THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, JULY 5TH, 2025 (EP.#4611)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray
for our enemies because we're going to medieval.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
On these people.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You've not got a free shot.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
All these networks lying about the people, the people have
had a belly full of it.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I know you don't like hearing that. I know you
tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
And where do people like that go to share the
big line? Mega media?

Speaker 5 (00:29):
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of
these people had a conscience.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
If that answer is to save my country, this country
will be saved.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
Worry.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Use your host Stephen k.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Back Simmer.

Speaker 7 (00:53):
And then two will update you from where we are
now and six same thing and speaking this morning, we
are going to have Kirk Kenny Sheriff Leeper leading us off.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
United States Representative Chip Roy is here with us. Kurvell
Mayor Joe Herring Jr.

Speaker 7 (01:11):
Will be speaking briefly, and Kervill City Manager Dalton Rice.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
And when we are done, because we.

Speaker 7 (01:17):
Are still in active search and recovery mode, we're going
to keep this short, will allow five questions, and I
am going to turn it over now to Shriff late.
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:28):
There's probably a lot of y'all know, Sheriff Larry Leathan
Kirk County. One thing I want to tell you, I
appreciate y'all covering this. One thing I'm really big about
is transparency. We really appreciate y'all getting the message out there.
We will do our best. Like you said, we'll have
two more briefings out there that gets you information as
we get it. What I want to start with, I
want to make sure you understand these numbers I'm going
to give you at eight fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Five am this morning. These are changing rapidly.

Speaker 8 (01:52):
Okay, so every time we the next time we meet,
i'll update you, but just bear with us.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Okay, they will be changing.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
They're already changing them up here, and we'll try to
do a really good job. I've got some notes here
I'm going to read because I want to be pretty
accurate on this. Then i'll talk a little bit before
I turn it over to Chipp Roy. We are now
more than twenty four hours into this tragic event, and
Curvell Police Department, Curvell Fire Department, in Kirk County Sheriff's
Office and other first responders for around the Texas are

(02:19):
continuing to conduct rescue and recovery operations.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Along the Guadalaloope River Corridor.

Speaker 8 (02:25):
So far, we've evacuated over eight hundred and fifty uninjured people,
eight injured people, and have recovered twenty seven deceased fatalities
at this time. Of these twenty seven, eighteen are adults,
nin er children. Of that, six of the adults are undentified,

(02:45):
and one of the children unidentified at this time, that's
of eight to fifty five this morning. We're unable to
release any further information on deceased at this time, as
our thoughts and prayers go out to.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
The loved ones.

Speaker 8 (02:58):
We are working hard to ok anyone who is still
missing and to ensure they are safe. There are two
ways that you can report the missing people. This is
something I would really like y'all to spend some time
getting out.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
One of the ways is via phone.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
We have a call center set up to accept information
and share that information along our relief and incident commanders.
That number is eight three zero two eight five one
one one one. Our repeat eight three zero two eight
five one one the second eight correction two five eight.

(03:36):
Sorry about that, I'm going to repeat it one more
time two five eight two FIVEY number for the final
time is eight three zero two five eight.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
One one one is everybody good? Okay?

Speaker 8 (03:50):
The second number and the second way is via email.
Like the phone number. Information received will be shared along
our relief teams. That email is flood Recovery at CO
dot KERR k e r R dot TX dot us,

(04:11):
repeating one more time flood Recovery at SO dot KERR
dot TX dot us. There is a shelter for the
general public who needs assistant at the First United Methodist Church,
three twenty one Thompson Drive in Cerville.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Three twenty one Thompson Drive, Kerville.

Speaker 8 (04:34):
At present, we don't need material our volunteer donations.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
At this time.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
We are coordinating with a strong state response. Currently, cash
donations can be made to the Community Foundation of the
Texas Hill Country. Once again, donations can be made to
the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Our first
responders along have been working tirelessly and will continue to
conduct search and rescue oper until all citizens are accounted for.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Tragic incidents like this affect us.

Speaker 8 (05:05):
All this community is strong and will continue to pull
together during this tragic time. We have been humbled by
the outpouring of support.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
We are very appreciative.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
Of everyone that's stepped up to help us. One thing
I want to tell you and assure y'all is that
we will not stop till every single person is found.
We've got all the resources we need. We're here for
the long haul. As I said, numbers will be changing rapidly,
but like I said, we will not stop to everybody.
I can't tell you. I've been asked how long will
this take. I can't tell you how long it's going
to take. It's going to take a while.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
I appreciate y'all.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Like I said, getting the word out, Like I said,
after this is we're going to take about five questions.
At this time, I'm going to introduce you to United
States Representative Chip Roy is going to say a few words.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Thank you, Sheriff. I'll be brief. You know, I'm here
to show support for the community. You know, my family
comes here to Curbville for Fourth of July versus every
year come here for Robert Olds shows, and we were
planning to be here for the show with Robert Olin
Beckman but you know, these are the events that we're
dealing with today and trying to explain to a world

(06:13):
that's watching this and asking questions what a flash flood
looks like where you have a you know, twenty six
to thirty foot rise in the water in a matter
of an hour, four to six am on a holiday,
and the people that are having to respond to that.
I just just got buddy, like, pause, take a breath
for the recriminations and the Monday morning quarterbacking, because there's

(06:34):
so many great people in this community that are responding
and moving quickly, lives lost, saving people like camp directors,
and I'm gonna let other people name names and stuff.
That's not my job here, but we know the stories
of people that have been heroic and trying to make
sure that the lives loss was at a minimum and
trying to recover individuals. I got to call on an

(06:55):
update this morning my kid's school. There was one of
their schoolmates was and it was one of the cause
she was. She was on a mattress for two three
hours in the middle of the night, and you know,
she's united with her mom and that's wonderful. And there's
the kind of blessings that we should be celebrating while
we're also mourning the loss of life as we identify
those that didn't make it and are now home with

(07:17):
their lords. So I just want to appreciate the first responders,
the coordinated effort from the state, local federal partnerships. Yesterday
I was on the phone with the President with the Secretary.
I expect we'll have you know, some additional visitors today.
I let other people talk about that, but I couldn't
even get the conversation out with the Secretary trying to

(07:39):
explain to her what we were dealing with. That doesn't
happen often for me, but it took me a while
to collect myself to even be able to tell her
what we were looking at. And they've been fantastic, made
available immediately at the requests. I talked to NIM about
the need for you know, help of the Army Corps.
Talk to the Secretary and their team and their immediate

(08:01):
it's been an extraordinary partnership. I think there's been a
thousand or so boots on the ground combined between state, local,
and federal. I'll let them say the numbers, but obviously
hundreds of people that have been rescued one hundred and
sixty plus air rescues. I think that number is going up,
you know, airlifting and taking in resources some of these
camps that are isolated. So let's focus on that. Let's

(08:23):
focus on finding those who can be found, and then
we can always assess what we need to do later
going forward. But extremely proud of this community. Let's finish
the job here over the next few days, support the
local law enforcement, the first responders, and pray for the families,
particularly those who have lost loved ones.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
With that, I will turn it over to the mayor.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Thank you, thanks sure.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
I'm Mayor Joe Herring, Junior Mayor of Kerville, Texas. I'm
glad you're here, and I have a few comments to make.
People need to know today will be a hard day.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
It will be a hard day.

Speaker 9 (09:13):
This is the message I want to share. The City
of Kerrville is thankful. We have help from our city crews,
from county personnel, from state agencies, and federal resources including
the Coast Guard. I have been asked how people can help.

(09:33):
The sheriff has mentioned that a fund has been set
up by the Community Foundation of the Greater the Texas
Hill Country information about this could be found on the
city's Facebook page. In fact, if you want to know
how to help, I know from my phone, from my texts,
from my emails. Thousands of people across our state and

(09:57):
the world want to know how they can help. The
easiest way to get information about that is to follow
the City of Kerrville Facebook page, City of Kerrville City
Hall Facebook page. They have done an admirable job of
making sure all resources and all information is available not

(10:18):
only to the citizens of Kerrville, but to the citizens
of the world. I'm thankful you're here. Today will be
a hard day.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Please pray for our community.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
I think next up is City Manager Dalton Rice.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (10:47):
Mayor Dalton Rice, the city manager for the City of Kerrville,
just wanted to give a couple updates on operations. Operations
did continue through the evening. We specialize equipment with a
lot of helicopters, trying to identify any areas that we
could we could find, you know, heat sources or whatever.
So operations did continue throughout tonight. Obviously, the water did

(11:07):
recede into this morning. I do want to encourage folks
with road damage. Even though a road may be opened,
Please use extreme caution if water does get under the road.
We are seeing a lot of debris, a lot of
asphalt that is washing up, so there could be some
other damaged areas.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
We do.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
We did start boots on the ground operations about eight
am this morning and started about southwest of Hunt, so
southwest of Camp Mystic. These folks will be traveling very
difficult terrain up through Ingram and.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
We're going to start getting information.

Speaker 10 (11:41):
So again, as the sheriff had alluded to, the information
is changing constantly and it's going to be changing by
the minute. Talk about roads, don't do your own searches.
We know everybody wants to get help. As the roads
start clearing up, you're gonna you're gonna want to get
out there. We are in constant communication with you know,

(12:01):
with families, We're in constant communication with those around and
so we will continue to effortlessly work through working with
our partners. Again, we've been working with Border Patrol, Texas, DPS,
Game Wardens, federal side, US Coast Guard is here.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
We want to thank them. Air assets.

Speaker 10 (12:22):
Again, we have hundreds of state and federal and local
resources out here supporting this community. We do have grief
counselors out there, so if there's anybody that needs, you know,
any support, please don't hesitate to reach out. As well,
we still are operating shelters. Shelters are the same ones
that we gave out before. Good news is as a
lot of the shelters have gone down in numbers, so

(12:43):
there's either been you know, those that have been reunited
or or kind of you know, moving on a couple
of locations, we had eighteen you know, girls in there
that have been reunited with their families. We're down to
about four that we're working on reunification as well. So
reunification efforts are our continuously ongoing from the missing.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Person side here.

Speaker 10 (13:03):
Over the next few hours, we're going to be putting
more information out there as far as missing persons on
how to contact. If you have somebody that is missing
or a loved one, you'll have the camp number right now.
We are continuously working on the other missing person side.
The best way that I can sum this up is
we have the known, which is the twenty seven potential

(13:23):
missing campers that we're looking for now. The unknown is
how many people were here locally visiting on vacation, you know,
doing other things in the community that we just do
not have numbers. So these numbers are going to are
going to change throughout the day. And with that we
will take five questions.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I'm missing individuals and twenty seven of those all recent campers,
will involved children.

Speaker 11 (13:49):
And then also do we know the total number of
missing that you know of? Not the unknowns obviously, but
the knowns of adults and children for the county.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
The twenty seven missing is the children from Can't Mystic
that we have as far as right now. For the
number as far as unknown other missing, we do not
have an accurate account and we don't even want to
begin to estimate at this time.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
If you extend all.

Speaker 12 (14:11):
Love community business.

Speaker 13 (14:15):
They're very concerned of the whole of this scene, learning
the more about how you guys are willing for them.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And so the challenges yeah, absolutely so.

Speaker 10 (14:27):
Like I alluded to with the operations piece, we have
basically a team of about thirty four folks from Texas
Task Force one, DPS, Game Wardens, and Border Patrol that
are boots on the ground on each side of the
river starting in Hunt, and they're starting to make their
way up across this entire area. It's probably about a
seventeen kilometer stretch. They are going to be a very

(14:48):
debried terrain, very difficult, challenging contours along.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
The river banks. So it is it is a very
harsh environment.

Speaker 10 (14:56):
We are doing what's called a primary search, which is
basically a very quick search. But when I say quick,
that is up down sideways. They're turning over as many
rocks as they can, culverts, up in trees, they are
looking at every possible location, and then we'll start going
into a layered approach or what we also have from
the locals, which has been a really great resource in

(15:17):
the floods that we have, there are known collection points
where debris tends to.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Collect along the river bank.

Speaker 10 (15:22):
We do have intel on what sites and locations those are,
so we can also put additional resources into those those
collection sites and start getting a more focused approach on that.
I want to try to flooding love of tragic fluting
in central Texess.

Speaker 14 (15:40):
There are so many people.

Speaker 15 (15:41):
I know this is so early that.

Speaker 13 (15:42):
There's so many people already asked you what can be
done to stop the loss of life?

Speaker 12 (15:48):
We stop thirsty as telling we've seen an unknown numbers,
but at least.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
Please and they're here.

Speaker 10 (15:54):
Yeah, you know, it's a great it's a great question,
and I think that's a question that we definitely need
to answer at some point in time.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Right now, our focus.

Speaker 10 (16:01):
Is on the search and rescue efforts making sure that
we get these families out, you know, get get some
closure you know where we can. And so I think
that is a great question that we need to ask ourselves,
But right now, we want to focus on.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
On search and rescue operations.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
Right now, Yes, we are, we have been in continuous
search and rescue operations. Again, you know, this river even
though it started in West Kerr this goes all the
way down through East Kirk County and continuing on you know,
to the southeast. So, yes, search and rescue operations are
continuously ongoing and we'll continue to update on that.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
One more question.

Speaker 11 (16:33):
Right now active.

Speaker 14 (16:34):
Rest morning where they stop in an island.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
Of plan where typically rescues if we do find them,
they're going to be in trees or or we find them,
you know, either on high ground. Again, most of the
rescues that we are having at this point in time
are our other camps. So we have a lot of
camps and they are all accounted for but they are
isolated because of road damage, so we.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Know where they're at.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
We're getting them food, water resources, and now it's a
matter of just getting them safely across you know, low
water crossings or other areas to other shelters.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
So we know that the.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Saying of the absolutely not. We are not going to
give a list of the names.

Speaker 10 (17:16):
We want to protect, you know, those families and their information.
The other thing I want to point out and thank
you for bringing that up. These families are getting bombarded
with spam calls and spam information. So we want to
keep the kids information and these families names out of
you know, out of any public you know, light to
give them the opportunity to grieve and to make sure
that we give them them the best possible resources that

(17:37):
we can and get them reconnected as soon as possible.
So some of them are and some of those have
been a great help as well. So yes, it is
a double edged sword, but we need to work through it.
So our next one will be at two o'clock and
we will give updates.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Then, thank you, excuse me, Okay, Ben Berkwham asked the
first question.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
It was a great question.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Let me be blunt when the town manager comes up
and says it's gonna be a very tough day to day,
I think that's a tell. And I think everybody, including
the audience, you know, back on your knees saying prayers.
But when the governor and lieutenant governor do not show up,
I think that's also a big tell. This is a
pretty grim report. I'm not sure there was a ton

(18:30):
of information there except that search and rescue go on
and they are identifying some of these or there are
funding some of these children. But you didn't see any
names of the living. I think that was the most
important thing. Is Ben Berkwham? Can we get Ben ben
Berkholm up? As soon as we get Ben up, let's
go ahead and do it. Obviously a horrible tragedy. I

(18:51):
think what chip Roy said just to reiterate and look,
there's going to be as you saw. Two things going
on that are you know, one is just human nature.
There's a lot of recriminations. You should know already about
the weather forecast, what people knew, where people evacuate. That's
only going to build in size given a tragedy of
this scale. The other is social media used to harass

(19:16):
parents in this case. You saw where they're getting spam.
They've probably got people, you know, they get that we
see this stuff already putting out names of children that
have that have been found that are not live. I mean,
what they're doing is horrible. They're probably trying to get
money out of these folks. So the parents right now
that's going to restrict information, give me a thumbs up.

(19:36):
When we got Ben up, okay, Ben burkwam, and I
really want to give him a at a boy. He
had the first question and still the best question right there,
Ben Uh. We got a couple of minutes here that
was a pretty grim update. Number one, when the mayor
sits there and tells you today's going to be a
tough day, folks should understand that. You know it's going

(19:58):
to be a tough day. He knows something also. And
I'm not faulting the governor the lieutenant governor, but if
there was a lot of good news on children being rescued,
I think the governor lieutenant governor would want to be there.
You can already see the intensity of the recriminations I
think in that this morning was the local officials, can

(20:20):
you give it? You asked the first question it's a
breat question. I'm not sure did he actually answer the question, Ben,
do we actually have just the basic information of the
Christian Girls camp at Mystic? How many nine year olds
are missing? How many have been recovered, how many have
been rescued? And have they recovered any bodies of the rest?

Speaker 11 (20:39):
Sir, Yeah, yeah, so I'm standing next to Chip Roy.
We're going to try to grab him here in just
a second.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
This is so. He did answer part of the question.

Speaker 11 (20:50):
The main question was out of those numbers, how many
are those children?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Are they children?

Speaker 11 (20:55):
Are the adults of the twenty seven missing from Camp Mystic?
Are the children? They're additional obvious see more adults. The
last number I heard was still thirty to fifty, so
that number is unknown. But those are the known missing.
The big question is the unknown missing? And he didn't answer, Okay,
it didn't have.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
But hang but hang if he but hanging, but hang
but hang on?

Speaker 3 (21:14):
But I know, but hang on, which is terrible. This
is the first time I think that question. Even Chambers
and Peter didn't know that from their things. I just
want to make sure we got the answer. You asked
the question about the children at Camp Mystic. His answer
was twenty seven. So it's not twenty three, it's twenty seven.

(21:35):
Am I to take that as twenty seven?

Speaker 11 (21:38):
Yeah, the missing So they've found nine of the girls
deceased from the camp. They said another eighteen adults, but
there are still twenty seven missing from Camp Mystic. And
we do have a congressman, Chip Roy, you just joined Usteve.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Chip, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
No terrible time, but talk to us about your first
statement about the biblical nature of this twenty six feet
in forty five minutes and I think forty feet in
just over an hour, the rising of this river, sir.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Yes, Chip, I'm just gonna I've relayed the question, but
so talk to us about them. The first comments you
made about the biblical nature of this that when you say,
you know, people that don't understand what that flash flood
when it rises twenty feet thirty feet, what that actually
looks like.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, I mean like this is an area that's unique,
it's beautiful. That's why there's so many camps here where
the river cuts through this part of the hill country.
People aren't think Texas. They think, oh it's flat, and
I'll say this is a very hilly area and it's
it's just what we had about, I don't know, thirteen
fourteen inches of rain in a very short period of time.
It was like a wheelbarrow was just dumped right into
the corridor and so you had a twenty six to

(22:45):
thirty foot rise in the water in about an hour.
That's just you can't really prepare for that sort of
a thing. It was a unique situation. It happened at
four am to six am, the absolute worst time when
people are there, you know, asleep, still dark out, and
you know, look, there was a lot of heroic efforts
that have been underway. You know, I was just talking
about a woman, a camp director who lost her life,

(23:07):
you know, saving kids, people, all these first responders who
are out here doing the Lord's work. There's been some
miraculous stories. One of my kids schoolmates, she was alive
after you know, middle of the night, you know, staying
on a mattress floating for a few hours. But obviously
we've had some heartache and there's going to be some
more heartache today. But we remain hopeful as we continue
to do the search and rescue operation, and we got

(23:29):
to just continue to keep these families in our prayer.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
It's tragic.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
I mean, the camp community here is real rich, It's
been here for decades, right, and a lot of people
send their guy was just on the phone with one
of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
She herself went to the camps here. She was actually
here for the last huge flood in nineteen eighty seven.
They happened every once in a while, but this one was,
you know, this one was something like we've never seen before.
So you know, we've got to keep working today to

(23:54):
try to do what we can for these families and
keep the search operation going.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
See Ben ask asked congressman. Is he keeping the president personally?
Is he updating the president personally?

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Are you updating the president personally? Or is there communication.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Directly you know, in private communications? But yeah, I mean
I've been having I talked to the President yesterday. I
talked to Secretary know him yesterday. Yesterday. I've been keeping
the White House up to date, you know, the in
the you know, his staff, and we'll be having a
constant conversations the governors in constant conversations.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I expect the Governor to be back here today.

Speaker 15 (24:27):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
I think the Secretary might be here might be here today.
We're you know, it's a coordinated effort, state, local, federal.
We've gotten all the resources we've asked for, and yesterday
we've asked for some supporting. Army Corps immediately got it. Uh,
there's air assets here. We've had one hundred and sixty
air operations. But you know, a lot of a lot
of that credit goes as it should to the state
and local guys. You know, Federal comes in to do

(24:49):
what they can. But you know Governor Abbitt and you
know Nim Kidd, I can't say enough about uh, you know,
tem the Texas Department of Emergency Management. I've worked h
too much with them for frankly, between COVID and this
and other other things. But he's a good man and
he's doing a great job.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Ben, find out where where can we get in touch?
How do we follow Chip Roy today while he's down
there on social media?

Speaker 11 (25:14):
How do we best follow you while you're here getting
any updates for the folks that want to.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yeah, well, first of all, there'll be you know, there's
gonna be a bigger briefing in the early afternoon. I
think we'll have a little bit more information. You can
always follow me on Twitter at chip Roy t X
c h I p R o I t X or
my official count Rep.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Chip Roy.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
We're putting out what we can, but I'm pretty conservative
in what I put out. Other people, you know, throwing
stuff out there. I want to wait. We need families
to get noticed. We need to take this methodically, do
it the right way. You know, people have lost loved ones.
There's people out of him in the camp. All the
focus on the camps, understandably these young girls, but there
there are adults people here in Kervill that are being

(25:50):
directly impacted. I saw a story of a couple that
was swept away that'd come down here and they were
in a cabin, you know, and other folks that are locals,
and so, you know, we got to just keep doing
our work to try to get the facts out there.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
But we'll all come together.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
We're resilient, we're Texans, and we'll figure out how to
move forward from this. Right now, we've got to, you know,
finish the job in these next few days.

Speaker 11 (26:10):
Thank you, sir, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Thanks, yeah, and Steve.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
The big message Ben Can for everybody out there, YEP
is pray, pray, pray, pray, pray for this community.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Go ahead, Steve, Ben can you hang on.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I'm going to go to an interview I just did
with Megan Kelly. I want you to hold for the
end of the show. We'll get any more wrap up
and any more information and we'll tee up the two
pm Central time three pm Eastern daylight time another press
conference with updates. So Ben Berkwam, just hang on. I'm
gonna come right back to you. Okay, Okay.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Not a lot of good news at a Kerzville. That's
what we need. Prayer.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
We're gonna go back to Ben Berkwam before we sign
off at a twelve noon Eastern daylight time. I was
very fortunate to be able to do an interview with
Megan Kelly. I want to play that in its entirety.
If Denver could go ahead, Let's kick in the Medican
Kelly and I'll be back right after it. By Megan
Kelly Meghan on this fourth of July weekend, the kicks

(27:12):
off really the year leading up to our two hundred
and fiftieth commemoration anniversary. As a country. You know, very
few republics have made it this long. This is this
theory that a republic will only last about two hundred
to two hundred and fifty years, like the Roman Republic.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
And others that come before us.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Given last weekend I spent in New York, called up
there to kind of go through some analysis and data
what happened in this election, to see if there's anything
to be done. What is your pull back the camera
for a minute, What does Megan Kelly think about the
arc of our country?

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Where are we now?

Speaker 3 (27:42):
And given your experience, particularly in New York City, when
you're at Fox News in Midtown Manhattan, what is happening
there now and kind of the arc of the story.

Speaker 13 (27:53):
If you just looked, if you zoomed in on what's
happening in a city like New York or San Francisco
or La or Chicago, I think be very pessimistic about
the direction of the country, especially if this were twenty
twenty three instead of twenty twenty five and we had
Joe Biden at the top of the government, the federal government,
and in particular when it comes to our culture. I mean,
you talk about end times of the Roman Empire and

(28:15):
other great empires, you start to see things like total
debauchery spread across the culture, the loss of the nuclear family,
the loss of the connection to faith, and we're seeing
that more and more on the left in these big cities,
and the left runs our best and biggest cities. Unfortunately
they're running them right into the ground. But you're seeing
just sort of the sort of the dehumanization of people,

(28:38):
the disconnection from God and from faith of any kind,
the running away from family and child bearing as something
that's somehow evil or bad for you or awful to do,
you know, transhumanism. You're seeing thrupples, You're seeing the rent
a womb become a thing. I mean, it's just it's dark.

(28:58):
It's dark, the whole trans thing, with the men pretending
to be women and women telling other women that they're bigots.
If they don't accept that and if they stand up
for themselves, it's very sick. It's a sick culture in
a lot of ways. When you look back, not to
sound too pollyanna about it, but you look back at
nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties and you turned on
the music on the radio, and what did you hear about?

(29:19):
You heard about sweet love between puppy love, teenagers and
families and how the guy really wished he could get
the girl, and don't know what a slide rulers for.
You know, it's just sweet and sort of g rated.
And you turn on the radio today and you literally

(29:40):
hear songs about wet ass p word celebrated and then
written up by the New York Times like some sort
of modern day genius. So it's dark. The culture is
really slid. And just turn on the television for any
Super Bowl, for any music event, any celebratory event of
artists of any kind, whether it's music or acting or Broadway,

(30:02):
and you see nudity in your child's face, You see
j Lo's vadge, which you needn't ask to see. It's
like the snapshot would be bleak, would have you feeling
like it is end times. But the country is not
just blue states and blue cities run by Democrats. It's

(30:24):
still I think majority center right, and as has happened
repeatedly in history, I think it's correcting now. It's recognized
that it was lulled into a sense of complacency, being
told that you had to accept all of these things
or you were bad. You were a judgmental person, which
no one really wants to be. And the country has

(30:45):
realized that too many things have slipped out of control
into a very negative, even arguably evil place, and it's
fighting back that the election of Trump stood for so
much more than just let's make the Trump tax cuts
permanent and clean up what's happening at the southern border.
It was definitely those things, but it was about so
much more. You know, how many times have you heard

(31:05):
people say, we don't have to do that anymore. We
elected Trump, and it applies across our culture because it's
not just Trump, it's the middle finger that is Trump.
It's the right and the normies standing up against the
erosion of decency. So that's my initial response. And I
just think we've let something that's really important slide for

(31:28):
too long, and I think, you know, we're at risk
it over correcting like we always do. You know, you
have to watch out. You can't get puritan like the
left did in its holistic messages about how you're not
allowed to speak this way and you're not allowed to
think that way. We on the right have got to
watch that and not sort of start judging each other
too harshly. But we're on a good course right now
toward correction. I don't think the downward slide is as

(31:51):
rapid as it was just eighteen months ago.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Did the course of American history has always have been
predicated upon the people and the people ultimately making decisions
about what direction we had. But we've always had an
elite that was culturally, very very attuned with the underpinnings
and the foundational elements of the Judeo Christian West.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Can we turn this around as a populist movement?

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Right?

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Can we turn this around when you have elites and
elites educational institutions. I mean, a lot of our analysis
about what's happened in New York is that the breeding
ground of this, the recruiting ground for the get out
the vote activity, is places like Connard College and Columbia University.
They've used the universities and all the way down the
indoctrination of the not just public schools, but really even worse,

(32:42):
the private schools, the high end private schools.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
That we've created.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Now a group of elites that not only do not
believe in the underlying tenants of the Judeo Christian West,
but actually are quite anti American and hate America and
hate what America stands for.

Speaker 13 (32:58):
Ma'am, yeah, you're totally right, and I've lived that through
my own children and their exposure to that education, and
my friends who have college age and younger children as well.
I'll just give you one example. When my kids were
in this most prestigious boys' school, really one of them
in the country in New York City. They had to
write little essays in the second grade. I think it
was why I'm a feminist? Why are you having my

(33:20):
child say he's a feminist? We don't embrace that. Even
I don't say I'm a feminist, and I'm their mother,
So it starts very very young. Then the trans stuff
was heaped on them in the third grade, trying to
inject some question about what gender they might actually be
with a bunch of boys in the boys school that
had absolutely no questions. And then you fast forward to

(33:40):
the college years. I've got a good friend whose child
is at NYU and was forced to write an essay
about how capitalism is bad and she doesn't feel that way,
but she needed to write that because that was the assignment,
and if you wrote anything other than that, you weren't
going to get a very good grade. She wants to
get into grad school, and so she needed to get
a good grade, and so she wrote it. She just
did it long to get along. And that's how you

(34:01):
get ahead at these elite institutions, whether it's at the
K through twelve level or above. So you're right, there's
been complete capture. And that's why those same kids coming
out of NYU and other institutions that are teaching the
same thing look at Zorn mum Dami and they think, yeah,
he's right, capitalism does suck. We do need socialism. And
then we get the myth that Sweden is some utopia

(34:22):
and it's fully socialist, and it's not. And every time
they lean more socialists, they have to correct it and
go back to a form closer to capitalism. And by
the way, I was in Sweden literally twelve months ago,
and yeah, there are a lot of things that are
quote free. It's free for the freeloaders, but the people
who actually earn have taxes that are in the mid
seventies mid seventies, But they want to pay seventy five

(34:44):
percent tax to your government so that your freeloading neighbor
doesn't have to work hard. It completely kills any urge
to innovate. What is Sweden invented in the past fifty years.
Anything coming to mind? Did they have an Elon Musk?
I know you don't like him, but I'm just saying
he's one of our best inventors. We have people in
America who invent great things. We've got Bill Gates, you know,
We've got Jeff Bezos. And yes they're this elitist class,

(35:04):
but they make real things. They come up with new
innovative things. Mark Zuckerberg, what do they have? Socialism doesn't
encourage any sort of invention or innovation, and it leaves
you just a flatlined economy. So I think these people
are being brainwashed and they don't read history because they're
not allowed to. All they read is Howard Zinn telling
them how bad America is. Another personal example, when we

(35:27):
were looking for schools for our kids as Manhattanites, we
went to one Fieldston, which is very well respected as
a very tony school in the in sort of the
Lower Bronx, and they talked about how the entire third
grade is spent making the children fall in love with
the Native Americans. The entire third grade. That's all they
do in history is social studies in third grade and

(35:48):
then fourth grade. The entire fourth grade is spent on
how we kill them all, and how we committed a
genocide and how evil the white man is. Like what
it starts young, So the inductor is baked in. Most
parents happily hand their child over this, over to this
because they really want you need to get into Harvard. Well,
they well, it used to be a world in which

(36:09):
you can learn actual things, but now it's just all
that indoctrination times one hundred, that indoctrination on steroids, and
then we're confused when the bumdamis of the world actually
score a win. So on that front, I think we're
on a collision course because they're going to do it.
This guy is going to get elected unless something extraordinary

(36:30):
happens between now and November, and we're just going to
have to relearn lessons we learned already about what happens
when you put far left socialist democrats in charge of
our major cities. Nothing good.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
How can we turn the country around?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
I keep arguing this is one of the reasons I
was so against the potential getting dragged in to regime
change war in Persia is that the central front of
this Third World War is in the United States, and
particularly in the big sanctuary cities Los Angele, Chicago, now
New York. You have three of the greatest cities in
the world, and certainly the three greatest cities in the
United States of America, that are essentially run by and

(37:08):
I come from Richmond, Virginia, Neo Confederates politicians and people
that think they don't have to comply with federal law
and not disagreements on the margin federal law, just think
that they can dictate their own laws, and if they
want to make non citizens essentially citizens, they'll just do it.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
And you saw what happened in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
How can we actually take the country back and get
on the right path politically economically when we have three
of the greatest cities on earth that are controlled by
people that hate our values and refuse to comply with
federal law.

Speaker 13 (37:40):
Man, I mean, I have to think it's the same
answer you and I have discussed on the lawfair that
the Democrats unleashed on Trump, which is we have to
let them suffer on the other side in the same way.
In other words, let them elect Brandon Johnson in Chicago
and see how that goes. He has an eleven percent

(38:01):
approval rating. Let them elect Mom Damie in the world's
greatest city, New York City, and see what that does
to Manhattan, to the billionaire class who's tax paying dollars
we are dependent on in order to keep the city running.
We're already a shadow of our former selves in New York.
I lived in New York seventeen years. Seventeen of the

(38:21):
past twenty I've been in New York City. And when
I got there, under the early Bloomberg years, post Giuliani,
you could eat off the sidewalks, sanitation worked, public works worked,
the subway was clean and safe. That's why I chose
to have three children while living there and raise toddlers
in that city. Now it's a shadow of its former self.

(38:42):
You can't walk down a block without stepping over garbage,
homeless people, human feces. That's thanks to all these years
of Democrat rule. Mayor build the Blasio ruined the city,
and Eric Adams didn't do a whole hell of a
lot to improve it. And so now they want to
go They want to double down. Unstupid. I kind of
think they need to feel the full effects of their decisions.

(39:03):
They need to actually feel the pain why don't we
do the mom Dami plan where we drive every one
of New York's one hundred and twenty three billionaires out.
Let them go to Greenwich, you know, let them go
to some beautiful town in New Jersey. It's really not
hard to find another place to live in the Tri
state area for billionaires, and see what happens to the
tax base. And not just them, but the one hundred

(39:25):
billionaires who populate the Upper east Side who voted for Cuomo.
Let's let them feel the pain that comes with the
public housing projects. Mamdami wants to move right into the
heart of Manhattan, like right on the on Central Park,
so that everybody going for an afternoon stroll with their
kids has to deal with that kind of person who's

(39:45):
living in the public housing projects in Manhattan. It's a nightmare.
And I really feel like only when they feel the
full pain of it and see what they voted for,
what it got them, are they going to start voting differently.
I think Chicago's going to vote differently. Don't forget chess
aboudin that radical weather underground scion of Bill Ayers. He
was recalled as the San Francisco DA, the San Francisco

(40:09):
school board had a revolution. Like even in San Francisco,
they started to see reason bit by bit. In Chicago
they're starting to see reason. New York apparently needs another
four years of lessons in this guy. I'm sorry, but
I think they probably have to get it if we
want real change to eventually come.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
The weekend I was last week and I was there
doing this analysis and looking at data.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
And by the way, one hundred percent agree with you.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Unless it's some miracle and people drop out, they're going
to get Mandambi, and quite frankly, maybe they deserve him,
and you got to play it out and see how
it turns out, because it'll burn the city to the ground.
At the same time, you're inundated on social media with
the Bezos wedding, and so when Mandami goes, I don't
know if we need billionaires, you look at the Bezos
wedding and not that you agree with them.

Speaker 13 (40:53):
So glad you said that.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Compare and contrast that.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I mean, when these young kids who don't know anything,
or Tarvias skraslaying the said we don't need billionaires, you
have the Bezos thing in your face for seventy two hours.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Your thoughts.

Speaker 13 (41:07):
Man, I'm so glad you raised that. I've been wrestling
with it too. It's disgusting, like the in your face
display of extreme wealth. And honestly, like for me, it
wasn't even the Vogue spread or the fake friends at
their wedding. It just hit the papers today. I asked
myself on the show and ask my audience what the

(41:28):
hell was Sidney Sweeney doing at the Bezos Sanchez wit
who everybody knows? This young starlet doesn't know these two?
Why is she there? And I'd speculated that sometimes agents
and she might be represented by ariammanuelite id in check,
but sometimes they'll cut a deal, like get my client
invited to this thing, so she'll be a headliner. What
it actually appears is she starred in some movie that
Amazon has a producing role in, and so her boss,

(41:51):
Jeff Bezos invited her, even though they don't know each other,
to his wedding. He obviously just wanted a headline with
her name in it. That's how vapid these people are.
I mean, I'm sorry, who would extend that invitation and
who would go Both of these people are just completely vapid.
And so you look at so Anyway, that wasn't the worst.
The worst of it for me was the shot of

(42:12):
them on the yacht. And their yacht has a yacht.
You know, their yacht has its own yacht, the second
yacht that travels along with all the yachts trappings like
the helicopter, and reportedly it's where he makes her go
when the Kardashians come to visit for their weird parties,
because who the hell wants to be seen with a
Kardashian And on their yacht they had a foam party

(42:32):
in their yachts pool. Their yacht has a pool. You know,
some of these big, big boats might have a hot tub.
Theirs has a pool and they dumped all this foam
in it so they could frolic in the foam. And
you see the foam dripping off of the main yacht
into the beautiful Mediterranean in Venice. Can you think how

(42:54):
little respect do you have for anything?

Speaker 15 (42:57):
Like?

Speaker 13 (42:58):
It's not too far a few from what I went
to the met Gala a couple of years Steve. I
used to be an anna win to our favorite when
she thought I was a trump foil, And what I
saw in there was stomach turning. I saw the same
class of people. They make tens of millions, in some
cases hundreds of millions. And yes, indeed there were billionaires
there too. I talked with a lot of them. And
you go into the bathroom at the met gala, and

(43:21):
all I saw was wall to wall Kardashians, yes, and
fake influencers, supermodels smoking cigarettes among our classic works of art.
Couple dry humping one another. By the way, Sean Diddycombs
was in there, absolutely disrespectful doing drugs. Not the Kardashians.
You're not going to name who was doing there, but

(43:41):
this was witnessed, okay, in one of our most celebrated
places of homes of art that we're lucky enough to
have in Manhattan. In the United States. It's the same thing.
And this is our so called ruling class. These are
the ones who whose endorsement during the presidential election is
supposed to matter. And Jeff Bezos somehow eagles an invitation
to the inauguration where he steps behind President Trump. What

(44:05):
did he do to help President Trump get inaugurated? His
Washington Post ripped on Trump every day. You know, it
was absurd to me that he was anywhere within striking
distance of Trump. Not to mention his now bride. I'm sorry,
but with her tits hanging out, totally disrespectful. Chrissy Tagan
going to the White House correspondence dinner with her vadge,

(44:26):
hanging out with her her skirt so high, literally showing
her underwear. It's disrespectful. And there is this so called
ruling class that doesn't understand anything about regular Americans. So
that's why there's this huge vapid hole that's ripe for
exploitation by a guy like mom Dommy, who smiles a

(44:47):
lot and is kind of cheery and likable, just done
in terms of delivery, saying's New York is too expensive,
I'm gonna fix it. That's literally what he ran on.
It was like those two lines. It was very simple,
very appealing, and you think, yes, it is too expensive.
Why am I living paycheck to paycheck and have to
worry about my grocery store bill when I'm looking at

(45:09):
the phone party and these morons who are you know,
going to the metcal at their eighty five thousand dollars
a ticket, smoking cigarettes and doing drugs, And I'm told
I'm a bad person if I don't relate to them.
I don't get into these elite colleges. They judge me
for my community college or for not going to college. Yes,
I hate them, and so it does that too. The
Bezos Sanchez wedding and everything around them feels end times ish.

(45:34):
It does feel late Roman Empire, and that's yet another
reason why I don't think those two are a force for.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Good Late Roman Empire.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Well, we know the Bayonaire married the stripper Megan Kelly.
Fantastic You and I got our work cutout for us
in the run up to America is two hundred and
fiftieth birthday, So thank you so much. Where do people
get your podcast and all all your writings, Well.

Speaker 13 (45:56):
You can catch grea at YouTube dot com, slash Meghan Kelly,
or wherever you get my your podcast for free. Steve
Bannon is an honor to serve alongside.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
You, Megan Kelly. I like being in the trenches with you.
We got a fixed band nets this year. Thank you man,
appreciate you. Have a great rest of the weekends.

Speaker 13 (46:14):
Thank you too.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
We'll be back back in a moment for a wrap
up for our fourth of July weekend special.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Back in the moment.

Speaker 8 (46:24):
The welcome we will God, here's your host, Stephen k.

Speaker 10 (46:32):
Ban.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Okay, let's go down back to Doc Chambers. Doc, we
had you on last night before the press conference. Press conference,
good information, kind of depressing. Can you give us an
update on where we are in search and rescue?

Speaker 12 (46:47):
Sir Roger That, Yeah, we had over two hundred and
sixty rescues yesterday. This is a positive note. Obviously, we're
looking at one hundred and some of those were hoists,
so this is what we call a jungle penetrator type.
The old comes down from the helicopter with a operator.

Speaker 15 (47:04):
At the bottom of the line.

Speaker 12 (47:06):
Somebody pulls them up through the tree line because this
is triple canopy in some places, lots of foliage in
the area. So that's a positive note. Unfortunately, you do
have to report that we're at about twenty four right
now unconfirmed, twenty four to twenty six deaths reported expected
to rise still, twenty five missing expected to rise, but

(47:27):
we're nearing those numbers down as we speak. So those
are just unconfirmed, but they are close to the right numbers.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
What is of the twenty five what's the status of
the Mystic Girls camp. They were saying that last night
twenty to twenty three. Is that still an accurate number
that had not been the search and rescue had not located.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Is that still the accounting? We have.

Speaker 12 (47:50):
No, because over the ninth we were reporting all the
way through zero three hundred. This morning, yeah, there were
about seven that I saw that were sent to me.
I have not got those numbers yet. I'm on my
way to Mystic. We've we've had a lot of stops
along the way. Understand, this is still going on. It's
the Geen area, Lake mcqueeney. Is that there's a deluge
of rain down from us. So it's it's adding to

(48:12):
the problem set. But we're controlling what we can here
and then we'll continue to move to that location. But
first I'll hit Mystic and be out there conducting some
support out there, ministry support with some of the families.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Let's bring a peat teal.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Hang on, doc, let's go a peat teal from the
minute man a disaster relief, I think, joins us by phone.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Oh no, there we have him, Pete.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Can you give us an update on a disaster relief,
search and rescue anything, you know?

Speaker 15 (48:40):
I agree with what what the previous guy said. I
was at the operations center there were they were did
the operational briefing this morning? I don't have any additional
numbers to what he said. Those are are in line
with what I'm aware of.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
When you say, in line, this is just the question
last night I think they said.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I think they reported at Mystic, at.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
The Bubble End or one of the sub camps at Mystic,
that there were twenty to twenty three nine year old girls.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Is that was last night? Not the correct answer.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
That's what the media has been, that that had been
unaccounted for. Where there are there still twenty.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
This morning.

Speaker 15 (49:22):
I don't want to say that definitively because I can't
tell you for sure, but yes, that is my understanding.
I was an eight nine year old camp and a
couple of the camp buildings were swept away, is what
I understand.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
What? UH is search and rescue still going on? Correct?

Speaker 15 (49:40):
Yes it is right now. I believe I'm probably on
the same highway as Lieutenant Colonel Is. There are a
number of state police and ambulances, number of game warden
trucks just drove by me here while I was talking
with you.

Speaker 13 (49:52):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (49:52):
The Sturson rescue is still going on, although I think
at this point it might be more recovery than search
and rescue.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Unfortunately, where how tough has this search and rescue been?
Given the biblical nature of this flash flood?

Speaker 1 (50:08):
How tough has it been? Peede Teal.

Speaker 15 (50:13):
I have not been involved in the search and rescue personally,
but just trying to turn around in a truck. The
mud and muck is unbelievable. The level of damage this
is like a major hurricane. There are thousands of trees
that have been stripped, there are mattresses in trees, There's

(50:39):
the height of the flood level. It's this is unbelievable.
They have been using jeeps, they've been using dogs as
much as they can with the mud. I mean, every
asset is being used. There was an offer this morning
from a group that has assessed the three thirty seven
with search and rescue package with infrared and everything. I

(51:01):
don't know if that's coming over, but every asset the
state has, I believe, has been pushed here. The number
at the staging area of the Infinite Command Post that
we're probably three hundred vehicles of people that are here
that are state officials rather than just volunteers that we're
for search and rescue. The magnitude of the response from
the State of Texas is amazing. This is what makes

(51:23):
America great is that people come help each other.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Doc Chambers.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
One of the questions last night about people being notified,
and one of the officials said that, hey, this area
has a history of flooding in your memory, is this
the biggest has happened recently?

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Twenty years, thirty years? The biggest in memory?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
I mean, how big is this compared to other events
that this area has had the Guadalupe.

Speaker 12 (51:50):
River, great question, twenty years, this is the highest one
in record now, but understand this is the longest in
the corridor of the Guadala Lope. We're looking at probably
seventy miles as the crow flies, hundreds of miles one
hundred and twenty miles of river as it curves. So
we're looking at all those low laning areas. And remember
all these camps that were plussed up for Fourth of

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July holiday, that was the evacuation problem set. And now
when we're spreading those forces, thin as Pete was mentioning,
I'm out here with them, and these guys are running
up and down the roads. So are civilian groups. You know,
the Cajun navies coming in from Louisiana. There's some great folks.
This is what we're dealing with. The thermals are the
key for the nighttime and daytime. The problem set for

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some of these areas further down is the amount of
rain that they're still receiving. Deluge of rain over Lake mcqueeney,
so they won't be able to work there, but from
their back yes, they will be up with those fixed
wing and rotary wings.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Doc Chambers, where do people your sitting ups have been amazing?
Where do people go that weren't in the audience last night?
Where do people go to keep up with this?

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Understanding?

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Your heading up to the mystic camp right now?

Speaker 3 (52:58):
So how do people keep in touch with you on
social media to get your sit reps?

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Affirmative? Sir?

Speaker 12 (53:04):
Well, what you look is Doc Pete Chambers on X
and then I have remnantministrytx dot org. That's what we'll
be cletally posting things as where well, but on X
is the primary right now. I'll be doing probably probably
every couple hours as I can, just a short thirty second.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Spot okay, perfect, thank you.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
We'll post those up and make sure we stream them
thank you, Doc, appreciate you, pet Tiel before we let
you go. Anything to make our audience smart as the
day they look at social media or continue to follow
the stream here on Real America's Voice. Anything to make
us smart about how this search and rescue is going, Sir.

Speaker 15 (53:49):
I don't have anything in particular. Miniman Disaster Response is
an all volunteer group that helps people clean up after
major events. We have not done a full deployment yet.
We're down here assessing the situation to see if we'll
be going. So, I mean, just the the level of
damage here is is just it's overwhelming. But I we

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don't have a public web page where we put sit
reps on. Uh, so I can't add on that.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Do you have do you have social media?

Speaker 15 (54:21):
You guys on Twitter, We're on Facebook. I believe we're
on Instagram. It should be just miny Man Disaster Response.
I don't know about Twitter. K.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Well, Jess, we'll send everybody over.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Well that's okay, we'll send everybody over to your Facebook
or your your Instagram. Pete, thank you so much for
joining us. I know you're busy this morning, so thank
you for taking a few minutes.

Speaker 15 (54:45):
Yep, thank you goodbye.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
There'll be a press conference at There will be a
press conference at at eleven o'clock eastern daylight time. We
will jump into that and get some updates on this.
Jason Jones is down there, the congressman trip where is
down there? We'll get some other input in the second hour.
Let's go to as soon as we get more information,
obviously we'll inform everybody.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Let's go to Brazil to Rio.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
You know, yesterday on Drudge for the entire day of
fourth of July until late in the day after President
Trump signed the signed the big beautiful bill and had
this amazing.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Ceremony Philip Patrick. The headline the.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Drudge lead was dollar has worst opening six months I
think in history or twenty years, you know, the drop
of the dollar. You're at the conference, and I'm sure
that came from the d dollarsation movement of Brooks.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
What exactly is going on down in Rio? What?

Speaker 7 (55:41):
What?

Speaker 3 (55:41):
What are the bricks Nations organizing? We're getting ready to
kick off this conference. You've been down for a couple
of days. Get us up to speed.

Speaker 14 (55:48):
Yeah, Look, it's interesting, it's it's hustle and bassel. We've
been out We're watching dinners between Charlie's delegates and Brazilian
real estate developers. Deals are happening all over the place.
The dollar is certainly a topic of conversation, as you
rightly point out, a worst start for the year since
nineteen seventy three, since we came off the gold standard,

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dollars lost ten and a half percent of its purchasing power,
So you know it's looking primed for the bricks and
their plans longer term. We had a very interesting interview
with an economics professor yesterday heavily involved in the Bricks leadership,
and learn a lot in that conversation about different motivations

(56:31):
for different bricks companies countries, sorry, particularly Brazil. So there
is a feeling here of excitement and that things are
moving forward.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Is explained to the audience.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
We know during Biden's time, is this flow over from Biden?
Because President Trump puts at the big, beautiful built and
clearly it has some defenit in there.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
They've asked for a five treeon dollars, a lift to the.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
To the debt ceiling, but the global capital markets kind
of took this. The tenure treasuries slightly down. Gold's been
kind of stable. The stock market's on a run again.
Why explain to the audience why does the dollar keep
losing value relatives some of these other currencies, Because this
is one of the things the bricks are saying. If
we can't do another currency, we've got to figure out

(57:22):
some way to dedollarize, Right, We've got to get away
from the dollar being the center of world currency trading.
So why is the dollar continued to DETERI why have
we had the worst six months since we came off
the gold standard under Nixon?

Speaker 6 (57:38):
Look, I think there's a number of reasons. Right.

Speaker 14 (57:40):
It started in twenty twenty two with Biden's weaponization of
the dollar, and ultimately it showed nations around the world
that they have risk. But I think what I'm learning
here is people misunderstand.

Speaker 6 (57:52):
What the bricks really are.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Right.

Speaker 14 (57:54):
The argument that I always hear is, look, they're not
politically aligned, right, India and trying to can't agree on anything.
And there's sort of acceptance of that on the ground
I mentioned. I was interviewing an economics professor and he said, look,
you know, the idea of viewing them as a political
unit is the wrong way to look at it. They
are not a block, right, they don't have a chairman,

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they don't have a CEO, they don't have a board
of directors, and importantly they don't have agenders to vote on.
What they are instead is a group of countries that
have come together to basically help one another out right
with trade, development projects and loans.

Speaker 6 (58:31):
There's a feeling.

Speaker 14 (58:31):
Here of mutual cooperation because I think on the whole
Bricks nations feel snubbed by the West, and now they
with China leading the way, they have a lot of clout.
Remember they've got bigger GDP now than the G seven.
So they're not politically aligned, but they are aligned in
one area, and that is and this is a direct
quote from the from the professor himself, and he was

(58:54):
not anti Western, I want to be very clear. But
the aim here in their mind is to diminish power
of the West. And it was very shocking to hear
until he started to explain the background, right and from
an inside of Bricks perspective, it started to make a
lot more sense, and that is that BRICKS members want
different things. Right for China, it's all about power, right.

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They don't want a direct economic war.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
With the West. Or Europe.

Speaker 14 (59:21):
They still do a lot of business with US, but
they do want to become a global leader, and they
do want to recover Taiwan. The question is how much
of their wealth do they want tied up in US
dollars when they try that. So they're very motivated to
break dollar dominance. For Russia, it's about economic security from sanctions.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
Right.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
For Brazil, in his mind, it was a little more nuanced.

Speaker 15 (59:42):
Right.

Speaker 14 (59:42):
They still harbor resentments about deals offered by the IMF
when they were struggling in the eighties and nineties, essentially
loans with too.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
Many strings attached.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
Right.

Speaker 14 (59:52):
Those difficult experiences during times of crises, I think make
them open to alternatives. They see themselves, as the professor
himself says, as a bridge between the global north and south, right,
to act as a moderator, balancing between China and the West.
This is basically their opportunity to seize a global role.

(01:00:12):
The point being they all want different things that they
united around the

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Common hang on, hang on one second, that common purpose
is diminished to West sharp break Philip Patrick comrio next