Ben and Steve discuss the lack of help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of the devastating storm that devastated the southern coast of North Carolina and the aftermath of the storm. They are joined by the County Commissioner, Terry Ramey, to discuss the situation.
00:00:00.160Ben, where are you? What you're seeing is heart rendering because it's related to MAGA and clearly the Biden regime has purposely forgotten these people. Tell me about it.
00:00:12.640Yeah, this is we're almost four months into this, Steve. We're up here in North Carolina. It's outside of Waynesville. And I'm here with it's called Haven on the Hill with my new friend, James Lunsford.
00:00:24.680I've got the county commissioner here, Terry Ramey and some folks behind me. And I'm just going to. Well, I'll turn the camera, but we've got some we've got some drone footage of this shot a little earlier.
00:00:35.740There are campers all over this this community here that were brought in.
00:00:42.040This is James's family property and they've got about 100 people living out here now because basically they've been abandoned by Joe Biden, the Democrats, FEMA.
00:00:52.160I want to get James in on this. James, you're doing this. It's just truly incredible.
00:00:57.380And the fact that you have to do it, honestly, thank God you're doing it.
00:01:00.600But the fact that you have to do it is just as an American citizen, what is what's your message?
00:01:06.660It's sad that the people have to do it. I mean, I thought that's why we had somebody to help us for.
00:01:12.040And they don't they don't help. It's just it's just mind blowing.
00:01:17.040We're four months into this. And by the way, Steve, James has a headset as well.
00:01:23.760Hold it. Four months into this. James, go ahead.
00:01:26.500Ben, hang on. James, just just start at the beginning.
00:01:31.740Walk our audience exactly what the problem is. What happened?
00:01:36.260Where was the relief? We're four months into this and it looks like it happened.
00:01:40.560I don't know, a couple of days ago. So but I want it in your voice.
00:01:43.160Just tell us exactly what's went on. Just take your time.
00:01:48.540Well, Steve, it started and I mean, they got hotel vouchers from FEMA and FEMA was given them.
00:01:55.520I think it was seven hundred fifty dollars a month like that would suffice them.
00:02:00.040And basically other than that, just forgot them.
00:02:02.780So then when the hotel vouchers started in and everything, some other organizations and churches reached out to me and said,
00:02:09.600what can we do to help? And this is what we've come up with.
00:02:14.040And it's been all donation. It's not had anything to do with the government, even though we had one that does work with us.
00:02:22.020And he's fought a constant battle to keep working with us.
00:02:24.820That's the guy standing right next to us here.
00:02:26.380And he stuck with me through the whole thing.
00:02:30.420But me and him stuck together for over 50 years.
00:03:05.640I went down there in Asheville, Democrat city.
00:03:08.420It it honestly, the rebuilding, they're rebuilding Ukraine faster than the rebuilding parts of North Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia that have been affected by this hurricane.
00:03:17.460It is it's it's beyond words what's happening out here.
00:03:21.140And you have a few of these guys like Terry Ramey, commissioner, that's actually willing to stand up and go on camera and tell the truth about it.
00:03:55.280I mean, I'm not I mean, I can't speak for Terry, but I've not seen that many FEMA people when they say, oh, we'll send two or three people to come and interview the people and update their applications.
00:04:04.860But I've not seen the big running around everywhere in the FEMA jackets like you would see them everywhere.
00:04:11.880And I'm not I've not even I've not even seen any of the vehicles.
00:04:14.960Can I ask the folks that are standing in the back there?
00:04:17.280Any of you guys feel like the response from FEMA has been adequate?
00:04:27.620And Terry, if I can get you in on here, Terry, Terry's the county commissioner here in Haywood.
00:04:31.780Right after the starting of the storm, right after the storm just happened, we saw a lot of FEMA people around and they've had a FEMA representative here.
00:04:41.140But they've been taking a lot of applications and stuff.
00:04:43.520But as far as they put out a survey to find property to put FEMA trailers on, as of Monday's commissioner meeting, we had five trailers is all that's been set up.
00:04:58.120Five trailers, but all these other trailers, we've got a ton of trailers in here, but they've been donated by people across the country and they've really stepped up and helped us the people have.
00:05:08.880FEMA, they've took a lot of applications and stuff and they're working on a lot of different stuff.
00:05:14.820And it's, you know, like everything else, it takes forever.
00:05:16.780I don't know how long it'll, you know, for anything to start happening.
00:05:20.220I don't know. Is he going? Is he going? I don't know. I mean, I really don't know.
00:05:29.140You know, because if he's going to be there, it would be cheaper. But I didn't invite him. Somebody did.
00:05:33.600You know, you know, it's kind of funny.
00:05:48.760This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:06:07.740Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:06:13.060Here's what I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:06:17.240The people have had a belly full of it.
00:11:28.780They know what they're doing, and they're going deep into the United States.
00:11:32.740This is why I said years ago when we did We Build the Wall, every town's a border town, and every state's a border state.
00:11:39.500Now, to set a perspective, President Trump is now in Air Force One, heading to North Carolina, en route to Pacific Palisades in L.A.,
00:11:47.740and there's going to be a confrontation out there because Newsom is not welcoming the president.
00:11:51.820This is going to be a fascinating day as you see President Trump go from Davos yesterday to problems with the United States today.
00:11:58.840But right there in back of you, Ben, this is where this confrontation, Holman and Stephen Miller are going to force the hand of the mayor of Chicago
00:12:07.540and the governor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois, Pritzker, who's now running for president,
00:12:13.200and he's going to use this showdown as he thinks catapult himself into the arms of the progress of the far left of the Democratic Party
00:12:22.260that brought this invasion on, loves this invasion, and actually loves the fact that MAGA and the folks down in Appalachia
00:12:30.320are having to live in almost animal-like conditions. Ben Burkwam.
00:12:35.940That's exactly right. And by the way, this is just one example.
00:12:39.160There are thousands of these facilities across America. This one was just newly renovated.
00:12:44.380I tried to get a room here when they first renovated it. Brand new, brand new rooms, brand new restaurant on the far end.
00:12:50.240They're getting three meals a day. They're in hot rooms, protected from the elements, from the cold, everything they need.
00:12:56.380They're given cash cards. They're getting vehicles. They're getting driver's licenses to go out and commit crimes around the city.
00:13:03.700The prosecutors aren't prosecuting them here. But again, Steve, this is one location of tens of thousands like this across America.
00:13:11.840You've got it in New York. You've got it in every major city in America.
00:13:14.380And while we were doing that, while Joe Biden was doing that, while Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services and Jewish Family Services
00:13:21.720were inviting in a whole invasion force into our country, they ignored the people of western North Carolina, of eastern Tennessee, of northern Georgia.
00:13:31.740They ignored the people of East Palestine. They ignored the citizens of this country.
00:13:35.940The Red Cross, FEMA, they spent all their money helping illegals invade our country and ignored the people, the citizens of this country,
00:13:44.200that actually pay for them to be in operation.
00:13:49.180Ben, hang on right there. Ben Burkham's in Chicago.
00:13:51.940Brian Glenn is going to be with the president momentarily in North Carolina.
00:13:55.680We've got Jack Posobiec in Washington live with the Right to Life march.
00:13:59.160The prisoners, the political prisoners, the Right to Life movement are being freed even as we speak on a pardon and commutation from President Trump.
00:14:07.640And Noor bin Laden is in Davos where, let's say some folks took umbrage with President Trump's throwdown yesterday on the Green News scam
00:14:17.300and everything to do with the Paris Climate Accords pulling out of WHO.
00:14:21.540All of it. We're on fire with action, action, action as the 47th President of the United States forces the action, first in North Carolina.
00:14:30.660Then he's going to go to California and go to Pacific Palisades.
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00:35:38.820These press conferences, when he does these impromptus, this has got real substance in it.
00:35:44.360And it makes sense to just let the camera roll, let's see what the man's got to say, let's see how – you can see he's thinking of some of it in real time.
00:35:51.880And that's why I tell people, hey, anytime he's up, let's just go to it and let's just play it through to the end.
00:35:57.780I agree, and I support that decision because, you know, during the press conference at Mar-a-Lago, breaking news was happening.
00:36:05.160Judge Cannon had released a statement regarding his case, and that was the first time he heard it, and we got to see his real reaction to that.
00:36:12.840And, you know, I had another journalist yesterday describe the tone in the briefing room rather right now.
00:36:20.860It's like murderer's row, if you will.
00:36:24.600They are going to – if we think at all that the mainstream media, most of the liberal-hating press, they are going to be coming after President Trump big time, especially on this immigration.
00:36:38.140As we start to see, you know, people getting these mass deportations, they're going to take the one or two little stories that might – for instance, you might have the lady that was crying at the gate in El Paso.
00:36:50.280They're going to take these stories, and instead of talking about the hardened criminals that we're taking out of this country, they're going to take these very isolated personal stories.
00:36:57.920They're going to magnify that and attempt to, you know, kind of re-pivot, if you will, on an immigration process.
00:37:06.140So – but, hey, you know, the American people have woken up.
00:37:19.620So I'm not so sure that's going to be isolated.
00:37:22.440Look, when you're deporting 12 to 15 million people, you're going to go through the criminal element, which we're going through now, I think, relatively quickly.
00:37:30.740You're going to get down to, you know, people got to go home, and you're going to do as much empathy as possible.
00:37:35.500But there's going to be a lot of deportation porn, and we have to make sure that we just power through that.
00:37:40.420But Burkwam, real quickly for the president lands, give Brian Glenn, walking through what we're going to see today of the forgotten man and woman,
00:37:50.520and tie it back to that nice hotel that you're outside, that illegal aliens are warm, well-fed on taxpayer money.
00:38:00.160We're going to see down there in North Carolina a war zone that was abandoned.
00:38:04.140You're going to see Asheville that is still rebuilding, a Democrat-run city that was even abandoned by Joe Biden.
00:38:10.180And Asheville is one of the better areas because they've actually gotten some aid because, again, that was a Democrat city, a Democrat mayor, sucked up to Joe Biden, got a little bit of money.
00:38:20.920And it's still, there are, I couldn't believe it, there's eight foot high of mud in some of these buildings still from the rivers.
00:38:28.260I mean, it is impossible to wrap your head around how bad it is down there until you're actually walking through it.
00:38:37.360And then you contrast that to what I'm standing in front of right now, a brand new, rebuilt, holiday inn, plush, nice rooms, warm rooms, three meals a day,
00:38:48.860everything handed to you, to illegal aliens that invaded our country.
00:38:52.940That's the, today is a perfect illustration of why America turned to President Trump, why he won all seven swing states,
00:39:00.560why we saw an uprising in South Chicago, I'm in South Chicago right now, why we saw these communities come up, that it, because they've been abandoned too.
00:39:09.340North Carolina is an illustration of what all Americans feel, what East Palestine feels, what the forgotten people out in the Midwest, the so-called flyover country feel.
00:39:19.060They all feel abandoned. And President Trump is the hope, MAGA is the hope to say, you know what, we're not going to forget these places, we're not going to forget North Carolina, we're not going to forget you anymore.
00:39:30.060And to your point about the raids, that's why you're talking about independent media. That's why Real America's Voice, that's why I'm going to be embedding with these guys as this stuff happens, to be able to counteract the lies of the fake news.
00:39:41.440Because as we pick up these criminals that were invited into our country by the Democrats, we're going to be showing the truth that the mainstream media lied about for the first four years of the administration.
00:39:54.940Yep. Ben, hang on one second, I want to go back to Brian. Brian, let's do a reset. Let's get the audience, particularly people on the West Coast, to getting up, having their cup of coffee, joining a war room this morning.
00:40:03.820Do a reset. Where are you? Why are you there? Where's the president? What's going to happen?
00:40:07.820All right, everybody, let me step aside, because I want to show you the scene here. Behind me is the airport here, the regional airport here in Asheville.
00:40:16.640Moments away, President Trump will be landing behind me. We've got a motorcade in place to pick him up.
00:40:22.320We've got the stairs that he'll walk off. We'll be right there as he walks down as well.
00:40:27.100Maybe he might perhaps give a moment. We're still waiting for some guidance on that.
00:40:31.220They will get in this motorcade. So will we. We'll be back in the press motorcade following them to stop number one.
00:40:39.120We've had somewhat of a roundtable, if you will, with local officials to kind of talk about some of the response that are lack of response that they've gotten from the federal government.
00:40:48.020After that, I don't have a total runtime on that stop.
00:40:51.580But after that, we'll get back in the motorcade and we'll make our way to stop number two.
00:40:57.140For what I've been told, it's going to be in a damaged area.
00:40:59.760He's going to talk to some homeowners, show some of the extensive damage that Ben just spoke on.
00:41:04.600And then at that point, I'm sure he'll give a few words there and then we'll get back in the motorcade.
00:41:10.340And then that would pretty much wrap up that stop.
00:41:13.400And then the president, after North Carolina, we talked about it, is on his way to California.
00:41:18.160And we'll talk to the people there in Pacific Palisades.
00:41:20.980But as you imagine, security is high. See if we can show this, Luke, over there.
00:41:24.120We've got a couple of snipers that are up in a platform over.
00:41:28.540You might be able to see them. It might be difficult to see from this vantage point with the sun.
00:41:31.860We've got a good aerial support around here.
00:41:34.600You've got some helicopters as well in the area.
00:41:37.460As you know, this is the first stop, Steve, for President Trump since taking office.
00:42:07.200On a policy basis, I want to get Ben back up here because of what Brian's saying.
00:42:11.320There's been a lot of controversy about FEMA.
00:42:13.820A lot of controversy about is money ever held back for political reasons.
00:42:17.840They go to certain target areas for political reasons.
00:42:19.980But then it's just the competence and the efficiency.
00:42:23.320Ben, I want to – and President Trump said yesterday, he says, hey, look, I'm open to like maybe the state FEMA's, maybe we give the money there, maybe they're closer to the action.
00:42:33.480Give Brian and the audience your take on what the folks in Carolina told you about FEMA, about its effectiveness, its efficiency, access to money, and quite frankly, their credibility.
00:42:57.820And when it came time to actually help the citizens of America, they showed up, they put up a few tents, they brought in some garbage trucks, and then they left.
00:43:06.040They did almost nothing for the community.
00:43:46.340Today, under the pressure of time, because he's got to do this and get to California still in daylight.
00:43:50.580But there's two things that traditionally – we have a roundtable first where you can see some officials, get kind of a briefing, but have some citizens, and then he'll actually go take a tour.
00:44:00.100Walk us – Brian, you're going to get today, I think, some blowback from local citizens and maybe local officials in both the roundtable thing.
00:44:07.040They are – when we did the bend for two days there, they are furious at FEMA.
00:44:26.920This is kind of a holding pen, if you will, for supporters inside these yellow gates here.
00:44:32.320I have been told that we will be – this is great.
00:44:35.580I didn't think we were going to get this close.
00:44:37.080We will walk under the wing on Air Force One, and as he is about to step off the plane, we'll have him coming down the stairs as well.
00:44:46.700Well, typically I've had in the past when I've had that position, I have had an opportunity to ask a question, get a comment, maybe say a quick hello.
00:48:15.180Yeah, he's the guy that goes to his construction site and talks to the guy laying concrete, talks to the guy that's unloading the truck for lumber.
00:48:24.440He goes down to that level to get their feedback and get to see if there's any problems, even from the lowest level all the way up.
00:48:31.540And so that's his approach here in North Carolina.
00:48:35.380He's going to find out their struggles and how they were making it day to day.
00:48:39.340And remember, you know, this is the government, remind you, that keeps sending billions of dollars to Ukraine like the very day some of these storms have hit our coast.
00:48:50.860And we saw the devastation instead of going out and helping.
00:48:55.120Now, I'll go back to Doge just for a second.
00:48:57.800And I think you're going to see some wonderful, exciting things out of that subcommittee.
00:49:03.260And so you're going to see perhaps FEMA once again, you know, kind of under the microscope.
00:49:08.860But if you're going to talk about media, and I'm not going to say too much, but let's just say if there's any government-sponsored media, you might want to make sure that you're fair and balanced because you'll be under review as well as like any other government agency that should be working directly for the people and not having any kind of political, you know, dog in the hunt, if you will, on these things.
00:49:36.260And it's got to be for the people, and I'll say it again.
00:51:25.820President Trump is going to North Carolina.
00:51:28.820The coverage of Ben Burquam had for a couple of days last week, 10 days ago, a heart rendering of folks, hardworking American citizens, taxpayers, really the backbone of our country, really what MAGA is about in the Appalachia section of Georgia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, and Virginia have been forgotten by the Biden regime.
00:51:49.440And you couldn't take it any other way that it was kind of payback for supporting President Trump.
00:53:19.720That's where our cameras will be, right there underneath the stairs to get the president to step off Air Force One.
00:53:28.340But I'm going to let this play out, Steve, and let you guys comment on it as well as we kind of get in place.
00:53:35.340I'll try to hold the picture up for you, but we'll just keep an eye on what the timing of all this looks like.
00:53:44.400Brian, your priority is obviously get the best shot and get up there as close as the Secret Service allows you.
00:53:49.240This is – they've allowed Real America's Voice special coverage today.
00:53:53.160We're not – this is not a pool feed.
00:53:55.580This is Real America's Voice has been invited by the White House communications team because of the years that Brian and, of course, Robin Parker-Sig have put to covering the rallies, covering the real story of the president and seeing it live.
00:54:19.200What you're saying is the president of the United States, everything about in the White House and what the president does every minute of the day is looked at as what's most effective and most efficient for the president to get his job done.
00:54:31.940He's the chief executive officer of the United States government.
00:54:34.300He's also commander-in-chief of the Uniformed Services, the Armed Services, and he's the chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer in the country.
00:54:42.520So every minute of every day is very, very important to either brief him or have him do action.
00:54:47.480You've seen in the last 24 hours, he decided to go to Davos by video and make just an incredible speech.
00:54:58.240It's just like the evil empire speech of President Reagan in 1983.
00:55:01.120He did that so today he could come to North Carolina and see the forgotten man and woman.
00:55:07.520The Biden regime, the global elitists, really kind of mocked and ridiculed by withholding FEMA aid and FEMA.
00:55:15.780Now, part of that might have been the incompetence of FEMA, but I think, as we'll investigate in the days and weeks ahead, I think a lot of it was just complete malfeasance.
00:55:25.600It's President Trump, there's Air Force One.
00:55:29.320It's really, Air Force One, if you've been inside, is essentially a military command center in the air.
00:55:35.120It is not the most comfortable, you know, place in the world.
00:55:39.600President's got an office, small office.
00:56:11.500They're putting the blocks underneath the planes, underneath the wheels, which makes me think this is exactly the spot he is going to walk out.
00:56:22.260They're going to roll those stairs up.
00:56:23.900I would imagine he's going to get off, Steve, near the front.
00:56:27.680The back typically is where a lot of the other staff will get off the plane.
00:56:33.020So we're going to probably focus whenever he does get off here in the front, and hopefully – perhaps we'll have something to – a comment from the president.
00:56:47.920Yeah, Brian, the step – the front of the plane is always reserved.
00:56:51.640The steps at the front is reserved for the president of the United States and the first lady.
00:56:54.720The rest of the – the crew, the Secret Service, his White House staff, and the reporters who are all in the back will come out the back steps.
00:57:04.620Normally – traditionally, the front steps is only for the commander-in-chief and the first lady.
00:57:09.760So let's – you try to get position as well as possible.
00:57:14.720The airport in Asheville, North Carolina, the president of the United States, 47th president, has arrived to see the forgotten man and woman of this horrible hurricane that has not been addressed.
00:57:24.040This is Brian Glenn, as Brian Glenn's getting under the wing there of Air Force One.
00:57:29.420Folks, I can tell you, this is extraordinary.
00:58:33.980And as you described, a lot of the press photographers that are actually embedded with President Trump are also exiting the plane right now, as well as staffers and members of the military, Secret Service, special assistants to the presidents are all on this plane.
00:58:54.960And so I see Caroline Leavitt just got off as well, but we should be moments away.
00:59:02.420And like I said, to kind of recap to our viewers here, when he does get off the plane, he will get in the motorcade.
00:59:09.020We will join President Trump in that motorcade, going to location number one.
00:59:15.400I don't have a total run time on how long he'll actually be at that location.
00:59:19.740But then after that, we'll get back in the motorcade, go to location number two, and cover that as well, Steve.
00:59:26.620But, yeah, we're live here on Real America's Voice.
00:59:32.980So when Brian says people are getting off, don't turn the camera, but there is a door, a door to the rear, and that's where the staff comes off.
00:59:40.680That's where the Secret Service comes off.
00:59:42.300That's where the media – there's tons of media.
00:59:44.500I think there's always 40 or 50 – in a pool that travels with the president, both foreign press and domestic press.
00:59:50.880All the big outlets have reporters that do nothing but travel with the president, and they rotate through.
00:59:56.600They're on the tarmac right in back of Brian.
00:59:58.860This door to Air Force One is reserved for the commander-in-chief and the first lady to always – and sometimes they'll let maybe family members of people come with them.
01:00:09.620But we're at Asheville, North Carolina, on the tarmac.
01:00:12.440Brian Glenn is about as close as you can get.
01:00:14.120Don't get sucked up in that jet engine right there, Brian.
01:00:16.640He's about as close as I've ever seen a camera crew there, so I really want to thank the White House communications team.
01:00:22.780But right there, they're kind of getting ready for the president to come out.
01:00:27.360I just stepped away from the camera for just 10 seconds, hugged Karen Leavitt, and personally said thank you for this opportunity to do this.
01:00:35.920And like you said earlier, I mean, the Trump team, it's a new era as far as the media culture and how they cover a president, and we're very appreciative of this opportunity.
01:00:44.440But, yeah, right, I could walk over there and put my hands on the engine, which is almost unheard of in this situation.
01:00:51.260But this is – we're probably a good maybe 20 yards away from the ramp where the president will step out.
01:00:58.880And there are a couple hundred supporters that are back where we were before.