Oct. 10, 2024 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| Well, good morning, Carly and Todd. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| As Hurricane Milton batters Florida, the White House is still facing criticism about its response to Hurricane Helene, with many residents in the mountains of North Carolina saying the federal response has been slow to reach those remote areas. | ||
| Head of Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida, President Biden and his DHS chief said they were prepared. | ||
| Hey Ali, Mr. Secretary, do you have anything you need from all the Federal departments and the agencies in support of this response. | ||
| Is there anything lacking? | ||
| We certainly do have all of the resources. | ||
| We are well positioned to continue to respond to Hurricane Helene, to respond to Hurricane Milton. | ||
| Mr. President, we are meeting the moment and meeting the challenges because of the extraordinary people who have spoken before me. | ||
| Now, critics say, did anybody expect a different answer there from the DHS chief? | ||
| Now, President Biden and his press secretary also taking umbrage with former President Donald Trump. | ||
| Quite frankly, these lies are un-American, and there is simply no place for them. | ||
| Not now, not ever. | ||
| Former President Trump has led this onslaught of lies. | ||
| The administration will also continue to work out and call out misinformation and conspiracy theories around the storm and federal and state responses. | ||
| This is wrong, dangerous, and it must stop immediately. | ||
| Our own Peter Ducey said misinformation does not mean questions you don't like. | ||
| Now, Donald Trump spoke before Hurricane Helene made landfall last night. | ||
| I want to send our prayers to the people of Florida getting hit just about now. | ||
| In a little while, you're going to see a hurricane like we haven't seen in a long time. | ||
| As well as all of the people still recovering from Hurricane Helene. | ||
| Now, Carly, you asked a guest in the last hour about the delay in getting active duty forces, including the 82nd Airborne spun up from Fort Liberty, formerly known and better known by our viewers as Fort Bragg, located in North Carolina. | ||
| Now, Senator Tom Cotton said it should not have taken over a week to launch those forces. | ||
| He noted the 82nd deployed to Haiti in two days after the massive earthquake hit that place and back in 2010. | ||
| That was also noted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance. | ||
| Carly, Tom. | ||
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| Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. | ||
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| Number one might be a tiny bit better. | ||
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All right. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are live from inside of the Benny bunker, evacuated from Tampa. | ||
| I am very, very happy to be back and live. | ||
| We've had atrocious internet connections and had to work for a couple of days to actually get a... | ||
| Connection that was stable and strong enough to go live. | ||
| And now we are back today, Thursday, October 10th, 2020, for Hurricane Milton hits Florida, savages and ravages my hometown of Tampa, Florida, and the surrounding areas. | ||
| But it could have been so much worse, and we are thankful. | ||
| Biden praises DeSantis over Kamala again in what must be the revenge arc of the century. | ||
| It's really funny. | ||
| And we have a number of members of Congress who will be joining the program from the great state of Florida. | ||
| Anna Paulina Luna will be joining us live along with Ron DeSantis, who will be live during this broadcast to give an update. | ||
| So we are really happy to be back, even if it's from the Benny Bunker. | ||
| Once again, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. | ||
| We have to connect to really strong... | ||
| It's the only way that you can go live without the entire show glitching out. | ||
| You may recall in the multiple hurricanes that have hit our studio in Tampa, the reason why we're not in Tampa is we tried to broadcast in the lead up to a hurricane and we couldn't get the stream going. | ||
| We couldn't get the stream stable enough because of the power outages and the internet outages during these storms. | ||
| We're going to talk about why that... | ||
| Why that happens. | ||
| But the people who keep us at the very least connected from our mobile devices is Patriot Mobile. | ||
| They're supporters of the show. | ||
| We're thankful for them in times like these, especially because we can stay connected at the very least to put out good information, smart information to do. | ||
| It shows that we are able to inform people with multiple members of Congress here from Florida. | ||
| We've been doing everything we can to use our powers to inform and keep people safe. | ||
| And we're very, very thankful for our partners in doing that. | ||
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| All right, so times like these. | ||
| Let's chat about it. | ||
| No point in getting too sentimental, but since we're live for a show for the first time, we've done some interviews and things, but this is our first time live for the show, and producers, how are we doing? | ||
| Good, solid connection? | ||
| We've been working on building out our capacity. | ||
| It takes quite a bit of bandwidth to actually... | ||
| Go live, right? | ||
| It takes quite a few tweaks. | ||
| We don't want to go live. | ||
| We don't want to go live, like actual live, right? | ||
| We're live. | ||
| We don't want to go actually live unless we can deliver a show and do so without everything crashing or everything glitching, because otherwise we're just wasting everyone's time. | ||
| So here we are, ladies and gentlemen, live. | ||
| My family decided to make the decision to leave Tampa Bay, and that decision has now been validated with Hurricane Milton. | ||
| Striking Tampa Bay in a direct hit. | ||
| And I want to establish a couple of things. | ||
| One, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for all your prayers. | ||
| Thank you for all of the messages. | ||
| We've received many from you and from this audience praying for our safety. | ||
| And by the grace of God, we were advised wisely to get out GTFO. | ||
| And I brought my family seven hours north, right? | ||
| Seven hours north to a friend's house. | ||
| And that's where we're at right now. | ||
| And so we're safe. | ||
| We're up north. | ||
| And we saw just minimal winds and gusts up here. | ||
| Meanwhile, in Tampa, things were very, very dangerous and remain very, very dangerous. | ||
| This was a direct hit on my hometown. | ||
| Tampa is where I live. | ||
| It's where I'm raising my family. | ||
| I've welcomed three children to the world in the state of Florida. | ||
| Even though I'm not a native Floridian, I moved here much like I moved here. | ||
| So many people moved to Florida because they want to escape communism, right? | ||
| It's a proud history of Florida, accepting people who wish to escape communism, whether that's from Cuba, right? | ||
| Or whether that's from where I moved from, Washington, D.C. And so we're so deeply thankful for this state. | ||
| But obviously, there is nothing more valuable. | ||
| Then your freedom, the freedom to live, the freedom to raise my children, that's all that really matters. | ||
| God can take my house. | ||
| God can take my car. | ||
| God can take our electronics. | ||
| Every earthly possession, including the studio that we broadcast from, God can have it all. | ||
| It all belongs to God anyway. | ||
| None of it's actually mine. | ||
| There is something, however... | ||
| That has been entrusted to me, and it is the true treasure in life, which are my children here. | ||
| These are my children. | ||
| This photo, of course, taken by my pregnant wife. | ||
| So all of the things that I care about are in this photo, right? | ||
| A part of this photo. | ||
| And so these are my kids, and these are things that can't be replaced. | ||
| This is what actual value looks like in life. | ||
| So take the car. | ||
| Take the house. | ||
| Wash it down the river if that's what's going to happen. | ||
| I will not shed a tear for any of it. | ||
| But when it comes to being responsible and caring for my family and being there for my children as a father, as a protector, it's your charge from your eternal Lord and Savior. | ||
| It is your charge to protect your children. | ||
| Man, it just was a no-brainer. | ||
| When elected officials, including Anna Paulina Luna, who was really, really Smart, a great friend of the show, and she just kept hammering me to get out. | ||
| Now, ladies and gentlemen, that proved to be a very, very wise decision. | ||
| As you can see here, Tampa, St. Petersburg, this area was the direct hit area right here. | ||
| Tampa got it really, really bad, along with many in the surrounding areas. | ||
| This is where I live. | ||
| I also live in an area that's kind of on a peninsula, if you know what Tampa is like geographically. | ||
| It's not a peninsula, so there's water on all sides. | ||
| There's a lot of danger on all sides. | ||
| But God spared us. | ||
| I am broadcasting to you with great thanksgiving in my heart. | ||
| God only spared us by giving us wisdom to evacuate, but God spared us by disintegrating this once-in-a-lifetime storm. | ||
| As it approached the coast, what happened was the eyewall, I'm no meteorologist, but according to much smarter people than me, the eyewall of the hurricane collapsed and then splintered off into dangerous storms with a lot of water and a lot of damage, but not as dangerous as if the thing had stayed together and made landfall. | ||
| And it was a direct hit on my hometown, which caused a great deal of damage, but it could have been absolutely and totally decimating to Tampa. | ||
| Again, there's a lot of... | ||
| It's called Tampa Bay for a reason. | ||
| There's a lot of water on all sides. | ||
| And Tampa Bay could... | ||
| It could have been Tampa Lake. | ||
| It could have been, like, the entire city underwater right now. | ||
| As it stands, there is damage. | ||
| Like, this is, for instance, the Tropicana Field. | ||
| Tropicana Field is where the Tampa Bay Rays, a professional baseball team, plays. | ||
| This field has been ripped asunder and effectively destroyed. | ||
| There are cranes that have collapsed downtown and have ripped apart sides of buildings, many bricks and trees that have been uprooted, and many power lines that are down. | ||
| The entry to the Tampa Bay Times right here. | ||
| These power lines, this is again why you have to take the kids out, right? | ||
| You have to take the kids out because of this. | ||
| Here's a flooding home that gets lit on fire. | ||
| Because of a downed power line, you can see. | ||
| These power lines get snapped, then they spark, and they light the homes on fire. | ||
| That becomes a kill box, right? | ||
| Then if you have your kids in that home, you're in a really bad shape. | ||
| The chances of your survival are really low. | ||
| And so this is the song of all fears here. | ||
| And there are power lines down everywhere. | ||
| There are 3 million Floridians without power right now. | ||
| You can see the affected area right here. | ||
| This is obviously Tampa Bay, if you know the geography of the area. | ||
| But all of these counties in red are counties with 100% power outages. | ||
| So these are counties that have no power because, actually, because they don't want this to happen. | ||
| They stop the power flowing through the power lines to prevent something like this. | ||
| Again, this could have been my home. | ||
| There are power lines that run right outside of our home, and this is our neighborhood. | ||
| There are these trees in our neighborhood. | ||
| And these old, kind of like Florida trees, very classic Florida, right? | ||
| These giant live oaks, they call them. | ||
| And these trees, I mean, you can see that the trees have been completely shredded by the storm. | ||
| They're massive branches down. | ||
| Those branches pull the power lines down into your home. | ||
| They spark. | ||
| They light your home on fire. | ||
| As for our house, there was flooding up to the doorstep. | ||
| But because of the way the hurricane disintegrated, the flooding did not go... | ||
| As far as we can tell, through our cameras, it did not go through our home. | ||
| This is a miracle. | ||
| Tampa Bay was actually emptied during this storm because of the way the storm churned. | ||
| The bay, instead of the bay being pulled up across the entire peninsula, which is what could have happened, and by right should have happened, the bay was flooded because the water gets obviously pulled counterclockwise. | ||
| And so it depends on where and how the storm hits. | ||
| As if your entire house is underwater, if our studio is underwater, if our show is offline for a really long period of time. | ||
| We have multiple team members that obviously live and work in Tampa, and people have seen devastation across the state of Florida. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| I saw some... | ||
| This is a place called Palm Harbor, and you can see here lives literally turned upside down. | ||
| Homes that will not be able to be lived in for a very long time. | ||
| People have lost their homes. | ||
| They haven't lost everything. | ||
| I don't like people saying they lost everything. | ||
| If people died and we don't have a death toll right now, ALX, let me know if we do have any type of updated death toll. | ||
| I know in Hurricane Helene, there were 25 people, my fellow Floridians, who died. | ||
| I have not seen any type of corresponding death toll for this storm as of now. | ||
| The assumption is that, unfortunately, with damage like this, some people did perish. | ||
| But I don't want to make major assumptions here on the show. | ||
| But you can see here that people had their lives turned upside down, but what actually matters is, did you lose things that can't be replaced? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Your home can be replaced. | ||
| These cars that are flipped can be replaced. | ||
| Did you lose things that cannot be replaced? | ||
| So ALX is sending me here. | ||
| It looks like there's a half dozen people who have died. | ||
| The headlines are saying at least four. | ||
| Interesting footage from Tampa here. | ||
| We have some of this uploaded. | ||
| You can see the flooding here in Tampa. | ||
| The roads have effectively been turned into water. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Thank you, boys. | ||
| Got Eric's video up. | ||
| You guys know Eric. | ||
| You all know Eric. | ||
| All of our team based in Tampa is sending in videos. | ||
| You can see just lives upended. | ||
| But not destroyed. | ||
| Lives being destroyed is actually losing your family, losing your children. | ||
| That's when your life is destroyed. | ||
| Your house getting flooded, you losing your earthly possessions, your roads being turned to water. | ||
| This is not the destruction of your life. | ||
| I think it's incredibly valuable to differentiate these things. | ||
| The rebuilding now happens. | ||
| I did want to show you guys this because this is like literally my gas station at home. | ||
| So this is the gas station. | ||
| This is a very popular interstate underpass. | ||
| I fueled up at the station before. | ||
| This is flash flooding of 14 inches in Tampa, Florida. | ||
| This is my gas station, right? | ||
| This is why you have to get your kids out, okay? | ||
| If you have children, it's your obligation to get them out because in an emergency situation, you're trapped, right? | ||
| You're trapped. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| This kind of flash flooding hits your house. | ||
| You're in a bad way. | ||
| This is why we pray for and are continually helping the people in Asheville and Western North Carolina through Valdosta, Georgia, because those people experience this style of flash flooding. | ||
| This is my gas station. | ||
| This is the interstate underpass that connects to my neighborhood. | ||
| And so right here, you can see how, well, this is how you get swept away, actually. | ||
| I'm eternally grateful. | ||
| I'm eternally grateful for wisdom. | ||
| What does the proverb say? | ||
| Wisdom shouts from the street. | ||
| Do you have ears to hear? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Anna Palina Luna will join the program, a great congresswoman from the state of Florida, and we'll be talking through what happens next here. | ||
| Do we have Eric? | ||
| Eric from our team? | ||
| How's it look in Eric's neighborhood? | ||
| Let's go there. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| So one of our incredible creatives, videographers and technicians here, you can see trees and limbs down, blockages of the road and flooding of the driveways and so on. | ||
| This makes, of course, it also perilous if you have little kids. | ||
| You can't get them places if you have a medical emergency. | ||
| You can't get out. | ||
| You can't get in. | ||
| People can't get to you. | ||
| So be careful, right? | ||
| Obviously. | ||
| Be careful. | ||
| What does it look like? | ||
| What does it look like to actually, and there you can see, large trees being ripped asunder. | ||
| So now, in the rebuild, we want to pray for those who are essential to the rebuilding of this great state, because it is a great state. | ||
| This video gave me chills. | ||
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I love you and we praise you for this day. | |
| Thank you for the sun. | ||
| Thank you for the crisp, cool air. | ||
| We ask for protection, provision, and guidance today as we're out in the field. | ||
| Father, strengthen our hands, our eyes, our minds, our ears, and our feet to do your will. | ||
| Please guide us as we're in the field so that we would be a light shining to the feet of your Son, Lord. | ||
| Would we just be able to show the gospel through our works? | ||
| Would we have words fitly spoken, prayers rightly justified, your ear be open to us. | ||
| We love you, we serve you, and we pray. | ||
| Praise you, Yeshua Messiah. | ||
| Please help us today. | ||
| It's in your name. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| So these are the linemen who have come in from all around the country to help the state of Florida. | ||
| Linemen, obviously, are electricians, technicians who deal with these very dangerous power lines that can kill you that are very, very deadly. | ||
| Obviously, if mishandled, you're dead in a heartbeat, a literal heartbeat. | ||
| Your heart stops if you touch these downed power lines, and so these are extremely dangerous. | ||
| And can cause great damage to the state. | ||
| So these linemen come down to Florida from all around the country. | ||
| They have nowhere to stay. | ||
| Guess who puts them up? | ||
| The Trumps. | ||
| Isn't that amazing? | ||
| The Trumps put the linemen up in Trump Doral, a place that we had the honor of doing a mini documentary with and for just a few months ago. | ||
| So we know this staircase actually very, very well. | ||
| I met ALX at the top of the staircase when we went rolling in. | ||
| Along with the rest of our team. | ||
| Eric Trump saying, honored to have 275 incredible linemen from Florida Power and Light at Trump Doral getting ready to respond to the hurricane aftermath. | ||
| You are amazing. | ||
| Trump family in the entire state of Florida. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Enjoy the rooms. | ||
| They're the best in Florida. | ||
| We can attest to that. | ||
| The Trump family helping out the rebuilding. | ||
| After the destruction, President Trump and the Trump family are putting up hundreds of Florida linemen free of charge. | ||
| This is what America First looks like. | ||
| Here they are checking in. | ||
| I think this photo is hysterical because you can see the, obviously, they quarry this marble out of like Italian quarries. | ||
| It's like the best marble in the world. | ||
| You can see the crystal chandeliers there up top. | ||
| And then you can see the bros in their work boots. | ||
| And construction uniforms. | ||
| And their shabby pants. | ||
| It's just such a funny contrast. | ||
| It's such a funny dichotomy. | ||
| But it really does show who President Trump is, right? | ||
| That President Trump cares for the working man. | ||
| Why do you think the Teamsters and the firefighters unions refuse to endorse Kamala Harris? | ||
| Because they feel betrayed by these people. | ||
| They gravitate to President Trump because they know that Trump actually needs them to build buildings like this. | ||
| Trump actually understands. | ||
| These people. | ||
| Alex, do we have the footage of Donald Trump getting greeted by those construction workers in New York? | ||
| It's just fantastic. | ||
| Let me know in the chat here. | ||
| You can see it when President Trump goes and speaks to members of the working class that he loves them and cares for them. | ||
| Here's an example of that. | ||
| The media doesn't want you to see this. | ||
| Hundreds of linemen being housed for free by President Trump. | ||
| I mean, it's hard to house 300 people. | ||
| I couldn't house 300 people. | ||
| I guess I could try and book rooms, right? | ||
| But I couldn't house 300 people. | ||
| This is what President Trump is doing. | ||
| It's even being written up by the corporate press. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| Newsweek. | ||
| Trump gives Florida utility workers free hotel rooms in Hurricane. | ||
| These are the people that will actually get our show back on the road. | ||
| These are the people that will get our show up and running again. | ||
| These are the guys. | ||
| It's so important to have these technicians because if you have a downed power line... | ||
| You're not going to want to return home. | ||
| We're not going to be able to get our studio back up and running unless the power lines are fixed. | ||
| These guys become incredibly essential, and it's a very sophisticated, highly technical job. | ||
| And so we thank the Trumps. | ||
| I mean, we are now recipients. | ||
| When this show comes back online, we are now recipients of President Trump and his generosity by housing these linemen. | ||
| So it's just like, this is just what America First looks like in practice. | ||
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We talk about this a lot. | |
| This is what America First looks like in every single day practice. | ||
| Like, put your countrymen first. | ||
| The opposite of that, of course, is Kamala Harris. | ||
| Kamala Harris decided to use this opportunity when Floridians are dying in this deadly storm. | ||
| Multiple deadly storms decided to use this opportunity to attack the governor of this state, who's done an incredible job. | ||
| Head on over to that during the program. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Ron DeSantis has done a remarkable job preparing this state, being a very serious person, and he was attacked viciously by Kamala Harris. | ||
| Because what? | ||
| Because he wouldn't take a phone call from Kamala Harris. | ||
| Kamala Harris has done nothing for this state, nothing for any disaster area. | ||
| She has never shown up to help. | ||
| She has never shown up to comfort people. | ||
| Donald Trump has done Eons more than Kamala Harris going to East Palestine, Donald Trump going to visit with victims in North Carolina, Kamala Harris staging photos and doing sex podcasts and then chugging a beer on Stephen Colbert's show. | ||
| This is how much Kamala Harris cares. | ||
| She doesn't care. | ||
| In fact, she's legitimately inserted herself to try and harm and politically attack and distract Ron DeSantis so that more Floridians die. | ||
| It's just the assumption you have to make. | ||
| This is why we say on the show, definitively, and we have 25 days until the election, that Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party, the modern manifestation of that, hate America. | ||
| They hate Americans. | ||
| Whether you are living in Maui, or whether you're living in Asheville, North Carolina, or whether you're living in Tampa Bay, Florida, this party hates Americans because of how diminutive, how dismissive, and how cruel they are. | ||
| How utterly cruel they are. | ||
| Boys, do we have Kamala Harris attacking Ron DeSantis? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I don't actually see it in the clip, in the script, if we actually don't have it. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| But this is what happened. | ||
| Ron DeSantis going out and saying, you know what? | ||
| Like, F this. | ||
| I'm pretty sick of Kamala Harris trying to insert herself for political purposes because of her failing campaign, and we'll get to that. | ||
| If the hurricane disintegrated, Very quickly, and we're prayerful and thankful for that. | ||
| We have great Thanksgiving for it. | ||
| Kamala Harris' campaign has disintegrated about as fast. | ||
| Here's Ron DeSantis last night talking about the Kamala Harris phone call saying, you have no role here. | ||
| Shut up and quit being such a nasty, mean girl trying to save your campaign and fix your own stupid blunders. | ||
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And I heard what she said about Vice President Harris and the phone call. | |
| Did she ever get through? | ||
| You know, Brett, like I said, my job is to marshal resources and work with everybody to have an effective response. | ||
| And she thinks it should be about her. | ||
| If I honestly thought that there was something to be gained, I would pick up the phone and call her. | ||
| The fact of the matter is she has no role in this process. | ||
| She's not part of the chain of command. | ||
| I am working with President Biden and FEMA and our state and local partners, and we're getting the job done. | ||
| She has never been interested in any of the storms we've had in the state of Florida for an Well, We've got a job to do, we've got people's lives on the line, and that is our sole focus. | ||
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most importantly, hopefully everyone gets through this okay. | |
| We're praying for your state. | ||
| Governor, we appreciate the time. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Ron DeSantis, I didn't expect this. | ||
| Listen, we started the year with Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump going through the Iowa primaries and the caucuses and obviously being quite vocal against each other. | ||
| Now we are ending this year in this election cycle with these two men uniting to save the state of Florida. | ||
| What a wonderful thing to see. | ||
| Expect Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump to be doing events together. | ||
| Little birdies tell us that this is going to be happening, and that's the kind of unity that we're looking for. | ||
| I'm very proud to live in a state run by an actual adult, Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Biden, once again, clapping back on the greatest revenge arc in history against Kamala Harris. | ||
| Biden clapping back and saying, no, dude, Ron DeSantis is doing an incredible job. | ||
| He's done this now twice. | ||
| So Kamala Harris has tried to use the line that Ron DeSantis hates Floridians, and she has all feels because he won't take her calls. | ||
| Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden have actually gone through multiple hurricanes together. | ||
| This is no compliment to Joe Biden, but have gone through multiple hurricanes together and are uniting to save Americans in this hurricane. | ||
| It's like a curse has been lifted from Joe Biden's shoulders, and now he's able to be a decent leader. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Mr. President, does Governor DeSantis need to take Vice President Harris' calls? | |
| All I can tell you is I'm talking to Governor DeSantis. | ||
| He's been very gracious. | ||
| He's thanked me for all we've done. | ||
| He knows what we're doing. | ||
| And I think that's important. | ||
| Well, it's nice to see all the serious people here, unlike Kamala Harris, who is using every opportunity to... | ||
| It's grotesque. | ||
| She is, it is the sickest thing you can do as a politician. | ||
| I have no aspirations to ever run for office. | ||
| I do not want to run for office. | ||
| I can tell you this. | ||
| Like, if I can put myself in this position, we talk with members of Congress, senators, presidential candidates every single day on this program live with you. | ||
| I can put myself in these positions. | ||
| Yesterday, we did like an hour-long just chat with Matt Gaetz here, right? | ||
| I can tell you. | ||
| The most grotesque thing that you could possibly do is to profiteer and politic off the backs of dead Americans. | ||
| It's a sickness. | ||
| It's the most despicable thing that I could ever consider someone doing. | ||
| And Kamala Harris is engaging in it right now. | ||
| Now, shockingly, and at the chat, check me if I'm wrong here. | ||
| Chat, check me if I'm wrong. | ||
| But shockingly, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, and Donald Trump. | ||
| Are all the ones who have been sort of uniting in this moment and helping the people of Florida. | ||
| That's what I feel like. | ||
| And I'm a displaced, evacuated Floridian who had to save my family from this storm. | ||
| And I feel like they're all uniting to help. | ||
| And I've seen no politicking out of any of them. | ||
| Joe Biden has taken this with great seriousness. | ||
| Donald Trump has as well. | ||
| Here's what President Trump says on the hurricane. | ||
| This is from yesterday. | ||
| I also want to send our love to everyone in Florida. | ||
| They're going through a big one tonight. | ||
| It's going to arrive tonight sometime around midnight, a little before midnight, and we're praying for them and asking God to keep them all safe. | ||
| All those people. | ||
| I've never seen a hurricane like that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| So often, you know, they talk about it and they talk, talk, talk because they want you to watch. | ||
| This is the real deal. | ||
| This is a bad one. | ||
| And we have some great governors, great Republican governors that are in charge, and I think they'll do a phenomenal job. | ||
| I think they're going to do a phenomenal job. | ||
| See if you can spot the difference between that. | ||
| Remember, President Trump's saying that as his hotels and resorts in Florida have shut down to regular guests and opened up entirely for... | ||
| Emergency workers, as you can see here. | ||
| So this is what President Trump is doing, putting skin in the game, right? | ||
| His money where his mouth is. | ||
| See if you can find the difference between that and this grotesque attack from Kamala Harris on Ron DeSantis on a tarmac. | ||
| Go. | ||
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Governor DeSantis, NBC is reporting Governor DeSantis is ignoring your calls on hurricanes, resources and help. | |
| How does that hurt the situation here? | ||
| You know, moments of crisis, if nothing else... | ||
| Should really be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they're going to put politics aside and put the people first. | ||
| People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment in these crisis situations. | ||
| These are the height of emergency situations. | ||
| It's just utterly irresponsible and it is selfish and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you said you know what to do, which is to put the people first. | ||
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you Yeah. | |
| You're not real. | ||
| You're not a real person. | ||
| You're a fake. | ||
| You're the vice president. | ||
| You don't have any chain of command. | ||
| You don't have any executive authority. | ||
| Everything that you represent is sort of summed up in who the actual president is. | ||
| And obviously, you know what we think about Joe Biden, but you have no role here. | ||
| Kamala Harris sitting there saying, like, how dare Ron DeSantis not take my phone call? | ||
| What a... | ||
| It's narcissism. | ||
| It's like black hole narcissism. | ||
| It's like the bitchiest possible response to do that to someone who's trying to simply save the lives of his state that he is constitutionally bound to protect. | ||
| So Ron DeSantis is an executive. | ||
| Kamala Harris is not. | ||
| Ron DeSantis was elected. | ||
| Kamala Harris was not. | ||
| Kamala Harris didn't even win a primary. | ||
| To be the Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris got no votes, won no states, has done no interviews. | ||
| Well, she has done some interviews. | ||
| She's gone on The View. | ||
| And what did she have to say on The View? | ||
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Here we go. | |
| Now, he said this morning, you've never called regarding any of the storms Florida has had since you've been vice president until apparently now and called it political. | ||
| What's your response to that? | ||
| Well, first of all, I have called and talked with, in the course of this crisis, this most recent crisis, Democrat and Republican governors. | ||
| Called, taken the call, answered the call, had a conversation. | ||
| So, obviously, this is not an issue that is about partisanship or politics for certain leaders, but maybe it's for others. | ||
| Again, this low-key, passive-aggressive, feline attack on Ron DeSantis. | ||
| You're attacking the man who is out here. | ||
| Every single day, he's built for this man. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is built for this. | ||
| I supported through the primaries Donald Trump for president. | ||
| I support in my personal movement and in the placement of my family, Ron DeSantis as governor of the state of Florida. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is inarguably the best Republican governor in the country. | ||
| She's attacking him, and this is disqualifying, in my opinion. | ||
| It's disqualifying because, one, She's not helping. | ||
| She's hurting and trying to do so because of her own political failings. | ||
| We'll get to the polls in just a second. | ||
| They are atrocious. | ||
| Kamala Harris, the disintegration has finally happened, but also because she's just a vindictive, vicious person. | ||
| What a sick thing to do. | ||
| Ron DeSantis is constitutionally sworn in and elected here in the state of Florida to protect us in times like this. | ||
| Kamala Harris has no role here. | ||
| And with all the seriousness of what's going on in the country right now, wars across the earth, the devastation in this nation and in many other nations that have been wrought by the Kamala Harris regime, you'd think that she'd take a more serious tone. | ||
| But instead, she's actually chugging beers. | ||
| I didn't say chugging. | ||
| That sounds almost cool. | ||
| She's having, like, mini sips of beer. | ||
| I don't have a beer with me. | ||
| I have, like, a can of water. | ||
| She's like taking many sips of beers on late night TV. | ||
| Listen, I'm not a hater. | ||
| I like people laughing. | ||
| I think that Donald Trump's appearances on late night TV were things of legend. | ||
| You remember when Jimmy Fallon tussled his hair? | ||
| I think that kind of stuff's awesome. | ||
| I'm not saying don't do that stuff. | ||
| I'm not a hater. | ||
| I'm simply saying that there's a time and a place for it, and now ain't the time. | ||
| Here's what Kamala Harris was doing yesterday. | ||
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But elections, I think, are one on vibes because one of the old saws is they just want somebody they can have a beer with. | |
| Uh-huh. | ||
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So would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that's like? | |
| Okay. | ||
| This was... | ||
| Now, we asked ahead of time because I can't just be given a drink to the vice president of the United States. | ||
| You asked for Miller High Life. | ||
| You asked for Miller High Life. | ||
| I'm just curious. | ||
| Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. | ||
| Okay, so cheers. | ||
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Cheers. | |
| There you go. | ||
| That tastes like the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | ||
| The champagne of beers. | ||
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There you go. | |
| The champagne of beers. | ||
| Is that a play-by-side? | ||
| Can I do a breakdown of what exactly just happened there? | ||
| Kamala Harris Can you grab that tweet with Mike Pence filling up his car? | ||
| Danny was in the production yesterday. | ||
| Kamala Harris, like, holding the beer like this, like it's an irradiated element from, like, a nuclear fallout. | ||
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Like, and then doing it, doing it. | |
| That's not how you drink beer. | ||
| You're doing the opposite of what you're trying to do. | ||
| It's political malpractice. | ||
| I mean, listen, it's just political malpractice. | ||
| You're just dumb. | ||
| You're dumb. | ||
| You're dumb. | ||
| You're non-compassmatis. | ||
| You can't breathe unaided. | ||
| Look, is that how you... | ||
| What does this look like? | ||
| What does that look like? | ||
| Have you ever seen anyone drink a beer like that in the bar? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Collections, I think, are one on Vibe. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's embarrassing. | ||
| It's what she was doing. | ||
| So while Americans are dying and being pulled from the mud, while my fellow statesmen here in the state of Florida, there have been now dozens of Floridians who have died in multiple hurricanes, two in two weeks. | ||
| Kamala Harris is doing fake sips of beer. | ||
| Going on sex podcasts and attacking my governor. | ||
| Then when given an opportunity to actually be a part of a hurricane briefing, Kamala Harris, on a hot mic, decides to bark at her staff and scream and lecture them who are feeding her questions to ask because, again, she can't breathe unaided. | ||
| We all see what happens when Kamala Harris loses the teleprompter. | ||
| Kamala Harris starts screaming at her staff live during the hurricane briefings. | ||
| They're so disorganized. | ||
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We really got to watch those areas and those communities. | |
| So it takes quite a while for that water to drain. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Hey, Ken, I have a question for you. | ||
| You mentioned words matter, and I know there is a lot of media following this briefing. | ||
| I mean, at some point, you have to, like, sit and assume you just need to take a step back. | ||
| You know, we run a small startup company here, okay? | ||
| So we run a startup. | ||
| So I know what that's like. | ||
| I don't know what it's like to run a Fortune 500 company, but we were just with Elon Musk. | ||
| Just check ALX's feed. | ||
| We do have connections to some people who run very big companies, but it is irrelevant. | ||
| The qualities that you want in a leader. | ||
| The quality that you want in a leader, the capacity to think critically, the capacity to think unaided by staff, a level of seriousness, a level of urgency. | ||
| That's how your company remains in business. | ||
| That's how your paycheck keeps hitting every single week. | ||
| You want to invest in companies that have serious leadership. | ||
| You want to invest in places that are run correctly. | ||
| This applies to states. | ||
| That's why millions of people have moved to Florida. | ||
| Millions of people have moved to Texas because of good leadership. | ||
| Nation states as well. | ||
| Have you checked out what's happening with Argentina? | ||
| Our boy Javier Malay? | ||
| How about Nelson Alvador? | ||
| With Bukele. | ||
| Nation states with competent, serious leaders who have the capacity to think critically and help their people, those nation states win. | ||
| The qualities of leadership are pretty consistent in what you want. | ||
| The last thing you want is somebody who can't even ask a question. | ||
| During a hurricane briefing without barking at her staff as to what the next question is. | ||
| This proves that you have no capacity for critical thinking. | ||
| And if you're running a company or running a state or running a hurricane operation, you need to be able to critically think and make decisions. | ||
| It is a matter of life and death in these situations. | ||
| Here's Kamala Harris when her teleprompter went down. | ||
| It's like two days ago. | ||
| Two, three days ago. | ||
| It's all kind of running together. | ||
| Kamala Harris' teleprompter goes down, and she has no capacity to deliver the line. | ||
| She has no capacity to actually, like, talk. | ||
| Donald Trump goes on these hour-long podcasts with people he's never met, like Theo Vaughn, Andrew Schultz just dropped yesterday, Lex Friedman, these big podcasts. | ||
| Donald Trump goes on them and, like, just talks without any notes. | ||
| Donald Trump rarely has any notes, and he actually gripes when he has to follow a teleprompter. | ||
| Here's what happened when... | ||
| Here's Kamala Harris' mental capacity when her teleprompter goes out. | ||
| Go. | ||
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Remember his number, 32! | |
| Today we have 32 days until the election. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| So 32 days. | ||
| 32 days. | ||
| Okay, we got some business to do. | ||
| We got some business to do. | ||
| All right. | ||
| 42 days. | ||
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And we know we will do it. | |
| And this is going to be a very tight race until the very end. | ||
| This is going to be a very tight race until the very end. | ||
| We are the underdog, and we know we have some hard work ahead. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| We don't really do the show with a script. | ||
| Like, I virtually never have anything, like, written out in front of me. | ||
| We have clips and stuff that's loaded, but we just kind of, like, talk, right? | ||
| There's like a chat. | ||
| We bring on guests, we have a chat. | ||
| Yesterday we had Matt Gates here, and we just chatted, right, for an hour. | ||
| You just, you know, you should have the capacity if you're paying attention, and if you wish to have people, if you wish to be part of a movement like we're building, you should have the capacity for critical thinking. | ||
| What you see there in that Kamala Harris clip is a lack of the basic development of human communication. | ||
| When her teleprompter goes out, she just starts repeating the line like she was AI. | ||
| Well, AI would have been able to do better than Kamala Harris. | ||
| She starts repeating the line like she was a speak and spell. | ||
| 32. 32. 32. We gonna do 32. We gonna do 32. 32. 32. You don't want that kind of person in charge. | ||
| If she doesn't have basic command, if she couldn't get a Starbucks order right, you don't want that person in charge. | ||
| Of course, she wouldn't be in charge. | ||
| There's a machine that's using her as a Muppet, a literal meat puppet. | ||
| But either way, Kamala Harris will have the capacity to do horrible things for this country. | ||
| Final clip I'll show you before we get into the polls today. | ||
| Because I want to show you that the American people are starting to understand this. | ||
| They're beginning to see these hurricanes have been horrible, but they have actually elucidated for many people that. | ||
| The exact opposite of what you want to see. | ||
| When your home has been devastated, when your street is flooded, when power lines are burning your house or could harm your children, the last thing you want to see as wars descend globally and people are being pulled from the mud locally, as the economy, you see inflation ticked back up again, oh no, as the economy begins to like creak again and crater, is to say, well, who's the leader of this organization? | ||
| How do they behave? | ||
| And if you see a clip like this, you'll say, my, my, my God in heaven, we are doomed. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| To the people of Florida, and in particular, the people of the Tampa region, we urge you to take this storm seriously. | ||
| She can't even say, like, the name of my hometown. | ||
| She can't even say the name of the town where, like, I mean, by all rights. | ||
| It was a direct hit. | ||
| There are millions of people living in Tampa. | ||
| You could have had thousands of people dead. | ||
| Thank God that didn't happen. | ||
| But she can't even say it right. | ||
| You click on social, you open up social media, and this clip didn't happen yesterday. | ||
| This is from Kamala Harris campaigning for president in 2020. | ||
| But this clip exists, and by all right, it shouldn't. | ||
| If she was an actual serious person, here we go. | ||
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One nation under a groove, getting down just for the funk of it. | |
| Can I get it on the... | ||
| I can't take four years of this. | ||
| This is why I say the Democrats hate America. | ||
| Because they wish to do that to our country. | ||
| Whatever that is. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Listen, what kind of a noise is this? | ||
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Let's get it on the... | |
| Wow! | ||
| Ugh! | ||
| *laughter* | ||
| The velociraptors in Jurassic Park have a more peaceful and sing-songy screech than that. | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| I don't know what that just was. | ||
| I know that that is, though, probably the solution if you wish to get rid of some of the side effects of Viagra. | ||
| Just play that clip. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So we continue on, and we say this is what the American people are seeing. | ||
| The American people are seeing this humiliation, and they're seeing that Kamala Harris is just like... | ||
| Quite frankly, not a serious person and certainly not somebody that you would want to run your Starbucks order, right? | ||
| I'm not even saying working at Starbucks. | ||
| This is the kind of person that you shouldn't trust, obviously, to make an espresso. | ||
| I'm saying this is the kind of person who you wouldn't want to, like, trust to send from your, like, as an intern, like, send to go get your Starbucks order. | ||
| They'll F that up. | ||
| These kind of people have the capacity to screw up running across the street and getting your Starbucks order. | ||
| That's how dumb they are. | ||
| One final thing for my boy, DeSantis, just nuking. | ||
| I mean, this clip went crazy viral this week. | ||
| Just nuking Kamala Harris from the start. | ||
| Kamala Harris decided to play with the bull and she got the horns. | ||
| Here's DeSantis on his first. | ||
| Let's just call this a Category 5 direct political demolition of Kamala Harris. | ||
| And we've been laser focused on leveraging all resources available, including from the federal government. | ||
| And I've been in touch with both FEMA and the president, as well as marshalling all our state agencies and working to support our local communities. | ||
| And so for Kamala Harris to try to say that my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish. | ||
| She has no role in this. | ||
| In fact, she's been vice president for three and a half years. | ||
| I've dealt with a number of storms under this administration. | ||
| She has never contributed anything to any of these efforts. | ||
| And so what I think is selfish is her trying to blunder into this. | ||
| No. | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| She has no role. | ||
| No, she has no role in this process. | ||
| I'm in contact with the President of the United States. | ||
| I'm in contact with FEMA director. | ||
| I'm obviously managing all our state agencies. | ||
| We're supporting all our local government. | ||
| And I will say this. | ||
| I've had storms under both President Trump and President Biden, and I've worked well with both of them. | ||
| She's the first one who's trying to politicize the storm, and she's doing that just because of her campaign. | ||
| She's trying to get some type of an edge. | ||
| She knows she's doing poorly, and so she's playing these political games. | ||
| I don't have time for political games. | ||
| I've got people whose lives are on the line. | ||
| I've got people whose homes and their possessions are on the line, and we are focused 100% on that mission. | ||
| I'm not worried about playing her political games. | ||
| And so she is being selfish by trying to blunder into this when we're working just fine. | ||
| Solid goal response there from Ron DeSantis. | ||
| This is why I think Democrats hate America. | ||
| Like, they want us to have to listen to that. | ||
| Think if that was your ringtone, how quickly you'd just sail off into the hurricane, right? | ||
| You'd Lieutenant Dan this thing. | ||
| If that was your ringtone... | ||
| If that was on your alarm clock to wake up, you just strap yourself to the boat and you just sail straight off into Milton. | ||
| All the tornadoes are touching down, all the lightning, and you'd be like, take me. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| The end. | ||
| It's the end. | ||
| It's the end. | ||
| There's no reason any longer. | ||
| This has been a solid gold response from Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Ron DeSantis will be live soon here and we'll go to Governor DeSantis for coverage. | ||
| And Governor DeSantis, again, has been really, I mean, it's hard to think of anything he could have done better. | ||
| Again, a solid gold performance. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, absolute psychotic behavior from Kamala Harris has resulted in the sugar high. | ||
| Completely eroding, like, the sugar high has deteriorated in type 2 diabetes, and now arms and appendages are being amputated of the Kamala Harris campaign. | ||
| It's so, it has taken a shocking turn over the last 24 hours. | ||
| This hurricane response, I think it's truly hurt Kamala Harris. | ||
| Let's jump to the polls here. | ||
| Real panic time right now. | ||
| Democrat panic. | ||
| Poll shows Trump surging. | ||
| Three-point lead in Michigan. | ||
| Holy moly. | ||
| Let's jump over to those Michigan polls. | ||
| Rock and roll here. | ||
| Michigan. | ||
| The Teamsters endorsed Trump. | ||
| The Teamsters didn't endorse anyone, Benny. | ||
| They endorsed Trump. | ||
| By not endorsing, they endorsed Trump. | ||
| Wisconsin. | ||
| Wisconsin. | ||
| Supposed to be like the liberal state with all the loose voting restrictions run by a bunch of dirty, dusty, dandruffy socialists. | ||
| Wisconsin. | ||
| Donald Trump leading now. | ||
| Insanity. | ||
| Georgia! | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Georgia! | ||
| Trump plus one in Georgia. | ||
| I think that people of Georgia, who were also hit savagely by these hurricanes, are going to remember Arizona. | ||
| What's going on here? | ||
| Arizona. | ||
| Give me Arizona! | ||
| Donald Trump up four in Arizona. | ||
| Insurmountable at this point, especially with the work, that turning point. | ||
| Turning Point of Action is doing in that state. | ||
| Okay, let's go nationally. | ||
| What do we got? | ||
| Trump actually winning? | ||
| Is Trump actually winning the general election polls? | ||
| Trump plus two? | ||
| Trump plus two? | ||
| Guys, Trump plus two? | ||
| Donald Trump wins the... | ||
| It's becoming more and more likely that President Trump will win the popular vote. | ||
| When have you seen that? | ||
| Well, never in any of our lifetimes. | ||
| That's for sure. | ||
| Winning the popular vote. | ||
| What that says, according to CNN and the New York Times, is that if Trump wins the popular vote, then he is a 99.7% chance of winning the election. | ||
| That is a game over. | ||
| Polymarket, which is where all the smart money... | ||
| Is, has flipped and flipped hard for President Trump. | ||
| Now, like Trump up by 10 points in poly market. | ||
| What this is, is it is a betting market where people are able to put their money where their mouth is and are able to say, yo, we got, we got our money on this man. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Real clear politics, battlegrounds, Donald Trump marching for it. | ||
| We said this would be happening. | ||
| All the pollsters that we had on this program said we are. | ||
| We are this close to watching the race flip. | ||
| And this is it. | ||
| Look at all that beautiful red up and down. | ||
| Obviously, this is just the averages of these polling. | ||
| And yeah, guys, it's fine. | ||
| Ana Plana Luna can only do audio. | ||
| Yeah, guys. | ||
| Yeah, obviously. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| DeSantis, too? | ||
| Let me know. | ||
| DeSantis is going to have a press conference, too, and we're going to hop over to that. | ||
| So this is remarkable. | ||
| There's one quick thing. | ||
| Here's Axios. | ||
| Here's Axios. | ||
| Just get the Congresswoman set, please. | ||
| Here's Axios. | ||
| Blue wall danger. | ||
| Worry grows among top Democrats that Kamala Harris is stuck and sliding after a strong convention and debate. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Her media blitz spending advantage as largely favorable coverage doesn't seem to be moving the needle at all, Democrats say. | ||
| Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| This is devastation. | ||
| There's no path. | ||
| There's no path. | ||
| I think that it's because of the response to these hurricanes that have been so... | ||
| Damaging to her. | ||
| President Trump, obviously on the march, just got a notification from my county, Hillsborough County, that says the water is not safe to drink. | ||
| Again, another reason why we evacuated. | ||
| We evacuated. | ||
| It's saying boil your water. | ||
| There's no water pressure here. | ||
| And they can't give us a state on restoring power. | ||
| But I know that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna can. | ||
| She's a member of Congress. | ||
| She represents Pinellas County. | ||
| St. Petersburg area where the storm made landfall, the county that was the most direct hit. | ||
| And the congresswoman joins us now live from our phone. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Congresswoman, hey, thank you for being with us. | ||
| I know that you were only able to call in, but give us a quick update on your... | ||
| Your congressional district and status update after the hurricane. | ||
| Yeah, so actually, we ended up being a little bit north of the landfall, which was best case for worst case scenario for Tampa Bay. | ||
| So, you know, we are going to be assisting in Representative Verne Buchanan and Representative Stoobie's districts. | ||
| But what I can tell you is, you know, we had two cranes down. | ||
| The top of Tropicana Field was ripped off. | ||
| All electricity and water is currently down in St. Petersburg. | ||
| But I actually just talked to Duke Energy. | ||
| That'll be up and running shortly. | ||
| And actually, right before this call, Benny, I actually received a phone call from President Biden, if you want to ask about that. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Tell me all about it. | ||
| So, you know, it's been interesting because Biden has definitely been active in assisting... | ||
| DeSantis in this recovery response for Florida. | ||
| And as you saw everything that Kamala Harris did to really make this political and really just being nasty and attacking DeSantis when she hasn't even come down here. | ||
| She has no idea he even had to assist in relief efforts. | ||
| And then really just having a conversation with Biden about what needs to be done for the state of Florida. | ||
| It was definitely interesting to see kind of that parallel that exists because you really have the administration and Biden. | ||
| Who are assisting DeSantis and then Kamala Harris that is essentially going on national media and lying about DeSantis, lying about what's happening here in Florida. | ||
| So it's kind of an interesting parallel to see. | ||
| But what I also can tell you is, you know, from a bipartisan perspective, there's $15 billion of FEMA funding that we're trying to get directly to hurricane relief victims. | ||
| And Biden is supportive of that. | ||
| And he also mentioned that $750 for Americans is unacceptable. | ||
| So, you know, he seems to agree with that. | ||
| Kamala Harris seems to think otherwise. | ||
| Just a moment here. | ||
| Okay, so, Congresswoman, you spoke moments ago with President Biden. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Was he... | ||
| You've been a bit of a flamethrower. | ||
| Yes, most certainly. | ||
| Yes, and you're not a big fan of the president. | ||
| These times are bigger than politics. | ||
| So it's really heartwarming to actually see the people who are the leaders of this country... | ||
| Coming together to save Americans. | ||
| I mean, saving America and putting America first should be the one thing we all agree on. | ||
| It seems to be quite rare these days, however, in the actions of the Democrat Party. | ||
| And you're saying that President Biden simply called you to offer help, to offer consolation. | ||
| What else? | ||
| What else happened in that conversation? | ||
| He asked me specifically what Pinellas County needed and what I saw needed to change at the federal level in regards to getting assistance. | ||
| I kind of took off my Pinellas County hat, though, and also started advocating for North Carolina and Georgia because, as you know, those areas have also been impacted. | ||
| And North Carolina, my goodness, I mean, Asheville recovering from those efforts is going to take, if not months, years. | ||
| And so, you know, the FEMA cutting through the bureaucracy and the red tape is incredibly important right now. | ||
| And so we spoke about that. | ||
| Also spoke about the money going directly to Americans that have been only impacted by the hurricane. | ||
| So that is important dialogue to open up and message on. | ||
| But again, you know, it's interesting because you have this, you know, I always say observe the way that people respond in times of crisis. | ||
| Actions always speak louder than words. | ||
| So in a parallel, you have, you know, Tampa Bay largely working bipartisan to make sure that Tampa Bay residents are safe and secure. | ||
| You have DeSantis, who's a Republican governor that's working to ensure all Floridians are secure. | ||
| You have Biden understanding that he needs to help from the federal side to work with Governor DeSantis, even though it's a Democrat and Republican, to make sure that Americans are secure. | ||
| And then you have Kamala Harris. | ||
| Who decides to take that time to go on, call me daddy, and the view, trash DeSantis, trash Floridians, say that 750 is okay and expects to become the next president, and it's simply unacceptable. | ||
| So, you know, I have been very, very critical of Biden, but I appreciated his willingness to establish a dialogue and calling me on my phone, and I'm going to do whatever I can to ensure that my county, but also other Americans, are safe and secure and that we need to be doing our... | ||
| The number one job right now is to ensure that Americans are safe and that they're taken care of. | ||
| So that's where we're going to do it. | ||
| Did Biden sound with it, right? | ||
| Like, was he able to, like, carry on the conversation? | ||
| He was very... | ||
| I actually talked to him for about 10 minutes, and he seemed pretty focused on the issues at hand. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| I mean, this is good to hear. | ||
| At the expense of, like, getting roasted in the chat, like, we've praised Joe Biden for putting on a MAGA hat. | ||
| For clapping the backs of, like, Trump supporters. | ||
| It seems like since he stopped being the nominee, he's gone back to, he's reverted back to his factory settings, which was, like, good time, lunch pail, lunch bucket Joe. | ||
| We're no fans of Joe Biden, of course. | ||
| We don't want Joe Biden as president. | ||
| We want Donald Trump as president. | ||
| But it's great to see, sort of, like, maybe, like, the weight of such vicious partisanship and that curse lifted from him and him being able to, like, do this because this is what you actually want in a leader. | ||
| Yeah, I will say that it was absolutely refreshing to see that he was willing to call a very conservative critic of his to ensure that Pinellas County Floridians were taken care of. | ||
| And so we're putting politics aside and focusing on that. | ||
| Good. | ||
| Did you get any call from Kamala Harris? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| No calls from her. | ||
| Do you get it? | ||
| Do you get it? | ||
| And I know that this would be speculation because I doubt that you spoke about this. | ||
| But did you get any sense? | ||
| Do you have any sense that Joe Biden is actively sabotaging Kamala Harris? | ||
| Because from our take, Congresswoman, that's what it looks like. | ||
| So Kamala Harris comes out and critiques DeSantis. | ||
| Joe Biden's like, I like DeSantis. | ||
| He's on the ball. | ||
| He has my number. | ||
| We're working together. | ||
| He's now done that multiple times, Congresswoman. | ||
| I mean, I think he's... | ||
| It's just, you know, this is one of those situations where you can see who's trying to make it political, and you can see who actually understands the gravity of the position that they hold. | ||
| And I think that it's very obvious that there's been some issues. | ||
| Like, Jack Posobiec, I think, reported that there were some staffer issues with Harris and Biden's staff, right? | ||
| But I think that right now he knows that he has this position, and he can see what she's doing. | ||
| He probably doesn't agree with it. | ||
| I don't agree with how she's handling it. | ||
| But I'm actively sabotaging. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't really want to speculate, but what I can tell you is his response is a world of difference compared to hers. | ||
| That's for sure. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So, more of an indication about what we have at stake in this election. | ||
| And you really have skin in the game here, right? | ||
| Your county is hurting, and also the state that you represent, the state of Florida, is hurting. | ||
| There have been deaths reported. | ||
| I'm not sure if we have a death toll yet, but I know that there are 25 dead in Hurricane Helene and many, many people who had their lives devastated in this Hurricane Milton. | ||
| What's the status update as far as damage to your district and throughout the state? | ||
| Do you have any updates on that? | ||
| Yeah, we're still waiting on the total for infrastructure damage, but there's no doubt that in addition to the areas that were hit, not mentioning the tornadoes that completely went through multiple tornadoes making landfall and devastating, I mean, it's been and it probably will go down as one of the worst hurricanes that Florida has experienced. | ||
| I think because of how widespread it was. | ||
| But I will say that Governor DeSantis was ready, not just the first time, but the second time. | ||
| And compared to the responses in other states, it was also good to see that other governors of other states, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, even Walls, was willing to say, hey, we need to stand up and assist. | ||
| But then you see Kamala Harris again going and trashing DeSantis. | ||
| So it's just one of these things. | ||
| It's like now is not the time to do that. | ||
| Kamala, take the... | ||
| Take a hint from every other person to include other prominent Democrats that are saying, hey, we need to focus on residents right now. | ||
| And, you know, I think that people will see that moving forward. | ||
| But what I will say is it was actually heartwarming to see that President Trump put up linemen in his hotels because, you know, those guys, along with our first responders, are the first ones on the ground. | ||
| They're the ones out there working so hard and sometimes, you know, not really given the credit that's due. | ||
| So our linemen were taken care of, and I'm very excited for this November. | ||
| I can tell you, I don't know about how voting's going to look in Florida. | ||
| Maybe some of these areas go to paper ballot, voter ID in person only. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I would like to see that, but in the event that it does happen, I'm going to be there on election day, and I encourage you all to do it as well. | ||
| So this is a great point. | ||
| We talked about this at the start of the show. | ||
| The difference in the way that Kamala Harris, because on the ballot, it's not going to be Joe Biden. | ||
| It's going to be Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump. | ||
| And the difference between them, and I'll put it up right now, the difference between, so on the screen here right now, Congresswoman, is the video of Donald Trump welcoming hundreds of linemen into his resorts to put them up and to help people survive this storm. | ||
| The difference between America First and America Last year couldn't be more stark, the way that Kamala Harris has handled this and the way that Donald Trump has. | ||
| Most certainly. | ||
| And I think that, again, actions speak louder than words. | ||
| So when you're seeing people respond that way and you're looking to see what your political leaders and elected officials will do in times of crisis, I mean, this even goes as far as what happened when President Trump was shot, right? | ||
| Like, his initial reaction was to stand up and say, fight, fight, fight. | ||
| And I think that that's what we need in our country right now is a strong alpha energy level leader. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Alpha energy. | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| Every parent knows it. | ||
| Thank you again. | ||
| I know we've said it before, but I want to thank you in closing here, Congresswoman. | ||
| It is because of your urgent messages that I was able to get my family out. | ||
| I know that you evacuated as well. | ||
| You're a young mother. | ||
| And I just, on behalf of my family, I thank you for your warning. | ||
| It turned out to be incredibly accurate. | ||
| This storm could have been much worse, but it did have a direct hit right in the area where we live. | ||
| And so I just say, once again, profoundly, thank you. | ||
| Thanks, Benny. | ||
| We'll talk soon. | ||
| Thanks, Congressman. | ||
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| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Doing our best here, right, with what we have to get this show done. | ||
| You can hear the Congresswoman speaking there as she's trying to establish a little bit of I know that she's headed back right now, and so we very much thank the Congresswoman for her time. | ||
| And also, Ron DeSantis will be doing a live press conference soon with the damage from an actual damaged location here in the state of Florida, it looks like. | ||
| You can see here on the... | ||
| Live feed. | ||
| Pop it up right here. | ||
| This is the live feed of Governor DeSantis. | ||
| You can see a building that has been devastated or collapsed in some capacity. | ||
| I don't know exactly where this is. | ||
| We do know that the death toll for the state of Florida is now at 10 for this hurricane. | ||
| It is now at 10 for this hurricane. | ||
| Hundreds more for the hurricane season if you were to add Hurricane Helene, North Carolina, Georgia. | ||
| And the devastation there, according to our sources, there may be thousands who actually died, and it'll take a very long time to actually get through all of that to get the full assessment of the damage for both of these hurricanes. | ||
| So, again, ladies and gentlemen, we'll see if the governor steps to that mic and gives a briefing on exactly where... | ||
| What the state of the state is as of right now. | ||
| Again, you can see it looks like a cop car. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It looks like a completely collapsed building. | ||
| Total destruction there where the governor will be giving his remarks. | ||
| Donald Trump is still short on Secret Service detail despite assassination attempts, okay, according to whistleblowers. | ||
| Great, great. | ||
| Here's another whistleblower just moving on to obviously making sure that we protect President Trump, especially in these times as President Trump moves closer and closer to the inevitable, the great return. | ||
| We're going to have, well, more and more danger, I think. | ||
| Yeah, another whistleblower has come forward to reveal that the U.S. Secret Service is still not providing the maximum security protection for former President Trump. | ||
| After two assassination attempts at the same number of months over the summer, lawmakers... | ||
| Republicans and Trump supporters have called for massive increase in security detail for the 2020 presidential frontrunner. | ||
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| Boys, this is an article. | ||
| Do you need help getting it? | ||
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| You know what? | ||
| We're making it work here. | ||
| Don't worry, boys. | ||
| I gotcha. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| Donald Trump's still short on secret service. | ||
| After two assassination attempts, Secret Service officials are blocking Department of Homeland Security auditors from assessing Trump rallies because they were trying to hide the fact that Trump isn't receiving the full extent of protection, according to revelations from Josh Hawley. | ||
| Multiple investigators, both congressional and government agencies, are looking into the security failures of the U.S. Secret Service assassination attempts against Trump. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| So why would you block the investigators? | ||
| This is like... | ||
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| If a cop shows up, and you're driving, and he says, if a cop pulls you over for speeding ticket, and he says, he comes up to the window, and you're profusely sweating, and you're shaking, and you say, don't look in my trunk, then the cop's going to assume that you have something to hide. | ||
| The cop's going to assume there's a body in your trunk, or something like that. | ||
| This is the governmental equivalent of that happening here within the Secret Service. | ||
| The Secret Service is hiding those who are investigating it from looking into its agency. | ||
| Now, I can tell you this, that when we went to Trump's Butler rally, there was a massive presence of Secret Service military-level snipers on every rooftop who were strapped, locked, and loaded with tripods and with some real heavy-duty equipment. | ||
| So, the difference was shocking and stark, yet Josh Hawley, who's been so good on these whistleblowers, straight up saying, no, man, it's still not fixed. | ||
| The agency, former Director Kim Cheadle, resigned in the wake of the first assassination attempt, and the Secret Service vows that it has upped the security detail around Trump. | ||
| Congress even passed a law last month that requires major party presidential candidates to receive the same level of security as sitting presidents, but Hawley alleged in a letter that acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe on Monday, That Trump is not receiving the highest level of Secret Service protection. | ||
| The whistleblower alleged that the Secret Service denied access to DHS auditors because former President Trump is not receiving the full level of protectiveness for his events. | ||
| Well, we saw this. | ||
| We saw this with the second assassination attempt. | ||
| How many assassinations have they had to have with this guy? | ||
| The second assassination attempt, some dude was able to just, like, wander up and wander right under Donald Trump's golf course. | ||
| How is it possible? | ||
| How is that still possible? | ||
| Do you know that that guy had an eyeline sight of Trump? | ||
| He was only 300 yards away. | ||
| That professional snipers train up to 2,000 yards. | ||
| The longest sniper shot in human history was like 4,000 yards, I think. | ||
| And so a trained sniper could have absolutely eliminated Trump on his golf course, and the Secret Service would have had nothing. | ||
| He was 300 yards away. | ||
| That's a pot shot. | ||
| So this is clearly true. | ||
| Here's a letter here from Hawley. | ||
| So, again, pray for President Trump. | ||
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| Like, as Donald Trump becomes more and more, I don't want to use the word inevitable, but as the groundwork pays off, and as Kamala descends into the abyss and the basic unelectability, like inability to even rig it for Kamala Harris, You're going to have desperate measures. | ||
| You're going to have desperate measures happening. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Want to make sure that we touch on something heartwarming here. | ||
| We have made national news. | ||
| And I want to thank our team for, well, you know, doing our best to red pill the country. | ||
| We have made national news as we have been the red pill pharmacist. | ||
| Poor NFL wives. | ||
| And we just want to say thank you to all of the wonderful NFL wives and girlfriends, wags they call them, who follow along on Instagram and share our content and create national news headlines like this. | ||
| NFL star's wife sparks a liberal meltdown after sharing pro-Trump post. | ||
| It was our post. | ||
| Oh yeah, baby. | ||
| YouTuber Benny Johnson is the post that was shared. | ||
| Housing, the Florida lineman. | ||
| This was the post that was shared by Tua. | ||
| I don't watch the NFL. | ||
| I don't know how to pronounce his last name. | ||
| Tagovovov. | ||
| I tell you all that I don't watch sports. | ||
| I'm not playing dumb here. | ||
| I just don't watch. | ||
| I do this all day. | ||
| This is my sport, so I don't know how to pronounce. | ||
| I'm just going to call him Tua. | ||
| Flattering post about Donald Trump. | ||
| Come at me. | ||
| I don't need to see Taylor Swift. | ||
| I don't need to see, like, 20 hours of Taylor Swift, like, sitting inside of a box, sipping a drink like Kamala Harris sips a beer. | ||
| I don't need to see that. | ||
| That's what the NFL has turned into, and everyone should be humiliated at that, all right? | ||
| So I want to say thank you to Tua's wife. | ||
| He's the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. | ||
| President Trump is housing 275 linemen, so she shared our post. | ||
| Shout out to Ashley. | ||
| We call her the amazing Ashley. | ||
| She's in Philadelphia. | ||
| The amazing Ashley holding it down in a must-win statement for President Trump. | ||
| She is our Instagram extraordinaire. | ||
| Anyway, on Instagram, we've got some NFL wives who are sharing our content. | ||
| And her name is Anna. | ||
| Anna is the wife of injured Dolphin quarterback Tua. | ||
| Since she shared a post on Instagram, leading to the division among her followers on social media. | ||
| Such a brave and strong woman, one fan wrote. | ||
| Well, yeah, that's true. | ||
| It is brave and strong. | ||
| But also makes a lot of sense. | ||
| Here's the actual post. | ||
| Extend to it even longer. | ||
| Such a brave, strong woman. | ||
| That's a good woman. | ||
| Someone votes based on their tax bracket. | ||
| Well, yeah, duh. | ||
| Actually, everyone should vote based on their tax bracket, except for a bunch of freeloaders. | ||
| A bunch of freeloaders, like, in this country. | ||
| My producers are all ripping me for not knowing how to pronounce this name. | ||
| It is a hard name to pronounce. | ||
| And I have been open about the fact that I do not watch the NFL. | ||
| I'm not a hater. | ||
| I want to say thank you to this beautiful person, to Anna here. | ||
| I want to say thank you to Anna. | ||
| Anna, who met Tua at the... | ||
| See, even the Daily Mail just says Tua. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Even the Daily Mail. | ||
| The University of Alabama, they have two children with the NFL star. | ||
| Guys, do we have the actual post? | ||
| Everyone's ripping me. | ||
| I got multiple team members who are from Miami, and they are now destroying me for not knowing how to say it. | ||
| Here's the post itself. | ||
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| And this is our post. | ||
| So we say thank you. | ||
| We say thank you to Anna. | ||
| You are a great American. | ||
| You're brave. | ||
| You're much like Patrick Mahomes' wife, who's like an open Trump supporter. | ||
| If you are a mother of children and you want those children to grow up in a free and strong America and to be protected from the monsters that wish to destroy their lives and destroy it, it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor. | ||
| Rising tide floats all boats. | ||
| The income bracket doesn't really matter here. | ||
| By the way, like, the income brackets for people who are NFL players, like, they pay the vast majority of the income tax in this country. | ||
| Half of Americans pay zero income tax. | ||
| Zero tax. | ||
| Half of the country. | ||
| So how's the rest of everything else supposed to function? | ||
| People like Hannah and her successful husband, like, you have to go through a lot to get to their level. | ||
| Like, they're the ones who actually share this burden, and so you should want for the country to be run effectively and for that to not be squandered. | ||
| People in this income bracket have half of their salaries taken by the federal and state governments. | ||
| Thankfully, your husband plays in the state of Florida, so there's no income tax here. | ||
| That's a great reason to want to play for one of the Florida NFL teams, obviously. | ||
| But this is us just doing our part, right? | ||
| We're doing our part. | ||
| We're red-pilling NFL wives, and we're deeply, deeply thankful. | ||
| For the bravery of the strong mothers out there. | ||
| Strong and successful mothers out there who are willing to actually speak up and not be frauds like Taylor Swift. | ||
| And I'll say it. | ||
| I'll say it. | ||
| Why would Taylor Swift want anything to change? | ||
| Taylor Swift's a billionaire. | ||
| These last four years have been great for Taylor Swift. | ||
| It would actually be thoughtful for Taylor Swift to say, wait a second, my fans, unhappy catwomen, their lives are horrible. | ||
| They can't afford groceries. | ||
| The economy is a wreck. | ||
| They can't afford homes. | ||
| My, like, Gen Z and millennial fans, they can't buy houses. | ||
| They're doing very poorly. | ||
| So I am not going to sabotage them with four more years of this. | ||
| And Kamala Harris has said time and time again, give me the view, Kamala Harris. | ||
| Give me the view, Kamala Harris, right now. | ||
| Kamala Harris has said time and time again, I'm not going to change anything. | ||
| So the collapse that we have seen in the affordability and accessibility of the American dream, the collapse that we have seen, This is going to continue. | ||
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| Just pop that up as a play beside, please. | ||
| This is going to continue. | ||
| So actually, what it means to be somebody in leadership or somebody who has a great... | ||
| I want to say this. | ||
| This is what Anna's doing here. | ||
| And I say it like I know her. | ||
| But what Anna's doing here... | ||
| I've never met her. | ||
| And I'm sorry that I cannot pronounce your husband's last name. | ||
| What Anna is doing... | ||
| Is the most selfless thing, actually. | ||
| It's not voting her tax bracket. | ||
| She's defending an America where poor people and rich people are able to have access to the American dream. | ||
| What Kamala's done is make that utterly unaffordable for all of the rest of this country. | ||
| And she's promised that she'll continue to do it. | ||
| Okay, boys, here we go. | ||
| Well, if anything... | ||
| Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years? | ||
| There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. | ||
| Okay, so this is Kamala Harris saying she's not going to change anything. | ||
| So, Anna versus Taylor Swift. | ||
| Final thing, I'll follow commentary on this. | ||
| So you have Anna to his wife versus Taylor Swift, all right? | ||
| They're both either NFL wives or girlfriends. | ||
| Taylor Swift is saying, F you, screw my fans, my young fans, screw you. | ||
| We know life sucks for you. | ||
| We know that the satisfaction with America is at all-time lows. | ||
| Satisfaction with the way things are going, that housing, affordability, the job market is at all-time lows, that things have been wrecked under this administration, but it's been good for me. | ||
| So I'm going to want more of that. | ||
| I'm a billionaire now, so more for me. | ||
| More for me. | ||
| That's selfishness. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| What Anna's doing is what is actually unselfish. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, speaking of a man who's been working really hard here, Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Is this just live? | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| Ron DeSantis just steps to the microphone live. | ||
| Let's rock with the governor. | ||
| God bless these NFL wives who are doing their part. | ||
| Can't hear him. | ||
| Can't hear anything. | ||
| Can't hear anything, guys. | ||
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| Hey, Robbie. | ||
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| Sorry about this, boys. | ||
| This is, like, chat. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| We're just ripping it. | ||
| We're doing it live. | ||
| We're doing our best. | ||
| Let's go, and let's start from the beginning, please. | ||
| We need to have backup feeds for this stuff. | ||
| This is just what happens when we're outside of the studio. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, before we take DeSantis live, before we take DeSantis live, hey guys, put it up when it's ready to go. | ||
| Alright? | ||
| Put it up when it's actually ready to go. | ||
| I'm like, ALX, take control here, please. | ||
| Everyone, just do what ALX says. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| So the entire team, the entire team is just, the entire team is split, is like a thousand miles away from each other right now. | ||
| So this is just how it works, right? | ||
| When we're, when you have to let her, when you have to let her rip like this. | ||
| Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We got Governor DeSantis ready to go with the hurricane briefing. | ||
| Let's rock. | ||
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| Hey, here's what I'm going to do. | ||
| Definitely dozens of rescues. | ||
| I know our local partners are doing. | ||
| We've been supportive of really everywhere around the state, including here. | ||
| And we'll continue to do that, but my sense is that will stabilize and we're probably going to be on a pretty good footing there pretty soon if we're not already. | ||
| As people know, we've had massive power outages, which was expected. | ||
| I'd say this is probably similar to Hurricanes Irma and Ian in terms of the number of outages. | ||
| I think we're up to, I think currently now it's about 3.4 million that are out. | ||
| I think they've restored about 700,000 since the storm started. | ||
| So just do the math, you're over 4 million have lost power since the start of this storm. | ||
| Fortunately, Florida, we pre-staged 50,000 linemen throughout the state of Florida. | ||
| And so those folks are going to work. | ||
| And it's not as easy to do when you've just had Hurricane Helene, a lot of these linemen. | ||
| There's still hundreds of thousands of people. | ||
| Without power in North Carolina, Georgia, some of those states. | ||
| You know, Helene in Florida, we did 2.4 million restorations in record time. | ||
| That's not the norm. | ||
| And so finding the linemen, given what they're doing now, we brought them in from as far away as California. | ||
| But those folks are there. | ||
| There's assessments being done about what needs to be done. | ||
| When you have downed power lines, that's actually easy for them to do. | ||
| They just put the pole back up, reconnect it. | ||
| A system needs a rebuild. | ||
| That will take a little longer. | ||
| We don't know that that's the case in many of these spots. | ||
| I remember in Hurricane Ian, which was stronger than this one, hit Fort Myers Beach, and FPL substation on Fort Myers Beach right there at Ground Zero was fine. | ||
| They could have had people hooked up to power days later. | ||
| Just the people's homes couldn't accept it because of the storm surge. | ||
| So all that is going on, and we're happy to have pre-staged those resources. | ||
| Because I think it's really important that we'll be able to do. | ||
| We're also assessing the need for things like points of distribution. | ||
| We typically will set up these pods with water, food, tarps, things of that nature. | ||
| I think we will be doing some pods. | ||
| A lot of this is based on what the counties ask us for. | ||
| But I also think you're probably going to see a lot of the stores and gas stations reopen very quickly. | ||
| At least that's our hope. | ||
| We're also looking at the damage that was done to the ports in Florida. | ||
| East Coast, I don't think there was very much. | ||
| If any, Port of Tampa seems like it's okay. | ||
| Manatee, that remains to be seen. | ||
| But bottom line is we've got to keep bringing fuel into this state. | ||
| I know there's a lot on the dock side still that can be brought out. | ||
| We've got 1.5 million gallons of diesel. | ||
| on hand that we can use for the state and to help replenish. | ||
| And I think we've got about 1.1 million gallons of regular gasoline just in our arsenal. | ||
| And then we've also deputized the Florida Highway Patrol to escort the fuel tankers with sirens to be able to get to all the gas stations to get filled. | ||
| I think you're probably going to be okay on the east coast of Florida. | ||
| Some of the places in the Tampa Bay area when there was evacuation. | ||
| Everyone was going to get gas, and some people were filling up additional tanks in addition to what was in their car with the gallon containers or whatever they have, which is fine, but just the demand went through the roof. | ||
| And so these guys ran out. | ||
| We had enough fuel in the state. | ||
| It's just they didn't have the delivery schedule to be able to replenish it immediately, so you had some that went out. | ||
| So we've been doing this. | ||
| I think we've done probably about 130 escorts. | ||
| With Florida Highway Patrol bringing this in, we'll continue to do that. | ||
| So my hope is that there's minimal interruption with fuel on the backside of this storm. | ||
| We've had a lot of people have been working very hard. | ||
| I think as most of you know, we've been doing this now for two and a half weeks from the time we declared the state of emergency before Hurricane Helene and then in the aftermath of Helene. | ||
| And then, you know, we work on Helene for a week in terms of the response and the recovery. | ||
| And then we got to do another state of emergency for Hurricane Milton. | ||
| And it's just the way you go. | ||
| So people have been working 24 /7, particularly on the west coast of Florida. | ||
| We got a lot of first responders that have been working really hard. | ||
| Kevin and his team, all of our state agencies get mobilized when we have these types of events, and they've been working nonstop. | ||
| So my hat's off to everybody that's worked hard. | ||
| Unfortunately, we have the fatalities from this tornado here. | ||
| We don't have confirmed reports of other fatalities throughout the rest of the state. | ||
| We may, as the day goes on. | ||
| My sense is that a lot of the people did leave who were in the evacuation zones. | ||
| I know we had over 80,000 people staying in shelters. | ||
| You had massive heavy traffic on the interstates over the last several days leading up to the storm because I think people were deciding to just get out of Dodge. | ||
| We also can say that the storm did not produce The worst case scenario in terms of storm surge. | ||
| If you remember about 24 hours ago, maybe 36 hours ago, the fear was a Category 4, Strong 4 going into Tampa Bay, producing about 15 feet of storm surge. | ||
| That's an area with Pinellas County Peninsula and then the surrounding areas in Hillsborough County. | ||
| That is very low-lying, very susceptible to storm surge. | ||
| That did not end up happening. | ||
| The storm did weaken before it hit land, and then it did bear further to the east and south of Tampa Bay. | ||
| So I think a lot of what they had was the wind sucked water out of Tampa Bay. | ||
| You did have storm surge in Sarasota, Venice, Charlotte Harbor, and all the way down the west coast of Florida, and some significant storm surge. | ||
| But not the worst-case scenario of what we were looking at. | ||
| I mean, for example, Helene, we had storm surge in Taylor County up in North Florida that was probably about 20 feet. | ||
| In places like Deagle Beach and Horseshoe Beach. | ||
| And that is the real deal. | ||
| I mean, we have examples in American history where you've actually had a lot more than that. | ||
| 24, 25 feet. | ||
| Mississippi, Texas, Camille, some of those. | ||
| But to have 18 to 20, that's a big deal. | ||
| So doesn't mean there's not going to be a lot of damage. | ||
| Doesn't mean there's not going to be a lot we're going to have to contend with. | ||
| But just in terms of what we were prepped for. | ||
| I think that we probably have an abundance of resources. | ||
| My sense is we'll probably be able to release a lot of the search and rescue resources that we've had on hand very soon. | ||
| And then just get back to getting everybody back online with power, making sure the gasoline's flowing and everything. | ||
| So all in all, everyone's done a good job up to this point. | ||
| We've got a lot more work to do. | ||
| And I'll let Kevin come in and say a few things. | ||
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Thank you, Governor. | |
| I think in this situation here where we're at, the strength of what happened here is organically our state mutual aid system. | ||
| The very first group that was on hand here was a Palm Beach County Fire Rescue search and rescue team. | ||
| That's not even officially a part of our state aid team search and rescue team system. | ||
| Maybe we want to change that in the future and put them on that, but that Type 3 team, which is Self-funded, 100% by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue was the first ones in to this situation, followed up by Miami-Dade Task Force 1, and then Ohio and Virginia Task Force. | ||
| And again, I think, again, that's just a strength of not just the state emergency response team, the state emergency response plan, but also outside states helping states. | ||
| You know, some people were a little critical of the governor sending state assets up to North Carolina, but... | ||
| Right here, when we needed them, of course, we got all those guys back. | ||
| But immediately, Virginia, Ohio, California, and other states from around the country had their assets right here. | ||
| So, you know, this is one of those examples the sheriff was telling us about this when we were walking up. | ||
| He was very grateful for those assets being in here so quickly. | ||
| That's the strength of the state emergency response team, the state emergency response plan, and then the greater emergency management assistance compact that we pull from. | ||
| So we're not going anywhere. | ||
| We're going to be here. | ||
| This is the first day of many, many to come, probably over the next couple of years. | ||
| Again, it's going to take us a long time to get all the recovery done, but we're not going to let bureaucracy get in the way. | ||
| We're going to get this done quickly, as quickly as we possibly can. | ||
| So thank you, Governor, for your leadership. | ||
| Do you want to maybe just give an update on what we think we're going to get from FEMA for debris removal? | ||
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Sure, yeah. | |
| Obviously, we're going to start getting back in the debris removal business. | ||
| We're going to supplement where we need to supplement, but we had a really good conversation with Administrator Criswell, who is here in Florida and is actually on our way somewhere in this general direction. | ||
| She is working with us on how we can ensure that debris gets picked up quickly. | ||
| The right word is not incentivize it, but if you're in the private sector, it would be, how do we incentivize? | ||
| Haulers to get stuff picked up faster, bringing in people from around the country to get that done. | ||
| We're also looking at potentially, again, a mutual aid effort where we may bring in some city and county assets that have the claw trucks and the loader trucks from around the state of Florida and maybe even outside the state of Florida to help us get that stuff picked up. | ||
| So again, she's very, very helpful on getting those things done, making sure that we got everything that we need. | ||
| We will be submitting, hopefully by this afternoon, now that we got post-landfall, we got some data. | ||
| We'll be submitting, through the governor's signature, a major disaster expedited request so that we can get those federal funds turned on and start looking for reimbursement. | ||
| But again, we're not going to wait on the feds for reimbursement. | ||
| We're going to do what we need to do, do the right thing, get people in Florida innings back on their feet. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, so, you know, this whole debris, it's just... | ||
| I mean, you had like in Pinellas, they didn't want to do the debris as fast because they weren't sure about the paperwork and about FEMA reimburse. | ||
| And it's like, you know, you got to get the debris off. | ||
| And these storms, because of the way it's done, really incentivizes it to go a lot longer with the debris. | ||
| And sometimes the debris in these major storms is around for a year. | ||
| And how ridiculous is that? | ||
| So what Kevin's doing, and I think the administration wants to work with us, is to let's align these incentives so we can get the job better. | ||
| You'd think the private sector would do it so much better than government. | ||
| At least that's what I would think. | ||
| And yet, on this debris after Helene... | ||
| When we saw how much was there and we knew another storm was coming, we got all our Department of Transportation assets from Florida. | ||
| We were bringing trucks in from all over the state that are doing their normal duties, and we surged them over to the barrier islands off the Gulf Coast of Florida. | ||
| And we did like 3,000 truckloads of debris, reduced the debris by 50% in 72 hours. | ||
| And we did round the clock. | ||
| We had 24-7 shifts going. | ||
| But that's a sense of urgency. | ||
| So I just think that, you know, that may be an extreme like doing 24-7, but I mean, you should be able to get the debris done earlier than that. | ||
| So I'm hoping that they can do this in a way that's going to make sense so that the local governments can bring their contractors in and clean up the debris. | ||
| We'll see what the debris was left on this storm. | ||
| I don't think we have a real good sense about how much compared to the other. | ||
| I mean, I think the storm surge overall was not as high as the others. | ||
| But I also think the winds hit more of the Florida Peninsula on this. | ||
| So I think in terms of tree damage, I think you're going to see a lot of that. | ||
| And then, of course, we had more tornadoes for Milton than we did for Helene. | ||
| So we'll see how all that shakes out. | ||
| But I really think... | ||
| Getting a better posture on how they do the debris reimbursements would make a lot of sense, and I think it would move this process along a lot further. | ||
| And it's also just the morale thing. | ||
| You get hit with a storm. | ||
| Seeing debris is just a constant reminder that you got hit. | ||
| When things get picked up, things look nice, people feel a lot better about it. | ||
| So we've got to make sure they get that job done. | ||
| Okay, do we have any questions? | ||
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Yeah, governor, have you spoken with the White House, anyone there about the response here? | |
| Yes, I spoke with the president this morning, and Kevin was on the phone with me. | ||
| The administrator of FEMA was in the office with us in Tallahassee at the Emergency Operations Center, and he said he wants to be helpful. | ||
| And so if we have a request, he said send them his way, and he wants to help us get the job done. | ||
| So I appreciate being able to collaborate across the federal, state, and local governments and work together to put the people first. | ||
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How is this tornado touchdown in the county versus state? | |
| I don't know the answer to that. | ||
| I mean, I think it's, so, you know, you do have these tornadoes, the warnings, how many actually touched down is probably a different one. | ||
| But I would say what I've seen so far is that St. Lucie had the most tornado damage of anyone I've seen. | ||
| Do you, is that what your reports? | ||
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Yeah, and we know that we had over 120 tornado warnings statewide. | |
| It's probably going to be higher than that. | ||
| All of those tornado confirmations come from your local weather forecasting office. | ||
| So those individuals that come around and confirm all of those tornadoes. | ||
| We have four meteorologists that said that we had probably in the neighborhood of 20 to 25 radar-indicated tornadoes. | ||
| All that means is that they see a debris signature in the circulation. | ||
| But again, the weather forecasting offices of the National Weather Service will actually verify those tornadoes. | ||
| Excuse me? | ||
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Sorry, was that in Tennessee County alone in 2025? | |
| No, no. | ||
| Statewide. | ||
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Statewide. | |
| Yep. | ||
| Can we share a person, excuse me? | ||
| I know we've got four deaths. | ||
| In the same area. | ||
| As our rescue team is still out there. | ||
| This is a rescue mission. | ||
| We're sifting through the debris. | ||
| They just recently, right before this conference, located another victim, unfortunately. | ||
| Again, we're going to continue through this. | ||
| You know, we're so grateful that the governor sat down. | ||
| This was during the storm. | ||
| He sent down the National Guard. | ||
| So while we're all hunkering down, trying to stay safe. | ||
| These men and women are driving through the storm to get here, and they work throughout the night, and their actions 100% saved lives, saved our lives. | ||
| Governor, I know before the storm, there was a great talk about the debris from Colleen. | ||
| How much worse did this storm make? | ||
| Well, I think that'll be assessed today. | ||
| I can tell you, whatever happened, had we not done what we did, With that 72-hour project to take every truck in Florida and help these counties and these cities. | ||
| You know, some of these contractors were doing the debris, and then they left and went to North Carolina because they could make more money there. | ||
| And then others were working like banker's hours. | ||
| And I'm just thinking to myself, how the hell is that something that's acceptable? | ||
| And so we came in and we said, not only are we going to send all these assets, it's going to be 24-7. | ||
| So the first night... | ||
| We go there and the county, I think it was Pinellas, they didn't have the landfill open 24 /7. | ||
| So our guys cut the locks and we started doing it. | ||
| And you had all these, not just the state trucks, you had private citizens with their Ford F-250 pickup trucks that were loading debris. | ||
| Massive amounts in. | ||
| So we said we got to keep it going. | ||
| Then the next night... | ||
| There were two entrances, and they closed one of the entrances, and there were 300 cars in line. | ||
| So we somehow rigged that and opened that up. | ||
| So this is just like, where's the sense of urgency? | ||
| So it may be that this debris ended up not causing much more damage. | ||
| But if it did cause more damage, I could tell you, had we not come in and did what we did, you would have had a lot more. | ||
| And the thing is, is like... | ||
| Like, I mean, I tell Kevin, I'm like, look, we want to be helpful and we will be helpful. | ||
| But, you know, the state's job is not to pick up the debris. | ||
| Like, that's the local community's responsibility. | ||
| And so this was an extraordinary circumstance where we came in and did it. | ||
| And I think part of the reason, and I don't think, I think there was enough debris there that I don't think you could have gotten it all in two weeks, realistically. | ||
| I mean, there clearly was not a sense of urgency after the first storm hit. | ||
| And yes, we we knew there may be another one. | ||
| Then they said, well, just a rainstorm, maybe not this and that. | ||
| But then by last weekend, by like last Friday, we were looking at it like, you know what? | ||
| This this is this is real. | ||
| We got to be serious about it. | ||
| And then we did the executive order on Saturday. | ||
| So, you know, but I definitely think we help things by doing that. | ||
| And as of now. | ||
| I'm not sure about structural damage on any of the roads there. | ||
| I'm going to go over to Siesta Key after this in Sarasota. | ||
| That was kind of ground zero of where the surge came in. | ||
| You know, we just repaired one of the roads from Longbow Key up to Anna Maria. | ||
| Do you know how that's fared? | ||
| Have we gotten any reports? | ||
| So we did emergency repairs on that, got it back open. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| We may have to do some more repairs on that. | ||
| I think that there may have been some small bridges throughout the state that have some damage. | ||
| The big bridges we have, In the Tampa Bay area, Gandy, Howard Franklin, I know Sunshine Skyway is going to be open if it's not already. | ||
| The other two are open. | ||
| Courtney Campbell will be open as soon as they move the debris and finish the debris removal. | ||
| So all being told, you're going to have all those major bridges back open if they're not already. | ||
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So, Governor, do you have any ballparks of building ongoing rescuers here around the state? | |
| Thank you. | ||
| No, because I think it's, you know, we do our rest. | ||
| So we've got Florida National Guard, Florida Fish and Wildlife, Florida State Guard, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Department of Law Enforcement. | ||
| And they will do their own rescues by themselves. | ||
| But then we also have the local outfits. | ||
| So the Sheriff's Department in Sarasota and Bradenton, police departments, fire departments. | ||
| Sometimes we do join operations, but a lot of the times if someone calls 911, they're going. | ||
| My sense would be, and Kevin can chime in on this, we've probably had less demand for rescues on Milton than we did on Helene. | ||
| Do you agree? | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| I agree. | ||
| We do have a number of federal and state assets out there doing search and rescue and everything the governor said. | ||
| The Florida Urban Search and Rescue teams are associated with fire departments across the state of Florida. | ||
| All of those are in the fight. | ||
| They're all out there actively assessing and looking for people right now. | ||
| They will do a door-to-door, especially in the landfall area, the landfall path. | ||
| We've got them stretched from here in St. Lucie all the way over to where landfall happened and all the way up to the northeast coast of Florida. | ||
| Once we finish all that, so I would literally, to your question, say there's hundreds of rescues ongoing. | ||
| But to the governor's point, as we were driving in today, I see Sheriff Chronister doing active rescues in Hillsborough County. | ||
| I see active rescues going on in Pinellas County and so on. | ||
| So they're going on organically at the local level, at the state level, and then the federal teams that are here supplementing our state ongoing response are also here. | ||
| But I would say, I think for Helene, I think the first 24 to 36 hours, I think there were statewide, local, state combined, there were probably thousands of rescues. | ||
| My sense would be we're probably in the hundreds. | ||
| of rescues statewide so far. | ||
| But I think you're going to see, because we had more inland flooding, you're going to see some floods happen in the ensuing days. | ||
| And you may have to have some people go in and do some rescues there. | ||
| So I think you may see it be ongoing. | ||
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Can we have an update from the federal level? | |
| If you have to take a longer time to update us on what's going on federally? | ||
| As Governor spoke about, FEMA Administrator Creswell is headed here on the ground. | ||
| And the only thing I was asked to it Governor's done a fantastic job just being an air traffic control tower for all of this. | ||
| Making sure the old saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. | ||
| From the governor's office to the sheriff's department across the state, state representatives, state senators, Florida Highway Patrol, National Guard, FDLE, Florida Power and Light. | ||
| Everybody made sure they could do every ounce of prevention. | ||
| And they're working with the update from the federal side. | ||
| They're all working. | ||
| And just so, I think the notice for this said that Administrator FEMA was going to be here. | ||
| That was the intention. | ||
| But I think her plane got diverted over to Sarasota. | ||
| So I think she's going to be at our Sarasota briefing when we do that later today. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
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What damage have you assessed in Western St. Lucie County by unincorporated farmland? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So the unincorporated farmland is agricultural. | ||
| We haven't had any really reports of Structural damages, because it's just that, agricultural. | ||
| Right now, we're focusing on rescue missions, and that area is to that half-square-mile radius there in northern Fort Pierce that we're doing the active rescues in. | ||
| Everybody else is accounted for, although there's damage throughout the county. | ||
| The agricultural area, again, is just that, agricultural area. | ||
| So we'll get to that. | ||
| We're just prioritizing things right now. | ||
| It's still an active rescue mission. | ||
| Yes, we're going to attribute those deaths to that specific area that we're doing active rescues in. | ||
| Again, we're focusing on trying to rescue as many people as we can. | ||
| With the National Guard, with the SARS teams in here, and the amazing men and women of the Sheriff's Office and Fire Rescue, we were able to get 25 people out of there and get them in a safe area. | ||
| But again, the work's not over. | ||
| They worked through this storm. | ||
| They worked before the storm, during the storm, and they're going to continue to work until we make sure that anybody there that needs to be rescued will be rescued. | ||
| Obviously, with every hurricane, tornadoes are a concern, but it seems like the story of Hurricane Milton really is all of the tornadoes. | ||
| Have you ever seen something of this magnitude as far as the number of tornadoes and the amount of damage they did? | ||
| Well, I mean, every hurricane, we have a lot of tornadoes spun off. | ||
| I think we may have had more tornado warnings on this one than the typical hurricane, I would think. | ||
| But to see what happened here, sadly, that is not something that's uncommon. | ||
| These tornadoes, I mean, when Mother Nature, I mean, this is just churning, churning. | ||
| Things churn off these weather systems, and it's just devastating. | ||
| And so this is unfortunately something that is kind of normal with the big storm. | ||
| We probably had more warnings than we would with normal storms, and especially the ones that come across the peninsula like this. | ||
| You could get it. | ||
| I mean, you've got east coast of Florida. | ||
| Palm Beach, St. Lucie, a bunch of stuff happened over here, and you were probably hundreds of miles away from the eye of the storm at the time. | ||
| Those tornadoes were spun off, but that is to be expected to a certain extent. | ||
| Tornadoes? | ||
| I think you could go back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure. | ||
| And especially, you know, Florida. | ||
| How does this storm rate in... | ||
| In kind of the history of storms, I think it hit with a barometric pressure of, what was it, about 950 millibars when it hit? | ||
| Which I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, so the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. | ||
| I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did. | ||
| And of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. | ||
| And the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. | ||
| Barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. | ||
| It totally wiped out the keys. | ||
| We've never seen anything like it. | ||
| And that remains head and shoulders above any The most powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida. | ||
| The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928. | ||
| The Okeechobee Hurricane killed over 4,000 people. | ||
| Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane. | ||
| But even ones like Ian, where you had, you know, wasn't even close to that. | ||
| So I just think people should put this in perspective there. | ||
| They try to take different things that happen. | ||
| With tropical weather and act like it's something, there's nothing new under the sun. | ||
| This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it's something that we'll continue to deal with. | ||
| I think what's changed is we've got 23 million people. | ||
| A storm that hits is likely to hit more people and property than it would have 100 years ago, and so the potential for that damage has grown. | ||
| But what's also changed is our ability to do the prevention. | ||
| To pre-stage the assets. | ||
| I mean, we never did the pre-staging of power assets until I became governor. | ||
| Now people, like, expect that. | ||
| But that wasn't what was done in the past. | ||
| That's why people would be out with power for three weeks when we'd have hurricanes. | ||
| We thought that that's not good. | ||
| Now we have to... | ||
| Pay to get these guys to come in. | ||
| But my view is the quicker you get everyone hooked up, the better off the economy is going to be anyway. | ||
| So why don't we just do that? | ||
| Having the different search and rescue, having a state guard, all these different things are just bringing different tools to the fight, and it allows us to respond more effectively. | ||
| So if we had the tools that we had in 1928 to fight an ION or to fight some of these, you would have had higher death tolls. | ||
| There's no question about that. | ||
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Speaking of history, sir, how many storms formed as rapidly as they have between Helena and Milton? | |
| Oh, I mean, I think most people remember 2004, right? | ||
| Where we had seemed like you had them every other week in 2004. | ||
| And there's also a time period, you know, we had from 2006 to 16, we had no hurricanes at all in Florida. | ||
| There's also been times where we had a lot, the 1940s, we were getting hit a lot. | ||
| You know, now more recently we've had a spate of more. | ||
| So that's just kind of the nature of it. | ||
| But this really does, it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season. | ||
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Governor, a lot of folks, particularly quite a few who trust you and look to you for information, are possibly engaging in some misinformation about some entity controlling the weather. | |
| Can you take this opportunity to denounce that misinformation and set the record straight for folks who believe someone is controlling the weather? | ||
| Look, if I could control the weather, I would do, you know, 78 and sunny year-round. | ||
| Now, we get that, you know, a lot in Florida, you know, coming up in the months, but there would be no reason to ever do. | ||
| So, look, and this is on both sides. | ||
| You kind of have some people think government can do this, and then others think it's all because of fossil fuels. | ||
| The reality is, is what we see, there's precedent for all this in history. | ||
| Like, it is hurricane season. | ||
| You are going to have tropical weather. | ||
| We hope that, you know, a lot of the tropical weather are fish storms out in the Atlantic that never impact us. | ||
| Reality is, is anything that gets in the Gulf of Mexico, it's got to hit something. | ||
| Maybe it hits Mexico. | ||
| Maybe it hits Louisiana. | ||
| But Florida is one, especially when they bend east. | ||
| We're the ones that are going to do. | ||
| So, like I said, there's nothing new under the sun. | ||
| These are natural occurrences. | ||
| We will deal with tropical weather for as long as we're Floridians. | ||
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What about the role of carbon emissions and populating set storms? | |
| Well, I've already addressed the historical record of the storms in Florida. | ||
| Like I said, our biggest storm, our strongest storm by far remains the Labor Day from the 1930s. | ||
| All right, we're going to go to Sarasota after this. | ||
| We're going to go inspect the damage there, see what the needs are. | ||
| I appreciate what the sheriff and his team are doing to help the citizens here. | ||
| We are very, very saddened to see a tornado inflict such serious damage, including loss of life. | ||
| These are things that are very, very tough to withstand. | ||
| You don't get a lot of warning on them, and they're very, very devastating. | ||
| And tragically, to lose five really, really is tough for this community. | ||
| So our hearts go out to everybody who's been affected by this, and we're happy to have been supportive of the rescue efforts, and we'll continue to be supportive going forward. | ||
| All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is Ron DeSantis live. | ||
| I apologize for some of the technical errors. | ||
| Again, we are evacuated, so we're doing our best to make it work in the little corner of the house that we're doing. | ||
| Well, the entire team is generally Florida-based, and so the entire team is spread out over hundreds of miles right now throughout the state of Florida. | ||
| Guys, let's cut that feed, please. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, I didn't want, because we are thankful that we are alive and safe, and there have now been a dozen reported deaths from this storm, we want to pray for those families, pray for those communities, and we do so with our verse of the day, and we say thank and we praise the Lord for the wisdom to, well, have gotten out. | ||
| I think many, many people did. | ||
| As you heard the governor say there, many people fled. | ||
| The warning systems worked, and the emergency systems worked, and they were expecting many more dead people. | ||
| And thanks to the responsible government that tried not to politicize this and tried to simply save people and help people, this was able to be not as bad as it could have been. | ||
| Psalms 55, for a verse of the day. | ||
| Cast your cares upon the Lord. | ||
| He will sustain you. | ||
| He will never let the righteous be shaken. | ||
| We're not shaken. | ||
| We're still alive. | ||
| Here, we've been doing content all week. | ||
| We're going to stay locked in. | ||
| We've got 28 days to save this country. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| President Trump releasing a message to the hurricane victims in Florida himself. | ||
| We've covered how President Trump housed the linemen, construction workers, and technicians who've been helping with this in his resorts. | ||
| And now President Trump releasing a video. | ||
| We're going to close with this. | ||
| Wonderful to have America first leadership. | ||
| That's what we're fighting for. | ||
| My kids are born here. | ||
| I'm an American. | ||
| My kids are Americans. | ||
| This is my country. | ||
| I'm not fleeing. | ||
| I'm not leaving. | ||
| This is my country. | ||
| And Donald Trump, America first. | ||
| This is what it looks like in practice. | ||
| May God bless you. | ||
| Thank you all so much for your prayers. | ||
| Enjoy this message from President Trump. | ||
| See ya. | ||
| Hello, Florida. | ||
| This is President Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Melania and I are praying for you as you face the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. | ||
| We are deeply saddened by the devastation being reported, and it sounds like it's as bad as it gets. | ||
| And we feel so sorry for you, and we want God to be with you, and we know God is with you. | ||
| Our hearts go out to each and every one of you. | ||
| To those who've lost so much, know that you are not alone. | ||
| We've seen you stand tall against storms before, and you will stand tall now. | ||
| Hopefully, on January 20th, you're going to have somebody that's really going to help you and help you like never before, because help is on the way. | ||
| Together, we will rebuild, we will recover, and we will come back stronger, bigger, better than ever before. | ||
| Please keep your faith, hold strong, and look out for one another, because the sun will shine again over the — Beautiful Florida that we love so much. | ||
| I live there also. | ||
| We love it so much. | ||
| You're in our thoughts, and together we will come back better than before. | ||
| You're going to be better than before. | ||
| And just keep your chin up, and God bless you all, and God bless the great state of Florida. | ||
| Your governor is doing an excellent job. | ||
| I've been talking to him and watching. | ||
| Ron is doing a really good job. | ||
| We're proud of him. | ||
| And we're going to have something very, very special in the end. | ||
| I think it's going to turn out a lot better than... | ||
| People thought, but this is a big one, so be very, very careful. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Number one. | |
| Number two. | ||
| I'm just curious. | ||
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| Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. | ||
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Okay, cheers. | |
| About the same. | ||
| Number one might be a tiny bit better. | ||
| See you bringing liberty to life |
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