July 23, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
News Talk eleven ten and ninety nine three WBT Brett
Jenson here with you on this Wednesday night edition of
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
The Charlotte area.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So obviously we've got some news that came out a
little ago and a report from Axios because Axios is
close to the Democrats, especially in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And the report is, hey, guess what, Roy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Cooper plans to enter the North Carolina Senate race next week.
And by the way, I love how they say scoop
like they actually put the word scoop.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
In the headline.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I just I always think that's funny, nice job Acxios.
I just think that's I didn't know it was nineteen
thirty and we were using that word. But okay, scoop,
scoop Jensen over here. But anyways, but he plans to
run enter the North Carolina Senate race next week, right,
And we knew that that was a distinct possibility, right,
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We've known that it was basically, we'll say this back
in January, it was a three horse race and it
was basically going to be this. It was going to
be Josh Stein who had just won the election to
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become governor. Because of Josh Stein, and the same thing
can be said for Jeff Jackson, all Right, they each
had just gotten elected, and they each get what's basically
called a free look. Well, Brett, what do you mean
a free look? They get to run for US Senate
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if they wanted to, without having to give up their office.
So even if they lost, they could return back to
their office for a governor and attorney general and run again,
you know. And I even interviewed Jeff Jackson about it,
I don't know, about a month ago, right, the only
one in the state of North Carolina as far as
I know, to interview Jeff Jackson about possibly running for
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Senate because he most people felt he was going to
be the guy. And then the third person was going
to be obviously Roy Cooper. So who had Stein? You
had Jeff and you had Cooper. Those were the three
people that said, Okay, one of these three are going
to run. Josh Stein seemed the absolute least likely. Most
people thought it was going to be Jeff Jackson because
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Roy Cooper is damaged Goods. He's damaged goods and he's
got the personality of Melbotoast. Okay, well, Brett, you know
he won governor twice. Yeah, let let's let's take a
look at the candidates and the situations that were going
on when he ran in twenty sixteen and then again
in twenty twenty. That was and then look at you know,
look who' Stein ran against in twenty twenty four. I mean,
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that's not exactly what you call murderers row.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Okay. So with all that being said, so now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's like, all right, Jeff Jackson's like, yeah, I don't
think he's I don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Know, I don't know if I'm gonna run. I haven't
really thought about it. I didn't believe him.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Of course, I thought he thought about it, and of
course I believe people have mentioned it to him, at
least privately.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But he's he's not.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think he's got currently just part of some of
the states that have just launched a lawsuit against Donald Trump.
I believe, I believe for our education funds. I think
that's what the lawsuits about. I could be wrong, don't
quote me on that. I just saw it in passing,
but I think that's what the lawsuits about. So now
enters Roy Cooper. All right, let's talk about Roy Cooper
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for a second. You know that I covered him during
the COVID situation where he shut everything down and.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Had Look, he had the top.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Minds from all the universities, Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, NC, State,
East Carolina's got a great med program, all the top minds,
you know, Campbell's got a great lawyer program. All the
top minds in North Carolina were there assisting him.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And I'm saying all this facetiously, just in case you
couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And so, what genius does Roy Cooper come up with? Okay,
we're gonna shut down North Carolina. We're gonna shut it
down at five pm on Saint Patrick's Day. That's when
we're shutting down the entire state of North Carolina. I
was at a bar reporting live with Mark Garrison when
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he was doing shot at six and at five pm
it went into effect, and at six pm I was
still ordering beers even though I wasn't supposed to be
allowed to. And then he starts coming up with these
brilliant rules with Mandy, and I forget her, Mandy Cohen.
I think that, yeah, who was the secretary of Health
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secretary at the state at the time. She's now in
charge of the CDC. Let that sink in for a second.
But Mandy Cohen comes out and in conjunction with Rory
Cooper said all right, here's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The deal, because this is so smart. This is what
you do, this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You lead, and you say this is what we're gonna
We're gonna shut everything down because you know why, because
I am a hardcore Democrat. And as when he won
his second election, he went even further left, like wildly
further left. He vetoed the bill that would prevent boys
from playing against girls, he vetoed that, he vetoed a
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lot of things concerning transgender and everything. Vetoed all this stuff, right,
he vetoed all the ice bills. But the genius that
is Roy Cooper said, and I cannot wait for someone
to do the scientific study on this after he announced this,
because I promise you the Republicans are lying in wait.
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I've already talked to many of the people up and
rally about this, and they were like, we want Roy
Cooper to win or to run for election. We want
him to run. So okay, do you remember this blast
in the past. Hey, we're gonna shut down all bars,
all breweries, and restaurants can only have was a third
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of the capacity, twenty five percent of the capacity, and
everyone has to sit six feet apart.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But we're gonna shut them down for a long time
before we open them back up.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right, now we've opened up restaurants, breweries, everything's still
shut down.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you're a bar, even though you serve food, you're
still shut down. By the way, a bar.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
In North Carolina is classified by someone who sells more
alcohol than they do food. You could be a full, full,
full menu like angry Als. They're just barely a bar,
just barely its by one or two percent. If you
sell fifty one percent food, you're classified or bar. Alcohol
you're classified as a bar. If you sell fifty one
percent food, you're classified as a restaurant. But he's like, hey,
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you know a lot of these donors and a lot
of the people from the North Caroline of Brewers Association,
they really want me to open up breweries.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna open up breweries,
but even though.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
They're not serving food, but I'm going to keep bars
closed that are serving food because you know science and data,
data and science, science and data. Well, then a lot
of people started raising hell about it, and so then
what does the genius do?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And doctor Mandyicomb they.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Said, oh, well, as long as you have serve food,
or if you have a food truck on the premise,
because when's the last time you realize that a food
truck actually prevents COVID in the spread of COVID.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
A food truck. You could have a food truck.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
In the street, but as long as it was there
right outside of brewery, you were safe from COVID. But
you bars that were selling food, you're still closed. You
can only do deliveries, You're still closed. Even though you
sell forty nine percent food, You're still closed because you
know COVID and science and data. Now, you know, I
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keep saying that I'm going to talk about the rest
of the mayors and stuff like that, and because of
stuff like this, things get pushed around a little bit.
The mayoral races aren't going anywhere, the primaries aren't nil
till September, and then some places don't even have primaries.
They have the general election for everyone's at the bat
at the same time. So we're gonna be getting to
some of that later on tonight. But when we come back,
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let's re examine what happened with Roy Cooper and the
two hurricanes, where he was a complete and utter disaster.
He was a bigger disaster than the two Hurricanes' welcome
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Speaker 3 (10:02):
Night, Wednesday Night, Right, Isaac, is it Wednesday? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Right? I told you I get my nights all confused
because they all run together. Seven oh four or five
seven eleven ten is a telephone number and also the
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is manning the text lines, and Isaac will be responding
to you. If you talk about how basically great of
a show host I am, then Isaac will respond to you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So, oh, what do you say you'd have to respond tonight? Thing, Isaac,
come man, killing me, killing me all right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So according to Sean or according to Axios, I should
say Wray Cooper is going to announce next week that
he's running for sinup.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Not a shock really to anyone at all, to be
honest with you. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I can tell you personally, I've had a lot of
conversations with the powers that be that are up in Raleigh,
because all the powers that be are in Raleigh. That's
what they all, that's all they where they all reside.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And over the.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Last four months I've had a lot of conversations with him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I can tell you who.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But you would know these people. You would know these people,
you would know the names. And to a person, to
a person, the one they wanted to run wasn't Josh Stein,
wasn't Jeff Jackson.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It was Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
By the way, I know, age really isn't a thing
anymore considering the last three serving presidents Trump, Biden, Trump.
But Cooper will be seventy five if he decides to
run for reelection at the end of his first term.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So he's not.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Running for reelection. So what you're electing is a one
term senator. If you vote for Roy Cooper one term,
he's not running for reelection at the age of seventy
five and serving until he's eighty one. There's no way
on God's green earth that's happening. Because this is in Congress,
where it's two year terms, or as she'd say, a congressman.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Where it's two year terms. He's a center six year terms.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So if elected, I believe he would be seventy nine
excuse me, sixty nine, and then he have to serve
a six years and it'll be seventy five, so it'd
be one term, deal one and done. What he did
with the first hurricane and why the Republicans never went
after him is beyond me. I will never ever ever
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understand that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Granted, Dan Forrest will go down as having the singularly
worst governor campaign gubernatorial campaign in the history of North Carolina.
Well like Mark Robinson's campaign wasn't bad. He was just
a bad candidate because of all this stuff that happened.
But I'm talking about actual plan and strategies, and Dan
Forest's campaign will go down. They will teach that campaign
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in political science classes all over North Carolina as the
singularly worst campaign in the history of North Carolina politics.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
On how not to do things.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Here's what you don't do ABCD all the way to
Z looping back down to AABBCC. Everything he basically did
was wrong, but so Republicans never went after him, and
people forget this, people forget this. Cooper refused to pay
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out hurricane money. He'd paid out like a tenth if
that or like five percent to the victims down east.
I'm not talking about the one in the mountains that
happened recently. I'm talking about the one was a hurricane
Matthew I think it was, and I know it wasn't Florence.
I think it was Matthew. And I even went to
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Lumberton where they had bridges washed out, and they were like, where.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Is our money? Where is our money? We need money.
It got so bad that FEMA. FEMA said, all right,
here's the deal, Cooper.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You're sitting on all those tens of millions of dollars
that we gave you to actually try and help people,
and you're not, and you're sitting at them for years
and years and years and years, and they're like Then
he tried to blame it on bureaucracy, like dude, you
can complete control this. You have basically Uterilateral say so,
and FEMA actually went and Republicans forget this, not the
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people in Raleigh, but the but Republicans voters forget this.
Independents forget this, Democrats forget this. FEMA actually said to Cooper,
you will never get another dime no matter how many
natural disasters you have, if you don't start giving it
to the people that we gave it to give you to,
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if you don't start giving it to people the people
that needed to help rebuild bridges and roadways and houses that.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Were washed away.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And and kudos to Destin Hall, the North counta speaker
of the House. He said, a thousand people are still
living in hotels from a hurricane that took place damn
near eight years ago because they never got the money
or they never got their properties rebuilt or the bridge
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or whatever. That's not even including the ultimate disasters that
took place up in the mountains this year. So you
have all that disasters the way he handled COVID, and
we're going to talk about some stuff that happened in
the mountains that you may not even know about when
it came to Hurricane Helene. Welcome back to Breaking with
(16:08):
Brett Jensen on this Wednesday night, seven four eleven ten
is the telephone number and the Liberty Buick GMC text line.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, so now we talked about Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
According to a report with Axis Shocker that it came
from Axios that he's going to announce next week that
he's running for office. We talked about the way he
handled COVID de zach Ster and now we're going to
talk about uh. Then we talked about the way he
handled the first hurricane and the during his I believe
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was his first term, and the FEMA said, yeah, no, dude,
if you don't get another if you don't pay off
this money, you're literally never getting your state. Can your
entire state can go under water or burn to the ground,
and you won't get a penny because you're just sitting
on it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Sitting on it for years. We're not talking.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Months, years, just refuse to pay out tens of millions
of dollars basically a hundred million, close to hundred million
dollars my memory serves me correct.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We just didn't do it. And then they had to
have like the state auditor and all these other people
do all these audits and going.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Dude, what are you doing well. You know, you know,
we want to pay them. We're just having like just stop,
just stop. And then they wanted to celebrate that they Hey,
look at us, We've now given out twenty percent of
that money that we've been sitting out for five years. Congratulations,
congratulations Ry Cooper. Now let's talk about talk about Hurricane Helene.
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Here's one aspect that most of you may not know about.
It's people will tell you it can take up to
three or four days to get the National Guard with
the paperwork and the forums, and it can take seventy
two hours to get the National Guard. You have to
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have you call people in the National Guard Reserves whatever,
or the Army whatever, Army, Corps of Engineers, whatever it is.
You had to fill out the paperwork, you have to
sign all the stuff whatever. They knew the hurricanes were coming, well, Brett,
could you really predict? Yes, because for at least a
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couple of days in advance, they're going massive floods, massive hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The National Weather Service, everyone, the.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
State, the Cooper literally had a press conference going get
the hell out of there or get to high ground.
Literally out a press conference like the day before the
hurricane hit or the first, one of the two right
people forget there were two masks. Well it wasn't a hurricane.
One was hurricane, the other one was just rained for
like I wanna say, like three straight days of hard,
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hard rain and then the hurricane came right on top
of that, and that was the end of it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That was ballgame.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But what leaders were privately telling you, because you guys
know that I went up to the mountain a lot,
and what they will tell you privately, this was Republicans
and Democrats like first responders that'd say they knew the
hurricanes were coming. The hurricane was coming on top of
all the rain that we were getting. They knew, they
knew it was coming. They knew they were going to
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have to get the National Guard or the Army Corps
and or the Army Corps of engineers.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They knew this.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Why didn't they start signing the paperwork in advance of
the actual hurricane to have them on standby. If you remember,
it took five days, six days, almost a week before
the National Guard would even go up into the mountains.
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If you remember that, it was all the private citizens
and their private helicopters that were doing this. Samaritans perse
and just regular citizens who happened to have helicopters.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And companies loaning out their helicopters. They were the ones
doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It were the boots on the ground, and it wasn't
the National Guard's fault, army's fault.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Roy Cooper did not have them at the ready on standby.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
He waited and waited, and then the whole femous situation.
Unlike that ridiculous reporter, the woman that called me out
on TV for saying that I don't know what I'm
talking about, because I had the audacity to criticize FEMA
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in the Broad River, Black Mountain bat Cave area when everyone,
all the first respiders are going, yeah, it took sixteen
days before we saw anything from FEMA. Sixteen days and
I'm reporting all this and I'm getting trashed on local
television for being basically a liar. Yeah, how'd that work
out for you? How does that look in retrospect? And
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if you carry the water for the federal government and
your Democrat Roy Cooper, when you're liberal media, this is
what's gonna happen, this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You're gonna look like a fool. Yeah, how's that.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Looking now, how does my reports look now compared to
your reports? When you literally put me out on TV
by name, I would mention your name.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But nobody knows who the hell you are, so it's irrelevant.
And I'm not even gonna say what station.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
There's six local TV stations in Charlotte if you count Spectrum,
so it's one of the six, clearly.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Fumbled, FEMA fumbled, the state Emergency funds fumbled, the National
Guard in Army Corps of Engineers, all of that, All
that I remember. I remember the going up there and
talking to people going like power line workers that were
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coming in from other states, and I talked to them
and I said, have you seen anyone from the federal government?
And this is in the Broad River area leading into
bat Cave. Actually it was right outside of bat Cave,
like a mile not even a mile outside of Back Cave,
half a mile side of Back Cave, I believe, on
Route nine come again from Black Mountain, because that was
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the only way you.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Could get into towards bat Cave.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Was coming in from the north from I forty, and
I was talking to a power line worker and I said,
have you seen anyone from the federal government.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, not even close.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, I can get that, like maybe they're not going
to get down there. Have you seen anyone from the
state government or anything like that, state help, state anything,
not a old Okay, Well, surely to God you've seen
somebody from the local like you know right out there
near Bunkhom County and other the counties right there, Like,
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surely to God you've seen people locally.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No, No, we haven't seen anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We're having to do everything by ourselves or with the
help of people that were driving up from Alabama, Wisconsin,
driving down from Wisconsin, up from Alabama, from all from Pennsylvania, Florida,
from all over the eastern seaboard and east of the
Mississippi driving to western North Countina to help samaritans purse.
I wrote in a helicopter with Samaritan's purse, and as
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a matter of fact, Donald Trump Junior was in it.
Former State Representative Jason Saine, Senator Ted budd uh stor
State Representative Jake Johnson out of Rutherford County, and a
couple others like state rep out of the Wataga.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Area and the Hickory area.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I got invited as the only media to go up
in the helicopters, and we went into Swannanoah which was
wiped out. We went into all these places that excuse
me that you could only basically get to by helicopter
because at.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That time, you know, we're still talking to like all
the bridges and walk washed out.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's only a few like, you know, like three weeks
or so after the floods, you know, three three, yeah,
three weeks, two and a half weeks after the floods,
you still couldn't get to most of these places.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That was Samaritans Purse.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Without Samaritans Purse, do you know how many people probably
die in the mountains due to dehydration or hunger. Samaritans
Purse would the help of other volunteers because people, forget,
Hickory Airport was basically made into the base camp for
all the helicopters. That's where they were all parking, just
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regular citizens, you know, whatever, companies, whatever. But Samaritans Purse
more or les us single handedly saved the mountains.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
More or less.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yes, the local people on the ground did what they
could do, but they don't have the capabilities, they didn't
have a the manpower they because you know, there their
own deputies or officers or whatever. We're worried about their
own homes which disappeared. So again we're talking about what
a complete disaster Roy Cooper was in doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He was complete disaster. And now he's running for Senate.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And this is why the Republicans in Raleigh are happy
that he's running for Senate because finally, after sitting all
this stuff for the last eight and a half years,
it's all probably going to come out over the next
fifteen months. Dry loud, welcome back to Breaking with Brett
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Jensen for a few more minutes, as we take you
up until seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So I want to shift.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Gears away from the man himself, Roy Cooper.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, by the way, I guess I should talk into
this about this.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I might as well just close the show with this
and we'll get to the mayoral stuff because there's a
lot of things that we are in some races, whether it's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Pineville, Mint Hill, Huntersville.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We'll get into all that tomorrow or try to, because
you know, when things happen, I got to talk about them,
and so let's talk about this for a second.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Beth.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
By the way, I'm sorry I didn't get a chance
to get to you. But I do appreciate you calling,
appreciate you holding.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let's talk about the Republican side. Well, what's going to
happen on the Republican side?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
A few I don't know, weeks ago, I said, look,
Harrigan Congressman, District ten, the Lincoln County, Kataba County, Ardale County,
like that whole area, right, I think Alexander County, parts
of Forsyth County, spend on the show multiple times. Was
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a strong it is, i should say, is a strong candidate,
you know. And I've been reporting for a while that
Michael Watley, the head of the RNC who used to
be head of the NCGP, he was. His name was
being kicked around quite a bit as well. And then
obviously we know when I reported that it's Lord Trump's
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if she wants it, and broke that story, and other
people nationally have been citing, according to WBT in Charlotte,
North Carolina, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Lord Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Recently, in which I thought was fun, they ask Laura Trump, Hey,
when are you going to make your decision and whether
or not you're going to run for Senate in North Carolina.
She said, ah, by Thanksgiving, which is funny because you
start filing for the twenty twenty six elections on December first,
and you have like two to two weeks or whatever
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it is. She's clearly going to make her decision way
before Thanksgiving. You have to, as you're a Republican, so
you can start raising money and what is expected to
be the most expensive Senate race in the history of America.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
True story, true story.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So you're going out to get all those millions of dollars,
tens of millions, if not a couple hundred million, maybe
four hundred million, three hundred million, five hundred million, not
even joking. So, because this is a massive battleground state,
the Democrats think they have a chance to win this
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state and try to cut into the lead that the
Republicans hold with the majority in DC.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So, as I sit.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Here today on Wednesday at six fifty six pm at
July twenty third, as of right now, in the last
forty five seconds of the show, I still think it's
a three horse race.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
There may be another Congressman that maybe might be interested,
but I think it's a three horse race between who
Donald Trump endorses Lord Trump. It's hers if she wants it.
I had said that I didn't think Michael Watley was
going to be part of it anymore. I was told recently,
oh yeah, oh yeah, he's he's a realistic possibility. Gastonia resident,
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by the way, and then Pat Harrigan has a business
in Gastonia, lives up in the Cataba area, Kataba Lake area,
Kataba County, I should say Kataba Lake.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So it's still a three horse race.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
But I was told by people that would know no
less than a week ago that Michael Watley is still
a real possibility. But it all hinges on Laura Trump.
And don't worry, she's not gonna wait until Thanksgiving. It's
gonna be probably sooner rather than later, after Roy Cooper
makes his announcement officially next week. All right, so hopefully
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tomorrow we can get into all the mayoral races concerning
mint Hill, Pineville, and Huntersville, the Vills. We're looking to
do the Viills next tomorrow. All right, everyone, have a
great night. And my name is Brett Jensen, and you
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
The Charlotte area.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So obviously we've got some news that came out a
little ago and a report from Axios because Axios is
close to the Democrats, especially in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And the report is, hey, guess what, Roy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Cooper plans to enter the North Carolina Senate race next week.
And by the way, I love how they say scoop
like they actually put the word scoop.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
In the headline.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I just I always think that's funny, nice job Acxios.
I just think that's I didn't know it was nineteen
thirty and we were using that word. But okay, scoop,
scoop Jensen over here. But anyways, but he plans to
run enter the North Carolina Senate race next week, right,
And we knew that that was a distinct possibility, right,
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We've known that it was basically, we'll say this back
in January, it was a three horse race and it
was basically going to be this. It was going to
be Josh Stein who had just won the election to
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become governor. Because of Josh Stein, and the same thing
can be said for Jeff Jackson, all Right, they each
had just gotten elected, and they each get what's basically
called a free look. Well, Brett, what do you mean
a free look? They get to run for US Senate
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if they wanted to, without having to give up their office.
So even if they lost, they could return back to
their office for a governor and attorney general and run again,
you know. And I even interviewed Jeff Jackson about it,
I don't know, about a month ago, right, the only
one in the state of North Carolina as far as
I know, to interview Jeff Jackson about possibly running for
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Senate because he most people felt he was going to
be the guy. And then the third person was going
to be obviously Roy Cooper. So who had Stein? You
had Jeff and you had Cooper. Those were the three
people that said, Okay, one of these three are going
to run. Josh Stein seemed the absolute least likely. Most
people thought it was going to be Jeff Jackson because
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Roy Cooper is damaged Goods. He's damaged goods and he's
got the personality of Melbotoast. Okay, well, Brett, you know
he won governor twice. Yeah, let let's let's take a
look at the candidates and the situations that were going
on when he ran in twenty sixteen and then again
in twenty twenty. That was and then look at you know,
look who' Stein ran against in twenty twenty four. I mean,
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that's not exactly what you call murderers row.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Okay. So with all that being said, so now.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
It's like, all right, Jeff Jackson's like, yeah, I don't
think he's I don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Know, I don't know if I'm gonna run. I haven't
really thought about it. I didn't believe him.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Of course, I thought he thought about it, and of
course I believe people have mentioned it to him, at
least privately.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But he's he's not.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I think he's got currently just part of some of
the states that have just launched a lawsuit against Donald Trump.
I believe, I believe for our education funds. I think
that's what the lawsuits about. I could be wrong, don't
quote me on that. I just saw it in passing,
but I think that's what the lawsuits about. So now
enters Roy Cooper. All right, let's talk about Roy Cooper
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for a second. You know that I covered him during
the COVID situation where he shut everything down and.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Had Look, he had the top.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Minds from all the universities, Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, NC, State,
East Carolina's got a great med program, all the top minds,
you know, Campbell's got a great lawyer program. All the
top minds in North Carolina were there assisting him.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And I'm saying all this facetiously, just in case you
couldn't tell.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And so, what genius does Roy Cooper come up with? Okay,
we're gonna shut down North Carolina. We're gonna shut it
down at five pm on Saint Patrick's Day. That's when
we're shutting down the entire state of North Carolina. I
was at a bar reporting live with Mark Garrison when
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he was doing shot at six and at five pm
it went into effect, and at six pm I was
still ordering beers even though I wasn't supposed to be
allowed to. And then he starts coming up with these
brilliant rules with Mandy, and I forget her, Mandy Cohen.
I think that, yeah, who was the secretary of Health
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secretary at the state at the time. She's now in
charge of the CDC. Let that sink in for a second.
But Mandy Cohen comes out and in conjunction with Rory
Cooper said all right, here's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The deal, because this is so smart. This is what
you do, this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You lead, and you say this is what we're gonna
We're gonna shut everything down because you know why, because
I am a hardcore Democrat. And as when he won
his second election, he went even further left, like wildly
further left. He vetoed the bill that would prevent boys
from playing against girls, he vetoed that, he vetoed a
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lot of things concerning transgender and everything. Vetoed all this stuff, right,
he vetoed all the ice bills. But the genius that
is Roy Cooper said, and I cannot wait for someone
to do the scientific study on this after he announced this,
because I promise you the Republicans are lying in wait.
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I've already talked to many of the people up and
rally about this, and they were like, we want Roy
Cooper to win or to run for election. We want
him to run. So okay, do you remember this blast
in the past. Hey, we're gonna shut down all bars,
all breweries, and restaurants can only have was a third
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of the capacity, twenty five percent of the capacity, and
everyone has to sit six feet apart.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But we're gonna shut them down for a long time
before we open them back up.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right, now we've opened up restaurants, breweries, everything's still
shut down.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
If you're a bar, even though you serve food, you're
still shut down. By the way, a bar.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
In North Carolina is classified by someone who sells more
alcohol than they do food. You could be a full, full,
full menu like angry Als. They're just barely a bar,
just barely its by one or two percent. If you
sell fifty one percent food, you're classified or bar. Alcohol
you're classified as a bar. If you sell fifty one
percent food, you're classified as a restaurant. But he's like, hey,
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you know a lot of these donors and a lot
of the people from the North Caroline of Brewers Association,
they really want me to open up breweries.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna open up breweries,
but even though.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
They're not serving food, but I'm going to keep bars
closed that are serving food because you know science and data,
data and science, science and data. Well, then a lot
of people started raising hell about it, and so then
what does the genius do?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And doctor Mandyicomb they.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Said, oh, well, as long as you have serve food,
or if you have a food truck on the premise,
because when's the last time you realize that a food
truck actually prevents COVID in the spread of COVID.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
A food truck. You could have a food truck.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
In the street, but as long as it was there
right outside of brewery, you were safe from COVID. But
you bars that were selling food, you're still closed. You
can only do deliveries, You're still closed. Even though you
sell forty nine percent food, You're still closed because you
know COVID and science and data. Now, you know, I
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keep saying that I'm going to talk about the rest
of the mayors and stuff like that, and because of
stuff like this, things get pushed around a little bit.
The mayoral races aren't going anywhere, the primaries aren't nil
till September, and then some places don't even have primaries.
They have the general election for everyone's at the bat
at the same time. So we're gonna be getting to
some of that later on tonight. But when we come back,
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let's re examine what happened with Roy Cooper and the
two hurricanes, where he was a complete and utter disaster.
He was a bigger disaster than the two Hurricanes' welcome
(10:00):
breaking with Brett Jensen on This Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Night, Wednesday Night, Right, Isaac, is it Wednesday? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Right? I told you I get my nights all confused
because they all run together. Seven oh four or five
seven eleven ten is a telephone number and also the
WBT text line driven by Liberty built GENC and Isaac
is manning the text lines, and Isaac will be responding
to you. If you talk about how basically great of
a show host I am, then Isaac will respond to you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So, oh, what do you say you'd have to respond tonight? Thing, Isaac,
come man, killing me, killing me all right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So according to Sean or according to Axios, I should
say Wray Cooper is going to announce next week that
he's running for sinup.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Not a shock really to anyone at all, to be
honest with you. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I can tell you personally, I've had a lot of
conversations with the powers that be that are up in Raleigh,
because all the powers that be are in Raleigh. That's
what they all, that's all they where they all reside.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And over the.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Last four months I've had a lot of conversations with him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I can tell you who.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But you would know these people. You would know these people,
you would know the names. And to a person, to
a person, the one they wanted to run wasn't Josh Stein,
wasn't Jeff Jackson.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It was Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
By the way, I know, age really isn't a thing
anymore considering the last three serving presidents Trump, Biden, Trump.
But Cooper will be seventy five if he decides to
run for reelection at the end of his first term.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So he's not.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Running for reelection. So what you're electing is a one
term senator. If you vote for Roy Cooper one term,
he's not running for reelection at the age of seventy
five and serving until he's eighty one. There's no way
on God's green earth that's happening. Because this is in Congress,
where it's two year terms, or as she'd say, a congressman.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Where it's two year terms. He's a center six year terms.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So if elected, I believe he would be seventy nine
excuse me, sixty nine, and then he have to serve
a six years and it'll be seventy five, so it'd
be one term, deal one and done. What he did
with the first hurricane and why the Republicans never went
after him is beyond me. I will never ever ever
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understand that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Granted, Dan Forrest will go down as having the singularly
worst governor campaign gubernatorial campaign in the history of North Carolina.
Well like Mark Robinson's campaign wasn't bad. He was just
a bad candidate because of all this stuff that happened.
But I'm talking about actual plan and strategies, and Dan
Forest's campaign will go down. They will teach that campaign
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in political science classes all over North Carolina as the
singularly worst campaign in the history of North Carolina politics.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
On how not to do things.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Here's what you don't do ABCD all the way to
Z looping back down to AABBCC. Everything he basically did
was wrong, but so Republicans never went after him, and
people forget this, people forget this. Cooper refused to pay
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out hurricane money. He'd paid out like a tenth if
that or like five percent to the victims down east.
I'm not talking about the one in the mountains that
happened recently. I'm talking about the one was a hurricane
Matthew I think it was, and I know it wasn't Florence.
I think it was Matthew. And I even went to
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Lumberton where they had bridges washed out, and they were like, where.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Is our money? Where is our money? We need money.
It got so bad that FEMA. FEMA said, all right,
here's the deal, Cooper.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You're sitting on all those tens of millions of dollars
that we gave you to actually try and help people,
and you're not, and you're sitting at them for years
and years and years and years, and they're like Then
he tried to blame it on bureaucracy, like dude, you
can complete control this. You have basically Uterilateral say so,
and FEMA actually went and Republicans forget this, not the
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people in Raleigh, but the but Republicans voters forget this.
Independents forget this, Democrats forget this. FEMA actually said to Cooper,
you will never get another dime no matter how many
natural disasters you have, if you don't start giving it
to the people that we gave it to give you to,
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if you don't start giving it to people the people
that needed to help rebuild bridges and roadways and houses that.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Were washed away.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And and kudos to Destin Hall, the North counta speaker
of the House. He said, a thousand people are still
living in hotels from a hurricane that took place damn
near eight years ago because they never got the money
or they never got their properties rebuilt or the bridge
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or whatever. That's not even including the ultimate disasters that
took place up in the mountains this year. So you
have all that disasters the way he handled COVID, and
we're going to talk about some stuff that happened in
the mountains that you may not even know about when
it came to Hurricane Helene. Welcome back to Breaking with
(16:08):
Brett Jensen on this Wednesday night, seven four eleven ten
is the telephone number and the Liberty Buick GMC text line.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, so now we talked about Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
According to a report with Axis Shocker that it came
from Axios that he's going to announce next week that
he's running for office. We talked about the way he
handled COVID de zach Ster and now we're going to
talk about uh. Then we talked about the way he
handled the first hurricane and the during his I believe
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was his first term, and the FEMA said, yeah, no, dude,
if you don't get another if you don't pay off
this money, you're literally never getting your state. Can your
entire state can go under water or burn to the ground,
and you won't get a penny because you're just sitting
on it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Sitting on it for years. We're not talking.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Months, years, just refuse to pay out tens of millions
of dollars basically a hundred million, close to hundred million
dollars my memory serves me correct.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
We just didn't do it. And then they had to
have like the state auditor and all these other people
do all these audits and going.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Dude, what are you doing well. You know, you know,
we want to pay them. We're just having like just stop,
just stop. And then they wanted to celebrate that they Hey,
look at us, We've now given out twenty percent of
that money that we've been sitting out for five years. Congratulations,
congratulations Ry Cooper. Now let's talk about talk about Hurricane Helene.
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Here's one aspect that most of you may not know about.
It's people will tell you it can take up to
three or four days to get the National Guard with
the paperwork and the forums, and it can take seventy
two hours to get the National Guard. You have to
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have you call people in the National Guard Reserves whatever,
or the Army whatever, Army, Corps of Engineers, whatever it is.
You had to fill out the paperwork, you have to
sign all the stuff whatever. They knew the hurricanes were coming, well, Brett,
could you really predict? Yes, because for at least a
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couple of days in advance, they're going massive floods, massive hurricanes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The National Weather Service, everyone, the.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
State, the Cooper literally had a press conference going get
the hell out of there or get to high ground.
Literally out a press conference like the day before the
hurricane hit or the first, one of the two right
people forget there were two masks. Well it wasn't a hurricane.
One was hurricane, the other one was just rained for
like I wanna say, like three straight days of hard,
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hard rain and then the hurricane came right on top
of that, and that was the end of it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That was ballgame.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But what leaders were privately telling you, because you guys
know that I went up to the mountain a lot,
and what they will tell you privately, this was Republicans
and Democrats like first responders that'd say they knew the
hurricanes were coming. The hurricane was coming on top of
all the rain that we were getting. They knew, they
knew it was coming. They knew they were going to
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have to get the National Guard or the Army Corps
and or the Army Corps of engineers.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They knew this.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Why didn't they start signing the paperwork in advance of
the actual hurricane to have them on standby. If you remember,
it took five days, six days, almost a week before
the National Guard would even go up into the mountains.
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If you remember that, it was all the private citizens
and their private helicopters that were doing this. Samaritans perse
and just regular citizens who happened to have helicopters.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
And companies loaning out their helicopters. They were the ones
doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
It were the boots on the ground, and it wasn't
the National Guard's fault, army's fault.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Roy Cooper did not have them at the ready on standby.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
He waited and waited, and then the whole femous situation.
Unlike that ridiculous reporter, the woman that called me out
on TV for saying that I don't know what I'm
talking about, because I had the audacity to criticize FEMA
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in the Broad River, Black Mountain bat Cave area when everyone,
all the first respiders are going, yeah, it took sixteen
days before we saw anything from FEMA. Sixteen days and
I'm reporting all this and I'm getting trashed on local
television for being basically a liar. Yeah, how'd that work
out for you? How does that look in retrospect? And
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if you carry the water for the federal government and
your Democrat Roy Cooper, when you're liberal media, this is
what's gonna happen, this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You're gonna look like a fool. Yeah, how's that.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Looking now, how does my reports look now compared to
your reports? When you literally put me out on TV
by name, I would mention your name.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But nobody knows who the hell you are, so it's irrelevant.
And I'm not even gonna say what station.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
There's six local TV stations in Charlotte if you count Spectrum,
so it's one of the six, clearly.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So Roy Cooper.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Fumbled, FEMA fumbled, the state Emergency funds fumbled, the National
Guard in Army Corps of Engineers, all of that, All
that I remember. I remember the going up there and
talking to people going like power line workers that were
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coming in from other states, and I talked to them
and I said, have you seen anyone from the federal government?
And this is in the Broad River area leading into
bat Cave. Actually it was right outside of bat Cave,
like a mile not even a mile outside of Back Cave,
half a mile side of Back Cave, I believe, on
Route nine come again from Black Mountain, because that was
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the only way you.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Could get into towards bat Cave.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Was coming in from the north from I forty, and
I was talking to a power line worker and I said,
have you seen anyone from the federal government.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, not even close.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Okay, I can get that, like maybe they're not going
to get down there. Have you seen anyone from the
state government or anything like that, state help, state anything,
not a old Okay, Well, surely to God you've seen
somebody from the local like you know right out there
near Bunkhom County and other the counties right there, Like,
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surely to God you've seen people locally.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No, No, we haven't seen anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We're having to do everything by ourselves or with the
help of people that were driving up from Alabama, Wisconsin,
driving down from Wisconsin, up from Alabama, from all from Pennsylvania, Florida,
from all over the eastern seaboard and east of the
Mississippi driving to western North Countina to help samaritans purse.
I wrote in a helicopter with Samaritan's purse, and as
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a matter of fact, Donald Trump Junior was in it.
Former State Representative Jason Saine, Senator Ted budd uh stor
State Representative Jake Johnson out of Rutherford County, and a
couple others like state rep out of the Wataga.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Area and the Hickory area.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I got invited as the only media to go up
in the helicopters, and we went into Swannanoah which was
wiped out. We went into all these places that excuse
me that you could only basically get to by helicopter
because at.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
That time, you know, we're still talking to like all
the bridges and walk washed out.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's only a few like, you know, like three weeks
or so after the floods, you know, three three, yeah,
three weeks, two and a half weeks after the floods,
you still couldn't get to most of these places.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That was Samaritans Purse.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Without Samaritans Purse, do you know how many people probably
die in the mountains due to dehydration or hunger. Samaritans
Purse would the help of other volunteers because people, forget,
Hickory Airport was basically made into the base camp for
all the helicopters. That's where they were all parking, just
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regular citizens, you know, whatever, companies, whatever. But Samaritans Purse
more or les us single handedly saved the mountains.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
More or less.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yes, the local people on the ground did what they
could do, but they don't have the capabilities, they didn't
have a the manpower they because you know, there their
own deputies or officers or whatever. We're worried about their
own homes which disappeared. So again we're talking about what
a complete disaster Roy Cooper was in doing that.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He was complete disaster. And now he's running for Senate.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And this is why the Republicans in Raleigh are happy
that he's running for Senate because finally, after sitting all
this stuff for the last eight and a half years,
it's all probably going to come out over the next
fifteen months. Dry loud, welcome back to Breaking with Brett
(26:07):
Jensen for a few more minutes, as we take you
up until seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So I want to shift.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Gears away from the man himself, Roy Cooper.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, by the way, I guess I should talk into
this about this.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I might as well just close the show with this
and we'll get to the mayoral stuff because there's a
lot of things that we are in some races, whether it's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Pineville, Mint Hill, Huntersville.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We'll get into all that tomorrow or try to, because
you know, when things happen, I got to talk about them,
and so let's talk about this for a second.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Beth.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
By the way, I'm sorry I didn't get a chance
to get to you. But I do appreciate you calling,
appreciate you holding.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let's talk about the Republican side. Well, what's going to
happen on the Republican side?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
A few I don't know, weeks ago, I said, look,
Harrigan Congressman, District ten, the Lincoln County, Kataba County, Ardale County,
like that whole area, right, I think Alexander County, parts
of Forsyth County, spend on the show multiple times. Was
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a strong it is, i should say, is a strong candidate,
you know. And I've been reporting for a while that
Michael Watley, the head of the RNC who used to
be head of the NCGP, he was. His name was
being kicked around quite a bit as well. And then
obviously we know when I reported that it's Lord Trump's
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if she wants it, and broke that story, and other
people nationally have been citing, according to WBT in Charlotte,
North Carolina, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Lord Trump.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Recently, in which I thought was fun, they ask Laura Trump, Hey,
when are you going to make your decision and whether
or not you're going to run for Senate in North Carolina.
She said, ah, by Thanksgiving, which is funny because you
start filing for the twenty twenty six elections on December first,
and you have like two to two weeks or whatever
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it is. She's clearly going to make her decision way
before Thanksgiving. You have to, as you're a Republican, so
you can start raising money and what is expected to
be the most expensive Senate race in the history of America.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
True story, true story.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So you're going out to get all those millions of dollars,
tens of millions, if not a couple hundred million, maybe
four hundred million, three hundred million, five hundred million, not
even joking. So, because this is a massive battleground state,
the Democrats think they have a chance to win this
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state and try to cut into the lead that the
Republicans hold with the majority in DC.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So, as I sit.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Here today on Wednesday at six fifty six pm at
July twenty third, as of right now, in the last
forty five seconds of the show, I still think it's
a three horse race.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
There may be another Congressman that maybe might be interested,
but I think it's a three horse race between who
Donald Trump endorses Lord Trump. It's hers if she wants it.
I had said that I didn't think Michael Watley was
going to be part of it anymore. I was told recently,
oh yeah, oh yeah, he's he's a realistic possibility. Gastonia resident,
(29:50):
by the way, and then Pat Harrigan has a business
in Gastonia, lives up in the Cataba area, Kataba Lake area,
Kataba County, I should say Kataba Lake.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
So it's still a three horse race.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
But I was told by people that would know no
less than a week ago that Michael Watley is still
a real possibility. But it all hinges on Laura Trump.
And don't worry, she's not gonna wait until Thanksgiving. It's
gonna be probably sooner rather than later, after Roy Cooper
makes his announcement officially next week. All right, so hopefully
(30:27):
tomorrow we can get into all the mayoral races concerning
mint Hill, Pineville, and Huntersville, the Vills. We're looking to
do the Viills next tomorrow. All right, everyone, have a
great night. And my name is Brett Jensen, and you
have been listening to Breaking with Brett Jenson.
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