July 5, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Torrential rainfall dowsed Kerr County, Texas Friday morning, causing flooding from the Guadalupe River. | ||
| The death toll has now risen to 24 people and one death was also reported in Kendall County. | ||
| Rescue teams have been working through the night to find survivors as more than 20 people remain unaccounted for from a summer camp in Hunt, Texas. | ||
| NBC's Ryan Chandler is on the ground with more. | ||
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In central Texas, a catastrophic flood emergency. | |
| It's going to be a mass casualty event. | ||
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Authorities saying 14 helicopters are in the air. | |
| One rescuer dangling from a chopper, appearing to help someone up in a tree as flooding rages below. | ||
| Cars lifting off the ground, swept away by the powerful waters. | ||
| These steps leading to a house that's no longer there. | ||
| This is our housebreaker. | ||
| Another pushed down the road. | ||
| The water started to rise very rapidly. | ||
| Very rapidly. | ||
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Along the river, a series of summer camps. | |
| The La Junta Camp for Boys posting that everyone is safe. | ||
| But some girls at Camp Mystic trapped. | ||
| Now there are 20 some that aren't accounted for. | ||
| We're praying for all of those missing to be found alive. | ||
| You can feel the anxiety here as parents are waiting to hear word about their child. | ||
| We're told that these children are being transported by helicopter, the only way out of the camp, as parents wait to hear they've returned safely. | ||
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The county judge pressed on why the camps weren't evacuated. | |
| We knew that there was going to be a problem. | ||
| Why weren't these camps evacuated? | ||
| I can't answer that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| These camps were in harm's way. | ||
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We knew that this flood was coming. | |
| We didn't know this flood was coming. | ||
| Rest for sure, no one knew this kind of flood was coming. | ||
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The tight-knit Texas towns across Kerr County are popular recreation areas. | |
| Len Clendonen and Rory Higgins were camping, asleep in their cabin when the water started rushing in. | ||
| Everything happened so terribly fast. | ||
| There was mobile homes, travel trailers, cabins, vehicles, people in the water. | ||
| It was devastating. | ||
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They took this video showing a building from the campground washing away. | |
| Their beloved border collie Ripper is still missing. | ||
| Flood threats were in place because drenching rain flooded the riverhead. | ||
| Massive amounts of water got pushed downstream. | ||
| At one point, National Weather Service data showing the water rising nearly 30 feet in one hour. | ||
| This region near the Guadalupe River is no stranger to floods. | ||
| And in 1987, rapidly rising water killed 10 people. | ||
| Funses stalled out and the water was up. | ||
| It was real deep, so we were going to try to get out and get to the road. | ||
| Cleanbot went too far back and it started washing people away. | ||
| What was supposed to be a holiday celebration is now a nightmare. | ||
| This came at night when people were sleeping in bed. | ||
| Please pray. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| The original forecast that we received on Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted three to six inches of rain in the Concho Valley and four to eight inches of rain in the hill country. | ||
| We worked with our own meteorologist to fine-tune that weather statement. | ||
| And as many of you know, and many of you in broadcast journalism and meteorology, you can go back and look at your own forecast. | ||
| And the amount of rain that fell in this specific location was never in any of those forecasts. | ||
| This rain event sat on top of that and dumped more rain than what was forecasted on both of those forks. | ||
| When we got the report, it was about seven feet or so on the south fork, and within a matter of minutes, it was up to 29 feet. | ||
| And all of that converged at the Guadalupe, and that's where we saw those very quick rising floods. | ||
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But listen, everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service, right? | |
| You all got it. | ||
| You're all in media. | ||
| You got that forecast. | ||
| It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's not got a free shot 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? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| 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. Bannon. | ||
| Saturday, 5 July, in the year of our Lord 2025, normally, as you know, when we do 4th of July and then 4th of July weekend, it's always the fifth. | ||
| We carry over coverage talking about the foundation of the country and also the revolutionary war that was upon the signers. | ||
| So much pressing business today. | ||
| We're not even all set for the great signing ceremony and the flyover and the fireworks. | ||
| But there's many big stories that I know this audience needs to focus on, including, I think, a rapidly expanding war in Ukraine and also this biblical level tragedy down in Kerrville, Texas, and around the Guadalupe River. | ||
| We've got a whole team down there. | ||
| Ben Burquam is on location. | ||
| Let's go to Ben. | ||
| Ben, you just informed us there's going to be another press conference. | ||
| Because information coming out is very sketchy. | ||
| We found out last night that there were 23, I think, young girls, I think 40 people missing overall, but 23, I think, third graders from the Bubble Inn over at Domestic Camp that were missing. | ||
| It's kind of sketchy, but some things have been up online this morning about how many of those children have been recovered. | ||
| I haven't heard of any being rescued. | ||
| There's going to be another press conference. | ||
| Also, I wanted to include, I thought it was a report our producers did, there's already, so there's a search and rescue, all this equipment's coming in, these brave individuals. | ||
| We had Colonel Chambers, Doc Chambers on last night. | ||
| You've got people running to the sound of the guns to find these children, to rescue them, and others, adults, and also then livestock, all of that. | ||
| But there's also already accountability, finger-pointing, whether it was the weather forecast, wider than closed. | ||
| So we're going to cover both these. | ||
| Ben, get us up to date. | ||
| You rushed there from Iowa and couldn't celebrate 4th of July with your family. | ||
| Really appreciate it. | ||
| What do you got for us this morning? | ||
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Okay. | |
| Okay, we don't have Ben hooked up on the street. | ||
| Yeah, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, I was actually on my way home, flew into Houston, was driving up almost to Texarkana and got the message from you and turned around, rerouted down here. | ||
| Got a lot of friends in this area. | ||
| And so we went to the location. | ||
| I just want to get out of the shot here for a second just to show you how, you know, the level of devastation. | ||
| Then we'll talk more about the details. | ||
| But this is right downtown Kerrville. | ||
| And I'm just going to turn the camera, just show you. | ||
| So where I'm standing right now, I'm about 20 feet above the river, and I would have been underwater. | ||
| This entire area here was underwater. | ||
| Turn back this way towards one of the bridges. | ||
| You can just see. | ||
| And this is what they're going through right now, rescue efforts. | ||
| They're having to comb through all of this debris, all the trees down. | ||
| You know, the closest thing I could equate it to is what I saw in North Carolina and Tennessee. | ||
| Not on the same scale, but when you see just trees snapped like twigs. | ||
| And just a reference point to give you an idea of the water level. | ||
| In some areas, it went over 30 feet, but that tree right there, you can see it snapped where some of the limbs are broken. | ||
| The top where the bark is ripped off is basically where the water line was. | ||
| And what we're hearing is the major disaster. | ||
| It's really a tragedy on multiple levels. | ||
| Finger pointing is going to happen. | ||
| It always happens in these things. | ||
| The rain totals, the estimates seem to be a little bit low. | ||
| They got over five inches here. | ||
| Some areas are reporting over eight inches, some 10 inches. | ||
| Just a massive amount of water. | ||
| In fact, that storm is still circulating. | ||
| Austin's getting hammered right now, and that's going to continue, and it looks like it's actually going to come back down to this area over the next 24 hours. | ||
| So we're keeping an eye on that because all of that hampers the rescue efforts. | ||
| The last numbers I heard, and I will be at that press conference at 10 a.m. just down the road. | ||
| Mystic Camp is about 20 minutes up the road. | ||
| It's inaccessible. | ||
| It's about an hour now because you have to go out and around. | ||
| It's all shut down for the rescue efforts. | ||
| But that recovery effort's still ongoing, but it's still ongoing all the way down here. | ||
| The problem is they don't know how far people wash down the river. | ||
| So we're talking about a several hundred mile swath, and those are the people that they know about. | ||
| Last numbers I got from somebody involved with search and rescue last night was 20 are still missing, 20 children. | ||
| That's total. | ||
| That's not just from the Mystic camp. | ||
| That's total for Kerr County. | ||
| And then 30 to 40 adults as well. | ||
| That's the most up-to-date number I have. | ||
| That will probably change. | ||
| Hopefully we get a better update at 10 a.m. local time, 11 a.m. | ||
| Eastern. | ||
| Yeah, we'll cover that live. | ||
| Here's the thing, is that what has been reported is that the river rose because it is different than Appalachia and then Western North Carolina and Tennessee. | ||
| But the river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. | ||
| And then it continued to rise, I think, overall 40 to 42 feet within like an hour to two hours. | ||
| So the rise, and you see there from the thing, it just caught everybody's surprise and I guess the pre-dawn hours of 3 to 5 o'clock in the morning. | ||
| But the rise of the river so rapidly was really like a wall of water coming down on the Guadalupe, and that's what washed out the question about should these things have been evacuated, all that. | ||
| What they're saying, hey, it was the middle of the night. | ||
| They're pointing fingers to the National Weather Service and pointing fingers to other weather forecasters, et cetera. | ||
| Do we, at 10 o'clock, are they going to have a bigger, because what everybody's focused on, obviously, is these children from this camp. | ||
| It was reported there were 23 nine-year-olds. | ||
| Do you have any up-to-date nine-year-old girls? | ||
| Do you have any update on that? | ||
| Yeah, the most up-to-date numbers I have are what I just said, 20 total is 20 plus. | ||
| So I heard anywhere between 24 and 26. | ||
| Now, I hope those are old numbers. | ||
| The guy I spoke to is involved with the rescue efforts. | ||
| That's what he told me last night. | ||
| We're anticipating getting updated numbers this morning. | ||
| I think the big thing, they don't want to give false information and then have to come back and say otherwise. | ||
| You know, when this first happened, you were messaging me and saying, hey, we're here and 100 kids are missing. | ||
| And that's the problem with a lot of these disasters is you start getting speculation on top of what's already a tragedy. | ||
| And so I think they're being very careful about making sure whatever numbers they give out are accurate numbers. | ||
| Yeah, as they should, as they absolutely should. | ||
| And look, just going back to this, what happened, you know, it's just the perfect storm. | ||
| It just happened to be 80% of the year. | ||
| The way that this river is set up, the way that most of the communities are built up around here, Hill Country is used to flooding. | ||
| This is just, you know, they're talking about this being one of the 100-year flood scales. | ||
| This is massive. | ||
| It was unexpected. | ||
| It kind of came out of nowhere with the storm. | ||
| I mean, we knew a couple days in advance, but the way it just sat over here, again, kind of similar to what we saw in North Carolina and Tennessee, that storm just sat on top of them. | ||
| Nobody expected the amount that they had. | ||
| And then the big concern they had was, well, now that we know that the river's rising so rapidly, do we try to do a mass evacuation and then potentially have more fatalities, more injuries because people are trying to drive through flooded areas? | ||
| Or do we keep people sheltered in place? | ||
| And so it seems like there was some confusion understandably during those first few minutes and hours on who to have shelter in place and who to have evacuate And then, how to reach those people and which places were the most devastated. | ||
| We do know this: the Texas Emergency Management team was already on site. | ||
| They had the Swiftwater rescue boats on site. | ||
| They were ready to go. | ||
| They knew something could happen. | ||
| They just, nobody anticipated the scale that it would happen at and the quickness that this happened at. | ||
| And the saddest part of this is it just happened on the wrong weekend where most of these camps are in operation. | ||
| Everybody's coming down here to celebrate the 4th of July. | ||
| And so it was just, you know, it's just a terrible, terrible tragedy. | ||
| And now the request that I've been given by emergency management, by sheriff here in Kerr County is, if you are not a part of the rescue efforts, please don't come. | ||
| You know, one of the problems we get in a lot of these disasters is you get some of the, you know, people just coming down to take a look. | ||
| They end up clogging the roads. | ||
| They had problems yesterday, people blocking roads to take pictures and to film. | ||
| And just if you're not a part of the rescue efforts, please don't come. | ||
| Right now, until they find every one of these missing children and missing adults, that is their number one focus. | ||
| Doc Chambers, we're going to try to get John. | ||
| Ben, if you can stick around, if you can still get to the, I'll talk to you in the break, if you still get to the press conference. | ||
| Doc Chambers is going to also join us. | ||
| He's saying that there's been 120 rescues since the press conference last night. | ||
| So we got Doc Chambers up. | ||
| I think the Congressman Chip Roy is down there. | ||
| Even Jason Jones, who lives in the area, is down there. | ||
| So we're going to try to get some folks up here, get some details. | ||
| Ben Berkwom is with us, heading to the press conference. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Philip Patrick is going to join us at the bottom of the hour from Rio about the Rio reset and the de-dollarization program of the BRICS nations. | ||
| All next in the war room. | ||
| The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bath. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| We cut Ben Berkwam loose so Ben Berkwoman could get to Kerrville and actually get to the press conference. | ||
| That's going to take place at 11 o'clock. | ||
| The one last night was actually, I thought, pretty informative given the lack of a lot of information they had. | ||
| One thing you can tell already, there's some debate between what the forecasts were and what was told to people. | ||
| So we're going to make sure we get to all that. | ||
| Also, Doc Chambers, who was with us last night, we're going to try to get Doc Chambers on here in a moment as soon as we can get him up. | ||
| Also, Peter Theo is in one of these rescue groups that rode to the sound of the guns immediately. | ||
| Peter Theo is going to also join us, and we're going to get some clarification, particularly on the search and rescue right now, kind of up in the air. | ||
| I think search and rescue is still 20 plus of the children. | ||
| Now, they're saying that maybe all the children, not just from the camp, but all the children lost in this tragedy on the Guadalupe River. | ||
| As I said, a rain still for the Hill Country Texas area. | ||
| As you just heard, Ben Burkholm may be doubling back on Curville. | ||
| I think what the question is, is what, you know, this river, 26 feet in 45 minutes, is nothing short of biblical. | ||
| You've seen some of the footage of how it came ripping through and not just expanded the width of the river, but the depth and the velocity of water going down was nothing short of biblical. | ||
| Then they said 42 feet, I think, in an hour and an hour and a half. | ||
| And so that's where you see this tragedy unfolding before you. | ||
| Like I said, Peter T.O. and Doc Chambers, as soon as you get them up from the field, it's tough getting a signal down there, but we want to make sure we're on top of this because I think it's one of the most important stories in the world. | ||
| Also, Ben Harnwell is going to join us. | ||
| Is Ben up yet, crack production team? | ||
| Ben's going to join us. | ||
| President Trump, in this kind of victory after victory he's had, win after win, President Trump had a call with Putin the other day, of which he was working to whip the vote. | ||
| He had a call with Putin the other day, and it didn't go very well. | ||
| If you read the axios, I think he had the most accurate at the end. | ||
| Putin told Trump, he said, hey, look, I want to have a bilateral negotiation here and essentially butt out. | ||
| President Trump said later it was not a good call. | ||
| President Trump had already stopped, the Pentagon had stopped additional weaponry because we're after the Israel situation with the Iranians, the Persians, were down TAD missiles, I think 25%. | ||
| The Patriot missiles that we used in Qatar to shoot down and also the Patriots we gave Israel were down Patriots and we're taking them out of Korea and the Pacific. | ||
| We told the Ukrainians we can't draw down our stocks anymore now because of the phone call and also the battering of Kiev by the battering of Kiev by the Russians the other night. | ||
| I think the most brutal of all the bombardments, drones, missiles, aircraft strikes in Kiev was the other night. | ||
| I think it was Thursday night. | ||
| Brutal. | ||
| Today, the Atlantic magazine, Ben Harnwell joins us from Rome. | ||
| The Atlantic Magazine has Ann Applebaum, who is no fan of the war room, no fan of MAGA, no fan of America First, non-intervention, and particularly she detests Donald Trump. | ||
| She's got a piece in the Atlantic Ben that says Trump is switching sides. | ||
| And we're going to ask you how she derives that. | ||
| But she does have a buried lead in there that what Poso has been talking about, Putin's actually, and this is supposed to be for an army that was beaten. | ||
| This is what the media has told us, a summer offensive of 675,000 combat troops for a massive front in Ukraine. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, can you get us up to speed on everything that's happening? | ||
| Because I think this one, as much as President Trump's trying to step in and have already put their guns down, I think this one could be rapidly spinning out of control, sir. | ||
| Okay, Ben, you've got it on mute, I think. | ||
| Okay, do we have Ben? | ||
| Okay, we're going to get these right eventually. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, are you off mute? | ||
| Are we set up? | ||
| Okay, we're going to get Ben put back up. | ||
| Okay, Ben Harnwell, are you there? | ||
| Yeah, I'm here. | ||
| Can you hear me? | ||
| Loud and clear? | ||
| Have you got me? | ||
| I can hear you. | ||
| Next time, unhook mute either Denver or Rome. | ||
| Take your pick. | ||
| Okay, is Ann Applebaum right? | ||
| Are the Russians getting ready for a 675,000-man summer offensive, sir? | ||
| Well, I think she is right on that, Steve, but let's just quickly do the chronology, if I may. | ||
| On the night before U.S. Independence Day celebrations, that is to say, as you say, Thursday, President Trump had an hour-long phone call with President Putin. | ||
| And let's go textually to what he said, President Trump said. | ||
| He said, it's a very tough situation. | ||
| I was very unhappy with my call with President Putin. | ||
| He wants to go all the way just killing people. | ||
| It's no good. | ||
| That, Steve, contrasts with the phone call that he had with President Zelensky, which he actually basically agreed to pretty much to all of President Zelensky's requests. | ||
| That is to increase Ukraine's air capacity to defend itself for air cover, specifically providing the US Patriot missiles, which he alluded to about 10 days ago, which he said, let's see if we can get them these missiles, which they're going to pay for. | ||
| So this would very much tie into that position. | ||
| And then, Steve, you've got this situation, the 695,000 troop build-up on the Ukraine border. | ||
| Steve, my hesitation here, my issue with this here, is that President Trump is already being dragged into this, as he has been being dragged into this, really, by both sides in this war, specifically Ukraine, since the inauguration. | ||
| I look at the timings of these dates, and really, from what I can gather, Steve, within a few moments of his phone call with President Putin finishing, President Putin, this is, as I say, on Thursday, launched the largest drone and ballistic missile attack to date on Kiev and Ukraine. | ||
| And this isn't very good, I think, for President Trump, who's trying to be the dealmaker. | ||
| He's trying to be the man of peace, but he's finding himself ground in between these two cogs. | ||
| And therefore, as we've been covering for the last few days, he is in this situation which has a certain escalatory, as far as the U.S. is concerned, momentum. | ||
| Ben, talk to me then. | ||
| Do you think, how do we avoid being dragged into this even more? | ||
| I mean, President Trump wanted to stop this for 24 hours. | ||
| He admitted it was more complicated than that. | ||
| Now it looks like he made a decision that, hey, we're going to tell both sides that we took a shot at this, but we're not going to rearm the Ukrainians. | ||
| We're going to make the Europeans rearm the Ukrainians. | ||
| President Trump goes to NATO. | ||
| The entire 5%, let's be brutally frank about this, going up to 5% is directly tied to NATO and to their fear of Russia. | ||
| We haven't forced the Europeans right now. | ||
| Are we getting, as non-interventionists, and Ukraine being even, I think, a higher priority of getting out of than the Middle East, although we don't want any, you know, no more regime change in the Middle East, and President Trump's done a great job of that, in fact, telling the Israelis we're shutting down Gaza. | ||
| Are we getting sucked into this moment by moment, and we're getting sucked in by Putin? | ||
| Well, it's difficult to know. | ||
| I don't think Putin is trying to suck America in. | ||
| I think it's Ukraine. | ||
| It's not really in Putin's interest to get you guys sucked in. | ||
| But you are getting sucked in into this war. | ||
| And in answer to your question as to how to de-escalate this situation and to de-escalate America's involvement in the situation, really President Trump, I think, has to fulfil his commitment in the campaign, which he now claims to have been sort of sarcasm, but many people who supported him in the election campaign didn't take as sarcasm and supported him for that. | ||
| And that is basically to withdraw the United States within 24 hours. | ||
| If it's not possible, Steve, for President Trump to act as the peace broker here and negotiate a ceasefire, the next best thing he can do is to stop this war continuing. | ||
| And that is by stopping to supply one of the two sides, which is to say Ukraine. | ||
| Now, last week he did say that he was stopping some weapons and some missiles. | ||
| And he threw the justification to that, to depleting US stockpiles. | ||
| But it wasn't a total closure of US provision. | ||
| Of course, what he was going to continue to provide or not hadn't been defined. | ||
| And it looks as if what he is going to continue to supply is the Patriot missiles. | ||
| This is not a de-escalatory path, Steve. | ||
| That's the issue here. | ||
| This is not a de-escalatory path. | ||
| If President Trump really wants to achieve peace, then it's America that is keeping this war going, right? | ||
| I think President Trump has to fulfil what he said he would do in the campaign, stop arming Ukraine definitively, and then the Ukrainians will see sense when they realize that the munitions are going to stop coming. | ||
| And they'll sit back and negotiate. | ||
| But he tried. | ||
| By the way, I'm going to have to go back to the Kerrville in the next thing. | ||
| Then we've got Rio. | ||
| I need you to stick around because we've got to drill down some more. | ||
| President Trump had the conversation with Putin, and then that night they unleashed the worst bombardment on the Kiev after the president said, hey, I need you. | ||
| It was like Bibi hitting the Persians after they announced a ceasefire. | ||
| And then Putin announces to Trump on the call, hey, I just want to do this bilaterally. | ||
| I don't need your involvement. | ||
| They put the President of the United States, who's trying to be a peacemaker and trying to be fair to both sides, they put him in a terrible situation. | ||
| Just a terrible situation. | ||
| For the simple fact of after you have a conversation with him and then you do the biggest bombardment. | ||
| Anyway, Ben, hang on. | ||
| I'm going to get to you after the 11 o'clock hour. | ||
| We're very jammed today. | ||
| We're going to go to Rio for the BRICS conference. | ||
| We've got a press conference coming up from Kerrville. | ||
| We have Peter Thiel and Dr. Chambers, not that Peter Thiel, but the head of operations, one of the rescue groups, is going to be with us. | ||
| And we also have Doc Chambers from last night, the former, the retired lieutenant colonel in the Green Berets, all down there on search and rescue and helping folks out. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Man. | |
| Okay, let's go down back to Doc Chambers. | ||
| Doc, we had you on last night before the press conference. | ||
| Press conference, good information, but kind of depressing. | ||
| Can you give us an update on where we are in search and rescue, sir? | ||
| Roger that. | ||
| Yeah, we had over 260 rescues yesterday. | ||
| This is a positive note, obviously. | ||
| We're looking at 100 and some of those were hoists. | ||
| So this is what we call a JP, a jungle penetrator type the old comes down from the helicopter with an operator at the bottom of the line. | ||
| Somebody pulls them up through the tree line because this is triple canopy in some places, lots of foliage in the area. | ||
| So that's a positive note. | ||
| Unfortunately, you do have to report that we're at about 24 right now, unconfirmed, 24, 26 deaths reported. | ||
| Expected to rise, still 25 missing, expected to rise. | ||
| But we're narrowing those numbers down as we speak. | ||
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So those are just unconfirmed, but they are close to the right numbers. | |
| What is of the 25, what's the status of the Mystic girls camp? | ||
| They were saying last night, 20 to 23. | ||
| Is that still an accurate number that had not been, the search and rescue had not located? | ||
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Is that still we have? | |
| No, because over the night, we were reporting all the way to 0,300 this morning. | ||
| Yeah, there were about seven that I saw that were sent to me. | ||
| I have not got those numbers yet. | ||
| I'm on my way to Mystic. | ||
| We've had a lot of stops along the way. | ||
| Understand, this is still going on in Sagin area. | ||
| Lake McQueenie is a, there's a deluge of rain down from us. | ||
| So it's adding to the problem set, but we're controlling what we can here, and then we'll continue to move to that location. | ||
| But first, I'll hit Mystic and be out there conducting some support out there, ministry support with some of the families. | ||
| Let's bring in Pete Teal. | ||
| Hang on, Doc. | ||
| Let's bring in Pete Thiel from the Minuteman Disaster Relief. | ||
| I think joins us by phone. | ||
| Oh, no, there we have him. | ||
| Pete, can you give us an update on a disaster relief search and rescue? | ||
| Anything you know? | ||
| I agree with what the previous guy said. | ||
| I was at the operations center. | ||
| They did the operational briefing this morning. | ||
| I don't have any additional numbers to what he said. | ||
| Those are in line with what I'm aware of. | ||
| When you say in line, the question last night, I think, they said, I think they reported at Mystic at the Bubble Inn or one of the subcamps at Mystic that there were 20 to 23 nine-year-old girls. | ||
| Is that not, was last night not the correct answer? | ||
| That's what the media's been, that had been unaccounted for. | ||
| Are there still 20 to 23 nine-year-olds this morning? | ||
| I don't want to say that definitively because I can't tell you for sure, but yes, that is my understanding. | ||
| I was an eight, nine-year-old camp, and a couple of the camp buildings were swept away is what I understand. | ||
| Is search and rescue still going on, correct? | ||
| Yes, it is right now. | ||
| I believe I'm probably on the same highway as Lieutenant Colonel is. | ||
| There are a number of state police and ambulances. | ||
| A number of game warden trucks just drove by me here while I was talking with you. | ||
| The search and rescue is still going on, although I think at this point it might be more recovery than search and rescue, unfortunately. | ||
| How tough has this search and rescue been, given the biblical nature of this flash flood? | ||
| How tough has it been, Pete Teal? | ||
| I have not been involved in the search and rescue personally, but just trying to turn around in a truck, the mud and muck is unbelievable. | ||
| The level of damage, this is like a major hurricane. | ||
| There are thousands of trees that have been stripped. | ||
| There are mattresses in trees. | ||
| The height of the flood level, this is unbelievable. | ||
| They have been using jeeps. | ||
| They've been using dogs as much as they can with the mud. | ||
| I mean, every asset is being used. | ||
| There was an offer this morning from a group that has assessed the 337 with search and rescue package with infrared and everything. | ||
| I don't know if that's coming over, but every asset the state has, I believe, has been pushed here. | ||
| The number at the staging area, the incident command post, there were probably 300 vehicles of people that are here that are state officials rather than just volunteers that we're here for search and rescue. | ||
| The magnitude of the response from the state of Texas is amazing. | ||
| This is what makes America great is that people come help each other. | ||
| Doc Chambers, one of the questions last night about people being notified, and one of the officials said that, hey, this area has a history of flooding. | ||
| In your memory, is this the biggest that's happened recently? | ||
| 20 years, 30 years, the biggest in memory? | ||
| I mean, how big is this compared to other events that this area has had, the Guadalupe River? | ||
| Great question. | ||
| 20 years. | ||
| This is the highest one in record now. | ||
| But understand, this is the longest in the corridor of the Guadalupe. | ||
| we're looking at probably 70 miles as the crow flies, hundreds of miles, 120 miles of river as it curves. | ||
| So we're looking at all those low-lying areas. | ||
| And remember, all these camps that were plussed up for 4th of July holiday, that was the evacuation problem set. | ||
| And now, when we're spreading those forces thin, as Pete was mentioning, I'm out here with them. | ||
| And these guys are running up and down the roads. | ||
| So are civilian groups. | ||
| You know, the Cajun Navy is coming in from Louisiana. | ||
| There's some great folks. | ||
| This is what we're dealing with. | ||
| The thermals are the key for the nighttime and daytime. | ||
| The problem set for some of these areas further down is the amount of rain that they're still receiving. | ||
| Deluge of rain over Lake McQueenie. | ||
| So they won't be able to work there, but from there back, yes, they will be up with those fixed wing and rotary wings. | ||
| Doc Chambers, where do people, your sit-reps have been amazing. | ||
| Where do people go that weren't in the audience last night? | ||
| Where do people go to keep up with this? | ||
| I understand you're heading up to the Mystic Camp right now. | ||
| So how do people keep in touch with you on social media to get your sit-reps? | ||
| Affirmative, sir. | ||
| Well, what you look is DocPete Chambers on X. And then I have the remnantministrytx.org. | ||
| That's where we'll be clearly posting things as well. | ||
| But on X is the primary right now, I'll be doing probably every couple hours as I can, just a short 30-second spot. | ||
| Okay, perfect. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We'll post those up and make sure we stream them. | ||
| Thank you, Doc. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| P.T., before we let you go, anything to make our audience smart as the day they look at social media or continue to follow the stream here on Real America's Voice? | ||
| Anything to make us smart about how this search and rescue is going, sir? | ||
| I don't have anything in particular. | ||
| Minuteman Disaster Response is an all-volunteer group that helps people clean up after major events. | ||
| We have not done a full deployment yet. | ||
| We're down here assessing the situation to see if we'll be going. | ||
| So, I mean, just the level of damage here is overwhelming. | ||
| But we don't have a public webpage where we put sit reps on, so I can't add on that. | ||
| Do you have social media? | ||
| Are you guys on Twitter? | ||
| We're on Facebook. | ||
| I believe we're on Instagram. | ||
| It should be just Miniman Disaster Response. | ||
| I don't know about Twitter. | ||
| Apologize. | ||
| We'll send everybody over. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| We'll send everybody over to your Facebook or your Instagram. | ||
| Pete, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| I know you're busy this morning, so thank you for taking a few minutes. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| There'll be a press conference at 11 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time. | ||
| We will jump into that and get some updates on this. | ||
| Jason Jones is down there. | ||
| The Congressman Chip Roy is down there. | ||
| We'll get some other input in the second hour. | ||
| Let's go to, as soon as we get more information, obviously we'll inform everybody. | ||
| Let's go to Brazil, to Rio. | ||
| You know, yesterday on Drudge for the entire day of 4th of July until late in the day after President Trump signed the big beautiful bill and had this amazing ceremony, Philip Patrick, the headline, the Drudge lead was, dollar has worst opening six months, I think, in history or 20 years, the drop of the dollar. | ||
| You're at the conference, and I'm sure that came from the de-dollarization movement of Brooks. | ||
| What exactly is going on down in Rio? | ||
| What are the Brooks Nations organizing? | ||
| We're getting ready to kick off this conference. | ||
| You've been down for a couple of days. | ||
| Get us up to speed. | ||
| Yeah, look, it's interesting. | ||
| It's hustle and bustle. | ||
| We've been out. | ||
| We're watching dinners between Chile's delegates and Brazilian real estate developers. | ||
| Deals are happening all over the place. | ||
| The dollar is certainly a topic of conversation, as you rightly point out. | ||
| Worst start for the year since 1973, since we came off the gold standard. | ||
| Dollar's lost 10.5% of its purchasing power. | ||
| So, you know, it's looking primed for the BRICS and their plans longer term. | ||
| We had a very interesting interview with an economics professor yesterday, heavily involved in the BRICS leadership, and learned a lot in that conversation about different motivations for different BRICS companies, countries, sorry, particularly Brazil. | ||
| So there is a feeling here of excitement and that things are moving forward. | ||
| Explain to the audience, we know during Biden's time, is this flowover from Biden? | ||
| Because President Trump puts out the big, beautiful bill, and clearly it has some deficit there. | ||
| They've asked for a $5 trillion lift to the debt ceiling, but the global capital markets kind of took this. | ||
| The 10-year Treasury's slightly down. | ||
| Gold's been kind of stable. | ||
| The stock market's on a run again. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Explain to the audience, why does the dollar keep losing value relative to some of these other currencies? | ||
| Because this is one of the things the BRICS are saying, if we can't do another currency, we've got to figure out some way to de-dollarize, right? | ||
| We've got to get away from the dollar being the center of world currency trading. | ||
| So why is the dollar continued to deteriorate? | ||
| Why have we had the worst six months since we came off the gold standard under Nixon? | ||
| Look, I think there's a number of reasons, right? | ||
| It started in 2022 with Biden's weaponization of the dollar, and ultimately it showed nations around the world that they have risk. | ||
| But I think what I'm learning here is people misunderstand what the BRICS really are, right? | ||
| The argument that I always hear is, look, they're not politically aligned, right? | ||
| India and China can't agree on anything. | ||
| And there's sort of acceptance of that on the ground. | ||
| I mentioned I was interviewing an economics professor and he said, look, the idea of viewing them as a political unit is the wrong way to look at it. | ||
| They are not a bloc, right? | ||
| They don't have a chairman. | ||
| They don't have a CEO. | ||
| They don't have a board of directors. | ||
| And importantly, they don't have agendas to vote on. | ||
| What they are instead is a group of countries that have come together to basically help one another out, right? | ||
| With trade, development projects and Loans, there's a feeling here of mutual cooperation because I think, on the whole, BRICS nations feel snubbed by the West. | ||
| And now, with China leading the way, they have a lot of clout. | ||
| Remember, they've got bigger GDP now than the G7. | ||
| So they're not politically aligned, but they are aligned in one area. | ||
| And that is, and this is a direct quote from the professor himself, and he was not anti-Western. | ||
| I want to be very clear. | ||
| But the aim here in their mind is to diminish power of the West. | ||
| And it was very shocking to hear until he started to explain the background, right? | ||
| And from an inside of BRICS perspective, it started to make a lot more sense. | ||
| And that is that BRICS members want different things, right? | ||
| For China, it's all about power, right? | ||
| They don't want a direct economic war with the West or Europe. | ||
| They still do a lot of business with us, but they do want to become a global leader and they do want to recover Taiwan. | ||
| The question is, how much of their wealth do they want tied up in US dollars when they try that? | ||
| So they're very motivated to break dollar dominance. | ||
| For Russia, it's about economic security from sanctions, right? | ||
| For Brazil, in his mind, it was a little more nuanced, right? | ||
| They still harbor resentments about deals offered by the IMF when they were struggling in the 80s and 90s, essentially loans with too many strings attached, right? | ||
| Those difficult experiences during times of crises, I think, make them open to alternatives. | ||
| They see themselves, as the professor himself says, as a bridge between the global north and south, right? | ||
| To act as a moderator, balancing between China and the West. | ||
| This is basically their opportunity to seize a global role. | ||
| The point being, they all want different things, but they united around a common purpose. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| That common purpose is diminish the West. | ||
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| Philip Patrick from Rio next. | ||
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Waru, here's your host, Stephen K. Battle. | |
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| We're covering Rio, Kerrville, Texas. | ||
| We're going to go there. | ||
| Momentarily, there's going to be a press conference. | ||
| We're also covering the kickoff to the great election integrity conference at the Ahern Hotel. | ||
| Matt Meck and the team in Las Vegas. | ||
| I'll be giving the closing remarks tonight, 8 to 8.30 Eastern Daylight Time, 5 to 5.30 out there in Las Vegas. | ||
| Also, we have Philip Patrick and Rio. | ||
| So, Philip, the mechanisms that they're talking about, we understand they want to diminish the power of the West, although they each have individual agendas. | ||
| We also understand, although the black hand of the Chinese Communist Party is in back of this, we understand that they are not fans of the U.S. dollar being the prime reserve currency for many reasons. | ||
| So what are the mechanisms that you're hearing? | ||
| The conference is a couple of days. | ||
| You're in breakout sessions. | ||
| You're getting interviews with the top people there. | ||
| What are you learning about the mechanisms of how, because the audience needs to understand this, not just for the geopolitical and geoeconomic direction of the country, but also for their own personal financial use, sir. | ||
| Yeah, it's been very interesting, right? | ||
| You know, for me, it was always the plan was de-dollarization, but what's becoming clear is de-dollarization isn't the plan. | ||
| The plan is to diminish the power of the West. | ||
| That's the ultimate endgame, and de-dollarization is a means to an end. | ||
| But you see it clearly when you look at the systems that they've created, because the systems are set up to combat their weaknesses. | ||
| For example, the BRICS don't have political unity, right? | ||
| There's a lack of mutual trust between their governments and their central banks. | ||
| So what are they doing? | ||
| Massive central bank gold buying. | ||
| Remember, last year, gold has become the number two global reserve asset. | ||
| So gold is replacing the dollar as a store of value in central banks' reserves. | ||
| Essentially, gold is becoming the national savings account, if you will, right? | ||
| They need cross-border trade that sanction and Western oversight resistance. | ||
| What have they built? | ||
| They built Swift alternatives, one open source, one propriety, firewalled from US control. | ||
| They want to use local currencies for trade, right? | ||
| But they don't want to keep them, right? | ||
| Enter Enbridge. | ||
| This is a digital clearing and settlement network, which allows nations to trade in currencies, local currencies, but then settle trade imbalances with gold, right? | ||
| The idea being Russia doesn't want a pile of rupees or rand at the end of the year. | ||
| So they use currencies and they settle in gold bullion. | ||
| Zero trust required. | ||
| So gold essentially becomes the savings accounts and national currencies become the checking accounts. | ||
| Cross-border trade becomes easier once they've solved the currency problem. | ||
| And what are we starting to see? | ||
| Massive bilateral trade deals happening in local currencies. | ||
| What happens is that one by one, they chip away at the dollar's primary source of demand. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| We're seeing it already. | ||
| Like I said, numerous bilateral trade agreements signed in local currencies. | ||
| This was unheard of a few years ago. | ||
| Now, I don't see this as being a binary situation. | ||
| I don't think on July 8th, the world's going to be turned upside down. | ||
| But what I do think is the combination of fewer dollars in national checking accounts, fewer dollars in national savings accounts combined, they erode the dollar's dominance on a global scale. | ||
| And that slowly opens the door for longer-term dollar destruction and for an alternative to appear. | ||
| People need to understand gold as a hedge against that, not just nations and central bankers, but also individuals. | ||
| You can go to Birch Gold right now and get the endofthollar empire, birchgold.com slash bannon, end of the dollar empire, seven free installments. | ||
| I guarantee you we're going to be coming out with the eighth as soon as Philip and the team get back from Rio or take your phone out. | ||
| Bannon, text Bannon 989898 for the handbook, investing in gold and silver in the age of Trump, the ultimate guide to all of it free. | ||
| Everything free. | ||
| All the information free. | ||
| Philip, I know you're jammed down in Rio. | ||
| You've got meetings for the next couple of days. | ||
| You're going to be back on Monday. | ||
| If something pops big, we'll get you up streaming live tomorrow. | ||
| But how do people, I just want people to understand, when they come to Birch Gold, how do they interact with you and your team? | ||
| Because the people that have, over the last three or four years, since we've been working with you guys, are always ecstatic about the customer service, how you guys take time and explain them, IRAs, 401ks, all the methodologies. | ||
| How do people build a relationship with Birch Gold? | ||
| Look, it's really simple. | ||
| Get the information first. | ||
| It's so important for us. | ||
| It's why they shipped me off to Rio to come and get as much information as I can. | ||
| So birchgold.com forward slash Bannon. | ||
| That'll get access to all the written information, as you mentioned, end of the dollar empire, guides on how and why to invest under a Trump administration. | ||
| From there, they're going to have access to myself and people like me, knowledgeable on the subject area, can help sort of guide through, answer any questions, and just make this easy. | ||
| I think an informed customer is a customer that makes the right decision. | ||
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So it's that simple. | |
| Now, you know, I'm really proud. | ||
| Bloomberg, television, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, nobody has had the conversation that you just had about what you're seeing there with the trade deals, the bilateral trade deals. | ||
| We're not just breaking news. | ||
| We're giving the audience inside baseball on really the core of global capitalism, right? | ||
| Capital markets particularly, of what's going to happen. | ||
| And really proud. | ||
| I'm so glad that we made the decision collectively to have you guys go down and do interviews and meet people. | ||
| So I think it's turning out quite well, giving the information you're already garnering ahead of the market. | ||
| Thank you for the opportunity, Steve. | ||
| I'm glad to be here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's not the price of gold, sir. | ||
| It's the process of how you get to the price. | ||
| Remember, gold's about value, not about price. | ||
| Philip Patrick, thank you so much. | ||
| Honored to have you on here. | ||
| Smart move. | ||
| We made that decision months and months and months ago. | ||
| It's turned out well. | ||
| You knew the information, who he was meeting with. | ||
| And you'll get all that information when you go to Burch Gold. | ||
| Make sure you either take your phone out, text Bannon 989898. | ||
| You make contact with Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| He's also up in Getter. | ||
| He's also up in Getter, so you can go to Getter, DM him there. | ||
| Or go to get the end of the dollar empire. | ||
| We're going to have a new eighth installment coming out after Rio. | ||
| The seventh reinstallment is the Rio reset, as you see what's happening right now. | ||
| The BRICS nations coming together. | ||
| Their number one thing they got to figure out is how to take power away from the West. | ||
| That means the United States of America and how to take power away from the United States dollar. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Diane Teraz takes us out. | ||
| Magnificent music. | ||
| And get her DVDs. | ||
| Think up on YouTube. | ||
| She's got two DVDs specifically about the songs of the revolution and then I think songs of early America. | ||
| Absolutely incredible. | ||
| We strongly recommend it. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Ben Berquam is at the press briefing in Kerrville. | ||
| We're also going to try to pick up a little bit of this amazing conference in Las Vegas for election integrity. | ||
| Got Ben Harnwar trying to get back. | ||
| Megan Kelly is going to join us. | ||
| The second hour is a little jammed, but we'll figure it out in the war room. |
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