July 8, 2025 • 53 mins
THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON
TEXAS NEWS UPDATES ON THE FLOOD
THE PRESIDENT PARTICIPATES IN A CABINET MEETING
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, we don't want to have enough time for for
the do the long open because so much going on.
A press commerce supposed to start in Texas. We're gonna
pick that up. President's going to start his cabinet meeting
supposed at eleven o'clock. We're gonna pick that up. Once
we pick up the cabinet meeting, Grace and Moe are
going to put on the on our other streaming devices
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so you can watch the Texas press conference, et cetera.
I've got Chris hort Chris, particularly everything on AI of
what can happen, how they can change things up, the
susceptibility to the grid, and particularly the situation at Texas.
We did have the young CEO from Rainmaker was forgeduled
to come on here today. His travel and uh and
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in this cabinet meeting is changing things up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So we're gonna get him on the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But with everything going on, or Chris Horte, we need
more than ever to make sure we can stay in
communication with each other.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What do you got for us? Well, Steve, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I mean, one of the things that really hampered the
rescue operations in Kerr Texas. This last week was the
fact that cell towers were washed away and so were
fiber lines, so unless you had satellite phones, you couldn't communicate.
And so it's like, look, Steve, you don't wait until
your house on fireed by a fire extinguisher, So get
a satellite phone today while they're still free. We have
free satellite phones with activation at SAT one two three
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dot com. And we're also including this week for warrem
uses only the free Faraday bag, a free satellite phone
Faraday bag. But Steve, these phones are the only things
that work during these devastating flooding in cur Texas that
they work anywhere, everywhere, no matter what's going on on
the ground. And the satellite phones normally around one thousand bucks.
They are free right now at SAT one two three
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dot com or Steve called nine four one eight four
one zero eight four four. That's nine four one eight
four one zero eight four four. But again, this is
the only thing that's going to work when you have
a devastating situation like this. The same thing happened in
Hurricane Baryn, and we've got a busy hurricane season coming up.
It looks like so this is going to these outages
are going to be happening more and more, and certainly,
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you know the other big threat you're absolutely right with
AI is these attacks on the infrastructure. We know full
well that the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the
Iranians hard at work trying to take out our infrastructure
wherever and whenever they can. They were successful at doing
so over in Spain and Portugal just a few months back,
taking the entire country offline of Spain for twenty four
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hours plus. You know that that did happen, and that
certainly can happen here, Steve.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Chris, one more time. These are all specials. I'll tell
the war and posse They're gone, like very quickly. Chris
comes in with us and says, hey, I got this,
I want to do this. We go bang, let's hit
it one more time. Where do people go?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
They can go to SAT one twothree dot com. That's
SAT one two three dot com. Or they can call
us at nine four one eight four one zero eight
four four. Well it's nine four one eight FORUL one zero.
Waightful full get a freesat phone and a free satellite
phone faurday bag with activation.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Just eighty five bucks a month. Stave. Thank you, brother,
appreciate you. Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Um A blockbuster story just bat just came out now
in the Guardian. I don't have time. I don't think
we're gonna be able to get doctor Bradley Thera up.
I'll do it this afternoon. This gets back to my
whole concern about where our real enemies are, where we
should be focused for the United States of America. We
must put America first. There are too many other people
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in this country that purport to be patriots and report
to be worried about the United States of America that
either put the Ukraine first or put Israel fir ust.
I'm sorry, that's just the way it is, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This report in the Guardian that just dropped says that
the United States has used seventy five percent of its
patriot missile Okay, patriot missile inventory. Let's go to tech
says we'll pick this up intil the president starts.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hey all ready, Okay, thank y'all for being here again today.
Larry Leatha Kirk County Sheriff. I'm going to kind of
go over some brief notes with y'all real quick. Then
I'm going to pass it on to the mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hundreds of first responders remained along the Guadalupe River and
Kirk County working to reunite families. The large search rescue effort,
including local, state, federal, and volunteer agencies continue. As of
eight am Central time, eighty seven deceased have been recovered
in Kirk County, including fifty six adults and thirty children.
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Identification is pending for nineteen adults and seven children, with
one additional person still unidentified. At present, five camp missed,
the campers and one counselor still remain unaccounted for. We
asked private boats to stay off the Guadalupe River to
allow search and rescue teams to operate without any interference.
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This is a tragic time for us. We're so grateful
and thankful for all the resources that have been provided
to us to do this job. You know, and I
can assure you we will not stop until this mission
is complete. At this time, when a turnover to city.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Mayor, thank you for being here. I'm joining junior. I'm
mayor the City of Kerville. I want to reassure our
community and those families that the city, the county the
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state and the federal experts are working together, not separately,
but as one team. If you go inside the Emergency
Operating Center, you don't see silo, you see one team.
I want to talk briefly about in kind donations. The
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outpouring of generosity has been tremendous and we are grateful.
We're going to We are working on a new system
to accept donations, and when those plans are complete, we
will post them online on the city's Facebook page. We
are grateful. We need a new system to handle the
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generosity of the world. Financial donations can still go to
community Foundation dot net. That's the Community Foundation of the
Texas Hill Country. Again, we are grateful for the generosity
of the world over and over. I've asked you to pray.
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It occurred to me that I haven't asked you for
what to pray. Specifically, please pray for those who mourn,
for those who wait, and for those who help. Now,
i'd like to call on Lieutenant Colonel Ben Baker.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Warning everyone, thank you for being here. My name is
Ben Baker, Lieutenant colonel for Texas Game Wardens. I'd like
to start out by thanking the mayor, share chief, our
local state partners, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the
many others that I've responded to this tragic event. We
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as Texas are strong and together we face adversity. Your
Texas Game Moardens responded in the early mornings of Friday
to magic event along with many other local and state partners.
Since the early mornings of Friday, your Texas gamers have
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had over three hundred game wardens in the area, serving
the people of the State of Texas and the citizens
of Kirk County. Among that, we've searched twenty six river miles.
Since this tragic event has started, we've had approximately four
hundred and forty four rescues thirty recoveries. Some of our
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resources and assets we have dedicated to this tragic event
include two helicopters with Hoyst teams, twelve drone teams, ten
canine units, nine swift water boat crews, fifteen airboats, sixteen UTVs,
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and one hundred and sixty nine four World Drive vehicles.
Your Texas Gayborns will remain here and serving the community.
We just ask you to continue to pray for the victims,
for the families, for your first responders, for everyone involved.
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We'll open it up now to questions anybody has any
and don't tell.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
About challenging you and the guys UH in the mud tree.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
It's been like the difference to writing.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
No, thank thank you for that question. UH, extremely challenging.
You know, we've got, of course your Texas Gay borns
out there, your local, your state partners, Texas Tasks Ford One,
we got the National Forest Service out there, we got
A and M forst Service, We've got numerous responders with
specialized UH capabilities where we've got these large pile of
debris and with our canines and and you know, when
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we're trying to make these recoveries, these these large piles
can be very obstructive and to get in deep into
these piles, it's very hazardous, and those specialized teams have
to go in there layer by layer because our first
responders also the safety of them is concerned. So it's
it's extremely treacherous, time consuming, it's dirty work, it's the
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water still there. So we're having to go layer by
layer peeling these off to make those recoveries.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So we're what about.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Mentally, like do you guys, someone across someone may seem how.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Do you process that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Absolutely, we processes the best we can.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
We have professionals in place, our Crisis INTERVENTIONED Team, all
the agencies have some members representing there, and officer wellness
is a is a first responder wellness is a key
component to these operations. So we're maintaining and monitoring our
officer wellness, our first responder wellness. We're making sure they
have the support. It's very tragic whenever you see human life,
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but to see child and that loss of life is
extremely Tragics can.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Come down west of us and it's eventually it's gonna
get down to waterlooa river. Is that gonna put a
halt to the searches? And if not, how are you
gonna change the trajectory of the search and rescue operations?
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
So with the water coming down, there is always a concern.
And I'm sure you've been monitoring the last couple of
days where we've had some reports of maybe some additional
water coming in. Obviously that's gonna impact the search and
recovery efforts.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
You know, US, with numerous other agency do have air capabilities,
drone capabilities. We've got numerous fixed s ring rotary helicopters here.
So it will alter our patrol patterns and alter our searches,
but it won't deter them.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Specific discussions and actions were taken between the time the
first and what emergency alert in at one fourteen am
and then when the river first shorted flood cames.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Hours later later.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Well, where these specific actions and discussions that come in
those hours, super course?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Can you repeat that again please?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
I would like to know if you could outline please
what these specific actions and discussions were that local officials
took between one fourteen am that's when the first flood
emergency alert came out and hours later when the river
for shorty flood comes.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
What happened in those hours?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What I can tell you when I was first notified,
it was around the four to five area. One of
my sergeants was in dispatch when the first calls started
coming into the xtual nine one one calls come in four.
It was between four or five when when I got notified. Okay,
but prior to that in that three to four area.
My understanding is, and we're in the process of trying
to put a timeline.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know that's going to take a little bit of time.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
As I've told you several times that is not my
priority this time. There's three priorities. That's locating, locating the
people out there. If I notify the Mexican that that
is what I'm taking. Is my job as sheriff here
to do? Okay, with a.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Respect, Sir, I think that the community he was asking
these questions, what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
When did it happen?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Was the emergency manager awake at the time? Didn't they
push the button to issue an emergency alert?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It's not that easy and you just push a button.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Okay, there's a lot more to that, and we've told
you several times.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
So did it happen to them?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can't tell you at this time. Okay.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Can you tell me if the emergency manager issued alert?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Who just give me a second? Emergency operations center?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who run after the emergency? I'll come back to you.
I'm going nowhere.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
Appreciate who runs the emergency operations center.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
We have a communications center, a dispatch Okay, we have
a communications center.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's where the calls actually go to the police apartment.
Then they're afforded to us.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
But leading up to this, in monitoring the weather, there
is in any large city in any state, there's an
office of Emergency Management that is monitoring the weather, that
is watching and listening.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
And getting brief this Who was getting those briefings in
this city, in this county, Who was receiving that information,
and who would have ultimately made the decision to evacuate
hearing what was coming in from the weather service and all, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well we would have done when we get notified. Okay,
you're not.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Emergency manager though, right the Sheriff's not EOC.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, there is no, that's the city.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, so we understand you have many questions, right, No,
I understand, but.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
You're gonna go You're not gonna answer the question because
that's up to the city manager.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And the mayor to answer.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
The correct We understand you have many questions.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Judges is not here.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We understand that. But right now this team up here
is focused on bringing people home to all those questions
will be answered. The priority right now just bringing people home.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
We totally understand that, and we value the doble work
it's being done by the first responders. We're seeing them
out there, money and sweating and grinding it out day
after day.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
But your community is asking these.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Questions and we will have We will get answers right now,
all of our resources are focused to recovery.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
Is who is in charge of the emergency Operations Center
at the time that was getting any breed?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Do we have another question any you?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I think I'd like to focus on what local people
can be looking for.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
We're looking at some erosion and roads and safety and
them traveling.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
What can we tell people who live here right now
and what they can do in their daily life? Should
they worry about traveling on roads? Do we know anything
about that infrastruction?
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Sure, absolutely, Donathan Lambkerville Police Department. So we know that
there's substantial road damage. Some roads have been closed for safety.
We've got crews out there in the county shoring them
up and making sure that people can travel to and from.
But we're asking for the public to do to assist
us is if they believe that they have seen someone
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a victim, notify emergency services call nine one one, let
us know, or use our non emergency numbers very code
eight three zero two five seven eight one eight one,
contact our dispatch team and we will send officers out there.
We also ask foks to limit their travel. Our first
responders have had a very difficult time getting to where
they need to go. Because of the amount of people
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who are flooding our roadways. We understand there's natural curiosity.
People want to come here and see the flood damage.
Now is not the time for sight seeing. This operation
is ongoing and continuous, and it will continue. I've got
time for one more question.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
People who are.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Last question, as far as I know, the last live
rescue unless there's new information, and I don't believe there is,
was made on Friday. All right, I'm afraid that's going
to have to do it for this morning.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
And someone answer. If the bodies have been released to
the families.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Sure, it's easy up the body for release to the
some some I mean they're at our topsy.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I mean.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
An estimate among the general population, not just the girls fromistic,
even just credible report, is it undred?
Speaker 15 (17:12):
Still?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Is there any estimate along the general population of how many.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
People are you know? I've told y'all it's hard to
know that number.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I know the numbers who we have found, and that's
all I know.
Speaker 13 (17:24):
All right, So we're going to continue our operations. The
next time that we're going to be in front of
y'all will be at five pm right back here. If
there is a critical update, again, we'll provide that information
to you through the contact list that you have provided
to us. Thank y'all, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, you see, as we predicted, U that is getting
a little contentions. There are some basic uh you know,
and now it's actually.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Full attack mode.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm not saying some of the things that the media
are asking there are are out of line. There are
a ton of questions here about the changing command, tons
of questions about how it was, you know, the evolutions
of not just the warning of the National Weather Center,
which those questions are trying to pin something on President Trump.
The question you just saw there and you saw the
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media is not backing down the saying, hey, the community
is asking these questions, what given the reporting that you had,
what was the chain of command? How this happened? And
clearly people don't want to answer here. One of the
reasons people don't want to answer is that, look, just
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the way things are, the civil lawsuits here are going
to be quite enormous, and I'm sure a lot of
people want to be very hesitant about going on the
record of speaking at a press conference and saying something
that they might have to eat later buried. Lead right there,
ladies and gentlemen. The question was asked, when was the
last live rescue that you had?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He said, Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So, and today they use the subtle term search and recovery,
search and recovery. So the search and rescue is over.
It's search and recovery. But today it's Tuesday. You've not
had a live recovery from since Friday. It shows you
the power, the really the unrelenting power of this of
the storm. And there's so many questions that have to
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be answer, including the fact was this just purely an
act of God? Or is this an act of God
with man's hand in it? Or was this an act
of that had much more about I don't know, geoengineering
or manipulation whatever, Those of all got to be answered,
and we're going to work to get the answers to that. Clearly,
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there's a effort going underway to make sure they recover
the bodies.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I do think that the folks down a Curville or
some state level, and you notice at some of these
tough press conferences you're not seeing the politicians anymore. They
want to be there when there's good news. Not a
lot of good news coming out of Curveville right now,
an intense scrutiny as they're just going to have to
understand that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So you know, our.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Prayers go out to all the victims, but also the
folks down in Curville that are going to come under
some intense intense pressure the cabinet meeting. I don't have
a feed yet. The Cabinet meeting has not started this.
I'm not saying this is spur of the moment. I
think this might have been planned, but there's so much
going on. Let's just go back. Can I get teed
up the Brooks Roylance thing on the CCP about the
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whole purpose of this, and I'm going to go back
to the annisty folks. You have it, you have both
of them. Play a hangar for a second, just hanger
for both. I'll tell you what. Let's play the amnesty
one first. I want to be cause this has been
the big controversy. Charlie Kirk brought up a lot of
people thought even the fscene thing might have been a
misdirection play on this. The war room Charlie Kirk led
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by Charlie Kirk. We went crazy on this yesterday, Jack Pisobac,
all of us on this very issue. Our mantra here
is mass deportations, now amnesty.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Never.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You cannot have amnesty, just as inconceivable would break down
the entire thought process that drove the populist nationalist movement.
Let's go ahead and play Brooks rylanins from earlier this morning.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
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
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
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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
not to compromise our food supply. Ultimately, the answer on
this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure.
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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
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
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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
immigration system, so thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They may talk about in the Cabinet meton today, but
I want to make sure, she said later, about the
Labor Department and Secretary Labor in the H two a's,
which are the H one B visas, the H two
a's or for agriculture and things like that. So we'll
make sure they're talking about some executive order. We'll make
sure they're not slipping in amnesty there. But no amnesty,
no way from Rowlins, the Secretary Agriculture. The entire purpose
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of this today was about the Chinese Commists Party, and
here you see the convergence of the of the show
today about energy, about agriculture, about advanced technology, what is
interweaving all of it, artificial intelligence, and also things like
you know, there's still this madness on this climate change hoax, right,
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the decarbonization myth still pervades in much of this. You
also had we had Eric tissa on here the codification
of this what Brooks just talked about, as far as
immigration goes an amnesty and all that it goes back,
you need it codified into Congress. This is the whole thing,
with the woke nature of the of what's happened in
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the Defense Department. We're not going to get these things
out of here until we get it codified in the law.
The other thing you see going on is that, and
I hope Russ does the quick mark on these recisions.
You're in another appropriations process right now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Write this down. Take your number two parencil out and
write down thirty September of twenty twenty five. What is that.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
August September, So we're seventy five days away from that,
I think, So write this down at midnight on the
thirties September of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You're gonna be sucking on a cr.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Okay, a big ugly cr because as sure as the
turning of the earth, these folks they got out of
town soons they got the big beautiful bill done, they're
gonna come back. They're gonna, you know, mess around for
a couple of weeks with the appropriations process and the
committee of the twelve individual appropriations bills that we wanted
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and to fight about. And they're gonna skip out of
town here for the August recess in August and you
ain't gonna see them again to after Labor Day. And
when they get back after Labor Day, you're gonna have
three and a half weeks say well, we don't have
enough time to actually pass a bill, so we're just
gonna have and it's just gonna be a small sea,
just cr and it's only gonna be you know, we
just need We're just gonna do it to I don't know,
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orndobate December fifteenth, and you're gonna get down in December
and you're it's gotta be Christmas holidays.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We just need another one. Let's just kick it into
you know, We're just kick it into March. And so
it goes RUSS vote.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think what you're gonna see in the interim, and
really what we must see in the interim is RUSS
vote and omb kind of the adults in the room.
We need now to see real recisions packages. You ran
the test case with the UH, with the the PBS
and a couple others. You know, seven baion dolls. Are
the nine point three billion we need to see recisions.
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I think they're gonna be pocket recisions, impoundments. They'd rather
go the recision route, which is go back to Congress.
I'm much more let's just have the president pound it,
go to court, you know, take on these radical judges
as we must. There's all types of things now going
on about you know, immigration, his ability. You know, they're
hammering that not stop. We're gonna get some clarity of
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that probably Tomorrow's too much going on today, but so
on this all at war on the spending cuts. The
essential deal that was made is, hey, let's vote for this.
It ain't pretty, in fact, some of them is quite ugly,
but there are other means that we can get to.
The objective is your objective is to cut. The president
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has an article to power to cut. So let's get
on with it. Let's start cutting now. You know, Doze
did not find dose, really didn't find the waste for
an abuse. I would love the departments to come back
and say, what is actually happening in Social Security?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay, what is actually happening Medicaid?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Right? If we're to get this thing right sized, the
first thing you got to do is cut out the
you guy, cut the fraud. You have to cut out
the abuse, right and you got cut out the waist.
Those things should be low hanging fruit. To date, when
you really talk about hard numbers, you're not seeing a lot.
And that's why I think go back to O and B,
which is really the adult and really apparatus runs most
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of this as far as the apparatus goes, and that
has to be done, and I think they ought to
be put up now as we're into this appropriations process
for twenty twenty six. If you think of the big
beautiful bill, what the argument that russ Vote and these
people made.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Best made it? On the economic side.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a supply side tax cut, and this will turbocharge
the economy to get us to and beyond a three
percent GDP growth rate, because once you do that, the math,
you start to solve a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Russ Vote argued.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Another aspect of this major structural changes of taking out permit.
This is the one point five tree and now it's
one point five tree in over ten years, where the
spending I think is ninety treeion dollars. So it's not big,
but he said, it's structural and will lead to better things.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
In the different.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In the interim, you're going to have two trillion dollar deficits.
I'm telling you right now. The deficit I think on
by September thirty, at the end of the country's fiscal year,
will be close to two and a half trillion dollars.
And that will be and that will be counted as
President Trump's first year. That's just the way the math
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works out to cut that interim deficit. Because remember they
got a lift of five trillion dollars to the death
ceiling to get that the only way you got. You know,
you can get into this appropriation of twenty six. But
to do it now, you have to have impoundments, recisions,
pocket recisions, and they got to be real numbers. And
when I say real numbers, I mean real big numbers,
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not the test case of nine point two, but real
big numbers, and somebody's got to go back to the
to Social Security, to Medicaid, to medicare immediately and get
into the Hey, there's leakage in the system.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We know that.
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Speaker 1 (30:03):
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I think that's why it's quite advisable to have a
board meeting or a cabinet meeting, because that's kind of
the board of directors of the US government. It's supposed
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to happen at eleven o'clock. It's been I guess slightly delayed.
As often as what happens, we will pick that up
in centirety because normally, if it's open to the president's
supposed to be at least for a while, President Trump
always has some sort of opening remarks and then goes
around the table.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I got a clip on Ukraine. We must talk about Ukraine.
Let's gohe and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
More weapons Ukraine within some more weapons.
Speaker 15 (32:57):
We have to They have to be able to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Be getting hit very hard. Now they're getting hit very hard.
Speaker 15 (33:03):
We're gonna have to send more weapons, you hat, defensive
weapons primarily.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
But they're getting hit very, very hard.
Speaker 15 (33:10):
So many people are dying in that mess. And I'm
not happy with President Putin at all, but this is
something that would have never happened about with President I'm disappointed,
frankly that President Putin hasn't stopped.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm not happy about it either.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
A couple days ago, we had the DoD pause weapons
shipments to Ukraine from Defense Secretary Hegseth, the call from
him Richard, President Trump then saying no, no, we want to
continue it. And then late last night DoD did announce
that they'll be sending more. I am told that they
they'd rather outsource this, they'd rather have European partners step
up with defensive missiles, even like the Germans buying Patriot
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batteries from the US then shipped him to Ukraine than
a direct assist So this is the question here is
to Joe's point, is there a moment where do you
see a moment coming people you've talked to in the
community where President Trump might actually get tough with with Putin?
And what would that look like.
Speaker 14 (34:05):
We've been waiting for it for you know, this hire
first term we're now I've been waiting for it for
these months. Yesterday was a rare piece, a sliver of
good news. Look, the devil will be in the details.
What kind of arms, how much of arms? For how long?
I find it hard that it's not just this progress
right there.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Look, if you look at the path in the Israel situation,
you you arm them and some they buy in. Most
you just kind of you kind of give, or you
give on loans that are forgiven or direct assistants. Then
they're so dependent upon that. And this is my problem
that Yahoo they started a war, which they knew they
(34:44):
couldn't defend themselves Number one Foreign Policy magazine, does you know?
So back set up and on offense they couldn't take
out which is the prime objective, which is the nuclear
bomb making capability, weaponization of their nuclear program. And all
of a sudden we're drawn as a combatant.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Immediately.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
If you're providing defense for somebody in an open kinetic war,
you're a combatant. You can parse that as much as
you want, but you're a combatant. You're providing defense. And
what happened in the Persian situation, and exorably we got
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brought in, particularly since our quote unquote ally or our
protectorate couldn't finish the job, couldn't even come close to
fencing job. We had the most sophisticated lethal, bold strike
by the American armed forces, the Navy with thirty Tomahawk
missiles in the Air Force obviously with the B twos
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and others that eradicated for total obliteration the nuclear program.
Write this down, folks. The same thing's going to happen
in Ukraine if we don't force Because remember for the
NATO guy saying five percent that was all great. President
Trump was very touch. We thought it's a huge win
because they used to say we weren't going to do
the two percent. But the five percent doesn't take. It
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doesn't totally finalize or kicking it doesn't. It's not finally
kicked in until twenty thirty four. It's going to take
them that long to convince their population if they're kind
of being hold it and don't don't think they're all
going to live up to it right now. I don't
think any of them are going to live up to
maybe the Germans. So that's why this whole thing right
now should be the should be Europe. You guys talk
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a big game in Ukraine. The EU drove this, NATO
drove this.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Merscheimer said, you weren't going to be there? Where are
you now? And why did President Trump and the guys
the Pentagon stop it last week? They stopped it last
week because we are severely drawn down for our own
defense and particularly for the defense of things we think
are very important, like in the Pacific, we are field
stripping Korea, and we are field stripping the potential defense
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of Taiwan to supply the Middle East right and number
two to now supply Ukraine, we're down. The Guardians reporting
we're down set this is why they shut it down
last week. We're down seventy five percent on the Patriot
Battle of Batteries, which is still the principal kind of
front line for surface to air defense. And then you've
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got the THAD missile system, which I think we're drawn
down twenty five percent basically defending Israel.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
If you get if the United.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
States gets sacked in to directly doing this and we
take down the thing, you're just teeing up Taiwan. You're
teeing up Taiwan. So God helped the Seventh Fleet. You
got to reinforce the seventh Fleet. We got to be
on patrol. You ought to take an aircraft carrier through
the straits of Taiwan. Put them on notice that you're
(37:48):
ready for this, because unlike Ukraine and unlike Iran, we
lose Taiwan, you're going to see a big direct impact
on your life. I go back to the singularity to
quantum computing, in advanced chip design, the advanced chip design
coming out of Taiwan and still produced in Taiwan at
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the capacities. We need to run an advance industrial economy
ours you saw already. Let's be blunt on the whole
trade war. China's been preparing for this for a long time.
Where do you know that you know that from the
war room? Why because in unrestricted warfare, folks, that they.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Wrote the manual in the nineties, one of.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
The big parts of it is supply chains. In economic warfare,
it's one of their biggest branches. They knew that if
the United States ever woke up with a guy like
Trump and confronted them, that they needed to be ready.
How are they ready back? I don't know. In twenty
twoenty twelve, twenty thirteen, they bought a basically a processing.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Plant, I think it was in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Siphius didn't stop them under the Bio Biden excuse me,
under the Obama administration. And one of the reasons was
Joe Biden was supposed to be on top of it,
and who knows whose payroll he was on, And that
processing is where the magnets and some of the ball
bearings come from. When we did this and threw down
hard the whole that Chinese go, how about this?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
No rare earth? And they had some leverage. They definitely
had some leverage.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Think of what would happen in a flat out war
of Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
And they're playing.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They're not doing exercises, they're doing rehearsals right now for Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And that's the big Enchilada.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
What happens in Kiev has no vital national security implications
to the United States of America at all. Now, President
Trump has tried to have a rapprochement with Putin. We
announced the limitations last week. President Trump had a conversation,
a two hour conversation.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
We know.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
From what's been said in President tr Trump said it
did not go well. Putin was not really open to
you know, the President Trump in the Americans, we've been
involved a while trying to put you know, try to
get a ceasefire, try to put it to bed, cutting
an economic deal with the Ukrainian's which and as you know,
in the war, I'm not a fan of that. President
Trump going out of his way to trying to get
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some put their guns down and let's get to a
ceasefire and talk and talk about territory. And Putin just
basically said thanks for the memories. Axios reported Putin was
pretty adamant this a bilateral negotiation. We don't need the Americans.
That's what President Trump said, Hey, Putin was very tough,
and I'm not happy. I think he said he's not
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happy ten times that night. Putin lit up Kiev, and
the President was a lot less happy with that. He
considered that like one of net Yahou's moves that when
the ceasefires announced, he went in and hammered the Persians
one more time. And President Trump said, Hey, I'm I'm
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really not happy now. An Applebaum reported in the Atlantic,
I've got it up on get her. She's a Trump
hater and a Maga hater and a Steve Bannon hayter.
It doesn't matter. She had really good reporting. Remember her
husband's a senior politician over in Poland. Her scoop I
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thought was an army of ground forces, six hundred and
seventy five thousand man army by the Russians who were
supposed to be defeated. Remember that seventy five thousand ready
to go for summer operations.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
And here's what's going to happen. They're gonna now start driving.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
For real territory, and they may drive to Kiev and
just tell the West, hey put up or shut up.
That's how the United States gets anextually drawn in as
a combatant Number one of the defense. Number two, the
cry for help, the cry for help part of putting.
Remember President Trump gave a two week window for negotiations.
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We couldn't find anybody to negotiate, a total of smack talking.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
But one of the aspects here is the Israelis couldn't
take much more pounding. They were getting people. The folks
in Tel Aviv were getting crushed because of this overwhelming
ballistic missile operation the Persians had. You don't think that's
going to happen in Ukraine. We make this commitment and
don't force the Europeans on it. It's not like, oh,
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buy it from us and give it to us. If
we don't make the Europeans step up and step up
now and understand that's their problem, we are inexorably going
to get drawn into this war, just like we were
drawn into the Persian War. Thank god, President Trump came
up and shut it down as a twelve day war,
and now he's moving to shut down. He's shut down.
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God said, I've seen enough of that. President Trump's a
man of peace, trying to get everybody laid down of
their weapons, and we're going to figure this out as
far as the deal goes. But once you start sending
in weapons in defensive systems and they start coming to you,
and the emotion, it's gonna be the front page of
every paper. Kid getting pounded, kids getting killed, families being destroyeders. Remember,
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and when you talk about the two million casualties, the
one man from the Russians are dead and wounded soldiers.
When you talk about the one million the President Trump
talks about Ukraine, that is soldiers dead, warned soldiers and civilians.
The Savilian population, casualties have been massive. Just look at
what Ukraine looks like. Parts of it look like the
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Western Front in World War One, and they fought like
the Western Front in World War One, that level of brutality.
Short commercial break back in a moment, let's take down.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Use your hosts, Betty gay Back.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Let's go to Michael and Dale. Still, no cabinet is
gonna go see up to the hill. Did Johnson work
his charm there? Hang on, let's go right now into
the cabinet room left.
Speaker 17 (44:24):
Are you able to get them all into him?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
And then are you dead?
Speaker 17 (44:30):
Thank you very much we've had a tremendous six months
and we've had a tremendous two weeks, which now is
I guess three weeks. And we have a tremendous group
of people here that have done a great, unified, beautiful
job I wanted in particular because of what she's gone
through this last few days, done an incredible job. As
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you know, Christy who I'm gonna ask you to say
a few words about Texas. The uh first person there was,
which first person I saw on television was you actually,
and you've worked great with the Governor's terrific and uh
you might wanna tell a little bit about the trials
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and populations, but uh, we appreciate the.
Speaker 15 (45:17):
Job that you and everybody have done for you had
uh you had people there as fast as anybody's ever seen.
Speaker 17 (45:24):
So I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
We all do.
Speaker 17 (45:26):
And maybe you could say if you want, sure, well, thank.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
You, mister president. I want to thank you for your leadership.
Speaker 10 (45:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (45:31):
Texas is strong and the people of Texas are incredibly strong.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
They've gone through something that is absolutely horrific, and it
is heartbreaking to watch these families suffer the way that
they are.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
As soon as this flash flooding event happened.
Speaker 7 (45:48):
You know, the governor has has activated uh his emergency responders.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Nim Kid is his emergency management director, who is.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
Incredible, and I has immediately worked with the local first
responders to get helped individuals.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
And get them evacuated, put requests into me.
Speaker 7 (46:05):
We deployed, Sir right away, as you know, because you
and I were talking a lot during this time, the
Coast Guard. We also had some assets out of Customs
and Border Protection, our board tech teams went in and
helped with rescues and clearing debris so that we could
get roads open and people get the help that they need.
I think when I got there, the most served that
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day as soon as I arrived on site was getting
a briefing from all the emergency responders was just how
unified they were in focusing on the fact that were
there to save lives. They were there to rescue people,
find people who were still alive, and to reunify them
with their family members. We as a federal government don't
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manage these disasters the state does.
Speaker 8 (46:52):
We come in and support them, and that's exactly what
we did here in this situation.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
FEMA went to an enhanced level immediately, But as soon
as you signed the Major Disaster Declaration, we were able
to get them resources and dollars right away, just like
you and vision through state block grants to.
Speaker 8 (47:10):
Help them with clean up.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
And we're still there in presence, and FEMA's been deployed
and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA
streamlining it much like your vision of how FEMA should operate,
and it's been a much better response to help these
families get through this terrible situation.
Speaker 8 (47:25):
We still are looking for people.
Speaker 7 (47:27):
We're still looking for a lot of little girls and
other family members that we're camping along that river, and
they will continue until they find every single person, and we.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
Will continue to help them and assist in that.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
I was surprised when I got there at the camp
that day, right after this happened.
Speaker 8 (47:49):
The parents that were there, the parents that were looking
for their.
Speaker 7 (47:54):
Children and picking up their daughter's stuffed animals out of
the mud and finding.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
The daughter's shoe that.
Speaker 7 (48:02):
Might be laying in the cabin, and just hugging and
comforting people matters a lot. I'm extremely grateful for God's
hand in that whole situation, because hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of people were saved, and and this is a
time for all of us in this country to remember
that we were created to serve each other.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
We were God created us to take care of each other,
and that when we do that, we are happier, we are.
Speaker 7 (48:32):
More fulfilled, and we can walk alongside people on their
worst day and help them get through it and come
out the other side knowing that we can that we
can continue to.
Speaker 8 (48:45):
Live a life that God has purposed for us. So
they're grateful for you. I several times the day after.
Speaker 7 (48:51):
The flooding, you and Milania were on the phone with me,
and I want to thank you for that, and that
meant the world. I was able to tell many of
those folks that I had been visiting with you and
that you had said, whatever they need, Christy, let's deploy
it and get it down there and be helpful. And
on Sunday, when the families were waiting at a church
to identify their children's bodies, Franklin Graham and I called
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in and prayed with the families and read some scripture
with them, and he was incredible and making himself available
to that as well. We'll be back down there in
a couple of days and continue to do all we can.
But this is an unprecedented event.
Speaker 8 (49:30):
It really is. There's been tragedies.
Speaker 7 (49:33):
Like this around the country, but everyone is unique in
different situations.
Speaker 8 (49:37):
And you know the response the.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
Federal government had supporting the state through this. I'm proud
of the people that stepped up and immediately came the
Coast Guard. When they came in, they had a difficult
time even getting the aircraft in and landed. They had
to try several times in the weather to get it
in and deploy. And I think we've heard about, you know,
our one Coast Guard member that was responsible for saving
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over one hundred and sixty five people, But that entire
crew did incredible work, and all the first responders there
did incredible work.
Speaker 8 (50:09):
And I know people are getting tired.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
Down, but.
Speaker 8 (50:13):
They're getting reinforcements and volunteers.
Speaker 7 (50:15):
Are showing up, and I just want to commend the
governor and his team for being the leaders, and they're
so thankful that you're letting them make the decisions and
manage the response like it should be, and then us
supporting them with the resources of the federal government. We've
already deployed dollars to the state, much like the block
grants that you've talked about.
Speaker 8 (50:36):
So very grateful for that circum.
Speaker 18 (50:38):
There's never been a wave like this outside of the
breaking of a dam. This was almost a wave that
was ended up being thirty feet high more. Actually, now
with a dam you can understand it, but this approached
almost with that speed. When you see a dam break,
it's not a pretty side. It wipes out everything. And
this is the kind of thing that built up so fast.
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And it's happened two or three times before over the years,
but not to this extent. But you tell them when
you met the father who was picking up.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
I had walked through the cabin where all the little
girls died, and I had kind of fallen apart in there.
Speaker 8 (51:20):
But I walked out of the cabin and a gentleman
was standing there.
Speaker 7 (51:23):
And he said, that man over there needs a hug,
and so I walked over to him and I hugged him,
and I said, do you work here? And he said no,
My little girl was in that cabin, and he said,
and I just found her best friend about an hour
and a half ago.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
She had passed away, and he just fell apart. And
so then we just hugged and talked for probably an
hour about that.
Speaker 7 (51:48):
But then there was another The grandpa was there looking
for his granddaughter as well. There was a dad there
of one of the counselors. The counselor was alive, but
she was dealing with the fact that she had hung
on to some of these girls and was trying to
keep them out of the flood waters, and had gotten
hit by something and had lost two of the girls
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and wasn't able to hang on to them, and was
going to live the rest of her life thinking about
that moment when she wasn't able to hang on to
these girls. But these parents were picking up their kids's
belongings out of the mud and throughout the camp and
putting them in bags. And then one of the dads said,
I knew fifty of these girls here, so what I
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knew that was her dress. It's my daughter's friend's dress.
So he was picking it up and putting it in
a bag to return to her parents.
Speaker 8 (52:39):
So it was.
Speaker 7 (52:40):
And then the director was there comforting everybody who had
lost his father the night before too, And he was
still there trying to facilitate all of these parents grieving
their children and find them so the strength of people
is incredible. One of the things that I asked there
to do that day was that they all have escorts
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or counselors when parents come in.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Okay, so from Steve Bann in the war room, live
cabin meeting, Charlie kirksonant to pick it up from here.
We're back at five pm Eastern daylight time.
Speaker 8 (53:10):
See in the world, people is incredible.
Speaker 7 (53:14):
One of the things that I asked there today that
day was that they all have escorts or counselors when
parents come in. So from that point that when they
came into the camp that they have somebody with them
when they're going and.
Speaker 8 (53:28):
Looking for their children's belongings or looking for their children,
and so very emotional, but also just so tragic.
Speaker 18 (53:41):
The relationship with Texas and the governor who's been obviously
very good for years with me, but the relationship with
the Texas and their first responders and us with our
first response
Okay, we don't want to have enough time for for
the do the long open because so much going on.
A press commerce supposed to start in Texas. We're gonna
pick that up. President's going to start his cabinet meeting
supposed at eleven o'clock. We're gonna pick that up. Once
we pick up the cabinet meeting, Grace and Moe are
going to put on the on our other streaming devices
(00:24):
so you can watch the Texas press conference, et cetera.
I've got Chris hort Chris, particularly everything on AI of
what can happen, how they can change things up, the
susceptibility to the grid, and particularly the situation at Texas.
We did have the young CEO from Rainmaker was forgeduled
to come on here today. His travel and uh and
(00:46):
in this cabinet meeting is changing things up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So we're gonna get him on the next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But with everything going on, or Chris Horte, we need
more than ever to make sure we can stay in
communication with each other.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What do you got for us? Well, Steve, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I mean, one of the things that really hampered the
rescue operations in Kerr Texas. This last week was the
fact that cell towers were washed away and so were
fiber lines, so unless you had satellite phones, you couldn't communicate.
And so it's like, look, Steve, you don't wait until
your house on fireed by a fire extinguisher, So get
a satellite phone today while they're still free. We have
free satellite phones with activation at SAT one two three
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dot com. And we're also including this week for warrem
uses only the free Faraday bag, a free satellite phone
Faraday bag. But Steve, these phones are the only things
that work during these devastating flooding in cur Texas that
they work anywhere, everywhere, no matter what's going on on
the ground. And the satellite phones normally around one thousand bucks.
They are free right now at SAT one two three
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dot com or Steve called nine four one eight four
one zero eight four four. That's nine four one eight
four one zero eight four four. But again, this is
the only thing that's going to work when you have
a devastating situation like this. The same thing happened in
Hurricane Baryn, and we've got a busy hurricane season coming up.
It looks like so this is going to these outages
are going to be happening more and more, and certainly,
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you know the other big threat you're absolutely right with
AI is these attacks on the infrastructure. We know full
well that the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the
Iranians hard at work trying to take out our infrastructure
wherever and whenever they can. They were successful at doing
so over in Spain and Portugal just a few months back,
taking the entire country offline of Spain for twenty four
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hours plus. You know that that did happen, and that
certainly can happen here, Steve.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Chris, one more time. These are all specials. I'll tell
the war and posse They're gone, like very quickly. Chris
comes in with us and says, hey, I got this,
I want to do this. We go bang, let's hit
it one more time. Where do people go?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
They can go to SAT one twothree dot com. That's
SAT one two three dot com. Or they can call
us at nine four one eight four one zero eight
four four. Well it's nine four one eight FORUL one zero.
Waightful full get a freesat phone and a free satellite
phone faurday bag with activation.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Just eighty five bucks a month. Stave. Thank you, brother,
appreciate you. Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Um A blockbuster story just bat just came out now
in the Guardian. I don't have time. I don't think
we're gonna be able to get doctor Bradley Thera up.
I'll do it this afternoon. This gets back to my
whole concern about where our real enemies are, where we
should be focused for the United States of America. We
must put America first. There are too many other people
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in this country that purport to be patriots and report
to be worried about the United States of America that
either put the Ukraine first or put Israel fir ust.
I'm sorry, that's just the way it is, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
This report in the Guardian that just dropped says that
the United States has used seventy five percent of its
patriot missile Okay, patriot missile inventory. Let's go to tech
says we'll pick this up intil the president starts.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hey all ready, Okay, thank y'all for being here again today.
Larry Leatha Kirk County Sheriff. I'm going to kind of
go over some brief notes with y'all real quick. Then
I'm going to pass it on to the mayor.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
One.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hundreds of first responders remained along the Guadalupe River and
Kirk County working to reunite families. The large search rescue effort,
including local, state, federal, and volunteer agencies continue. As of
eight am Central time, eighty seven deceased have been recovered
in Kirk County, including fifty six adults and thirty children.
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Identification is pending for nineteen adults and seven children, with
one additional person still unidentified. At present, five camp missed,
the campers and one counselor still remain unaccounted for. We
asked private boats to stay off the Guadalupe River to
allow search and rescue teams to operate without any interference.
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This is a tragic time for us. We're so grateful
and thankful for all the resources that have been provided
to us to do this job. You know, and I
can assure you we will not stop until this mission
is complete. At this time, when a turnover to city.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Mayor, thank you for being here. I'm joining junior. I'm
mayor the City of Kerville. I want to reassure our
community and those families that the city, the county the
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state and the federal experts are working together, not separately,
but as one team. If you go inside the Emergency
Operating Center, you don't see silo, you see one team.
I want to talk briefly about in kind donations. The
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outpouring of generosity has been tremendous and we are grateful.
We're going to We are working on a new system
to accept donations, and when those plans are complete, we
will post them online on the city's Facebook page. We
are grateful. We need a new system to handle the
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generosity of the world. Financial donations can still go to
community Foundation dot net. That's the Community Foundation of the
Texas Hill Country. Again, we are grateful for the generosity
of the world over and over. I've asked you to pray.
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It occurred to me that I haven't asked you for
what to pray. Specifically, please pray for those who mourn,
for those who wait, and for those who help. Now,
i'd like to call on Lieutenant Colonel Ben Baker.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Warning everyone, thank you for being here. My name is
Ben Baker, Lieutenant colonel for Texas Game Wardens. I'd like
to start out by thanking the mayor, share chief, our
local state partners, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the
many others that I've responded to this tragic event. We
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as Texas are strong and together we face adversity. Your
Texas Game Moardens responded in the early mornings of Friday
to magic event along with many other local and state partners.
Since the early mornings of Friday, your Texas gamers have
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had over three hundred game wardens in the area, serving
the people of the State of Texas and the citizens
of Kirk County. Among that, we've searched twenty six river miles.
Since this tragic event has started, we've had approximately four
hundred and forty four rescues thirty recoveries. Some of our
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resources and assets we have dedicated to this tragic event
include two helicopters with Hoyst teams, twelve drone teams, ten
canine units, nine swift water boat crews, fifteen airboats, sixteen UTVs,
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and one hundred and sixty nine four World Drive vehicles.
Your Texas Gayborns will remain here and serving the community.
We just ask you to continue to pray for the victims,
for the families, for your first responders, for everyone involved.
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We'll open it up now to questions anybody has any
and don't tell.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
About challenging you and the guys UH in the mud tree.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
It's been like the difference to writing.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
No, thank thank you for that question. UH, extremely challenging.
You know, we've got, of course your Texas Gay borns
out there, your local, your state partners, Texas Tasks Ford One,
we got the National Forest Service out there, we got
A and M forst Service, We've got numerous responders with
specialized UH capabilities where we've got these large pile of
debris and with our canines and and you know, when
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we're trying to make these recoveries, these these large piles
can be very obstructive and to get in deep into
these piles, it's very hazardous, and those specialized teams have
to go in there layer by layer because our first
responders also the safety of them is concerned. So it's
it's extremely treacherous, time consuming, it's dirty work, it's the
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water still there. So we're having to go layer by
layer peeling these off to make those recoveries.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So we're what about.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Mentally, like do you guys, someone across someone may seem how.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Do you process that?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Absolutely, we processes the best we can.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
We have professionals in place, our Crisis INTERVENTIONED Team, all
the agencies have some members representing there, and officer wellness
is a is a first responder wellness is a key
component to these operations. So we're maintaining and monitoring our
officer wellness, our first responder wellness. We're making sure they
have the support. It's very tragic whenever you see human life,
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but to see child and that loss of life is
extremely Tragics can.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Come down west of us and it's eventually it's gonna
get down to waterlooa river. Is that gonna put a
halt to the searches? And if not, how are you
gonna change the trajectory of the search and rescue operations?
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
So with the water coming down, there is always a concern.
And I'm sure you've been monitoring the last couple of
days where we've had some reports of maybe some additional
water coming in. Obviously that's gonna impact the search and
recovery efforts.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
You know, US, with numerous other agency do have air capabilities,
drone capabilities. We've got numerous fixed s ring rotary helicopters here.
So it will alter our patrol patterns and alter our searches,
but it won't deter them.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Specific discussions and actions were taken between the time the
first and what emergency alert in at one fourteen am
and then when the river first shorted flood cames.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Hours later later.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Well, where these specific actions and discussions that come in
those hours, super course?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Can you repeat that again please?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
I would like to know if you could outline please
what these specific actions and discussions were that local officials
took between one fourteen am that's when the first flood
emergency alert came out and hours later when the river
for shorty flood comes.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
What happened in those hours?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What I can tell you when I was first notified,
it was around the four to five area. One of
my sergeants was in dispatch when the first calls started
coming into the xtual nine one one calls come in four.
It was between four or five when when I got notified. Okay,
but prior to that in that three to four area.
My understanding is, and we're in the process of trying
to put a timeline.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You know that's going to take a little bit of time.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
As I've told you several times that is not my
priority this time. There's three priorities. That's locating, locating the
people out there. If I notify the Mexican that that
is what I'm taking. Is my job as sheriff here
to do? Okay, with a.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Respect, Sir, I think that the community he was asking
these questions, what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
When did it happen?
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Was the emergency manager awake at the time? Didn't they
push the button to issue an emergency alert?
Speaker 10 (13:15):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It's not that easy and you just push a button.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Okay, there's a lot more to that, and we've told
you several times.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
So did it happen to them?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can't tell you at this time. Okay.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Can you tell me if the emergency manager issued alert?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Who just give me a second? Emergency operations center?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Who run after the emergency? I'll come back to you.
I'm going nowhere.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
Appreciate who runs the emergency operations center.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
We have a communications center, a dispatch Okay, we have
a communications center.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's where the calls actually go to the police apartment.
Then they're afforded to us.
Speaker 12 (13:46):
But leading up to this, in monitoring the weather, there
is in any large city in any state, there's an
office of Emergency Management that is monitoring the weather, that
is watching and listening.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
And getting brief this Who was getting those briefings in
this city, in this county, Who was receiving that information,
and who would have ultimately made the decision to evacuate
hearing what was coming in from the weather service and all, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well we would have done when we get notified. Okay,
you're not.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Emergency manager though, right the Sheriff's not EOC.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, there is no, that's the city.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah, so we understand you have many questions, right, No,
I understand, but.
Speaker 11 (14:32):
You're gonna go You're not gonna answer the question because
that's up to the city manager.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And the mayor to answer.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
The correct We understand you have many questions.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Judges is not here.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We understand that. But right now this team up here
is focused on bringing people home to all those questions
will be answered. The priority right now just bringing people home.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
We totally understand that, and we value the doble work
it's being done by the first responders. We're seeing them
out there, money and sweating and grinding it out day
after day.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
But your community is asking these.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Questions and we will have We will get answers right now,
all of our resources are focused to recovery.
Speaker 11 (15:17):
Is who is in charge of the emergency Operations Center
at the time that was getting any breed?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Do we have another question any you?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
I think I'd like to focus on what local people
can be looking for.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
We're looking at some erosion and roads and safety and
them traveling.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
What can we tell people who live here right now
and what they can do in their daily life? Should
they worry about traveling on roads? Do we know anything
about that infrastruction?
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Sure, absolutely, Donathan Lambkerville Police Department. So we know that
there's substantial road damage. Some roads have been closed for safety.
We've got crews out there in the county shoring them
up and making sure that people can travel to and from.
But we're asking for the public to do to assist
us is if they believe that they have seen someone
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a victim, notify emergency services call nine one one, let
us know, or use our non emergency numbers very code
eight three zero two five seven eight one eight one,
contact our dispatch team and we will send officers out there.
We also ask foks to limit their travel. Our first
responders have had a very difficult time getting to where
they need to go. Because of the amount of people
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who are flooding our roadways. We understand there's natural curiosity.
People want to come here and see the flood damage.
Now is not the time for sight seeing. This operation
is ongoing and continuous, and it will continue. I've got
time for one more question.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
People who are.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
Last question, as far as I know, the last live
rescue unless there's new information, and I don't believe there is,
was made on Friday. All right, I'm afraid that's going
to have to do it for this morning.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
And someone answer. If the bodies have been released to
the families.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Sure, it's easy up the body for release to the
some some I mean they're at our topsy.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
I mean.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
An estimate among the general population, not just the girls fromistic,
even just credible report, is it undred?
Speaker 15 (17:12):
Still?
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Is there any estimate along the general population of how many.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
People are you know? I've told y'all it's hard to
know that number.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I know the numbers who we have found, and that's
all I know.
Speaker 13 (17:24):
All right, So we're going to continue our operations. The
next time that we're going to be in front of
y'all will be at five pm right back here. If
there is a critical update, again, we'll provide that information
to you through the contact list that you have provided
to us. Thank y'all, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, you see, as we predicted, U that is getting
a little contentions. There are some basic uh you know,
and now it's actually.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Full attack mode.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm not saying some of the things that the media
are asking there are are out of line. There are
a ton of questions here about the changing command, tons
of questions about how it was, you know, the evolutions
of not just the warning of the National Weather Center,
which those questions are trying to pin something on President Trump.
The question you just saw there and you saw the
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media is not backing down the saying, hey, the community
is asking these questions, what given the reporting that you had,
what was the chain of command? How this happened? And
clearly people don't want to answer here. One of the
reasons people don't want to answer is that, look, just
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the way things are, the civil lawsuits here are going
to be quite enormous, and I'm sure a lot of
people want to be very hesitant about going on the
record of speaking at a press conference and saying something
that they might have to eat later buried. Lead right there,
ladies and gentlemen. The question was asked, when was the
last live rescue that you had?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
He said, Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So, and today they use the subtle term search and recovery,
search and recovery. So the search and rescue is over.
It's search and recovery. But today it's Tuesday. You've not
had a live recovery from since Friday. It shows you
the power, the really the unrelenting power of this of
the storm. And there's so many questions that have to
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be answer, including the fact was this just purely an
act of God? Or is this an act of God
with man's hand in it? Or was this an act
of that had much more about I don't know, geoengineering
or manipulation whatever, Those of all got to be answered,
and we're going to work to get the answers to that. Clearly,
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there's a effort going underway to make sure they recover
the bodies.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I do think that the folks down a Curville or
some state level, and you notice at some of these
tough press conferences you're not seeing the politicians anymore. They
want to be there when there's good news. Not a
lot of good news coming out of Curveville right now,
an intense scrutiny as they're just going to have to
understand that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So you know, our.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Prayers go out to all the victims, but also the
folks down in Curville that are going to come under
some intense intense pressure the cabinet meeting. I don't have
a feed yet. The Cabinet meeting has not started this.
I'm not saying this is spur of the moment. I
think this might have been planned, but there's so much
going on. Let's just go back. Can I get teed
up the Brooks Roylance thing on the CCP about the
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whole purpose of this, and I'm going to go back
to the annisty folks. You have it, you have both
of them. Play a hangar for a second, just hanger
for both. I'll tell you what. Let's play the amnesty
one first. I want to be cause this has been
the big controversy. Charlie Kirk brought up a lot of
people thought even the fscene thing might have been a
misdirection play on this. The war room Charlie Kirk led
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by Charlie Kirk. We went crazy on this yesterday, Jack Pisobac,
all of us on this very issue. Our mantra here
is mass deportations, now amnesty.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Never.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You cannot have amnesty, just as inconceivable would break down
the entire thought process that drove the populist nationalist movement.
Let's go ahead and play Brooks rylanins from earlier this morning.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
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
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
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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
not to compromise our food supply. Ultimately, the answer on
this is automation, also some reform within the current governing structure.
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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
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
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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
immigration system, so thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They may talk about in the Cabinet meton today, but
I want to make sure, she said later, about the
Labor Department and Secretary Labor in the H two a's,
which are the H one B visas, the H two
a's or for agriculture and things like that. So we'll
make sure they're talking about some executive order. We'll make
sure they're not slipping in amnesty there. But no amnesty,
no way from Rowlins, the Secretary Agriculture. The entire purpose
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of this today was about the Chinese Commists Party, and
here you see the convergence of the of the show
today about energy, about agriculture, about advanced technology, what is
interweaving all of it, artificial intelligence, and also things like
you know, there's still this madness on this climate change hoax, right,
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the decarbonization myth still pervades in much of this. You
also had we had Eric tissa on here the codification
of this what Brooks just talked about, as far as
immigration goes an amnesty and all that it goes back,
you need it codified into Congress. This is the whole thing,
with the woke nature of the of what's happened in
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the Defense Department. We're not going to get these things
out of here until we get it codified in the law.
The other thing you see going on is that, and
I hope Russ does the quick mark on these recisions.
You're in another appropriations process right now.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Write this down. Take your number two parencil out and
write down thirty September of twenty twenty five. What is that.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
August September, So we're seventy five days away from that,
I think, So write this down at midnight on the
thirties September of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You're gonna be sucking on a cr.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Okay, a big ugly cr because as sure as the
turning of the earth, these folks they got out of
town soons they got the big beautiful bill done, they're
gonna come back. They're gonna, you know, mess around for
a couple of weeks with the appropriations process and the
committee of the twelve individual appropriations bills that we wanted
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and to fight about. And they're gonna skip out of
town here for the August recess in August and you
ain't gonna see them again to after Labor Day. And
when they get back after Labor Day, you're gonna have
three and a half weeks say well, we don't have
enough time to actually pass a bill, so we're just
gonna have and it's just gonna be a small sea,
just cr and it's only gonna be you know, we
just need We're just gonna do it to I don't know,
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orndobate December fifteenth, and you're gonna get down in December
and you're it's gotta be Christmas holidays.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We just need another one. Let's just kick it into
you know, We're just kick it into March. And so
it goes RUSS vote.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think what you're gonna see in the interim, and
really what we must see in the interim is RUSS
vote and omb kind of the adults in the room.
We need now to see real recisions packages. You ran
the test case with the UH, with the the PBS
and a couple others. You know, seven baion dolls. Are
the nine point three billion we need to see recisions.
(25:47):
I think they're gonna be pocket recisions, impoundments. They'd rather
go the recision route, which is go back to Congress.
I'm much more let's just have the president pound it,
go to court, you know, take on these radical judges
as we must. There's all types of things now going
on about you know, immigration, his ability. You know, they're
hammering that not stop. We're gonna get some clarity of
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that probably Tomorrow's too much going on today, but so
on this all at war on the spending cuts. The
essential deal that was made is, hey, let's vote for this.
It ain't pretty, in fact, some of them is quite ugly,
but there are other means that we can get to.
The objective is your objective is to cut. The president
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has an article to power to cut. So let's get
on with it. Let's start cutting now. You know, Doze
did not find dose, really didn't find the waste for
an abuse. I would love the departments to come back
and say, what is actually happening in Social Security?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay, what is actually happening Medicaid?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Right? If we're to get this thing right sized, the
first thing you got to do is cut out the
you guy, cut the fraud. You have to cut out
the abuse, right and you got cut out the waist.
Those things should be low hanging fruit. To date, when
you really talk about hard numbers, you're not seeing a lot.
And that's why I think go back to O and B,
which is really the adult and really apparatus runs most
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of this as far as the apparatus goes, and that
has to be done, and I think they ought to
be put up now as we're into this appropriations process
for twenty twenty six. If you think of the big
beautiful bill, what the argument that russ Vote and these
people made.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Best made it? On the economic side.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It's a supply side tax cut, and this will turbocharge
the economy to get us to and beyond a three
percent GDP growth rate, because once you do that, the math,
you start to solve a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Russ Vote argued.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Another aspect of this major structural changes of taking out permit.
This is the one point five tree and now it's
one point five tree in over ten years, where the
spending I think is ninety treeion dollars. So it's not big,
but he said, it's structural and will lead to better things.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
In the different.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In the interim, you're going to have two trillion dollar deficits.
I'm telling you right now. The deficit I think on
by September thirty, at the end of the country's fiscal year,
will be close to two and a half trillion dollars.
And that will be and that will be counted as
President Trump's first year. That's just the way the math
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works out to cut that interim deficit. Because remember they
got a lift of five trillion dollars to the death
ceiling to get that the only way you got. You know,
you can get into this appropriation of twenty six. But
to do it now, you have to have impoundments, recisions,
pocket recisions, and they got to be real numbers. And
when I say real numbers, I mean real big numbers,
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not the test case of nine point two, but real
big numbers, and somebody's got to go back to the
to Social Security, to Medicaid, to medicare immediately and get
into the Hey, there's leakage in the system.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Let's identify it and and get the plumbers in it
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I think that's why it's quite advisable to have a
board meeting or a cabinet meeting, because that's kind of
the board of directors of the US government. It's supposed
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to happen at eleven o'clock. It's been I guess slightly delayed.
As often as what happens, we will pick that up
in centirety because normally, if it's open to the president's
supposed to be at least for a while, President Trump
always has some sort of opening remarks and then goes
around the table.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I got a clip on Ukraine. We must talk about Ukraine.
Let's gohe and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
More weapons Ukraine within some more weapons.
Speaker 15 (32:57):
We have to They have to be able to defend themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Be getting hit very hard. Now they're getting hit very hard.
Speaker 15 (33:03):
We're gonna have to send more weapons, you hat, defensive
weapons primarily.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
But they're getting hit very, very hard.
Speaker 15 (33:10):
So many people are dying in that mess. And I'm
not happy with President Putin at all, but this is
something that would have never happened about with President I'm disappointed,
frankly that President Putin hasn't stopped.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I'm not happy about it either.
Speaker 16 (33:27):
A couple days ago, we had the DoD pause weapons
shipments to Ukraine from Defense Secretary Hegseth, the call from
him Richard, President Trump then saying no, no, we want to
continue it. And then late last night DoD did announce
that they'll be sending more. I am told that they
they'd rather outsource this, they'd rather have European partners step
up with defensive missiles, even like the Germans buying Patriot
(33:48):
batteries from the US then shipped him to Ukraine than
a direct assist So this is the question here is
to Joe's point, is there a moment where do you
see a moment coming people you've talked to in the
community where President Trump might actually get tough with with Putin?
And what would that look like.
Speaker 14 (34:05):
We've been waiting for it for you know, this hire
first term we're now I've been waiting for it for
these months. Yesterday was a rare piece, a sliver of
good news. Look, the devil will be in the details.
What kind of arms, how much of arms? For how long?
I find it hard that it's not just this progress
right there.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Look, if you look at the path in the Israel situation,
you you arm them and some they buy in. Most
you just kind of you kind of give, or you
give on loans that are forgiven or direct assistants. Then
they're so dependent upon that. And this is my problem
that Yahoo they started a war, which they knew they
(34:44):
couldn't defend themselves Number one Foreign Policy magazine, does you know?
So back set up and on offense they couldn't take
out which is the prime objective, which is the nuclear
bomb making capability, weaponization of their nuclear program. And all
of a sudden we're drawn as a combatant.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Immediately.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
If you're providing defense for somebody in an open kinetic war,
you're a combatant. You can parse that as much as
you want, but you're a combatant. You're providing defense. And
what happened in the Persian situation, and exorably we got
(35:23):
brought in, particularly since our quote unquote ally or our
protectorate couldn't finish the job, couldn't even come close to
fencing job. We had the most sophisticated lethal, bold strike
by the American armed forces, the Navy with thirty Tomahawk
missiles in the Air Force obviously with the B twos
(35:44):
and others that eradicated for total obliteration the nuclear program.
Write this down, folks. The same thing's going to happen
in Ukraine if we don't force Because remember for the
NATO guy saying five percent that was all great. President
Trump was very touch. We thought it's a huge win
because they used to say we weren't going to do
the two percent. But the five percent doesn't take. It
(36:07):
doesn't totally finalize or kicking it doesn't. It's not finally
kicked in until twenty thirty four. It's going to take
them that long to convince their population if they're kind
of being hold it and don't don't think they're all
going to live up to it right now. I don't
think any of them are going to live up to
maybe the Germans. So that's why this whole thing right
now should be the should be Europe. You guys talk
(36:28):
a big game in Ukraine. The EU drove this, NATO
drove this.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Where are you?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Merscheimer said, you weren't going to be there? Where are
you now? And why did President Trump and the guys
the Pentagon stop it last week? They stopped it last
week because we are severely drawn down for our own
defense and particularly for the defense of things we think
are very important, like in the Pacific, we are field
stripping Korea, and we are field stripping the potential defense
(36:58):
of Taiwan to supply the Middle East right and number
two to now supply Ukraine, we're down. The Guardians reporting
we're down set this is why they shut it down
last week. We're down seventy five percent on the Patriot
Battle of Batteries, which is still the principal kind of
front line for surface to air defense. And then you've
(37:19):
got the THAD missile system, which I think we're drawn
down twenty five percent basically defending Israel.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
If you get if the United.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
States gets sacked in to directly doing this and we
take down the thing, you're just teeing up Taiwan. You're
teeing up Taiwan. So God helped the Seventh Fleet. You
got to reinforce the seventh Fleet. We got to be
on patrol. You ought to take an aircraft carrier through
the straits of Taiwan. Put them on notice that you're
(37:48):
ready for this, because unlike Ukraine and unlike Iran, we
lose Taiwan, you're going to see a big direct impact
on your life. I go back to the singularity to
quantum computing, in advanced chip design, the advanced chip design
coming out of Taiwan and still produced in Taiwan at
(38:10):
the capacities. We need to run an advance industrial economy
ours you saw already. Let's be blunt on the whole
trade war. China's been preparing for this for a long time.
Where do you know that you know that from the
war room? Why because in unrestricted warfare, folks, that they.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Wrote the manual in the nineties, one of.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
The big parts of it is supply chains. In economic warfare,
it's one of their biggest branches. They knew that if
the United States ever woke up with a guy like
Trump and confronted them, that they needed to be ready.
How are they ready back? I don't know. In twenty
twoenty twelve, twenty thirteen, they bought a basically a processing.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Plant, I think it was in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Siphius didn't stop them under the Bio Biden excuse me,
under the Obama administration. And one of the reasons was
Joe Biden was supposed to be on top of it,
and who knows whose payroll he was on, And that
processing is where the magnets and some of the ball
bearings come from. When we did this and threw down
hard the whole that Chinese go, how about this?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
No rare earth? And they had some leverage. They definitely
had some leverage.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Think of what would happen in a flat out war
of Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
And they're playing.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They're not doing exercises, they're doing rehearsals right now for Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And that's the big Enchilada.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
What happens in Kiev has no vital national security implications
to the United States of America at all. Now, President
Trump has tried to have a rapprochement with Putin. We
announced the limitations last week. President Trump had a conversation,
a two hour conversation.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
We know.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
From what's been said in President tr Trump said it
did not go well. Putin was not really open to
you know, the President Trump in the Americans, we've been
involved a while trying to put you know, try to
get a ceasefire, try to put it to bed, cutting
an economic deal with the Ukrainian's which and as you know,
in the war, I'm not a fan of that. President
Trump going out of his way to trying to get
(40:18):
some put their guns down and let's get to a
ceasefire and talk and talk about territory. And Putin just
basically said thanks for the memories. Axios reported Putin was
pretty adamant this a bilateral negotiation. We don't need the Americans.
That's what President Trump said, Hey, Putin was very tough,
and I'm not happy. I think he said he's not
(40:39):
happy ten times that night. Putin lit up Kiev, and
the President was a lot less happy with that. He
considered that like one of net Yahou's moves that when
the ceasefires announced, he went in and hammered the Persians
one more time. And President Trump said, Hey, I'm I'm
(41:00):
really not happy now. An Applebaum reported in the Atlantic,
I've got it up on get her. She's a Trump
hater and a Maga hater and a Steve Bannon hayter.
It doesn't matter. She had really good reporting. Remember her
husband's a senior politician over in Poland. Her scoop I
(41:22):
thought was an army of ground forces, six hundred and
seventy five thousand man army by the Russians who were
supposed to be defeated. Remember that seventy five thousand ready
to go for summer operations.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
And here's what's going to happen. They're gonna now start driving.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
For real territory, and they may drive to Kiev and
just tell the West, hey put up or shut up.
That's how the United States gets anextually drawn in as
a combatant Number one of the defense. Number two, the
cry for help, the cry for help part of putting.
Remember President Trump gave a two week window for negotiations.
(42:11):
We couldn't find anybody to negotiate, a total of smack talking.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
But one of the aspects here is the Israelis couldn't
take much more pounding. They were getting people. The folks
in Tel Aviv were getting crushed because of this overwhelming
ballistic missile operation the Persians had. You don't think that's
going to happen in Ukraine. We make this commitment and
don't force the Europeans on it. It's not like, oh,
(42:38):
buy it from us and give it to us. If
we don't make the Europeans step up and step up
now and understand that's their problem, we are inexorably going
to get drawn into this war, just like we were
drawn into the Persian War. Thank god, President Trump came
up and shut it down as a twelve day war,
and now he's moving to shut down. He's shut down.
(42:59):
God said, I've seen enough of that. President Trump's a
man of peace, trying to get everybody laid down of
their weapons, and we're going to figure this out as
far as the deal goes. But once you start sending
in weapons in defensive systems and they start coming to you,
and the emotion, it's gonna be the front page of
every paper. Kid getting pounded, kids getting killed, families being destroyeders. Remember,
(43:23):
and when you talk about the two million casualties, the
one man from the Russians are dead and wounded soldiers.
When you talk about the one million the President Trump
talks about Ukraine, that is soldiers dead, warned soldiers and civilians.
The Savilian population, casualties have been massive. Just look at
what Ukraine looks like. Parts of it look like the
(43:46):
Western Front in World War One, and they fought like
the Western Front in World War One, that level of brutality.
Short commercial break back in a moment, let's take down.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Use your hosts, Betty gay Back.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Let's go to Michael and Dale. Still, no cabinet is
gonna go see up to the hill. Did Johnson work
his charm there? Hang on, let's go right now into
the cabinet room left.
Speaker 17 (44:24):
Are you able to get them all into him?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
And then are you dead?
Speaker 17 (44:30):
Thank you very much we've had a tremendous six months
and we've had a tremendous two weeks, which now is
I guess three weeks. And we have a tremendous group
of people here that have done a great, unified, beautiful
job I wanted in particular because of what she's gone
through this last few days, done an incredible job. As
(44:53):
you know, Christy who I'm gonna ask you to say
a few words about Texas. The uh first person there was,
which first person I saw on television was you actually,
and you've worked great with the Governor's terrific and uh
you might wanna tell a little bit about the trials
(45:15):
and populations, but uh, we appreciate the.
Speaker 15 (45:17):
Job that you and everybody have done for you had
uh you had people there as fast as anybody's ever seen.
Speaker 17 (45:24):
So I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
We all do.
Speaker 17 (45:26):
And maybe you could say if you want, sure, well, thank.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
You, mister president. I want to thank you for your leadership.
Speaker 10 (45:31):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (45:31):
Texas is strong and the people of Texas are incredibly strong.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
They've gone through something that is absolutely horrific, and it
is heartbreaking to watch these families suffer the way that
they are.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
As soon as this flash flooding event happened.
Speaker 7 (45:48):
You know, the governor has has activated uh his emergency responders.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Nim Kid is his emergency management director, who is.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
Incredible, and I has immediately worked with the local first
responders to get helped individuals.
Speaker 8 (46:02):
And get them evacuated, put requests into me.
Speaker 7 (46:05):
We deployed, Sir right away, as you know, because you
and I were talking a lot during this time, the
Coast Guard. We also had some assets out of Customs
and Border Protection, our board tech teams went in and
helped with rescues and clearing debris so that we could
get roads open and people get the help that they need.
I think when I got there, the most served that
(46:27):
day as soon as I arrived on site was getting
a briefing from all the emergency responders was just how
unified they were in focusing on the fact that were
there to save lives. They were there to rescue people,
find people who were still alive, and to reunify them
with their family members. We as a federal government don't
(46:49):
manage these disasters the state does.
Speaker 8 (46:52):
We come in and support them, and that's exactly what
we did here in this situation.
Speaker 7 (46:56):
FEMA went to an enhanced level immediately, But as soon
as you signed the Major Disaster Declaration, we were able
to get them resources and dollars right away, just like
you and vision through state block grants to.
Speaker 8 (47:10):
Help them with clean up.
Speaker 7 (47:12):
And we're still there in presence, and FEMA's been deployed
and we're cutting through the paperwork of the old FEMA
streamlining it much like your vision of how FEMA should operate,
and it's been a much better response to help these
families get through this terrible situation.
Speaker 8 (47:25):
We still are looking for people.
Speaker 7 (47:27):
We're still looking for a lot of little girls and
other family members that we're camping along that river, and
they will continue until they find every single person, and we.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
Will continue to help them and assist in that.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
I was surprised when I got there at the camp
that day, right after this happened.
Speaker 8 (47:49):
The parents that were there, the parents that were looking
for their.
Speaker 7 (47:54):
Children and picking up their daughter's stuffed animals out of
the mud and finding.
Speaker 8 (48:01):
The daughter's shoe that.
Speaker 7 (48:02):
Might be laying in the cabin, and just hugging and
comforting people matters a lot. I'm extremely grateful for God's
hand in that whole situation, because hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of people were saved, and and this is a
time for all of us in this country to remember
that we were created to serve each other.
Speaker 8 (48:25):
We were God created us to take care of each other,
and that when we do that, we are happier, we are.
Speaker 7 (48:32):
More fulfilled, and we can walk alongside people on their
worst day and help them get through it and come
out the other side knowing that we can that we
can continue to.
Speaker 8 (48:45):
Live a life that God has purposed for us. So
they're grateful for you. I several times the day after.
Speaker 7 (48:51):
The flooding, you and Milania were on the phone with me,
and I want to thank you for that, and that
meant the world. I was able to tell many of
those folks that I had been visiting with you and
that you had said, whatever they need, Christy, let's deploy
it and get it down there and be helpful. And
on Sunday, when the families were waiting at a church
to identify their children's bodies, Franklin Graham and I called
(49:14):
in and prayed with the families and read some scripture
with them, and he was incredible and making himself available
to that as well. We'll be back down there in
a couple of days and continue to do all we can.
But this is an unprecedented event.
Speaker 8 (49:30):
It really is. There's been tragedies.
Speaker 7 (49:33):
Like this around the country, but everyone is unique in
different situations.
Speaker 8 (49:37):
And you know the response the.
Speaker 7 (49:40):
Federal government had supporting the state through this. I'm proud
of the people that stepped up and immediately came the
Coast Guard. When they came in, they had a difficult
time even getting the aircraft in and landed. They had
to try several times in the weather to get it
in and deploy. And I think we've heard about, you know,
our one Coast Guard member that was responsible for saving
(50:03):
over one hundred and sixty five people, But that entire
crew did incredible work, and all the first responders there
did incredible work.
Speaker 8 (50:09):
And I know people are getting tired.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
Down, but.
Speaker 8 (50:13):
They're getting reinforcements and volunteers.
Speaker 7 (50:15):
Are showing up, and I just want to commend the
governor and his team for being the leaders, and they're
so thankful that you're letting them make the decisions and
manage the response like it should be, and then us
supporting them with the resources of the federal government. We've
already deployed dollars to the state, much like the block
grants that you've talked about.
Speaker 8 (50:36):
So very grateful for that circum.
Speaker 18 (50:38):
There's never been a wave like this outside of the
breaking of a dam. This was almost a wave that
was ended up being thirty feet high more. Actually, now
with a dam you can understand it, but this approached
almost with that speed. When you see a dam break,
it's not a pretty side. It wipes out everything. And
this is the kind of thing that built up so fast.
(51:01):
And it's happened two or three times before over the years,
but not to this extent. But you tell them when
you met the father who was picking up.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
I had walked through the cabin where all the little
girls died, and I had kind of fallen apart in there.
Speaker 8 (51:20):
But I walked out of the cabin and a gentleman
was standing there.
Speaker 7 (51:23):
And he said, that man over there needs a hug,
and so I walked over to him and I hugged him,
and I said, do you work here? And he said no,
My little girl was in that cabin, and he said,
and I just found her best friend about an hour
and a half ago.
Speaker 8 (51:39):
She had passed away, and he just fell apart. And
so then we just hugged and talked for probably an
hour about that.
Speaker 7 (51:48):
But then there was another The grandpa was there looking
for his granddaughter as well. There was a dad there
of one of the counselors. The counselor was alive, but
she was dealing with the fact that she had hung
on to some of these girls and was trying to
keep them out of the flood waters, and had gotten
hit by something and had lost two of the girls
(52:09):
and wasn't able to hang on to them, and was
going to live the rest of her life thinking about
that moment when she wasn't able to hang on to
these girls. But these parents were picking up their kids's
belongings out of the mud and throughout the camp and
putting them in bags. And then one of the dads said,
I knew fifty of these girls here, so what I
(52:30):
knew that was her dress. It's my daughter's friend's dress.
So he was picking it up and putting it in
a bag to return to her parents.
Speaker 8 (52:39):
So it was.
Speaker 7 (52:40):
And then the director was there comforting everybody who had
lost his father the night before too, And he was
still there trying to facilitate all of these parents grieving
their children and find them so the strength of people
is incredible. One of the things that I asked there
to do that day was that they all have escorts
(53:01):
or counselors when parents come in.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Okay, so from Steve Bann in the war room, live
cabin meeting, Charlie kirksonant to pick it up from here.
We're back at five pm Eastern daylight time.
Speaker 8 (53:10):
See in the world, people is incredible.
Speaker 7 (53:14):
One of the things that I asked there today that
day was that they all have escorts or counselors when
parents come in. So from that point that when they
came into the camp that they have somebody with them
when they're going and.
Speaker 8 (53:28):
Looking for their children's belongings or looking for their children,
and so very emotional, but also just so tragic.
Speaker 18 (53:41):
The relationship with Texas and the governor who's been obviously
very good for years with me, but the relationship with
the Texas and their first responders and us with our
first response
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