July 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Batt. | |
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| Strategic Intelligence. | ||
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| No back currency and artificial intelligence. | ||
| It'll scare the bejesus out of you. | ||
| As it should. | ||
| Philip Patrick, just to summarize, the BRICS nations are very sophisticated when it comes to thinking through finance capital markets. | ||
| Everybody thinks that this is just, oh, a bunch of dumb third worlders. | ||
| You could not be more incorrect. | ||
| They understand the threat to them that they perceive being on just one system, a dollar-based system, means to them for their own sovereignty and their economics. | ||
| They're coming to this conclusion. | ||
| We have to make a counter-argument, I think, and I think we need to start it with the Secretary of Treasury. | ||
| The Federal Reserve is a disaster here about why the system makes sense, right? | ||
| But they're being very sophisticated about a de-dollarization program that looks at first and bilateral trade deals and they're the things of free trade, but they're going to do it in their own currencies and take their own currency risks and try to hedge it. | ||
| And how are they going to try to hedge it, baby? | ||
| They're going to try to hedge it with good old gold because that's why the central bank's going to keep buying. | ||
| That's their hedge. | ||
| That's how they make, that's how they wean themselves. | ||
| They're like drug addicts. | ||
| They're on opioids or fentanyl, whatever it is, and they're going to go to detox, but they're not going to take a crash program, right? | ||
| They're not going to slit their own throats on this thing. | ||
| They're going to be very sophisticated and very methodical. | ||
| Is that essentially a summary of their thinking down at the BRICS conference, sir? | ||
| That is exactly it. | ||
| And honestly, it was even as we've been looking at this for a long time, but it was even a surprise to me. | ||
| I thought I'd come here and hear anti-U.S. | ||
| sentiment, right? | ||
| I thought I'd hear more anger because anger is something we can deal with, but that wasn't the situation here at all, right? | ||
| The BRICS aren't shaking their fists and shouting at the White House, demanding fair treatment. | ||
| What they're doing is slowly assembling their own solutions to the problems that they've faced for decades now, and they've built a ton of momentum. | ||
| But this is not a knee-jerk response. | ||
| This is an extremely long-term, well-thought-out strategic plan. | ||
| It's multifaceted duplication of every aspect of the existing financial system. | ||
| And the messaging is very smart, right? | ||
| It's multilateral alternatives to the dollar. | ||
| This isn't de-dollarization. | ||
| That's a naughty word for them at the moment. | ||
| This is about creating alternatives. | ||
| And like I said, the messaging has been very smart. | ||
| It's always almost as if they've sort of assembled a puzzle piece by piece by piece, and you really can't see it until it's too late, until you pull back. | ||
| But this has been a thought-out, strategic plan, and concerningly for us, one not born out of anger, but born out of necessity. | ||
| Yeah, and they understand. | ||
| That's why they're doing it the way they're doing it, because they understand President Trump's got him on the list. | ||
| He's got the stink eye on him, as he said with his tweets and at his press availability on the tarmac. | ||
| Where do people go to get you? | ||
| Now more than ever, Birch Gold. | ||
| If the Bricks nations are going to get a hedge, I think you need a hedge too. | ||
| That would be gold. | ||
| And you're going to learn about it with Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Where do they go, Philip? | ||
| Very simple. | ||
| Birchgold.com forward slash Bannon. | ||
| That'll get them access to all the free information, end of the dollar empire, you know, how and why to buy gold under a Trump administration. | ||
| So again, birchgold.com forward slash Bannon, or they can text Bannon to 989898. | ||
| And to reach me, I'm putting out as much as I can at Philip Patrick on getaway. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Philip Patrick, the entire team went down there. | ||
| Very successful. | ||
| Really great. | ||
| Great content. | ||
| John Solomon. | ||
| John, I got a cold open for you. | ||
| I'm going to play that after the break because I want to get into it. | ||
| Brother, the deep state. | ||
| You've probably done more as an investigator reporter than anybody. | ||
| So this week, I mean, we're having bombshell after bombshell. | ||
| These are not smart. | ||
| I mean, you've got the Brennan situation with the perjury and the lying and putting on top of Trump and coming after him with the dossier. | ||
| You've got Caputo and the Axios guys get the blockbuster. | ||
| On the CIA been lying to you. | ||
| Angleton and those guys looked at presidential, House, Senate, Warren Commission, multiple things, looked you in the eye and lied to you. | ||
| Brother, it's out of control and it's up in our face how out of control it is. | ||
| John Solomon. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| Listen, we were lied to with impunity. | ||
| I mean, John Brennan looked at Congress and said the steel dossier had nothing to do with the ICA. | ||
| And in fact, he ordered it to be put in the ICA in two locations, not only in the annex. | ||
| It's also relied upon in the weakest of all of the conclusions in that intelligence community assessment from the Obama era, which is that Putin was trying to help President Trump win, which is actually very disputed in the intelligence community. | ||
| People did not believe that when John Brennan put that ICA out. | ||
| People just look into our eye and they lie to us. | ||
| They tell us that Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real. | ||
| It was. | ||
| They told us Russia collusion was real. | ||
| It wasn't. | ||
| The reason they continue to do so is because there is no consequence for these lying, for these efforts to hijack elections, to hijack the intelligence process. | ||
| And it's why many Americans just want to see the government shrunk to a very small size and maybe some people brought to justice. | ||
| John Brennan's 2017 testimony is not prosecutable because the five-year statute is, but people are looking today at his 2020 testimony to John Durham and his 2023 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee. | ||
| Those are within the statute limitations. | ||
| It'll be interesting to see if Pam Bondi does anything with that. | ||
| I'm going to hold you. | ||
| We're going to go to a short break and come back. | ||
| Kerville, but I got to finish with John Solomon first. | ||
| But hang on. | ||
| It's not only that he put the dossier in, brother. | ||
| The two most senior people that were kind of in charge of it, who are also Trump haters, Trump haters, argue with him saying, we can't do this. | ||
| This does not meet any standards whatsoever. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| We've got a case we're making up anyway. | ||
| Please don't do this. | ||
| Is that correct, Solomon? | ||
| They begged him not to do it, and he still did it. | ||
| The top two Russia experts were, one of them wrote him directly, and Brennan just overruled him and said, I want to include it. | ||
| It is an extraordinary statement. | ||
| And remember, the Democrats always say, listen, we listen to the queer people. | ||
| No, they don't. | ||
| They don't listen to the queer people. | ||
| They listen to their politics. | ||
| Why? | ||
| John, hang on one second. | ||
| We're actually going to blow the brain, drop the music, and we're going to go right to the presser in Kerrville, Texas right now. | ||
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| Thank you all. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That was the preamble. | ||
| We don't want to miss a second of this. | ||
| This should be hopefully a thorough update. | ||
| Senator Cruz, as soon as Ben Berquam's available, I'll go to Ben. | ||
| I want to thank John Solomon. | ||
| Solomon's gone, right? | ||
| He punched. | ||
| I'm going to get John back in in depth. | ||
| Oh, is John Solomon still there? | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Let me go back to John Solomon. | ||
| John Solomon. | ||
| People are looking at you like they're looking to Fenton. | ||
| What is your recommendation if you were in the room right now with President Trump, who thinks so highly of you? | ||
| If you're sitting there with President Trump in the Oval this morning, having the Kennedy assassination bombshell, having the Brennan bombshell, understanding this worms away from just a multi-year sentence on perjury because of the statute of limitations, given what's happened, even the Epstein thing that came out last night, what is your recommendation this morning to the President of the United States to get, we got to get our arms around this thing, right? | ||
| And it's not getting better. | ||
| It's getting worse. | ||
| The whole controversy you and I have talked about, Had you on the show, about the intelligence around the bombing, what's happened in the Middle East, the whole assessment now of what's actually happening in the Ukraine, what the Russian intentions are, where do we stand? | ||
| Everywhere you look, the national security, the Defense Department, and FBI and CIA are all, their hands are in every problem we've got, right? | ||
| So there's got to be, we have to start on a path to solutions. | ||
| You're a steady pair of hands. | ||
| What is your recommendation to the president? | ||
| I have been interviewing lots of people on this issue because it's an intractable thing. | ||
| We've been identifying the problems for more than a decade, but there hasn't been any meaningful solution yet. | ||
| Devin Nunes and I had a great interview last week, and I think as the head of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, he has a big idea. | ||
| Shrink the size of DNI, shrink the size of these agencies, and send the spies and the analysts out of Washington back into the field so that they're focused not on the politics of Washington, but on the art of gathering and on the act of gathering intelligence that's meaningful to the United States. | ||
| We've got too many people sitting at CIA headquarters, ODNI, and they're worried about politics. | ||
| They're not collecting human or signal intelligence in a way that's meaningful to us. | ||
| Instead, they're leaking and putting false documents together. | ||
| Let's get them out of Washington where the disease exists, get them back in the field. | ||
| That's a big idea that the chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board has put out there. | ||
| I think it's a good one. | ||
| How about, okay, let's say we do that and we start making significant cuts and get guys out. | ||
| What about the director of operations? | ||
| What about the black hand of the CIA particularly? | ||
| Because the CIA, and the only problem I have with downsizing DNI and Tulsi's thing is that it empowers CIA. | ||
| And to me, that's the heart of the beast. | ||
| What is your recommendation right now about the CIA? | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| Get all the CIA. | ||
| You don't need a CIA headquarters as big as it is. | ||
| Get those people out in the damn field and get them working again back on intelligence, not on trying to control policy, trying to control politics, trying to control narrative. | ||
| Those aren't their job. | ||
| Their job is to go get human and SIGINT. | ||
| Go back to that process and get them out of the politics, out of the policy, out of the censorship that kept us from being able to get the truth out for so long. | ||
| And then I think there's another thing. | ||
| We need to make an example of those who've been leaking to the media false stories. | ||
| You know, the Plitzer series, John Brennan's testimony isn't the only thing that took a hit this weekend. | ||
| The Washington Post Plitzer Series clearly had a story that focused on something that we now know to be false and unreliable. | ||
| Even the top career people at the CIA thought so. | ||
| We have to break that allegiance between the media and. | ||
| John, I'm going to come back to you there. | ||
| Maybe tomorrow we've got to break and go to Kerrville. | ||
| Sounds good. | ||
| Go back. | ||
| Go to Kerville. | ||
| Highway 39 of an O Ingram Loop remains closed to the public. | ||
| Other than those who live in that area would not be allowed out there. | ||
| I will now turn it over to Senator Cruz. | ||
| I'm sorry, sorry, city manager, Dalton Rice. | ||
| Good morning, Dalton Rice, the City Manager for the City of Kerrville. | ||
| As everybody knows, we are working in conjunction with the city under a unified command response and work and again, a lot of devastation. | ||
| Our hearts go out to the families and the victims. | ||
| We want to continue to work together as a community. | ||
| We love the media support on this to be able to communicate that message, communicate family, communicate togetherness. | ||
| And we really appreciate all the support and helping us be able to do that. | ||
| Search and rescue opera, as the sheriff said, search and rescue operations will continue today from Hunt in North Kerr County all the way to Canyon Lake in Comal County. | ||
| Now, we're only focused on the Kerr County side, but we wanted to talk about that because from Hunt all the way to Comal County in a straight line distance is over 100 kilometers. | ||
| This is a massive field that is happening. | ||
| And again, this is unprecedented flood events. | ||
| So we are still currently in the primary search phase, which is the rapid one. | ||
| They are running it. | ||
| We have different segments that are gridded out. | ||
| Each one of those segments are taking anywhere between an hour to three hours, up to two kilometers for each segment. | ||
| So what that means is they're running into a lot of technical challenges with terrain, with water, even potentially with weather in the rising fields. | ||
| We've talked about this before. | ||
| Volunteers, stay out of the way because if we start getting weather reports and all the other complications that are out there, we then have to pull off of those search and rescue missions to be able to communicate to those volunteers to get off to make sure that they don't become victims themselves. | ||
| Those operations involve 19 different local and state agencies in addition to conducting primary and secondary searches. | ||
| They will be conducting welfare checks on areas in North Kerr County impacted by power outages. | ||
| And when we say search and rescue operations, that is boat, walking, on the ground, dogs, drones, again, keep personal drones out of the air, helicopters. | ||
| We do have other assets that are continuing the search as well. | ||
| As of present, K-Pub, which is a Kerrville Public Utility Board, is reporting continued power outages between Hunt and Ingram along the south fork of the Guadalupe River in Hunt. | ||
| In the South Fork area, there are approximately 40 downed power lines and significant infrastructure damage. | ||
| K-PHUB has brought in additional utility personnel to help with restoration, but it's not possible at this time when the power is going to be restored. | ||
| There are some substations along with those power lines that we are still trying to get access to just from debris buildup or them being completely wiped out. | ||
| So we do not, again, we do not have an estimated time on when those are going to be fixed. | ||
| We continue to have substantial number of requests for volunteers, as I said before, and donation opportunities. | ||
| We are asking those who want to volunteer to contact the Salvation Army in Kerrville by phone at 830-465-4797 or in person at 855 Hayes Street in Kerrville. | ||
| Monetary donations can be made on the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Countries website at www.communityfoundation.net. | ||
| They have a Kerr County Relief Fund set up on that site. | ||
| And I will now turn it over to the Mayor Joe Herring. | ||
| Thank you for being here. | ||
| I need to tell my community and those families who are waiting that this will be a rough week. | ||
| The primary search continues, and we remain hopeful every foot, every mile, every bend of the river. | ||
| Our work continues. | ||
| You need to know that we have been blessed with help from the community, from the state, and the nation. | ||
| We have trained experts who are helping in this effort. | ||
| If you want to volunteer, it is important that you contact Kerrville Salvation Army and register. | ||
| Dalton gave that number, but I'm going to give it again. | ||
| 830-465-4797. | ||
| We need focused and coordinated volunteers, not random people just showing up and doing what they do. | ||
| We need to work together. | ||
| As Dalton said, donations have been flowing in from around the world to the Community Foundation. | ||
| Again, that website is communityfoundation.net. | ||
| Please follow the City of Kerville's Facebook page for updates. | ||
| They're accurate. | ||
| We take a lot of time to make sure we send out information that will be helpful not only to residents, but those who are visiting. | ||
| I have said this a hundred times, and I will say it again. | ||
| We need your prayers. | ||
| We need your prayers. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| AND NOW SENATOR TED CRUZ. | ||
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Texas is grieving right now. | |
| The pain, the shock of what has transpired these last few days has broken the heart of our state. | ||
| As of yesterday, the confirmed death toll was 82, and those numbers are continuing to go up. | ||
| The children, the little girls who were lost at Camp Mystic, that's every parent's nightmare. | ||
| Every mom and dad. | ||
| Last week, we were picking up our daughter from camp here in Hunt. | ||
| Our girls have gone to camp here for a decade. | ||
| The Hill Country is an incredible part of Texas, part of the country. | ||
| The natural beauty here is incredible. | ||
| The camps that have raised generations of little girls and little boys and instilled character and love and faith are extraordinary institutions. | ||
| And I'll tell you the pain in our state, and it's every part of the state. | ||
| You've got Texans from all over the state who were here celebrating the 4th of July. | ||
| A week ago, this was a time of great celebration. | ||
| You're dropping your little girl off at camp, your little boy off at camp. | ||
| You're celebrating Independence Day. | ||
| You know that your child is going to be swimming and canoes and horseback riding and doing archery and making lifetime friends. | ||
| And then suddenly it turns to tragedy. | ||
| With the last several days, I've spoken to multiple parents, scared out of their mind. | ||
| Do you know anything? | ||
| Where is my daughter? | ||
| There's still ten girls and one counselor from Camp Nystic that are unaccounted for. | ||
| And the pain and agony of not knowing your child's whereabouts, it's the worst thing imaginable. | ||
| But I want to say in the face of all of this, it is simultaneously inspiring. | ||
| Every time there's a tragedy, every time there's a natural disaster in Texas, Texans come together. | ||
| Texas is a big state. | ||
| We've got 31 million people, and we have hurricanes, we have tornadoes, we have wildfires. | ||
| Tragedies hit this state, natural disasters hit this state, and without fail, 100 out of 100 times when that happens, we see Texans coming together, helping each other, engaging in acts of heroism. | ||
| There have been over 850 high water rescues since this flooding began. | ||
| 850. | ||
| You look at extraordinary stories, stories of Eagle Scouts pulling campers out of harm's way. | ||
| I was just hearing a story of one counselor whose head was right at the water holding up two mattresses with campers on those mattresses. | ||
| That kind of courage, that kind of selflessness. | ||
| And then they're the first responders. | ||
| The local first responders, I want to thank every one of the first responders at the local level, at the city level, at the county level, at the state level, at the federal level. | ||
| In the first few hours of this flood, I was on the phone with Governor Abbott, was on the phone with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, was on the phone with Nim Kidd, the head of the Texas Department of Emergency Management. | ||
| And then I called President Trump. | ||
| I called President Trump. | ||
| He was having dinner at the time. | ||
| It was still early in what was transpiring. | ||
| And I wanted him to know, I said, Mr. President, everything we're hearing right now, this appears to be bad, really bad. | ||
| There may be a very significant loss of life unfolding right now in Texas. | ||
| And I will tell you, the President said, Ted, anything Texas needs, the answer is yes. | ||
| Whatever assets you need, whatever resources you need, yes, let us know and we will provide everything. | ||
| Within hours, we had helicopters, over a dozen helicopters in the air. | ||
| National Guard, DPS, Game Wardens, Coast Guard, doing search and rescue, reaching down. | ||
| We've all seen the videos of little girls being pulled up, hoisted out of harm's way. | ||
| Incredible courage and heroism. | ||
| Search and rescue is the first stage, but the process of coming together and rebuilding is going to take longer. | ||
| And I will say to all the grieving families, to all of those who've gotten the worst news imaginable that your little girl, she's gone. | ||
| I will say for many of us, those are friends and neighbors who've lost children. | ||
| Got multiple kids who go to school with my girls. | ||
| The mayor asked for prayers. | ||
| And I want to say thank you to the millions of Texans, to the millions of Americans, to the millions of people all over the world right now who are praying, praying for Texas and praying for those parents. | ||
| Going through this grief, it is going to take love. | ||
| It is going to take friends and family embracing and hugging and holding them while they weep. | ||
| And it's going to take the church. | ||
| With every disaster, one of the things we see here in Texas is the church steps up and the church helps and the church feeds and clothes and comforts. | ||
| This morning I met with a group of chaplains who've been going through the incredibly difficult process of talking to mom and dad after mom and dad who just lost the most precious person they ever knew. | ||
| And those chaplains are just trying to love them and show God's love. | ||
| So I want to say we will come through this. | ||
| To those in the midst of grief right now, that might seem hard to fathom. | ||
| But Texas will come through this. | ||
| And I just want to say thank you. | ||
| I want to say thank you to these gentlemen here who are working. | ||
| They are not sleeping. | ||
| They are working every day. | ||
| Thank you to the families. | ||
| Thank you to the Salvation Army. | ||
| Thank you to everyone who is just reaching out and saying, how can I help? | ||
| We will come through this, and we'll come through this together. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And now we'll take questions. | ||
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Senator Cook, you talk about having no kids here and you're taking your own kids to care. | |
| Was it ever communicated to you that there was a need, that it was a priority to have a warning system so people have a chance to escape something like this? | ||
| Well, listen, I think anytime you're dealing with major rivers, there's a risk of flooding, and there's always been a risk of flooding, particularly on the Guadalupe River. | ||
| I will say, in the wake of every tragedy, there are things that are predictable. | ||
| One of the things that's predictable is that you see some people engaging in, I think, partisan games and trying to blame their political opponents for a natural disaster. | ||
| And you see that with a hurricane, with a tornado, with a wildfire, with this flooding, where people immediately say, well, the hurricane is Donald Trump's fault. | ||
| You know, look, I think most normal Americans know that's ridiculous. | ||
| And I think this is not a time for partisan finger-pointing and attacks. | ||
| Now, after we come through search and rescue, after we come through the process of rebuilding, there will naturally be a period of retrospection where you look back and say, okay, what exactly transpired? | ||
| What was the timeline? | ||
| And what could have been done differently to prevent this loss of life? | ||
| And that's a natural process. | ||
| I think it should not happen in a bitter and partisan sense, but it should happen in a reasonable sense of saying, what lessons can we learn? | ||
| And I will give an example. | ||
| You know, Houston's my hometown. | ||
| If you live on the Gulf Coast, we get hurricanes. | ||
| That's part of living on the Gulf Coast as hurricanes hit. | ||
| And I do think Texas as a whole has learned over time how to deal more effectively with hurricanes. | ||
| And so you look here, we know the National Weather Service put out an emergency warning just after 1 a.m. and a second emergency warning just after 4 a.m. | ||
| Now, obviously, most people at 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. are asleep. | ||
| And so I think we will have a reasonable conversation about, A, are there any ways to have earlier detection? | ||
| And some of that, the limits of a flash flood, they're very difficult because they can arise so quickly. | ||
| But everyone would agree in hindsight, if we could go back and do it again, we would evacuate, particularly those in the most vulnerable areas, the young children in the cabins closest to the water. | ||
| We would remove them and get them to higher ground if we could go back and do it again. | ||
| Obviously, everyone would. | ||
| The people in RVs by the river's edge, we know in disasters like this, RVs and mobile homes are particularly susceptible, whether a flood or a hurricane or a tornado, they're particularly susceptible to that. | ||
| And so my hope is in time, we will learn some lessons to implement to next time, and there will be another flood, there will be another disaster, but next time there's a flood, I hope we have in place processes to remove especially the most vulnerable from harm's way. | ||
| But I think that's going to be a process that will take a careful examination of what happened and how can we implement processes better in the future to prevent this same loss of life. | ||
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Senator, there were claims that the National Weather Service sent that first flash flood warning that should have alerted phones at 1.14 in the morning. | |
| But we have a federal public database maintained by PBS, PBS Warren, that says the first emergency alert wirelessly here in this area to Kerr County was not until after 9 a.m. | ||
| That was more than four hours after the severe flooding had come to this area. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
| What's your response, knowing the state and cuts to the NWS in recent months by this administration? | ||
| So I don't know the source for what you're saying. | ||
| All of the public reporting I've seen is that there were two alerts that went out, one just after 1 a.m., one after 4 a.m. | ||
| You know, I can tell you, I talked about the partisan finger pointing. | ||
| I think there have been some eager to point at the National Weather Service and say cuts there led to a lack of warning. | ||
| I think that's contradicted by the facts. | ||
| And if you look at the facts in particular, number one, that these warnings went out hours before the flood became a true emergency level. | ||
| But number two, the National Weather Service here, New Brunswick is where they were headquartered, they had additional manpower. | ||
| In fact, they had three additional people working that night, anticipating that it was going to be a very dangerous weather situation. | ||
| I also think it's worth noting that the National Weather Service Union, which has been very critical of the Doge cuts, has publicly said that they don't believe that the reduction in staffing had any impact whatsoever on their ability to warn of this event. | ||
| And so, look, I think it is reasonable over time to engage in a retrospective and say at every level what could have been done better, because all of us would want to prevent this horrific loss of life. | ||
| But I think just immediately trying to use it for either side to attack their political opponents, I think that's cynical and not the right approach, particularly at a time when we're dealing with a crisis and we're dealing with grief. | ||
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I know you've been supportive of FEMA. | |
| Look, I am very supportive of FEMA. | ||
| I'm very supportive of the National Weather Service. | ||
| They both perform essential roles, and I think it is critical at every federal agency, particularly when you're dealing with public safety, that we make sure that critical roles are maintained. | ||
| That's a longer and broader discussion, but as I said, everything from the public evidence indicates that that was not a contributing factor to what occurred here. | ||
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I was able to get Dalton in just to talk about that and the National Weather Service alerts because there were escalating forecasts throughout the day from the National Weather Service. | |
| What did the emergency managers of the county and other local officials do with that information starting at 1.15 and onward, where you had the Dyer River forecast at 6.30? | ||
| Were emergency managers doing anything to put any processes in place to warn people on the river? | ||
| So overall, we were preparing for the July 4th weekend. | ||
| So we had National EMR on site. | ||
| We were basically stood up kind of an incident command post, if you will, to prepare for that event. | ||
| So most everybody was kind of up looking at weather. | ||
| We looked at the weather before. | ||
| When you looked at the National Weather Service flood map, It spanned all the way from the west side of Texas with Kerk County kind of being in that upper northeast corner of it. | ||
| And so everybody, including the National Weather Service, was looking at where is the rain going to hit. | ||
| We know it's somewhere in here, but with rain, especially when you're dealing with terrain, you got to figure out, sometimes you don't know until it falls. | ||
| So once it starts falling, then you got to figure out, okay, how's the watershed going to do this? | ||
| How's the science going to work? | ||
| And when you had that North and South Fork that we had talked about before, it all converged into one. | ||
| We do know that a lot of the camps were looking at this just as much as everybody was. | ||
| With the rainfall percentages, even the National Weather Service had looked at, and don't quote me on the numbers, but it was anywhere between one to seven inches. | ||
| We got significantly over that. | ||
| And again, when it goes into very congregated areas and how that watershed shifts into the rivers, that impacts things. | ||
| And so the camps, obviously, we've heard stories where campers were getting up. | ||
| They were up at 3.30 in the morning. | ||
| They were trying to move to higher ground. | ||
| And the other interesting part of the terrain, and we've talked to UGRA folks as well, this is the headwaters of the Guadalupe. | ||
| This is the beginning. | ||
| This is where everything forms when it comes into the North and South Fork. | ||
| And so as those things develop, it develops very rapidly, very quickly. | ||
| And this rose very quickly in a very short amount of time. | ||
| And so those campers that were able to do that, it worked. | ||
| There's been the other question, and I'll just give this one out. | ||
| Evacuations. | ||
| Well, why don't we evacuate? | ||
| Well, evacuation is a delicate balance. | ||
| Because if you evacuate too late, you then risk putting buses or cars or vehicles or campers on roads into low water areas trying to get them out, which then can make it even more challenging. | ||
| 'cause these flash floods happen very quickly. | ||
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Was there any discussion about evacuating earlier when it wasn't too late? | |
| Was there any discussion about that among the officials? | ||
| Repeat your question. | ||
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Was there any discussion to evacuate or activate any emergency plans before it was too late and where it would be very dangerous like that? | |
| Well, so again, just like disasters in Texas everywhere, you know, it's very tough to make those calls because what we also don't want to do is cry wolf. | ||
| You know, we don't want to make sure that we activate it at the right time. | ||
| It is very difficult, very challenging, especially with this. | ||
| We're looking at 100 kilometers, right? | ||
| That's a big straight line distance. | ||
| That's not even along the river. | ||
| These areas take a lot of time to get out to. | ||
| So even when first responders were on the ground at 3.30 in the morning and we had reports, we had first responders that were getting swept away actually responding to the first areas of rainfall. | ||
| That's how quick it happened. | ||
| First responders who have experience, who are swift water qualified, were driving to the, as soon as the rain started falling, were driving to these areas and one of them got swept off the road. | ||
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So one last question, everybody. | |
| One last question. | ||
| Between 1:00 and 4:00 AM from local law enforcement to the camp, saying, I know you can't get buses in an hour. | ||
| Is there anyone coming to the camp between 1:00 and 4:00 AM? | ||
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You need to get the girls to hire ground at the very least and they have to walk up there in the rain and clean with them actually doing. | |
| Was there any communication from local law enforcement to anyone at that camp between 1 and 4 a.m.? | ||
| That I don't know off the top of my head. | ||
| What I do know, though, is there's 55,000 people in Kirk County. | ||
| Kirk County is a massive, massive area. | ||
| From here to those camps is 45 minutes on a good day. | ||
| And so obviously one of the big challenges that we have, even when you have self-service, a lot of those areas don't even have self-service. | ||
| Radio communications towers, radio towers within the hill country, it becomes very challenging. | ||
| So there's a lot of areas, especially when weather comes in, where cellular towers are down or you already have bad service. | ||
| So there's a lot of factors that play and a lot of variables in there on communication that, again, I think as we work through this process, we know everybody has a lot of questions regarding what are the next steps and what's next. | ||
| And I think all of these things, these are all great questions. | ||
| And as we continue search and rescue and as we continue to move to the next step, we definitely want to dive in and look at all those things from cell service tower to radio communications, or emergency alerting, any of those things I think we all really need to take a look, you know, a look at and review. | ||
| And we're looking forward to doing that once we can get the search and rescue stuff complete. | ||
| In regards to the total number of, before I say anything else, I just want to say thank you to you, all the first responders, to everyone involved. | ||
| We've been praying. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you guys for doing that. | ||
| I've got two questions. | ||
| One for you, trying to get an accurate count on the number of missing. | ||
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I know we don't know what we don't know. | |
| Yes. | ||
| But do we know a rough idea on total estimates that are still missing overall throughout the county? | ||
| And then one other follow-up, this may be for Senator Cruz. | ||
| A lot of speculation is being made about this being somehow man-involved with the weather modification, with some grain maker technology working with farmland. | ||
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Do you think any of that, is there going to be any investigations into that? | |
| If any communicated anything on that? | ||
| Let me answer your first question. | ||
| I'm definitely turning that second one over to him. | ||
| So on the first question with missing persons, so obviously we have the knowns, the Camp Mystic kids, which is the numbers coming down as the sheriff has stated. | ||
| And then we have the unknowns. | ||
| But we don't know what we don't know. | ||
| We are taking, we actually have a five hot line line. | ||
| It fluctuates between three and five, but we're working on it. | ||
| We get calls 24 hours, seven days a week. | ||
| We haven't hit the weeks yet, but we're still taking in calls. | ||
| We are collecting all that information. | ||
| So we don't have a solid number that we're willing to talk about right now. | ||
| We do know that it is a lot because we also are getting a lot of fake calls. | ||
| This is a worldwide discussion, and we're dealing with scammers. | ||
| Victims' families are being reached out to saying that they have their kids pay me money. | ||
| It's heartbreaking. | ||
| It's absolutely heartbreaking. | ||
| We're dealing with mental health issues where people are calling saying they have visions. | ||
| All of these things we're dealing with on a day-to-day basis, and we're having to vet this information, and it becomes very taxing on our people. | ||
| Again, this is an extremely heartbreaking. | ||
| This is, if not the worst, one of the worst disasters in this region in a very, very long time, even beyond 1987. | ||
| And so, but we're... | ||
| Would you ask us to give it like dozens or hundreds or just to give people an idea? | ||
| So, yeah, let me Yeah, there I have to get into the weeds on People are asking lots of questions, and where should we start the investigation? | ||
| To the best of my knowledge, there is zero evidence of anything related to anything like weather modification. | ||
| And look, the internet can be a strange place. | ||
| People can come up with all sorts of crazy theories. | ||
| What I know is a reality is that a whole lot of Texans are grieving right now. | ||
| I will tell you, I was visiting with one parent who was talking about online being harassed online because their information was public that they had a little girl who was missing at Mystic. | ||
| And look, there are a lot of people who are messed up. | ||
| And my call for everyone, there's a time to have political fights. | ||
| There's a time to disagree. | ||
| This is not that time. | ||
| This is a time just to reach out, support each other. | ||
| Go volunteer at the Salvation Army. | ||
| Give them money. | ||
| Go volunteer at your church. | ||
| You know what I did when this happened? | ||
| Just go hug your kids. | ||
| Because I got to tell you, I hugged my girls with tears in my eyes because every one of us who's a parent, there, but for the grace of God, go by. | ||
| And nothing will fill the void in these moms and dads' hearts, but they'll make it through it. | ||
| And every one of us, we have an obligation to come through and help them make it through it. | ||
| And look, Texas will come through. | ||
| And let me say Kirk County, the Hill Country is incredible. | ||
| It is beautiful. | ||
| And these summer camps, Camp Mystic is an incredible Texas institution. | ||
| For a century, it has made a profound difference helping young girls become strong women in Texas and across the country. | ||
| And so, for me, at least, I'm praying for these camps. | ||
| I'm praying for all the campers, everyone implicated, everyone impacted. | ||
| And I hope we come together and stand as one doing that. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you for all our questions. | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| I'm going to go to Berkwom. | ||
| Let me be blunt about Senator Cruz. | ||
| We're going to contact his office and ask him about all the evidence he's seen that shows there's nothing. | ||
| And we're not saying that this is man-made. | ||
| But in this area of responsibility and what took place, you have to look at everything. | ||
| And we're going to look at everything. | ||
| So right now, I've got my team reaching out to his office. | ||
| We just want to see what evidence. | ||
| He says we've seen no evidence. | ||
| What evidence is he talking about? | ||
| Right? | ||
| It's because it hasn't been investigated yet. | ||
| Is this because Ted Cruz, remember, Ted Cruz was the shill for, yes, I'm going to go here today on this. | ||
| Ted Cruz was the shill for big tech on the AI bill. | ||
| Ted Cruz's solution on the artificial intelligence bill was to, if you're a state and put in laws or restrictions or regulations against artificial intelligence, you would lose access to rural broadband. | ||
| He was holding the MAGA movement hostage. | ||
| And he lied that night, says, oh, they got three votes a long night. | ||
| He got blown out 99 to 1. | ||
| He's shilling right there for big tech. | ||
| And you notice the misdirection play and information. | ||
| Now's the time to go hug your kids. | ||
| Senator Cruz, we're adults, okay? | ||
| There's been a horrible tragedy. | ||
| These innocent young girls, eight and nine years old, are dead. | ||
| And yes, their families are grieving, and their families need space to grieve. | ||
| And you saw right there what the county, the operations supervisor said, people are, the reason they don't want to go up and put their names online, they're being contacted by people, and think about this and the pravity of this, that are telling them, we have your children, we have your child, but you've got to send us X amount of money to get her back. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| Also, that they've had these prophets or spiritual people get them and say, they had a vision. | ||
| And I see your young child. | ||
| Think about what that would do to you as a parent if it happened. | ||
| So some horrible things going on. | ||
| But no, Senator Cruz, you got to start looking into what happened. | ||
| Because right now, they're trying to smear Trump as the issue. | ||
| That's the first eight questions were all about the National Weather Service and the cuts. | ||
| They're trying to smear Trump. | ||
| So we have to fight back. | ||
| We have to fight back to stop the political narrative they're trying to do, Senator Cruz. | ||
| And maybe if you understood that, you'd have had a much deeper race into and been much more competitive when you ran for president, sir. | ||
| And also wouldn't have had to head the MAGA movement drag you across the finish line last time you ran for Senate. | ||
| Trump won by 14 points. | ||
| You won by nine. | ||
| That Delta is folks that will vote for President Trump and refuse to vote for you. | ||
| But just right there, that misdirection play. | ||
| Also the tone of it from the top. | ||
| But hey, I'll save that for another day. | ||
| Bottom line is Ben Berquam joins. | ||
| Ben, great questions. | ||
| I'm still, so keep it simple for me. | ||
| Where are we on the math here? | ||
| And it sounds like correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| He said there are a lot. | ||
| I guess there's still a lot. | ||
| Obviously, the scale of this is so big. | ||
| It's hundreds of miles, square miles. | ||
| It's so enormous. | ||
| Even as the crow flies, I think they got 100 miles a river. | ||
| And as it goes back and forth, it's, I don't know, 150 or 200 miles a river, right? | ||
| So it's massive. | ||
| They're actually asking for volunteers. | ||
| They come in groups, not onesies, Tuesdays. | ||
| If you're kind-hearted and want to do something, don't run down there and volunteer because it just organizes you too much. | ||
| But if you have one of these groups, like we've had Doc Chambers and some of these other groups on the show the last couple of days, those are the types of groups they want volunteering. | ||
| So talk to me about the response to your, first off, the count itself, if you can break it down. | ||
| Then the answer to your question, maybe the answer to both your questions, because they were the two best questions that were asked once Again, at the entire press conference. | ||
| Yeah, so just breaking down the numbers, and thank you, Steve. | ||
| Breaking down the numbers, it's 82 total dead. | ||
| We've got 55 adults, 27 children, with 10 still missing from Camp Mystic, including an additional one counselor that's still missing from Camp Mystic. | ||
| In regards to the first question, and I still, this is, you know, this is three days in and I have not gotten, other than the first day off the record, I did get an estimate on what was missing then. | ||
| But I think it's telling when I gave an option, are we talking dozens or hundreds? | ||
| And his answer is a lot. | ||
| I think if it were closer to the dozens, you would say, you know, dozens. | ||
| If it's more than that, I think you can, you know, that's all speculation, but you can read between the lines on that. | ||
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No, no, but Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, hang on, hang on, Ben, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. | |
| Go back to that. | ||
| That was key. | ||
| The way you asked the question, dozens or hundreds was perfect. | ||
| You framed it perfectly. | ||
| And he had the option of saying dozens, and he didn't choose that. | ||
| He said a lot. | ||
| That means this tragedy, we're just at the beginning stages of understanding the scale of this tragedy, correct? | ||
| That's correct. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And if you're, you know, just based on sociology, psychology, when you answer that way, you're leaning towards the higher number. | ||
| So again, I don't want to speculate any further than that. | ||
| But yes, it's going to be bad. | ||
| It's going to be really bad. | ||
| So we're at 82 now. | ||
| Who knows where that number goes to? | ||
| But again, this is one of those things. | ||
| Our message is continually to pray. | ||
| I think it's important. | ||
| This is, you know, I can't, as a dad, you're a dad. | ||
| I've got three daughters. | ||
| I cannot imagine what these guys are going through. | ||
| And so that's job one. | ||
| And I agree with them 100%. | ||
| After we get through this, and we will eventually get through this. | ||
| Yeah, no, no. | ||
| But hang on, but hang on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Don't leave this topic. | ||
| Don't leave it. | ||
| He then, earlier they coupled with the first time I think I've heard it, and I think I've been in all these. | ||
| They actually had a request for volunteer groups to help, it sounds like on recovery, maybe at the end of rescue, but on recovery. | ||
| And they said, you can't come as individuals. | ||
| We need you as groups. | ||
| Is that tied to potentially the not dozens, not hundreds, but a lot, that they really need a much bigger group of individuals and some of these qualified teams like the dock chambers of the world and people like that to actually help them on the recovery part of this? | ||
| Well, it's twofold. | ||
| Part of it is they just don't want every Joe Schmo off the street coming in and saying, hey, I'm here to help, and then trying to connect them. | ||
| Everybody that's going out is already in a team. | ||
| So if you're having to figure out John Smith who comes in and Jill Smith who comes in and figure out what their qualifications are, what their background is, and then trying to tie them to a team and find out what those assets that that team needs, do they fit in that team? | ||
| Very, very difficult logistically. | ||
| If you come in as a team, they know, okay, this is our team lead, this is our comms, this is our swift water rescue, this is, you know, we have our team built for this task. | ||
| It's a lot easier to say, this is our need over here and deploy them immediately. | ||
| So there's part of that, but there's no question about it. | ||
| I mean, I'm watching the teams now go back as the water levels are dropping. | ||
| They're going back and rechecking, and they're finding bodies up in trees. | ||
| They're finding bodies in cars that were submerged. | ||
| And it's a massive geographic area. | ||
| So yes, I think it's twofold. | ||
| It's one to make sure we have competent, qualified people that we deploy, but it's also a major, major undertaking. | ||
| And we're here in Kerrville. | ||
| This is every river, every tributary you go for 50 miles in all directions, it had a similar situation. | ||
| And we just had flooding last night again. | ||
| So you compound the difficulty of the train, the difficulty of the rain and the environment on top of all of the other crap that they're having to deal with. | ||
| And like you said, just these idiots calling in. | ||
| They want to make sure anybody they send out there is qualified. | ||
| But it sounds like they're still more. | ||
| Well, let me just give you an anecdotal evidence. | ||
| I was at one location yesterday where there was a car. | ||
| They thought there might have been a body in it. | ||
| Took 20 minutes to get a fire team over there, a rescue team, to actually start digging through the car. | ||
| So they are limited in some sense. | ||
| You can't have everyone everywhere. | ||
| So they do need more, but they want to make sure that anyone that comes is qualified. | ||
| About what he said as an aside about the reason the parents, you know, the names can't go up is people are calling them and saying, we have your child, we found your child, we need money. | ||
| Or people are saying, I've had a spiritual vision, I'm a prophet or a prophetess or whatever, and I've seen your child. | ||
| How prevalent is that? | ||
| You're there with the inside details. | ||
| How prevalent is that on these parents that are dealing with the worst grief any human being could have, sir? | ||
| I don't have numbers on how often that's happening, but it just points to the depravity of this generation, of our society, of the good versus evil. | ||
| Those are demons. | ||
| Anyone who does that is a demon from hell. | ||
| But I did meet with some of the reunification folks that are running the reunification operation downtown. | ||
| In fact, they were the ones that were running the fireworks display and show. | ||
| They do it every year. | ||
| And they were telling me that what they're having to comb through on leads that are coming in. | ||
| These guys are the ones that are getting the calls for the missing people. | ||
| They couldn't, for obvious reasons, go into detail on that. | ||
| All of that's coming through one voice through these press conferences. | ||
| But they said there is a lot of garbage that's coming in. | ||
| And some of it's well-intentioned. | ||
| You know, you have people that see something, that want to help. | ||
| They want to be, you know, they knew that their cousin was out here, but they haven't talked to anybody since, but they think their cousin may still be missing. | ||
| They haven't done the research to figure out. | ||
| And so they're just getting all kinds of calls. | ||
| In regards to the demons that are calling these people saying they got their kids, they found their kids. | ||
| I don't have numbers on that. | ||
| All I can say is they deserve a place in hell. | ||
| Talk about Ted Cruz's answer to your second question, sir. | ||
| Yeah, it was definitely pitched that one and change the subject. | ||
| I think, to your point, it's a legitimate question. | ||
| I mean, we know this. | ||
| This isn't, you know, when they started talking about this, you and I are kind of on the same boat on that. | ||
| I had friends 30 years ago start talking to me about chemtrails. | ||
| And, you know, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. | ||
| And well, now we know that geoengineering is a real thing. | ||
| Farmers use it in areas of low water yields and low growth yields to help with their farms. | ||
| And so, and I think it's especially a reasonable question this year when they just came out of a big drought last year in this region where the actual, where the river dried up. | ||
| And so you think, okay, what are those farmers using? | ||
| We know Rainmaker works here. | ||
| We actually can go to NOAA's website and you can get the maps of where they're using these precipitation increases and where they're spraying. | ||
| And you can go and see that. | ||
| And it happens to be in this general area. | ||
| And so there's a reasonable question to say, we're not saying that that caused it, but did that have an impact? | ||
| Was there any direct correlation from that to then this massive weather system that happens to come up out of nowhere that no one was forecasting? | ||
| And do we even know the outside consequences of this geoengineering? | ||
| If we can't predict the weather next week, how can we then be sending these guys up there to do this and not knowing the ramifications or the outcomes? | ||
| I think that's a legitimate question. | ||
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| It's kind of frustrating. | ||
| He didn't want to answer that. | ||
| It's not just a legitimate question. | ||
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To be frank, right now, it's going to be asked. | |
| Ted Cruz and Schilling for big tech, again, Palantir and these guys. | ||
| I'm sorry, dude. | ||
| And to stand up there in front of that and say at the time and then give me the, oh, go hug your children, the Ted Cruz, go hug your children, not going to wash. | ||
| You're a pimp for big tech. | ||
| We saw this in the AI. | ||
| You're pimping for Palantir and all these companies. | ||
| Not only is it a reasonable question. | ||
| We don't need permission to ask a question. | ||
| We're going to ask the damn question. | ||
| And I say this as someone that has the engine rooms of the war room that have been in my face on chemtrails and in my face on bioengineering. | ||
| I keep saying, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| We got too many other things. | ||
| This situation, it's one of the top questions you need to get into like immediately. | ||
| Also about the whole chain of command and all that, that all has to be done. | ||
| But this thing has got to be like, okay, let's go back. | ||
| Let's look at the patterns. | ||
| What were you doing? | ||
| And I realize you were doing it for well-intentioned. | ||
| You know, low yield, you need rain. | ||
| It's West Texas or not in the hill country, West Texas. | ||
| But no, we got to go through the whole thing. | ||
| And we're going to, Ted Cruz, we're going to go through it. | ||
| You're not going to do it. | ||
| That's a CIA deep state kind of misdirection play right there. | ||
| Go hug your children. | ||
| Well, we can do two things at the same time. | ||
| You can hug your children and you owe it to those little girls to look at all the evidence of everything associated with this. | ||
| They deserve that. | ||
| Their lives snuffed out at eight or nine years old. | ||
| And you're going to sit here because big tech may be involved in some way. | ||
| And no, we're not going to look at it. | ||
| No, sir. | ||
| That's the controlled opposition of the Republican Party. | ||
| And that's why this country is in the fricking mess it's in. | ||
| And no, we're not going to play by your rules. | ||
| We saw what you did on artificial intelligence and the shill you were for big tech, you pimp. | ||
| Ben Berquam, where do folks go to get you, sir? | ||
| You're going to be covering this nonstop. | ||
| Yep, I'm at Real America's Voice on all of our social media. | ||
| I'm going to be doing shows. | ||
| I'll be on Charlie Kirk next and shows all throughout the day. | ||
| My personal social at Ben Berquam, Substack, Frontline America. | ||
| And yeah, just stay tuned. | ||
| We'll be bringing it. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| I knew it would take Ted Cruz to be able to pay for this. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| My pleasure. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| But it hit me. | ||
| Don't have to go too far in the woods today, this weekend. | ||
| It hit my tripwire. | ||
| He hit it. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Rosemary Jenks here. | ||
| I got to get Rosemary Jenks in because she's a warrior, and this is so important. | ||
| Homan just came out and said we got to deport 7,000 folks a day to get rid of all of the guys that just came in on Biden's watch. | ||
| And my math shows if you do that for three and a half or four years, it's nine or 10 million people. | ||
| Hey, just the number I've been saying. | ||
| You know, Mark Green said 13. | ||
| President Trump says 2021. | ||
| Hey, I'll take the higher number, but we got to get rolling on the mass deportations. | ||
| Not 7,000 a day. | ||
| Why not 70,000 a day? | ||
| And because it's logistically, we're backed up, then let's put more money into it. | ||
| Let's take money. | ||
| Let's impound money from other things and put more money into it. | ||
| Deportations are everything. | ||
| And also, in addition, we need to stop the scam of the H-1B visas and everything around it for the good of the country. | ||
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| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
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Your host, Stephen K. Man. | |
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Rosemary Jenks, one of the great warriors. | ||
| You've got home insane $7,000 a day. | ||
| We got to get $70,000 a day. | ||
| Tom, we love you. | ||
| We'll have your back. | ||
| Tell us what we need to do. | ||
| We just get past $170 billion. | ||
| If that ain't enough, we'll take it out of other places. | ||
| Microsoft's, I don't know, they've downsized 10,000, 15,000 white-collar technicians, all of it, Rosemary Jinx, in the last couple of weeks. | ||
| Ford Motor Company said, I think in the next three years, 50% of their white-collar workers are going to be gone because of artificial intelligence. | ||
| And yet Microsoft's put in for 6,000 Visa waivers of Visa applications. | ||
| H-1B visas must go entirely. | ||
| It's an entire con and scam. | ||
| What are you doing and how can our audience help, ma'am? | ||
| Look, we need to find a member of Congress on the Judiciary Committee, either House or Senate, who is willing to introduce a bill to eliminate H-1Bs in the best case scenario, or at the very least, end adjustment of status. | ||
| The American people were sold H-1B visas as a temporary way for employers to fill a short-term labor gap. | ||
| That is not what the H-1B program is doing. | ||
| It is permanently taking jobs away from Americans, and that needs to end. | ||
| So either we eliminate the program entirely, which is the best and easiest alternative, or at the Very least, we end the ability to adjust status from within the United States so that everyone here on a temporary visa has to actually leave when that visa expires. | ||
| That would actually disincentivize a lot of H-1Bs and foreign students who come here for the sole purpose of remaining here permanently. | ||
| What we will come back to you. | ||
| I got some ideas. | ||
| I talked to you the other weekend. | ||
| I got some very specific ideas on both Senate and House, and I'll run those by you before we make those public on the show. | ||
| What is, just once again, tell the audience, particularly in, they did it as a temporary, but today with the overwhelming evidence that our best educated in the current generation, this is why they're not getting jobs and not getting good paying jobs. | ||
| Artificial intelligence is totally changing how business operates like the internet did 30 years ago. | ||
| Why is this still a controversy? | ||
| Why is it that Congress can't see they've got to change this legislation, that the American people, and particularly hardworking Americans, right, that have done everything from grade school to high school to college to get these degrees, these tough STEM degrees, that they're the ones that are bearing the brunt of this? | ||
| Why are these people so hard to communicate about this issue, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, you're absolutely right, Steve. | ||
| And the fact is that almost 12 million American STEM grads are not working in STEM. | ||
| They're either unemployed or they're working in other industries because they can't find a job in a STEM field. | ||
| And, you know, this is a problem with the donor class. | ||
| That's the bottom line. | ||
| It's the donors who are saying, no, no, we need cheap labor. | ||
| We got to have our continuous supply of cheap labor. | ||
| And that is destroying America's youth. | ||
| I mean, imagine being a college grad. | ||
| You've spent all these years doing exactly what you were told to do, getting into a tech field. | ||
| You get out of college and you see that all of the foreign students have been hired through an OPT program because the employers actually get a subsidy to hire the foreigners instead of you. | ||
| And then permanent jobs are blocked off because of this continuous pipeline of H-1Bs. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It needs to stop. | ||
| And that means that the donor class is going to have to be told no. | ||
| It's time to put Americans first. | ||
| Rosemary, you left Numbers USA, but you were a mainstay and just did a magnificent job to go to the accountability project. | ||
| Tell people where to go. | ||
| What are you doing now? | ||
| Because when Rosemary Jenks says, hey, we know what the math is. | ||
| I've spent a couple of decades of my life showing the American people that. | ||
| We know what the math is. | ||
| People are now motivated. | ||
| It's time for action, action, action to stop it. | ||
| Where do folks go, ma'am? | ||
| Immigration Accountability Project is at iaproject.org, iaproject.org. | ||
| All of our social media is linked at the top of that homepage. | ||
| We are going to hold members of Congress accountable for every vote. | ||
| You can find every immigration vote they take on our website. | ||
| All the executive branch actions are on our website. | ||
| We will provide all the information you need so that you know exactly what your member of Congress is doing or not doing. | ||
| And we need your help so that we can find members of Congress who have the courage. | ||
| We actually have several members of Congress who are speaking out about legal immigration now, including Jim Jordan and Chip Roy and Mike Lee. | ||
| And we need to work with them and get them to introduce the bills that we need to actually deal with this issue. | ||
| America for Americans. | ||
| How's that sound? | ||
| American citizens. | ||
| That sound good? | ||
| Pretty logical. | ||
| Rosemary, you're a hero. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We'll have you back. | ||
| We got your back on this fight. | ||
| We're going to get in harness with you. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| This is, when I say, when she says 12 million, these are the people. | ||
| Remember, when I went to college, I came out of military school. | ||
| I went to have a couple of years to goof off because I knew I was going to go in the service. | ||
| The engineering thing was too hard. | ||
| These are the people who go with the engineering. | ||
| They take the hardest majors and grind it out. | ||
| And they've done everything they're supposed to since they're like in kindergarten. | ||
| You have 12 million of the best that we got, the hardest working with the most grit that don't have a job. | ||
| And we're bringing in foreigners and you're subsidizing your taxes to hell with that. | ||
| We're not going to do it, Elmo. | ||
| Not going to do it. | ||
| The country, no. | ||
| We're not going to have a country. | ||
| You're not going to have a country when the best, when the best are told you do everything you're supposed to at the top and the hardest and you've sacrificed all that time to focus on this and then you can't get a job or you can't get a good paying job. | ||
| Screw you. | ||
| This is the way you're going to lose the country. | ||
| This is the way you're going to lose the country. | ||
| You understand where that guy's got some traction up in New York City? | ||
| This is the reason. | ||
| And you either do it the way that we're going to change it around and make for you as citizens. | ||
| I'm telling you, you're going to look into the abyss. | ||
| Mike Lindell, took up your time. | ||
| I got a minute. | ||
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| I'd leave it. | ||
| Charlie Kirk next. | ||
| We're back at five. | ||
| Lindell. | ||
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| Five to seven tonight, Netanyahu will return. | ||
| Not some big public thing. | ||
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| Gonna be a no press private dinner. | ||
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