Bannon's War Room - July 05, 2025


Episode 4611： The Depravity Of The 'Ruling Class' With Megyn Kelly


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

186.76158

Word Count

10,275

Sentence Count

843

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:07.000 Pray for our enemies.
00:00:09.000 Because we're going to medieval on these people.
00:00:12.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:17.000 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:19.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:20.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:22.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:29.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:53.000 And then at 2, we'll update you from where we are now.
00:00:56.000 And at 6, same thing.
00:00:58.000 And speaking this morning, we are going to have Kirk County Sheriff Larry Leitha leading us off.
00:01:05.000 United States Representative Chip Roy is here with us.
00:01:09.000 Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. will be speaking briefly.
00:01:12.000 And Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice.
00:01:14.000 And when we are done, because we are still in active search and recovery mode,
00:01:19.000 we're going to keep this short.
00:01:20.000 We'll allow five questions.
00:01:21.000 And I am going to turn it over now to Sheriff Leitha.
00:01:24.000 Thank you.
00:01:25.000 Thank you.
00:01:26.000 Yeah.
00:01:27.000 As probably a lot of y'all know, Sheriff Larry Leitha, Kirk County.
00:01:32.000 One thing I want to tell you, I appreciate y'all covering this.
00:01:35.000 One thing I'm really big about is transparency.
00:01:37.000 We really appreciate y'all getting the message out there.
00:01:39.000 We will do our best.
00:01:40.000 Like I said, we'll have two more briefings out there to get you information as we get it.
00:01:44.000 What I want to start with, I want to make sure you understand.
00:01:47.000 These numbers I'm going to give you are at 8.55 a.m. this morning.
00:01:51.000 These are changing rapidly, okay?
00:01:53.000 So every time, the next time we meet, I'll update you.
00:01:55.000 But just bear with us, okay?
00:01:57.000 They will be changing.
00:01:58.000 They're already changing.
00:01:59.000 I'm up here.
00:02:00.000 And we'll try to do a really good job.
00:02:01.000 I've got some notes here I'm going to read because I want to be pretty accurate on this.
00:02:04.000 Then I'll talk a little bit before I turn it over to Chip Roy.
00:02:08.000 We are now more than 24 hours into this tragic event.
00:02:11.000 And Kerrville Police Department, Kerrville Fire Department, and Kerr County Sheriff's Office
00:02:16.000 and other first responders from around the Texas are continuing to conduct rescue and recovery operations
00:02:22.000 along the Guadalupe River corridor.
00:02:25.000 So far, we've evacuated over 850 uninjured people, 8 injured people, and have recovered 27 deceased fatalities at this time.
00:02:37.000 Of these 27, 18 are adults, 9 are children.
00:02:42.000 Of that, 6 of the adults are unidentified and 1 of the children are unidentified at this time.
00:02:48.000 That's at 8.55 this morning.
00:02:51.000 We are unable to release any further information on deceased at this time as our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones.
00:02:58.000 We are working hard to locate anyone who is still missing and to ensure they are safe.
00:03:03.000 There are two ways that you can report the missing people.
00:03:06.000 This is something I would really like you all to spend some time getting out.
00:03:10.000 One of the ways is via phone.
00:03:12.000 We have a call center set up to accept information and share that information along our relief and incident commanders.
00:03:20.000 That number is 830-285-1111.
00:03:27.000 I'll repeat.
00:03:28.000 830-285-1111.
00:03:32.000 It's 258.
00:03:34.000 Correction.
00:03:35.000 258.
00:03:36.000 Sorry about that.
00:03:37.000 I'm going to repeat it one more time.
00:03:38.000 258.
00:03:39.000 258.
00:03:40.000 The number for the final time is 830-258-1111.
00:03:47.000 Is everybody good?
00:03:49.000 Okay.
00:03:50.000 The second way is via email.
00:03:53.000 Like the phone number, information received will be shared along our relief teams.
00:03:58.000 That email is floodrecovery at co.kerr.tx.us.
00:04:11.000 There is a shelter for the general public who needs assistance at the First United Methodist Church, 321 Thompson Drive in Kerrville.
00:04:32.000 At present, we don't need material or volunteer donations at this time.
00:04:39.000 We are coordinating with a strong state response currently.
00:04:42.000 Cash donations can be made to the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country.
00:04:48.000 Once again, donations can be made to the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country.
00:04:53.000 Our first responders along have been working tirelessly and will continue to conduct search and rescue operations until all citizens are accounted for.
00:05:03.000 Tragic incidents like this affect us all.
00:05:06.000 This community is strong and will continue to pull together during this tragic time.
00:05:11.000 We have been humbled by the outpouring of support.
00:05:14.000 We are very appreciative of everyone that's stepped up to help us.
00:05:18.000 One thing I want to tell you and assure y'all is that we will not stop until every single person is found.
00:05:24.000 We've got all the resources we need.
00:05:26.000 We're here for the long haul.
00:05:27.000 As I said, numbers will be changing rapidly.
00:05:30.000 But like I said, we will not stop to everybody.
00:05:32.000 I can't tell you.
00:05:33.000 I've been asked how long will this take.
00:05:34.000 I can't tell you how long it's going to take.
00:05:36.000 It's going to take a while.
00:05:37.000 I appreciate y'all, like I said, getting the word out.
00:05:40.000 Like I said, after this, we're going to take about five questions.
00:05:43.000 At this time, I'm going to introduce you to United States Representative Chip Roy.
00:05:48.000 He's going to say a few words.
00:05:50.000 Thank you, Sheriff.
00:05:52.000 I'll be brief.
00:05:53.000 You know, I'm here to show support for the community.
00:05:56.000 You know, my family comes here to Kerrville for 4th of July virtually every year.
00:06:00.000 We come here for Robert Earl's shows.
00:06:02.000 And we were planning to be here for the show with Robert Earl and Beckman.
00:06:06.000 But, you know, these are the events that we're dealing with today.
00:06:10.000 And trying to explain to a world that's watching this and asking questions what a flash flood looks like where you have a, you know,
00:06:18.000 26 to 30-foot rise in the water in a matter of an hour, 4 to 6 a.m. on a holiday.
00:06:25.000 And the people that are having to respond to that.
00:06:27.000 I just got everybody like pause, take a breath for the recriminations and the Monday morning quarterbacking.
00:06:33.000 Because there's so many great people in this community that are responding and moving quickly.
00:06:37.000 Lives lost, saving people, like camp directors.
00:06:41.000 And I'm going to let other people name names and stuff.
00:06:43.000 That's not my job here.
00:06:44.000 But we know the stories of people that have been heroic in trying to make sure that the lives lost was at a minimum.
00:06:51.000 And trying to recover individuals.
00:06:53.000 I got a call on an update this morning.
00:06:56.000 My kid's school, there was one of their schoolmates, was missing.
00:07:00.000 And was one of the kids, she was on a mattress for two or three hours in the middle of the night.
00:07:04.000 And, you know, she's united with her mom.
00:07:07.000 And that's wonderful.
00:07:08.000 And those are the kind of blessings that we should be celebrating.
00:07:10.000 While we're also mourning the loss of life as we identify those that didn't make it.
00:07:15.000 And are now home with their Lord.
00:07:18.000 So, I just want to appreciate the first responders, the coordinated effort from the state, local, federal partnerships.
00:07:24.000 Yesterday, I was on the phone with the president, with the secretary.
00:07:29.000 I expect we'll have, you know, some additional visitors today.
00:07:33.000 I'll let other people talk about that.
00:07:34.000 But I couldn't even get the conversation out with the secretary trying to explain to her what we were dealing with.
00:07:41.000 That doesn't happen often for me.
00:07:44.000 But it took me a while to collect myself to even be able to tell her what we were looking at.
00:07:49.000 And they've been fantastic.
00:07:51.000 Made available immediately at the request.
00:07:53.000 I talked to Nim about the need for, you know, help with the Army Corps.
00:07:57.000 Talked to the secretary and their team and their immediate.
00:08:00.000 It's been an extraordinary partnership.
00:08:03.000 I think there's been a thousand or so boots on the ground combined between state, local and federal.
00:08:07.000 I'll let them say the numbers, but obviously hundreds of people that have been rescued, 160 plus air rescues.
00:08:15.000 I think that number is going up.
00:08:17.000 You know, air lifting and taking in resources to some of these camps that are isolated.
00:08:21.000 So, let's focus on that.
00:08:23.000 Let's focus on finding those who can be found.
00:08:26.000 And then we can always assess what we need to do later going forward.
00:08:30.000 But extremely proud of this community.
00:08:32.000 Let's finish the job here over the next few days.
00:08:35.000 Support the local law enforcement and the first responders.
00:08:38.000 And pray for the families, particularly those who have lost loved ones.
00:08:42.000 With that, I will turn it over to the mayor.
00:08:49.000 Thanks, Joe.
00:08:52.000 I'm Mayor Joe Herring, Jr., Mayor of Kerrville, Texas.
00:08:56.000 I'm glad you're here.
00:08:58.000 And I have a few comments to make.
00:09:03.000 People need to know today will be a hard day.
00:09:10.000 It will be a hard day.
00:09:12.000 This is the message I want to share.
00:09:15.000 The city of Kerrville is thankful.
00:09:18.000 We have help from our city crews, from county personnel, from state agencies and federal resources, including the Coast Guard.
00:09:30.000 I have been asked how people can help.
00:09:33.000 The sheriff has mentioned that a fund has been set up by the Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country.
00:09:40.000 Information about this can be found on the city's Facebook page.
00:09:44.000 In fact, if you want to know how to help, I know from my phone, from my texts, from my emails, thousands of people across our state and the world want to know how they can help.
00:09:59.000 The easiest way to get information about that is to follow the City of Kerrville, City of Kerrville, City Hall, Facebook page.
00:10:11.000 They have done an admirable job of making sure all resources and all information is available, not only to the citizens of Kerrville, but to the citizens of the world.
00:10:24.000 I'm thankful you're here.
00:10:27.000 Today will be a hard day.
00:10:34.000 Please pray for our community.
00:10:37.000 Thank you.
00:10:39.000 Next up is City Manager, Dalton Rice.
00:10:47.000 Thank you, Mayor.
00:10:48.000 Dalton Rice, the City Manager for the City of Kerrville.
00:10:51.000 I wanted to give a couple updates on operations.
00:10:54.000 Operations did continue through the evening.
00:10:56.000 We specialized equipment with a lot of helicopters trying to identify any areas that we could find, you know, heat sources or whatever.
00:11:04.000 So operations did continue throughout the night.
00:11:06.000 Obviously, the water did recede into this morning.
00:11:09.000 I do want to encourage folks with road damage, even though a road may be open, please use extreme caution.
00:11:14.000 If water does get under the road, we are seeing a lot of debris, a lot of asphalt that is washing up.
00:11:19.000 So there could be some other damaged areas.
00:11:22.000 We did start boots on the ground operations about 8 a.m. this morning and started about southwest of Hunt, so southwest of Camp Mystic.
00:11:32.000 These folks will be traveling very difficult terrain up through Ingram, and we're going to start getting information.
00:11:40.000 So, again, as the Sheriff had alluded to, the information is changing constantly, and it's going to be changing by the minute.
00:11:51.000 Talk about roads.
00:11:53.000 Don't do your own searches.
00:11:54.000 We know everybody wants to get help.
00:11:56.000 As the roads start clearing up, you're going to want to get out there.
00:11:59.000 We are in constant communication with, you know, with families.
00:12:02.000 We are in constant communication with those around, and so we will continue to effortlessly work through working with our partners.
00:12:09.000 Again, we've been working with Border Patrol, Texas DPS, Game Wardens, Federal side, U.S. Coast Guard is here.
00:12:19.000 We want to thank them.
00:12:21.000 Air Assets.
00:12:22.000 Again, we have hundreds of state and federal and local resources out here supporting this community.
00:12:28.000 We do have grief counselors out there, so if there's anybody that needs, you know, any support, please don't hesitate to reach out as well.
00:12:35.000 We still are operating shelters.
00:12:37.000 Shelters are the same ones that we gave out before.
00:12:40.000 Good news is a lot of the shelters have gone down in numbers, so there's either been, you know, those that have been reunited or kind of, you know, moving on.
00:12:48.000 A couple of locations, we had 18, you know, girls in there that have been reunited with their families.
00:12:54.000 We're down to about four that we're working on reunification as well.
00:12:58.000 So reunification efforts are continuously ongoing from the missing person side.
00:13:03.000 Here over the next few hours, we're going to be putting more information out there as far as missing persons on how to contact if you have somebody that is missing or a loved one.
00:13:12.000 Y'all have the camp number right now.
00:13:14.000 We are continuously working on the other missing person side.
00:13:18.000 The best way that I can sum this up is we have the known, which is the 27, you know, potential missing campers that we're looking for now.
00:13:26.000 The unknown is how many people were here locally, visiting on vacation, you know, doing other things in the community that we just do not have numbers.
00:13:35.000 So these numbers are going to, are going to change throughout the day.
00:13:39.000 And with that, we will take five questions.
00:13:42.000 How many people are still missing?
00:13:44.000 On the missing individuals, the 27 of those all that you said campers are those all children?
00:13:49.000 And then also, do we know the total number of missing that you know of, not the unknowns, obviously, but the knowns of adults and children for the county?
00:13:57.000 No, the 27 missing is the children from Camp Mystic that we have as far as right now for the number.
00:14:03.000 As far as unknown other missing, we do not have an accurate count and we don't even want to begin to estimate at this time.
00:14:09.000 Can you expand on that?
00:14:11.000 A lot of people in the community that are living along the river have said that they are very concerned about the number of missing.
00:14:18.000 They want to know more about how you guys are looking for them, what the efforts are, maybe even some of the challenges.
00:14:25.000 Can you speak to that?
00:14:26.000 Absolutely.
00:14:27.000 So, like I alluded to with the operations piece, we have basically a team of about 34 folks from Texas Task Force One, DPS, Game Wardens, and Border Patrol,
00:14:36.000 that are boots on the ground on each side of the river, starting in hunt, and they're starting to make their way up.
00:14:42.000 Across this entire area, it's probably about a 17-kilometer stretch.
00:14:46.000 They are going to be in very debris terrain, very difficult, challenging contours along the riverbanks.
00:14:53.000 So, it is a very harsh environment.
00:14:56.000 We are doing what's called a primary search, which is basically a very quick search, but when I say quick, that is up, down, sideways.
00:15:03.000 They're turning over as many rocks as they can, culverts up in trees.
00:15:06.000 They are looking at every possible location, and then we'll start going into a layered approach or what we also have from the locals, which has been a really great resource.
00:15:16.000 In the floods that we have, there are known collection points where debris tends to collect along the riverbank.
00:15:22.000 We do have intel on what sites and locations those are, so we can also put additional resources into those collection sites and start getting a more focused approach on that.
00:15:33.000 We've seen a lot of tragic flooding. We've seen a lot of tragic flooding in central Texas over the past few weeks.
00:15:39.000 There are so many people, I know this is so early, but there are so many people already asking, what can be done to stop the loss of life?
00:15:48.000 We saw 13 in San Antonio. We have seen an unknown number, but at least 27 here. They're scared.
00:15:54.000 Yeah, you know, it's a great question, and I think that's a question that we definitely need to answer at some point in time.
00:16:00.000 Right now our focus is on the search and rescue efforts, making sure that we get these families out, you know, get some closure, you know, where we can.
00:16:07.000 And so I think that is a great question that we need to ask ourselves, but right now we want to focus on search and rescue operations.
00:16:13.000 Are there still rescue efforts going on right now?
00:16:15.000 Yes, we are. We have been in continuous search and rescue operations.
00:16:18.000 Again, you know, this river, even though it started in West Kerr, this goes all the way down through East Kerr County and is continuing on, you know, to the southeast.
00:16:25.000 So yes, search and rescue operations are continuously ongoing, and we'll continue to update on that.
00:16:30.000 One more question.
00:16:31.000 Where are you finding these folks right now with active rescues this morning? Are they stuck in an island of land? Where are they?
00:16:38.000 Typically rescues, if we do find them, they're going to be in trees or we find them, you know, either on high ground.
00:16:44.000 Again, most of the rescues that we are having at this point in time are other camps.
00:16:49.000 So we have a lot of camps and they are all accounted for, but they are isolated because of road damage.
00:16:54.000 So we know where they're at. We're getting them food, water, resources.
00:16:57.000 And now it's a matter of just getting them safely across, you know, low water crossings or other areas to other shelters.
00:17:04.000 There's so much confusion, though, about these kids. We know that there's missing kids. There's pictures and there's names and all this stuff. Are you going to give a list of the names of the kids?
00:17:14.000 Absolutely not. We are not going to give a list of the names. We want to protect, you know, those families and their information.
00:17:19.000 The other thing I want to point out and thank you for bringing that up. These families are getting bombarded with spam calls and spam information.
00:17:25.000 So we want to keep the kids information and these families names out of, you know, out of any public light to give them the opportunity to grieve and to make sure that we give them them the best possible resources that we can and get them reconnected as soon as possible.
00:17:39.000 So some of them are and some of those have been a great help as well. So, yes, it is a double edged sword, but we need to work through it.
00:17:47.000 So our next one will be at two o'clock and we'll give updates then. Thank you.
00:18:00.000 OK. Ben Burkwam asked the first question. It was a great question.
00:18:06.000 Let me be blunt. When the town manager comes up and says it's going to be a very tough day today, I think that's a tell.
00:18:12.000 And I think everybody, including the audience, you know, back on your knees saying prayers.
00:18:18.000 But when the governor and lieutenant governor do not show up, I think that's also a big tell.
00:18:24.000 This is a pretty grim report.
00:18:28.000 I'm not sure there was a ton of information there, except that search and rescue go on and they are identifying some of these or there are finding some of these children.
00:18:36.000 But you didn't see names of the living. I think that was the most important thing is Ben Burkwam.
00:18:41.000 Can we get Ben Burkwam up as soon as we get Ben up? Let's go ahead and do it.
00:18:46.000 Obviously a horrible tragedy. I think what Chip Roy said, just to reiterate and look, there's going to be, as you saw, two things going on that are, you know, one is just human nature.
00:19:01.000 There's a lot of recriminations you should know already about the weather forecast, what people knew, where people evacuate.
00:19:07.000 That's only going to build in size given a tragedy of this scale.
00:19:11.000 The other is social media used to harass parents in this case.
00:19:17.000 You saw where they're getting spam.
00:19:19.000 They're probably get people, you know, they get, we see this stuff already putting out names of children that have, that have been found that are not alive.
00:19:27.000 I mean, what they're doing is horrible.
00:19:29.000 They're probably trying to get money out of these folks.
00:19:31.000 So the parents right now, that's what we're going to restrict information.
00:19:35.000 Give me a thumbs up when we got Ben up.
00:19:37.000 Okay.
00:19:38.000 Ben Burkwam.
00:19:39.000 And I really want to give him a, a, a attaboy.
00:19:42.000 He had the first question and still the best question right there.
00:19:45.000 Ben, we've got a couple of minutes here.
00:19:48.000 That was a pretty grim update.
00:19:50.000 Number one, when the mayor sits there and tells you today's going to be a tough day, folks should understand that, you know,
00:19:58.000 it's going to be a tough day.
00:19:59.000 He knows something.
00:20:00.000 Also, and I'm not faulting the governor, the lieutenant governor, but if there was a lot of good news on children being rescued, I think the governor, lieutenant governor would want to be there.
00:20:12.000 You can already see the intensity of the recriminations.
00:20:15.000 I think in that this morning, uh, was, uh, was the local officials.
00:20:19.000 Uh, can you give it, you asked the first question.
00:20:22.000 It's a brilliant question.
00:20:23.000 I'm not sure.
00:20:24.000 Did he actually answer the question?
00:20:25.000 Ben, do we actually have just the basic information of the, uh, of the Christian girls camp at mystic?
00:20:32.000 How many nine year olds are missing?
00:20:34.000 How many have been recovered?
00:20:35.000 How many have been rescued and have they recovered?
00:20:38.000 Any bodies of the rest?
00:20:39.000 Sir.
00:20:40.000 Yeah.
00:20:41.000 Yeah.
00:20:42.000 So, and, uh, I'm standing next to chip.
00:20:43.000 We're going to try to grab him here in just a second.
00:20:45.000 Uh, this is, uh, so the, the, the, did answer part of the question.
00:20:49.000 Uh, the main question was out of those numbers, how many are those children?
00:20:54.000 Are they children?
00:20:55.000 Are they adults?
00:20:56.000 So the 27 missing from camp mystic are the children.
00:20:58.000 Uh, there are additional, obviously more adults.
00:21:01.000 The last number I heard was still 30 to 50.
00:21:04.000 Um, so that, that number is unknown, but those are the known missing.
00:21:08.000 The big question is the unknown missing.
00:21:10.000 And he didn't answer.
00:21:11.000 Okay.
00:21:12.000 Didn't have, but hang on, but hang on, but hang on, but, but I know, but hang on, which
00:21:17.000 is terrible.
00:21:18.000 This is the first time I think that question, even chambers and Peter didn't know that from
00:21:23.000 their things.
00:21:24.000 I just want to make sure we got the answer.
00:21:26.000 You asked the question about the children at camp mystic.
00:21:29.000 His answer was 27.
00:21:32.000 So it's not 23.
00:21:33.000 It's 27.
00:21:34.000 Am I to take that as 27?
00:21:38.000 Yeah, the missing.
00:21:39.000 So they've found nine, uh, of the girls, uh, deceased from the camp.
00:21:42.000 Uh, they said another 18 adults, but there are still 27 missing, uh, from camp mystic.
00:21:48.000 And we do have a Congressman chip Roy.
00:21:50.000 You just joined us, Steve.
00:21:51.000 Uh, chip, um, you, uh, thank you for joining us.
00:21:56.000 No terrible time, but talk to us about your first statement about the biblical nature of
00:22:00.000 this 26 feet in 45 minutes.
00:22:04.000 And I think 40 feet in just over an hour, the rising of this river, sir.
00:22:08.000 Yes.
00:22:09.000 Uh, chip.
00:22:10.000 I'm just gonna, I have to relay the question, but, uh, so talk to us about the, the comp,
00:22:15.000 the first comments you made about the biblical nature of this, that when you say, you know,
00:22:18.000 people that don't understand what that flash flood, when it rises 20 feet, 30 feet, what
00:22:22.000 that actually looks like.
00:22:23.000 Yeah.
00:22:24.000 I mean, like this is an area that's unique.
00:22:26.000 Um, it's beautiful.
00:22:27.000 That's why there's so many camps here, uh, where the river cuts through this part of the
00:22:31.000 hill country.
00:22:32.000 People don't think Texas, they think, oh, it's flat.
00:22:33.000 And also this is a very hilly area.
00:22:35.000 Um, and it's, it's just what we had about, I don't know, 13, 14 inches of rain in a very
00:22:40.000 short period of time.
00:22:41.000 It was like a wheelbarrow was just dumped right into the corridor.
00:22:44.000 And so you had a 26 to 30 foot rise in the water in about an hour.
00:22:48.000 Um, that's, that's just, you can't really prepare for that sort of a thing.
00:22:51.000 It was a unique situation.
00:22:52.000 It happened at 4 AM to 6 AM, the absolute worst time when people are there, you know,
00:22:56.000 asleep, uh, still dark out.
00:22:58.000 And, um, you know, look, there was a lot of heroic efforts that have been underway.
00:23:02.000 Um, you know, I was just talking about a, a woman, a camp director, uh, who lost her
00:23:06.000 life, uh, you know, uh, saving kids, um, people, all these first responders who are out
00:23:10.000 here doing the Lord's work.
00:23:12.000 There's been some miraculous stories.
00:23:13.000 Uh, one of my kids, uh, schoolmates, uh, she was alive after, um, you know, middle of the
00:23:18.000 night, uh, you know, staying on a mattress floating for a few hours.
00:23:21.000 But obviously we've had some, some heartache and there's going to be some more heartache
00:23:24.000 today, but we remain hopeful as we continue to do the search and rescue operation.
00:23:28.000 Um, and we got to just continue to keep these families in our prayer.
00:23:31.000 It's tragic.
00:23:32.000 I mean, the camp community here is, is real rich.
00:23:35.000 Uh, it's been here for decades, right?
00:23:37.000 And, and a lot of people send their, I was just on the phone with one of my colleagues
00:23:40.000 on the other side of the aisle.
00:23:41.000 She herself went to the camps here.
00:23:42.000 She was actually here for the last huge flood in 1987.
00:23:45.000 Um, they happen every once in a while, but this one was, you know, this one was something
00:23:50.000 like we've never seen before.
00:23:51.000 So, um, you know, we just got to keep working today to try to do what we can for these families
00:23:55.000 and keep the search operation going.
00:23:57.000 Steve?
00:23:58.000 Ben, ask, uh, ask the Congressman, is he keeping the president personally?
00:24:02.000 Is he updating the president personally?
00:24:04.000 Um, are you updating the president personally or is there communication directly?
00:24:09.000 Um, I, you know, private communications, but yeah, I mean, I've been having, uh, I talked
00:24:13.000 to the president yesterday.
00:24:14.000 I talked to Secretary Noem yesterday, yesterday.
00:24:16.000 Uh, been keeping the White House up to date, um, you know, the, in the, you know, his staff
00:24:21.000 and, um, we'll be having a constant conversation.
00:24:23.000 The governor's in constant conversations.
00:24:24.000 Uh, I expect the governor to be back here today.
00:24:26.000 Uh, I think the secretary might be here, might be here today.
00:24:29.000 We're, um, you know, it's a coordinated effort, state, local, federal.
00:24:33.000 Um, we've gotten all the resources we've asked for.
00:24:36.000 And, and, um, yesterday, uh, we've asked for some support in Army Corps, immediately got
00:24:40.000 it.
00:24:41.000 Uh, there's air assets here.
00:24:42.000 We've had 160 air operations, but you know, a lot, a lot of that credit goes as it should.
00:24:46.000 Uh, to the state and local guys, you know, federal comes in to, to do what they can.
00:24:49.000 But, um, you know, governor Abbott and, you know, Nim kid, I can't say enough about, uh,
00:24:54.000 you know, uh, TDEM, the Texas department of emergency management.
00:24:57.000 I've worked, uh, too much with them, frankly, between COVID and this and other, other things,
00:25:02.000 but, but he's a good man and he's doing a great job.
00:25:05.000 Uh, Ben, find out where, where can we get in touch?
00:25:09.000 How do we follow, uh, Chip Roy today, uh, while he's down there on social media?
00:25:13.000 Thank you.
00:25:14.000 How do we best follow you while you're here?
00:25:16.000 Getting any updates for the folks that, uh, want to?
00:25:19.000 Yeah.
00:25:20.000 Well, first of all, there'll be another, there's going to be a bigger briefing in the early
00:25:22.000 afternoon.
00:25:23.000 I think we'll have a little bit more information.
00:25:24.000 You can always follow me on Twitter at, uh, Chip Roy TX, C-H-I-P-R-O-Y-T-X.
00:25:28.000 Um, or my official account, Rep Chip Roy.
00:25:30.000 We're putting out what we can, but I'm pretty conservative in what I put out.
00:25:33.000 Um, other people, you know, throwing stuff out there.
00:25:35.000 I, I want to wait.
00:25:36.000 We need families to get noticed.
00:25:38.000 We need to take this methodically, do it the right way.
00:25:41.000 Um, you know, people have lost loved ones.
00:25:43.000 There's a lot of people out here.
00:25:44.000 And by the end, in the camp, all the focus on the camps, understandably, these young girls,
00:25:47.000 but there are, there are adults, uh, people here in Kerrville that are being directly impacted.
00:25:51.000 I saw a story of a couple that was swept away.
00:25:54.000 They'd come down here and they were in a cabin, um, you know, and other folks that are locals.
00:25:58.000 And, um, so, you know, we got to just keep doing our work to try to get the facts out there.
00:26:02.000 Uh, but we'll all come together.
00:26:03.000 Uh, we're resilient.
00:26:04.000 We're Texans.
00:26:05.000 Um, and we'll figure out how to move forward from this.
00:26:07.000 But right now, we just got to, you know, finish the job, uh, these next few days.
00:26:10.000 Thank you, sir.
00:26:11.000 Thanks.
00:26:12.000 Yes.
00:26:13.000 Thanks.
00:26:14.000 Yeah.
00:26:15.000 And Steve, the, the big message for everybody out there.
00:26:17.000 Yep.
00:26:18.000 As is, is pray, pray, pray, pray, pray for this community.
00:26:22.000 Go ahead, Steve.
00:26:24.000 Ben, can you hang on?
00:26:25.000 Uh, I'm going to go to a interview I just did with Megan Kelly.
00:26:28.000 I want you to hold for the end of the show.
00:26:30.000 We'll get any more wrap up and any more information and we'll tee up the 2 PM, uh, central time,
00:26:35.000 3 PM Eastern daylight time.
00:26:38.000 That's another press conference with updates.
00:26:40.000 So Ben Burquam, just hang on.
00:26:41.000 I'm gonna come right back to you.
00:26:42.000 Okay.
00:26:43.000 Okay.
00:26:44.000 Uh, not a lot of good news out of Kurzville.
00:26:48.000 Uh, that's what we need prayer.
00:26:50.000 Um, we're going to go back to Ben Burquam, uh, before we sign off, uh, at, uh, 12 noon,
00:26:55.000 Eastern daylight time.
00:26:56.000 I was very fortunate, uh, to be able to do an interview with Megan Kelly.
00:27:01.000 I want to play that in its entirety.
00:27:03.000 If, uh, Denver could go ahead.
00:27:04.000 Let's kick into Megan Kelly and I'll be back right after it.
00:27:08.000 By Megan Kelly, Megan on this 4th of July weekend, the kicks off really the year leading
00:27:13.000 up to our 250th, um, commemoration anniversary as a country, you know, very few republics
00:27:19.000 have made it this long.
00:27:20.000 There's this theory that a Republic will only last about 200 to 250 years, like the Roman
00:27:25.000 Republic and others that come before us.
00:27:27.000 Given last weekend I spent in New York called up there to kind of go through some analysis
00:27:31.000 and data of what happened in this election to see if there's anything to be done.
00:27:35.000 What, what is your pull back the camera for a minute?
00:27:38.000 What, what is making Kelly think about the arc of our country?
00:27:40.000 Where are we now?
00:27:41.000 And, and given your experience, particularly in New York city, when you're at Fox news
00:27:47.000 and midtown Manhattan, what is happening there now in kind of the arc of the story?
00:27:52.000 If you just looked, if you zoomed in on what's happening in a, in a city like New York or San
00:27:57.000 Francisco or LA or Chicago, I think you'd be very pessimistic about the direction of the
00:28:01.000 country, especially if this were 2023 instead of 2025.
00:28:06.000 And we had Joe Biden at the top of the government, the federal government.
00:28:10.000 And in particular, when it comes to our culture, I mean, you talk about end times of the Roman
00:28:14.000 empire and other great empires, you start to see things like total debauchery spread across
00:28:20.000 the culture, the loss of the nuclear family, the loss of the connection to faith.
00:28:25.000 And we're seeing that more and more on the left in these big cities and the left runs our best and
00:28:30.000 biggest cities.
00:28:31.000 Unfortunately, they're running them right into the ground.
00:28:33.000 Um, but you're seeing just sort of a sort of the dehumanization of people, the disconnection
00:28:39.000 from God and from faith of any kind, the, uh, running away from family and childbearing
00:28:45.000 as something that's somehow evil or bad for you or awful to do.
00:28:49.000 Um, you know, transhumanism, you're seeing thruples, you're seeing the rent a womb become
00:28:56.000 a thing.
00:28:57.000 I mean, it's just, it's dark.
00:28:58.000 It's dark.
00:28:59.000 And the whole trans thing with the men pretending to be women and women telling other women
00:29:04.000 that they're bigots if they don't accept that.
00:29:06.000 And if they stand up for themselves, it's very sick.
00:29:08.000 It's a sick culture in a lot of ways.
00:29:10.000 When you look back, not to sound too Pollyanna about it, but, um, you look back at 1950s
00:29:15.000 and the 1960s and you turned on the music, uh, on the radio.
00:29:18.000 And what did you hear about?
00:29:19.000 You heard about, um, sweet love between puppy love teenagers and families and how the guy
00:29:28.000 really wished he could get the girl.
00:29:30.000 And, um, don't know what a slide rulers for, you know, it's just sweet and sort of G rated.
00:29:36.000 And you turn on the radio today and you literally hear songs about wet ass P word celebrated and then
00:29:45.000 written up by the New York times, like some sort of modern day genius.
00:29:49.000 So it's dark.
00:29:50.000 The culture's really slid and just turn on the television for any Superbowl for any music event,
00:29:56.000 any, uh, celebratory event of artists of any kind, whether it's music or acting or Broadway.
00:30:02.000 And you see nudity in your child's face.
00:30:06.000 You see J Lo's vag, which you'd never, you didn't ask to see.
00:30:10.000 It's like it, the snapshot would be bleak.
00:30:13.000 Would you have, would have you feeling like it is end times, but, but the country is not just blue states
00:30:21.000 and blue cities run by Democrats.
00:30:23.000 It's still, I think majority center, right.
00:30:26.000 And as has happened repeatedly in history, I think it's correcting.
00:30:30.000 Now it's recognized that it was lulled into a sense of complacency.
00:30:35.000 It being told that you had to accept all of these things, or you were bad.
00:30:39.000 You were a judgmental person, which no one really wants to be.
00:30:43.000 And the country has realized that too many things have slipped out of control into a very negative,
00:30:48.000 even arguably evil place.
00:30:51.000 And it's fighting back that the election of Trump stood for so much more than just let's
00:30:56.000 make the Trump tax cuts permanent and clean up what's happening at the Southern border.
00:31:01.000 It was definitely those things, but it was about so much more.
00:31:04.000 You know, you, how many times have you heard people say, we don't have to do that anymore.
00:31:08.000 We elected Trump and it applies across our culture because it's not just Trump.
00:31:12.000 It's the middle finger.
00:31:13.000 That is Trump.
00:31:14.000 It's the right and the normies standing up against the erosion of decency.
00:31:20.000 So that's, that's my initial response.
00:31:23.000 And I just think we've let something that's really important slide for too long.
00:31:29.000 And I think, you know, we're at risk of overcorrecting like we always do.
00:31:31.000 You know, you have to watch out.
00:31:32.000 You can't get Puritan like the left did in its holistic messages about how you're not allowed
00:31:37.000 to speak this way.
00:31:38.000 And you're not allowed to think that way.
00:31:40.000 We on the right have got to watch that and not sort of start judging each other too harshly.
00:31:45.000 But we're on a good course right now toward correction.
00:31:48.000 I don't think the downward slide is as rapid as it was just 18 months ago.
00:31:55.000 Dude, the course of American history has always been predicated upon the people and the people
00:32:00.000 ultimately making decisions about what direction we head.
00:32:03.000 But we've always had an elite that was culturally very, very attuned with the underpinnings
00:32:12.000 and the foundational elements of the Judeo Christian West.
00:32:15.000 Can we turn this around as a populist movement, right?
00:32:19.000 Can we turn this around when you have elites and elites educational institutions?
00:32:24.000 I mean, a lot of our analysis about what's happened in New York is that the breeding ground of this,
00:32:29.000 the recruiting ground for the get out the vote activity is places like Hunter College
00:32:34.000 and Columbia University.
00:32:35.000 They've used the universities and all the way down the indoctrination of the not just public schools,
00:32:41.000 but really even worse, the private schools, the high end private schools,
00:32:44.000 that we've created now a group of elites that not only do not believe in the underlying tenets
00:32:51.000 of the Judeo Christian West, but actually are quite anti-American and hate America
00:32:56.000 and hate what America stands for.
00:32:58.000 Man.
00:32:59.000 Yeah, you're totally right.
00:33:00.000 I mean, I've lived that through my own children and their exposure to that education
00:33:04.000 and my friends who have college age and younger children as well.
00:33:07.000 I'll just give you one example.
00:33:08.000 When my kids were in this most prestigious boys school, really one of them in the country,
00:33:13.000 in New York City, they had to write little essays in like the second grade.
00:33:17.000 I think it was why I'm a feminist.
00:33:19.000 Why are you having my child say he's a feminist?
00:33:22.000 We don't embrace that.
00:33:23.000 Even I don't say I'm a feminist and I'm their mother.
00:33:26.000 So it starts very, very young.
00:33:28.000 Then the trans stuff was heaped on them in the third grade, trying to inject some question
00:33:33.000 about what gender they might might actually be with a bunch of boys in the boys school
00:33:37.000 that had absolutely no questions.
00:33:39.000 And then you fast forward to the college years.
00:33:41.000 I've got a good friend whose child is at NYU and was forced to write an essay about how
00:33:46.000 capitalism is bad.
00:33:48.000 And she doesn't feel that way, but she needed to write that because that was the assignment.
00:33:52.000 And if you wrote anything other than that, you weren't going to get a very good grade.
00:33:55.000 She wants to get into grad school.
00:33:56.000 And so she needed to get a good grade.
00:33:57.000 And so she wrote it.
00:33:58.000 She just did it.
00:33:59.000 She went along to get along.
00:34:00.000 And that's how you get ahead at these elite institutions, whether it's at the K through
00:34:04.000 12 level or above.
00:34:06.000 So you're right.
00:34:07.000 There's been complete capture.
00:34:08.000 And that's why those same kids coming out of NYU and other institutions that are teaching
00:34:12.000 the same thing, look at Zoran Mamdami and they think, yeah, he's right.
00:34:17.000 Capitalism does suck.
00:34:18.000 We do need socialism.
00:34:19.000 And then we get the myth that, you know, Sweden is some utopia and it's fully socialist
00:34:23.000 and it's not.
00:34:24.000 And every time they lean more socialist, they have to correct it and go back to a form closer
00:34:30.000 to capitalism.
00:34:31.000 And by the way, I was in Sweden literally 12 months ago.
00:34:34.000 And yeah, there are a lot of things that are, quote, free.
00:34:37.000 It's free for the freeloaders.
00:34:39.000 But the people who actually earn have taxes that are in the mid 70s.
00:34:42.000 Mid 70 percent.
00:34:43.000 They want to pay 75 percent tax to your government so that your freeloading neighbor doesn't have
00:34:47.000 to work hard.
00:34:48.000 It completely kills any urge to innovate.
00:34:50.000 What what is Sweden invented in the past 50 years?
00:34:53.000 Anything come into mind?
00:34:54.000 Do they have an Elon Musk?
00:34:55.000 I know you don't like him, but I'm just saying he's one of our best inventors.
00:34:58.000 We have people in America who invent great things.
00:35:00.000 We've got Bill Gates.
00:35:01.000 You know, we've got Jeff Bezos.
00:35:03.000 And yes, they're this elitist class, but they they make real things.
00:35:06.000 They come up with new, innovative things.
00:35:08.000 Mark Zuckerberg.
00:35:09.000 What do they have?
00:35:10.000 This is socialism doesn't encourage any sort of invention or innovation, and it leaves you
00:35:15.000 just a flat lined economy.
00:35:17.000 So I think these people are being brainwashed and they don't read history because they're
00:35:21.000 not allowed to.
00:35:22.000 All they read is Howard Zinn telling them how bad America is.
00:35:24.000 Another personal example.
00:35:26.000 So when we were looking for schools for our kids as Manhattanites, we went to one Fieldston,
00:35:31.000 which is very well respected.
00:35:33.000 It's a very Tony school in the in sort of the lower Bronx.
00:35:38.000 And they talked about how the entire third grade is spent making the children fall in
00:35:43.000 love with the Native Americans.
00:35:44.000 The entire third grade.
00:35:45.000 That's all they do in history is social studies in third grade.
00:35:47.000 And then fourth grade.
00:35:48.000 The entire fourth grade is spent on how we killed them all and how we committed a genocide
00:35:54.000 and how evil the white man is.
00:35:56.000 Like what?
00:35:57.000 What?
00:35:58.000 It starts young.
00:35:59.000 So the indoctrination is baked in.
00:36:01.000 Most parents happily hand their child over to this because they really want you and you
00:36:06.000 to get into Harvard.
00:36:07.000 Well, they will.
00:36:08.000 It used to be a world in which you could learn actual things, but now it's just all that
00:36:12.000 indoctrination times a hundred, that indoctrination on steroids.
00:36:16.000 And then we're confused when the bum dummies of the world actually score a win.
00:36:21.000 So on that front, I think we're on a collision course because they're going to do it.
00:36:26.000 This guy is going to get elected and unless something extraordinary happens between now
00:36:31.000 and November, and we're just going to have to relearn lessons we learned already about
00:36:36.000 what happens when you put far left socialist Democrats in charge of our major cities.
00:36:41.000 Nothing good.
00:36:42.000 How can we turn the country around?
00:36:46.000 I keep arguing.
00:36:47.000 This is one of the reasons I was so against the potential of getting dragged in to a regime
00:36:51.000 change war in Persia is that the central front of this third world war is in the United States
00:36:56.000 and particularly in the big sanctuary cities, Los Angeles, Chicago, now New York.
00:37:01.000 You have three of the greatest cities in the world and certainly the three greatest cities
00:37:05.000 in the United States of America that are essentially run by, and I come from Richmond, Virginia,
00:37:10.000 neoconfederates, politicians and people that think they don't have to comply with federal
00:37:16.000 law and not disagreements on the margin of federal law just think that they can dictate
00:37:20.000 their own laws.
00:37:21.000 And if they want to make non-citizens essentially citizens, they'll just do it.
00:37:24.000 And you saw what happened in Los Angeles.
00:37:26.000 How can we actually take the country back and get on the right path politically, economically
00:37:32.000 when we have three of the greatest cities on Earth that are controlled by people that
00:37:37.000 hate our values and refuse to comply with federal law, ma'am?
00:37:42.000 I mean, I have to think it's the same answer you and I have discussed on the law fair that
00:37:48.000 the Democrats unleashed on Trump, which is we have to let them suffer on the other side
00:37:54.000 in the same way.
00:37:55.000 In other words, let them elect Brandon Johnson in Chicago and see how that goes.
00:38:00.000 He has an 11% approval rating.
00:38:02.000 Let them elect Mamdami in the world's greatest city, New York City, and see what that does
00:38:09.000 to Manhattan, to the billionaire class whose tax paying dollars we are dependent on in order
00:38:14.000 to keep the city running.
00:38:15.000 We're already a shadow of our former selves in New York.
00:38:18.000 I lived in New York 17 years, 17 of the past 20 I've been in New York City.
00:38:23.000 And when I got there under the early Bloomberg years post Giuliani, it was you could eat off
00:38:30.000 the sidewalks.
00:38:31.000 Sanitation worked.
00:38:32.000 Public works worked.
00:38:33.000 The subway was clean and safe.
00:38:34.000 That's why I chose to have three children while living there and raise toddlers in that
00:38:39.000 city.
00:38:40.000 Now it's a shadow of its former self.
00:38:42.000 You can't walk down a block without stepping over garbage, homeless people, human feces.
00:38:47.000 That's thanks to all these years of Democrat rule.
00:38:50.000 Mayor Bill de Blasio ruined the city.
00:38:53.000 And Eric Adams didn't do a whole hell of a lot to improve it.
00:38:56.000 And so now they want to go.
00:38:57.000 They want to double down on stupid.
00:38:59.000 So I kind of think they need to feel the full effects of their decisions.
00:39:03.000 They need to actually feel the pain.
00:39:05.000 Why don't we do the Mamdami plan where we drive every one of New York's 123 billionaires
00:39:11.000 out?
00:39:12.000 Let them go to Greenwich.
00:39:13.000 You know, let let them go to some beautiful town in New Jersey.
00:39:17.000 It's really not hard to find another place to live in the tri-state area for billionaires
00:39:21.000 and see what happens to the tax base.
00:39:23.000 And not just them, but the 100 billionaires who populate the Upper East Side who voted
00:39:27.000 for Cuomo.
00:39:28.000 Let's let them feel the pain that comes with the public housing projects.
00:39:32.000 Mamdami wants to move right into the heart of Manhattan, like right on Central Park, so
00:39:39.000 that everybody going for an afternoon stroll with their kids has to deal with that kind
00:39:44.000 of person who's living in the public housing projects in Manhattan.
00:39:47.000 It's a nightmare.
00:39:49.000 And I really feel like only when they feel the full pain of it and see what they voted
00:39:53.000 for, what it got them, are they going to start voting differently.
00:39:57.000 I think Chicago is going to vote differently.
00:39:59.000 Don't forget Chesa Boudin, that radical weather underground scion of Bill Ayers.
00:40:05.000 He was recalled as the San Francisco D.A.
00:40:08.000 The San Francisco school board had a revolution.
00:40:11.000 Like even in San Francisco, they started to see reason bit by bit in Chicago.
00:40:16.000 They're starting to see reason.
00:40:17.000 New York apparently needs another four years of lessons in this guy.
00:40:20.000 I'm sorry, but I think they probably have to get it if we want real change to eventually
00:40:25.000 come.
00:40:27.000 The weekend I was last week and I was there doing this analysis and looking at data.
00:40:31.000 And by the way, 100 percent agree with you.
00:40:33.000 Unless there's some miracle and people drop out, they're going to get Mondavi.
00:40:35.000 And quite frankly, maybe they deserve him.
00:40:37.000 And you got to play it out and see how it turns out, because it'll burn the city to the ground.
00:40:42.000 At the same time, you're inundated on social media with the Bezos wedding.
00:40:46.000 And so when Mondavi goes, I don't know if we need billionaires.
00:40:49.000 You look at the Bezos wedding.
00:40:51.000 Not that you agree with them.
00:40:53.000 So glad you said that.
00:40:54.000 But compare and contrast that.
00:40:57.000 I mean, when these young kids who don't know anything,
00:41:00.000 they said we don't need billionaires.
00:41:02.000 You have the Bezos thing in your face for 72 hours.
00:41:07.000 Your thoughts, ma'am?
00:41:08.000 I'm so glad you raised that.
00:41:10.000 I've been wrestling with it, too.
00:41:11.000 It's disgusting.
00:41:13.000 Like the in your face display of extreme wealth.
00:41:17.000 And honestly, like for me, it wasn't even the Vogue spread or the fake friends at their wedding.
00:41:23.000 It just hit the papers today.
00:41:24.000 I asked myself on the show and asked my audience, what the hell was Sydney Sweeney doing at the Bezos Sanchez wedding?
00:41:30.000 Everybody knows this young starlet doesn't know these two.
00:41:33.000 Why is she there?
00:41:34.000 And I'd speculated that sometimes agents and she might be represented by Ari Emanuel.
00:41:38.000 I didn't check, but sometimes they'll cut a deal like get my client invited to this thing.
00:41:42.000 So she'll be a headliner.
00:41:44.000 What it actually appears is she starred in some movie that Amazon has a producing role in.
00:41:49.000 And so her boss, Jeff Bezos, invited her, even though they don't know each other, to his wedding.
00:41:54.000 He obviously just wanted a headline with her name in it.
00:41:57.000 That's how vapid these people are.
00:41:59.000 I mean, I'm sorry, who would extend that invitation and who would go?
00:42:03.000 Both of these people are just completely vapid.
00:42:06.000 And so you look at.
00:42:08.000 So anyway, that wasn't the worst.
00:42:09.000 The worst of it for me was the shot of them on the yacht and their yacht has a yacht.
00:42:14.000 You know, their yacht has its own yacht.
00:42:16.000 The second yacht that travels along with all the yachts trappings like the helicopter.
00:42:20.000 And reportedly it's where he makes her go when the Kardashians come to visit for their weird parties, because who the hell wants to be seen with a Kardashian?
00:42:27.000 And on their yacht, they had a foam party in their yacht's pool.
00:42:34.000 Their yacht has a pool.
00:42:36.000 You know, some of these big, big boats might have a hot tub.
00:42:38.000 Theirs has a pool.
00:42:39.000 And they dumped all this foam in it so they could frolic in the foam.
00:42:43.000 And you see the foam dripping off of the main yacht into the beautiful Mediterranean in Venice.
00:42:51.000 And you think, how little respect do you have for anything?
00:42:58.000 It's not too far afield from what I went to the Met Gala a couple of years, Steve.
00:43:02.000 I used to be an Anna Wintour favorite when she thought I was a Trump foil.
00:43:06.000 And what I saw in there was stomach turning.
00:43:09.000 I saw this same class of people.
00:43:11.000 They make tens of millions, in some cases hundreds of millions.
00:43:14.000 And yes, indeed, there were billionaires there, too.
00:43:16.000 I talked with a lot of them.
00:43:18.000 And you go into the bathroom at the Met Gala.
00:43:21.000 And all I saw was wall to wall.
00:43:23.000 Kardashians, yes.
00:43:24.000 And fake influencer supermodels.
00:43:27.000 Smoking cigarettes among our classic works of art.
00:43:31.000 Couple dry humping one another.
00:43:33.000 By the way, Sean Diddy Combs was in there.
00:43:36.000 Absolutely disrespectful.
00:43:37.000 Doing drugs.
00:43:38.000 Not the Kardashians.
00:43:39.000 I'm not going to name who was doing that.
00:43:41.000 But this was witnessed, OK?
00:43:43.000 In one of our most celebrated places of homes of art that we're lucky enough to have in Manhattan and in the United States.
00:43:50.000 It's the same thing.
00:43:51.000 And this is our so-called ruling class.
00:43:53.000 These are the ones whose endorsement during the presidential election is supposed to matter.
00:43:58.000 And Jeff Bezos somehow finagles an invitation to the inauguration where he steps behind President Trump.
00:44:05.000 What did he do to help President Trump get inaugurated?
00:44:08.000 His Washington Post ripped on Trump every day.
00:44:11.000 You know, it was absurd to me that he was anywhere within striking distance of Trump.
00:44:17.000 Not to mention his now bride, I'm sorry, with her tits hanging out.
00:44:21.000 Totally disrespectful.
00:44:23.000 Chrissy Teigen going to the White House Correspondence Dinner with her vag hanging out.
00:44:27.000 With her skirt so high, literally showing her underwear.
00:44:30.000 It's disrespectful.
00:44:32.000 And there is this so-called ruling class that doesn't understand anything about regular Americans.
00:44:38.000 So that's why there's this huge, vapid hole that's ripe for exploitation by a guy like Mom Domi,
00:44:46.000 who smiles a lot and is kind of cheery and likable, just done in terms of delivery, saying,
00:44:52.000 geez, New York is too expensive.
00:44:55.000 I'm going to fix it.
00:44:56.000 That's literally what he ran on.
00:44:57.000 It was like those two lines.
00:44:59.000 It was very simple.
00:45:00.000 It was very appealing.
00:45:01.000 And you think, yes, it is too expensive.
00:45:03.000 Why am I living paycheck to paycheck and have to worry about my grocery store bill when I'm looking at the phone party
00:45:10.000 and these morons who are, you know, going to the Met Gala at their $85,000 a ticket smoking cigarettes and doing drugs,
00:45:17.000 and I'm told I'm a bad person if I don't relate to them.
00:45:20.000 I don't get into these elite colleges.
00:45:22.000 They judge me for my community college or for not going to college.
00:45:25.000 Yes, I hate them.
00:45:26.000 And so it does that too.
00:45:28.000 The Bezos-Sanchez wedding and everything around them feels end times-ish.
00:45:33.000 It does feel late Roman Empire.
00:45:35.000 And that's yet another reason why I don't think those two are a force for good.
00:45:39.000 Late Roman Empire.
00:45:41.000 Well, we know the Bayonair married the stripper.
00:45:44.000 Megan Kelly, fantastic.
00:45:45.000 You and I got our work cut out for us in the run-up to America's 250th birthday.
00:45:50.000 So thank you so much.
00:45:51.000 Where do people get your podcast and all your writings?
00:45:55.000 Well, you can catch me at youtube.com slash Megan Kelly or wherever you get your podcasts for free.
00:46:01.000 Steve Bannon, it's an honor to serve alongside you.
00:46:04.000 Megan Kelly, I like being in the trenches with you.
00:46:09.000 We've got to fix bayonets this year.
00:46:11.000 Thank you, man.
00:46:12.000 Appreciate you.
00:46:13.000 Thanks for the weekend.
00:46:14.000 Thank you.
00:46:15.000 You too.
00:46:16.000 We're going to be back in a moment for a wrap-up for our 4th of July weekend special.
00:46:21.000 Back in a moment.
00:46:22.000 Spread the word all through Hong Kong.
00:46:26.000 We will fight till they're all gone.
00:46:28.000 We rejoice with you.
00:46:30.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:46:35.000 I want to thank Real America's Voice, Ben Burkham, everybody.
00:46:39.000 Amazing coverage and more to come throughout the day on this tragedy in Texas.
00:46:44.000 Ben's going to wrap up the show for us here in a few minutes.
00:46:47.000 Tej Gill.
00:46:48.000 Tej, today I think we're going to need a lot of coffee.
00:46:52.000 A lot of Warpath coffee.
00:46:53.000 It's going to be a long day.
00:46:54.000 The mayor told us it's going to be a tough day.
00:46:57.000 I want to put the coffee forward because I know people are going to want to stay up.
00:47:01.000 We've got press conferences, I think, at 3 o'clock.
00:47:03.000 Another press conference at 7 o'clock.
00:47:05.000 And maybe even one later, Ben Burkham is going to be there.
00:47:07.000 Tej, what do you got for us?
00:47:08.000 Where do people go?
00:47:10.000 You got a Warpath coffee.
00:47:12.000 I just want to say that my family and I will be praying for Texas today.
00:47:17.000 It's a huge tragedy going on there.
00:47:19.000 And then later on today or tomorrow, we'll be making a donation from Warpath coffee
00:47:23.000 to one of these funds for the victims of the floods in Texas.
00:47:28.000 But we're doing 25% off this weekend.
00:47:30.000 The website is Warpath.coffee.
00:47:32.000 We're having a huge sale.
00:47:33.000 We won't have a sale this big again until Black Friday.
00:47:37.000 So stock up this weekend if you need coffee.
00:47:39.000 We just dropped our decaf yesterday on 4th of July.
00:47:43.000 So we finally have our decaf.
00:47:45.000 People have been asking for it for months, actually for over a year.
00:47:48.000 But we finally just dropped it.
00:47:50.000 And Warpath.coffee, promo code WARROOM, 25% off for 4th of July sale.
00:47:57.000 And our hearts and prayers go out to the families in Texas.
00:48:01.000 And we will be praying for them and wish them all the luck.
00:48:05.000 And let's hope that the first responders do an amazing job.
00:48:12.000 Yeah.
00:48:13.000 Prayers with them, too.
00:48:14.000 Tej, one more time.
00:48:15.000 Where do people go?
00:48:16.000 You got the decaf.
00:48:17.000 You got today.
00:48:18.000 I'm not sure it was a day for decaf.
00:48:20.000 But where do they go, sir?
00:48:23.000 Go to Warpath.coffee.
00:48:25.000 Use promo code WARROOM.
00:48:26.000 That's for the War Room Posse.
00:48:28.000 It's 25% off this weekend until Sunday night.
00:48:31.000 Stock up.
00:48:32.000 Like I said, we won't be doing a sale this big again until Black Friday.
00:48:35.000 So this is the weekend to stock up.
00:48:38.000 We've already sold out of our espresso.
00:48:40.000 People have been buying tons of it.
00:48:41.000 So Warpath.coffee, promo code WARROOM, 25% off.
00:48:45.000 The espresso is unbelievable.
00:48:48.000 Incredible.
00:48:49.000 Thank you, Tej.
00:48:50.000 I'll see you on Monday.
00:48:51.000 Thank you, sir.
00:48:52.000 We'll get caught up on this tragedy and make a donation.
00:48:54.000 I was going to make a donation.
00:48:55.000 That's right.
00:48:56.000 One of those funds in there.
00:48:57.000 Thank you.
00:48:58.000 Mike Lindell, I know you work with Samaritan's Purse.
00:49:02.000 You're already talking about making a donation on a very tragic weekend.
00:49:06.000 What do you got for us, sir?
00:49:08.000 Yeah, I'm in Texas right now, everybody.
00:49:10.000 And yes, my first call will be this afternoon to Franklin Graham and Samaritan Purse.
00:49:15.000 Them and myself and MyPillow are always there with them for all these horrible tragedies that happened in their country.
00:49:22.000 And so everything you get today from MyPillow, we're going to be donating huge donations to these victims and to this tragedy.
00:49:30.000 So, you guys, we're going to run the 4th of July special.
00:49:33.000 We're going to keep running that.
00:49:35.000 50% off or more sale.
00:49:37.000 Promo code WARROOM.
00:49:38.000 This is a War Room exclusive.
00:49:40.000 Now we need your sales today more than ever.
00:49:42.000 And what we're doing, we're going to add those percale sheets.
00:49:45.000 We allocated more to the War Room Posse, $29.88 for the percale sheets.
00:49:51.000 You guys, any size, any color, get the percale sheets.
00:49:56.000 There they are.
00:49:57.000 King size, green size, any size.
00:50:00.000 And know that those funds are going to be going to a great cause down here in Texas.
00:50:05.000 $29.88.
00:50:06.000 We're not going to put a limit on it.
00:50:08.000 Promo code WARROOM.
00:50:09.000 Go to the website.
00:50:10.000 Go down and click on Steve.
00:50:12.000 Now's the time.
00:50:13.000 You're getting everything on sale and everything's going to go to a great cause.
00:50:17.000 So, there's the Made in the USA, my crosses, you guys.
00:50:21.000 They need prayers more than anything right now down here in Texas.
00:50:24.000 So, and you have the towel sale.
00:50:27.000 You have, by the way, we also put the slippers on sale today.
00:50:31.000 The slippers are $49.98.
00:50:34.000 You guys, that's a one-day closeout sale.
00:50:37.000 So, go to MyPillow.
00:50:38.000 Do all your shopping right now.
00:50:40.000 Promo code MyPillow.
00:50:41.000 I mean, promo code WARROOM.
00:50:43.000 You can call 800-873-1062.
00:50:46.000 Steve, I'll be praying that the War Room Post can break some records.
00:50:51.000 Because we really need help down here.
00:50:55.000 Yep.
00:50:56.000 And we'll make sure that we get a big donation down to these groups.
00:50:59.000 Samaritan's Purse is fantastic.
00:51:01.000 Mike, thank you so much.
00:51:02.000 Yeah.
00:51:03.000 Appreciate you.
00:51:04.000 Thank you.
00:51:06.000 Ben Burquam.
00:51:07.000 And I just want to reiterate, at 3 p.m., I think it's 2 Central, 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Eastern Daylight Time, there'll be another press conference.
00:51:16.000 And then it looks like 7 o'clock, at least for the two scheduled today.
00:51:20.000 Am I correct in that, sir?
00:51:22.000 Yeah, that's correct, Steve.
00:51:24.000 2 local, 3 Eastern, and 6 local, 7 Eastern.
00:51:27.000 And you're going to be down throughout the day.
00:51:31.000 Mo and Grace, we're going to stream it live on our Getter and our Rumble and all our platforms.
00:51:36.000 Of course, Real America's Voice is going to have it.
00:51:38.000 Ben will be up everywhere.
00:51:39.000 Ben, maybe we can get you if we go live on one of our streams this afternoon, given the information.
00:51:44.000 I just want to be, before we leave, you still asked the best question.
00:51:48.000 I just want to make sure there's no doubt about this.
00:51:50.000 You asked the head of recovery, the director of operations, about the little girls at the mystic camp.
00:51:57.000 And correct me if I'm wrong, because there was some confusion throughout the day.
00:52:01.000 He said that there's 27 of these nine-year-olds or these little girls from the mystic camp that have not, they're not been, there's search and rescue efforts to date have not recovered those 27 children.
00:52:16.000 Correct?
00:52:18.000 That's correct.
00:52:19.000 They've recovered nine deceased, but there are 27 that are still missing.
00:52:24.000 They've recovered many more that were alive and they've reunited them with their family.
00:52:27.000 But there are, I specified that those 27 are all children from the mystic camp, all young girls from the mystic camp that are still missing.
00:52:38.000 And if you see the horribleness of social media and what they're doing, the families, that's where they're not putting out names of the children they're doing search and rescue for because they're spamming the families.
00:52:48.000 They're bothering the families.
00:52:49.000 They're trying to probably get money from the families to do own rescue.
00:52:53.000 Am I correct in that?
00:52:55.000 They said that's why they said they're not putting the names out.
00:52:59.000 Yeah.
00:53:00.000 Yeah, that's right, Steve.
00:53:01.000 And I, and if you don't mind, I felt like this at Uvalde and I just would love to end this with a prayer for the families and the little girls that are still missing as a dad.
00:53:11.000 Who didn't get to get home to my girls, I've got three girls, I didn't get to get home to them last night, but I get to get home to them.
00:53:17.000 And Lord, I just lift them up to you right now, especially if there's any girls that are still alive that are afraid they're alone.
00:53:23.000 I just pray you'd be with them right now.
00:53:25.000 You'd lift them up.
00:53:26.000 You'd let them know that you're there.
00:53:27.000 And the families, Lord, that have lost their children or haven't even found out yet that they've lost their children.
00:53:32.000 Lord, I pray in this situation that you would be the God of comfort to this community, but you would do miracles from now on.
00:53:39.000 And we would see miracles happen that girls that, kids that thought were gone that you'd bring back, Lord.
00:53:44.000 I just, I pray for your hand on this community and this state and this nation in Jesus name.
00:53:48.000 Amen.
00:53:51.000 Ben, thank you.
00:53:52.000 Where do people go for your social media?
00:53:54.000 At Real America's Voice, it's at Real AM Voice.
00:54:00.000 And then my personal is just my name, Ben Burquam.
00:54:06.000 Amen, Ben.
00:54:07.000 Be strong.
00:54:08.000 We're dependent upon you today for coverage.
00:54:10.000 Appreciate you.
00:54:12.000 Yep.
00:54:13.000 Amen.
00:54:17.000 I want to thank Real America's Voice and everybody that made this possible.
00:54:20.000 Remember, 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, there'll be another press conference.
00:54:24.000 Real America's Voice will cover it.
00:54:25.000 We'll stream it on Getter.
00:54:27.000 We'll stream it on our Rumble channel.
00:54:29.000 I'll be coming in and out throughout the day, particularly hearing the news.
00:54:32.000 And 7 p.m., this tremendous tragedy in Central Texas.
00:54:38.000 Real America's Voice coverage is going to continue right now.
00:54:41.000 I want to thank the Real America Voice team for this incredible coverage they provided us over the 4th of July weekend.
00:54:47.000 We'll see you later today.
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