00:02:18.000One of the differences between those two searches is that with the former, the people engaged in it are completely aligned in what they are seeking.
00:02:26.720With the latter, we're not as assured that federal, state and regional leaders are eager to dig for information that might reveal truths they don't want to find,
00:02:36.380or rather that they don't want the public to learn.
00:02:39.540What matters is that the urgency with which we search for the missing is not allowed to wane after they are found.
00:02:47.500It must be maintained and applied to the search for answers that those who survived and the memories of those who perished deserve.
00:02:56.360And the Dallas Morning News editorial board has a piece entitled So Many What Ifs Haunt Guadalupe River Flood.
00:03:05.520Once this initial response has ended and recovery begins, state and local officials need to wrestle with improved warning systems.
00:03:14.040We need to understand whether improved staffing or technology at either the National Weather Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could give more accurate advance warning.
00:03:27.560Local officials, meanwhile, must review their own practices and policies.
00:03:32.420Should they have acted to require people to move away from the Guadalupe River as the rain began to fall?
00:03:40.380Should people be permitted to live in camps so close to the riverbanks?
00:03:45.080Those are haunting questions now of what if we could have done a thousand things differently and perhaps spared our state this terrible tragedy?
00:03:54.220We need to understand those things and do whatever can be done to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
00:04:02.420This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:04:09.380Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:04:14.520Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:04:18.820The people have had a belly full of it.
00:04:55.340It's Monday, 7 July, Year of Our Lord 2025.
00:04:59.060A weekend, folks, like none other, with so many, so many massive stories and narratives breaking and so many things around the world.
00:05:07.140We're going to get to them all today in the morning and afternoon show.
00:05:10.940It's going to take us four hours to do this, so we'll strap in.
00:05:14.080But for Mika, yes, we're on the search for answers, and we were the first ones to bring up, hey, you've got to get to the bottom of how this happened logistically, what happened with safety, security, all that.
00:05:28.040You've got these incredibly brave search and rescue teams.
00:05:35.360We talked to some of the people providing logistical support the other day.
00:05:41.120Ben Berkwam's on the banks of the Guadalupe.
00:05:44.320Ben, and you're going to go to the press conference.
00:05:46.020We're going to cover as we've done all weekend.
00:05:47.720I really want to thank Real America's Voice, Grace, Mo, everybody, Associated, Elizabeth, Jane, everybody that worked on this from our side all weekend.
00:05:59.640In one of the search for truth, Mika, I hope you keep an open mind because we've got to start with a basic question.
00:06:07.680Remember, we're not conspiracy theory guys here.
00:06:28.840Go back and suck on the pandemic when we nailed it on the first day, I think back in January, the January – 20, January, 21, 22 of 2020 when we said exactly what the pandemic was and where it came from.
00:06:42.240Ben Berkwam – and look at that footage.
00:07:01.140I just wrapped up an interview with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:07:04.280Latest numbers from the senator, and he's obviously got up to date, 82 dead, 24 – excuse me, 28 children, and 10 of those children from Camp Mystic still missing.
00:07:16.760That's, you know, as of about 25 minutes ago.
00:07:19.720We'll be at the press conference in just under an hour, and I'm sure we'll be getting an update on that.
00:07:33.340I just – I cannot comprehend the pain that so many of the families are experiencing and the children who lost their parents.
00:07:40.980You know, the majority of the lives that have been lost are adults, so that means children are no longer going to have their parents with them.
00:07:47.180So this is not an event that's going to have ripple impacts for days or weeks or months.
00:07:54.120And to your point, you know, watching the mainstream media turn this into a circus about President Trump and trying to connect it to Doge, ignoring – basically scoring political points on the lives of children, ignoring some of the obvious questions.
00:08:09.960And, like, to your point on the, you know, not being conspiracy theorists, we've had rain manipulation, weather manipulation going on in America for years.
00:08:18.380And, you know, for farmers particularly, you've got dry areas.
00:08:22.000This actually – the river was completely dry last year because of droughts.
00:08:26.420And so they've been – there's a company called Rainmaker that flies over.
00:08:29.400They seed the clouds, and you get more rain.
00:08:45.740Should we have an early warning system like we have with tornadoes where sirens go off and somebody goes down to those camps and says, even at 3 in the morning when they're still sleeping, get the hell out of here?
00:08:55.840I think that's an absolutely legitimate question.
00:08:59.620But to spend all your efforts and trying to play gotcha while we're still searching for 10 missing young girls and potentially dozens of additional adults, the unknown missing is unknown right now.
00:09:12.100And so it's – you know, that's the focus.
00:09:14.560And what we should be prioritizing is that, thanking the law enforcement and first responders for doing their jobs.
00:09:43.300They know where we cover, what we feel comfortable and we understand.
00:09:46.900We have, I think, better knowledge or understanding of certain situations and we can help people, you know, get access to that knowledge.
00:09:53.480There's some things – and not that I haven't been pitched and spent time with the geoengineering people or the anti-geoengineering people, I should say, and the chemtrails people.
00:10:01.680But you see a situation like this, it's pretty obvious.
00:10:05.880You've got to start – there's all kind of questions about the logistics and decisions made and warning and, you know, all this from, you know, 5 o'clock the previous afternoon.
00:10:15.140They'll have a timeline and what happened.
00:10:16.800There will be details that will be written and I'm sure court hearings and civil suits and all of it.
00:10:22.520And that will all come out over time and who the heroes were and some people that flinched, right?
00:10:28.780But a very basic question that has to be answered, was this an act of God or was this an act of man or did a man have some role in the overall, right?
00:10:39.900And of course they're going to politicize, but that's at a superficial level.
00:10:44.000And you kind of see what Fox is doing right now to kind of get away from the question of is there something here that we should be really investigating?
00:10:52.580The deep state, the biggest – how do I say this politely?
00:10:58.620And you saw this last night from what Cash and these guys put out and Tom Fenton, who's the best, is going to be – is right up.
00:11:04.080He was going to start the show, but we've got to start with Ben because of this tragedy.
00:11:07.480And right there, look at the – that right there is the power of nature, right?
00:11:12.720Now, who – was nature – was it just nature on its own or somehow some sort of a technology by the hand of man?
00:11:23.340And this gets into every issue we're dealing with.
00:11:25.560This gets back to artificial intelligence.
00:11:27.280This gets back to the singularity, to quantum computing, regenerative robotics, artificial general intelligence.
00:11:34.300We're a man – remember in the Gospel of Mark, right?
00:11:39.060To blaspheme the Holy Spirit is the unforgivable sin, the mortal sin that Jesus Christ himself said, hey, I'm no good.
00:11:45.260If you do that, don't come looking for me.
00:11:48.260I can't help you because it's unforgivable.
00:11:51.700We have to get into the deep state and find out exactly in this apparatus these people that have made themselves gods, right?
00:12:02.880If we don't do this, we're not a constitutional republic.
00:12:06.700This entire apparatus, the entire system of government is based upon an informed citizenry and the consent of the governed.
00:12:18.140This is what July 4th – July 4th is not about backyard barbecues and magnificent fireworks and waving the American flag and doing what everybody does.
00:12:25.960No, it's a commitment back to first principles, first principles of those individuals who put it all online and created a republic that's lasted longer than any other.
00:12:38.440And this experiment continues on, and this experiment is only going to continue on if we ask the tough questions and do what's unreasonable sometimes and stand in the breach.
00:12:51.160That's what makes the MAGA movement so different.
00:27:36.260Why was Mark Caputo on Morning Joe and saying about another reporter's story on Epstein?
00:27:40.980He was there for the Kennedy exclusive, which we now know the CIA has actively lied to you about their involvement with Oswald and everything related to the Kennedy investigation.
00:28:18.780John Solomon is going to be here with all other revelations about the CIA over the weekend with Brennan and at the same time hit you with the wet fish here.
00:28:27.320There's something happening with our farmland here in the United States that isn't getting enough attention.
00:28:32.280The Chinese have been buying up hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland.
00:28:38.120They're also taking control over critical supply chains, things like fertilizer, animal feed, and farming equipment.
00:30:26.140Hey, it's not a big victory for the non-interventionists and the people who stopped, who had President Trump's back in closing down the 12-day war with the massive bombing run.
00:30:38.040It's kind of, oh, he's going to come for dinner at 6.30, and they'll slip him in through the side door, right?
00:30:43.920And I'm not even – let's not even make the connections yet because Tom Fitton is going to make it when he's getting back on the show of Epstein in certain intelligence services.
00:31:10.920The Kennedy revelation is a bombshell.
00:31:14.220The CIA, which we've said for years, now they admit – they admit that Angleton and all of them looked you in the eye, went to Congress, went to – they were under subpoena.
00:31:28.620That was a crime scene itself, the Warren Commission, between the FBI and the CIA.
00:31:34.080The great institutions in this country that people depended upon looked you in the eye and lied to you because of their actions, the covering up of their actions.
00:31:42.680This is why the devolution of the United States of America, you can take one day, 22 November 1963, boom.
00:32:21.940They've got to start producing records to Judicial Watch or explaining to the court what records specifically they're withholding and why.
00:32:31.160You know, what was really incredible was we asked for records that Pam Bondi had about the Epstein matter, and they came back and said she had nothing.
00:32:39.840I mean, she talked about having all these records on her desk, and then they come back and tell us they had nothing.
00:32:46.460So this has got to proceed, and it kind of goes back to our earlier idea.
00:32:51.020The president should recognize the Justice Department as an agency that thinks it's above the law and outside the constraints of the Constitution in terms of checks and balances.
00:33:00.280Does it mean that Pam Bondi thinks that?
00:33:02.660But that's the culture of the Justice Department.
00:33:05.880It's the culture in many ways of the FBI.
00:33:08.180They don't even think they are run by the Justice Department.
00:33:11.360It's just – I mean, it's independent agency on top of independent agency, which is an abomination under our republic.
00:33:18.220And I think the president should just set up his own investigative unit, his own prosecutorial unit, his own special counsel as the chief magistrate and investigate everything that he thinks needs to be investigated.
00:33:34.540And he needs to start calling the Justice Department in the meantime.
00:33:59.920The special prosecutor has to be appointed – on his Article 2 powers, has to be appointed by the president and has to report to the office of the president, not to Pam Bondi.
00:34:09.540That's what we're demanding on the 2020 election.
00:34:12.700But there's a whole raft of stuff that the Justice Department, FBI, can't go – because you have a couple of people over there hanging on by their fingertips, and we have to take these apparatuses down.
00:34:33.900Or if they said they – by the way, if they came out and said there's no – the evidence, things of a – of a suicide, put the evidence out.
00:34:47.040Let's see what Bill Barr and those guys did.
00:36:40.080We've got to – this has got to be a – like Article 3 we do at Davis, we've got to do a War Room Judicial Watch partnership here to drive this.
00:37:41.900There's been, you know, at the conferences themselves, there's been very little talk of de-dollarization.
00:37:47.220And I think ultimately that was a strategic move.
00:37:49.700I think they want the least amount of damage possible and they wanted unsuccessfully, of course, to avoid drawing the attention of President Trump to prevent ultimately risks.
00:38:02.240But what we're seeing is the conversations, the discussions have centered on bilateral trade deals, right?
00:38:08.200We're seeing them happening around the city, quite frankly.
00:38:11.120But what we're talking about is deals for direct trade between nations in local currency.
00:38:15.800So although they're not using the term de-dollarization, it's exactly what it is.
00:38:21.620The way that they're framing this thing, and I think it's smart from their perspective, is enhancing cooperation in critical minerals and technology, making supply chains more secure and resilient.
00:38:33.620But, you know, the interesting part from my perspective is the BRICS are now trying to position themselves.
00:38:40.440They sort of seize the opportunity to position themselves now as pro-trade and an anti-protectionist union, calling tariffs now a threat to global economic stability.
00:38:52.100The upshot and the interesting part is the group, long presumed to be forging an alternative to our U.S.-led order, is now projecting itself as the defender of those same core values.
00:39:04.980They're saying we aren't anti-American, we're just pro-trade, and that's really the argument from the BRICS at the moment.
00:39:15.740So President Trump, in his redoing of the commercial relationships of the world with the United States as the premier market, once he gets to it, he says you've got two choices.
00:39:24.980Either bring your – reshore your manufacturing or bring your manufacturing here to create jobs and opportunities, or you're going to pay a premium like you do at a soccer game to get a box or at a concert.
00:39:37.380You're going to pay a premium to get through the golden door into the golden market for the golden age.
00:39:43.560That has got them – that's – he's inside their brain on this, right?
00:39:48.580He's inside their decision loop, so everything they do is framed in that, or how we don't bring the wrath of Trump down upon us?
00:39:57.400Like I said, you can see it in how they're phrasing things.
00:40:00.120And I think it's – ultimately, President Trump has two options, right?
00:40:04.340One is the carrot, and the other is the stick.
00:40:06.480The carrot's not looking that viable, right?
00:40:09.020What a carrot means when it comes to currency is strength, value, liquidity, but it's going to be an uphill battle given the spending situation at home, given the debt position that President Trump inherited.
00:40:22.020The other alternative is obviously sticks, right?
00:40:24.820Trade embargoes, tariffs, sanctions, forcing countries to make a choice.
00:40:30.100And like I said, I think it's the only option he has at the moment, and I think it's going to work on some countries, but not on others, right?
00:40:40.100We can throw a spanner into the works for the BRICS, and we can force nations to choose longer term or shorter term, I should say.
00:40:48.060Countries like Russia and China, that's a little bit more nuanced, right?
00:40:52.080I think that the threats of tariffs can dissuade some nations shorter term and create bumps in the road for the BRICS.
00:40:59.240But over the longer term, I think they're going to be problematic and ultimately could longer term work against us.
00:41:06.460The one thing we've learned coming out here is that countries have long memories, right?
00:41:10.600The BRICS are trying to frame this summit as a response to Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, but it's so much more than that, right?
00:41:17.820This is a response to decades of history, the 2022 freezing of Russia's dollar assets, the 2014 sanctions over the Crimea invasion were mentioned to us,
00:41:28.440the 2008 financial crisis, and here in Brazil, as I mentioned last time, the 1980s debt crisis.
00:41:35.460So, you know, it's going to be tough longer term.
00:42:42.620Is it your assessment right now that the central banks will continue to purchase gold at the rates they're purchasing as a hedge against the United States?
00:43:10.820So, yes, I think central bank gold buying will continue.
00:43:16.780Philip, if you can hang on for one second.
00:43:18.760By the way, I'm so proud, given everything that you've learned while you're down there at the Rio Reset, of how dead spot on we've been for only four years in writing the end of the dollar empire and the way we wrote it about debt and deficit and the debt ceiling and then Rio and the BRICS nations and what it all means.
00:43:36.280And central banks buying at record rates, these finance ministers being, you know, everybody come out of Stanford Business School and Chicago Business School and Harvard Business School.
00:43:44.300They have all the they have an HP 12C and they can do discounted cash flow.