that have
come that are coming in the way. The Coast Guard
and the emergency services here in Texas have also just surged.

(27:42):
It is really making a difference. It's just there's so
many people. You couldn't thank them all. They're out there.
And if you've ever been in anything like this where
you're digging through debris and it's hot and it's humid

(28:02):
and it's miserable, it's not fun work and it's you
wouldn't think, oh, these are heroes, but they are. They're
digging through, they're sweating through everything they've got, but they're
still looking and hoping, and that's their hope that springs

(28:24):
eternal in the human breast. They're still holding out hope
that some of those that haven't been found may be
found and have some life in them. So the search
goes on and the work goes on, and they will rebuild.
It's such a gorgeous area.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Luis Omert, thanks for being here in honor and We
appreciate you you spend some time with us this morning.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
Great to be with you.

Speaker 24 (28:50):
Thank you for putting a proper focus on it.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
You bet, of course, more American Centrise after the break.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
All right, welcome back to American Sunrise.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
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Speaker 1 (31:00):
For more on the Texas recovery efforts, let's bring in
the Chief of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, doctor Kelly Victory. Victory,
definitely explain this secondary drowning thing to us. This is
something I heard about a few years ago. Was the
first time I'd ever heard of it, and it's very scary.
So does that mean if we are ever submerged in
water for a certain amount of time, we need to

(31:21):
get to the er, even if we think we're fine.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Tell us about this.

Speaker 19 (31:25):
Well, yeah, Secondary drowning Gina simply is the term that
we apply to people who have water in their lungs,
have actually been submerged, have inhaled water, but haven't fortunately
succumbed to it. So there are things that can be
done from an emergency perspective to return those people to
full health. And that is obviously not the situation that

(31:50):
these individuals, these victims in Texas have found themselves. This
tragedy in Texas, unfortunately is not the type of thing
where we tend to see secondary drownings that generally occurs
when someone has fallen into a swimming pool or somewhere
where someone can get to them very quickly. Not the
sort of natural disaster or tragedy that we have seen

(32:13):
with this horrific flood in Texas. These people largely, unfortunately
likely drowned as a result, not just of the water,
but of the debris. People fail to understand, and you
captured it in some of the remarkable video footage that
you showed in the last segment. It is the mounting

(32:35):
wall of debris that is coming at you. An Olympic
swimmer might be able to tolerate that current and that
water level, but not when there are trees and vehicles, RVs,
pieces of boats and cars, pieces of housing. You know,
it is absolutely overwhelming and you get submerged in that

(32:56):
wall and tangle of debris. And that is why they're
are really have been so few actual recoveries of people,
and we are now in as you said, really looking
for unfortunately, the bodies of the deceased.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, so, Sad, I heard a story about one man
who had he was screaming for help and they took
a tie like those things you tie around like to
tie a car on a trailer. It took one of those,
and that we're throwing it out to him, trying to
reach it. It was a little short, he couldn't reach it,
and a cabin came along that was just floating down
the river and just didn't And people watch this, children

(33:33):
watch this. I mean, these people, It's going to be
a long battle back for them, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (33:37):
Doctor Victory, Absolutely, I have no doubt that this Towe
and everything I've heard and read about it, they sound
to be tremendously resilient people, and many of them are
people of faith.

Speaker 19 (33:49):
Even that said, this is a tragic, tragic event for
children to have witnessed. This is just horrific to even
think about. Many of these families lost more than one child,
which is really overwhelming in itself. The idea that you know,
as a parent, you drop your children off at summer

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camp expecting them to have the time of their lives.
This is the last thing you anticipate. So I'm sure
there's a tremendous amount of fear in these kids who
did survive. Their survivor's guilt in those kids who were
in the higher cabins will suffer from some of that,
the idea that it could have been them if they
had been at one of the lower cabins where some

(34:32):
of their siblings were. This is going to take a
lot of community effort. I have no question that they
will bounce back, but they're going to be some dark
days ahead, and they are going to need all of
the love and support of not only their local community,
but of the nation.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
I've heard some of the people interviewed that you mentioned
having survivor's guilt. You know, what could we have done differently?
It's easy to armshair, quarterback this, you know on the backside.
But are there things that we can do that you
see in this to prevent such future tragedies.

Speaker 19 (35:08):
Well, I am not one in this particular case to
do any finger pointing, because I'm not sure there was
much that could have been done. As the Congressman said,
there's been a lot of blame going around that simply
does not comport with the facts as we know them.
Any cutbacks or financial changes that have been made recently
did not seem to have impacted the staffing in vectus.

(35:31):
My understanding that they had additional people on hand on
the night of the event in anticipation of a significant rainfall. Unfortunately,
the most important thing people can do when it comes
to flash floods is to be aware and to heed
the warnings. It takes less than a foot of rapidly
moving water to knock even the average adult off their feet.

(35:55):
Never tried to drive a car through what appears to
be shallow water, You have no idea how deep that
water might be, and you can easily get swept away.
When it comes to evacuations, it's a fine line, Gina.
You don't want to pull the evacuation flag unnecessarily because
then you end up with people who don't listen. In

(36:17):
the future they say, look, we've been evacuated two or
three times and it ended up being nothing. Also, if
you evacuate too late, you can end up putting people
into harm's way. You take people who are at high
ground and safe where they were, and you might put
them on buses or vehicles or evacuation vehicles and then

(36:38):
drive them into lower lying areas where you put them
at risk. So it's a tough call. This is a
once in a lifetime on one hundred year rainfall. I'm
not sure anyone really could have anticipated this, So I
am not one to fingerpoint this at this juncture, but
I would say that when it comes to flash floods

(36:59):
or being flood prone areas, the most important thing you
can do is have good communication with the National Weather
Service and heed any warnings that you get because flash floods,
by their very nature, happen incredibly quickly and you may
not have time to evacuate when the time comes.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I have to tell you, doctor Victory has changed my
perspective on the hurricanes. I'm one of those that's I'm
going to sit in my house. I'm not going to leave,
you know, and my family is pretty much the same way.
But I think this flood, you know, because once in
one hundred years things do happen. Thank you, doctor Victory
for your perspective on.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
All of this.

Speaker 19 (37:34):
Thank you for having me coming out.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Hollywood continues pushing woke movies, as New Superman director says
to his movie is about immigration. Wow, well this flop
at the box office like Snow White and so many others.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
We will assess this next.

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The new Superman movie is coming to theaters this Friday,
and gun says the movie is all about immigration. He says,
the story is about migrant who came from another place
and brings back the human kindness that we all have lost.
So has Hollywood not learned anything about woke? After Disney
snow White flopped at the box office.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Let's bring in Gena and David for a little bit
more on this. Guys.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
You saw the headline there, and you saw what the
director said. Doctor Gina, I suspect you've got a little
something to say about this, your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
I mean, you know, by and large, it's just become
our movies and their movies, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
And it's so funny.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
My children are all privy to this, so I have
like my own little movie review committee at the dinner
table every evening. But they'll say, oh, you know, Mommy,
you don't want to see that it's woke. Let's go
see this one because the producer that made it as
a Christian.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
I mean, it's sad that it's come down to that.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
But on the other hand, it has created a beautiful
parallel economy that I talk about all the time on
this show, where Christians and Conservatives and people who just
love the Constitution of Love America are making movies and
are becoming wildly successful doing it. That wasn't the case
ten years ago. So sometimes you know, there are blessings
in disguise. All things work together for the good of

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those who love God and live according to his pre
subs David Bertie.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah, you know, it's too bad. I wanted to see
this movie. But now it's like wamp wamp. You know,
it's going in the snow white category unfortunately. So just
to be clear, Superman was an immigrants in the sense
that he was born wait for it, on planet Krypton
and you know, oh, that's right, it's fictional. But okay,
so let's go with that for a second.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Became legal alien or alien.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Well, technically he's DACA because he came to America as
a baby, to Smallville, Kansas. If you want to play
that game, you know, there you go, Superman is DACA.
There's your headline. Okay, but here's the thing. Look, the
problem here is that how do I say this Superman
is a legal immigrant. I'm playing their game, right. But

(41:34):
the point is is that the liberals do not make
the distinction on purpose, right, the difference between a legal
immigrant and an illegal immigrant. We are a nation of immigrants.
We're not a nation of illegal immigrants unless you're Joe
Biden and you're running the presidency from ten to four.
And that's sketchy as well. So the point simply is
that they've got it all wrong and they love to

(41:57):
muddy the waters on this to people that don't don't
understand the difference you would think between legal immigration and
illegal immigration, between this nation of immigrants and a nation
of illegal immigrants. There's a big difference.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
We know that.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
But for people that are not, they just go along
and they don't really think about it.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
They're not really paying too much attention to it. And
that's sad.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
That's sad, you know.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
I mean, you guys got so deep and all of
your points are right. I'm one of those very shallow people.
When I go to the movies, I go for escapism.
It's to get a dude. Hey, I will admit it, like,
I am shallow when it comes to film for me
going to send them going to see a movie. It's
all about escapism. It's given me two two hours to
get away from my reality. And when you bring up

(42:44):
this sort of stuff, when you bring back reality to
try to infuse reality and the political climate of the
country in a movie, I'm done. That's not what I'm
there for. That's not what I want to do. It's
just too much for me. So on that alone, I'm
probably not going to see this where otherwise might have
if you just left it at Superman and I could
have escaped to something.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
Go ahead, David, Sorry.

Speaker 10 (43:04):
Ten seconds just to say.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
One of the actors in this movie was asked about
this controversy and you said, hey, guys, calm down, it's
just a movie. No, no, hold on, it's not just
a movie. This is what they do. This is this,
I say, the subliminal stuff. But if you keep doing
it over and over and over again, it becomes a way,
It becomes a means to an end. And so I'm
not trying to make this whole big deal about the
Superman movie is going to be the death of all

(43:26):
of us, right, I'm not saying that. But when they
just say it's just a movie, be careful. That's exactly
what they want you to believe. But there's something much
more sinister involved, and it.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Tells you what they think of their audience, just like
when the Democrat politicians talk to their constituency like that,
they think they're idiots.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
They think you're an idiot.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
If you can't distinguish between legal and illegal, guess what,
you're an idiot, And so they think that you are
an idiot.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
And I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Go to a movie that doesn't understand that I'm a
thinking individual with a lot bigger identities than my race,
or my gender or my legal status. You know, I really,
I really think that it's high time for people to
just respect their audiences. And when I watch the news
or when I watch stupid movies, I feel the same way.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
Yeah, I'm gonna hop in our chat. I'd love to
hear what you guys have to say out there as well.
You too, Okay, doctor Gina, I'll be in the chat
momentarily coming up in our Moment of faith talking to
children about the deadly Texas floods. For young minds who
understand many young campers lost their lives. It's beyond scary,
but we'll talk about it right.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
After this break.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
God bless the us.

Speaker 15 (44:51):
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Welcome back to American Sunrise.

Speaker 6 (45:02):
It is now time for our moment of faith, brought
to us by Lee Greenwood and the God blessed the USA.
Bible in focus today, finding faith during tragic times. Communities
in Texas are continuing the recovery efforts following the deadly
floods there. We're actually hearing that this is going to
be a year's long process to rebuild. But faith, that's

(45:23):
a moment by moment thing, particularly during sorts of tragic
times that we're seeing right now there. For more, let's
bring in Christian actor, author and educator Kurt Cameron, and
let's not forget father Kurk.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
Good to see you, my friend.

Speaker 27 (45:37):
Hey, we can add grandfather to that too, grandfather, baby girl.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Thank you, brother.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
It's great to be with you this morning.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Man, it is always good to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
A lot of people know that you've written some children's
books and they're rooted in your faith. So I think
this is a perfect opportunity to talk about how one
has a conversation with their children during tragic times like this.
The reality is many children can't get away from the
coverage or at least having some sort of idea of

(46:08):
what's happened there.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
How do you start that conversation?

Speaker 10 (46:13):
It's really really hard.

Speaker 27 (46:15):
I mean, we are in the deep end when it
comes to trying to help children understand why things like
this happen. When we have a good, loving, and all
powerful God in heaven, I think what we need to
start is with great empathy and identification with how they feel.
You know, I'm not a trained counselor, but as a

(46:37):
father and now a grandfather, I know that what helps
me most when I'm trying to deal with tragedy and
pain and grief and loss is to have someone who
will sit in the middle of it with me so
that I don't feel alone. And that's what I believe
our children need from us. They want us to be
there with them, to mourn with them, to weep with them,

(46:59):
to feel what they feel, and to give them a
safe place to talk about the questions that they have.
That's what God does with us and for us as adults.
We're wrestling and grappling with the big questions like why.
But you know, I've learned that even if we could
answer the question why why did God let this happen?

(47:19):
And I don't have the answer for that, I don't
think that would satisfy the deepest need of our heart,
and that is to know that there is a God
who one day will wipe away every tear, he will
right every wrong, all things will be made new, and
He is somehow behind the veil, bringing beauty out of

(47:40):
ashes and making all things good for those who love
him and are called according to his purpose. So this
is a life of faith. I can't live by sight
because I don't have a crystal ball and I can't
see behind the mysterious veil of the wisdom and providence
of God. So we've got to teach that to our children.

(48:02):
Every opportunity that we.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
Have, and all it takes is a mustard seed to faith.
That's what the Bible says. Before I let you go,
I want to talk about August sixteenth.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
I know you've got a big.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
Event going new Brave Books event that's going to see
you at the library.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
Talk about that. Tell me about that again about thirty seconds.

Speaker 27 (48:18):
Please, this is a national event. This is a movement,
not a protest. But thousands of children gathering at public
libraries with their parents and grandparents for a time of singing,
of praying, and story time. It's on August sixteenth. We
hope to have over fifty states participating five hundred story

(48:38):
hours and fifty thousand people in this country reclaiming the
culture in the public square that what we want to
be normal is faith, hope, and love, not drag Queen's
story time.

Speaker 5 (48:52):
Kirk, We appreciate your time.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
You are being a blessing, and that in and of
itself is a blessing.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Good to see you, my friend.

Speaker 27 (48:59):
Thank you God, bless you, sir.

Speaker 6 (49:01):
Always a pleasure. Bless you as well. We're back with
the second hour of American Sunrise.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
After this.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Ahead on the second hour of American Sunrise, the rescue
and recovery continues for the souls lost in the Texas flood,
as do the prayers for their families and their communities.

Speaker 28 (49:31):
We are going to have the very latest.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo paid a visit to
President Trump at the White House yesterday on the agenda
a ceasefire and hostage release deal for Gaza.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
There was any progress made. We had the latest.

Speaker 11 (49:47):
Plus signed, sealed, and delivered.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
President Trump made good on his promise to send tariff
letters to a dozen countries setting a rate on their imports,
as he also threatened additional ten percent tariff. I'm countries
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Welcome to American Sunrise.

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Whether it's culture, we have breaking news to share with
you politics.

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President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

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and I'm Doctutina.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Welcome back, everybody to the second hour of American Sonars.
I'm David Brody, coming to you from DC. Let's bring
in doctor g She's in West Palm and t Bates
in our Denver newsroom. Good morning to both of you.
So about eleven am this morning, President Trump's got a
cabinet meeting, and you know he loves to have the
cameras rolling for.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
All the world to see.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
My guess is doctor g that's when we'll get even
more information about what he's going to do.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
On Friday.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
We assume he's going down there to Texas, but more
than that, just because more of his overall thoughts on
some of the criticism pointed the administration's way on the
flooding not to mention just some of his overall thoughts,
because I know he's spoken about it. But obviously we're
going to get more this morning.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
You know what it's me is the sheer man ours
is taking to overcome just the evils that are out
there that the news media could be concentrating on. For example,
there have been numerous phone calls to family members saying, oh,
I found your child on my property or in a
certain place, and if you'll just send me this much money, right,

(52:04):
I'll get your child.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
This is These are.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Unthinkable things that you know, criminal minds can only construe
that the media isn't even commenting on or even presenting
in a lot of cases, and instead spending time trying
to figure out some way they can win the midterms
on the dead bodies of these children.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Reprehensible terrence, No, absolutely, But one of the things that
strikes me about President Trump through all of this, while
he is dealing and managing this sort of national disaster
and tragedy, he also is still continuing to work.

Speaker 5 (52:40):
On so many different fronts.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
He's still sending out letters as it relates to teriffs
and working just solidify our economy. He is still out
there working to broker piece in the Middle East. He
is still making phone calls and talking with Russia and
Ukraine trying to broke her piece there. All of this
while dealing with the natural un national leagueas he's me disaster.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
His plate is.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
Uber full, and he is still able to handle it all.
I think that's something that not many people are talking about,
and I think it's admirable.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Yeah, I mean, he's not just the peace president, but
he's like the ultra multitasking president. I mean, presidents have
to multitask, but President Trump just does it literally twenty
four to seven, Well, let's talk more about the floods
now and the finger pointing sadly that has begun. President
Trump has signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County,
that was the county hit the hardest by this weekend's

(53:33):
deadly flooding. He does plan on visiting the region later
this week, we believe. On Friday, the President also brushed
aside mounting criticism that federal budget cuts to whether and
emergency agencies had worsened the disaster. Still, questions are growing
about why the public was not warren sooner and why
people were not evacuated from an area known to be

(53:55):
popular with campers and it is called flash flood Alley.
Trump claimed that the entire situation was a quote Biden's setup,
which is what stalled any warnings that failed to reach
campers in time. There's a lot more context to those
comments that he made about Biden joining us now with reaction.
John Solomon, editor in chief of Just the News, John,
there's a lot to sift through here. Your take on

(54:17):
what we're seeing politically and otherwise here.

Speaker 30 (54:20):
Well, listen, the politics are always the same. If anything happened,
Donald Trump is going to get blamed by the Democrats,
and then you have to sort through the facts and
find out what happened. And that's what we've been doing
the last couple of days. So the Weather Service was
properly staffed, In fact, it was overstaffed for this event.
The warnings went out two days in advance, one day
in advance when the floods began rising in the wee
hours of the morning. More National Weather Service Flash flood

(54:43):
mornings went out. The system worked as it was supposed to.
No budget cuts, no lack of staffing changed those developments.
Where you see the problem is down in the local
area in this valley, which is one of the deadliest
river valleys in America, where it has had enormous historical
flooding crises. There was a decision made in twenty twenty

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one not to proceed with a new early warning system
that would allow for early morning evacuations that would allow
people to be woken up by like tornado like sirens
to get people moving quicker. There was no evacuation plan
on the county file for the camp itself, so you
were starting from scratch at two or three in the

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morning when a river rises twenty plus feet in ninety minutes.
That's what the censor showed. Twenty feet in ninety minutes.
That is a biblical proportion flood. So the problem is downstream.
The local communities decided not to invest in the next generation.
They had put a new generation of flood sensors in
which did work about ten to twelve years ago. After

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a catastrophic flood in twenty fifteen, there was a chance
to do something newer. They had a debate about it
in twenty one and they didn't move on. But the
federal government's system did not fail. Was a lack of
warning going on. It's just the way the local community
was prepared for. This event is going to be something
we're all going to look at and hopefully fix for
the next pad.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
John, Since we have you, and you've written so much
about this and you know so much of the background,
I want to turn our attention for a moment from
the Texas flood to the storm that is Elon Musk.
Over the weekend, Musk declared war on both the Democrat
and Republican Party, saying, quote, they are bankrupting our country
with waste and graft.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I'm not sure if you.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Make grift or what that was about But anyway, with
that said, John, you can't build a third party. You
know he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
A third party.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
But to you, is this just further evidence John of
his sort of political novice. Because this has been tried
and with it, two things happen every single time.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Number One, it divides.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
The predominant party, which is the Republican Party. So I
know that's the purpose of the left and perpetrating these rumors.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
But secondly, it marginalizes.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
The person who mentioned building another third party, knowing that
these things just don't work in America.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Can you just explain this.

Speaker 30 (57:09):
Well, listen, what we know about third parties is that
they prove to be spoilers. In twenty sixteen, the Green
Party took some important votes away from Hillary Clinton in
a tight race. In nineteen ninety two, a race I
covered very closely did some award winning journalism on Rossboro.
Rossbrow took away enough votes to take the election away
from George H. W. Bush and give it to Bill Clinton.

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So the only thing a third party can do historically
is play the role of spoiler. And I think Elon
must knows that the last thing Elon Musk wants is
a Democratic administration going forward. He knows what they'll do
to his companies. He knows what they'll do to the economy,
which his companies rely on. I think we should be
looking at what Elon must not as what he's saying,

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but as a negotiating point, very much like Donald Trump.
I think he's negotiating with the Republican Party. Do you
want me to divide your vote twenty six or will
you cut more spending? And I think this is a
pressure tactic to get the Republican Party to do much
more aggressive spending cuts than they've done thus far, and
to make sure that the economy doesn't tip into a
debt crisis or a dollar crisis. I think it'll turn

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out to be a negotiating ploy. Elon Musk knows that
he's not going to be able to listen. Elon Musk
couldn't even help win the Wisconsin Supreme Court race when
you put all of his money into that. He knows
he's a political novice. He knows where his limitations are.
I think he's a CEO making a negotiation with the
Republican Party. And if the Republican Party delivers more spending
cuts like what Donald Trump and the House are doing

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right now. I don't think Elon Musk will have a
fully fleshed out party in twenty six that.

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Will divide the vote.

Speaker 30 (58:42):
I think he's negotiating John.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
That is a fascinating point.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
But then why aren't fiscal hawks all over him with this,
supporting him.

Speaker 30 (58:51):
Why aren't fiscals hawks cutting more from the budget? I mean, listen,
they added two trillion dollars since twenty nineteen per year
in the budget.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
I'm sorry, can I interrupt to real Brook Rowlins, the
Agriculture Secretary of speaking, We.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
Want to listen in really quickly right.

Speaker 29 (59:04):
Even in the stewardship and conservation of our American farmlands,
we're here to talk about that today, and we're here
to address one particular facet of that stewardship, responding to
one particular type of threat. The plain reality is that
American agriculture, in American hands is a positive good, a
rich blessing that we carefully tend, and upon which rests

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the sustenance and future of our republic. Every family, every home,
every community depends upon what our farmers do, and they
support and sustain us, not merely by keeping us materially fed,
but by keeping us spiritually strong. The farm's produce is
not just a commodity. It is a way of life

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that underpins America itself, and that's exactly why it is
under threat from criminals, from political adversaries, and from hostile
regimes that understand our way of life as a profound
and existential threat to themselves. For them, agricultural lands and
our farms, because they are a previous inheritance, are weapons

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to be turned against us. We see it again and again,
from Chinese communist acquisition of American farmland, to criminal exploitation
of our system of agriculture, to the theft of operational
information required to work the land, and beyond. All of
this takes what is profoundly good and turns.

Speaker 13 (01:00:30):
It towards evil purposes.

Speaker 29 (01:00:33):
But November twenty twenty four signaled it's time for our
federal government to wake up and step up. And that's
exactly what we are doing under the leadership of President
Donald Trump. With this announcement today, we are taking this

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purpose and our American farmland back. American agriculture is not
just about feeding our families, but about protecting our nation
and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland,
stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very
systems that sustain US reshoring and near shoring our food

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and agriculture supply chain is essential for our nation security.
In coordination with the White House, the Departments of Treasury, Defense,
Homeland Security, and Justice, as well as state governors, state
agriculture commissioners, local tribal and territorial governments, today we announce
the USDA's.

Speaker 13 (01:01:33):
National Farm Security Action Plan.

Speaker 29 (01:01:36):
This plan includes seven key action items, and there's a
lot of people here that I want you to hear from,
so I'm not going to go one by one, but.

Speaker 13 (01:01:44):
Just very quickly. It's on our website.

Speaker 29 (01:01:46):
The press has gotten a preview of it, and we
can ask them questions once we finish the main program,
but very quickly, and perhaps the most important, The first
of the seven is securing and protecting American farmland ownership.

Speaker 13 (01:01:59):
Actively engaged at every.

Speaker 29 (01:02:00):
Level of government to take swift legislative and executive action
to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals
and other foreign adversaries. Standing on the shoulders of great governors,
three of whom are standing behind me, who have already
been leading the way on this issue and at the
federal government level, working to do everything within everything within

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our ability, including presidential authorities, to claw back what has
already been purchased by China and other foreign adversaries. Additionally,
working with the Treasury of the Secretary of the Treasury
along with our Defense Department on memorandums to ensure that
moving forward, there is a much more intentional look at

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who is buying what in this country and from where
they are in the world. Also enhancing our agricultural supply
chain resilience. Also protecting our US nutrients safety net from fraud.

Speaker 13 (01:03:02):
And foreign exploitation.

Speaker 29 (01:03:04):
Number four defending agricultural research and innovation. No more sweetheart
deals in secret packs with countries that do not have
our best interests in mind. Number five making sure that
America First is in every USDA program, from farm loans
to food safety. We have already canceled seven active agreements
with entities in foreign countries of concern and will continue

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to cancel additional agreements moving forward. I signed a memo
today today, thank you, which immediately removes seventy seventy citizens
from countries of concerns that currently are affiliated with the
USDA through contracts or research arrangements. And we are working

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to issue regulatory action to remove over five hundred and
fifty entities from foreign countries of concern from our preferred catalog.
Number six safeguarding plan and animal health, working to make
sure that we know what is coming in and how
to control animal diseases. And number seven, protecting critical infrastructure

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from our farms and our food and our supply chains. Again,
along with so many partners across this government here in
Washington and across our states, now please help me. Welcome
to the podium the amazing Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 13 (01:04:22):
Thank you all.

Speaker 20 (01:04:29):
Well Brook, thank you so much for your incredible leadership
on this issue. It's an honor to be here. It's
a very important one. I think we're all here for
two basic reasons. One, under President Trump's leadership, we're gonna
put America first.

Speaker 10 (01:04:41):
We have.

Speaker 20 (01:04:44):
America, American land, American basing, American troops, American citizens. You
have a Secretary of Homeland Security who cares about homeland security.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
You have an imagine that.

Speaker 20 (01:04:58):
You have an Attorney General that cares about justice. You
have a Secretary of the Agriculture that cares about our
farmland and our farmers. You have governors who've led the
way and senators and congressmen who now have reinforcements from
an America First movement that it's about America first.

Speaker 10 (01:05:13):
But it's also just the application.

Speaker 13 (01:05:15):
Of common sense.

Speaker 20 (01:05:17):
As someone who's charged with leading the Defense Department, I
want to know who owns the land around our bases
and strategic bases and getting an understanding of why foreign entities,
foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying upland around those bases.
That's something I should be paying attention to on behalf
of the American people, on behalf of my department, and

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on behalf of the President.

Speaker 13 (01:05:40):
It's common sense.

Speaker 16 (01:05:42):
And so food security, just like energy resilience, just like
where we get our water, that's all national security, especially
in a contingency. So we would be asleep at the
wheel if we were not fully a party to an
effort like this to ensure that our nation had the
food supply it needs.

Speaker 10 (01:06:00):
Typically, our troops have.

Speaker 20 (01:06:01):
What they need on our basis so that in those
moments you can rely on us here in the United.

Speaker 10 (01:06:07):
States to provide that security.

Speaker 20 (01:06:09):
So no longer can foreign adversaries assume we're not watching
and we're not paying attention and we're not doing something
about it, because we are so brook.

Speaker 30 (01:06:17):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (01:06:22):
Please help me.

Speaker 29 (01:06:23):
Welcome to the podium to speak of the agri terrorism threats.
Our incredible Attorney General Pam Bondi, Thank.

Speaker 31 (01:06:33):
You all, and we know Texas is your home state.
Secretary Rollins, our heart. Our hearts go out to all
those in Texas and the families as well as in
North Carolina who are also experiencing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Those horrible floods.

Speaker 31 (01:06:46):
We're so happy to be here today to protect our farmers,
our ranchers, and our ag community. Under President Trump, we
are proudly putting our farmers first again. Thank you to
our Congress, our governors, all of the great people who
have gathered here today. My job is to make America
safe again, which includes protecting our farmers who feed our families.

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The Department of Justice will use every tool at our
disposal to secure, defend, and protect our ad community from threats.
Our Environmental and National Natural Resources Division has successfully defended
the Forest Service as it manages our forest. We're also
defending mining critical and strategic minerals which is very important

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to our nation's security. We're cracking down on pesticide trafficking,
and we are doing this by closing the southern border,
working hand in hand with our Great Christinome, where illegal
and highly toxic chemicals from Mexico were smuggled into the US,
and the Department of Justice is prioritizing the arrest of

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those illegal aliens doing it. Additionally, our National Security Division
is actively monitoring foreign threats to American agriculture. Last month,
in Michigan, this is very frightening, we charge two Chinese
nationals for attempting to smuggle potential agro terrorism weapons into
the United States. Both of them have ties to the CCP.

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Just days later, we arrested another Chinese citizen for sending
packages of concealed biological materials into the United States.

Speaker 10 (01:08:27):
It's going to stop.

Speaker 31 (01:08:29):
FBI has opened over one hundred bio smuggling investigations in
recent years. We will prosecute you, We will hold you accountable.
Thank you to everyone who is here today, especially Secretary Rolands,
Secretary Hegseeth, all of our good friends, Governors, my good friends,
Governor Huckabee, and we will, all of us will never

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back down from supporting our American farmers. God bless you,
God bless America.

Speaker 13 (01:08:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:09:00):
Next to the incredible Homeland Security Secretary Christynome.

Speaker 18 (01:09:04):
Everyone well, good morning, and I am so blessed and
pleased to be here with Brooke, who is a dear
friend of mine. And our hearts and prayers still continue
to go out with Texas, and I'll be back down
there in a few days to spend more time with
them and to help them continue to heal and with

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recovery efforts. The one thing I wanted to share with
all of you today is that long before I had
the honor of serving as President Trump's Homeland Security Secretary,
I was a farmer.

Speaker 13 (01:09:34):
I was a rancher.

Speaker 18 (01:09:35):
In fact, I've worked on food policy for over thirty years,
and I recognize that food policy is national security policy.
A country who cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself,
and cannot provide for itself, is not secure, and that
we have to be able to feed ourselves to make
sure that no other country ever controls US. And I've
watched for decades as evil foreign governments, including China, have

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come into this country and they've stolen our intellectual property,
They've manipulated their currency, They've treated us unfairly in trade deals.
They've come in and purchased up our processing companies, stolen
our genetics. In fact, I've worked in this building off
and on on commissions and projects and laws and different
statutes to ensure that China did not completely take control

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of our entire food supply chain, recognizing that the United
States of America would be in jeopardy if that ever
were to happen. I've watched them come in and establish
a presence in stealing our chemicals and providing our fertilizer
for US. And so two years ago, when I served
as governor of South Dakota, we passed a law on
our state that said China and six other foreign evil governments.

Speaker 13 (01:10:41):
Would never own our farmland.

Speaker 18 (01:10:43):
And I'm very proud to say that in South Dakota,
China does not own any of our land, nor will
they ever own any of our land. While I served
in Congress, I worked hard to put in programs that
would help manage risk for farmers. I tell people all
the time, farmers are the biggest gamblers that I know.
They go to a bank often times and they have

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to borrow money to buy land. Then they go back
to the bank and they need machinery to work that land,
and so they borrow some more.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Money to do that.

Speaker 18 (01:11:10):
Then they have to go back and get an operating
note to purchase seed and fertilizer or chemical potentially, and
they put it in the dirt and they hope that
months later it'll rain, the sun will shine, and that
there'll be something there that they can pick up that
they can sell, and then that the markets that are
beyond their control, that there will be a price there
that will help them cash flow, so they can go
back and do it all over again the next year.
They do that so that they can feed this country,

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so that they can feed this world. In fact, growing
up as a little girl and as a daughter of
a farmer and a rancher, I always felt like God
loved farmers more. I mean, if you look at the Bible,
look at Scripture, and you look over and over again,
he talks about sowing and reaping and cattle on a
thousand hills and your barns to overflowing. And so I
feel like there's a special blessing on farmers and the
fact that we have a president and that we have

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a Secretary of Agriculture that recognizes the importance of food
policy and what it means to this country.

Speaker 19 (01:12:00):
Security is so wonderful.

Speaker 18 (01:12:02):
It's so such a change from what the previous administration
and how they prioritize our farmers and ranchers. So now
as the Secretary. Now, as the Secretary of Homeland Security,
I have responsibilities when it comes to securing our homeland,
but many of those responsibilities have to do with securing

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our critical infrastructure. We have the responsibility for ten of
our sixteen critical infrastructures, which means our electrical grid, our
water supply chain, how we protect and run this country,
and what we do to make sure the people here
are safe. But not just the people, the products and
goods that come in and out of this country. Our
customs and Border Protection units are the ones that all

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of our goods come into this country and leave this
country on, and their investigations and how they inspect our
egg products are critically important to make sure that we
aren't facing any kind of threats from what kind of
products may come into this country or what kind of
terrorist acts might happen from goods that other countries may
wish to send to us that would harm our food supply.
We will continue to make sure that we have the

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systems in place, the people in place, the experts in place,
and the policies in place to make sure that this
country always feeds itself and that we always have the
ability to grow our own food, and that we rely
on no one else to feed the people of the
United States of America because it is a national security
issue when a country cannot provide for itself. And we
will never let any other country control our food supply

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or control our people because we will always be the
great United States of America.

Speaker 19 (01:13:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:13:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:13:37):
I was reminded when Christy was Governor Nome and we
were at America First Policy. Christy, you and I did
an event together on this very issue three years ago,
and she, along with some of the other governors, really
stepped up.

Speaker 13 (01:13:49):
So thank you. Secretary Nome.

Speaker 29 (01:13:51):
Next, a longtime friend, a partner from the first Trump administration, and.

Speaker 13 (01:13:54):
Someone that who has been leading on this for years
and years. Please help me. Welcome White House Counselor Navarro.

Speaker 32 (01:14:06):
What a beautiful day to be out here, and it's
it's difficult, I think for a lot of Americans to
wrap their head around what we're talking about today. We're
such a good and kind nation that has done so
much for the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Rest of the world over.

Speaker 32 (01:14:23):
So many decades, including fighting two World wars on behalf
of the rest of the world. But this is, this
is so serious an issue. The art of war a
book sun Zoo centuries old, says that the acme of

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warfare is to win without firing a shot.

Speaker 10 (01:14:52):
You fast forward to.

Speaker 32 (01:14:55):
A book that was written by two high ranking military
officials in China called Unrestricted Warfare, and you understand that
we are indeed in a new world where kinetic warfare
is not the first choice of our rivals anymore. Rather,

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it is things like sending us seeds or trying to
steal our seeds, or trying to change the seeds. It
is acquiring our supply chain in agriculture. It's setting up
spy shops on land next to military bases.

Speaker 7 (01:15:40):
You remember remember when that.

Speaker 32 (01:15:43):
Balloon, Oh it was just a weather station. We seem
so naive about so much of this, when in fact
we have nations and bad actors trying to do bad
things using our supply chains now as weapons. The world

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changed yet again on April second, when the Chinese embargoed
critical minerals, not just on us, but for the rest
of the world. The Russians now embargo things like neon
and healing them and uranium.

Speaker 10 (01:16:26):
As a tool.

Speaker 32 (01:16:27):
So we must be clear eyed about the threats. And
I just have to congratulate Secretary Rollins for taking leadership
on an issue which has been troublesome for years. And
we have governors here, Christineoman South Dakota just leadership on that.

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She was doing that before anybody was paying paying attention.

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
We're gonna hear from.

Speaker 32 (01:16:55):
Governor Huckabee Arkansas has led the way on this issue
at the state level, even as the federal government has
been silent about it up to this point. The last
thing is big things like Smithfield Foods.

Speaker 11 (01:17:13):
I don't even know this, but.

Speaker 32 (01:17:15):
This one really troubled me when it happened. But the
Chinese bought Smithfield Foods and basically control about an eighth.

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
Of the world's pork supply now.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
And we worry, you know, we've had food inflation.

Speaker 32 (01:17:29):
We worry when things happen that that can.

Speaker 7 (01:17:32):
Be part of that.

Speaker 32 (01:17:33):
And then the other key purchase which we allowed them
to do is Syngenta. Well, what is that it's a
seed company, and in a world of ever changing pests
and things like that, and climate differences about where water
is and things like that, seeds really can be the
revolution that keeps the world fed, and China and our

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owns and key part of it. So what Secretary Rollins
is doing today, it's a historic day. She's putting down
the marker that the United States is no longer going.

Speaker 11 (01:18:09):
To tolerate.

Speaker 10 (01:18:12):
The attacks on our.

Speaker 32 (01:18:14):
Agricultural system, not just the land, but the supply chain
as well. She deserves more than a hand, she deserves
a helping hand here, and that's why the other aspects
of our government.

Speaker 10 (01:18:32):
Are behind us as well.

Speaker 32 (01:18:34):
So I appreciate being here on this absolutely gorgeous day,
and again I commend the leadership of the people behind me.

Speaker 7 (01:18:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:18:46):
Thank you Peter.

Speaker 29 (01:18:48):
Again, no one more of a warrior than he on
these issues and many others, So thank you. Next, also
from the first Trump administration, Now the governor of the
great state of Arkansas, who another leader in this area,
please help me welcome Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Speaker 10 (01:19:07):
Good morning.

Speaker 33 (01:19:08):
It is incredible to be here and be joined with
people who really understand what it means not just to
love our country, but to be willing to do things
that actually preserve, protect and allow us to pass on
what makes our country so great to the next generation.
And that's exactly what you see in the collaboration of

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the people that are gathered behind me. I'm so proud
of the fact that Arkansas was the first state in
the country to kick a Chinese owned company off of
our farmland and out of our state, and we made
them pay for it very Trump asked, and in the

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last couple of months, we've passed new legislation just this
year allowing us to prohibit them from now not only
owning farmland in our state, but from building or buying
land around our military bases and critical infrastructure. It is
something that has to happen and something that states have
been leading the way on, but unfortunately our states can't

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do it alone. That's why events like today matter so much.
That's why a leadership from people like Secretary Rollins matter
so much. The fact that we now have a president
who understands who our real enemies are and is willing
to take them on is making a huge difference not

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just in our country but around the world. You know,
we've talked a lot about today a country's ability to
feed itself, but that's not the only place, and that's
not the only role agriculture place.

Speaker 13 (01:20:51):
A country has.

Speaker 33 (01:20:52):
To be able to feed itself, fuel itself, and fight
for itself to truly be free. But this group represents
is every component of that, and we now have a
president who understands it and is willing to do everything
within his power to make sure the United States continues
to be the greatest country on the face of the planet.

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And that doesn't happen by accident. That happens because we
have great leadership. And I'm proud of the role that
Arkansas has been able to play, but I'm more excited
about the leadership that we now have in Washington that
is going to take this to all fifty states and frankly,
all across the world. Having this group, there are no

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people I have greater confidence in.

Speaker 10 (01:21:39):
Secretary.

Speaker 33 (01:21:40):
Hegseeth leading the greatest military on the face of the planet,
and nobody better suited to do so. He's tough, and
I'm pretty sure he could take every member of the
cabinet in an arm wrestling competition. But he's not the
only tough one up here. There's no chance that China

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has going up against my friends Pambondy, Christy Nome, and
Brooke Rollins. They are not only the toughest women in Washington,
there's some of the toughest people in all of America.
And this group of people, under the leadership of President Trump,
is not only going to protect our great country, but

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they're going to make sure that we have the ability
to pass it on to the next generation behind us.
I'm so grateful for their leadership, so thankful I get
to be part of an effort that is going to
make sure that the freedom of our country is protected
and preserved for every single American to enjoy. Thank you
for letting us be here, and thank you Brook for

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putting this amazing event and this great plan together to
help our country. Thank you so much.

Speaker 16 (01:22:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:22:56):
Thank you, Governor Sanders.

Speaker 29 (01:22:57):
Also at the front of the battle, Governor Bill Lee
of Tennessee, please help me welcome him.

Speaker 7 (01:23:06):
Thank you, Secretary Vallins.

Speaker 34 (01:23:08):
Let me just add my words of gratitude to President
Trump and to his administration. And it's an honor to
stand here with these great leaders.

Speaker 11 (01:23:22):
I have served.

Speaker 34 (01:23:23):
As the governor originally in President Trump's first term and
then through the Biden administration and now again in the
Trump administration. During the years when President Trump was not
in office and governors like myself and Governor Sanders and
Governor Pillen were working individually to secure our farmland. So

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in Tennessee we have we have passed laws that prohibit ownership,
that required investment if found, that imposed strict penalties for
those foreign adversaries who take our property. We have also
passed the Farmland Conservation Act in order to make it

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easier for the next generation of farmers to live and
operate in our state.

Speaker 10 (01:24:13):
But that work was really hard.

Speaker 34 (01:24:16):
In the previous Biden administration because we didn't have a
partner who understood the threats and the challenges that we
understand in Tennessee. So I'm so grateful for President Trump's
leadership here, especially for sexual A. Rollin's leadership, who she
and I connected early on. My family is a multi
generational farming family as well, and I understand that when

(01:24:41):
my grandfather was farming in Tennessee, the issues that we're talking.

Speaker 7 (01:24:46):
About today didn't exist.

Speaker 34 (01:24:49):
But for my grandchildren who live on our family farm
in Tennessee today, we understand that our farmland is not
just dirt.

Speaker 10 (01:25:00):
Is our national security, it.

Speaker 34 (01:25:02):
Is our economic future, it is our children's heritage, and
it is under threat. And the leaders here recognize that,
and we've taken steps at the state level. But now refreshingly,
we have an administration in multiple cabinets who are coming

(01:25:22):
together collaboratively with governors across the states and making sure
that America's future is preserved for the next generations.

Speaker 5 (01:25:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:25:38):
Our first conversation, Governor Lee, and mine was not about
how to save America. It was about our mutual love
of Herford cattle. So we are forever bonded. Listen, y'all. Next,
another great governor, great leader on this issue, please help me.
Welcome Governor Pillen of Nebraska.

Speaker 35 (01:25:57):
Well, good morning, and just an incredible shout out to
everybody in the cabinet and Brooke and her incredible leadership,
and a great thank you for President Trump assembling what
I view is extraordinary leaders across all the cabinet to
absolutely make America great in a special special place. This

(01:26:21):
is very, very touching for me to have the opportunity here.
I'm the forty first governor of Nebraska. I'm the first
governor that's made my living for agriculture in one hundred years.

Speaker 31 (01:26:32):
I have.

Speaker 35 (01:26:34):
Simply sat and looked in my career of over forty
years and saying, what on earth, what on earth is
going on with China. I believe this. I believe in
family farm security. I believe in food security, and that
equates to national security. Nebraska is doing it's fair share.

(01:26:58):
I believe we need to do more than our fair share.
So our first first year in twenty three, we were
able to pass legislation that took all Chinese equipment off
of all talent communications across the state.

Speaker 7 (01:27:11):
That was the first step.

Speaker 35 (01:27:12):
Second step was making sure that no land is purchased
by any foign adversaries in the.

Speaker 11 (01:27:17):
State of Nebraska.

Speaker 35 (01:27:19):
Third step is simply that we have direct conversations with
companies that are from China. Peter Sangenta called me, I
wanted to come to the Capitol and have a meeting,
and I said, I have no interest in having a meeting,
have no interest in you being in Nebraska. My suggestion
would be to leave. My suggestion would be to get

(01:27:40):
a different job. I'm really really proud to announce it.
Senta has sold their business in Nebraska to a family
owned genetic company from the United States, So we're really
excited about that. I think that what is really really
important is I think back on forty years of things

(01:28:01):
that have gone on that it's never made since. It's
really important that the leaders behind me that we continue
to have the courage and the wisdom to never back
down and to stand up and protect our land and
protect our families because.

Speaker 5 (01:28:20):
We all in agriculture risk.

Speaker 35 (01:28:23):
We talk about gambling, Christy, we all risk everything we
have every single day to put food onto grocery stores.
And then lastly, I'm really really excited about Secretary Rollins
and her understanding and work in terms of foreign animal
disease because that's another risk where adversaries could have a

(01:28:43):
great impact. These are issues that are really really important
and none of us.

Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
Can ever ever give up. It's a privilege to be here.
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:28:55):
Now, Senator Tommy Tuberville from the great State of Alabama.

Speaker 11 (01:29:04):
Damn, she didn't call me coach.

Speaker 36 (01:29:07):
I always look for a day like this when I
was coaching. I'd worked the hell out of them and
then we'd line up down her and park a lot
and just run for about an hour. You know, just
think about it right now though. Our farmers every day
go out of this every morning to scratch the ground
to try.

Speaker 11 (01:29:20):
To make a living and try to feed all of us.

Speaker 36 (01:29:23):
In this country, and they're very important. I'm on the
ad Committee, Armed Services Committee.

Speaker 11 (01:29:27):
I've seen it all. I'm not a politician.

Speaker 36 (01:29:29):
I've been on the front row and been able to
watch the devastation of our farming community in the last
four years. Under the Democrat, Socialist, Communist Biden Party, it
was devastating. Input cost high five dollars diesel instead of
a seven hundred thousand dollars cotton picker. They're a million
dollars and a half. They wanted to put our farmers under.

(01:29:50):
We lost one hundred and fifty thousand farms and twenty
five thousand farmers in the last few years. Folks, we
are in trouble, in act, really trouble, and we just
to help them with reference prices in the big beautiful
bill we just passed. But they're gonna need a lot
of help. They are scratching and clawing just to make
a living. Thanks for Brooke putting this on China is

(01:30:11):
a threat. They're not a threat. They are dominating us
in almost everything that they do because we've set back
and the politicians have been counting their money instead of
doing what's right and helping this country stay in the front.
We've got to be number one. We can't be number two.
We've got to fight back. They are coming into our
country and buying our farm land. In my state of

(01:30:33):
Alabama alone, they own two point two million acres of farmland.
That's right in Alabama. Foreign adversaries. It's embarrassing of what
we've done. Now, don't blame the farmers. The farmers have
to make a living, and if they can't make a living,
they have to sell their farm land.

Speaker 11 (01:30:51):
The Biden administration.

Speaker 36 (01:30:52):
Forced their farmers to sell their farmland by all the
things they did to them. It's a disgrace. Brook is
gonna bring that back. President Trump's gonna bring that back.
The one thing I'm trying to do is I'm trying
to pass the Farm Act Foreign Adversaries Act.

Speaker 11 (01:31:06):
What is that.

Speaker 36 (01:31:07):
We have a group in this country called Syphius.

Speaker 11 (01:31:09):
Syphius is a group of.

Speaker 36 (01:31:10):
Cabinet members that determine who buys what if it's a
foreign seal. I mean, they all get together and they
look at it whether it's a steel company, whether it's farmland,
whether it's some kind of business.

Speaker 11 (01:31:22):
That's what Syphius does.

Speaker 36 (01:31:24):
And it's made up of high rank of high ranking
cabinet members in the White House.

Speaker 11 (01:31:29):
Who is not on there, the Secretary of Agriculture.

Speaker 36 (01:31:32):
What the hell are we doing? I mean, how far
behind are we? We have to get the Secretary of
Agriculture on Scipius to protect our farmland. If we don't
do it, we're gonna continue to lose at the end
of the day.

Speaker 11 (01:31:46):
So thanks for being here.

Speaker 36 (01:31:49):
In a few minutes we'll lining up down in this
end zone and we're gonna start running this way until
I get tired of watching.

Speaker 11 (01:31:54):
Thank you very much, God bless you, coach.

Speaker 29 (01:32:00):
Thank you so much. Next up, Senator Roger Marshall, the
Chairman Gt. Thompson of the House will close it out
and then we'll answer a few questions.

Speaker 13 (01:32:07):
Please help me.

Speaker 29 (01:32:07):
Welcome Senator Roger Marshall.

Speaker 37 (01:32:10):
All right, thank you, thanks.

Speaker 7 (01:32:12):
Thanks very right.

Speaker 10 (01:32:15):
Well, good morning, everybody.

Speaker 38 (01:32:17):
America's abundant food supply is not guaranteed.

Speaker 10 (01:32:20):
It's a strategic asset.

Speaker 38 (01:32:22):
We must fiercely protect form and rand security is national security,
and I'm proud today to share all Kansas is at
the heart of this mission. Today we tell China to
get the hell out of American agriculture.

Speaker 10 (01:32:35):
Today, China, here's your ticket.

Speaker 38 (01:32:37):
Do not pass go get the hell out of American agriculture.
And the Trump administration is going to lead the way.

Speaker 7 (01:32:45):
Now.

Speaker 38 (01:32:46):
I want to start by just thinking Secretary Rawlins, and
maybe we can help you get some Angus cattle someday
for your farm. But I do want to say think
Secretary Rowlins and President Trump and his administration for his
unwavering commitment to our farm a ranchers, and rule America.
The Big Reconciliation Bill we just passed exempliflies this support.

(01:33:06):
It strengthened the safety net, including increased reference prices. It
makes key business tax deductions permanent, and doubles the estate
tax exemption up to thirty million dollars for couples, and
streamlines the forty five Z tax credit. Folks, forty five
Z is going to do more for agriculture than all
the soybeans and sorg and we sold to China in.

Speaker 10 (01:33:26):
The past five years.

Speaker 38 (01:33:29):
This bill empowers our agriculture communities and secures our family
farms for generations to come.

Speaker 5 (01:33:35):
Now.

Speaker 38 (01:33:36):
As a fifth generation farm kit, I learned how agriculture
underpins our economic stability, our public health, our national defense,
our geopolitical autonomy.

Speaker 10 (01:33:44):
And our rule way of life. It contributes one.

Speaker 38 (01:33:47):
Point five trillion dollars to GDP and supports over twenty
two million jobs.

Speaker 10 (01:33:51):
Yet we often take it for granted.

Speaker 38 (01:33:53):
Our farmers or ranches, our food supply chains face grave threats,
specifically bioterrorism, procurement disruptions, and foreign ownerships. A virus like COVID,
which was made in a lab could target our beef
and dairy cattle industry next, so we're Fungus could devastate
our wheat in our corn, whether it's from nature or

(01:34:13):
made in a laboratory by a ford of an adversary.
These risk demand vigilance. Let me share all Kansas as
leading the fight. We're proud to host the animal health
quarridor that stretches from Columbia, Missouri, to Manhattan, Kansas, the
Little Apple to Lincoln, Nebraska, where cutting.

Speaker 10 (01:34:29):
Edge researches thrives.

Speaker 38 (01:34:31):
And why in the world we let scientists from foreign
adversaries in those experiments and in those laboratories. I'll never know,
and why we're doing research with American dollars in those
foreign countries and threats I'll never know either.

Speaker 10 (01:34:47):
I want to thank President Trump.

Speaker 38 (01:34:49):
In his first term, he welcomed to the USDA's Economic
Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to
Kansas City, which complements the National Bioagro Defense.

Speaker 10 (01:34:58):
Facility in Manhattan.

Speaker 38 (01:35:00):
And this synergy makes Kansas a global hub for agriculture innovation.

Speaker 10 (01:35:06):
Our strength lies in our collaboration.

Speaker 38 (01:35:08):
By uniting public and private sectors with land grant universities
like my alma mater, the Fighting Ever Fighting Mighty Wildcats
of Kansas State University, We're building a resilient food supply.
There you go, Coach Tuberville, Let's go Wildcats. I want
to just command the Department Defense and all the agencies
up here today for your joint efforts to combat disease

(01:35:29):
eight diseases like aving, influenza, screwworm, and foot and mouth,
protecting our farmers and communities.

Speaker 10 (01:35:35):
And finally, this, let me.

Speaker 38 (01:35:36):
Just concur with Coach Tuberville that I'm going to champion
for this Secretary of Agriculture to be part of scipious
President Trump could appoint her and Congress can make that
legal for years to come as well. That's the best
way to counter these emerging threats. Think about it. China
right now owns land next to Whiteman Air Force Base

(01:35:57):
where our B twos were launched. That did just suspect
tact job of yes, obliterating Iran's nuclear armament.

Speaker 10 (01:36:04):
They land next to Fort.

Speaker 38 (01:36:06):
Riley, Kansas, home with the big red one first in
for division as well. We need someone who thinks agriculture
when they wake up the morning and they go to bed,
and they think.

Speaker 10 (01:36:14):
Of agriculture as national security.

Speaker 38 (01:36:16):
Again, we can't take our food supply for granted, Kansas
is leading away, but it takes a national resolve to
protect our farms, to fortify our biosecurity and keep America's.

Speaker 10 (01:36:25):
Food in American's hands. Thank you so much, God bless us.
Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 29 (01:36:32):
Quick announcement as of this afternoon, I will be officially
a member of Sophia's So that is happening.

Speaker 13 (01:36:38):
Yeah, it's an incredible team at.

Speaker 29 (01:36:41):
USTA and our great Treasury Secretary Scott Besson finally from
the amazing agriculture state of Pennsylvania and chair of the
House Agriculture Committee, please help me welcome G. T.

Speaker 13 (01:36:51):
Thompson.

Speaker 7 (01:36:56):
Good morning everybody.

Speaker 37 (01:36:59):
What a glory day, A great day for making Hay.

Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
And a great day for making history.

Speaker 37 (01:37:05):
For making history in terms of making sure that we
are taking these next steps to secure both farm security
and food security, which quite frankly is national security. As
Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, I'm so appreciative of
President Trump to Secretaries Rowlins, Heke Seth Nom as well
as Attorney General Bondi for their recognition that food security

(01:37:27):
is national security and the Agriculture Committee's preparation for the Farm,
Food and National Security Act. We identify threats to food
security impacting America's number one and most essential industry, which
is agriculture. Our farmers are in the front lines of
food security, and that is essential to our national security.

Speaker 7 (01:37:48):
America's farm families are.

Speaker 37 (01:37:50):
Facing serious challenges from foreign threasts to our farmland and
the theft of our intellectual property. To high energy costs
driven by out control inflation from the previous Aion administration,
market instability, poor snap integrity, crushing taxes, extreme weather, and

(01:38:11):
an often unreliable workforce.

Speaker 7 (01:38:15):
All of these make life harder for.

Speaker 37 (01:38:16):
America's farm, ranch, and forestry families and jeopardizes our country's
food security. I want to thank President Trump for using
every told his disposal to make America's food supply safer.
The One Big Beautiful Bill include a historic investment in
our agriculture value chain, including provisions from the Bipartisan Farm,

(01:38:39):
Food and National Security Act. The One Big Beautiful Bill
includes investments to strengthen our livestock bio security from foreign
animal disease, as well as delivers major tax relief, shields
the next generation of farmers from the death tax, supports
affordable energy policies that keep family farms running.

Speaker 7 (01:38:59):
And food two prices low.

Speaker 37 (01:39:01):
It includes historic integrity measures for the SNAP program, and
so much more. But there's still a lot of work
left to be done. On behalf of the House Agriculture Committee.
I look forward to partnering with Secretary Rowlins and others
across the administration on this important initiative.

Speaker 7 (01:39:20):
Farm and food security is national security.

Speaker 37 (01:39:24):
Thank you for President Trump and this dynamic cabinet team
for your commitment and your leadership.

Speaker 7 (01:39:30):
God bless and thank you so much.

Speaker 29 (01:39:38):
Okay, everyone, we're going to open it up for some questions.
I would note that while we were standing here and
all of you were sitting there, it's too bad Secretary
Bobby Kennedy's not here because we're all.

Speaker 13 (01:39:47):
Getting a lot of vitamin D today.

Speaker 29 (01:39:49):
So we'll let him know. He'd be very proud. All right,
we'll take some questions from the press.

Speaker 39 (01:39:55):
Thank you, Secretary Rowlinds. Mary Margaret with the Daily Wire.
Two questions, if that's okay. First of all, I'm seeing
on this map that there's a lot of Chinese owned
farmland in California. Are you looking into the severity of
that and what those consequences are?

Speaker 13 (01:40:09):
And then number two, the President.

Speaker 39 (01:40:11):
Has expressed concerns about how mass deportations would affect the
farm industry. Do you have concerns on this front? And
are you hearing about some of these top conservatives saying
that there's a push for amnesty for this workforce.

Speaker 13 (01:40:23):
Well, thank you for those questions.

Speaker 29 (01:40:24):
The first thing I'll say on California, and I'd love
for anyone else to join me if they have thoughts
on that. Is this that a lot of people said, well,
look at the Red states are the ones leading the way.

Speaker 13 (01:40:34):
The Red states are the ones.

Speaker 29 (01:40:35):
That are banning the Chinese owned farmland, and this is true.
But I have to believe that even the Democrat governors
and even the Blue States realize what a massive threat
this is to national security and how important it is.
So we plan to work with everyone, no matter which party,
no matter which side of the aisle they are from,
to ensure that the people of this country and our

(01:40:56):
agriculture farmland is protected. The second question, and I appreciate
you bringing that up. There's been a lot of noise
in the last few days and a lot of questions
about where the President stands in his vision for farm labor.
The first thing I'll say is the President has been
unequivocal that there will be no amnesty, and I think
that's very very important. I and the rest of our
cabinet certainly support that, effectuate that, and make sure that

(01:41:20):
happens every single day. The second thing, to your question
about mass deportations, the President and I have spoken about
that once or twice, and he has always been of
the mindset that at the end of the day, the
promise to America to ensure that we have a one
hundred percent American workforce stands, but we must be strategic
and how we are implementing the mass deportation so is

(01:41:41):
not to compromise our food supply. Ultimately, the answer on
this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure.
And then also when you think about there are thirty
four million able bodied adults in our medicaid program, there
are plenty of workers in America, but we just have
to make sure we're not compromising today, especially in the

(01:42:01):
context of everything we're thinking about right now. So no
amnesty under any circumstances. Mass deportations continue, but in a
strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward
more automation and toward a one hundred percent American workforce.
And ultimately it's the wonderful members of Congress behind me
who are taking this on on the fixing the current

(01:42:23):
immigration system.

Speaker 13 (01:42:24):
So thank you so much, Madam Secretary.

Speaker 40 (01:42:30):
Thank you, first of all, condulence's thoughts and prayers. All
the folks back in Texas sit near and dear to
your heart. A couple quick thoughts congratulations on the success
of getting the at least partially the death tax were
pealed in the BBB because as we all know, it
affects farmers disproportionately to a great extent. Congratulations on that. Also,

(01:42:50):
egg prices today just right now hit two dollars and
forty nine cents a dozen, a clear fifty five percent
below the failed by none price. And we all know
it's not just about eggs, but it has become a
metaphor for inflation. So congratulations because food inflation is coming down.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
That's a festinate to you.

Speaker 13 (01:43:09):
Thank you.

Speaker 40 (01:43:10):
The thought and the question follow up is what a
great group you put together here, wonderful, wonderful idea, surprising
it hasn't been done sooner. So the question is has
President Trump talked to you about this group number one?
And I guess equally is important have the Chinese government,
either officially or unofficially reached out to you about this program.

Speaker 29 (01:43:31):
So the first thing I'll say, and I appreciate that
so much.

Speaker 38 (01:43:34):
Who are you with?

Speaker 10 (01:43:35):
It's Eric Bowling.

Speaker 11 (01:43:35):
I'm with the Bowling Show.

Speaker 29 (01:43:38):
Eric, thank you and with the Bowling Show. It's great
to have you, and thank you for making your way.
I would like to note, and it's not lost on you, Eric,
but I want to make sure everyone understands this cabinet
and this administration is different that in previous administrations, I
don't know that you would ever see, for cabinet secretaries,
a counselor to the president, one of the most steadfast,
loyal patriots who stood beside him, Peter Navarro, ever come

(01:44:01):
out together on a morning when one hundred degree weather
and talk about agriculture, farmland. But we are all in
this together, and the President has been resolute in ensuring
that we do everything that needs to be done to
protect the homeland. So I'm very, very proud of that.
On the second question, I don't want to get ahead
of the president, so I won't answer that. One of

(01:44:21):
the chief lessons I've learned over many years is never
get ahead of President Trump. But there is no doubt
that he, our cabinet, our administration, our friends across the
country are acutely aware of this issue and doing everything
we can to solve for it. Eric, thank you for
being here.

Speaker 41 (01:44:39):
Next question, Thank you, Secretary Roll and Jackson Richmond. At
the Epoch Times, was Secretary Rubio consultant that's given that's
the national security aspect of this, And then was the
CDC consulting, given the bioterrorism aspect of this?

Speaker 29 (01:44:55):
Yes, all of the above were consulted to get to
this point. A little bit of sauce making for everyone.
It's not just we throw an event together and here
we all are. The layers and layers and layers of
work to go through all of the agencies is of
utmost importance. And what I have learned now and a
little bit of my time in government, is that often
and this is the reason you don't see the ball
moving down the field very often. The amount of effort

(01:45:18):
it takes to integrate and work and the long nights
and the sleepless nights, especially by our team, are incredible.
Chief of Staff Kaylee Buller is the one who's really
been driving this alongside the rest of our team is
really inspiring. So yes, they've all been consulted. Everyone has
been incredibly supportive.

Speaker 13 (01:45:38):
To get to this point today. But what I would
like to say as well.

Speaker 29 (01:45:40):
And thank you for that question, is that this is
just the beginning. Today is the first step to get
us to this announcement. As we begin this important work,
you'll be hearing a lot from us on this over
the next four years, and some real metrics in place
that we're putting, like how do we measure our success
and I think that's what makes this administration different.

Speaker 13 (01:45:58):
So thank you for being here, Love the Epoch Times.

Speaker 28 (01:46:01):
Next question, yes, Philip Brasher with Agripol.

Speaker 7 (01:46:04):
So what did I have?

Speaker 28 (01:46:06):
Two questions? One following up on the immigration question. The
President has continually said that he wants to give farmers
some kind of temporary past. Could you define what he
means by temporary pass? Does that mean ice won't go
on to farms for a certain period? What does he
mean by that? The second question is what are you

(01:46:28):
going to do at USDA with regard to the remaining
property owned by Syngenta and Smithville Foods, which is a
large portion of this Chinese own land.

Speaker 29 (01:46:40):
That's right, well, the second question first, as we discussed
earlier and mister Navarro again and he and his team
over at the White House, amongst many others, we are
looking at every available option.

Speaker 13 (01:46:51):
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