Jan. 24, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Ben, where are you? | ||
| What you're seeing is heart-rendering because it's related to MAGA and clearly the Biden regime has purposely forgotten these people. | ||
| Tell me about it. | ||
| Yeah, we're almost four months into this, Steve. | ||
| We're up here in North Carolina. | ||
| It's outside of Waynesville. | ||
| And I'm here with, it's called Haven on the Hill, with my new friend, James Lunsford. | ||
| I've got the county commissioner here, Terry Ramey, and some folks behind me. | ||
| And I'm just going to, well, I'll turn the camera, but we've got some drone footage of this. | ||
| You shot a little earlier. | ||
| There are campers all over this community here that... | ||
| We're brought in. | ||
| This is James' family property. | ||
| And they've got about 100 people living out here now because basically they've been abandoned by Joe Biden, the Democrats, FEMA. I want to get James in on this. | ||
| James, you're doing this. | ||
| It's just truly incredible. | ||
| And the fact that you have to do it, honestly, thank God you're doing it. | ||
| But the fact that you have to do it is just... | ||
| As an American citizen, what's your message? | ||
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It's sad that the people have to do it. | |
| I mean, I thought that's why we had somebody to help us for, and they don't. | ||
| They don't help. | ||
| It's just mind-blowing. | ||
| We're four months into this, and by the way, Steve, James has a headset as well. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| Four months into this. | ||
| Hey, James. | ||
| Go ahead, Steve. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Ben, hang on. | ||
| James. | ||
| Just start at the beginning. | ||
| Walk our audience exactly what the problem is. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| Where was the relief? | ||
| We're four months into this, and it looks like it happened, I don't know, a couple of days ago. | ||
| But I want to, in your voice, tell us exactly what went on. | ||
| Just take your time. | ||
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Well, Steve, it started, and, I mean, they got hotel vouchers from FEMA, and FEMA was giving them, I think it was $750 a month. | |
| That would suffice them. | ||
| And basically other than that, just forgot them. | ||
| So then when the hotel vouchers started ending everything, some other organizations and churches reached out to me and said, what can we do to help? | ||
| And this is what we've come up with. | ||
| And it's been all donation. | ||
| It's not had anything to do with the government, even though we had one that does work with us. | ||
| And he's filed a constant battle to keep working with us. | ||
| And that's the guy standing right next to us here. | ||
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And he stuck with me through the whole thing. | |
| But me and him stuck together for over 50 years, so I guess that was nothing new. | ||
| They get no help. | ||
| I mean, they get no help. | ||
| I mean, they come up here with FEMA, and they say they knock on doors, and then the people come and say, well, where were those FEMA people today? | ||
| So I don't understand. | ||
| I mean, it's too much red tape, I guess, but we just eliminated the red tape. | ||
| I said I'll ask for forgiveness before I ask for permission, and I did it. | ||
| And Steve, I just came from Asheville. | ||
| We're going to be releasing some of this video. | ||
| Some of the stuff you're seeing on the screen is breaking footage. | ||
| This was today, this afternoon. | ||
| I went down there in Asheville, Democrat City. | ||
| Honestly, they're rebuilding Ukraine faster than they're rebuilding parts of North Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia that have been affected by this hurricane. | ||
| It's beyond words what's happening out here. | ||
| And you have a few of these guys, like Terry Ramey, commissioner, that's actually willing to stand up and go on camera and tell the truth about it. | ||
| It's absolutely disgusting, Steve. | ||
| For the guys, is FEMA not responsive? | ||
| To anyone in the community? | ||
| Have they just abandoned the community? | ||
| Do they have local representatives? | ||
| Because if you look out in California, you've got FEMA wall-to-wall. | ||
| So I'm kind of shocked that there's no representation there to interface with you guys and to hear what you guys need. | ||
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There's not been. | |
| I mean, I can't speak for Terry, but I've not seen that many FEMA people when they say, oh, we'll send two or three people to come and interview the people and update their applications. | ||
| But I've not seen the big running around everywhere in the FEMA jackets like you would see them everywhere, and I'm not. | ||
| I've not even seen any of the vehicles. | ||
| Can I ask the folks that are standing in the back there, any of you guys feel like the response from FEMA has been adequate, yes or no? | ||
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No. | |
| Not really. | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| No, the answer is no. | ||
| Terry, if I can get you in on here. | ||
| Terry's the county commissioner here in Haywood. | ||
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Right after the storm just happened, we saw a lot of FEMA people around. | |
| They've had a FEMA representative here. | ||
| They've been taking a lot of applications and stuff. | ||
| As far as they put out a survey to find property to put FEMA trailers on, as of... | ||
| Monday's commissioner meeting, we had five trailers is all that's been set up. | ||
| In four months, five trailers. | ||
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Five trailers. | |
| But all these other trailers, we've got a ton of trailers in here, but they've been donated by people across the country, and they've really stepped up and helped us the people have. | ||
| FEMA, they've took a lot of application stuff, and they're working on a lot of different stuff. | ||
| Like everything else, it takes forever. | ||
| I don't know how long for anything to start happening. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is he going? | ||
| Is he going? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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I mean, I really don't. | |
| You know, because if he's going to be there, it would be cheaper, but I didn't invite him. | ||
| Somebody did. | ||
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So. | |
| is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| It's Friday, 24 January in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| Today, wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
| We have Ben Berkwams in Chicago for raids about criminal illegal aliens. | ||
| Brian Glenn, the one and only Brian Glenn, is actually with the president. | ||
| Special coverage from Real America's Voice in War Room. | ||
| With the President of the Day in North Carolina, where Ben was 10 days ago, did this report that I think inspired the President's team to make sure they went to North Carolina first on today's journey. | ||
| You just saw First Lady Melania Trump and the President get on Marine One after he gave a short press conference. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, the intrepid Jack Posobiec, is out in the cold today with the March for Life. | ||
| The Right to Lifers are all in Washington, D.C. today as 23. Right-to-lifers that were imprisoned illegally and unfairly were pardoned last night by President Trump, including a couple of the inmates that served with me in Danbury Federal Prison. | ||
| And Noor bin Laden is with us on the morning after in Davos as they're trying to have a rearguard action against our beloved president and what he said yesterday. | ||
| Let's go to Ben Burquam first in Chicago. | ||
| Ben has been out there for these raids to take illegal criminal aliens. | ||
| Amazing reporting, which kind of kicked this whole thing off 10 days ago. | ||
| Set the stage for us, Ben. | ||
| Tell us about Western North Carolina, Appalachia, and Tennessee. | ||
| We know Northwest Georgia, Western North Carolina, Tennessee, and parts of Virginia have been devastated. | ||
| The Biden regime purposely looked the other way because this is MAGA country. | ||
| Talk to us about the folks down there, the devastation. | ||
| What are we going to see today? | ||
| When Brian Glenn joins the president, and right now, Air Force One is supposed to touch down on the tarmac at about 1020. We're going to go to full wall-to-wall coverage then, but get us up to speed on what you saw. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Hey, Steve. | ||
| First off, I just want to tell you where I'm at here. | ||
| I don't usually do hits out in front of Holiday Inns, but I wanted to highlight this one because this is where Joe Biden and the Democrats are helping. | ||
| They're sending relief. | ||
| Before they left, they went down to North Carolina and got a bunch of the folks that were devastated by the hurricanes. | ||
| And they said, come on up to Chicago. | ||
| We'll put you in this nice hotel. | ||
| We'll take care of you. | ||
| We'll give you food. | ||
| I'm just kidding, Steve. | ||
| They didn't do any of that. | ||
| They abandoned them. | ||
| They left them out there to die. | ||
| There are people living in... | ||
| This entire hotel is full of illegals that just got here. | ||
| And instead of taking care of American citizens, which is what our government's primary job is to protect the rights, constitutional rights, and protect the citizens of America, what Joe Biden and the Democrats did was inviting an entire invasion of people to invade our country and take care of them instead of us. | ||
| They've got security out here for them instead of us. | ||
| While these guys are sitting out on the side of this building smoking weed as soon as I got here, we have abandoned North Carolina, we've abandoned Tennessee, and we've abandoned Georgia. | ||
| But that day ends today because President Trump is back in office and President Trump puts the citizens and the people of America first. | ||
| That's why he's going there first. | ||
| As you said, I pray some of the coverage we did helped that. | ||
| There are some other people down there over the last several months when they were abandoned by Joe Biden. | ||
| We've got Tyler Burleson and his team down there in the Appalachian United Initiative. | ||
| You've got the folks you just saw, Haven on the Hill. | ||
| There's probably 30 different groups of citizens that have taken it upon themselves to protect their own communities because they were abandoned by the previous federal government, by the previous administration. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, Ben, Ben. | ||
| And that's what I'm looking forward to. | ||
| Ben, I want to put this in perspective – And ladies and gentlemen, we went down there and Ben went down there. | ||
| There are folks that have been living in tents because there were no FEMA vehicles. | ||
| Living in tents in 5 and 6 degree weather. | ||
| For months and months and months. | ||
| We've had a very brutal and cold winter so far. | ||
| Right in back of you. | ||
| It's still living in them. | ||
| President Trump arrives today. | ||
| Brian Glenn's with him. | ||
| Going to meet him on the tarmac. | ||
| We're going to turn the coverage over to Brian. | ||
| We'll be dipping in and out. | ||
| But Ben, I want to turn back to that Holiday Inn. | ||
| Is that what the Biden regime did is not only organize an invasion of our country. | ||
| But when the invaders came, they got to stay and fully warm with EBIT cards, with cash money, with phones. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| This was a highly organized invasion of our country. | ||
| Remember, Benjamin would tell us day one, it's not chaotic at the border. | ||
| They know what they're doing, and they're going deep into the United States. | ||
| This is why I said years ago when we did We Build the Wall. | ||
| Every town's a border town, and every state's a border state. | ||
| Now, to set a perspective, President Trump is now in Air Force One, heading to North Carolina, en route to Pacific Palisades in L.A., and there's going to be a confrontation out there because Newsom is not welcoming the president. | ||
| This is going to be a fascinating day, as you see President Trump go from Davos yesterday to problems with the United States today. | ||
| But right there in back of you, Ben, this is where this confrontation, Holman and Stephen Miller, Are going to force the hand of the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, Pritzker, who's now running for president, and he's going to use this showdown as he thinks catapult himself into the arms of the progress of the far left of the Democratic Party that brought this invasion on, | ||
| loves this invasion, and actually loves the fact that MAGA and the folks down in Appalachia are having to live in almost animal-like conditions. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| And by the way, this is just one example. | ||
| There are thousands of these facilities across America. | ||
| This one was just newly renovated. | ||
| I tried to get a room here when they first renovated it. | ||
| Brand new, brand new rooms. | ||
| Brand new restaurant on the far end. | ||
| They're getting three meals a day. | ||
| They're in hot rooms, protected from the elements, from the cold. | ||
| Everything they need. | ||
| They're given cash cards. | ||
| They're getting vehicles. | ||
| They're getting driver's licenses to go out and commit crimes around the city. | ||
| The prosecutors aren't... | ||
| Prosecuting them here. | ||
| But again, Steve, this is one location of tens of thousands like this across America. | ||
| You've got it in New York. | ||
| You've got it in every major city in America. | ||
| And while we were doing that, while Joe Biden was doing that, while Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services and Jewish Family Services were inviting in a whole invasion force into our country, they ignored the people of western North Carolina, of eastern Tennessee. | ||
| of Northern Georgia. | ||
| They ignored the people of East Palestine. | ||
| They ignored the citizens of this country. | ||
| The Red Cross, FEMA. They spent all their money helping illegals invade our country and ignored the people, the citizens of this country that actually pay for them to be in operation. | ||
| Ben, hang on right there. | ||
| Ben Burkham's in Chicago. | ||
| Brian Glenn is going to be with the president momentarily in North Carolina. | ||
| We've got Jack Posobiec in Washington live with the Right to Life march. | ||
| The prisoners, the political prisoners, the Right to Life movement are being freed even as we speak on a pardon and commutation from President Trump. | ||
| And Noor Bin Laden is in Davos where, let's say some folks took umbrage with President Trump's throwdown yesterday on the Green News scam and everything to do with the Paris Climate Accords pulling out of WHO. All of it. | ||
| We're on fire with action, action, action as the 47th President of the United States forces the action, first in North Carolina. | ||
| Then he's going to go to California and go to Pacific Palisades. | ||
| All today, wall-to-wall coverage all day in Real America's Voice. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Johnny Kahn, who lost his house in the Palisades, burned to the ground with nothing to survive there. | ||
| Johnny Kahn takes us out with American Heart. | ||
| heart back in a moment. | ||
| The theme of today is the theme of today is the forgotten man or woman. | ||
| You're You're forgotten no longer. | ||
| You're the backbone of the MAGA movement, of the Trump movement. | ||
| And today... | ||
| President Trump, I think, is so powerful. | ||
| He waved off the trip to Davos. | ||
| They wanted him to go to Davos and be there live. | ||
| It would have been fantastic. | ||
| But he waved off the trip to Davos, did it by video, which was amazingly powerful. | ||
| And then to make sure he could clear his decks, to leave Washington for the first time as the 47th President of the United States, it is so symbolic. | ||
| That his first stop is Western North Carolina in this tragedy. | ||
| That the Biden regime, the elites in this country, looked the other way and then kind of, quite frankly, mocked the people. | ||
| As they talked about FEMA and funding, and they had the money, they have the resources, and they just kept it back to torture these people. | ||
| Ben Burkwam, tell me what Brian Glenn, Brian Glenn's going to be set up tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to go in a moment. | ||
| We're going to go to Brian. | ||
| Is Brian ready? | ||
| Hang on a second, Ben. | ||
| I want to go right to Brian Glenn. | ||
| I got him. | ||
| Just hang on there. | ||
| Ben Burkwam's in Chicago outside of an illegal alien hotel that's been turned over to him. | ||
| Brian Glenn joins us now from North Carolina. | ||
| Brian, put us on the tarmac or put us in the room, brother. | ||
| What do you got? | ||
| Hey, good morning, Steve. | ||
| Good morning, War Room Posse. | ||
| We are at the Asheville Regional Airport. | ||
| Behind me is the tarmac. | ||
| Let me step aside. | ||
| I'll set the scene for you, Steve. | ||
| We've got a line of Secret Service vehicles. | ||
| We'll see if we can maybe boom that camera up a little bit as well. | ||
| A group of, I would say, probably 100, 120 people here. | ||
| These are just like supporters in the local area. | ||
| Now, Steve, when he lands, he's going to get the motorcade. | ||
| From what I understand, the First Lady Melania will be there. | ||
| With them as well, there is a card that says FLOTUS Support, so I'm assuming that she is going to be on the ground with President Trump. | ||
| Once they get in the motorcade, Steve, they're going to go to what I've been told would be somewhat of a roundtable with some local officials there that will be able to, you know, listen to the people on the ground. | ||
| And we've seen what the lack of support has been, Steve, from the federal government. | ||
| From what I've been told, the majority of the aid has really come from local community groups that help these people out after getting smacked on September 27th from this hurricane. | ||
| Now, from that location, Steve, we'll be back in the motorcade. | ||
| We're bringing you live, hot, heavy coverage to location number two, which, as I've been told, will focus on some of the devastation, talk to some residents there in the area, Steve, that are still waiting to rebuild their community. | ||
| Brian, I want to go to the extraordinary. | ||
| Ben Burquan was there 10 days ago and spent a couple of days in Appalachia from Georgia. | ||
| And it was up near MTGs, I think even her part of her congressional district. | ||
| They're all the way up through North Carolina, Tennessee, and parts of Virginia. | ||
| This has been totally abandoned. | ||
| This is the forgotten man and woman, completely abandoned by the Biden elitist, the global elitist. | ||
| And these people left to fend for themselves when there was money there. | ||
| Just holding it back for cruelty. | ||
| Because of that coverage and others, Real America's Voice being all over the story and many others. | ||
| Today, I believe, and because of your coverage, you're now at both Capitol Hill and the White House for us. | ||
| Tell me, I think you're actually going to be able to join the motorcade. | ||
| I want to give the audience that we're going to get some special shots here. | ||
| You're going to be in the motorcade. | ||
| Hopefully, I think you're in the roundtable. | ||
| And you will be out among the participants, the president and the first lady. | ||
| It's so huge. | ||
| The first lady's first trip is with her husband, the president of the United States, showing how much she cares about this, to go to North Carolina and the Palisades in California. | ||
| But tell us about our coverage today, sir. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, it's going to kick off here. | ||
| He's scheduled to land here in local time at about 1030. We'll see if he's on time there. | ||
| We will be directly in that motorcade, leaving the airport to the first location. | ||
| We'll cover that. | ||
| Then we'll scramble back in the motorcade, going to the second location. | ||
| So what you're going to see because, and I want to break this down for our viewers, because of Secret Service regulations and security purposes, the camera shot you're going to see from our motorcade will be what we call a taillights shot. | ||
| It won't be necessarily out the side of the window, but it will be a taillight shot straight ahead. | ||
| No audio for security purposes. | ||
| But when we land on the ground, when we actually arrive to where we're going, Steve, we will be full-mode live coverage, audio, video, as we're scrambling to get in place for the president to make both his appearances at these two locations. | ||
| And to your point, to your open, Steve, I agree with you. | ||
| What a great gesture it is right now. | ||
| It just shows the human that he is. | ||
| Going to one of these natural disasters that we've seen in this country and, of course, going out west later today to Pacific Palisades, and that just shows the heart of the president. | ||
| It puts his priorities. | ||
| It's Americans first, Steve, and we're seeing that right here in North Carolina today. | ||
| If you look at everything that's going on, and this is full-spectrum dominance, I've got up on Getter the New York Times front page yesterday. | ||
| I mean, they're gobsmacked. | ||
| I mean, it's just Trump with all these executive orders on his desk right to sign. | ||
| It's full-spectrum dominance. | ||
| With everything the president's working on the Ukraine situation and Israel, the financial situation, all of it, understands the use of his time and where he spends his time is so symbolic. | ||
| The first thing that he and the first lady do, we're going to go see the disasters that are there that the Biden regime didn't take forward. | ||
| Number one, in North Carolina, which happened, a natural disaster, which they really kind of mocked and ridiculed the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| It's so important they're stopping there first. | ||
| But then to California, Brian, where really the cause of it, let's be honest, it was natural, but the cause of this is terrible policies. | ||
| Over decades and decades and decades by woke political officials and cultural officials out in California. | ||
| That's why today is so powerful. | ||
| Remember, as originally scheduled, they actually wanted the president to go to Davos yesterday and deliver that in person. | ||
| I think the president said, hang on a second, that's like a two-day trip. | ||
| I've got to get out and see my people. | ||
| And that's why I want to start in North Carolina. | ||
| I'll do Davos by video, and Klaus Schwab and those guys are just going to have to deal with it. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Yeah, you're right. | ||
| It's so symbolic of what we all voted for. | ||
| On November 5th. | ||
| And if you look at what happened in Western North Carolina, you know, months before the November 5th election and the turnout that they had there, they sent a message to Americans that, you know what, we want our priorities back on the people. | ||
| And to think that right now, currently this morning, the temperatures were, I would say, in the low to mid-20s. | ||
| And to think that there's still people, Steve, that are perhaps sleeping in tarps, perhaps sleeping in a home that's been damaged, severely damaged, letting the elements... | ||
| I mean, these are treacherous environments for these Americans that live, and the federal government has just absolutely abandoned them and helping them get back on their feet. | ||
| And I think it's just a wonderful thing that he's here today. | ||
| And as far as California is concerned, yes, you're right. | ||
| Those policies, they're in that position because due to their policies, this was interesting. | ||
| I was getting in an elevator yesterday on the Hill, Steve, and they had two House Democrats. | ||
| Talking to each other in the elevator saying they could not believe that they were going home to a potential threat of more forest fires in their area. | ||
| And I really wanted to turn to them and say, does that surprise you? | ||
| Your state's on fire and it all starts there in Sacramento and the leadership, or lack of, of Gavin Newsom. | ||
| But it's great that despite policies and political differences aside, President Trump is going to California. | ||
| To help those people out. | ||
| Brian, also there's something that's very symbolic, and I want to walk the audience through this, what's happening and why Brian Glenn's on that tarmac and why that camera crew's with him. | ||
| Five years ago when I met Rob Sieg at The Wall, when we were doing We Build The Wall, and we had those conferences in the 115 degree heat, and Real America's Voice was there. | ||
| It was actually, I think, America's Voice at the time. | ||
| Rob Sieg told me, the future is streaming, and the future is going to be podcasts. | ||
| Five years later, six years later, here we are. | ||
| And Brian Glenn today, and this is because of the power of the War Room Posse and what you've done and the Real America's Voice audience with Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec. | ||
| We have Posobiec at The Right to Life being in the field, reporting real stories that the president teams have seen. | ||
| Brian Glenn's just, there's no, we're not part of a pool. | ||
| Real America's voice in Brian Glenn, because of great reporting, has been invited, actually, specially to go. | ||
| And this is part of the White House comms team saying, hey, we're not kowtowing just to the mainstream media anymore. | ||
| You saw what happened in the election, and that has been building up for years. | ||
| We're alternative media, streaming media, podcasts, people that are bringing the news to you, real news, and being out in the field, whether it's Burquam or Prasovic or Brian Glenn. | ||
| And today is kind of an ultimate compliment. | ||
| Glenn is actually there waiting on the tarmac. | ||
| And Brian, you're not part of a pool feed. | ||
| You're actually going to be in the motorcade, right? | ||
| You're going to be with the president, hopefully at the roundtable, and then later in the walk and talk, whatever Secret Service feels appropriate. | ||
| But we're just not part of a pool of taking a feed and having 50 people from the New York Times and the CNN and everything like that. | ||
| This is a massive compliment. | ||
| I want to thank the White House comms team to say... | ||
| Hey, we appreciate the podcast. | ||
| We appreciate the streaming services. | ||
| We appreciate the new alternative media because you guys are every bit as good and maybe even better than the mainstream media. | ||
| Brian Glenn, your thoughts about this historic day for Real America's Voice in the War Room. | ||
| You know, Steve, you summed it up perfectly. | ||
| And, you know, when I was standing on the North Lawn there at the White House yesterday, and I was kind of reflecting back on the road that it took to get not only President Trump in office, but also for me personally. | ||
| You know, you look back, five years ago, I was fired from mainstream media for basically covering a Trump rally. | ||
| And believe it or not, that's the reasons why they told me to think that I'd kind of gone there. | ||
| I'm certainly appreciative of what has been offered to me, no doubt. | ||
| And to have this unprecedented access that we've had all through the campaign has been something pretty special. | ||
| And, you know, I've got to say, you know, it's outlets and personalities like yourself and all the ones that you mentioned that have really made this movement special. | ||
| We've brought more people to the Trump campaign. | ||
| But hang on. | ||
| You're too self-effacing. | ||
| Let me be blunt. | ||
| I want to be brutally frank about this because people have to understand this. | ||
| Rupert Murdoch sent out a memo. | ||
| When Boris Epstein was on that tarmac and President Trump took off with Air Force One to go back to Mar-a-Lago around noon on the 20th of January 2021, there were very few people out there for President Trump. | ||
| There was President Trump's hardcore followers, very few senior government officials. | ||
| Boris Epstein from the phone. | ||
| Rupert Murdoch sent out a memo. | ||
| To the Fox senior management and said, we're going to make this guy a non-person. | ||
| They did not cover President Trump live, I think, for 18 months. | ||
| In the critical year of 21 and 22. Right Side Broadcasting, the guys at Right Side Broadcasting, Real America's Voice, these streaming services got up, covered every rally. | ||
| They've been doing it from the campaign, but continue to cover every rally live, continue to be out there. | ||
| The guys at Right Side, Real America's Voice. | ||
| People were scrambling, putting resources in, trying to figure out how we could pay for all this. | ||
| War Room every day for four hours a day was hammering this. | ||
| The communication staff understands the power of streaming and the power of things like Right Side, the power of things like Real America's Voice. | ||
| And the commitment of executives to say, hey, look. | ||
| You know, we're going to try to figure out how we do this. | ||
| But if you go back and look at the coverage, Brian Glenn, the coverage was amazing. | ||
| It covered every rally wall-to-wall, interviews with all the MAGA folks in the crowd, all the people on stage. | ||
| It's what built the momentum when the mainstream media is like, how did Trump come back? | ||
| How they came back was pick-and-shovel work every day by these new media outlets and people like yourself that bet your career, people like Robin Parker-Sig, the guys on the right side, and many others. | ||
| That bet everything and put all the chips in the middle of the table and say, hey, we back this guy, we back this movement, and today is the payoff for England. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| And I realize that, and I have to pinch myself every once in a while about that. | ||
| And mind you, a lot of the mainstream media would get their soundbites and they would monitor what the president is doing by outlets, by watching us, and RightSide as well. | ||
| So they understand the importance that if you want to know what President Trump is up to, just turn on Real America's Voice and you're going to find out exactly where he's at. | ||
| Meanwhile, the majority of outlets simply did not do that. | ||
| And it's just a great day. | ||
| But, Steve, this is just the beginning. | ||
| I truly feel this media landscaping is changing. | ||
| Now, I will say this. | ||
| On Air Force One, there are a lot of foreign press outlets that have designated seats on Air Force One. | ||
| You want to talk about America first? | ||
| Let's talk about America media first, and let's see if we can change that as well. | ||
| That would be nice to be able to include some of these other outlets on there as well. | ||
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| I think because they're prepared to pay for the seats, I've got to talk to Sig. | ||
| I'm not so sure we're prepared to pay. | ||
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| I want to talk about you at the White House. | ||
| The staff over there, under Taylor and Stephen Chung, Taylor Botovich, Chung, you got Susie Wiles, they're looking at media very differently. | ||
| They're implementing some of the plan that we wanted to in 2017, and I think it's magnificent. | ||
| You're going to have a lot more voices. | ||
| They're just not going to allow the mainstream media to be a guard around President Trump and try to distort his message. | ||
| They're going to get other people in there that can provide a platform you can get it. | ||
| In addition... | ||
| The producer, Harry, was sitting. | ||
| We're looking this morning. | ||
| Trump's talking. | ||
| Trump's done more press. | ||
| And help me out here, Brian. | ||
| Trump's done more press in four days than I think Biden's done in four years. | ||
| He's taken more questions from the media on the top of his head, either in the Oval Office, at the Capitol, today. | ||
| He's taken more questions than Biden in four days than Biden took in four years. | ||
| Am I too far off on that, Brian? | ||
| You're not. | ||
| You're not. | ||
| The lid would be called on the Biden administration by 1 o'clock in the afternoon. | ||
| It would be called and there was no more activity on his schedule. | ||
| President Trump, and you know his schedule, he's up early. | ||
| He's at 5 o'clock, 4.30 in the morning. | ||
| He's in the office working. | ||
| And, of course, he stays out late and works as well. | ||
| This guy works his tail off for the American people. | ||
| And I think as in the media, I think we're going to have a fun time with him. | ||
| He enjoys talking to the media. | ||
| The press conference at Mar-a-Lago last month. | ||
| Talking about the foreign investment, SoftBank and others, that lasted, the press conference itself was almost two hours. | ||
| He spoke for about 35 minutes on the SoftBank investment. | ||
| But then Steve, for an hour and a half, he took questions, everything from UFOs to Secret Service to the budget to the border. | ||
| He doesn't care. | ||
| He absolutely says, bring it. | ||
| And I love that about the president. | ||
| Now, here's one thing, too, with our coverage in War Room, you know, with our sponsors and all, we set up, our shows are set up in advance, and I tell people, right now, we're just going to go, whenever the president's talking, you're going to go, because he's making news. | ||
| This is just not, you know, him talking to talk. | ||
| The questions are tough. | ||
| The questions are hard. | ||
| And he's coming back, and he's not just giving you a soundbite. | ||
| He's trying to explain to people, because right now we have both a geostrategic reset with America First, and we have a geoeconomic reset with our economic model and how we're going to finance it. | ||
| What is happening now in the United States at the senior-most level is something that is profound as 1932. That's why I see new political coalitions. | ||
| But talk about that, Brian. | ||
| These press conferences, when he does these impromptus... | ||
| This has got real substance in it. | ||
| And it makes sense to just let the camera roll. | ||
| Let's see what the man's got to say. | ||
| Let's see how you can see he's thinking of some of it in real time. | ||
| And that's why I tell people, hey, anytime he's up, let's just go to it and let's just play it through to the end. | ||
| I agree, and I support that decision because, you know, during the press conference at Mar-a-Lago, breaking news was happening. | ||
| Judge Cannon had released a statement regarding his case, and that was the first time he heard it, and we got to see his real reaction to that. | ||
| And, you know, I had another journalist yesterday describe the tone in the briefing room, rather, right now. | ||
| It's like murderer's row, if you will. | ||
| If we think at all... | ||
| That the mainstream media, most of the liberal-hating press, they're going to be coming after President Trump big time, especially on this immigration. | ||
| As we start to see people getting these mass deportations, they're going to take the one or two little stories that might, for instance, you might have the lady that was crying at the gate in El Paso. | ||
| they're going to take these stories, and instead of talking about the hardened criminals that we're taking out of this country, they're going to take these very isolated, personal stories. | ||
| They're going to magnify that and attempt to kind of re-pivot, if you will, on an immigration process. | ||
| But, hey, the American people have woken up. | ||
| But I'm not so sure. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| Yeah, but I'm not so sure that's going to be – by the way, we're tracking Air Force One right now. | ||
| Can I get Ben Burquam in here? | ||
| Because Ben was down there last week. | ||
| Let's bring up Burquam. | ||
| I'm not so sure that's going to be isolated. | ||
| Look, when you're deporting 12 to 15 million people, you're going to go through the criminal element, which we're going through now, I think, relatively quickly. | ||
| You're going to get down to, you know, people got to go home, and you're going to do as much empathy as possible. | ||
| But there's going to be a lot of deportation porn, and we have to make sure that we just power through that. | ||
| Burquam, real quickly, before the President lands, give Brian Glenn, walking through what we're going to see today of the forgotten man and woman, and tie it back to that nice hotel that you're outside, that illegal aliens are warm, well-fed on taxpayer money. | ||
| We're going to see down there in North Carolina a war zone that was abandoned. | ||
| You're going to see Asheville that is still rebuilding. | ||
| A Democrat-run city that was even abandoned by Joe Biden and the Democrats. | ||
| And Asheville is one of the better areas because they've actually gotten some aid because, again, that was a Democrat city, a Democrat mayor, sucked up to Joe Biden, got a little bit of money. | ||
| And it's still... | ||
| I couldn't believe it. | ||
| There's eight foot high of mud in some of these buildings still from the rivers. | ||
| I mean, it's... | ||
| It is impossible to wrap your head around how bad it is down there until you're actually walking through it. | ||
| And then you contrast that to what I'm standing in front of right now. | ||
| A brand new, rebuilt, Holiday Inn, plush, nice rooms, warm rooms, three meals a day, everything handed to you, to illegal aliens that invaded our country. | ||
| That's the... | ||
| Today is a perfect illustration. | ||
| Of why America turned to President Trump. | ||
| Why he won all seven swing states. | ||
| Why we saw an uprising in South Chicago. | ||
| I'm in South Chicago right now. | ||
| Why we saw these communities come up. | ||
| Because they've been abandoned too. | ||
| North Carolina is an illustration of what all Americans feel. | ||
| What East Palestine feels. | ||
| What the forgotten people out in the Midwest, the so-called flyover country feel. | ||
| They all feel abandoned. | ||
| And President Trump is the hope. | ||
| MAGA is the hope to say, you know what? | ||
| We're not going to forget these places. | ||
| We're not going to forget North Carolina. | ||
| We're not going to forget you anymore. | ||
| And to your point about the raids, that's why you're talking about independent media. | ||
| That's why Real America's Voice. | ||
| That's why I'm going to be embedding with these guys as this stuff happens to be able to counteract the lies of the fake news. | ||
| As we pick up these criminals that were invited into our country by the Democrats, we're going to be showing the truth that the mainstream media lied about for the first four years of the administration. | ||
| We are the antidote. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Ben, hang on one second. | ||
| I want to go back to Brian. | ||
| Brian, let's do a reset. | ||
| Let's get the audience, particularly people on the West Coast, getting up and having their cup of coffee, joining a war room this morning. | ||
| Do a reset. | ||
| Where are you? | ||
| Why are you there? | ||
| Where's the president? | ||
| What's going to happen? | ||
| All right, everybody. | ||
| Let me step aside because I want to show you the scene here. | ||
| Behind me is the airport here, the regional airport here in Asheville. | ||
| Moments away, President Trump will be landing behind me. | ||
| We've got a motorcade in place to pick him up. | ||
| We've got the stairs that he'll walk off. | ||
| We'll be right there as he walks down as well. | ||
| Maybe he might perhaps give a moment. | ||
| We're still waiting for some guidance on that. | ||
| They will get in this motorcade. | ||
| So will we. | ||
| We'll be back in the press motorcade following them to stop number one. | ||
| Somewhat of a roundtable, if you will, with local officials to kind of talk about some of the lack of response that they've gotten from the federal government. | ||
| After that, I don't have a total run time on that stop, but after that we'll get back. | ||
| In the motorcade. | ||
| And we'll make our way to stop number two. | ||
| For what I've been told, it's going to be in a damaged area. | ||
| He's going to talk to some homeowners, show some of the extensive damage that Ben just spoke on. | ||
| And then at that point, I'm sure he'll give a few words there. | ||
| And then we'll get back in the motorcade. | ||
| And then that would pretty much wrap up that stop. | ||
| And then the president, after North Carolina, we talked about it, is on his way to California. | ||
| And we'll talk to the people there in Pacific Palisades. | ||
| But as you imagine, security is high. | ||
| We can show this, Luke, over there. | ||
| We've got a couple snipers that are up in the platform over. | ||
| You might, but I'll see them. | ||
| It might be difficult to see from this vantage point with the sun. | ||
| But we've got a good aerial support around here. | ||
| You've got some helicopters as well in the area. | ||
| As you know, this is the first stop, Steve, for President Trump since taking office. | ||
| So this is his first public... | ||
| Not a rally. | ||
| This is not happy talk. | ||
| And I love the way you said that earlier. | ||
| We're down to business now. | ||
| Day three, day four. | ||
| It's time to get things done. | ||
| And I love it. | ||
| I'm over the happy talk. | ||
| This is what it means to be a president. | ||
| And we're seeing it on display today. | ||
| No, this is what I call stepping into decisions. | ||
| This is where President Trump's the best. | ||
| He's going to own this on a policy basis. | ||
| I want to get Ben back up here because of what Brian's saying. | ||
| There's been a lot of controversy about FEMA. A lot of controversy about, is money ever held back for political reasons? | ||
| They go to certain target areas for political reasons. | ||
| But then it's just the competence and the efficiency. | ||
| Ben, I want to, and President Trump said yesterday, he says, hey, look, I'm open to, like, maybe the state FEMA's, maybe we give the money there, maybe they're closer to the action. | ||
| Give Brian and the audience your take on what the folks in Carolina told you about FEMA, about its effectiveness, its efficiency, access to money, and quite frankly, their credibility. | ||
| Ben Burquam. | ||
| It's an inept and failed organization that should be disbanded. | ||
| That's what FEMA is. | ||
| They took our money, they took our tax dollars, they spent them on illegals, and when it came time to actually help the citizens of America, they showed up, they put up a few tents, they brought in some garbage trucks, and then they left. | ||
| They did almost nothing for the community. | ||
| They burn our tax dollars. | ||
| They are a pathetic waste of government resources. | ||
| And that's from the ground. | ||
| That's the mindset on the ground. | ||
| And Steve... | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Yeah, let me go to Brian for a second. | ||
| So, Brian, there's two things that happened today. | ||
| Let me walk the audience through one. | ||
| A president... | ||
| Does one of these visits. | ||
| You have a roundtable. | ||
| You land and you meet dignitaries on the tarmac, people who are supporters on the tarmac. | ||
| They normally have a MAGA crowd, maybe fence off a little bit to wave to the president. | ||
| Sometimes he goes and works the line. | ||
| Today, under the pressure of time, because he's got to do this and get to California. | ||
| Still in daylight. | ||
| But there's two things that traditionally have. | ||
| We have a roundtable first, where you can see some officials, get kind of a briefing, but have some citizens. | ||
| And then he'll actually go take a tour. | ||
| Brian, you're going to get today, I think, some blowback from local citizens and maybe local officials in both the roundtable thing. | ||
| They are, when we did the bend for two days there, they are furious at FEMA. They think FEMA's been irresponsible. | ||
| They think they've been non-responsive. | ||
| They've kind of blown them off. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| We're going to hear that today, and I want their voices to be heard. | ||
| That's why we're here. | ||
| You described it well. | ||
| This is kind of a holding pen, if you will, for supporters inside these yellow gates here. | ||
| I have been told that we will be, this is great, I didn't think we were going to get this close, we will walk under the wing on Air Force One, and as he is about to step off the plane, we'll have him coming down the stairs as well. | ||
| Typically, I've had, in the past, when I've had that position, I have had an opportunity to ask a question, get a comment, maybe say a quick hello. | ||
| We'll see how that plays out. | ||
| But he does have a very rushed day-to-day. | ||
| Maybe we'll get something from the First Lady as well as she's joining him. | ||
| But, yeah, this is going to be kind of a rapid-moving thing. | ||
| So this is my type of television, Steve. | ||
| I've got to tell you, I got this business back in 1988, and I've done a variety of things. | ||
| things but this whole kind of run and gun on the move live television is what I really really enjoy and there's no one doing it better and no one to do it better with than doing it with President Trump he's one of the best he knows how to do it he knows how to basically capture the excitement and the energy of it all I mean he knows how to put a show together look I'm only off camera right now because I want to make sure we have a good shot at | ||
| I'm only off camera now, so I want to make sure we have eyes to the sky. | ||
| I want to make sure we don't miss that landing. | ||
| Luke's got his eyes to the sky as well. | ||
| We don't want to miss this. | ||
| We're tracking this. | ||
| President Trump's the best at this. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, Ben. | ||
| Ben Burkwam. | ||
| Yeah, just one other thing in regards to FEMA. This is why it's so important that groups get uplifted. | ||
| The guys that are actually doing this, they don't only feel abandoned by FEMA. They feel abandoned by their own local government. | ||
| They feel abandoned by the state and the local government. | ||
| And a lot of these guys, like Tyler Burleson up there in Tennessee, he says their own community, the government that was supposed to be helping them, didn't do anything either. | ||
| And so the message has got to be, we've got to get the funding down to the people. | ||
| If you want to talk about how to run and to do cleanup efficiently, you get it down to the guys that are on the ground. | ||
| You don't send it to a big bureaucratic organization that works out of Washington, D.C., that has 14 levels of bureaucracy before the funds actually get down to do what needs to be done. | ||
| You send it to the people on the ground. | ||
| These guys are ready to go. | ||
| They know what they need. | ||
| They've got a checklist. | ||
| They need 14 trailers in this location. | ||
| They need meals for 130 people in this location. | ||
| Diapers for this family. | ||
| They need sheets and blankets. | ||
| They have the entire list of what they need. | ||
| The last thing we need, though, is to pump more money into these government organizations that have no clue, and even when they do, they waste it. | ||
| Let's get this shot back into the thing. | ||
| Ben's absolutely correct. | ||
| I think, Brian, what we're talking about is subsidiarity. | ||
| The president's going to think through with his team. | ||
| Because what Doge is working on and what Russ Vogt, this all gets back to the deconstruction of the administrative state. | ||
| Has FEMA become something that just gets in the way of local officials? | ||
| Is it more efficient to get the money down as close as possible to where these disasters are? | ||
| And can it be delivered efficiently? | ||
| Have we just put in layer and layer of bureaucracy? | ||
| It's one of the things that Elon's supposed to be working on. | ||
| I think he is. | ||
| It's one of the things Russ Vogt's going to be working on. | ||
| And these are fundamental issues. | ||
| That's why the president, and you're right, He's the master of how to bring people in, but he's also a guy that wants to go and talk to people. | ||
| He doesn't want to see a briefing book. | ||
| He wants to go out in the field. | ||
| He wants to look a guy in the eye and say, tell me what's going on. | ||
| And then he wants to walk around and see if what he just heard in the roundtable comports to what he's seen on the ground. | ||
| And people feel comfortable with the president to come up and say, hey, Mr. President, this is what's going on. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Yeah, he's the guy that goes to his construction site and talks to the guy laying concrete, talks to the guy that's unloading the truck for lumber. | ||
| He goes down to that level to get their feedback and get to see if there's any problems, even from the lowest level all the way up. | ||
| And so that's his approach here in North Carolina. | ||
| He's going to talk to the people. | ||
| He's going to find out their struggles and how they were making it day to day. | ||
| And remember, you know, this is the government, remind you, that keeps sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, like the very day some of these storms have hit our coast. | ||
| We saw the devastation. | ||
| Instead of going out and helping, they sent the billions to Ukraine. | ||
| Now, I'll go back to Doge just for a second, and I think you're going to see some wonderful, exciting things out of that subcommittee today. | ||
| And so you're going to see perhaps FEMA once again, you know, kind of under the microscope. | ||
| But if you're going to talk about media, and I'm not going to say too much, but let's just say if there's any government-sponsored media, you might want to... | ||
| Make sure that you're fair and balanced because you'll be under review as well as like any other government agency that should be working directly for the people and not having any kind of political dog in the hunt, if you will, on these things. | ||
| And it's got to be for the people. | ||
| And I'll say it again. | ||
| America First goes across the board. | ||
| We're waiting for the president to come. | ||
| That's in Asheville, North Carolina. | ||
| The airport, Brian Glenn, Real America's Voice, our both Capitol Hill and White House correspondent is there awaiting the president. | ||
| Very special coverage for Real America's Voice. | ||
| I want to thank the comms teams over at the White House for making this possible. | ||
| Ben Burke runs up in Chicago. | ||
| Jack Posobiec is out at the Right to Life in the nation's capital. | ||
| And Noor Bin Laden is in Davos. | ||
| We're going to try to get to all of them. | ||
| But the priority... | ||
| Is the forgotten man and woman is forgotten no more with President Trump? | ||
| You know, I think the book, if we can check it out of my crack staff here, I think the book was called In Search of Excellence. | ||
| It was when Donald Trump was first coming onto the scene. | ||
| It was written by a guy named Tom Peters, and he said the key there was management. | ||
| Management by wandering around. | ||
| President Trump took that to heart. | ||
| Brian, give us an update. | ||
| What's going on here, sir? | ||
| I see some activity. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| We've got the camera that we've been told to get in place. | ||
| We're going to go ahead and walk forward. | ||
| This is happening as it unfolds. | ||
| So I've been told I've got to kind of get the camera off from the security at this point, Steve. | ||
| So you might want to maybe just bump out to Ben or someone just briefly as I get in place for Secret Service protocol. | ||
| Just give me a few minutes. | ||
| Just come back to the other shot. | ||
| Fine, take your time. | ||
| Okay, so we have Brian Glenn. | ||
| Hey, Steve. | ||
| For the first time, hang on, Ben. | ||
| A streaming service has been invited to participate in this. | ||
| This is not what they call a pull feed. | ||
| This is Real America's Voice, our own great Brian Glenn right there. | ||
| That's the camera shot. | ||
| He's been told to get in place. | ||
| We're going to make this up as we go along today, folks. | ||
| It's going to be, I think, amazing. | ||
| President Trump is going to North Carolina. | ||
| The coverage of Ben Burquam had for a couple days last week, 10 days ago. | ||
| A heart-rendering of folks, hard-working American citizens, taxpayers, really the backbone of our country, really what MAGA is about in the Appalachia section of Georgia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, and Virginia. | ||
| Had been forgotten by the Biden regime. | ||
| And you couldn't take it any other way that it was kind of payback for supporting President Trump. | ||
| Let me be brutally frank about it. | ||
| And I think the people there felt the same way. | ||
| They were out in not just sub-freezing. | ||
| They were in, you know, 6, 7, 8 degrees at night living in tents. | ||
| FEMA had not delivered trailers. | ||
| FEMA had not delivered, had not cleared the place. | ||
| And these are people that are not just going to sit around and say, oh, you got to do everything for me. | ||
| These are the kind of the salt of the earth. | ||
| Folks that'll take action by themselves. | ||
| Let's put that other shot. | ||
| Just do a two-shot with me. | ||
| Let's get everything we can on that shot. | ||
| Just put it up right now. | ||
| Split screen. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Air Force One is landing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If I've got to direct, I'll direct too. | ||
| Brian, can you hear me? | ||
| Can you walk us through where you are? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, Air Force One, as you can hear it, has just landed here. | ||
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| Let me step aside. | ||
| What a good-looking shot that is. | ||
| It shows just the majestic-like appearance of Air Force One. | ||
| He's going to taxi around here, Steve. | ||
| We've got this rolling stairs behind me that we're going to pull up. | ||
| You can also see the Secret Service cars chasing Air Force One as they land down the runway. | ||
| He's going to stop, make a U-turn, Steve, come back here. | ||
| The stairs will pick him up. | ||
| That's where our cameras will be, right there underneath the stairs to get the president to step off Air Force One. | ||
| But I'm going to let this play out, Steve, and let you guys comment on it as well as we kind of get in place. | ||
| I'll try to hold the picture up for you, but we'll just keep an eye on what the timing of all this looks like. | ||
| Brian, your priority is obviously get the best shot and get up there as close as the Secret Service allows you. | ||
| They've allowed Real America's Voice special coverage today. | ||
| This is not a pool feed. | ||
| This is Real America's Voice has been invited by the White House communications team because of the years that Brian... | ||
| And, of course, Robin Parker-Sig have put to covering the rallies, covering the real story of the president and seeing it live. | ||
| So Brian Glenn's there today. | ||
| And we'll be with the president in the motorcade. | ||
| We'll be with the president at the roundtable, hopefully get inside, be at the president when he does the walk and talk. | ||
| It's so symbolic. | ||
| What you're saying is the president of the United States, everything about... | ||
| In the White House and what the President does every minute of the day is looked at as what's most effective and most efficient for the President to get his job done. | ||
| Remember, he's got three. | ||
| He's the Chief Executive Officer of the United States government. | ||
| He's also Commander-in-Chief of the Uniformed Services, the Armed Services, and he's the Chief Magistrate and Chief Law Enforcement Officer. | ||
| In the country. | ||
| So every minute of every day is very, very important to either brief him or have him do action. | ||
| You've seen in the last 24 hours, he decided to go to Davos by video and make just an incredible speech. | ||
| Tom Fennell last night said amazing. | ||
| It's just like the Evil Empire speech of President Reagan in 1983. He did that so today he could come to North Carolina and see the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| The Biden regime, the global elitists, really kind of mocked and ridiculed by withholding FEMA aid and FEMA. Part of that might have been the incompetence of FEMA, but I think, as we'll investigate in the days and weeks ahead, I think a lot of it was just complete malfeasance. | ||
| President Trump, there's Air Force One. | ||
| It's really, Air Force One, if you've been inside, is essentially a military command center in the air. | ||
| It is not the most comfortable place in the world. | ||
| President's got an office, small office. | ||
| They have a bedroom up front. | ||
| He's got a conference room that you can bring executives in. | ||
| There's a small thing for the staff. | ||
| Brian Glenn, our reporter, is on the tarmac. | ||
| He's going to hopefully get kind of special access there. | ||
| President Trump's probably going to see some... | ||
| Brian's ready. | ||
| Brian, let's go. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Brian, you can hear me? | ||
| Put us on the tarmac, sir. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Well, here we are. | ||
| Air Force One just came to a stop. | ||
| They're putting the blocks underneath the planes, underneath the wheels, which makes me think this is exactly the spot he is going to walk out. | ||
| Behind me is some stairs. | ||
| They're going to roll those stairs up. | ||
| I would imagine he's going to get off, Steve. | ||
| Near the front. | ||
| The back typically is where a lot of the other staff will get off the plane. | ||
| So we're going to probably focus whenever he does get off here in the front. | ||
| And hopefully, perhaps we'll have a... | ||
| Something to comment from the President. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| The steps moving in real quickly, Steve. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Brian, the front of the plane is always reserved. | ||
| The steps at the front is reserved for the President of the United States and the First Lady. | ||
| The crew, the Secret Service, his White House staff, and the reporters who are all in the back will come out the back steps. | ||
| Traditionally, the front steps is only for the Commander-in-Chief and the First Lady. | ||
| This is all live. | ||
| The airport in Asheville, North Carolina, the President of the United States, 47th President, has arrived to see the forgotten man and woman of this horrible hurricane that has not been addressed. | ||
| Brian Glenn, as Brian Glenn's getting under the wing there of Air Force One. | ||
| Folks, I can tell you, this is extraordinary. | ||
| Go ahead, sir. | ||
| Well, I'm just going to say, we're technically underneath the wing. | ||
| Let's go over here. | ||
| I'm just trying to take direction from the Trump leads here of what we're doing. | ||
| We're walking underneath the wing of Air Force One to get... | ||
| Okay, we've been told to hold here in this area. | ||
| Okay, right here. | ||
| I've got a couple people telling me different things. | ||
| I want to make sure that we... | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Stay right here. | |
| Don't move. | ||
| Okay, there we go. | ||
| See if you heard it. | ||
| Stay right here. | ||
| Don't move. | ||
| Luke, make sure you've got a clean shot of him stepping off. | ||
| I love it at this point. | ||
| It's kind of organized chaos, and I absolutely embrace this type of environment. | ||
| So does Ben Burkwam. | ||
| Let's make sure we get up front here. | ||
| Let's make sure we don't have any obstructive view of him getting off. | ||
| We'll see how this plays out, Steve. | ||
| But hey, this is one mighty plane, as you described it. | ||
| A lot of the... | ||
| The press, the photographers that are actually embedded with President Trump are also exiting the plane right now, as well as staffers and members of the military, Secret Service, special assistance to the presidents are all on this plane. | ||
| So I see Caroline Levitt just... | ||
| Got off as well, but we should be moments away. | ||
| And like I said, to kind of recap to our viewers here, when he does get off the plane, he will get in the motorcade. | ||
| We will join President Trump in that motorcade, going to location number one. | ||
| I don't have a total run time on how long he'll actually be at that location. | ||
| But then after that, we'll get back in the motorcade, go to location number two, and cover that as well, Steve. | ||
| But yeah, we're live here on Real America's Voice. | ||
| We certainly appreciate you watching. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| So when Brian says people are getting off, don't turn the camera, but there is a door, a door to the rear, and that's where the staff comes off, that's where the Secret Service comes off, that's where the media, there's tons of media, I think there's always 40 or 50, in a pool that travels with the president. | ||
| Both foreign press and domestic press, all the big outlets have reporters that do nothing but travel with the president and they rotate through. | ||
| They all come up first, they're on the tarmac right in back of Brian. | ||
| This door to Air Force One is reserved for the Commander-in-Chief and the First Lady to always... | ||
| And sometimes they'll let maybe family members of people come with them, but we're at Asheville, North Carolina, on the tarmac. | ||
| Brian Glenn is about as close as you can get. | ||
| Don't get sucked up in that jet engine right there, Brian. | ||
| He's about as close as I've ever seen a camera crew there, so I really want to thank the White House communications team. | ||
| Brian, put us there, but right there, they're kind of getting ready for the president to come out. | ||
| I just stepped away from the camera for just 10 seconds, hugged Karen Leavitt, and personally said thank you for this opportunity to do this. | ||
| And like you said earlier, I mean, the Trump team, it's a new era as far as the media culture and how they cover a president, and we're very appreciative. | ||
| Of this opportunity. | ||
| But yeah, right, I could walk over there and put my hands on the engine, which is almost unheard of in this situation. | ||
| But this is, we're probably a good maybe 20 yards away from the ramp where the president will step out. | ||
| And there are a couple hundred supporters that are back where we were before. | ||
| Go ahead, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, Caroline Levitt saw the power of the streaming services years ago as a young woman. | ||
| She ran in a tough primary. | ||
| We covered it all the time. | ||
| The audience got to know her. | ||
| The Warren Posse fell in love with her as a tough, no-nonsense young person. | ||
| So she's seen the power of the streaming services and the podcasts and particularly Real America's Voice. | ||
| Okay, back to you, Brian. | ||
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| No. | ||
| Good point taken. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| I love that you pointed that out. | ||
| I can't see, because of the glare, probably a few more of the administrative staff support coming off right now. | ||
| And they've got about a total of a dozen vehicles, Steve, that they will get in. | ||
| Obviously, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, six of the kind of the black suburbans. | ||
| I would call them the beast. | ||
| Six of those vehicles out here. | ||
| The rest would be kind of an Econoline van that the administration will get in as well. | ||
| But, yeah, I mean, any moment here, and this is historic. | ||
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Like you said, this is his first trip for the people. | |
| The process they're going through right now, the Secret Service comes out and makes sure that the area is secure. | ||
| They're dealing behind the scenes right now to make sure the area is secure. | ||
| The president is always there. | ||
| Normally, maybe he'll make a phone call or two, keep in touch with people, and when they're ready, everybody take a deep breath. | ||
| Let's get the show rolling. | ||
| But the first thing is get the motorcade up there, but make sure that the Secret Service, you got the snipers off to the side, that the Secret Service... | ||
| Can basically give it all clear. | ||
| This thing is secured. | ||
| That normally takes a couple of minutes to go through. | ||
| Brian Glenn, right there we're seeing up at the door of the President, Air Force One. | ||
| His first trip, historic and real America's voice. | ||
| Brian Glenn, the war room, all invited to have special coverage. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Yeah, thank you, Steve. | ||
| And I'll also say this, I know the local news stations, I was watching them this morning in the hotel, and they were kind of giving traffic updates, knowing that there'd be somewhat of a massive road closure as the president makes his way around this part of western North Carolina. | ||
| And that is something to point out, so if you're watching us from this area, we're glad to have you. | ||
| You might want to stay off the roads, because I would imagine as he navigates all of these kind of back roads to get to some of these places, you will... | ||
| We'll see some traffic delays. | ||
| But why not sit back and relax in your 72-degree living room while I stand out here in about 21-degree temperature and deliver it to you. | ||
| But I will tell you... | ||
| Is Brian Glenn whining? | ||
| I got Brian Glenn whining already? |
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