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Episode 4201: Lack Of Trust In The Government Continues In East Palestine
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So much to ensure that those who would seek to abuse our asylum system are not allowed into the country. And those who have legitimate asylum claims, their claims are processed in due order and in due course, but they wait in Mexico until those claims are fully processed. Will you work to reinstate that program? Yes, Senator. The President and I have talked extensively about this and will 100% partner with him to reinstate the remain in Mexico policy and make sure that it's in place. Fantastic. I think Travis might be alive today if that policy had been in place. Let me ask you about CBP1, the phone app that I've called Concierge Service for Illegal Immigrants. I'm sure you're familiar with it. This was the Biden administration's effort to allow asylum seekers to apply ahead of time using their phones, but not actually to provide any evidence that they needed asylum. There is a newspaper report, a press report that said the only problem with the app is it never asks users, are you seeking asylum? They don't ask for any asylum evidence. They simply release these so called asylum seekers who use the app into the country on parole. Sometimes they're never given a hearing. Actually did a report, a full investigation report on CBP1, and found that frequently users of this app were claiming the same addresses in the United States as their intended destination, even though they didn't know each other. They weren't family connections. In other words, it has been completely abused. And the idea that the federal government would pay for this kind of concierge service for illegals, I think is outrageous. Will you end the use of the cbp? Want applause? Yes, Senator, if confirmed, and I have the opportunity to be secretary on day one, CBP1 will be shut down. There's data and information in there that we will preserve so that we can ensure we know who's coming into this country and who's already here that we need to go find. But also we make sure that there's another program, chnv, which I'm sure you're very familiar with, where our federal government actually paid to fly people into this country directly from other countries without any vetting or knowing who they are. So there's several of these programs that need to be eliminated and we need to ensure that we're following legal immigration laws. I'm glad you just mentioned chnv. This is another ma. This is a mass parole program. Of course, as you know, our law allows parole in only very limited circumstances. There are two circumstances and it requires case by case evaluation. The President administration, soon to be Gone has granted mass parole and in direct defiance of the law, not case by case evaluation. The CHNV program is one of those instances. Will you put a stop to this abuse of our parole law and our asylum system? Yes, we will go back to case by case evaluation of these parole cases and ensure that we have more resources, if you will, partner with us to make sure that our legal immigration system is fully utilized, that we have more judges, more immigration courts, so that we can process people legally and make sure that they are going through that process rather than that, like Joe Biden has done, use this as an excuse to allow people to come into our country with no consequences. Let me ask you about another low light, not a highlight, but a lowlight of this last administration and dhs. Your predecessor, the current secretary of dhs, established a disinformation board using taxpayer resources to police speech on the Internet and elsewhere to tag American citizens viewpoints as either legitimate or not legitimate and use the power of the state to censor them, including having them removed and perhaps penalized. This has got to be the darkest chapter, I think, in DHS's short history. He eventually withdrew the board under intense criticism, but has never fully repudiated it and never promised not to do it again. Will you pledge to us here today that under your leadership there will never be a disinformation board or anything like it at dhs and you will be a champion for the free speech and First Amendment rights of all Americans? Senator, There will not be a board such as that under my leadership at the Department of Homeland Security. Fantastic. You. In my remaining seconds, just one more thing about the Secret Service. You've, you've mentioned this, and I'm so glad that you did. This committee, and it has been bipartisan, this committee has done bipartisan work on the attempted assassinations or the assassination attempts, I should perhaps say of the former president, soon to be future, soon to be the future president, soon to be the president. President Trump. We were stymied at every turn, and I should use the present tense. We are currently being stymied at every turn by the current Secret Service leadership and frankly by the leadership of dhs, who have refused to turn over documents, who refused to make people available for interviews. We finally had to pass my own law in this committee, which we unanimously adopted. A law, a statute, mind you, which would require DHS and Secret Service to turn over relevant information to us about the assassination attempts. It's unbelievable. When you come to office, to this office, I hope very soon, will you pledge to us that you will open the books on all of the facts associated and around these assassination attempts, that you will make available to us and to the public, most importantly, all the facts, so that we can ensure that this never happens again and that the needed reforms in the Secret Service are put into effect. Senator, if I am the Secretary of Homeland Security, I will certainly work with you to build transparency and make sure the facts are shared with you and your committee. I know that you've been very frustrated by the lack of transparency from the department. And I want to thank those of you that have worked on that report that was put together on these assassination attempts. I know it was a bipartisan report and investigation that this committee conducted, and I appreciate you focusing on that. And I will work with you to get the information so that you have the truth of really what happened there and the failures so they can be fixed. Thank you. That's a great place to end and a high note as I see my friend Senator Blumenthal, who did fantastic work on this, on this effort. And it will be an incredible, an incredible new day and incredibly refreshing to have a DHS secretary who will tell us the truth, who will be honest with us about the facts, honest with the American people, and who will enforce our law. And I know you'll do that. Governor Noemi, I look forward to supporting your nomination. Congratulations. Thank you, Senator Blumenthal. Thanks, Senator Johnson. Welcome, Governor Noem, and thank you for being here. Thank you for visiting with me and thank you to your family for their service. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA Media I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. Okay, it's Friday the 17th of January, year of our Lord 2025. Days of thunder. Continue. We're going to go back. Senator Blumenthal, one of the most radical Democrats in the Senate, questioning Kristi Noem. We got a lot going on day. We're going to Go to East Palestine, East Palestine, Ohio, in a moment. Let's go back to the hearing, ask you about disaster relief. California is on fire. The fires raging there are going to leave destruction and devastation. That is heartbreaking. I am really disappointed with some of the statements that President Elect Trump has made. For example, saying that, quote, we won't give him, referring to Governor Newsom, money to put out all his fires. And if we don't give him money to put out fires, he's got a problem. The specter is there of potential discrimination based on politics, withholding money from California or other states. It's not an unfounded fear. In the last administration, there were public reports about President Trump withholding money from the state of Washington because of his disagreements with Governor Inslee. Connecticut, like the rest of the nation, suffers from these natural disasters. Most recently in August, we were hit by major flooding. And these natural disasters are going to become more frequent, as will be the need for the federal government to meet the requests for declarations of natural disaster. I assume you will agree with me that withholding disaster relief by President Trump or any other chief executive of the United States is a violation of his duty and of law. Well, Senator, leadership has consequences. And looking at the tragedy that's happening in California, I want to ask you, yes or no? With all due respect, what's happening in California is the ramification of many decisions over many years. But under my leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, there will be no political bias to how disaster relief is delivered to the American people. If President Trump were to say to you, we're going to withhold money from Connecticut or Michigan or any of the states, Iowa, because we don't like the governor or we don't like the politics of the state, you would stand up to him and say, Mr. President, we need to allocate that money. Senator, in three days, President Trump will take an oath to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law in this country. And he will do that, and I'll be glad to have him back. I don't see that's a yes. I do. Hypotheticals, which is what you're asking me to do. But what I will tell you is that as secretary, I will do the same. I will deliver the programs as the. Well, it's more than a hypothetical. With all due respect, and I apologize for interrupting you, but my time is limited. As you know, as a veteran of these hearings, it's more than a hypothetical. It's based on experience with President Trump withholding money from Washington state and elsewhere. I need to know from you. Will you stand up to the President and say no? The Constitution and the Impoundment act requires us, for example, to allocate the $100 billion that we have just appropriated in the last session to states like Connecticut, $3 million, Texas, $10 million. Almost every one of the states represented here. Will you say no to the President if he withholds that money? Sir, I don't know about the scenarios that you're referencing with President Trump, but what I will tell you is that if given the chance to be Secretary of Homeland Security, that I will deliver the programs according to the law and that it will be done with no political bias. And if the programs change, or if you decide to change the rule of law, then I will follow that while entering the pledge. So you allocate and distribute that hundred billion dollars according to how the program is written, with no political bias. Every American deserves to be there and have disaster relief the same as their neighbors, basically, following the law. Yes. Let me ask you, Senator Peters asked you about homegrown terrorists. The New Orleans tragedy was the result of a homegrown terrorists born in this country radicalized by isis. And it reflects the reason why the intelligence community, the FBI, almost all of our law enforcement, has said repeatedly, domestic violent extremism is the most lethal and persistent threat to our security. That terrorist was radicalized by isis. The investigation is underway. We don't know all the facts, but we do know that he was a military veteran and ISIS was responsible for radicalizing him. Shouldn't we focus on ISIS as a threat to this country's security? Senator, certainly we should be focused on all threats to this nation's security. That's the mission of the Department of Homeland Security. And home terrorism is growing. We have more and more incidences. The tragedy we saw and the terrorist attack, what will you do to combat it? What will you do to stop ISIS and other extremist organization from radicalizing people in this country? Well, certainly, Senator, I'll continue to work with the administration and our partners and the Department of Defense, the intelligence agencies, also within Secretary of State and the other branches and cabinet officials to make sure we're bringing all resources to bear to identify and to stop these types of terrorist activities. What I would say is the cybersecurity and intelligence elements that we have within the Department of Homeland Security have been incredibly siloed. They have not communicated with other intelligence agencies like they should and partnered. INA has some interaction, but not enough. And we also need to have CISA have interaction with the FBI, CIA, to make sure they're working together to stop these types of threats and identify when they're growing among our citizens and how they become rhetorical. This area of questioning, I think is supremely important. I know there's a lot of focus on the border. We all want more border security. Let me have they call him, what, Danang Dick because of his stolen valor. Blumenthal, a liar, one of the worst guys in the Senate. I want to hear that from Kristi Noem. My question that he talks about $100 billion. Where's that hundred billion dollars in Appalachia of the folks. We're gonna have a working group call tomorrow that Ben's helping set up, because we're gonna get all over that to push this forward on Monday, over the weekend. But obviously for Monday and the following days, when President Trump comes back in this glorious restoration of the Trump administration. Right there, Kristi Noem. Governor Noem is getting grilled this morning as Department of Homeland Security. Josh Hawley was the individual. If you're listening on the podcast later or if you're listening now on radio and don't have the visual, that was Josh Hawley, one of the best of the US Senate populace from Missouri. And, you know, talk about the scam of the CP1, CPB1, all of it that we address in the show all the time with a guy named Ben Berkwamp. Now, we just heard there's 100. What is $100 billion they put into, into the, into the fund. It has it now. And the question is, we just had been down in Appalachian, in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, where those folks are freezing in, you know, sub zero or, excuse me, sub freezing weather, still living in tents because the Biden regime has deemed that they're not worthy of aid. But we're going to go to East Palestine, Ohio right now. Really the pivot point for President Trump. I tell you what, can we play the cold open? We got a cold open for a minute because this is where President Trump is taking the oath of office on Monday. And in his. And you guys who rode shotgun with us back in 21, in those early months, the pivot point in the primary. To hurdle President Trump to winning the primary and then the presidency was a very specific visit. It was his visit to East Palestine, Ohio, because only Trump went there. Because only Trump can go there. Let's go ahead and play it. And we're going to bring in Ben Berkwam live. Thank you, sir. What do you make about Biden not showing up you showing up before he did. Thank you so much for coming. Get him out of here. Thank you so much. My. Take a picture of my. Thank you. Don Junior too. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Service. Do you have any concerns for the residents here in East Palestine? Oh, they're going to be treated so good now. FEMA's coming up because we came here and FEMA does a great job and they'll be taken care of now. They were not going to be taken care of, but they're going to be taken care of. Did you hear any concerns from the mayor or from the fire chief? Well, the mayor's done a fantastic job. The fire chief has done a fantastic job. The problem was the federal government was going to send nobody. And when I said I was coming, they changed their tune rapidly and now they're sending the whole group. So FEMA's coming and they're coming with a lot of help and a lot of money. Okay. President Trump's visit there energize turbocharged, I think, the meaning and purpose in the back of his campaign and turbocharged him through the primary to the presidency that he would high noon on Monday, take the oath and be 47 President of the United States. Ben Berkwam, you're in East Palestine. Talk to us. You got some folks there. Your thoughts. And by the way, fema, you know, President Trump said it at the time when I'm not so sure the performance of FEMA has been as great as he perceived at that time. I think they've done a terrible job. The FEMA director was an embarrassment. I think he did a terrible job regarding East Palestine. And they've done a terrible job in regardingregarding Appalachia in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, from the, from the hurricane and the massive flooding. And, you know, and I say it has not strings. There has to be certain conditions you have to have. And this is in California. You can't have radical governance and radical rule for decade after decade that causes these disasters and then just throw money at these progressives in California and think it's all going to be better because it's not. Ben Burkholm, what do you got for us? Yeah, Steve, by the way, to Representative Blumenthal, shame on you. I was going to use a different word. Shame on you for talking about representing the people, getting the people the funding that they need. When you have abandoned Appalachia, you've abandoned North Carolina, you've abandoned Tennessee, you've abandoned Georgia, and you've abandoned the community that I'M standing in here now, Chloe, if you'll show this crowd. Thank you to Rick Chai for putting this together. This is a crowd from East Palestine here. This is just a small representation of the people whose lives have been destroyed by this administration, by Norfolk Southern, by fema, by the very people that are supposed to be representing the people. And I've got. We're going to be talking to a lot of them, Steve. But I just finished an interview. This is the first interview that's been done. Edwin Wang of Ceram Fab, right across the street. We were actually going to do the event there, Steve. We're going to get these groups here, but no one is willing to go into that building, his warehouse, because they still have not cleaned the warehouse. Edwin. It's a plant. It's a plant. Excuse me. Manufacturing plant. Excuse me. Excuse me for. This is outrageous. Wait till you see this. Steve, we just did the interview. Wait till you see the interview. But I just want you to tell us, Edwin, talk to us through what you just told us over there, what happened and what has been FEMA's response, the government's response so far? All right. My name is Edwin. I'm a small business owner, and I started the business 23 years ago and we started business in New Jersey. And then by the end of 2018, I thought, this is the right time. We need to do something for the country. We have been a wholesale business importing products from internationally. And at that time, I thought, it's the right time to do something for the country. So I gave up everything in New Jersey. I moved to East Palestine to take over two abandoned buildings. And we spent a lot of money to renovate the buildings to the current condition, as everybody can see in the town. So we established two new plants making high temperature insulation materials for steel mill industries. This is like, you know, a multimillion dollar investment for a small business owner. This is a large sum of money. So we made an investment in this town and building two new plants and relocating a wholesale business here. We immediately created. So without the derailment, we would create more and more jobs, I believe. And we are going to generate tremendous revenue from the three companies and make a huge contribution to the local economy. And that one night, everything was devastated. So we lost everything. We lost all the employees, we lost our customers. We lost all the orders received from our customers. And most importantly, we lost a safe facility to continue our production. So after that disaster, epa, Norfolk, sudden they used my property for the last two years to perform massive cleanup operations. Around the building. Okay. They have dug very deep into the ground to remove the contaminated soil. A lot of soil have been removed around my building. And today I want to have people's attention to the building itself. You know, they have done so much around the building for the last two years. So far, nothing has been done to decontaminate the building itself. The building is in the center of the contamination. This is unbelievable. To that building in the town. Go ahead, Steve. Ben. Yeah, so. So let's cut to the chase here. But is. Is. It's still contaminated. Has FEMA been out? Have they. Have they. You know, have they given the resources or. They just seized his building. He's had to lay everybody off and nothing's changed. I mean, what action is being taken? Is he getting support or have they just seized it? I don't know what is going on. Nobody care about this building. Seems to me, although they enter into the building several times to do some testing, that's it. Nothing has been done to the building itself to decontaminate it. And there is no information to share with me. As a property owner, I believe I have the right to. To get information about what is going on on my property. This is two years later. Yeah, this is two. Wait, I'm telling you, Steve. Wait till you hear the stories. This is just one. This is the first time I've heard this. It's absolutely insane. It's been. It's been no communication with. With the owners, but no communication. Mr. Wang, right there. No communication with me. No. No transparency at all. Terrible. Sir, can you hang on for one second? Hang on one second. I just got cut back to the hearing. Annie Kim is grilling. Is grilling. Christine almost cut back to the hearing. We're going to come back to East Palestine in just a minute. Then he should come before this committee as well. And I know that that's something where, as far as I know, his role will be directly at the White House is not something that will be under the purview directly of this committee. So I just wanted to raise those concerns. Yeah, yeah. Tom and I work very well together and talk and communicate all the time. And we'll be working together on a daily basis when we're in our positions under the new administration. And I would say there's no authorities being planned to be taken away from the department or. Or myself if I'm in the role and continue to send signals. You can understand how, you know, people in my home state, maybe around the country, when they hear Mr. Homan saying, I'm making the decisions when they hear President Elect Trump say he's in charge of our border. So, you know, I just, I urge, you know, that we're going to try to do our best to try to make sure we're empowering the department, empowering the next secretary, because that's where, you know, our laws are invested in our decision making. Well, thank you, Senator. And we'll make sure you have all the information that you need. And Tom, working directly with the president, and I, working directly with the president, hope to help you get all that you need to reassure that the authorities will stay the same as they currently are, but we will continue to work to secure that border and make sure that we're working together in that way. I want to just switch gears about you raised the concerns about terrorism, especially foreign terrorist groups. I guess I just want to ask you, what are the major foreign terrorist groups that are. Well, first of all, what are the major foreign terrorist groups that are out there that we're tracking, which are the ones that are concerns to us in terms of potentially trying to inspire or coordinate an attack upon us? And if you can just give me a sense of what their current capabilities are to try to enact that. Well, I think we face a lot of threats, Senator, and since I'm not in the role today, I shouldn't get into specifics with you, but I think, well, you can at least give specifics about what organizations that are out there. I just wanted to get a sense of your knowledge of the organizational terrorist organizations that have always threatened the United States. But I would also say, I would say Hamas, isis, continuing down that path of those terrorist organizations. But we'll continue to also focus, though not just on those, but also the cartels, their partnership with the Chinese and what they are doing. Listen, I've told people for years, for over 30 years, I've worked on national policy, on food policy, on agriculture policy. And I've seen the Chinese agenda to infiltrate our country, control our food supply chain, but also their manipulation of their currency and stealing our ip. And now I believe that this fentanyl crisis that they have flooded our country with is geared and the purpose of it is to kill our next generation of Americans. It is to control. I don't discount the importance of when you focus on one or two groups, I think it takes your eye off the ball as to where all the threats could come from. We just spent a significant amount of time talking about homegrown terrorism as well. I'm glad we're having that conversation. But the reason why I mentioned it, I was not trying to quiz you or anything of that nature. It's just that when the Department of Homeland Security, when their threat assessment for 2025 lists three organizations, lists Al Qaeda, lists ISIS in particular ISIS, Khorasan and the IRGC and the threat from Iran. I just want to make sure that I get it. You know, you're talking about the importance of the border. We all understand that. We want to work with the incoming administration. Senator Kim from New Jersey with Kristi Nomer. Come back. We're going to go to east Palestine, may try to go the Middle east, even Bethlehem if we can pull it off. We're going to take a short commercial break right now. Birchgold.com you saw yesterday with Scott Bessant. He's all over every paper in the world of the magnificent performance he had. Magnificent performance in front of the committee yesterday. The Finance Committee of the Senate going for Secretary of the Treasury. Make sure you go to birchgold.com now more than ever. You really have to understand modern monetary theory. 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These folks know you have their back and I tell you what, they go on with a lot of confidence. I know this personally from talking to them, knowing that the war in posse has their back. We also have the back of the people in East Palestine. Let's go to Ben Burkhwan. Ben, I know, I like to go around the room and just get a feel particularly how much progress has really been made in the last couple of years since President Trump. And do they believe that's because the Biden regime just is not interested in working class people in places like eastern Ohio? Ben Burkwan, I'm going to turn it over to you, brother. Yeah. Let me just go around the room here. And by the way, Edwin has a letter. We're going to try to get to President Trump, hoping that he, when President Trump's in office, he'll be able to come out here and make a difference for it. I'm going to come back to Edwin in just a minute. I just want to go around the room. Tell us the response you've gotten from the federal government. Where are you guys at now? We still need a federal declaration of disaster. We don't have health insurance. Health insurance people do have does not cover these chemical testings and things that we need. We still need relocated. Our homes haven't been tested. We don't even know what to clean with. Can you clean vinyl chloride with bleach? Nobody even told us people are still sick. We need out of these homes and we need research money. Not just for us, for everybody listening. This isn't a political issue to me. Politics has no room when it comes to human health. That train didn't ask if we were Democrats or Republicans before it derailed here. And this could happen in any community. So the research that you do on us, we've already been made into guinea pigs. We need money to do research to find out what happened to our bodies and what may happen to yours next. We've had no help at all from the federal government. And matter of fact, February 28th, I will be forced back home and I cannot go back home. My, my stepfather's a 90 year old Korean War vet. We're going to be homeless because our home is that contaminated that we cannot return. Nobody has helped. There's no reason for them to end our relocation. They know what they did to our home. The epa, they had deemed us a special circumstance that didn't go away. Chemicals don't know a calendar date. We've had no help. And I am begging President Trump, please don't let my family become homeless. Please do something to help us. Please make me believe in the government again because I. We've been failed by all of them. Please make a difference. Show that you care. God bless you, ma'am. Hi, my husband's Dr. Shy, and he's been doing a lot of work in the creeks, exposing all the chemicals. I see how this has affected his health. And it's small things that just pile on and continue to happen. So I can only imagine the people out there in this town that are. They're sick and they're not coming forward and they don't know what to do. And the further we get away from this disaster, the more the government or the EPA or whoever is in charge says that, well, we don't know if that's from the chemicals exposure, but we know what has been happening here over these past two years. It's been piling on and piling on, and God forbid any more happens, because I don't want to see the health of the people here in 10 years. So this is a message to President Trump. You came here, you didn't forget about us. You came here, you brought us water, you brought us supplies, and we are forever grateful for that. And we right now are counting on you to do the right thing. J.D. vance, our vice President elect. Vance knows what's going on here, and so does Robert Kennedy Jr. So they know, and we are counting on you. Steve, let me ask you. When she says. Can you just ask her when she says piling on and piling on over the last two years, can she be specific about that? One illness turns into another illness turns into another illness, and you don't know the origin of the illnesses? I'm just speaking from someone. I know that over time, it's like it starts as one thing, but then it turns into another and turns into another, and you can't find the root cause of it, no matter how many doctors you go to. So. And then there are people, you know, people with cancer now, and people that people have passed away in this town, and they are saying it's unrelated, but we don't really know at this point. But yeah, And I'll tell you, just personally, I get sick every time I come here. I don't live here. I can't imagine living here. Steve, Every time I come, it starts with the same symptoms. Sore throat, headache, sinus issues. If I stay longer, I get nauseated. And they're telling these people, does anyone trust what the government's telling you? Raise your hand. Anybody? No, wait, wait, wait. This is. Just make sure this is not raising your hand. Anyone trust what the government's saying? You do? Oh, no. Okay, okay. I trust the one that's coming in, though. I trust President Trump. I do. Do you guys think it's going to get better under President Trump. Oh, yes. It can't get no worse. Come, come, come, come. We can't if we can't see you. We're from Pennsylvania. Come, come, come. Nope. We got to get in this shot. Okay. I didn't want to do this. We're from Pennsylvania and we were completely left out of everything. We've all had testing in our household and we've all tested positive. When they decided to blow up the vinyl chloride cars, the cloud came over us. And there's documentation online by a gentleman who does not want to be interviewed showing the cloud coming into Darlington and Darlington Township. And we've had our water, our soil tested. We tested positive for vinyl chloride and benzene. Both. All three people. Yeah. In our body. All three people in our household. My husband developed a rare form of male breast cancer 18 weeks after the derailment. And we are headed back for more testing today because we don't know that it hasn't returned. And you know, I know that people in Pennsylvania are also suffering. My heart breaks for the people in East Palestine. I grew up here. But it's, it, it's county, you know, statewide, there's, there's more than just one area affected and nobody, nobody wants to hear. And Steve, one of the other things that's going on, we've got Pastor Shealy. Hang on, Ben. Ben, hang on. Just hang on for one second. Ask the folks from labor unanimous. There's unanimity that they don't trust the government. In the last two years since President Trump was there, what actually interface have they had with the government? Is it epa? Is it fema? Is it at the federal level, the state level? When they say they don't trust it, they hope President Trump turns things around. What interface, what interactions have they had with what branches of the federal government? Is it epa? Is it female? Is it other parts of dhs? Is it hhs? Can you just ask and get a. Let's just do some quick hits. So, Steve, because President Biden said this was man made and not a natural disaster, FEMA could not help. We haven't got one bottle of water or any assistance. And my argument was 911 was not a natural disaster either. And FEMA rushed there. So. And anyone else? Thank you, Rick. Anyone else? Epa? Who's been, who have you been talking to? Not only do we not trust what the EPA has said, we've done our own investigations and we have many, many tapes of them proving that they lied to us. CDC under the Biden administration, allegedly Went door to door. They went door to door for one day and got sick and left and never told us when we forced the CDC back in. Do you want to know what they told us? Almost verbatim to thousands of people, you've all been exposed. You all have chemicals in your body. We don't know what to do about that. But we can treat the cancer it causes. Why wasn't that over every front page news? They said that the thousands of American people stuck right here still in this contamination when they're finding more contamination. They just found 14 more pockets of vinyl chloride in the soil back in November. We're Americans and we've been failed. J.D. vance came here though. J.D. vance went into the creeks with Dr. Chai. That's not undersell. Dr. Chai sacrificed his life. He's been in those creeks with these chemicals. He took J.D. vance there. J.D. vance has written three letters to the EPA, bipartisan letters with Sherrod Brown asking for indoor air testing, asking for dioxin testing, asking for a public emergency. And he personally wrote a letter to President Biden asking for a disaster declaration. We have been failed by every single piece of the government, down to our local government who bullies and harasses people that are sick. They didn't talk for 17 months before 1 local official brought up human health effects and that was a newly elected official. What's happening here? Never in a million years did I think this would be happening in the United States of America. And I apologize to everyone I called a crazy conspiracy theorist. They were right. I was crazy. Hi, Ben, Steve. You know Lonnie. Hi Steve. I have a comment I would love to direct towards President Trump and J.D. vance. I would love for you guys to return to East Palestine, Ohio and our surrounding communities and drain the swamp that is taking place here. This community has been ravaged by corruption and lies. Lies to the American people, our families, our loved ones, our children, our businesses, our livelihoods. Everyone that we love has been impacted by this. And never in a million years did I think that I would live to see the day that we would turn on each other. I thought after this disaster it would be like united, like we were after nine, 11. I thought that our communities would come together and fight the evil core corporation that did this to us. We need President Trump to get here and drain the swamp in this community. It is contaminated. They have infiltrated every single part of our lives with contamination. Our health, our mental health, our physical health, every single part of this has contaminated our lives. And we need help. We need President Trump back here to help us and make a difference and set an example of them so it never happens, happens again to another community. This can't happen again. We can't have another East Palestine Ohio. We just. It cannot happen. It has to stop here. It has to stop here. We have to learn. Hey, Ben. Ben. Yeah, go ahead, Steve. Hey, Ben. Just hanger for a second. We're going to return to East Palestine in just a second. Very powerful, impersonal, please. That's what you got to call it. Think about this for a second. We've gone from Appalachia now to East Palestine. I'm seeing some pattern recognition. You're seeing it, too. If you're the American working class, of your working class men and women around this nation and the entire apparatus is on your shoulder, you're treated like garbage. You're treated totally. You're totally disposable. This is why President Trump is returning to the White House and we will make sure that things are set right out there. We're gonna take a short commercial break here in a second and we're gonna return. We're gonna be in East Palestine. We're also gonna try to go to Bethlehem. I think we had Jason Jones there. If we can somehow work out the technology. Short commercial break. We'll be back in the warmth in the moment Spread the word all through Hong. We will fight till they're all gone. 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Jack Posobic, Dave Bratt will be joining us and others. Natalie Winters. Obviously, a lot going on. And the coverage of RAV will pick up early. Trying to get the religious service at St. John's Church. In the next hour, we're going to return, we're going to try to juggle three things simultaneously. The hearing of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who they really haven't laid a glove on yet. And I think this speaks to the preparation of the Cabinet secretaries or the proposed Cabinet secretaries. So far, they haven't laid a glove on anybody and they've tried. The thing that shocked me the most is how ill prepared the Democrat senators are for, you know, for the witnesses, and particularly they're laying out a vision of kind of President Trump's MAGA policies. Marco Rubio. Senator Marco Rubio could not have been clear about the end of the Post war international rules based order, how it had been gamed. 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