Bannon's War Room - Episode 4219： Trump Live In Asheville Cont.

00:00:00.000 The president normally meeting some local officials here as he steps off, obviously, that's typically what he does.

00:00:15.480 He'll greet the ones here on the ground.

00:00:18.120 I would imagine these individuals will be meeting him at this first stop.

00:00:23.240 Just only imagine that.

00:00:24.880 But this is typical, and we'll see if we get a little bit of reaction.

00:00:28.220 I want to observe that the First Lady is stylish as ever.

00:00:34.460 So stylish from the inauguration with the hat and just so elegant, and then that night the ball.

00:00:39.180 But look at this.

00:00:39.700 She's getting ready to go tour a disaster area with her Parker on, et cetera.

00:00:44.520 Once again, stealing the show, as she is wont to do.

00:00:47.940 The president there talking to the local officials, getting a quick brief.

00:00:51.180 Getting a quick brief before he'll get in the motorcade right there,

00:00:57.280 and they will go to the first thing will be the roundtable.

00:01:01.200 Correct, Brian?

00:01:03.480 That is correct.

00:01:05.040 A roundtable of sorts.

00:01:06.940 I think they're going to meet with some local officials here in the area,

00:01:11.140 probably hear from people who live here in this area as well.

00:01:15.180 But then he'll go over to actually see some of the devastation that we have seen play out across our TV screens after September 27th,

00:01:23.860 when this storm just came through this area and dumped biblical proportions of rain and really washed away,

00:01:30.380 literally washed away towns right in front of our eyes.

00:01:33.620 And Ben Borkholm has said earlier, you can still go to some of these places and have eight feet of mud inside a business, inside a home.

00:01:40.900 I don't know how they simply ever rebuild.

00:01:44.320 But this is the priority of this president right now.

00:01:47.860 It is helping the American people.

00:01:50.080 It is listening to what they want and what they need at this desperate time.

00:01:54.980 And then, of course, when he wraps it up here in North Carolina, he'll head over west to go to Pacific's Palisades and tour the disaster there.

00:02:03.400 That we all know a lot of it has been through failed policies that have allowed these fires to burn like they have.

00:02:11.080 But, look, all politics aside, this president is for the American people,

00:02:15.900 and you're seeing it right now in display here in North Carolina, Steve.

00:02:18.900 Well, I believe that's Governor Stein, the new governor of North Carolina, I think to the far right.

00:02:26.860 I think it's Governor Stein talking to the president right now.

00:02:28.880 The president will meet whoever the senior officials are.

00:02:31.640 Obviously, this afternoon with Newsom, it's going to be a little controversial.

00:02:34.880 But North Carolina is a Trump country, although President Trump won heartily.

00:02:40.240 The rest of the ticket was run by Democrats, and Governor Stein is the new Democratic governor.

00:02:44.540 I believe that's Governor Stein right there talking to the president with other local officials.

00:02:49.840 The president always comes down and wants to get a quick brief, find out what's going on, let people speak their piece.

00:02:54.680 He'll view it.

00:02:55.380 Like I said, management by walking around, President Trump is a specialist in.

00:02:59.740 You see right there, kind of animated, talking about what's going on here and back.

00:03:03.920 He's going to be very engaged in all this.

00:03:05.760 He's hands-on.

00:03:06.780 He'll wander around, that classic management by wandering around.

00:03:09.480 He looks like he's walking over here for a second.

00:03:11.020 Brian, I'll turn it back over to you.

00:03:12.500 Here we go.

00:03:12.940 All right, let's see if we can't get a few minutes with him.

00:03:16.380 I'll put the microphones out.

00:03:17.920 Let's listen in with President Trump.

00:03:21.580 Well, thank you very much.

00:03:23.020 Everybody thought I was going to California.

00:03:25.640 I said, no, no.

00:03:26.560 I'm stopping in North Carolina first because they've been abused by what's happened.

00:03:31.560 I mean, it's terrible.

00:03:32.540 It should have been done.

00:03:33.360 It should have been.

00:03:34.300 A lot of things should have happened that didn't happen.

00:03:36.360 So we're here.

00:03:36.900 We're going to fix it out.

00:03:37.740 We're working with the gentleman behind me, and you know who they are, and we're going

00:03:43.140 to fix it.

00:03:44.000 And we're going to fix it as fast as you can.

00:03:46.100 It's a massive amount of damage.

00:03:48.380 FEMA has really let us down, let the country down.

00:03:52.200 And I don't know if that's Biden's fault or whose fault it is, but we're going to take

00:03:56.720 over it.

00:03:57.140 We're going to do a good job.

00:03:58.860 We're going to assign Mr. Watley, who's fantastic, frankly.

00:04:04.900 And the governor and everybody else that's going to work, we're going to supply the money,

00:04:09.600 supply a lot of the money.

00:04:11.500 Maybe you have to chip in something.

00:04:13.480 You'll chip in a little something, like maybe 25 percent or whatever.

00:04:17.440 But we're going to get it done as quickly as we can.

00:04:21.320 And we want to take care of the people of North Carolina.

00:04:24.360 It's so interesting.

00:04:25.400 Everybody's talking about California, and that's a mess.

00:04:28.760 But I said, I'm not going to California until I stop in North Carolina.

00:04:32.420 So here we are, we're going to go visit the site, and we're going to work with probably

00:04:37.700 three of the congressmen, Republican congressmen, who have been fantastic, whose areas have been

00:04:43.200 affected.

00:04:44.600 And with Michael Watley, the governor, and whoever else is, you know, we decide to get involved.

00:04:52.520 Probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn't done the job.

00:04:56.240 And we're looking at the whole concept of FEMA.

00:04:58.260 I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it.

00:05:03.780 When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of

00:05:08.440 it.

00:05:08.740 To have a group of people come in from an area that don't even know where they're

00:05:13.040 going in order to solve immediately a problem is something that never worked for me.

00:05:17.760 But this is probably one of the best examples of it not working.

00:05:22.280 And there's been some others, like in Louisiana, et cetera.

00:05:25.880 So we're going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree.

00:05:30.980 I'd like to see the states take care of disasters.

00:05:33.780 Let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that

00:05:38.540 happen.

00:05:39.540 And I think you're going to find it a lot less expensive.

00:05:41.800 You'll do it for less than half and you're going to get a lot quicker response.

00:05:46.480 So that seems to be the recommendation.

00:05:48.940 But we'll be making that recommendation over the next couple of weeks.

00:05:52.900 We're going to go to the site now and we're going to figure out a plan, a plan for really

00:05:58.620 demolition and cleaning because not a lot's been done.

00:06:03.120 And we're very disappointed in the Biden administration.

00:06:06.500 But we're going to make up for lost time.

00:06:08.980 And I said I'd do that.

00:06:10.900 And this is about the earliest we could possibly be here.

00:06:14.340 And we're honored to be here.

00:06:16.160 This has been a great state.

00:06:17.720 They're great people and they've really been mishandled.

00:06:21.260 But it's all this group is going to be great.

00:06:23.360 And we're going to get it taken care of.

00:06:25.500 Any questions?

00:06:26.060 How do you make those changes to FEMA?

00:06:28.280 Do you expect to ask Congress for additional aid for North Carolina and California?

00:06:32.300 In other words, the aid will go through us.

00:06:34.280 So rather than going through FEMA, it will go through us.

00:06:37.640 And I think maybe this is a good place to start because, and in all fairness to the

00:06:42.540 governor, in all fairness to everybody else, FEMA was not on the ball.

00:06:47.140 And we're going to turn it all around.

00:06:50.080 A lot of Americans think that this is symbolic of what your campaign was all about.

00:06:54.880 America first, putting your priorities to Americans.

00:06:58.440 Even going to California where their policies might have been one of the biggest reasons

00:07:02.840 why they've had these problems, but you're putting American people first.

00:07:06.060 Your thoughts on that?

00:07:06.960 We are.

00:07:07.540 Thank you.

00:07:08.080 I like that question.

00:07:09.100 Boy, I want more questions like that.

00:07:11.360 That's even a statement.

00:07:12.560 Thank you very much.

00:07:13.420 He's a good man, that guy.

00:07:14.960 And he's also a very professional reporter, I have to say.

00:07:17.580 Thank you very much.

00:07:18.240 Yeah.

00:07:18.840 We're putting America first.

00:07:20.260 We're putting, in this case, North Carolina and California.

00:07:23.360 We're going to do a good job in California.

00:07:24.960 That is a disaster like, I don't know if we've ever seen anything like it, frankly.

00:07:30.780 They say the biggest in the history of California, I think, has anything bigger than that happened

00:07:36.300 in the whole country, ever.

00:07:38.200 It looks like, I don't want to say what it looks like, but you know what I'm going to say.

00:07:41.880 It looks like something hit it.

00:07:43.320 And we won't talk about what hit it, but it is a bad, bad situation.

00:07:48.580 And I guess I'm going to meet with some government officials, but I mean, much more importantly.

00:07:55.440 And in California, just to revert to it for a second, millions of gallons of water are

00:08:01.660 waiting to be poured down through already the half pipes that are already built.

00:08:07.440 I mean, they've been up for 40 years.

00:08:09.400 And about 20 years ago, they turned off the water.

00:08:12.000 And it's the water that comes from the Pacific Northwest.

00:08:16.200 Some of it comes out of Canada.

00:08:18.160 And it flows there.

00:08:19.500 And it probably has flowed there for a million years.

00:08:22.380 And they turned it off and they routed out to the Pacific.

00:08:25.980 And in the meantime, you don't have water in the hydrants.

00:08:28.820 You don't have water in the sprinkler systems.

00:08:31.140 It's the craziest thing I've ever seen.

00:08:33.660 And everyone's trying to figure out why aren't they turning it back.

00:08:36.800 They say it's the Delta smelt.

00:08:38.480 It's a fish.

00:08:39.580 But I find that hard to believe.

00:08:40.960 Mr. President, what are you prepared to do?

00:08:42.880 And without doing that, you're going to continue to have problems.

00:08:47.300 Mr. President, what are you prepared to do, sir, if OPEC doesn't respond to your call to cut oil prices?

00:08:53.800 Well, we want to see OPEC cut the price of oil.

00:08:57.020 And that will automatically stop the tragedy that's taking place in Ukraine.

00:09:01.300 It's a butchering tragedy for both sides, by the way.

00:09:05.040 A tremendous number of Russian soldiers are dead, tremendous number of Ukrainian soldiers, and a lot of people are dead from the bombing of the cities.

00:09:15.160 But right now, it's just bullets whacking and hitting men, mostly men, almost in all cases men.

00:09:23.880 And over a million men are killed.

00:09:27.260 And they're losing thousands of people a week.

00:09:30.240 It's crazy.

00:09:32.160 It's a crazy war.

00:09:33.960 And it never would have happened if I was president.

00:09:36.400 It would never have happened.

00:09:37.480 This is crazy that it happened.

00:09:39.280 But we want to stop it.

00:09:40.480 Now, one way to stop it quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much money and to drop the price of oil, because they have it nice and high.

00:09:50.980 And if you have it high, that war is not going to end so easily.

00:09:54.220 So OPEC ought to get on the ball, and they ought to drop the price of oil, and that war will stop right away.

00:10:01.140 Is it possible funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy?

00:10:04.860 I want to see two things in Los Angeles, voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state.

00:10:16.360 Those are the two things.

00:10:17.520 After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen.

00:10:22.780 I want the water to come down and come down to Los Angeles and also go out to all the farmland that's barren and dry.

00:10:30.600 You know, they have land that they say is the equivalent of the land in Iowa, which is about as good as there is anywhere on Earth.

00:10:38.380 The problem is it's artificial because they artificially stop the water from going onto the land.

00:10:45.220 So I want two things.

00:10:46.720 I want voter ID for the people of California, and they all want it.

00:10:50.360 Right now, you don't have voter ID.

00:10:53.960 People want to have voter identification.

00:10:56.780 You want to have proof of citizenship.

00:10:58.660 Ideally, you have one-day voting, but I just want voter ID as a start, and I want the water to be released, and they're going to get a lot of help from the U.S.

00:11:08.860 Thank you very much.

00:11:09.820 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:11:10.760 See you at the site.

00:11:11.780 Thank you.

00:11:12.020 See you at the site.

00:11:13.420 Tell us more about the deportation flights.

00:11:15.760 Where are they going from?

00:11:17.080 Well, deportation is going very well.

00:11:20.100 We're getting the bad, hard criminals out.

00:11:22.340 These are murderers.

00:11:22.660 These are people that have been, as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen, we're taking them out first.

00:11:30.380 Thank you.

00:11:30.880 Thank you.

00:11:31.580 Thank you, press.

00:11:32.560 Move through the grass.

00:11:33.620 Through the grass.

00:11:34.380 See, we're going to transition over to the grass to get in our press van.

00:11:41.420 So, bear with us, so you might have a little bit of a shaky camera.

00:11:45.640 And the president, you know, taking some questions as we thought he would take.

00:11:50.220 Why variety of topics, Steve?

00:11:53.060 Everything from what's going on here in North Carolina to what's happening in California.

00:11:57.500 Obviously, a little bit about the immigration as well.

00:12:00.520 OPEC making its top.

00:12:04.060 We're going to run a little bit, Steve.

00:12:05.620 We've been told to pick up the pace here.

00:12:07.480 But this is happening live.

00:12:09.200 This is what it is, Steve.

00:12:10.880 This is what it's like to be on the ground.

00:12:13.560 And this is something that, like we said earlier, unprecedented coverage.

00:12:18.500 Okay.

00:12:19.820 Brian, we're going to come right back to you in the motorcade.

00:12:22.260 If we can get an overall shot of just where President Trump is in the motorcade.

00:12:26.500 Can we take the feed from that?

00:12:28.760 If not, that's fine.

00:12:30.060 Real America's Voice live coverage.

00:12:32.140 We're going to be in the press pool with our own camera, not taking a press feed.

00:12:37.480 They're going to be in the motorcade, and then Brian will be actually with the president.

00:12:43.080 I've got to tell you, Brian asked a fantastic question.

00:12:46.320 It was just absolutely right on dead spot.

00:12:48.860 And here's what I love about the president.

00:12:51.060 These are called press avails.

00:12:52.620 When the president would just come up, and there's nothing been pre-said.

00:12:55.440 It's not a press conference.

00:12:57.760 Let's go back and get that footage.

00:12:59.680 Let's get the footage from Brian if we just cut in.

00:13:04.160 There we go right there.

00:13:06.140 Brian Glenn and the press getting ready to jump in into the motorcade, follow the president.

00:13:12.900 And like I said, there's restrictions on what you – once you're in the motorcade, they don't want you putting the camera out.

00:13:18.060 And it's normally straight ahead.

00:13:19.780 But down back where they came from, you can see right there, the plane, that's Air Force One.

00:13:25.140 That's the motorcade president's just gotten in.

00:13:27.320 It looked like the Governor Stein, Michael Watley's head of the RNC.

00:13:31.740 Michael Watley was head of the North Carolina GOP.

00:13:34.560 That's why Michael's there.

00:13:35.540 He knows this area, Cole.

00:13:37.060 They're going to be congressmen, local Republican congressmen when the president gets there.

00:13:41.780 The president – press avails.

00:13:43.260 Let's talk about it.

00:13:43.880 The president did too.

00:13:45.320 Walked out this morning out of the White House, answers a bunch of questions on all topics.

00:13:48.940 He'll take all comers right there.

00:13:51.520 Took questions on OPEC, which is tied to this – the price of gold is tied to his strategy for getting out of Ukraine.

00:13:58.280 Talked about the deportations.

00:14:00.220 The president taking a question, I think, Brian Glenn's question.

00:14:03.440 Greatly appreciated by the president because it – you know, it's not – he's not trying to be snarky.

00:14:08.320 As President Trump said, a wise guy.

00:14:10.580 You have a lot of these press folks just want to be wise guys.

00:14:14.500 They want to ask an edgy, cheap shot question and try to get some reaction out of the president

00:14:18.580 or try to get something they can put in a clip and have 30 seconds on Rachel Maddow.

00:14:22.520 The president will take – he'll take any question you got, and he'll give you a thought – well-thought-through answer.

00:14:27.560 But he does not appreciate wise guys, and you can see him all the time,

00:14:30.540 and the questions are all snarky and all trying to put somebody on their back heel.

00:14:35.040 It's very tough to put President Trump on his back heel.

00:14:36.980 Okay, motorcade is leaving.

00:14:38.460 Right there you see the main part of it.

00:14:40.080 That is what we call the beast and the main – and those are all, you know, heavily armored SUVs or equipment, what we call it.

00:14:51.320 Now there you see the antennas up on some of those SUVs.

00:14:54.660 That's because they have special anti-drone technology associated with it.

00:14:59.220 And this is the press right there.

00:15:02.960 Brian Glenn will be getting into a moment.

00:15:04.600 His mic will be cut back on.

00:15:06.700 Okay, here's what we know.

00:15:07.740 The president of the United States has landed.

00:15:09.420 The president of the United States has landed in Western North Carolina at Asheville, North Carolina.

00:15:16.060 He is currently, after taking a few – making a statement and taking a few questions on this trip today to put America first

00:15:23.080 and show America's citizens that they are first.

00:15:26.180 Most importantly, the forgotten men and women.

00:15:28.120 And here's what's interesting.

00:15:30.060 The failure of FEMA under the Biden regime has been felt by hardworking American citizens in Appalachia, that part of Georgia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee, and Virginia.

00:15:42.440 That's one of the backbones and real heartlands of this country.

00:15:45.220 It cannot be anything but done on purpose.

00:15:48.920 Even FEMA is not that uncommon.

00:15:50.560 But the president's come up as the motorcade starts to leave and goes to the first.

00:15:54.560 It will be a roundtable where he'll actually meet officials, maybe some local folks, have a chance to ask some questions.

00:16:00.200 He's very upset, obviously, with FEMA, the structure of FEMA.

00:16:05.320 He said right there he would rather have the money go directly to governors, give it right to the governor of North Carolina to handle this situation.

00:16:12.040 That would be Governor Stein, a Democrat who just won an election, or give it to Governor DeSantis if it's a hurricane in Florida,

00:16:18.620 but just kind of cut out the middleman, really what's the function of FEMA.

00:16:22.640 In addition, I think he compared and contrasted really yesterday's Davos to coming here,

00:16:27.980 and he said his first trip he wanted to go, and make sure he emphasized that it's America first.

00:16:34.380 Here's the president again.

00:16:35.620 Let's go right to it.

00:16:39.120 Steve, let's just go.

00:16:40.040 We're just going to listen in on this.

00:16:41.360 Just listen in.

00:16:42.400 We're here to get a hurricane mess all set, okay?

00:16:46.820 It should have been done a long time ago.

00:16:48.260 Thanks for solving that problem.

00:16:49.820 Thank you.

00:16:50.300 Thank you.

00:16:51.300 Melania, you look beautiful.

00:16:58.180 Thank you.

00:16:58.980 You're a beautiful first lady.

00:17:00.520 Thank you.

00:17:00.920 Thank you.

00:17:01.520 Thank you, sir.

00:17:03.780 I appreciate you.

00:17:04.520 I'm just trying to get a picture of a woman.

00:17:09.680 Yes.

00:17:12.080 You are a beautiful, happy, beautiful woman.

00:17:14.360 I'm shaking.

00:17:15.180 Say your hug.

00:17:17.040 I'm shaking.

00:17:18.360 Did you shake hands with him?

00:17:19.700 I wish I could have recorded it.

00:17:21.860 You guys should have got pictures for me.

00:17:25.160 You shook Trump's hand.

00:17:29.480 He did too much.

00:17:30.660 President Trump, having a moment with a couple fans here.

00:17:34.040 I just saw a mom and her young son have a nice moment because he shook hands with the president.

00:17:40.040 And he obviously was very excited about that and just a moment and just the admiration, Steve, that people have for First Lady Melania.

00:17:48.400 Melania, just how graceful she is, how beautiful and poised she is.

00:17:52.940 What a classy woman.

00:17:53.860 And a lot of fans here for First Lady Melania as well, obviously with President Trump.

00:17:59.920 But just a special moment.

00:18:01.320 Let's see if we can get the audio feed.

00:18:05.060 Secret Service hastes.

00:18:06.080 This is called the rope line.

00:18:07.260 This will be local supporters.

00:18:08.600 Look how deep it is.

00:18:09.360 They will let people there.

00:18:10.400 All pre-screened.

00:18:11.820 Secret Service normally wants to go to the event.

00:18:13.520 President Trump traditionally says, stop.

00:18:15.540 I want to go and see my people.

00:18:17.000 That's what he's doing right now.

00:18:18.500 He's meeting and agreeing.

00:18:19.500 These are average Americans.

00:18:20.700 This is the common man and woman that is the background of the MAGA movement.

00:18:25.300 This is you, this audience, in that crowd right there.

00:18:28.160 Let's try to listen to President Trump.

00:18:30.340 Can we hear it?

00:18:30.860 He's a little ways from a Steve.

00:18:35.360 I don't think I have any audio in that direction.

00:18:37.500 But as he walks back over here, maybe we will.

00:18:39.860 But right now, he's just a little too far from our microphones right now.

00:18:44.480 So the Secret Service traditionally is not, they're not fans.

00:18:47.860 Even though these people have been screened beforehand, the Secret Service doesn't like these impromptu,

00:18:53.280 you know, in the moment kind of walk around.

00:18:55.800 So the President traditionally, if he sees a group of his supporters that have been brought out to the tarmac,

00:19:00.560 he will traditionally say, hey, guys, pull over.

00:19:02.900 I want to go over and see my people.

00:19:04.920 And this is where Trump's the best right here.

00:19:09.180 Yeah, this is his element.

00:19:11.220 You know, this is what he thrives in.

00:19:14.340 You know, this is why he won.

00:19:17.500 To be honest with you, he connected with the American people, not only on a policy level,

00:19:21.720 but on a personal level, and he can identify with everyone.

00:19:25.000 When he's having a moment right now with a gentleman, I can't hear it from this distance.

00:19:29.140 They're probably about 15 yards away from us at this point.

00:19:32.260 But this is why he won.

00:19:34.100 And, you know, obviously he is going to meet just about every single person here he is saying hi to for the most part.

00:19:41.600 And just a beautiful moment here played out on the runway.

00:19:44.360 Now, the majority of the cars have already left.

00:19:48.140 So just really the few heavily armored secure cars that the President Trump will get into are here.

00:19:58.040 So he's just going to step in these two vehicles.

00:20:01.100 But here's the key.

00:20:02.220 Yeah, but here's the key.

00:20:03.040 Brian, here's the key that he'll just tell the secret.

00:20:05.100 So he'll just tell the driver, hey, I want to pull over and let's just head left.

00:20:09.140 Of course, Cassie Hutchinson accused him of grabbing the wheel.

00:20:13.840 And like he says, it's armored, you know, there's glass, there's plexiglass between it.

00:20:17.720 It's ridiculous.

00:20:19.120 It's absurd.

00:20:20.060 But President Trump will tell the Secret Service, hey, guys, I want to go over and see my people.

00:20:24.240 And the main car and a couple of other support cars will pull over, and Trump will be in the crowd.

00:20:30.640 Now, this drives the Secret Service crazy.

00:20:33.680 They don't like this, even though these people have been pre-screened and obviously gone through.

00:20:38.360 But it's an impromptu, you know, non-scheduled event.

00:20:42.040 And obviously also for the timing of the day, remember, he's still got to get to Los Angeles,

00:20:47.280 and he wanted to do that during as much daylight hours as possible.

00:20:50.400 So for the staff, I can tell you people right now are working their phones telling people in L.A.,

00:20:56.820 hey, look, this is going to take a little longer.

00:20:59.140 I know the President is going to ask a bunch of questions.

00:21:01.020 So he's on the tarmac with his fans.

00:21:02.540 He's going to go to a roundtable where he has some officials, maybe some other people.

00:21:07.600 Then he'll actually go to one of the sites.

00:21:10.180 So, and it's already, you know, it's already 11.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

00:21:16.160 That's 8.30 on the Pacific Coast.

00:21:17.980 President Trump will be here at least another hour or two.

00:21:21.040 Real America's Voice coverage is going to go right through the Charlie Kirk show, Jack Kosovic, all of it.

00:21:25.520 And because this is, you know, this is important.

00:21:30.320 It's the President's first trip.

00:21:31.380 He's sending a statement by being here.

00:21:34.400 He's saying, hey, I didn't go to Davos.

00:21:36.320 I phoned it in.

00:21:37.120 I gave him video because I read him the riot act and they can just take my words as they take them.

00:21:42.760 But I want to spend my time with my people.

00:21:44.900 And he's going to North Carolina.

00:21:46.580 And I think it's extraordinary.

00:21:48.220 The heart-rendering stories, Brian, that Ben Berquam and the team last week or 10 days ago got were heart-wrenching, right?

00:21:56.000 Absolutely heart-wrenching.

00:21:57.080 And you see the connection President Trump has.

00:21:59.800 I mean, how many politicians have we ever had in the history of this country that have such a direct and powerful connection to the American people?

00:22:07.320 Right there, that's the little guy.

00:22:09.760 There are no swells in that crowd.

00:22:11.660 That's not people that can pay for the big tables or write big checks.

00:22:15.940 These are people.

00:22:16.560 This is the war room posse right there, Brian Glenn.

00:22:20.000 Yeah.

00:22:20.480 Yeah, these are the small donors.

00:22:22.960 These are the millions of small donors that sent that $20, $25 donation into the president.

00:22:30.480 Here we are.

00:22:31.120 Listen, he's starting to make his way back this way.

00:22:32.820 But these are the grassroots there.

00:22:34.540 This is the war room posse.

00:22:35.760 This is the people that said, we've had enough of what's going on in this country and we want you in office.

00:22:42.440 And he still, every time he thinks he's going to walk this way, he stops Steve and talks to somebody else.

00:22:47.740 And that's just who he is.

00:22:49.220 He is not going to leave this area without making everyone here feel extra special and that he took the time to say hello.

00:22:57.420 And that's why his favorability, Raven First Lady is waving to them.

00:23:01.200 As much as he loves the rallies, he loves it.

00:23:03.700 Yeah.

00:23:04.400 As much as he loves the rallies, he loves this even more.

00:23:06.760 This is he's in direct contact with his greatest supporters, right?

00:23:10.460 This is not the tech billionaires.

00:23:12.180 This is not the Wall Street guys.

00:23:13.840 This is not.

00:23:14.860 There he is right there.

00:23:15.520 Let's try listening.

00:23:16.100 Okay, we've been told we've got a break.

00:23:25.600 We're going to run a little bit, Steve.

00:23:27.740 We've got to run to one of the press vans here.

00:23:31.680 Like I said, if you can still hear me audio right now, we're going to have a taillight shot for a while.

00:23:37.020 And then we're going to break it down and we'll pop back up whenever we get to the first location.

00:23:43.980 Just so you know, we'll be back live on the ground here in North Carolina.

00:23:48.080 Steve.

00:23:50.580 Okay, Brian, get in the vehicle and get set up.

00:23:54.660 Now you see one of the many reasons I'm not in the field today.

00:23:57.720 I don't know if I could make that.

00:23:58.720 I don't know if I could make that sprint.

00:23:59.920 My producer, Harry, might be able to make it.

00:24:01.720 But I don't know if I could.

00:24:02.680 Harry could be carrying that camera right next to it.

00:24:05.300 I might be a little winded.

00:24:06.380 Okay, we are in western North Carolina.

00:24:10.400 The president of the United States, on his first trip, has gone to see his people.

00:24:14.380 He is in western North Carolina, he's laying at the Asheville Airport.

00:24:17.780 A few comments.

00:24:18.700 They met officials, the governor and Michael Watley.

00:24:21.360 They had the RNC.

00:24:22.780 Looked like another local official, I'm sure, tied to the disaster relief.

00:24:26.140 Governor Stein looked like he was there.

00:24:28.260 First ladies with the president.

00:24:29.740 They came and asked a few questions and came to the tarmac once again

00:24:33.780 and took questions from the press, as he did at the White House today.

00:24:37.560 And these questions go everywhere from the Ukraine war and OPEC prices.

00:24:41.600 It might be pretty interesting.

00:24:42.860 The Financial Times of London had that as their lead today.

00:24:45.920 The President Trump demands that OPEC cut oil prices as part of his grand strategy to end the Ukraine war.

00:24:53.180 And also that the Federal Reserve and central banks cut their interest rates.

00:24:59.740 Why is he on OPEC to cut prices?

00:25:02.180 He's on OPEC to cut prices.

00:25:04.100 This is how he brought down the Soviet Union.

00:25:07.120 In the Cold War, President Reagan basically put pressure on the Saudis to cut dramatically,

00:25:13.400 to increase production and dramatically cut prices because the cash flow to the Soviet Union,

00:25:18.540 the cash flow to the KGB that runs Russia today is tied to natural gas and oil.

00:25:23.180 So that will put tremendous pressure on Putin to actually come to the negotiating table

00:25:27.260 and let President Trump get the deal that he feels he needs to get done.

00:25:30.000 He reiterated again on the tarmac of the violence and bloodshed in Ukraine.

00:25:35.300 And he reiterated if he had been president of the 2020 election had not been stolen,

00:25:39.060 none of this would have happened.

00:25:40.740 Then, impromptu press conference, took a couple questions.

00:25:43.320 Then, as he's heading to the roundtable, where he's going to go out into the kind of area

00:25:47.520 where the most damage is, and they'll normally have like a high school, you know,

00:25:52.120 where you can go to a conference room or some local building you get in.

00:25:55.320 And normally, it's some sort of roundtable.

00:25:57.140 You meet local officials.

00:25:58.740 You get more detailed, intimate feedback.

00:26:01.460 And normally, they also have some people there.

00:26:03.680 They'll be able to give their personal experiences before he then goes and does a walk around to actually see it.

00:26:09.280 Management by wandering around, the Tom Peters theory of the late 80s,

00:26:13.560 when President Trump was really coming into his own as a real estate developer.

00:26:17.280 He's always believed and kind of embodied.

00:26:19.260 He loves going around and just getting, I think our shot here is where the roundtable is going to be right now.

00:26:24.800 You're forcing me to put my glasses on.

00:26:26.360 Okay, right there.

00:26:27.340 It's another look, the more studious look.

00:26:29.640 Right there is the roundtable.

00:26:31.040 That's where President Trump is heading to.

00:26:32.620 He's a few minutes out.

00:26:33.660 President Trump, in leaving the tarmac, does what he often does.

00:26:38.220 He'll tell the Secret Service, he goes,

00:26:39.720 Hey, guys, I see the line over there that's usually a little off from where you actually come down the steps of Air Force One.

00:26:47.360 It's off the tarmac a little bit.

00:26:48.960 Traditionally, he will say, Hey, just pull over there.

00:26:51.900 I want to see my people.

00:26:52.940 And you saw right there he'll jump right into the crowd.

00:26:54.880 Secret Service hates that.

00:26:56.040 Although, as I said, the people are pre-screened, not just pre-screened with your history and your biography and you're checked out.

00:27:04.200 You're also screened that day, obviously come through the magnometer and other things.

00:27:09.320 But the Secret Service hates it.

00:27:10.720 They hate that impromptu.

00:27:12.020 Right there, this is a classic roundtable.

00:27:14.220 The president will come down.

00:27:15.200 He'll be briefed by officials, local officials on either side.

00:27:19.960 Looks like that's outside in a tarmac.

00:27:21.720 Am I looking at that correctly?

00:27:24.460 I think it is.

00:27:25.380 This looks like very impromptu.

00:27:27.340 The president is going to be there in a few minutes for a few minutes.

00:27:31.240 They want to keep to the closest schedule as possible.

00:27:34.200 The president will hear.

00:27:35.000 He'll ask a bunch of questions.

00:27:36.360 President Trump has this saying, no games.

00:27:40.560 He cannot stand it when people are trying to either hold information or trying to play games with him.

00:27:44.580 He's very direct.

00:27:45.420 He's very straightforward.

00:27:46.320 The best thing to do is just give him a straightforward answer.

00:27:48.920 Keep it brief.

00:27:50.120 If he's got interest, he'll ask you a following question.

00:27:52.500 That's kind of what we tell people.

00:27:53.580 Just make sure you give him as much information as possible.

00:27:56.560 He feeds off information.

00:27:57.940 President Trump also, the way his management style is, in a meeting, he does not, you know, people say he talks all the time.

00:28:06.080 In a meeting, he says very little.

00:28:08.440 He wants the participants, particularly if it's about decisions, he wants the participants to make their case, to put up facts, to back up their assertions with data and information.

00:28:18.220 He'll let the sides fight it out.

00:28:20.480 He will let people go at it, obviously professionally, but let both sides, and he'll listen.

00:28:25.800 He'll listen.

00:28:26.360 He'll ask follow-on questions, and he'll think about it.

00:28:29.600 That's the way he processes information.

00:28:31.640 I found it very powerful.

00:28:33.380 Different chairmen and different CEOs have different styles.

00:28:36.320 President Trump is not a briefing book guy.

00:28:40.120 I mean, you're not going to sit there with a 100-page briefing book.

00:28:42.540 He wants to cut to the chase.

00:28:44.220 Tell me what the situation is.

00:28:45.560 He wants to see how you formulate and marshal the facts to basically make your case of what the action plan should be amongst a range of alternatives.

00:28:54.520 What he really likes to hear from is not staffers.

00:28:58.200 What he really wants to hear from is people in the field, whether it's a cabinet official, somebody working for the cabinet official, National Security Council, or here, a classic example.

00:29:06.700 He shows up in North Carolina, and what do you have?

00:29:09.140 And by the way, when Brian's ready with audio, we'll jump back to Brian.

00:29:12.520 What you'll see is that he'll meet with the officials at the plane.

00:29:16.160 He'll ask questions.

00:29:17.580 I mean, he's there for a reason.

00:29:19.260 What's the reason he's there?

00:29:20.500 This happened four months ago.

00:29:21.820 You know, it was a biblical, you know, in the hills and hollows of Appalachia, these rains that came from the hurricane did horrific damage, kind of biblical-type damage.

00:29:37.020 They had a situation like this in my youth in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

00:29:40.860 My dad is a phone company guy.

00:29:43.220 He was very tied up.

00:29:43.940 It was called Torn Land, where the hurricane came in.

00:29:46.980 The rains came in, went into the Blue Ridge Mountains.

00:29:49.720 It caused massive devastation.

00:29:52.200 This is what's happened here in Appalachia.

00:29:54.300 I think when the president's here today, he's quite upset, and he's going to get answers.

00:29:59.000 He wants to know why this is four months.

00:30:00.880 You know, Los Angeles just happened.

00:30:03.220 There's a different set of questions there of how if policies and things are like, there's the president right there.

00:30:08.180 Let's cut to it.

00:30:08.840 Let's cut and pick this up live.

00:30:10.160 Let's pick up the audio.

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00:34:21.220 Let's go ahead and pick it up.

00:34:22.320 One of the things that are very important to me and one of the reasons I'm happy that we won so convincingly is to help North Carolina get fixed up.

00:34:31.600 They supported us in record numbers.

00:34:34.640 We're putting them in record numbers, too.

00:34:36.380 And they had to be set.

00:34:39.580 I wanted to go to Los Angeles and see what was going on with California, why they aren't releasing the water.

00:34:46.620 Millions and millions of gallons of water.

00:34:49.200 They're sending it out to the Pacific.

00:34:50.840 Someday somebody's going to explain that one.

00:34:53.440 In the meantime, they have no water in Los Angeles where they had the problems.

00:34:56.800 So we're going there.

00:34:58.360 But I said, well, what about North Carolina?

00:35:00.860 Well, you can do that.

00:35:01.840 No, I can't.

00:35:03.260 I said, we're stopping in North Carolina first, and then we're going to Los Angeles.

00:35:09.380 And we just appreciate the outpouring of love that we've had here.

00:35:14.580 Laura was, as you know, very instrumental in the campaign.

00:35:18.420 And she lived here and is loved, and we appreciate it.

00:35:23.240 And Michael Watley has been incredible, wherever Michael is.

00:35:27.460 Hello, Michael.

00:35:28.200 Michael Watley has been great, and your congressmen have been great.

00:35:33.540 And what we thought we'd do is take a quick look around.

00:35:38.380 First, we want to do this.

00:35:39.680 I want to say that we're very disappointed in FEMA.

00:35:43.820 Your new governor, it's not his fault.

00:35:45.560 He's brand new to the whole situation.

00:35:49.740 But we're going to work together with the governor.

00:35:52.780 We're going to work together with the senators.

00:35:56.600 But really, we're going to work a lot with your congressmen, especially the three that are in the area, and Michael Watley.

00:36:02.460 And I'd like to put Michael in charge of making sure everything goes well.

00:36:07.300 And Franklin Graham has been unbelievable.

00:36:09.820 We've made a big contribution to Franklin, and we'll continue to do so.

00:36:13.880 But I've been hearing nothing but praise for the job that Samaritan's Purse has done with Franklin.

00:36:20.820 And we appreciate it.

00:36:22.060 Where is Franklin?

00:36:22.780 He's around here someplace.

00:36:25.100 And a good-looking guy.

00:36:26.380 He's always been a good-looking guy.

00:36:27.720 His father was a good-looking guy, too, I'll tell you.

00:36:30.220 We loved his father, right?

00:36:31.660 I saw his father in the latter years.

00:36:33.680 And I said, well, he doesn't have long to go.

00:36:38.860 He was having a hard time, and he lived about three or four years after that, right?

00:36:42.680 He was, they say it was good stock.

00:36:46.880 He had the ultimate good stock.

00:36:48.980 But I want to thank you, frankly.

00:36:50.360 You've been fantastic here.

00:36:52.200 And everywhere he goes, he's always the first one I see.

00:36:56.240 People don't realize it, how good it is.

00:36:59.920 A lot of people, they go, well, maybe it's for the people that he's got.

00:37:03.580 And you guys know because you're here.

00:37:05.220 But the people that he's got have done amazing work.

00:37:09.040 So I just want to thank everybody.

00:37:11.580 We're going to get over and take a look.

00:37:13.800 We'll say a few words.

00:37:15.020 I do want to introduce some of the people that we have.

00:37:19.160 And our first lady, we'll start with our first lady.

00:37:22.660 She wanted to be here because of North Carolina.

00:37:25.180 And then I said, well, you can do that, but you're going to have to come to California, too.

00:37:29.460 And she said, that's okay.

00:37:31.820 And we've got to fix that one up, too.

00:37:33.760 Do you ever see anything like that one?

00:37:37.320 Who would have thought that could have happened?

00:37:40.900 So, Governor Josh Stein, thank you very much.

00:37:45.640 We appreciate it.

00:37:47.200 And we're going to have a very long and good relationship.

00:37:51.880 Representatives, maybe stand up, if you would, so the press can see.

00:37:57.900 Representatives Chuck Edwards.

00:37:59.600 Chuck, thank you.

00:38:01.000 Thank you, Chuck.

00:38:02.480 Tim Moore.

00:38:05.840 Virginia.

00:38:06.680 You know Virginia Foxx, a legend.

00:38:09.100 She is such a powerful woman.

00:38:12.200 Pat Harrigan.

00:38:13.400 Pat.

00:38:13.880 Thank you very much.

00:38:15.560 Your agriculture commissioner, who I hear is excellent, Steve Troxler.

00:38:19.860 Steve, thank you very much.

00:38:21.200 Good job, Steve.

00:38:22.040 You've got plenty to do, right?

00:38:25.140 More than you ever thought.

00:38:27.440 North Carolina speaker, Dustin Hall.

00:38:30.380 Thank you, Dustin.

00:38:31.880 Thanks, Dustin.

00:38:32.860 Very good.

00:38:33.740 House Majority Leader, Brendan Jones.

00:38:37.160 Brendan, thank you very much.

00:38:38.640 We're making progress, Brendan.

00:38:39.940 And state representatives, Dudley Green, Carl Gillespie.

00:38:45.380 Thank you very much, fellas.

00:38:46.960 Good.

00:38:47.760 Good.

00:38:48.100 Thank you very much.

00:38:49.380 State senators, Kevin Corbin.

00:38:51.960 Warren Daniel.

00:38:53.900 Thank you.

00:38:54.500 Thank you very much, Kevin Warren.

00:38:56.780 And County Commissioner Jennifer Best.

00:38:59.620 Thank you, Jennifer.

00:39:00.880 Thank you.

00:39:01.380 So Hurricane Helene was one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

00:39:07.540 It was far worse than it was even built.

00:39:10.900 I have never seen such water damage.

00:39:12.940 It was largely water damage, wind damage, but water damage nobody's ever seen.

00:39:16.640 I've been here, as you know, numerous times.

00:39:18.880 But now I'm here in a position where we can do something, meaning I've been in office for

00:39:26.400 four days.

00:39:27.880 And I wanted to come sooner, but actually they had a little problem with getting logistically

00:39:32.840 in here.

00:39:33.480 But I would have been here even sooner.

00:39:37.660 104 North Carolinians have at least have lost their lives.

00:39:42.440 Is that now a fairly firm number, or are they still finding people?

00:39:48.240 You know, what do you think?

00:39:50.080 They're still finding people?

00:39:51.960 Pretty much okay?

00:39:53.640 It's a lot of people.

00:39:54.680 104 people lost their lives.

00:39:57.260 73,000 homes were severely damaged or destroyed.

00:40:01.740 And I'll tell you, I've been to a lot of them.

00:40:03.560 And this was like lots of hurricanes in one.

00:40:07.280 I've never seen such damage done by water.

00:40:10.460 And the water came.

00:40:11.980 It was violent, and it left, and there was like nothing left.

00:40:16.040 It's really pretty amazing.

00:40:17.280 At one point, half of the emergency calls to FEMA went unanswered.

00:40:20.720 That's real bad.

00:40:21.940 FEMA was not doing their job.

00:40:23.440 The city of Asheville went without running water for two months.

00:40:28.140 A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who display Trump signs

00:40:34.020 on their property.

00:40:35.020 I think that's true, isn't it?

00:40:36.300 I read that.

00:40:37.360 It's not nice.

00:40:38.900 That's not too nice, is it?

00:40:41.980 But whoever those property people were, thank you very much.

00:40:44.780 Michael, is that true?

00:40:46.620 That's not good, huh?

00:40:47.740 About the property owners, you put a Trump sign on and they wouldn't help.

00:40:52.400 FEMA.

00:40:53.640 Earlier this year, FEMA kicked 2,000 North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into below freezing temperatures.

00:41:00.680 What was that all about?

00:41:01.900 Is that, you know about that?

00:41:04.640 What happened?

00:41:05.520 Tell me.

00:41:06.680 We had an incompetent administration under Biden, and we had a disaster, and then we call it the disaster after the disaster.

00:41:13.420 That was the FEMA response.

00:41:14.680 You had nothing but disaster since then.

00:41:17.940 It doesn't matter at this point.

00:41:19.800 Biden did a bad job.

00:41:21.000 Some residents still don't have hot water, drinking water, or anything else, and many of them don't have quarters.

00:41:28.880 They don't have anything.

00:41:29.780 They got a stipend for what they lost, and we're going to take care of it.

00:41:34.820 This is totally unacceptable, and I'll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild.

00:41:43.040 We're working on it very hard, and I think if Michael Watley does half as good a job for North Carolina as he did for my campaign, we'll be very happy.

00:41:54.060 Him and Laura were a very powerful team.

00:41:56.720 So you think you can handle it, Michael?

00:41:58.180 I don't know.

00:41:58.740 I'm not sure, Michael.

00:42:00.920 I think this is maybe in many ways easier, okay?

00:42:04.560 Maybe easier.

00:42:06.200 But you're going to lead the team.

00:42:07.440 Do you want to say who the congressmen are that you want to appoint?

00:42:13.040 Do you want to introduce them?

00:42:15.080 We have Virginia Foxx, Chuck Edwards, and Tim Moore, whose districts encompassed the area.

00:42:19.900 And they are the districts that were most severely impacted, right?

00:42:23.620 You were affected then, Virginia?

00:42:25.980 Lost my own five-one.

00:42:27.720 Really?

00:42:28.420 No.

00:42:29.340 I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA.

00:42:36.880 I think, frankly, FEMA is not good.

00:42:39.680 I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and, whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA.

00:42:51.660 And then FEMA gets here, and they don't know the area.

00:42:53.840 They've never been to the area, and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about.

00:42:58.660 They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have.

00:43:02.600 And FEMA has turned out to be a disaster.

00:43:05.260 And you could go back a long way.

00:43:07.520 You could go back to Louisiana.

00:43:09.920 You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas.

00:43:12.760 It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work.

00:43:15.980 It just complicates it.

00:43:17.020 I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away, and we pay directly.

00:43:20.980 We pay a percentage to the state.

00:43:23.120 But the state should fix this.

00:43:24.740 If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation.

00:43:28.520 I think you guys agree with that, right?

00:43:29.940 So I just want to say that Asheville, I know it well, it's a great place, so we're going to have it be a great place again.

00:43:38.200 That was the one that was most severely affected.

00:43:41.600 But North Carolina is going to come back bigger, better, stronger than ever before.

00:43:47.580 And you're going to be very thankful.

00:43:50.040 And you've already seen, I know that it really began four days ago, but you've already seen more action than you have in the last three months.

00:43:58.060 And we're going to get it together.

00:43:59.600 We're informing the Army Corps of Engineers to get going, because you have a lot of river breaks in a lot of areas that you're going to need some pretty big work.

00:44:08.880 And they're on their way, they're going to be working very much harder than they've been working in the past, and we're going to take care of it.

00:44:17.420 Any questions from the press?

00:44:19.940 Of any of the congressmen, governor, anybody?

00:44:24.240 Sir, are you going to sign an executive order on FEMA and getting rid of it?

00:44:28.200 Can you say more about signing an executive order to get rid of FEMA, please?

00:44:32.580 FEMA has been a very big disappointment.

00:44:35.820 They cost a tremendous amount of money.

00:44:37.740 It's very bureaucratic.

00:44:40.140 And it's very slow.

00:44:42.020 Other than that, we're very happy with them.

00:44:44.840 Okay?

00:44:45.460 And I think it's, I think when there's a, when there's a problem with a state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state.

00:44:54.560 That's what we have states for.

00:44:56.080 They take care of problems.

00:44:57.700 And a governor can handle something very quickly.

00:45:00.100 You know, one of the things I've noticed, because I've been doing this for a while, and we had a pretty good FEMA.

00:45:05.780 But I also noticed that when they come, they end up in arguments and they're fighting all the time over who does what.

00:45:12.580 It's just, it's just not a good.

00:45:14.220 And I think it's, I think when there's a, when there's a problem with a state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state.

00:45:24.840 That's what we have states for.

00:45:26.320 They take care of problems.

00:45:27.480 And a governor can handle something very quickly.

00:45:30.400 You know, one of the things I've noticed, because I've been doing this for a while, and we had a pretty good FEMA.

00:45:36.180 But I also noticed that when they come, they end up in arguments and they're fighting all the time over who does what.

00:45:42.840 It's just, it's just not a good system.

00:45:44.920 This system is so beautifully designed over 250 years, approximately, you know, and we'll soon be celebrating the 250th year.

00:45:56.500 It's going to be a very big celebration.

00:45:58.400 But it's been designed very well, and we're going to leave it that way.

00:46:01.700 When North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, when everybody knows the governor of Tennessee, I think, everybody.

00:46:11.860 Do you know everybody here, pretty much?

00:46:14.120 I never thought of it, but you're right over the ridge.

00:46:17.140 Right over the, right over the hill.

00:46:18.160 So you're here to help.

00:46:19.480 That's great.

00:46:19.820 The people in this region, including Tennessee, the people of Appalachia, are grateful that you are here and that you haven't forgotten it.

00:46:28.800 And that there are other disasters, but this one was enormous for both North Carolina and Tennessee.

00:46:34.000 So thank you.

00:46:35.300 You know, I've seen a lot of disasters.

00:46:36.980 And this, when I came, I came here right after, the day after.

00:46:40.240 And when I came here, I couldn't believe it, actually.

00:46:42.480 I couldn't believe the damage.

00:46:44.480 And I've seen a lot of them.

00:46:46.020 This was, this was more like a tornado than it was what we witnessed.

00:46:51.880 So we're going to get it very much, very much taken care of.

00:46:54.840 Good job.

00:46:55.260 That's nice that you came.

00:46:56.140 And so you call it right, you're right over the ridge, right, Tennessee?

00:46:59.640 Right over the ridge, yes.

00:47:00.120 I like Tennessee, too.

00:47:01.840 Let's see, where did I get more votes, Tennessee or North Carolina?

00:47:04.700 I hate, I hate to tell you North Carolina, it was Tennessee.

00:47:08.560 There's one of the counties in this disaster that, at 88% for you, so.

00:47:13.120 88%, yeah.

00:47:14.460 The people are just incredible people.

00:47:17.080 Yeah.

00:47:17.840 So, do you have any questions, press?

00:47:20.340 Yes, Mr. President.

00:47:21.100 You know, you talk about conditions being placed on aid to California,

00:47:24.480 motoriety and the like.

00:47:25.900 Are there any conditions that you're going to put on aid to North Carolina?

00:47:29.820 We're going to do a lot for North Carolina.

00:47:31.760 They've been very slow.

00:47:34.040 I don't know why it's been so bad.

00:47:36.600 This has been one of the worst I've seen.

00:47:38.480 Katrina, of course, you know, was something that obviously,

00:47:43.020 that was a long time ago, that was not good.

00:47:45.340 But this has been very slow.

00:47:46.740 I don't know if that was for political reasons, because they lost the state.

00:47:50.220 You know, Biden lost the state.

00:47:51.520 Maybe he felt he doesn't care.

00:47:54.580 Maybe there were other reasons.

00:47:55.980 I don't know.

00:47:56.400 But this has been very slow.

00:47:57.660 By any standard, this has been very slow.

00:47:59.520 And we're going to make up for lost time.

00:48:02.200 With no conditions, you're going to push for aid.

00:48:04.100 It's a different thing.

00:48:04.940 You got hit by a storm.

00:48:06.600 The people are incredible.

00:48:07.720 They worked really well.

00:48:09.260 Franklin was fantastic.

00:48:10.820 And other groups, by the way, other groups came in that were also fantastic.

00:48:14.140 And other states came in, Tennessee, and a couple of others came in,

00:48:18.380 and they really helped.

00:48:19.280 That's the way it's supposed to be.

00:48:20.420 No, this is a different kind of a thing.

00:48:22.600 Mr. President, have you decided how much funding you would allocate for the Senate?

00:48:26.720 About what?

00:48:27.800 Have you decided how much funding you would allocate for the Senate?

00:48:30.860 I have to see what it is.

00:48:33.320 Are you disappointed that Senator Schiff hasn't joined you on this trip?

00:48:38.020 It was reported you invited Senator Schiff to join you on this trip,

00:48:41.060 and he was too busy.

00:48:41.980 Are you disappointed?

00:48:42.580 I don't know.

00:48:43.100 I was told that Schiff was going to travel with us to California.

00:48:47.080 I wasn't thrilled, to be honest with you.

00:48:50.840 And I saw him last night on television.

00:48:52.980 It looks like he got hit with a baseball bat or something.

00:48:55.220 What happened to him?

00:48:56.860 Something happened to him.

00:48:58.260 It looked like he got hit.

00:49:01.340 It looked like he got beat around.

00:49:03.240 But I'll ask Caroline to find out what happened to him.

00:49:07.000 No, if he wanted to come out, I would have done that.

00:49:09.180 But I don't know.

00:49:11.060 Somebody said that he wanted to come on the plane, but I think he's staying back for the votes.

00:49:15.980 There's some pretty good votes going on.

00:49:17.480 Yeah.

00:49:17.920 Mr. President, what is your timeline for getting rid of FEMA?

00:49:20.480 For the for this one, for this one?

00:49:24.560 You talked about possibly getting rid of FEMA.

00:49:27.200 What timeline are you looking at and how would you do that?

00:49:29.440 Well, we're looking here.

00:49:30.620 Here you're talking about.

00:49:31.800 To start, we're going to start immediately timeline.

00:49:34.160 And to finish, it's going to be a period of time.

00:49:39.240 You know, people are also rebuilding their houses.

00:49:41.460 How long does it take to build a house?

00:49:42.920 Right?

00:49:43.140 Takes the time.

00:49:44.600 And I want them to build houses bigger, better, nicer than they had before.

00:49:49.280 So they can have at least they get something out of this disaster.

00:49:52.500 This was a real disaster.

00:49:53.620 No, timeline will be fast in terms of infrastructure.

00:49:56.840 I think very fast.

00:49:57.800 I want to thank Elon because Elon was able to get us communication systems, as you know, Starlink.

00:50:06.200 We had no communication.

00:50:07.820 The first day I got here, I was asked by one of the people, one of the really great representatives,

00:50:13.280 professionals that is there any way you could get Starlink here?

00:50:16.780 Because they had no communication whatsoever.

00:50:19.720 And I called up Elon Musk and he had, you know, hundreds of units brought here, like brought immediately.

00:50:25.840 And it's hard to get.

00:50:26.540 They couldn't get them before.

00:50:28.220 And that made a lot of difference.

00:50:29.740 I think it saved a lot of lives, actually.

00:50:31.460 Yeah.

00:50:32.780 Infrastructure-wise, we'll do it quickly.

00:50:35.300 Sir, can you just talk about how long you think it might take to get rid of FEMA?

00:50:39.240 What's the timeline on that?

00:50:40.460 If you're going to roll it back?

00:50:41.440 Yeah.

00:50:41.880 I would say, look, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not really thinking about FEMA right now.

00:50:48.080 Here, I'm thinking about Michael Watley.

00:50:51.100 And I'm thinking about the three Congress people that you just heard from.

00:50:55.680 And also the other people in Congress.

00:50:59.240 And they'll be working with the governor.

00:51:01.460 They'll be working with the governor.

00:51:03.020 So that's what I see.

00:51:05.780 I'll change the subject real quickly.

00:51:07.520 The Lakin-Riley Act was signed by Mike Speaker Johnson yesterday.

00:51:12.540 Right.

00:51:12.880 When do you anticipate to sign that note?

00:51:15.160 Well, we're honored by that.

00:51:16.860 Lakin-Riley, I was there at the time.

00:51:19.140 And we had a big meeting with the parents right after that horrible thing took place.

00:51:23.880 And we have an act.

00:51:25.840 You all know what that act represents.

00:51:28.500 And it was a bipartisan bill.

00:51:30.900 Many Democrats signed on to it.

00:51:33.300 That's something that is a tribute to Lakin, a beautiful young lady who was killed viciously by an illegal alien.

00:51:41.760 And we passed a very powerful bill.

00:51:45.560 And it was just approved.

00:51:47.080 And we'll have a ceremony sometime very shortly.

00:51:50.060 I'll be signing it.

00:51:51.520 In other words, if you're asking, I will definitely be signing it.

00:51:54.880 Okay.

00:51:55.440 Yeah.

00:51:56.220 The security detail for Anthony Fauci was terminated last night.

00:52:00.140 And I'm wondering if you have any comment.

00:52:02.040 About what?

00:52:02.920 Security detail for Anthony Fauci was terminated last night, sir.

00:52:06.720 Do you have a comment?

00:52:07.540 No, I think, you know, when you work for government, at some point, your security detail comes off.

00:52:15.220 And, you know, you can't have them forever.

00:52:18.240 So I think it's very standard.

00:52:20.540 If it would be for somebody else, you wouldn't be asking the question.

00:52:22.960 The question is very fair.

00:52:24.920 But, you know, you work for government.

00:52:27.180 We took some off other people, too.

00:52:30.340 But you can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government.

00:52:34.500 Do you ask for it to be taken out, sir?

00:52:36.820 Yeah, we'll see what happens.

00:52:38.260 Would you feel partially responsible if something would have happened to say Dr. Fauci?

00:52:41.800 No.

00:52:42.760 No.

00:52:44.300 You know, they all made a lot of money.

00:52:45.880 They can hire their own security, too.

00:52:48.260 All the people you're talking about.

00:52:49.880 They can go out.

00:52:50.920 I can give them some good numbers of very good security people.

00:52:53.740 They can hire their own security.

00:52:54.940 They all made a lot of money.

00:52:57.080 Fauci made a lot of money.

00:52:59.340 They all did.

00:53:00.140 And so if they, you know, felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.

00:53:07.360 North Carolina is a state that relies on trade and manufacturing.

00:53:10.540 Are you going to have an announcement on new tariffs coming soon?

00:53:13.420 Is there a timeline now?

00:53:14.580 Yeah, the tariffs are going to make our country rich.

00:53:17.420 We're going to be a rich, rich country very soon.

00:53:20.860 Tariffs are going to make it rich in competence.

00:53:22.720 We have common sense, competence, and tariffs.

00:53:27.000 The word tariff is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary.

00:53:30.880 Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary of the United Kingdom, said that there's an even trade between the U.S. and the U.K., so they shouldn't have tariffs.

00:53:41.000 Does trade imbalances or a balanced trade affect tariffs in your decision?

00:53:45.500 Yeah, unbalance and balance and also deficits.

00:53:49.480 Like with Canada, we lose $200 billion a year with Canada.

00:53:54.780 That's because we allow them to make cars.

00:53:56.940 We allow them to take lumber.

00:53:58.220 We don't need their cars.

00:53:59.280 We don't need their lumber.

00:54:00.300 We don't need their food products because we make the same products right on the other side of the border.

00:54:05.780 It's sort of crazy.

00:54:06.580 So we've just allowed that, you know, bad management has allowed it over the last four years in particular to become very imbalanced.

00:54:16.140 And I said to, I call him Governor Trudeau, but he's Prime Minister Trudeau when he was Prime Minister.

00:54:22.480 I asked him, why would we do that?

00:54:24.340 Why?

00:54:24.640 And he was unable to give me an answer.

00:54:26.380 He said, I don't know.

00:54:28.520 And I said, do you think it's fair that we're paying $200 billion to keep Canada going?

00:54:35.000 And what would happen?

00:54:35.920 I said, I asked him, what would happen if we didn't do that, if we didn't subsidize Canada?

00:54:40.500 He said, we'd be a failed nation.

00:54:43.180 And I said, then you should be a state because why are we paying all of that money to Canada when, you know, we could use it ourselves, right?

00:54:52.700 So we take care of their military.

00:54:55.180 You know, we ordered, we're going to order about 40 Coast Guard big icebreakers, big ones.

00:55:02.500 And all of a sudden, Canada wants a piece of the deal.

00:55:05.400 They say, why are we doing that?

00:55:06.580 I mean, I like doing that if they're a state, but I don't like doing that if they're a nation.

00:55:11.900 Also, they've been very nasty to us on trade.

00:55:14.920 Historically, Canada has been very, very bad to us, very unfair to us on trade.

00:55:18.420 So we'll see how it all works out.

00:55:20.780 I would love to see Canada be the 51st state.

00:55:23.940 And the Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut, tremendous tax cut, because they're very highly taxed.

00:55:33.360 And you wouldn't have to worry about military.

00:55:35.820 You wouldn't have to worry about many of the things.

00:55:38.300 You'd have better health coverage.

00:55:40.120 You'd have much better health coverage.

00:55:41.620 So I think the people of Canada would like it, you know, if it's explained.

00:55:45.340 But just to start off, they'd have a very, they'd have a massive tax cut and they'd have a lot more business, because then we'd let business go to Canada routinely and there'd be no tariffs.

00:55:55.740 You know, if we did that, there'd be no tariffs.

00:55:57.620 Samaritan's purse, Reverend Franklin Graham, has been a great asset to the state.

00:56:03.560 Talk a little bit about the way Samaritan's purse has helped North Carolina.

00:56:07.240 Yes.

00:56:07.480 Once again, the first.

00:56:08.840 Reverend Franklin Graham has been a big part of Samaritan's purse and their aid to North Carolina.

00:56:13.600 Just get your thoughts.

00:56:14.360 Well, Franklin Graham has been a big asset to the state.

00:56:17.440 His father was a big asset to the state, to the country, both of them.

00:56:23.160 I just think this.

00:56:24.320 I think Franklin and and other people that are doing what Franklin have done.

00:56:29.160 But, you know, I've known Franklin so long.

00:56:31.720 He was at the inauguration.

00:56:33.780 He made a speech.

00:56:34.560 Beautiful speech.

00:56:35.600 Beautiful prayer.

00:56:37.760 It just he does a great job.

00:56:39.700 And we gave we made a big donation and it was it was money well spent.

00:56:45.400 And sometimes you make donations, it's not well spent.

00:56:47.800 He's done a great job here.

00:56:49.640 He's done a really great job.

00:56:50.980 So I want to thank you.

00:56:51.920 We're going to the site now and one of the sites.

00:56:55.660 And we'll I think you'll for those that haven't seen it, you won't even believe it.

00:57:00.480 But not enough work was done.

00:57:02.060 We'll get it done fast.

00:57:02.940 And I can speak for the Republican congressman.

00:57:05.260 We're going to knock it out.

00:57:06.400 Right.

00:57:06.920 We're going to knock it out.

00:57:08.160 And I think we take it very personally because it was North Carolina was very unfairly treated.

00:57:16.540 Very, very unfairly treated.

00:57:18.260 And it was obvious.

00:57:19.240 It was too obvious.

00:57:20.480 And we're going to make up for lost time.

00:57:22.400 So thank you to the people of North Carolina.

00:57:24.980 Thank you, everybody.

00:57:25.640 Thank you.

00:57:26.880 Thank you.

00:57:27.540 Thank you.

00:57:27.560 Thank you.

00:57:38.160 Am I on?

00:57:44.840 That is the president right there with Franklin Graham from Samaritan's Purse.

00:57:49.640 Billy Graham's son runs this big charitable organization.

00:57:52.620 It's really taken care of.

00:57:53.480 You saw last week, 10 days ago when we were there, it was at the forefront of the relief work,

00:58:02.000 which really is private relief work.

00:58:03.480 The president, in that Q&A, he signed an executive order to get rid of FEMA.

00:58:09.400 And, man, he's hell-bent for leather from doing this.

00:58:11.900 Do I have – is Brian – are you with me?

00:58:13.620 Brian Glenn?

00:58:14.280 I know Brian's right there.

00:58:15.320 Brian asked a couple of great questions.

00:58:17.260 I think his audio may be turned off.

00:58:20.200 He's going to get back in the pool.

00:58:21.520 That's our own live shot from Real America's Voice.

00:58:25.080 The first lady, the first lady and the president there with Franklin Graham, other –

00:58:32.380 he's got Michael Watley, the head of the RNC.

00:58:35.100 Michael Watley is from North Carolina.

00:58:38.080 Beloved North Carolina.

00:58:38.740 Let's go back to that shot, please.

00:58:40.620 You don't need me in a full shot.

00:58:43.960 Let's think these shots through, gentlemen.

00:58:45.980 Are they going to take it down?

00:58:47.140 Okay, can we go to the pool feed?

00:58:48.460 Let's go to the pool feed.

00:58:49.420 Let Brian – Brian Glenn's going to take his thing.

00:58:51.220 Let's see if we can go to the pool feed.

00:58:52.680 Can you guys hear me?

00:58:53.420 The president's there with the first lady.

00:58:55.260 He answered questions.

00:58:56.860 We've got Brian.

00:58:57.780 Hey, Brian, what do you got for us?

00:58:59.220 Hey, Steve.

00:59:01.560 Yes, he just wrapped up here shortly talking to the members that he recognized earlier.

00:59:07.540 From this point, we will get in the motorcade and follow President Trump to a disaster area.

00:59:13.100 He would tour that area, take some questions, I would imagine, and talk to the local homeowners in that area.

00:59:20.680 But really, kind of going over the magnitude of this area, and I would think the demand for – let's see if he's – let's listen in real quickly, if he might come over here.

00:59:36.360 He looks like he's posing for a couple – thank you.

00:59:43.240 Posing with the first lady.

00:59:44.460 Okay, so we've got to take direction from the press lead right now, Steve, so we do have to kind of hustle into a different area as we transition into location number two, Steve.

00:59:57.720 So I'll come back to you when we have a steady shot and we're in place.

01:00:01.140 Go ahead.

01:00:02.780 Yeah.

01:00:03.700 Maybe keep that shot.

01:00:04.800 Just get the mic off.

01:00:05.600 Okay, this is what's called a – that's called a press gaggle.

01:00:08.100 Let's get that shot back up there if we can.

01:00:10.500 Got enough of me.

01:00:11.300 Let's get that shot back up.

01:00:12.420 So it's okay to see the unsteadiness.

01:00:15.520 It's going to be fine.

01:00:17.080 Let's double box it.

01:00:19.080 I got to anchor this and produce it and direct it at the same time.

01:00:23.980 Just teasing the team.

01:00:26.740 I want people to see it.

01:00:27.940 This is called a press gaggle.

01:00:29.160 You know, a gaggle is when you have all these press – this is the pool that's with the president the entire time.

01:00:35.540 Now, did we see the – now you're going to go out.

01:00:40.340 Now, when you're on the White House staff, you have what's called wranglers.

01:00:44.600 You have press wranglers.

01:00:45.680 There's our own Brian Glenn right there.

01:00:48.760 You have press wranglers.

01:00:50.300 And the press wranglers' job is to keep this unruly element.

01:00:56.320 Keep those great shots.

01:00:58.140 It's fantastic.

01:00:59.940 You're seeing the sausage being made, folks.

01:01:01.840 Right there – and I want to join – I think we're getting ready to go to the Charlie Kirk – yeah.

01:01:05.900 In fact, we're into the Charlie Kirk show now.

01:01:07.940 I want to welcome the Charlie Kirk audience.

01:01:10.400 Just to do a reset, we are live from Asheville, North Carolina.

01:01:15.380 Our own Brian Glenn has been invited to have our own camera today.

01:01:18.480 Not taking a press feed, but our own camera is there with the president's motorcade.

01:01:23.300 The president landed at about 10.30, 10.40 Eastern Standard Time.

01:01:29.540 He did a short meeting with officials on the tarmac.

01:01:34.560 He then had a press availability, answered a few questions.

01:01:39.260 Then he went over, got his Secret Service vehicles out of the line, and actually went to go see his people.

01:01:48.220 War Room Posse and MAGA members on kind of a rope line.

01:01:51.680 He did a meet and greet there, shook hands, had people really saying, Mr. President, we love you.

01:01:57.200 Then he went for what we call Roundtable.

01:01:59.740 These are very traditional when a president goes to a local area to either – even for a factory opening or to see people,

01:02:06.740 but particularly when you go to these disaster areas.

01:02:11.180 The theme of the day is President Trump is getting all – direct briefings from people are there.

01:02:17.300 Franklin Graham, Samaritan's Purse.

01:02:19.260 I can't tell you how important Samaritan's Purse has been.

01:02:22.740 And 10 days ago when Ben Burkholm was there for two days, all we heard was Samaritan's Purse.

01:02:28.120 Samaritan's Purse, they've been out in western North Carolina and east Tennessee bringing kind of a philanthropic and charitable relief that the federal government had.

01:02:38.920 One of the major questions – and I was actually impressed with the press not asking wise guy questions.

01:02:45.760 I think you see a very big difference in President Trump's first term and second term.

01:02:50.820 You don't see the snarky questions that the press asks every day, some snarky question about Russiagate.

01:02:57.580 These so far have been pretty – I think pretty good, pretty thoughtful questions, although a lot of them are from the liberal media.

01:03:04.920 Right there you're seeing a shot inside the press van.

01:03:07.420 We're there with our own camera, not taking the pool feed, which is pretty extraordinary.

01:03:12.880 Now, the Secret Service requires you – as you're going to see, Brian doesn't have his audio.

01:03:16.940 That's cut off for scary reasons.

01:03:18.480 And they tell you to put the camera straight forward, what's called a taillight shot.

01:03:22.520 The president went to a briefing over of what they called traditionally these roundtables where local officials, people, you know, ask questions.

01:03:31.340 He'll introduce local dignitaries, in this case local congressmen who had been there for North Carolina.

01:03:37.780 Then the president gives his comments.

01:03:39.180 Once again, the president, the most available president, I think, in the history of this republic to the press.

01:03:45.480 He took questions from the media.

01:03:48.320 And most of these questions really revolved around disaster relief, what's going to be coming up in California, and particularly FEMA.

01:03:57.960 He did sign an executive order that really looks to a pretty substantial restructuring or elimination of FEMA.

01:04:04.700 The president gave you what he intends to do, and what he intends to do is to look at local authorities and kind of the FEMA's, the emergency groups in each state,

01:04:15.420 and just give this money for support, give the money to the governor, give the money to the states, and let the states deal with it,

01:04:21.740 and really cut out the middleman, which is FEMA.

01:04:23.860 And I think part of that is because of the politicization of FEMA, and the other part is just because of the incompetence of FEMA.

01:04:31.160 Remember, this is part of the deconstruction of the administrative state, particularly in the alphabet agencies.

01:04:37.800 There's a lot of folks, including myself, that think these alphabet agencies have just grown and grown and grown with very little regulation or supervision from Congress,

01:04:47.240 and that that has led them to be not just overly bureaucratic, but also incredibly and highly inefficient and too politicized, too able to be weaponized.

01:04:57.660 One of the things the president is there today in western North Carolina is to get the answer to the questions.

01:05:01.980 Why are we in the fourth month of this?

01:05:05.380 And you're going to see things today, and I'm sure the president's going to see things that are going to shock him.

01:05:09.840 When Ben Berquan was there 10 days ago, I was, quite frankly, stunned.

01:05:14.120 My kid brother had worked in western North Carolina and actually lived in Asheville for a couple of years,

01:05:20.620 and it is, in fact, my college roommate and other people I'm very close to are down in Asheville,

01:05:25.400 one of the most beautiful parts of the country, and just a magnificent location.

01:05:31.980 It's become a big retirement area over the last decade or two as people, you know, Florida is a little too much for them as far as no change of seasons,

01:05:42.000 and maybe up north is a little too cold, so the environment in western North Carolina is perfect.

01:05:48.640 So Asheville has been a tremendous and really had explosive growth.

01:05:52.700 Talk about this cold winter.

01:05:54.180 It's been kind of a bitterly, brutally cold winter with this kind of Arctic, you know, air, Arctic weather coming down,

01:06:00.880 but really since right after Thanksgiving has been pretty cold, and I think we're three or four months into this.

01:06:08.120 What the president's most upset about, and he wants us to get answers from, is why is he coming out to North Carolina

01:06:16.040 to visit with and hear from the forgotten man and woman when this should have been taken care of months and months ago?

01:06:23.660 You know, is this just bureaucratic inefficiency?

01:06:26.080 Is this just incompetence?

01:06:27.640 Are they not going to work because they're still, you know, heaving to on COVID, so they're working from home?

01:06:34.560 Or was this political?

01:06:36.920 And I have advocated from the beginning that you have to have a thorough investigation of this to find out what happened.

01:06:41.980 And California is very different.

01:06:43.960 California is about policies that have been decades in the making.

01:06:46.780 Josh Pettit, who's a golf course architect, and we normally have him on here talking about for the major championships about the golf course.

01:06:54.100 He walked through the kind of how the radical part of the environmental community has a structurally,

01:07:00.360 has structurally do commissions, committees, you know, coastal committees have put a stranglehold

01:07:06.380 on really common sense and environmental policies along with radically left Democrats to kind of, you know,

01:07:13.820 be the predicate for this disaster that happened.

01:07:16.700 The president's going to want discussions out of that because in Los Angeles,

01:07:20.400 you could be talking about in the great L.A. area, $200 billion of destruction.

01:07:24.040 I can tell you having very close knowledge of home ownership in Pacific Palisades,

01:07:30.220 one of the most remarkable little villages in all of America and particularly in Southern California

01:07:36.920 is where Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan lived for many, many decades,

01:07:40.600 a very understated elegance of just really this very nice village completely gone.

01:07:46.700 Worse than Dresden in 1945, it's like the Tokyo fire bombings in March of 1945.

01:07:52.040 The president's going to want answers for that today.

01:07:54.460 Shifty Shift was supposed to be with him, but Shifty Shift made a big deal about not going.

01:07:58.100 Really, that's tied to these votes in the Senate.

01:08:01.600 Right now, you're in the motor pool right here.

01:08:03.620 You're in what's called a press van.

01:08:05.840 You can put the camera straight forward.

01:08:07.200 That's called a taillight shot if you're watching it right there.

01:08:10.420 I want to thank the Charlie Kirk audience for joining us.

01:08:12.680 We're here on Real America's Voices.

01:08:13.860 This is live uninterrupted coverage.

01:08:16.080 We're blowing all the commercial breaks so that we can do the coverage of,

01:08:21.480 since we've been invited by the comms staff to be there,

01:08:23.660 kind of a hat tip to the new rising power of the podcast,

01:08:27.800 and particularly the rising power of these streaming services,

01:08:30.340 getting away from mainstream media.

01:08:33.420 And our own, we've got Ben Burquam in Chicago and Brian Glenn.

01:08:39.120 Ben, who was out there 10 days ago, Brian Glenn is with the president today.

01:08:42.400 Brian Glenn has asked three great questions.

01:08:44.860 I mean, really appreciated by the president.

01:08:46.200 The president gave him kind of a thumbs up,

01:08:48.480 and hey, thank you on the way up, Brian Glenn.

01:08:51.180 And a total professional is now with Right Side Broadcasting for years,

01:08:56.080 doing the coverage of all the events,

01:09:00.060 and is now with his Real America's Voice,

01:09:01.560 he'll be doing both the White House and Capitol Hill.

01:09:04.380 The reason Schiff is really not out there is Schiff, there's major votes.

01:09:08.700 So we talked about the actions the president has to take.

01:09:11.260 We also talked about the resistance.

01:09:13.160 You've got Democrats have gone to court on the deportations.

01:09:16.840 They're in court on the 14th Amendment.

01:09:19.360 They're in court on many, many things.

01:09:20.740 I'm sure they're going to try to go to court on FEMA.

01:09:22.900 Anything to do with deconstructing administrative state,

01:09:25.140 that they're going to stop.

01:09:26.780 But particularly in the Senate, there's been kind of a brutal fight.

01:09:31.320 Schumer, who is having these press conferences,

01:09:34.000 or having press availabilities,

01:09:35.360 where he will go up and literally rip apart someone like Russ Vogt.

01:09:39.700 I heard one last night.

01:09:41.020 I listened to it for about 30 or 40 minutes.

01:09:44.520 Schumer and other Democrats are saying how terrible Russ Vogt was,

01:09:47.580 how Russ Vogt was the godfather of Project 2025,

01:09:51.580 how Russ Vogt was absolutely terrible.

01:09:54.640 Now, MSNBC is all over President Trump, taking down FEMA.

01:10:01.120 Their coverage is hysterical on everything that President Trump does.

01:10:05.880 Their hair is on fire on all of it.

01:10:08.120 The president, let's go back to the Senate.

01:10:09.740 But so remember, we have John Ratcliffe has just been confirmed

01:10:13.740 as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

01:10:16.460 Senator Marco Rubio is now Secretary of State.

01:10:18.940 President Trump, four days into his administration,

01:10:21.500 only has two approved cabinet members.

01:10:24.520 Everything else is on the interim that are really not his people.

01:10:28.440 And this is after flooding the zone last week.

01:10:30.880 Go back and think about it.

01:10:34.020 Spectacular performance of his nominees

01:10:41.640 with no real Democratic pushback on the ideas or the representations.

01:10:46.560 Just one more to reset.

01:10:48.300 You're in a press van.

01:10:49.740 That's Brian Glenn and his cameraman, our team.

01:10:52.400 We're heading to, now we're going to go to a disastrous site

01:10:55.200 outside of Asheville, North Carolina.

01:10:57.500 President Trump will walk around him, meet some local folks,

01:10:59.720 meet the forgotten man and woman, have some interchange.

01:11:02.740 We will cover this live.

01:11:04.020 I'm going to remain here for this coverage until the end.

01:11:07.760 President Trump will then return to the airport.

01:11:10.380 I'm sure he's going to say a few words in the tarmac.

01:11:12.160 Then he and the First Lady will enter the Air Force One.

01:11:15.280 And I think it's scheduled to end about 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time,

01:11:20.580 although I believe he's going to run a little late here.

01:11:23.260 He's then going to take off for Los Angeles.

01:11:26.460 He'll arrive out in Los Angeles, I think, early afternoon,

01:11:29.220 local time, and then he will have a, once again, you know,

01:11:32.440 meet some officials.

01:11:33.480 He will have a roundtable where he'll meet, you know,

01:11:37.680 a bigger group of officials.

01:11:39.380 And then I'm sure he's going to tour the area.

01:11:41.620 I will tell you, President Trump knows Los Angeles.

01:11:43.800 He owns a house in Beverly Hills.

01:11:45.340 He hasn't spent as much time in L.A.

01:11:47.580 as obviously in other parts of the country.

01:11:50.720 Really not a California guy, though he loves California and loves,

01:11:53.960 I know he loves his house he's had in Beverly Hills.

01:11:56.520 The President of the United States knows Pacific Palisades.

01:11:59.420 He will be absolutely floored.

01:12:01.980 The people I know that live out there, I have many, many friends.

01:12:04.180 I lived in California for 20 years.

01:12:06.340 I spent time all over the world and in New York a lot,

01:12:09.160 but had a home base there.

01:12:11.320 People are, you can't believe what's happened to the Palisades,

01:12:15.320 what's happened to Altadena, which is out by Pasadena.

01:12:21.660 What's happened to these towns is really just unbelievable.

01:12:25.440 It's military-level devastation that it's all gone,

01:12:28.860 and what is standing has been condemned.

01:12:31.200 So once again, we're in the press pool right there.

01:12:33.360 We've got our own camera.

01:12:34.360 We're not taking this off the press feed.

01:12:36.080 That's Real America's Voice.

01:12:37.100 Real America's Voice was invited, and here's why.

01:12:39.100 Back in 2021, when the President left the White House,

01:12:43.740 the President Trump back in Mar-a-Lago was cut off from any access.

01:12:48.500 I don't believe mainstream media covered him live until the midterm election of 2022.

01:12:53.660 Even Fox News, I think, blocked him for a year and a half.

01:12:57.260 Rupert Murdoch went out and said they were going to make him a non-person.

01:13:00.160 He was covered live nonstop by Real America's Voice,

01:13:03.800 Right Side Broadcasting.

01:13:04.960 Brian Glenn was one of the chief anchors over at Right Side of the Town.

01:13:07.980 We knew the Right Side guys, very close to him, great team over there.

01:13:12.400 They were covered nonstop.

01:13:13.620 Remember, all the rallies.

01:13:15.220 Real America's Voice would be there.

01:13:16.780 We would do coverage.

01:13:17.740 We'd toss our teams.

01:13:18.780 He covered President Trump live.

01:13:20.340 He covered MAGA.

01:13:21.760 Remember the days Ben Burkwam would be out there hours and hours in advance.

01:13:25.500 On Saturday, we'd have Ben on the Saturday morning show with War Room Posse members that were already there.

01:13:30.900 Five, six, seven hours before the event started.

01:13:35.040 The White House staff and Caroline Leavitt.

01:13:37.000 You remember Caroline?

01:13:37.880 Caroline, as a young woman, ran for the House a couple of years ago.

01:13:42.580 And we did a lot of coverage of her in the primary.

01:13:44.700 She was an engaging personality.

01:13:46.340 She was a young woman.

01:13:47.240 She's an absolute firebrand.

01:13:48.520 She would not back down.

01:13:50.680 And Caroline Leavitt became beloved by the War Room audience and really embraced.

01:13:55.020 Caroline Leavitt is now the Press Secretary of the President of the United States.

01:13:57.660 I think one of the things I've had the most fun in the show is to see the people that have been contributors or been part of it.

01:14:03.260 The Jason Millers.

01:14:04.640 The Boris Epsteins.

01:14:06.040 The Caroline Levitts.

01:14:07.180 The Liz Harringtons.

01:14:08.840 The Natalie Winters.

01:14:10.060 We got now, we have Scott Bessent, Russ Vogt, and our own Peter Navarro.

01:14:17.700 Peter's actually in the White House as the senior advisor on trade and manufacturing.

01:14:23.720 That's obviously going to be very important.

01:14:25.160 You heard President Trump today talking about Canada.

01:14:28.300 It was, of all the talk on Canada, is probably the most blunt talk.

01:14:31.780 I mean, he made a proposal.

01:14:32.940 He said, hey, look, you know, you can cut out a lot of costs of your defense.

01:14:37.160 A lot of things going on.

01:14:38.100 We'd love for you to be the 51st state.

01:14:39.860 We can make you a deal.

01:14:41.360 I don't know.

01:14:41.960 Maybe it cut out two states.

01:14:43.000 Maybe it makes two states.

01:14:44.180 Who knows?

01:14:44.680 I know the western part of Canada.

01:14:45.960 I spent a lot of time with people from western Canada over the weekend.

01:14:49.400 They're very different in their philosophy from Quebec and where Toronto is, the eastern part where, you know, 80% of the population lives.

01:14:58.700 But the western part of Canada is saying, hey, we don't speak for all of Canada, but they think people would love some sort of closer association.

01:15:06.960 They're kind of loggerheads with the Trudeau administration.

01:15:11.240 Once again, you're in a press van.

01:15:13.760 That is a shot from our own camera, not a press feed.

01:15:17.360 If you notice why we're not looking at the side and some of the Trump supporters over there is that the Secret Service, when you have a camera and it's on, it's called a taillight shot.

01:15:26.040 They don't want to go in to and fro for security reasons.

01:15:28.880 Brian Glenn is in there.

01:15:29.840 The audio is always cut off for security reasons.

01:15:32.100 Brian is going with the rest of the press with our own camera, not a pool feed.

01:15:36.840 We're going now to the actual site of some of the devastation.

01:15:40.660 So here's what will happen is the advance team will work through with local officials and they'll figure out, hey, particularly in a devastated area that's this huge.

01:15:50.880 I mean, this is all the way from northwest Georgia up through the Appalachians to western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and all the way up to Virginia.

01:16:04.740 You know, people, historically, a lot of this, it was part of this at least, was part of that we're General Sherman right there.

01:16:11.640 We just lost the feed entirely back here.

01:16:14.760 We'll get to that in a second.

01:16:15.980 Maybe take a pool feed.

01:16:16.740 The president of the United States is heading to the site of the devastation.

01:16:20.500 He'll get a walk around.

01:16:21.280 The advance team will work with local officials and say, hey, look, right there we got our feedback.

01:16:26.340 He'll say, hey, look, you know, we want some areas the president can get a real feel for what's going on.

01:16:31.780 He wants to meet people there.

01:16:32.940 He wants to meet things.

01:16:33.700 So that will become his understanding of the entire area.

01:16:36.980 The president already committed on the tarmac, and he said again at the roundtable, he says, hey, we're going to take care of this problem.

01:16:44.380 And this is what, if you go back 10 days, remember our coverage, people saying, you know, Ben Burquam, Mr. Bannon, you know, any way you can get to the president, make sure the president comes here.

01:16:53.520 We've been, we've basically left to fend for ourselves with no money, no resources, no assistance on this biblical level flood that's devastated so much of the area.

01:17:02.560 They've just been, you know, cut off.

01:17:04.480 And look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I don't believe in coincidences.

01:17:09.080 I'm sure it's the pattern recognition here is this is part of the strongest part of support for President Trump.

01:17:15.880 They just said in the in the the meeting right there at the roundtable, one of the individuals said off camera, hey, there's a county here that gave you 88 percent support, 88 percent support.

01:17:30.340 But it's just it's left a bad taste in people's mouths that the Biden regime somehow had this was some sort of political payback or the lack of there was just a lack of urgency all around there.

01:17:41.920 It's one of the reasons President Trump is not enthusiastic about FEMA.

01:17:45.140 You know, what professional organization would allow that to happen?

01:17:47.780 What professional organization would not be down here taking care of this basic, you know, basic destruction of of one of the most beautiful areas of the United States,

01:17:56.760 but particularly where American citizens are living in tents the night after we were there.

01:18:01.600 I think it was six degrees in the in the mountains of western North Carolina.

01:18:05.440 Some of those mountains got real out.

01:18:06.680 So when you're you're you're in Asheville, you know, you're in the mountains of western, you know, you know, you're in the mountains and it's cold at night.

01:18:12.900 And people, the FEMA vans hadn't been brought up.

01:18:15.880 FEMA trucks hadn't been brought up.

01:18:18.060 People were left, by and large, to fend for themselves.

01:18:20.580 This is why Samaritan's Purse was so amazing.

01:18:23.420 All the local charities people were, you know, giving as the American people are want to do.

01:18:28.140 The most charitable people in the history of the earth, the most giving nation in the history of the earth.

01:18:33.160 But this is not it shouldn't be upon local charity to pay for this.

01:18:36.940 It shouldn't be Samaritan's Purse that has obligations all over the world as they try to have a huge, you know, evangelical mission that is their task and purpose.

01:18:49.440 Every dollar they have and every dollar they raise has to be used for the task and purpose.

01:18:53.020 And when they're in western North Carolina, they're doing it because it's Billy Graham and Franklin, you know, Billy Graham's legacy, Franklin Graham and just the giving nature of this organization and many, many, many others.

01:19:03.520 But it's all coming from private charity.

01:19:05.220 Well, one of the reasons you pay your taxes is that in those extraordinary instances like massive hurricanes, massive flooding, like you see on something that was biblical that came off of Hurricane Helene that left, you know, what, a trillion gallons of water into the hills and hollows of Appalachia and wiped out so much.

01:19:25.300 You anticipate and expect and kind of the compact you make with your government, you know, for its sovereignty is that in these situations, extraordinary situations, they step up.

01:19:35.820 You know, people are just not prepared and it's no hit on people.

01:19:39.340 You're just not prepared.

01:19:40.080 No one's prepared.

01:19:40.800 Here in western North Carolina, you have folks that are, you know, making the average wages of citizens in the United States, many people working two, three jobs, working overtime.

01:19:52.200 In Pacific Palisades, it's a very different, you know, very different group.

01:19:56.000 That's to the, you know, you're getting close to the top 1 percent there, definitely the top 3 percent of wage earners.

01:20:01.420 And it's, whereas Appalachia is kind of, you know, good old-fashioned conservative right-wing populism and traditionally conservative Republicans, Pacific Palisades, the exact opposite.

01:20:12.440 I would not be surprised if 88 percent of Palisades had voted for Kamala Harris.

01:20:17.040 It's one of the biggest areas for fundraising, whereas Southern California and Northern California, Silicon Valley and the Hollywood area are really cash machines for the Democrat Party.

01:20:27.520 I think one time I heard a statistic, 50 percent of all money for Democrats comes out of California for the entire nation.

01:20:34.420 That shows you how big it is.

01:20:35.440 So their political philosophy is very different.

01:20:37.460 It's not that President Trump's the president for everybody.

01:20:39.920 He's been very adamant about that.

01:20:41.360 But it's a different set of questions.

01:20:43.920 In North Carolina is why was the aid, why is reform months into this, and President Trump's not going to Davos because he knows he's obligated and has a commitment to the American people and a love for the American people.

01:20:54.920 So he is where the forgotten man and woman is.

01:20:59.440 Why is it four months into this?

01:21:02.220 Why was this not taken care of?

01:21:04.920 This is going to be tough to do.

01:21:06.060 You've got a lot of reclamation to do, but it's doable.

01:21:09.340 We've done it before.

01:21:10.860 There's organizations and institutions that have, you know, the organizational wherewithal and capacity to do it.

01:21:18.060 Why was it not done?

01:21:19.000 California is a very different situation.

01:21:20.680 California is a situation that it's a little bit like the Maui situation.

01:21:26.040 How did this happen?

01:21:27.260 You've really got to get down to California of, you know, was this a loaded cannon of kind of environmental decisions have been made and those sparks that kind of flew from these fires or into the power lines that ignited?

01:21:41.500 And where were the firemen?

01:21:42.660 Where was the water?

01:21:43.920 What shocks me is how this ember is a spur from house to house to house, and it looks like nobody defended it.

01:21:50.580 I mean, the questions are not answered in the Palisades.

01:21:53.780 And we say strings attached.

01:21:56.000 Well, you've got to come in and get answers first.

01:21:59.360 You have to get answers, and you have to understand if you're going to put the money in, and particularly the federal government is going to put the money in to reclaim this and reorganize it, that it has to be at a situation that it can't happen again.

01:22:11.760 We can't have the same type of decision-making.

01:22:13.920 We can't have the same type of interconnections of these radical environmental groups coupled with, let's be blunt, radical politicians that created a witch's brew that allowed this devastation that was every bit as bad as the firebombing of Tokyo in March of 1945.

01:22:33.500 How did that happen?

01:22:34.560 What were the policies of this?

01:22:35.980 And people say, well, it's contingent.

01:22:37.380 It's contingent upon what President Trump summed up yesterday in Davos.

01:22:41.680 What was his opening statement?

01:22:43.200 A revolution of common sense.

01:22:45.340 He re-edited it right today.

01:22:46.900 He says, hey, we have, you know, he was talking about the economic model for Canada to think about.

01:22:52.100 He says it's a combination of common sense, tariffs, and competence.

01:22:56.540 And that's, I think, based upon his economic model.

01:23:00.580 If you remember yesterday in Davos, the opening shot from President Trump, President Trump with all, you know, Klaus Schwab had just groveled to him on the global stage.

01:23:11.320 I mean, groveled.

01:23:12.860 And we had Graham Allison in that clip beforehand that played the day before.

01:23:16.980 Graham Allison said, hey, look, this guy, this guy was politically dead, and he's been resurrected.

01:23:21.980 He resurrected himself with his populist base.

01:23:24.960 And he's back, and Graham Allison said, remember, three and four years ago, we wrote this guy off, and we would laugh at him.

01:23:31.380 Well, they ain't laughing now.

01:23:32.580 They're groveling.

01:23:33.480 And yesterday, he sat up there and said, part of these radical policies that you see in Los Angeles, he said point blank.

01:23:40.320 He says, hey, we've had a revolution of common sense in the United States of America, a revolution of common sense.

01:23:45.880 And we're not doing the same war.

01:23:47.000 And he says, let me tell you what action I'm taking immediately.

01:23:49.980 I'm pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord.

01:23:52.700 The Paris Climate Accord, boom, out.

01:23:55.200 We tried to do that seven, eight years ago.

01:23:57.560 It's been blocked.

01:23:58.320 It was blocked by the administrative and deep state constantly.

01:24:02.580 And, of course, all the traitor politicians come to President Trump and say, oh, you can't do that.

01:24:06.560 You're going to get a bad story.

01:24:08.120 President Trump knew it was a scam for the beginning.

01:24:10.480 In the interim, when President Trump pulled it the first time, you had the yellow vest.

01:24:13.960 Remember, what, gilets jaunes?

01:24:16.040 In the yellow vest representing the rural part of France, they put the diesel tax.

01:24:20.880 Macron and these elitists in Paris put the diesel tax right on them, and the people revolted.

01:24:25.760 They burned down, you know, the big parts of Paris in protest saying, hey, you're putting the burden of the Paris Climate Change.

01:24:33.060 It's really underwriting Chinese pollution and Chinese industrialization at the expense of the West, and we're not going to tolerate it.

01:24:39.820 President Trump said, hey, number one, we're getting out of the Paris Climate Accord.

01:24:42.800 Ba-boom.

01:24:43.420 He said, number two, I'm reversing everything from the Green News scam.

01:24:50.300 And last night I was doing this rush, going over Russ's vote, his testimony we had done.

01:24:55.740 President Trump said, additionally, I am stopping anymore.

01:24:59.040 They're right there.

01:24:59.440 The headline yesterday is Trump stalls $300 billion of infrastructure funds as Biden's climate agenda is ditched.

01:25:05.420 He told them right there the entire – if the camera can just get this for a second.

01:25:10.240 Can we cut back to this for a second?

01:25:12.380 Can you cut back to – thank you very much.

01:25:14.320 And then we cut back.

01:25:15.080 Right there they said on this climate, President Trump, this is impoundment.

01:25:21.400 Okay, we go back to the feed.

01:25:22.700 This is called impoundment.

01:25:24.140 Remember, we've talked about this.

01:25:25.420 Take your number two pencil out.

01:25:27.440 It's a piece of nomenclature you're going to want to keep.

01:25:30.600 Impoundment.

01:25:31.240 They've been banging on Russ's vote on this.

01:25:33.180 This is a theory, right, put into practice that the money that's appropriated in the appropriations bill is a ceiling.

01:25:42.560 That the president can come in and impound unspent funds and either use it for different purposes or just kick it back to the Treasury.

01:25:50.580 The president has gone into the Green New Deal fiasco giveaway of Biden, which caused so much inflation.

01:25:58.280 He said, hey, there's $300 billion there.

01:26:00.380 All engines stop.

01:26:01.740 I'm impounding that immediately.

01:26:03.780 I'm going to use that and divert it to other things that can be done right away or just put it back to the Treasury so it doesn't add to the deficit.

01:26:10.720 And they're going absolutely crazy.

01:26:12.500 The Democrats are addicted.

01:26:14.020 As bad as the Republicans are, the Democrats are addicted, addicted, addicted to vast spending.

01:26:20.460 I think we're coming up now.

01:26:22.360 We're seeing – about three minutes out.

01:26:24.900 The president is going to do a walk around.

01:26:26.640 He's going to get to really see and meet some of the folks, the local officials.

01:26:31.380 We're going to see they've got the split screen off to the right.

01:26:34.140 There is where the president will be coming in a second.

01:26:36.540 He's three minutes out.

01:26:37.380 The press pool with Brian Glenn, and we'll get Brian back up in a second, is to our left.

01:26:42.020 I'm going to hang for the coverage the entire time.

01:26:44.840 We're in the Charlie Kirkshire.

01:26:46.120 I know it goes out nationwide on radio.

01:26:48.140 I want to thank everybody.

01:26:49.120 We're doing very special coverage today.

01:26:50.780 We've been invited to kind of be the lead sled dog on coverage by the White House communications team.

01:26:56.200 I want to thank Taylor Botowich, Stephen Chung, and, of course, Caroline Levitt for thinking of Real America's Voice.

01:27:02.920 And kind of a – I think they're looking for alternative sources now besides the mainstream media.

01:27:09.820 The audience is so pathetic, and they're still snarky.

01:27:12.560 It looks like the van's getting close to coming to a stop there.

01:27:17.220 Brian will be jumping out and see to the right.

01:27:19.140 Let's do the split screen again, if we can.

01:27:22.480 Thank you very much.

01:27:23.440 That's Swan and Noah, North Carolina.

01:27:25.880 That's where I think Ben Burkham was the other day.

01:27:28.240 Part of the trip was to Swan and Noah.

01:27:30.020 Let's do the split screen.

01:27:31.400 I'm going to direct here if you make a split.

01:27:33.560 There we go.

01:27:35.220 There we go.

01:27:35.940 That's okay, Wendell.

01:27:36.780 I'll just take control of this and get back to my old directing days.

01:27:40.580 You think I'm obnoxious behind a microphone.

01:27:43.140 You ought to see when I'm directing something.

01:27:44.620 I really turn it up.

01:27:46.220 Harry over there is give me stink eye already, my producer.

01:27:49.800 So you see a split screen right there on the right, Swan and Noah, North Carolina, and

01:27:54.780 that is where the president will be in a moment.

01:27:56.480 That's going to be a walk around to actually see some of the devastation.

01:27:59.120 It's breathtaking.

01:28:00.120 Ben Burkham was there a couple weeks ago.

01:28:02.980 And the left is the press van.

01:28:05.020 That is our own.

01:28:06.520 Brian Glenn is right now with his cameraman.

01:28:08.980 We're not taking a feed.

01:28:10.360 The feed is to the right.

01:28:12.000 So we'll be there momentarily.

01:28:14.820 The president didn't go to Davos because he wanted and needed to go to both Los Angeles.

01:28:21.780 But he wanted to see, he made it out of me.

01:28:23.280 He says, I'm stopping in North Carolina first.

01:28:24.920 This is not acceptable.

01:28:26.500 This really played into what the president has been very concerned about FEMA, played into his fears about FEMA.

01:28:32.120 He finally said, I've had enough about it.

01:28:33.760 Now, this is of the 200 EOs, executive orders, and or executive actions taking place the last couple of days.

01:28:42.860 Everything from using military transport command to ferry illegal aliens out of here into other locations,

01:28:50.000 principally their home countries, all the way to changing the names of migrants,

01:28:55.600 this migrants and all the official reporting or official proclamation for the White House to illegal aliens as they are is a term of art and a term of law in the American system.

01:29:07.680 The president's done so much on the economy with tariffs, trade, also the deportations underway.

01:29:13.460 Our own Ben Berquam is in Chicago.

01:29:15.860 He's out with raids today.

01:29:17.800 He started off, Ben, who had just gotten back from Western North Carolina.

01:29:20.700 Ben was at a hotel, a holiday inn that had been totally refurbished and sold out with illegal aliens in there, three hots a day in a clean, in a clean, let's go ahead.

01:29:34.980 Vance pulled up.

01:29:35.700 Let's go ahead and do the big, can we do the, you got the establishing shot there.

01:29:39.200 You want to take the full screen on that while Ben and those guys, while Brian and those guys get positioned.

01:29:45.080 Now, let's go to, let's go, you want to go to the feet for a second?

01:29:48.720 Yeah, let's go to the podium.

01:29:49.480 The president's going to step up in a moment.

01:29:51.060 Brian will be coming up.

01:29:53.440 Brian's, Brian's right there.

01:29:56.180 Okay.

01:29:58.020 Okay.

01:29:58.600 There we go right there.

01:29:59.860 You've got the podium.

01:30:00.880 The president will be coming to a moment.

01:30:03.000 Those are some local dignitaries, people.

01:30:06.380 Ben Berquam was there last week.

01:30:07.860 The devastation is horrific.

01:30:09.560 It's an outdoor, you see, it's an outdoor facility.

01:30:13.120 I mean, outdoor.

01:30:14.280 The president's going to actually go and do a walk and talk where he'll walk around with local officials.

01:30:18.300 This always normally takes place after a round table where the president gets briefed.

01:30:23.300 They'll also put somebody normally in the car with the president, a couple of the local officials, and they'll be giving him an update on what's going on.

01:30:30.220 So when he's out, he's pretty fully briefed.

01:30:31.720 Having been briefed the night before at the White House, briefed to the White House in the morning before he goes, normally in the residence.

01:30:38.840 Then when he comes out, goes to Marine One, gets on Air Force One, he'll be further briefed on Air Force One.

01:30:44.280 So he comes, so he's got a lot of backup material, a lot of, he'll be pretty far up the street.

01:30:49.460 The president's a very quick study, not just his experience in business and capital markets over 30, 40, 50 years.

01:30:56.260 His time, first term as president, can really absorb tremendous amount of information.

01:31:03.680 If you have to think what this guy manages every day and keeps the air, you know, juggles the balls, everything from the economy,

01:31:10.180 and these major geo-economic decisions he's making about changing of the model of the economic model of the United States

01:31:18.460 and how it's financed, everything to geostrategic model, where he's looking really, I think, to expand the Monroe Doctrine,

01:31:25.660 and I call it Fortress America, that he's going to secure the Western Hemisphere

01:31:29.300 and eventually put an iron dome over the United States so he will leave his term of office,

01:31:35.080 whether it's this term that started in 24 or one that starts in 28.

01:31:39.520 Our own Andy Ogles, a congressman from Tennessee, has put that in as a bill to start moving forward, changing the Constitution.

01:31:46.780 Okay, here we've got one of the staff is there to make sure the mics work.

01:31:53.520 Brian Glenn is coming up with the camera crew right now.

01:31:58.100 Brian Glenn will be here in a moment.

01:32:00.000 The president will arrive in a moment.

01:32:02.400 Maybe we do a split shot with Brian Glenn at this time and maybe see what we got.

01:32:06.820 Right there, we're going to.

01:32:08.720 Okay, here we're doing a walk right now.

01:32:10.940 Do a split.

01:32:11.400 There we go.

01:32:12.700 Got Brian Glenn on the left.

01:32:14.300 And he's going to go with the – is that up with the president right now?

01:32:18.420 Do we have any audio?

01:32:19.480 As soon as we get audio of Brian, let's go to Brian's audio.

01:32:23.020 I'm not saying I'm talked at it.

01:32:24.040 I could do this forever.

01:32:26.320 This is a lot easier than interviewing people.

01:32:29.440 This is just giving you a stream of customer.

01:32:31.060 We're doing it.

01:32:31.400 Got Brian?

01:32:32.760 Is that Brian Glenn?

01:32:33.640 Hey, can you hear me all right?

01:32:35.580 Yes.

01:32:35.860 Brian, go ahead.

01:32:36.320 Steve, I can hear you.

01:32:37.040 Put us in.

01:32:37.600 Put us – where are we?

01:32:39.120 Yeah, get us up to speed.

01:32:40.140 Well, it looks like we're at what was at one point a family's home that obviously has been damaged for the hurricane.

01:32:49.740 We're sitting up here.

01:32:51.680 We just got to the site.

01:32:52.980 You saw what the road looked like.

01:32:56.360 And obviously about the 100-yard or so dash that we had to make.

01:33:00.500 Actually, flip this camera around because he's going to come in from here.

01:33:04.420 He's going to come around from this way.

01:33:05.700 We're just waiting for the president to get out of his vehicle, walk over here.

01:33:12.240 And I'm trying to look around, see if we just ran and got to this location.

01:33:16.260 So let me just kind of eyeball it.

01:33:17.480 It looks like we do have a family.

01:33:20.460 And let's – President Trump, First Lady, stepping out of the vehicle right now.

01:33:25.720 Let's listen in to what it's like here on the ground in Asheville.

01:33:31.580 Steve, let's just listen in.

01:33:35.700 The President is speaking with reverend.

01:34:05.680 Graham, and I think the Smith family from what I call it.

01:34:10.980 But let's see if we can listen in a little bit more, Steve.

01:34:12.760 We can listen in.

01:34:19.860 So let's look.

01:34:30.260 Yep.

01:34:31.880 Yeah, I'm just trying to hear

01:35:00.100 And Steve, at this point

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Bannon's War Room - January 24, 2025

Episode 4219： Trump Live In Asheville Cont.

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