Jan. 25, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Thank you. | |
| Moments away, President Trump will be landing behind me. | ||
| Real America's Voice and Brian Glenn, because of Gregor Point, has been invited specially to go. | ||
| This has been totally abandoned. | ||
| This is the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| Completely abandoned. | ||
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If you want to know what President Trump is up to, just turn on Real America's Voice. | |
| The communications staff understands the power of streaming and the power of things like Real America's Voice. | ||
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This media landscaping is changing now. | |
| The First Lady's first trip is with her husband, the President of the United States, showing how much... | ||
| She cares about this. | ||
| This is Real America's Voice has been invited by the White House communications team. | ||
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I think it's just a wonderful thing that he's here today. | |
| I'm stopping in North Carolina first because they've been abused. | ||
| By what's happened. | ||
| I mean, it's terrible. | ||
| A lot of Americans think that this is symbolic of what your campaign was all about. | ||
| America first, putting your priorities to Americans. | ||
| Even going to California, where their policies might have been more of the biggest reasons why they've had these problems. | ||
| But you're putting American people first. | ||
| Your thoughts on that? | ||
| We are. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I like that question. | ||
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Boy, I want more questions like that. | |
| That's even a statement. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| He's a good man, that guy. | ||
| And he's also a very professional reporter, I have to say. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We're putting America first. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| When the mainstream media is like, "How did Trump come back?" How they came back was pick and shovel work every day. | ||
| War Room every day for four hours a day was hammering this. | ||
| These new media outlets and people like yourself 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, Branglin. | ||
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All of PCH is on fire right now. | |
| There is fierce wind down power lines, power poles toppled over. | ||
| Things are exploding. | ||
| Gas lines are on fire. | ||
| Flames are coming back over PCH. They're being blown by fierce winds. | ||
| It is like driving through hell itself down here. | ||
| Literally through hell. | ||
| This is madness down here. | ||
| These homes are on fire and you can feel the heat from the flames even from inside your car. | ||
| It is insane down here. | ||
| Take a look at this fire tornado spotted above the Palisades Fire this morning. | ||
| This was captured by Air 7. | ||
| Just a wild view there. | ||
| *music* | ||
| *music* | ||
| *music* *music* *music* Um, okay, I guess let's park along this street, yeah? | ||
| And then, Dave, if you can, just go ahead of us and try to set up a scene. | ||
| Right here, right here. | ||
| This is where it's got to be. | ||
| This is—oh my god. | ||
| What? | ||
| I've never—look at this. | ||
| Beyond comprehension. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| That's pretty sad. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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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 lie? | ||
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MAGA 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. Bass. | ||
| Welcome, friends. | ||
| Friday, 24th, January, Year of Alert 2025. We started the broadcast today. | ||
| We're in North Carolina with the President of the United States. | ||
| Brian Glenn had very special access. | ||
| I want to thank the White House Comms Department, Taylor Botowich, Stephen Chung, and Caroline Levitt. | ||
| We covered that this morning. | ||
| The President then left, and the President is en route to Los Angeles, California, to go to Pacific Palisades, see the devastation there, and meet with officials. | ||
| He says this is the revolution in common sense. | ||
| He's there to reach out to the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| Going to meet with authorities also. | ||
| Our own Amanda Head will be taking the afternoon shift. | ||
| She's trying to get into Palisades right now. | ||
| People should understand, the Palisades and Altadena out by Pasadena, but the Palisades is literally blocked off. | ||
| Very, very hard to get into. | ||
| The president, in fact, is going to land. | ||
| I think he's going to land. | ||
| Estimated time of landing in LAX is, I believe, 5.30 Eastern Time. | ||
| It will be the next 30 minutes, maybe a little longer because of the headwinds. | ||
| He's going to take a helicopter. | ||
| Traffic is so tough to get around, the president's going to helicopter into the Palisades. | ||
| We're going to have Amanda head as close as possible to make sure she can see it. | ||
| In any case, she'll be there near the devastation. | ||
| It'll be absolutely incredible. | ||
| Is this the live feed now? | ||
| Okay, we got a live shot right there from L.A. You see the devastation with that fire. | ||
| For those who forget, it was a hellfire. | ||
| You saw in that, with the woman that was talking, maybe we get ready to play that again. | ||
| That was Malibu. | ||
| That was the Pacific Coast Highway. | ||
| When you're on the PCH Highway there, when you're driving in those homes, so she's driving north on Pacific Coast Highways because those homes actually front the water. | ||
| Those are those magnificent beach homes. | ||
| Now, it's not the Malibu colony where kind of the elite of Hollywood is, but those are kind of more the beach homes a little south of there. | ||
| They're all gone. | ||
| They are all burned to the ground, and that is, you saw that hellfire. | ||
| If you look right to the left normally, you have one of the most stunning views of the Pacific Ocean you can ever imagine, and you're 50 yards away. | ||
| I mean, the road is built right on the ocean. | ||
| All of that row of houses, which are incredibly famous, it's kind of what people think of Malibu, all gone. | ||
| Absolute destruction. | ||
| And remember, that fire came down from the canyons. | ||
| Two Palisades came down and burned all the buildings on the inland side of PCH and then jumped by sparks in the wind to those homes on PCH and burned it. | ||
| It was absolute devastation. | ||
| The president's out there today. | ||
| As stunned as he was by North Carolina, North Carolina is stunning because of the flood damage in the hills and hollers of that part of the Smoky Mountains, Appalachia. | ||
| He will be, I think, even more stunned by when he sees L.A. today. | ||
| He's very familiar with Pacific Palisades, one of the... | ||
| The most famous enclaves in all Hollywood. | ||
| Ben Berquam. | ||
| Do I have Ben Berquam? | ||
| Ben Berquam is actually... | ||
| Ben will be back in Chicago tomorrow. | ||
| Ben is going to be doing duty for us on all the deportations. | ||
| So much going on. | ||
| Do I have Ben yet? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Yeah, we're setting up Ben right now. | ||
| Amanda Hedge trying to work her way into the Palisades. | ||
| So here's what's going to happen this afternoon. | ||
| The president is going to land momentarily, I think within the next half hour, at LAX on Air Force One. | ||
| I believe we have some short comments on the tarmac. | ||
| Talks to some officials. | ||
| Gavin Newsom thinks the governor is going to be out there. | ||
| Don't know if Mayor Bass is going to be out there. | ||
| Then the president right now is playing on helicoptering. | ||
| So 5.30, quarter of six is, what, 2.30. | ||
| You've got a couple hours of daylight. | ||
| Sun goes down about 5.30, this time 5.20 in LA by the ocean. | ||
| President, a helicopter up to the Palisades, and I'll spend an hour or so up there. | ||
| I think there's going to be another roundtable meeting with officials, but really, the president should get on the ground and see what's going on. | ||
| Remember, there's additional fires happening in L.A. right now because of the wind conditions, more destruction, more devastation. | ||
| The situation this afternoon is going to be quite different than this morning. | ||
| What do I mean by that? | ||
| The president signed an executive order. | ||
| He's very focused on this deconstruction of the administrative state. | ||
| The president is very focused on efficiency and effectiveness. | ||
| I don't know if Elon's gotten in his ear or not with Doge. | ||
| But he is furious at FEMA for however the money was held back. | ||
| Because the devastation he saw in western North Carolina today, this is four months ago. | ||
| This is four months ago. | ||
| And it looked like nothing had been done. | ||
| I mean, the devastation is horrible. | ||
| He's very upset about that. | ||
| He wanted everybody to know, and First Lady Melania Trump is with him. | ||
| He wanted everybody to know he was going out there to see the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| He's quite furious about, he's quite upset about FEMA. But he made a comment before he got on the plane that, hey, if FEMA had the money, did Joe Biden purposely stop this? | ||
| And I think it's a big question. | ||
| Out there today, Because of, we had Joshua Pettit on here talking about these coastal commissions, talking about these environmental, there's so many laws, so many regulations, so many over-the-top, whether it's the Delta smelt fish about the water or whether it's the coastal commissions about what you can cut down, this whole thing that President Trump has warned Gavin Newsom about for years since he was out there at the Paradise Fire and walked around with Gavin Newsom, made a comment then about the clearing of the underbrush. | ||
| It's quite controversial, and the American people, you know, they're talking about $200 billion of damage. | ||
| They're also talking about an insurance industry that won't insure. | ||
| I think somebody told me one-third of the Palisades' homes were uninsured because they say, hey, now you live in a fire zone, and we can't insure you. | ||
| We're going to get to all that. | ||
| I want to go to Ben Berquam. | ||
| Ben is on the road. | ||
| Ben will be back in Chicago tomorrow. | ||
| Ben, one, your perspective on this morning, what you saw in... | ||
| In North Carolina, and then I want to tee up for what you and I are going to do in the 6 o'clock hour. | ||
| Talk to me first about the visit to North Carolina today. | ||
| Ten days ago, Ben, you were out there as one of the driving forces, I think, to make sure the president and his staff understood. | ||
| People were hurting. | ||
| These are people, the president's biggest backers, people that love the president. | ||
| They've been abandoned by Joe Biden, abandoned by the administrative state. | ||
| What did today mean to you, sir? | ||
| Well, it's the beginning of restoring America first. | ||
| It's the beginning of restoring trust in government and the people of this country realizing that their government isn't out to get them, isn't against them, they're actually for them. | ||
| And that's President Trump's entire campaign was restoring the forgotten man. | ||
| All of these communities feel not just forgotten. | ||
| They feel intentionally abandoned. | ||
| They're not victims because they've taken it upon themselves in that interim to do it themselves. | ||
| But they feel like the government is against them, not for them. | ||
| And today was the beginning of restoring that trust. | ||
| And it had to be done by President Trump. | ||
| I want to go, by the way, Brian Glenn is heading back to the magnificent world. | ||
| He's heading to Georgia, I guess he is. | ||
| And he's actually going to be down at Doral on Monday with the president. | ||
| Ben, a tee-up for me at 6 o'clock. | ||
| What's going to happen at 6 o'clock? | ||
| We're going to do something very special. | ||
| It ties directly back to when you were there 10 days ago and really to the forgotten man and woman. | ||
| What's going to happen? | ||
| So I just got a call. | ||
| I was trying to reach out to all my contacts down there in Tennessee and North Carolina to make sure that they had all gotten the invite to President Trump's visit, to make sure their stories were going to be told. | ||
| And I couldn't get a hold of Tyler Burleson. | ||
| Texts weren't going through. | ||
| Calls weren't going through. | ||
| Finally got a text from him. | ||
| He is being held in the county jail as we speak. | ||
| He got put in jail yesterday for some nonsense bounced check. | ||
| This county, you want to talk about corruption. | ||
| You want to talk about the government, the tyranny that still exists in our government. | ||
| It is happening right now. | ||
| We're going to get Tyler on the phone from jail to tell the story about this corruption and hopefully get him out of there. | ||
| It's absolutely outrageous. | ||
| Ben, what's your social media? | ||
| We'll see you back here at 6. Where do we get you, sir? | ||
| At Ben Burquam on all social. | ||
| FrontlineAmerica.com and new episodes of Law& Border. | ||
| Wait till you see what we start bringing out. | ||
| America's Voice.News. | ||
| Ben Berquam is on temporary assignment with the ICE units. | ||
| Going to be quite explosive over the weekend and next week. | ||
| Ben Berquam, love you, brother. | ||
| Continue on your journey. | ||
| We'll see you at 6 o'clock. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Quite explosive interview we're going to have at 6. From jail, Tyler Burleson. | ||
| Johnny Kahn, John Kahn, Andrew Breitbart's partner, his beloved house with all of his music, everything, all his memories, photographs, beautiful house, had for decades in Pacific Palisades, burned down to ashes. | ||
| He takes us out with American heart. | ||
| We're going to be back in the war room in just a moment. | ||
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But I'm American made. | |
| I got American part. | ||
| I got American made. | ||
| In America's heart. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I got American part. | ||
| Okay, we're going to do, look at that footage right there. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, and if you're hearing this, listening to the podcast, you must go to the website and get the command report and all the footage. | ||
| That, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the most quaint villages, neighborhoods in all of Los Angeles. | ||
| The Los Angeles megalopolis, which I don't know if he added everything up, is what, 12, 15 million people? | ||
| This is the home of Billy Crystal and Tom Hanks and so many stars today. | ||
| But in the old days, this was kind of the low-key. | ||
| The folks that didn't want to live in Beverly Hills, didn't want to live in Bel Air, didn't want to live in Holmby Hills. | ||
| They wanted to live in something more low-key. | ||
| It is burned to the ground. | ||
| Look at that right there. | ||
| It's absolutely stunning. | ||
| And you saw the fire when we first started. | ||
| That is what President Trump's coming to today. | ||
| And President Trump, this one's getting some tough questions. | ||
| Number one, this has turned into a progressive enclave. | ||
| I think 80% of the enclave is progressive. | ||
| And I mean progressive left. | ||
| They're one of the biggest fundraisers for the left. | ||
| But these people are getting red-pilled quickly. | ||
| You've seen Bill Maher on his show. | ||
| Yeah, if we can walk down and look up the streets. | ||
| I mean, look at this everywhere. | ||
| Just unbelievable destruction. | ||
| If you, in fact, if the cameraman, that's been our camera. | ||
| If we can walk towards the main part of the Palisades, if he can walk in there, I don't even know if there's police right there. | ||
| I don't even know how the cameraman's in there. | ||
| It's basically been enclosed. | ||
| President Trump is going to be some tough conversations today. | ||
| This is much different than North Carolina. | ||
| And the conversations today are going to be about what caused this. | ||
| I mean, the policies, the environmental policies that were in back of this, that led to this. | ||
| President Trump, he's maniacally focused on one thing, and this is the water. | ||
| He wants to know why there wasn't water available to use for the fire department. | ||
| Why it wasn't even down to the fire hydrants itself. | ||
| A massive organizational issue, a massive just complete collapse of what we call complex systems in order to keep you safe and secure. | ||
| And you've seen progressives like Bill Maher. | ||
| I mean, Bill Maher has been on a rampage on this to say how incompetent these people are and how they pay the highest taxes. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Total devastation. | ||
| The thing that shocked me in watching this. | ||
| That when it was burning, you didn't see any firemen at all. | ||
| It's not that firemen are not brave and heroic. | ||
| Somehow they were ordered not to go in there. | ||
| They didn't go in, and I understand people say what's different than urban fire and these wildfires, but there was no protection of the homes. | ||
| They just kind of went home to home and burnt to the ground. | ||
| The sparks, as one spark flew from the next. | ||
| The other was firemen saying, hey, even if they went in, there was no water pressure. | ||
| Remember, they had a real clown the first couple of days, a female, that when they answered the question about the tank, she would sit there and be very precise. | ||
| It was like somebody in third grade, well, the tank ran out a million gallons at like 10 o'clock at night, the next one at like 1.30 in the morning, the next one 3.30. | ||
| And it's like, hey, lady, I don't need the precise time that each ran out of the water. | ||
| I want to know why they weren't refilled immediately. | ||
| Look at this, another destroyed house. | ||
| These are all... | ||
| Multi-million dollar houses. | ||
| Like I said, it's not Beverly Hills or Bel Air or Holmby Hills where the houses are, you know, oftentimes $25, $30, $40 million, $50 million sometime. | ||
| These are smaller houses and some of them quite quaint. | ||
| Just the fact that you're in the Palisades. | ||
| Palisades has a reputation for great schools, has a tremendous... | ||
| You know, Corpus Christi's up there. | ||
| They have St. Matthew's is up there. | ||
| Pally High. | ||
| I mean, the public schools are terrific up there. | ||
| The private schools of Corpus Christi and St. Matthew's are some of the best in all of L.A. Pally High is known as one of the best high schools, a historic high school up there. | ||
| Yeah, which Christian? | ||
| Calvary Christian is one of the best classical Christian schools in the country. | ||
| That's there. | ||
| It's just all gone. | ||
| All of them burned down. | ||
| All of them vanished, finished. | ||
| And I think you're going to see, as I said, it's so devastating that, you know, as now the reality dawns on some of the people I know up there who are flaming liberals and big progressives, they are such shocked. | ||
| It's like, how could we have done everything right and been so politically correct? | ||
| And then this happens. | ||
| And I believe you're going to find when the analysis is done. | ||
| That there are a lot of these progressive policies, particularly homelessness. | ||
| I mean, I think one of the most compelling that I've seen, there's our camera, right? | ||
| See right there? | ||
| That's a hulk of a vehicle has not been removed. | ||
| We are now two or three weeks. | ||
| When you go around, look at this devastation has not, I mean, so the process of this is a decade. | ||
| It's just a decade by the time you clear out all the toxicity. | ||
| They do remediation on the ground and water. | ||
| And there will be lawsuits and fights. | ||
| And they say they're going to do quick permitting. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| I hope you do. | ||
| But this is where this kind of radical coastal commission, because Palisades, although it doesn't touch the water, it's right up the hill from Malibu and really from that part of Santa Monica. | ||
| Santa Monica and Malibu are kind of... | ||
| Bisected by the slopes coming down from the Palisades, the Palisades being obviously on the Palisades, on the heights overlooking it. | ||
| But one of the reasons it's so lovely to live there is you get the sea breezes and the clean, fresh sea air all the time that you don't sometimes get when you're in the valley or even like in some of the inland nice neighborhoods of LA. It's one of the reasons that Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and those are... | ||
| Hermosa, Redondo, and Manhattan are very beachy. | ||
| Those are real beach communities, right? | ||
| You're right on the beach. | ||
| That's where Captain Bannon was raised in Manhattan Beach. | ||
| Those are very beachy communities. | ||
| The northern beaches of Santa Monica and really the Palisades and Malibu, Malibu's kind of beachy, but the others are kind of more reserved. | ||
| You actually have beautiful neighborhoods, these old neighborhoods, and you get beach down below it, but it's not really what I call a... | ||
| A beachy, you know, like a surfer community feel. | ||
| But look at this devastation. | ||
| This is what President Trump's going to come to today. | ||
| And look, there's going to be some tough questions. | ||
| Number one, just politically, it is, look at that right there, the Santa. | ||
| Because it was just after the, you know, Christmas time. | ||
| Just amazing. | ||
| One of the questions is going to be to the governor is that what policies and people, you know, on MSNBC and CNN, they're freaking out now that President Trump is going to put conditions on relief. | ||
| Well, look, President Trump is a steward of the taxpayers' money and taxpayers throughout the nation. | ||
| This is not a small thing. | ||
| We were just having a discussion here. | ||
| I think already the direct cost of the fires. | ||
| Or in the $60 to $80 billion range, but that's not even the rebuild. | ||
| I mean, that's kind of the current cost. | ||
| The rebuild, I'm hearing numbers of $150 to $200 billion. | ||
| Please always keep in mind that California is, I think, the seventh largest economy in the world. | ||
| Southern California is a powerhouse of an economy. | ||
| This is going to have a major hit to GDP, a major hit to just growth overall. | ||
| There's not a question this has to be built. | ||
| It's how it gets rebuilt and who's actually underwriting it and footing the bill. | ||
| I believe I heard that one-third of the homes in Palisades were not insured at all, couldn't get insurance. | ||
| They do have an insurance pullout. | ||
| That's going to be BK. They're going to look for a bailout of that. | ||
| They're going to look for an underwriting of this. | ||
| So the American taxpayers are going to have a lot of questions. | ||
| Let's put politics aside. | ||
| Exactly how did this happen? | ||
| You know, fires happen, and particularly wildfires happen. | ||
| This is also not a case. | ||
| I don't want to hear about climate change in global warming. | ||
| You had two of the wettest winters we've ever had in Southern California. | ||
| They're saying that's where the vegetation grew, and you've had kind of a drought now. | ||
| But this is also not building where people haven't been built before. | ||
| Remember, a lot of them are saying, well, they're building where, you know, heretofore, the reason these things are burning down, you're putting in areas. | ||
| I want to remind people, this is just our cameraman, Ben. | ||
| He's just wandering around. | ||
| And everywhere he turns, it's more destruction than the last. | ||
| Folks, remember a couple weeks ago, this was an inferno. | ||
| This was an out-of-control inferno. | ||
| The reason he had so few deaths, they went around and people just, they just took off. | ||
| They just, look at this right here. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| If you're watching at home. | ||
| And if you listen on the podcast, you've got to get the footage of this. | ||
| Really, this is good, better than I've seen on MSNBC or CNN. It's quite... | ||
| You've got some of the police tape up, some of that. | ||
| I don't believe anybody's being allowed to live in the Palisades. | ||
| I think even the houses that survived are kind of... | ||
| They're kind of condemned. | ||
| The police at night are sitting there stopping looters and making sure looters don't go through. | ||
| There's not much left. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Look at it right across the street. | ||
| Totally gone. | ||
| So President Trump is going out there. | ||
| President Trump's going to helicopter in from LAX. I'm sure there's going to be a roundtable like in Carolina. | ||
| It's normally what happens. | ||
| A roundtable. | ||
| You meet officials, local. | ||
| You hear about it. | ||
| I can tell you that Melania Trump, knowing her friends and knowing LA and Donald J. Trump, knowing his friends, They're going to be gobsmacked on this one. | ||
| It was hard enough to comprehend the issues of the flood today in North Carolina, but this is next level of just total and complete destruction. | ||
| House after house after house. | ||
| This is like the firebombing in Tokyo in 1945 with nothing standing. | ||
| Our Amanda Head is out there. | ||
| We're going to get her situation. | ||
| She's obviously, there are blockades everywhere. | ||
| We're going to try to get a mandate. | ||
| It's the reason President Trump's taking a helicopter. | ||
| Hey, he's President of the United States. | ||
| They clear the roads for him. | ||
| He's still taking a helicopter in. | ||
| President Trump's got a helicopter in. | ||
| He's going to be meeting with officials. | ||
| I think there could be, President Trump's very, as you know, magnanimous, but I think there might be a sharp question or two. | ||
| He is absolutely, I can tell you, he is livid on the fact of why was there not water available to fight this? | ||
| Why was not in the hydrants? | ||
| Why was the Palisades, you know, 117 million dollar, 117 million gallon reservoir was not filled, was empty because of the cosmetic things they were doing for over a year on a lid, on a covering, a tarp. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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| Short break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Here's what I would like to do. | ||
| I want to replay. | ||
| If Ben, the cameraman, can give me the live shot right there. | ||
| What I would like to do, if Denver can reboot, I want people to go back and want to see this fire. | ||
| The exact same thing we saw in the open. | ||
| Tell me when it's up and ready. | ||
| I want to replay that. | ||
| You get to see the Inferno. | ||
| This was Inferno. | ||
| Okay, let's go ahead and play. | ||
| Let's cut to it right now. | ||
| See what causes. | ||
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All of PCH is on fire right now. | |
| There is fierce wind down power lines. | ||
| Power poles toppled over. | ||
| Things are exploding. | ||
| Gas lines are on fire. | ||
| Flames are coming back over PCH or being blown by fierce winds. | ||
| It is like driving through hell itself down here. | ||
| Literally through hell. | ||
| This is madness down here. | ||
| These homes are on fire and you can feel the heat from the flames even from inside your car. | ||
| It is insane down here. | ||
| Okay, let's reboot the Firenado, or what do you guys call it? | ||
| Okay, what you saw right there is just down the... | ||
| It's called the Palisades because it's on a rise. | ||
| Quite steep. | ||
| You drop off that rise and you go right into that area between Santa Monica and Malibu. | ||
| And right towards those homes. | ||
| So just north on Pacific Coast Highway. | ||
| Just to put that previous... | ||
| Footage and perspective, on a day like today, when you're driving north, you look to your left, you see those houses, and there's no beach anymore. | ||
| Those houses are on stilts. | ||
| The water just breaks right underneath it. | ||
| The beach has all been eroded. | ||
| But you're 50 yards from the water, and I mean, it's a view of the north part of Los Angeles, I guess, the bay, Santa Monica Bay, and what we have, you know, the north part of the bay is Santa Monica and Malibu. | ||
| The south part is Manhattan Beach. | ||
| Hermosa and Redondo. | ||
| But it's one of the most stunning views of the Pacific you can get. | ||
| It's just all normally calm and just stunning and sunny and incredible. | ||
| In fact, many of the car commercials on PCH, you see a lot of these car commercials that are written. | ||
| We get a little north of there. | ||
| You've got that beautiful view of the Pacific and rocks. | ||
| That's where you've got this neighborhood right here. | ||
| Though some total of this, I think it's going to be $150 to $200 billion. | ||
| There's going to be some big policy decisions that have to be made. | ||
| Number one, there's an insurance, a reinsurance facility out there that's going to bankrupt. | ||
| There's going to be very tough questions asked, and they have to be asked. | ||
| You're not holding back aid and making a contingent. | ||
| And by the way, the president's plane is right over Joshua Tree. | ||
| That's in the desert right outside of Palm Springs. | ||
| The president should land in LEX. Given these headwinds in about 10 or 15 minutes, we will cut to the pool feed there. | ||
| I'm sure the president is going to say a few words and meet some of the dignitaries. | ||
| Amanda Hedge trying to work her way in. | ||
| We're lucky to get Ben there. | ||
| Ben, our cameraman, is doing an incredible job. | ||
| It was easier for Ben just to put the camera on his shoulders and just hoof it in. | ||
| Amanda's still a little ways out, and they got one blockade after another. | ||
| Remember, these homes right now, like I said, one of the most, how do I say, Elite neighborhoods in all of Los Angeles, although not garish, very low-keyed, very understated by some of the wealthiest people in town who are more of the understated types, don't want to live in Beverly Hills or Bel Air. | ||
| One of the problems they've had immediately after this was looting. | ||
| The police have put this in shutdown. | ||
| I believe that even the houses that stand, and there are very few that made it through here. | ||
| I think most of those have not been described as uninhabitable. | ||
| You can't get in because the police have kind of barricaded everything. | ||
| Amanda Head now is working her way through one checkpoint after the other to get here. | ||
| She should be here, at least for part of it. | ||
| The President of the United States, and they clear the highway for Secret Service, and the President's there with his motorcade. | ||
| They're not doing it today. | ||
| They're going to helicopter the President in. | ||
| I think he'll go up, I would assume, Pally High, a little football field there on Sunset. | ||
| Look at this destruction. | ||
| It's actually breathtaking. | ||
| Can we play the tornado, the tornadic, I call it tornadic activity. | ||
| Let's go and play this. | ||
| Some of it's sound, some of it's not. | ||
| You'll see how the hills are burning. | ||
| Let's go and play it. | ||
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Take a look at this fire tornado spotted above the Palisades Fire this morning. | |
| This was captured by Air 7. | ||
| Just a wild view there. | ||
| Just keep it right on there. | ||
| That is when the fire starts burning so hot, it creates really tornadic activity. | ||
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See you next time. | |
| This is what you had in those first couple of days at the Palisades Fire. | ||
| It took weeks to contain this fire. | ||
| Right now, in the Southern California area, we have additional fires that have started because of the high winds. | ||
| Anybody that's lived out there, the Santa Ana winds are kind of the winds that don't come off the ocean. | ||
| When they come in off the ocean, which is 90, I don't know, 5% of the time, it's moisture. | ||
| Oftentimes you'll live in L.A., and people are quite surprised when you're there for the summer. | ||
| It's called June crud. | ||
| It's very overcast every day until about noon. | ||
| As the desert heats up and it sucks the moisture in off the ocean, you have this kind of overcast that doesn't burn off until... | ||
| Noon or later. | ||
| But oftentimes you have what they call Santa Ana. | ||
| That's coming in from the desert side out to sea. | ||
| And that's where you have these super high winds. | ||
| The winds that we were, the hurricane-level winds, I mean, they were 80 or 90 miles per hour. | ||
| Our own Grace Chung lives down in the further south Orange County Beach area, the Huntington, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach area. | ||
| And the activity down there, they were also in the fire zone. | ||
| That's normally a place, particularly Laguna Beach and Laguna has burned up on several occasions. | ||
| You see, Ben, our photographer, just absolutely incredible destruction. | ||
| President Trump is going to have some frank conversations today. | ||
| And he has to have frank conversations. | ||
| The American taxpayers, that would be you, are going to be asked to... | ||
| This is over and above FEMA. This is a major... | ||
| Catastrophe in one of the biggest real estate markets in the country, and quite frankly, in the heart of a couple of industries. | ||
| Do we have a... | ||
| Yeah, let's get a full shot of that. | ||
| You can go ahead and drop the fire part of it. | ||
| Let's see the full shot of this. | ||
| Pretty impressive. | ||
| And the president's a few minutes out. | ||
| I want to thank the guys at Birch Gold, the team at Birch Gold. | ||
| We've been for the last couple of days doing live reports. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| There's going to be turbulence, and I don't mean natural turbulence. | ||
| I mean the turbulence that comes from capital markets and the economy. | ||
| Remember, we have $300 trillion borrowed worldwide. | ||
| I keep saying we're about to have the world's biggest margin call. | ||
| When that happens, and I realize gold's close to an all-time high. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| But this is why you have to get smart. | ||
| You have to read our macro. | ||
| Which is the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| And you have to talk to Philip Patrick and the team about the micro. | ||
| You make your own decisions. | ||
| You're free men and free women. | ||
| But I think it helps to understand why gold has been a hedge for 5,000 years of mankind's history. | ||
| Just check it out. | ||
| Make yourself smart. | ||
| That's what this show's about. | ||
| I'll tell you, I haven't seen the... | ||
| I am actually... | ||
| Ben, you're doing a fantastic... | ||
| Ben hoofed it in. | ||
| So our photographer... | ||
| And look, there's no people... | ||
| This was a town of about 20,000, 25,000 people. | ||
| I mean, it was quite, you know, obviously active, but it was a fairly good size. | ||
| That would be a sizable community anywhere else. | ||
| Of course, in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, it was quite tiny and quite small. | ||
| It felt very intimate. | ||
| That's what people liked about it. | ||
| They had very strict housing, you know, the ability to build. | ||
| Some of the South Bay beaches, they've actually taken these old, beautiful... | ||
| Craftsman houses, which Los Angeles is famous for, torn them down and built these mega complexes that are just horrific looking. | ||
| Look at this right here. | ||
| One of the best schools in all of Southern California. | ||
| Catholic school, right? | ||
| Corpus Christi, the Catholic school there. | ||
| Absolutely destroyed. | ||
| Stunning. | ||
| On network? | ||
| Okay, good. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That's so terrific. | ||
| Amanda Head, who actually co-hosts the show with the great John Solomon. | ||
| Amanda was, I think, Miss Auburn. | ||
| She's a good Southern girl. | ||
| She went out to LA. I knew her years ago when she was really one of the first conservatives in Hollywood that was actually making us think about being a conservative. | ||
| She's very proud about it. | ||
| She knew Andrew Breitbart quite well. | ||
| Amanda was one of the people that were... | ||
| She was an aspiring actress, I think a musician at the time, and was making a big deal about the pressures in Hollywood to conform to the liberal agenda. | ||
| She's now the co-host of Just the News with John Solomon. | ||
| Six o'clock hour, we'll be here. | ||
| We have Ben, the photographer, Amanda's going to be there shortly, is getting you some footage and get to see what President Trump's about to see. | ||
| President Trump's very familiar with Southern California. | ||
| President Trump owns a magnificent house in Beverly Hills. | ||
| Doesn't spend much time there because he's traveling obviously now, but even in the old days, didn't spend a lot of time there. | ||
| Did The Apprentice out of New York. | ||
| You know, Trump's a New York guy. | ||
| Queens in Manhattan, he's a New York guy. | ||
| Although tonight, he's going to be in Vegas at his hotel. | ||
| We will do live coverage. | ||
| We've got Seagal Chata and the great David Zier are going to give us coverage tomorrow morning. | ||
| We're going to come live at 10 o'clock. | ||
| There's going to be a rally. | ||
| President Trump's out there for a thank you rally for Nevada. | ||
| And I've got to tell you, those people deserve it. | ||
| Look at this destruction right here. | ||
| Just incredible. | ||
| Real America's Voice is going to be at the rally tomorrow. | ||
| We're going to do the pregame in the morning. | ||
| Also, we're going to do other news. | ||
| We've got lots going on. | ||
| We're going to talk about Ukraine. | ||
| Ben Harnall from Rome. | ||
| Just absolutely amazing. | ||
| On Monday... | ||
| On Monday, Brian Glenn is going to be in Doral. | ||
| He's going to be covering the Republican conference. | ||
| President Trump's giving a keynote there at the Republican conference. | ||
| They're going to try to come together on the reconciliations bills, the tax bills, etc. | ||
| So this is stunning. | ||
| This is now into the Palisades Village. | ||
| This Ralphs is very famous. | ||
| It's the famous Ralphs. | ||
| Ralphs is a big... | ||
| Grocery store change in Southern California. | ||
| Everybody goes there. | ||
| It's been around for, I don't know, 80 years. | ||
| This is one of the famous ones. | ||
| Because it's not a high-end. | ||
| It's not like a fresh market. | ||
| They have those too. | ||
| But Ralph's is kind of, I don't want to say down and dirty, but like an AP or Safeway. | ||
| But it's beloved in the Palisades. | ||
| Burned to the ground. | ||
| The whole area in this little village right here, which were coffee shops and boutiques, gone. | ||
| Completely consumed by fire. | ||
| They had the 100-year-old building that they had the Starbucks in the lobby. | ||
| The Starbucks is one of those famous Starbucks around. | ||
| Gone. | ||
| Completely gone. | ||
| That's what President Trump's going to see. | ||
| And President Trump's going to ask a couple of three questions. | ||
| Like, number one, how did this happen? | ||
| And was this homeless people that said it? | ||
| Did this happen because the power lines weren't cut off? | ||
| You know, what caused the combustion? | ||
| You know, there are wildfires all the time. | ||
| How did this wildfire catch? | ||
| How did it go from house to house? | ||
| Where was the fire department? | ||
| The fire department made big demands of Mayor Bass and saying, hey, you're making such cuts. | ||
| Bass, the mayor, was in Ghana at the time, and she knew there were high winds. | ||
| There had been warnings a couple days before she still went anyway. | ||
| So there are so many unanswered questions. | ||
| So very differently than the trip to North Carolina today is the one to California where President Trump, and I will tell you politically, I think these guys are on the cusp of this could be the red pill situation because I think a lot of people have been progressive here saying hey you know what I stood for things that didn't make sense President Trump calls this a revolution of common sense President Trump is shutting down every DEI program and everything in the country, every government entity. | ||
| They're running around trying to change the names of DEI now to be occupational education, things like that. | ||
| President Trump's not going to be thwarted in this. | ||
| President Trump has as great a command of this government as anybody since FDR. I know President Trump very well. | ||
| I know the situation we had in the first term. | ||
| I can tell you. | ||
| He is at another level right now. | ||
| The world leaders respect him, fear him, hold him in awe. | ||
| He is just on a roll. | ||
| The performance today, what he did today in North Carolina, Ben Berkman was out there 10 days ago. | ||
| Those people were at wit's end. | ||
| They felt they had been abandoned. | ||
| And they had been abandoned. | ||
| Biden had abandoned them. | ||
| And look, in the first four days of President Trump's second term, just extraordinary. | ||
| On the fifth day, really four and a half, he only had a half a day to work. | ||
| Monday. | ||
| Short commercial break. |
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