Episode 4219: Trump Live In Asheville Cont.

Summary

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

Release Date: January 24, 2025
Host: WarRoom.org (Steve Bannon)
Description: WAR ROOM is the first and most comprehensive program delivering up-to-the-minute news. Stephen K. Bannon hosts medical experts, politicians, business leaders, and frontline workers to provide insider insights on the latest developments.

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Introduction

In Episode 4219 of Bannon's War Room, host Steve Bannon and co-host Brian Glenn provide an in-depth coverage of President Donald Trump's visit to Asheville, North Carolina. The episode delves into the President's discussions on disaster relief efforts following Hurricane Helene, critiques of FEMA, environmental policies impacting California, and broader geopolitical strategies.

President Trump's Arrival and Initial Briefings ([00:03] - [03:09])

• Steve Bannon opens the discussion by noting the President’s customary engagement with local officials upon arrival.

  [00:11] Steve Bannon: "I want to observe that the first lady is stylish as ever..."

• Brian Glenn elaborates on the President’s routine of greeting local officials and mentions the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, emphasizing the critical nature of the disaster relief efforts.

  [01:03] Brian Glenn: "But this is the priority of this president right now. It is helping the American people."

President Trump’s Address on Disaster Relief and FEMA ([03:21] - [06:50])

• Donald Trump addresses the press, expressing frustration with FEMA's handling of the disaster.

  [03:21] Donald Trump: "It's a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down... we're going to assign Mr. Whatley, who's fantastic, frankly..."

• Steve Bannon questions whether the changes to FEMA will involve seeking additional aid from Congress.

  [06:26] Steve Bannon: "Those changes to FEMA, do you expect to ask Congress for additional aid for North Carolina and California?"

• Donald Trump responds affirmatively, stating that aid will bypass FEMA and be directly managed by the administration.

  [06:32] Donald Trump: "In other words, the aid will go through us... FEMA was not on the ball and we're going to turn it all around."

America First and Policy Priorities ([06:50] - [18:33])

• Brian Glenn ties President Trump's actions to his campaign slogan "America First," highlighting the focus on prioritizing American citizens over global concerns.

  [07:06] Donald Trump: "We're putting America first... We're going to do a good job in California..."

• Donald Trump discusses the economic and environmental challenges in California, criticizing long-standing policies that he believes have exacerbated disasters.

  [07:20] Donald Trump: "Millions of gallons of water are waiting to be poured down through already the half pipes that have been up for 40 years... you don't have water in the hydrants..."

• The conversation shifts to the geopolitical strategy concerning OPEC and the Ukraine war, with Trump advocating for reduced oil prices to pressure ceasefires.

  [08:47] Donald Trump: "If OPEC doesn't respond to your call to cut oil prices... that war is not going to end so easily."

Roundtable Discussions and Local Meetings ([17:03] - [23:00])

• Donald Trump engages with Governor Josh Stein and other local officials, praising private aid organizations like Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse for their disaster relief efforts.

  [34:10] Governor Josh Stein: "We had nothing but disaster. Since then, it doesn't matter. At this point, Biden did a bad job."

• Steve Bannon and Brian Glenn provide live coverage of the President’s interactions, highlighting his commitment to directly engaging with affected communities.

  [16:39] Brian Glenn: "President Trump, in leaving the tarmac, does what he often does... he wants to see my people."

Critique of FEMA and Administrative State ([30:15] - [43:22])

• Governor Josh Stein echoes Trump’s sentiment by expressing disappointment with FEMA’s response and advocating for state-managed disaster relief.

  [43:12] Governor Josh Stein: "FEMA has been a very big disappointment... when there's a problem with the state, that problem should be taken care of by the state."

• Donald Trump discusses the need to dismantle or fundamentally reform FEMA, citing bureaucratic inefficiency and politicization.

  [49:22] Donald Trump: "We're going to start immediately. Timeline. And to finish, it's going to be a..."

• The discussion emphasizes reducing federal intervention in favor of empowering state governments to handle disasters more efficiently.

Economic Policies and Trade ([53:14] - [56:13])

• Donald Trump outlines his plans to implement tariffs to balance trade deficits, particularly with Canada, criticizing existing trade practices.

  [53:14] Donald Trump: "Yeah, unbalance and balance and also deficits, like with Canada. We lose $200 billion a year with Canada."

• He proposes radical ideas such as integrating Canada as the 51st state to eliminate trade barriers and enhance economic cooperation.

  [54:43] Donald Trump: "I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut..."

Support from Franklin Graham ([56:07] - [57:41])

• Donald Trump commends Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse for their significant contributions to disaster relief in North Carolina.

  [56:16] Donald Trump: "Franklin Graham has been a big asset to the state... we gave... we made a big donation and it was money well spent."

• The episode highlights the effective role of private charities in supplementing government efforts during crises.

Final Discussions and Executive Actions ([57:41] - [60:05])

• Donald Trump touches upon recent executive actions, including proposals to eliminate FEMA and redirect aid, reinforcing his administration’s commitment to streamlined disaster relief.

  [57:41] Steve Bannon: "He signed an executive order to get rid of FEMA and man, he's held Benford Leather from doing this."

• The hosts discuss the broader implications of these policies on the administrative state and future governance.

Conclusion

Episode 4219 of Bannon's War Room provides a comprehensive overview of President Trump's proactive approach to disaster relief in Asheville, North Carolina. Through direct interactions with local officials and affected citizens, Trump emphasizes an "America First" philosophy, critiques federal agencies like FEMA, and outlines ambitious economic and environmental policies. The episode underscores the administration's focus on efficient, state-led responses to crises and strategic international trade reforms aimed at strengthening America's economic standing.

Notable Quotes:

• "[03:21] Donald Trump: 'It's a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down...'"

• "[06:32] Donald Trump: 'In other words, the aid will go through us... FEMA was not on the ball and we're going to turn it all around.'"

• "[07:06] Donald Trump: 'We're putting America first... We're going to do a good job in California.'"

• "[49:22] Donald Trump: 'We're going to start immediately. Timeline...'"*

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This summary encapsulates the key discussions and insights from the episode, providing listeners with a clear understanding of the topics covered and the perspectives shared during President Trump's visit to Asheville.

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

The president normally meeting some.

[Brian Glenn]

Yeah, yeah, I was just going to say.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah, local officials.

[Brian Glenn]

Some of the local officials here.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah.

[Brian Glenn]

As he steps off, obviously that's typically what he does. He'll, he'll greet the, the ones here on the ground, the ladies. I would imagine these individuals will be meeting him at this first stop. Yeah, just only imagine that. But this is typical and we'll see.

[Steve Bannon]

I want to observe that. I want to observe. Yeah, yeah. I want to observe that the first lady is stylish as ever. So stylish from, from the inauguration with the hat and just so elegant and then that night, the ball. But look at this. She's getting ready to go tour disaster area and you know, with her Parker on, et cetera, once again stealing the show as she is wont to do. The president there talking to local officials, getting a quick brief, getting a quick, getting a quick brief before he will get in the, he'll get in the motorcade right there and they will go to this, they will go to. The first thing will be the roundtable, correct, Brian?

[Brian Glenn]

That's. That is correct. A roundtable of sorts, I think, where they're going to meet with some local officials here in the area, probably hear from, from people who live here in this area as well. But then he'll go over to actually see some of the devastation that we have seen play out across our TV screens after September 27th, when this storm just came through this area and dumped biblical proportions of rain and really washed away, literally washed away towns right in front of our eyes. And Ben Borkholm has said earlier, you can still go to some of these places and have 8ft of mud inside a business, inside a home. I don't know how they simply ever rebuild. But this is the priority of this president right now. It is helping the American people. It is listening to what they want and what they need at this desperate time. And of course, when he wraps it up here in North Carolina, he'll head over west to go to Pacific's Palisades and toward the disaster there that we all know a lot of it has been through failed policies that have allowed these fires to burn like they have. But look, he. All politics aside, this president is for the American people and you're seeing it right now in display here in North Carolina. Steve?

[Steve Bannon]

Well, I believe that's Governor Stein, the new governor of North Carolina, I think to the far right, I think it's Governor Stein talking to the president right now. President will meet whoever the senior officials are, obviously this afternoon with newsom going to be a little controversial, but North Carolina is a Trump country. Although President Trump won heartily, the rest of the ticket was run by Democrats and Governor Stein is the new Democratic governor. I believe that's Governor Stein right there talking to the president with other local officials. President always comes down, wants to get a quick brief, find out what's going on, let people speak their piece. He'll view it. Like I said, management by walking around. President Trump is a specialist and you see right there kind of animated, talking about what's going on here and back. He's going to be very engaged in all this. He's hands on. He'll wander around. That classic management by walking around.

[Brian Glenn]

He looks like he's walking over here.

[Steve Bannon]

Brian, turn it back over to you.

[Brian Glenn]

Here we go. All right, let's see if we can't get a few minutes with them. I'll put the microphones out and let's listen in with President Trump.

[Donald Trump]

Well, thank you very much. Everybody thought I was going to California. I said, no, no, I'm stopping in North Carolina first because they've been abused by what's happened. I mean, it's terrible. It should have been done. It should have been. A lot of things should have happened that didn't happen. So we're here. We're going to fix it out. We're working with the gentlemen behind me and you know who they are, and we're going to fix and we're going to fix it as fast as you can. It's a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down, let the country down. And I don't know if that's Biden's fault or whose fault it is, but we're going to take over and we're going to do a good job. We're going to assign Mr. Whatley, who's fantastic, frankly, and the governor and everybody else. That's going to work. We're going to supply the money, supply a lot of the money. Maybe you have to chip in something. You'll chip in a little something like maybe 25% or whatever. But we're going to get it done as quickly as we can. And we want to take care of the people of North Carolina. It's so interesting. Everybody's talking about California and that's a mess. But I said I'm not going to California until I stop in North Carolina. So here we are. We're going to go visit the site and we're going to work with probably three of the congressmen, Republican congressmen who've been fantastic. Whose areas have been affected. And with Michael Watley, the governor and whoever else is, you know, we decide to get involved, probably less fema, because FEMA just hasn't done the job. And we're looking at the whole concept of fema. I like, frankly, the concept. When North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of it. You have a group of people come in from an area that don't even know where they're going in order to solve immediately a problem is something that never worked for me. But this is probably one of the best examples of it not working. And there's been some others, like in Louisiana, et cetera. So we're going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree. I'd like to see the states take care of disasters, let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen. And I think you're going to find it a lot less expensive. You'll do it for less than half and you're going to get a lot quicker response. So that seems to be the recommendation. But we'll be making that recommendation over the next couple. Couple of weeks. We're going to go to the site now and we're going to figure out a plan, a plan for really demolition and cleaning because not a lot has been done. And we're very disappointed in the Biden administration, but we're going to make up for lost time. And I said I'd do that. And this is about the earliest we could possibly be here. And we're honored to be here. This has been a great state. They're great people and they've really been mishandled. But it's all. This group is going to be great and we're going to get it taken care of. Any questions?

[Steve Bannon]

Those changes to fema, do you expect to ask Congress for additional aid for North Carolina and California?

[Donald Trump]

Correct. In other words, the aid will go through us. So rather than going through fema, it will go through us. And I think maybe this is a good place to start because, and in all fairness to the governor, in all fairness to everybody else, FEMA was not on the ball and we're going to turn it all around.

[Brian Glenn]

A lot, a lot of Americans think that this is symbolic of what your campaign was all about. America first, putting your priorities to Americans, even going to California where their policies might been in one of the biggest reasons why they've had these Problems. But you're putting the American people first. Your thoughts on that?

[Donald Trump]

We are. Thank you. I like that question. Boy, I want more questions like that. That's even a statement. Thank you very much. He's a good man, that guy. And he's also a very professional reporter, I have to say. Thank you very much. Yeah, we're putting America first. We're putting, in this case, North Carolina and California. We're going to do a good job in California. That is a disaster. Like, I don't know if we've ever seen anything like it, frankly. They say the biggest in the history of California, I think. Has anything bigger than that happened in the whole country ever? It looks like. I don't want to say what it looks like, but you know what I'm going to say. It looks like something hit it, and we won't talk about what hit it. But it is a bad, bad situation. And I guess I'm going to meet with some government officials. I mean, much more importantly. And in California, just to revert to it for a second, millions of gallons of water are waiting to be poured down through already the half pipes that are already built. I mean, they've been up for 40 years. And about 20 years ago, they turned off the water. And it's the water that comes from the Pacific Northwest, some of it comes out of Canada and it flows there. And it probably has flowed there for a million years. And they turned it off and they route it out to the Pacific. And in the meantime, you don't have water in the hydrants, you don't have water in the sprinkler systems. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And everyone's trying to figure out why aren't they turning it back. They say it's the delta smell that's a fish. But I find that hard to believe. But without and without doing that, you're going to continue to have problems.

[Steve Bannon]

Mr. President, what are you prepared to.

[Donald Trump]

Do, sir, if OPEC doesn't respond to your call to cut oil prices? Well, we want to see OPEC cut the price of oil, and that will automatically stop the tragedy that's taking place in Ukraine. It's a butchering tragedy for both sides. By the way, tremendous number of Russian soldiers are dead, tremendous number of Ukrainian soldiers, and a lot of people are dead from the bombing of the cities. But right now it's just bullets whacking and hitting men, mostly men, almost, in all cases, men. And over a million men are killed and they're losing thousands Thousands of people a week. It's crazy. It's a crazy war. And it never would have happened if I was president. Would never have happened. This is crazy that it happened, but we want to stop it now. One way to stop it quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much money and to drop the price of oil because they have it nice and high. And if you have it high, that war is not going to end so easily. So OPEC ought to get on the ball and they ought to drop the price of oil and that war will stop right away.

[Steve Bannon]

Did you funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy?

[Donald Trump]

I want to see two things in Los Angeles, voter id so that the people have a chance to vote. And I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen. I want the water to come down and come down to Los Angeles and also go out to all the farmland that's barren and dry. You know, they have land that they say is the equivalent of the land in Iowa, which is about as good as there is anywhere on Earth. The problem is it's artificial because they artificially stop the water from going onto the land. So I want two things. I want voter ID for the people of California. They all want it right now. You have no, you don't have voter id. People want to have voter identification. You want to have proof of citizenship. Ideally you have one day voting. But I just want voter ideas to start and I want the order to be released. And they're going to get a lot of help from the U.S. thank you very much.

[Brian Glenn]

Thank you, Mr. President.

[Donald Trump]

We'll see you at the site.

[Brian Glenn]

Thank you.

[Donald Trump]

At the site. Tell us more about the deportation flights. Where are they going from where in the. Well, deportation is going very well. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen. We're taking them out first. Thank you.

[Brian Glenn]

Thank you.

[Donald Trump]

Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

Press move through the grass.

[Brian Glenn]

Through the grass, Steve. We're going to, we're going to transition over to the grass to get in our press van. So bear with us. You might have a little bit of a shaky camera. The President, you know, taking some, some questions as we thought he would take. Wide variety of topics, Steve. Everything from what's going on here in North Carolina to what's happening in California. Obviously a little bit about the immigration as well. OPEC making its hits top. We're going to run a little bit, Steve. We've been told to pick up the pace here, but this is happening live. This is what, this is what it is, Steve. This is what it's like to be on the ground. And this is something that, like we said earlier, unprecedented coverage.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, Brian, we're gonna come right back to you in the motorcade. If we can get an overall shot of just the, of where President Trump is in the motorcade, can we take the fee from that? If not, that's fine. Real America's Voice live coverage. We're going to be in the press, in the press pool with our own camera, not taking a press feed. They're going to be in the motorcade and then Brian will be. Brian will be actually with the president. I got to tell you, Brian asked a fantastic question which is just absolutely right on dead spot. And here's what I love about the president. He took a. These are called press avails. When the president would just come up and there's nothing been preset. It's not a press conference. Let's go back and get the, let's get that footage. Let's get the footage from Brian. If we just cut in. But there we go right there. Brian Glenn and the press getting ready to jump in into the motorcade, follow the president. And like I said, there's restrictions on what you. Once you're in the motorcade, they don't want you putting the camera out. And it's normally straight ahead down back where they came from. You can see right there, the plane. That's Air Force One. That's the motorcade. President's just gotten in. Looked like the governor stopped Stein. Michael Watley's head of the rnc. Michael Watley was head of the North Carolina gop. That's why Michael's there. He knows this area cold. They're going to be congressmen, local Republican congressman when the president gets there. The president, press avails. Let's talk about it. The president did, too. Walked out this morning, out of the White House. Answers a bunch of questions on all topics. He'll take all comers right there. Took questions on opec, which is tied to this. The price of oil is tied to his strategy for getting out of Ukraine. Talked about the deportations. I don't take any question. I think Brian Glenn's question. Greatly appreciated by the president because it, you know, it's not. He's not trying to be snarky. President Trump's a wise guy. You have a Lot of these press folks just want to be wise guys. They want to ask a edgy cheap shot question and try to get some reaction out of the President or try to get something they can put in a clip and have 30 seconds on reach or Maddow. The President will take, he'll take any question you got and he'll give you a thought, well thought through answer. But he does not appreciate wise guys and you can see him all the time and the questions are all snark and all trying to put somebody on their back heel. It's very tough to put President Trump on his back heel. Okay, motorcade is leaving. Right there you see the main part of it. That is what we call the beast and the main and those are all, you know, heavily armored, heavily armored SUVs or equipment, what we call it now. They're, you see the antennas up on some of those SUVs that's because they have special anti drone technology associated with it. And this is the, this is the press right there. Brian Glenn will be getting into a moment. His mic will be cut back on. Okay, here's what we know. The President of the United States has landed. The President of the United States has landed inhas landed in western North Carolina at Asheville, North Carolina. He is currently after taking a few, making a statement and taking a few questions on this trip today to put America first and show America citizens that they are first, most importantly the forgotten men and women. And here's what's interesting. The failure of FEMA under the Biden regime has been felt by hardworking American citizens in Appalachia, that part of Georgia, western North Carolina, east Tennessee and Virginia. That's one of the backbones and real heartlands of this country. It cannot be anything but done on purpose. Even FEMA's not that incompetent. But the President's come up up as the motorcade starts to leave and goes to the first will be a roundtable where he'll actually meet officials, maybe some local folks have a chance to ask some questions. He's very upset obviously with fema, the structure of fema. He said right there he would rather have the money go directly to governors, give it right to the governor of North Carolina to handle this situation. That'd be Governor Stein, a Democrat who just won, who just won election or give it to Governor DeSantis if it's a hurricane in Florida. But just kind of cut at the middleman really what's the function of female. In addition, I think he compared and contrast really yesterday's Davos to come in here. And he said his first trip he wanted to go and make sure he emphasized that it's America first. There's the president again. Let's go. Let's go right to it, Steve.

[Brian Glenn]

Let's just go. Let's just go listen in on this. Just listen in.

[Donald Trump]

We're here to get a hurricane mess. All set.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Okay.

[Donald Trump]

Should have been done a long time ago.

[Brian Glenn]

Thanks for solving that problem.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you.

[Donald Trump]

Melania, you look beautiful. Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

You're a beautiful first lady.

[Brian Glenn]

Thank you, sir.

[Steve Bannon]

Appreciate you. I'm just trying to get a picture of. Yes, you are beautiful. I'm sh. Did you shake hands with him?

[Brian Glenn]

I wish I could have recorded it.

[Steve Bannon]

You guys should have got pictures for the sh.

[Brian Glenn]

President Trump having a moment with a couple fans here. I just saw a mom and her young son have a nice moment because he shook hands with the president and he obviously was very excited about that in just a moment. And just the admiration, Steve, that people have for First Lady Melania, just how graceful she is, how beautiful and poised she is. What a classy woman. And a lot of, lot of fans here for First Lady Melania as well, obviously with President Trump. But just a special moment. This is.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah, let's see if we can get the audio feed. Secret Service aces. This is called the rope line. This will be local supporters. Look how deep it is. They will let people there all pre screened. Secret Service normally wants to go to the event. President Trump traditionally says, stop, I want to go and see my people. That's what he's doing right now. He's meeting, agreeing. These are average Americans. This is the common man and woman that is the backbone of the MAGA movement. This is you, this audience in that crowd right there. Let's try to listen to President Trump. Can we hear it?

[Brian Glenn]

He's a little ways from us, Steve. I don't think I have any audio in that direction, but as he walks back over here, maybe we will. But right now, he's just a little too far from our microphones right now.

[Steve Bannon]

So the Secret Service traditionally is not. They're not fans. Even though these people have been screened beforehand, the Secret Service doesn't like these impromptu, you know, in the moment. In the moment kind of walk around. So President traditionally, if he sees a group of his supporters that have been brought out to the tarmac, he will traditionally say, hey, guys, pull over. I want to go over and see my people. And this is where Trump's the best, right here.

[Brian Glenn]

Yeah, this is. This is his element. You know, this is what he thrives in. You know, this is, this is why he wants to be honest with you. He connected with the American people not only on a policy level but on a personal level level. And he can identify with everyone. He's having a moment right now with the gentleman. I can't hear from this distance. They're probably about 15 yards away from us at this point. But this is why he won. And you know, obviously he is going to meet just about every single person here he is saying hi to for the most part. And just a beautiful moment here played out on the Runway. Now the majority of the, the cars have already left. So the just really the, the few heavily armored secure cars that the President Trump will get into are here. So he's just going to step in these two vehicles.

[Steve Bannon]

But here's the key. Yeah, but here's the, Brian, here's the key that he'll just tell the Secret Service, let's tell the driver, hey, I want to pull over and let's, let's just head left. Of course, Cassie Hutchinson accused him of grabbing the wheel. And like he says, it's an armor, you know, there's glass, there's plexiglass between it. It's ridiculous, it's absurd. But President Trump will tell the Secret Service, hey guys, I want to go over and see my people. And the main car and a couple of other support cars will pull over and Trump will be in the crowd. Now this drives the Secret Service crazy. They don't like this even though these people have been pre screened and obviously gone through. But it's an impromptu, you know, non scheduled event and obviously also for the timing of the day, remember he's still got to get to Los Angeles and he want to do that during as much daylight hours as possible. So for the staff, I can tell you, people right now are working their phones telling people in la, hey look, this is going to take a little longer. I know the President asked a bunch of questions. So he's on the tarmac with his fans. He's going to go to, he's going to go to a roundtable where he has some officials, maybe some other people. Then he'll actually go to one of the sites. So, and it's already, you know, it's already 11:30am Eastern Standard Time. That's 8:30 on the Pacific Coast. President Trump will be here at least another hour or two. Real America's Voice coverage is going to go right through the Charlie Kirk Show, Jack Bosovic, all of it. And because this is, you know, this is important as the President's first trip. He's sending a statement by being here, he's saying, hey, I didn't go to Davos. I phoned it in. I gave him video because I read them the riot act and they can just take my words as they take them. But I want to spend my time with my people. And he's going to North Carolina. And I think it's extraordinary, the heart rendering stories, Brian, that Ben Berkwam and the team last week or 10 days ago got, were heart wrenching, right? Absolutely heart wrenching. And you see the connection President Trump has. I mean, how many politicians have we ever had in the history of this country that have such a direct and powerful connection to the American people? Right there, that's the little guy. There are no swells in that crowd. That's not people that can pay for the big tables or write big checks. These are people. This is the War Room posse right there. Brian Glenn.

[Brian Glenn]

Yeah, yeah. These are the small donors. These are the millions of small donors that sent that 20, $25 donation into the president. Here we are. Let's listen. He's starting to make his way back this way. But these are. This is the grassroots service. This is the War Room Posse. This is the people that said, we've had enough of what's going on in this country and we want you in office. And he still, every time you think he's going to walk this way, he stops Steve and talks to somebody else. And that's just who he is. He is not going to leave this area without making everyone here feel extra special. And that he took the time to say hello and that's, that's why he has favorability. Raven.

[Steve Bannon]

As much as he loves rallies, he loves. Yeah, as much as he loves the rallies, he loves us even more. This is. He's in direct contact with his greatest supporters. Right. This is not the tech billionaires. This is not the Wall street guys. This is not. There he is right there. Let's try listening.

[Donald Trump]

Thank you.

[Brian Glenn]

Okay, we've been told we've got a break. We're gonna run a little bit. Steve, we've got to run to one of the press vans here. Like I said. If you can still hear me, audio right now, we're gonna have tail light shot for a while and then we're gonna break it down and we'll pop back up whenever we get to the first location. Just so you know, we'll be back live on the ground here in North Carolina State.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, Brian, get in the vehicle and get set up. Now. You see, one of the many reasons I'm not in the field today. I don't know if I could make that. I don't know if I can make that sprint. My producer Harry might be able to make it, but I don't know if I could. Harry could be carrying that camera right next to it. I might be a little winded. Okay, we are in western North Carolina. The President of the United States on his first trip, has gone to see his people. He is in western North Carolina. He's landed at the Asheville airport. Few comments. He met officials, the governor and Michael Whatley, the head of the rnc Looked like another local official, I'm sure tied to the disaster relief. Governor Stein looked like he was there. First lady's with the president. They came and did an asked a few questions and came to the tarmac once again and took questions from the press, as he did at the White House today. And these questions go everywhere from the Ukraine war and OPEC prices. It might be pretty interesting, the Financial Times of London had that as their lead today. That President Trump demands that. That OPEC cut oil prices as part of his grand strategy to end the Ukraine war. And also. And also that the Federal Reserve and central banks cut their interest rates. Why is he on opec? To cut prices. He's on OPEC to cut prices. Just this is how he brought down the Soviet Union in the Cold War. President Reagan basically put pressure on the Saudis to cut dramatically to increase production and dramatically cut prices because the cash flow to the Soviet Union, the cash flow to the KGU that runs Russia today, is tied to natural gas and oil. So that will put tremendous pressure on Putin to actually come to the negotiating table and let President Trump get the deal that he feels he needs to get done. He reiterated again on the tarmac of the violence and bloodshed in Ukraine. And he reiterated if he had been President, if the 2020 election had not been stolen, none of this would have happened. Impromptu press conference. Took a couple questions. Then as he's heading to the roundtable where he's gonna go out into the kind of area where the most damage is. And they'll normally have like a, you know, we go to our conference room or some local building. You get in, and normally it's some sort of roundtable. You meet local officials, get more detailed, intimate feedback. And normally they also have some people there. They'll be able to give their personal experiences before he then goes and does a walk around to actually see it management by wandering around the Tom Peters theory of the late 80s when President Trump was really coming into his own as a real estate developer. He's always believed and kind of embodied. He loves going around and just getting. I think our shot here is where the roundtable's gonna be. Right now you're forcing me to put my glasses on. Okay, right there. It's another look. The more studious look. Right there's the roundtable. That's where President Trump is heading to. He's a few minutes out. President Trump, in leaving the tarmac, does what he often does. He'll tell the Secret Service, he goes, hey guys, I see the line over there. That's usually a little off from where the. Where you actually come down the steps of Air Force One. That's off the tarmac a little bit. Traditionally, he will say, hey, just pull over there. I want to see my. And you saw right there, he'll jump right into the crowd. Secret Service hates that. Although it said the people are pre screened. Not just pre screened with your history and your biography and you're checked out. You're also screened that day. Obviously come through the magnometer and other things, but Secret Service hates it. They hate that. Impromptu right there. This is a classic roundtable. The president will come down, he'll be briefed by officials, local officials on either side. Looks like that's outside in atomic. Am I looking at that correctly? I think it is. Looks like very impromptu. President's going to be there for a few. In a few minutes. For a few minutes. They want to keep to the closest schedule as possible. President O'HERE he'll ask a bunch of questions. President Trump has this saying, no games. He cannot stand it when people are trying to either hold information or trying to play games with it. He's very direct. He's very straightforward. The best thing to do do is just give him a straightforward answer, keep it brief. If he's got interest, he'll ask you a following question. That's kind of what we tell people. Just make sure you give him as much information as possible. He feeds off information. President Trump also, the way his management style is in a meeting, he does not, you know, people say he talks all the time in a meeting, he says very little. He wants the participants, particularly if it's about decisions, he wants the participants to make their case, to put up facts, facts to back up their assertions with data and information. He'll let the sides fight it out. He will let people go at it, obviously professionally but let both sides. And he'll listen. He'll listen, he'll ask, follow on questions and he'll think about it. That's the way he processes information. I found it very powerful. Different chairmen and different CEOs have different styles. President Trump is not a, he's not a briefing book guy. I mean, you're not going to sit there with a hundred page briefing book. He wants to cut to the chase, tell me what the situation is. He wants to see how you formulate and marshal the facts to basically make your case of what the action plan should be amongst a range of alternatives. What he really likes to hear from is not staffers. What he really wants to hear from is people in the field, whether it's a cabinet official, somebody working for the cabinet official, National Security Council or here, a classic example. He shows up in North Carolina and what do you have? And by the way, when Brian's ready with audio, we'll jump back to Brian. Brian, what you'll see is that he'll meet with the officials at the plane, he'll ask questions. I mean, he's there for a reason. What's the reason he's there? This happened four months ago. You know, it was a biblical, you know, in the hills and hollows of Appalachia. These rains that came from the hurricane did horrific damage, kind of biblical type damage. They had a situation like this in my unit youth in the Commonwealth of Virginia. My dad is a phone company guy, was very tied up. It's called Torn Land where the hurricane came in. The rains came in, went into the Blue Ridge Mountains. It caused massive devastation. This is what's happened here in Appalachia. I think with the President's here today. He's quite upset and he's going to get answers. He wants to know why this is 4 months Los Angeles just happened. There's a different set of questions there of how if policy and things. Right there's the president right there. Let's cut to, let's cut and pick this up live. Let's pick up the audio.

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Governor Josh Stein]

One of the things that are very important to me, and one of the reasons I'm happy that we won so convincingly, is to help North Carolina get fixed up. They supported us in record numbers. Bring them in record numbers, too. And they had me set. I want to go to Los Angeles and see what was going on with California, why they aren't releasing the water. Millions and millions of gallons of water. They're sending it out to the Pacific. Someday somebody's going to explain that one. In the meantime, they have no water in Los Angeles, where they had the problems. But. So we're going there. But I said, well, what about North Carolina? Well, you could do that. No, I can't. I said, we're stopping in North Carolina first, and then we're going to Los Angeles. And we just appreciate the outpouring of love that we've had here. Laura was, as you know, very instrumental in the campaign, and she lived here and is loved, and we appreciate it. And Michael White has been incredible, wherever Michael is. Hello, Michael. Michael Whatley has been great, and your congressmen have been great. And what we thought we'd do is take a quick look around first. We wanted to do this. I want to say that we're very disappointed in fema, your new governor. It's not his fault. He's brand new to the whole situation. But we're going to work together with the governor. We're going to work together with the senators, but really we're going to work a lot with your congressmen, especially the three that are in the area, and Michael Whatley. And I'd like to put Michael in charge of making sure everything goes well. And Franklin Graham has been unbelievable. We've made a big contribution to Franklin, and we'll continue to do so. But I've been hearing nothing but praise for the job that Samaritan's Purse has done with Franklin, and we appreciate it. Where is Franklin? He's around here someplace. And a good looking guy. He's always been a good looking guy. His father was a good looking guy too. I'll tell you, we loved his father. I saw his father in the latter years and I said, well, he doesn't have long to go. He was having a hard time. And he lived about three or four years after that. Right. They say it was good stock. He had the ultimate good stock. But I want to thank you, frankly. You were, you've been fantastic here. And everywhere he goes, he's always, he's always the first one. I see there's people don't realize it, how good it is. A lot of people, they go, well, maybe it's for the people that he's got. And you guys know because you're here. But the people that he's got have done amazing work. So I just want to thank everybody. We're going to get over and take a look. We'll say a few words. I want to just, I do want to introduce some of the people that we have. And our first lady, we'll start with our first lady, she wanted to be here because of North Carolina. And then I said, well, you can do that, but you're going to have to come to California, too. And she said that's okay. And we got to fix that one up too. That's, do you ever see anything like that one? It's, who would have, who would have thought that could have happened? So Governor Josh Stein, thank you very much. We appreciate it. And we're going to have a very long and good relationship. Representatives, maybe stand up if you would, so we, the press can see. Representatives Chuck Edwards. Chuck, thank you. Thank you, Chuck. Tim Moore, Virginia, you know Virginia Foxx, a legend. She is such a powerful woman. Pat Harrigan. Pat, thank you very much. Your Agriculture Commissioner, who I hear is excellent, Steve Troxler. Steve, thank you very much. Good job, Steve. You got plenty to do, right? More than you ever thought. North Carolina Speaker Dustin Hall. Thank you, Dustin. Thanks, Dustin. Very good. House Majority Leader Brendan Jones. Brendan, thank you very much. We're making progress, Brendan. State Representatives Dudley Green, Carl Gillespie. Thank you very much, fellas.

[Donald Trump]

Good, good.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Thank you very much. State Senators Kevin Corbyn, Warren Daniels. Thank you. Thank you very much. Kevin Warren. And County Commissioner Jennifer Best. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. So Hurricane Helene was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. It was far worse than it was even billed. I have never seen such water damage. It was largely water damage, wind damage, but water damage nobody has ever seen. I've been here as you know, numerous times. But now I'm here in a position where we can do something. Meaning I've been in office for four days and I wanted to come sooner, but actually they had a little problem with getting logistically in here. But I would have been here even sooner. 104. 104 North Carolinians have at least have lost their lives. Is that now a fairly firm number or are they still finding people? You know, what do you think? They're still finding people? Pretty much. Okay. It's a lot of people. 104 people lost their lives. 73,000 homes were severely damaged or destroyed. And I'll tell you, I've been to a lot of them and this was like lots of very hurricanes in one. I've never seen such damage done by water. And the water came, it was violent, and it left and there was like nothing left. It's really pretty amazing. At one point, half of the emergency calls to FEMA went unanswered. That's real bad. FEMA was not doing their job. The city of Asheville went without running water for two months. A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who display Trump signs on their property. I think that's true, isn't it? I read that. It's not nice. That's not too nice, is it? But whoever those property people were, thank you very much. Michael, is that true? That's not good, huh? About the property owners. You put a Trump sign on and they wouldn't help FEMA. Earlier this year, FEMA kicked 2,000 North Carolinians out of their temporary housing housing into below freezing temperatures. What was that all about? Is that you know about that? What happened? Tell me.

[Donald Trump]

We had an incompetent administration under Biden and we had a disaster. And then we call it the disaster after the disaster. That was the FEMA response.

[Governor Josh Stein]

You had nothing but disaster. Since then, it doesn't matter. At this point, Biden did a bad job. Some residents still don't have hot water, drinking water, or anything else. And many of them don't have quarters. They don't have anything. They got a stipend for what they lost, and we're going to take care of it. This is totally unacceptable. And I'll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild. We're working on it very hard, and I think if Michael Whatley does half as good a job for North Carolina as he did for my campaign, we'll be very happy. Him and Laura were a very powerful team. So you think you can handle it? Michael? I don't know. I'm not sure. Michael, I think this is maybe in many ways easier. Okay, maybe easier, but you're going to lead the team. Do you want to say who the, who the congressmen are that you want to appoint? You want to introduce them?

[Donald Trump]

We have Virginia Congress, Fox, Chuck Edwards and Tim Moore, whose districts encompass the.

[Governor Josh Stein]

And they are the districts that were most severely impacted.

[Donald Trump]

Right? You were. You were affected.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Then Virginia lost my own private. Really? I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema or maybe getting rid of fema. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling fema. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area, they've never been to the area, and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way. You could go back a back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of.

[Donald Trump]

The things that took place in Texas.

[Governor Josh Stein]

It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work.

[Donald Trump]

It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state.

[Governor Josh Stein]

But the state should fix this. If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation.

[Donald Trump]

I think you guys agree with that, right?

[Governor Josh Stein]

So I just wanted to tell that Ash say that. Ashvin Phil, I know it well. It's a great place, so we're going to have it be a great place again. That was the one that was most severely affected. But North Carolina is going to come back bigger, better, stronger than ever before.

[Donald Trump]

And you're going to be very thankful.

[Governor Josh Stein]

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

[Donald Trump]

And we're going to get it together.

[Governor Josh Stein]

We're informing the Army Corps of Engineers to get going because you have a lot of river breaks and a lot.

[Donald Trump]

Of areas that you're going to need some pretty big work.

[Governor Josh Stein]

And they're on their way. They're going to be working very much harder than They've been working in the.

[Donald Trump]

Past and we're going to take care of it.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Any questions from the press of any of the congressmen, Governor, Anybody, sir, Even.

[Donald Trump]

If not on fema, getting rid of it.

[Steve Bannon]

Can you say more about signing executive order to get rid of fema, please?

[Governor Josh Stein]

FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a tremendous amount of money. It's very bureaucratic and it's very slow. Other than that, we're very happy with them. Okay. And I think it's. I think when there's a. When there's a problem with the state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state. That's what we have states for. They take care of problems. And a governor can handle something very quickly.

[Donald Trump]

You know, one of the things I've noticed, because I've been doing this for.

[Governor Josh Stein]

A while and we had a pretty.

[Donald Trump]

Good fema, but I also noticed that.

[Governor Josh Stein]

When they come, they end up in arguments.

[Donald Trump]

They're fighting all the time over who does what. It's just.

[Governor Josh Stein]

It's just not a good.

[Donald Trump]

And I think it's. I think when there's a. When there's a problem with the state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state. That's what we have states for. They take care of problems. And a governor can handle something very quickly. You know, one of the things I've noticed, because I've been doing this for a while and we had a pretty good fema, but I also noticed that when they come, they end up in arguments. They're fighting all the time over who does what. It's just not a good system. This system is so beautifully designed. Over 250 years, approximately, you know, and we'll soon be celebrating the 250th year. It's going to be a very big celebration, but it's been designed very well and we're going to leave it that way. When North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee. When everybody knows the governor of Tennessee, I think everybody. Do you know, everybody here?

[Governor Josh Stein]

Pretty much.

[Donald Trump]

I never thought of it, but you're right over the ridge, so you're here to help.

[Governor Josh Stein]

That's great.

[Donald Trump]

The people in this region, including Tennessee, the people of Appalachia, are grateful that you are here and that you haven't forgotten them and that there are other disasters. But this one was enormous for both North Carolina and Tennessee. So thank you. You know, I've seen a lot of disasters. This, when I came. I came here right after, the day after. And when I came here I couldn't believe it, actually. I couldn't believe the damage. And I've seen a lot of them.

[Governor Josh Stein]

This was, this was more like a.

[Donald Trump]

Tornado than it was what we witnessed. So we're going to get it very much, very much taken care of. Good job.

[Governor Josh Stein]

That's nice that you came.

[Donald Trump]

And so you call it. You're right over the ridge, right? Tennessee.

[Governor Josh Stein]

I like Tennessee, too.

[Donald Trump]

Let's see, where did I get more votes, Tennessee or North Carolina? I hate to tell you, North Carolina, it was Tennessee. There's one of the counties in this disaster at 88% for you.

[Governor Josh Stein]

88%, yeah.

[Donald Trump]

The people are just incredible people. So do you have any questions?

[Press]

PRESS yes, Mr. President, you talked about conditions being placed on aid, California voter ID and the like. Are there any conditions that you're going to put on aid to North Carolina?

[Donald Trump]

We're going to do a lot for North Carolina. You know, they've been very slow.

[Governor Josh Stein]

I don't know why it's been so bad.

[Donald Trump]

This has been one of the worst I've seen. Katrina, of course, you know, was something that, obviously that was a long time ago.

[Governor Josh Stein]

That was not good.

[Donald Trump]

But this has been very slow. I don't know if that was for political reasons because they lost the state. You know, Biden lost the state. Maybe he felt he doesn't care. Maybe there were other reasons. I don't know. But this has been very slow by any standard. This has been very slow.

[Governor Josh Stein]

And we're going to.

[Donald Trump]

We're going to make up for lost time under conditions.

[Press]

You're going to push for aid.

[Donald Trump]

It's a different thing. You got hit by a storm. The people are incredible. They worked really well. Franklin was fantastic. And other groups, by the way, other groups came in that were also fantastic and other states came in. Tennessee and a couple of others came in and they really helped. That's the way it's going.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Supposed to be.

[Donald Trump]

No, this is a different kind of a thing. About what?

[Steve Bannon]

Have you decided how much money would allocate?

[Donald Trump]

I haven't just. I have to see what it is. Are you disappointed that Senator Schiff hasn't.

[Steve Bannon]

Joined you on this trip?

[Donald Trump]

It was reported you invited Senator Schiff to join you on this trip and he was too busy. Are you disappointed? I don't know. I was told that Schiff was going to travel with us, us to California. I wasn't thrilled, to be honest with you. And I saw him last night on television. It looks like he got hit with a baseball bat or something. What happened to him? Something happened to Him.

[Governor Josh Stein]

It was.

[Donald Trump]

It looked like he got hit. It looked like he got beat around, but. But I'll ask Caroline to find out what happened to him. No, if he wanted to come out, I would have done that, but I don't know. Somebody said that he wanted to come on the plane, but I think he's staying back for the votes. There's some pretty good votes going on. Yeah.

[Steve Bannon]

What is your timeline for getting rid of fema?

[Governor Josh Stein]

For the.

[Donald Trump]

For this one? For this one? Well, possibly getting rid of fema.

[Steve Bannon]

What timeline are you looking at and.

[Donald Trump]

How would you do that? Well, we're looking here.

[Steve Bannon]

Here.

[Donald Trump]

You're talking about to start. We're going to start immediately. Timeline. And to finish, it's going to be a. That period of time. You know, people are also rebuilding their houses. How long does it take to build a house?

[Governor Josh Stein]

Right. Takes a time.

[Donald Trump]

And I want them to build houses bigger, better, nicer than they had before so they can have at least they.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Get something out of this disaster. This was a real disaster.

[Donald Trump]

No, timeline will be fast in terms of infrastructure, I think very fast. I want to thank Elon because Elon was able to get us communication systems. As you know, Starlink, we had no communication. The first day I got here, I was asked by one of the people, one of the really great representatives, professionals, that is there any way you could get Starlink here? Because they had no communication whatsoever. And I called up Elon Musk and he had, you know, hundreds of units brought here, like brought immediately. And it's hard to get. They couldn't get them before. And that made a lot of. Of difference. I think it saved a lot of lives, actually. Yeah, infrastructure wise.

[Governor Josh Stein]

We'll do it quickly.

[Press]

Sir, can you just talk about how.

[Steve Bannon]

Long you might think it might take.

[Press]

To get rid of FEMA with the timeline on that? They're going to roll it back.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, I would say.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Look, as far as I'm concerned, I'm.

[Donald Trump]

Not really thinking about FEMA right now here. I'm thinking about Michael Whatley and I'm thinking about the three Congress people that you just heard from and also the other people in Congress. And they'll be working with the governor. They'll be working with the governor. So that's what I see.

[Brian Glenn]

Change the subject real quickly. The Lake and Riley act was signed by Mike Speaker Johnson yesterday.

[Donald Trump]

Right.

[Brian Glenn]

When do you anticipate to sign that note?

[Donald Trump]

Well, we're honored by that. Lake and Riley. I was there at the time and we had a big meeting with her parents right after that. Horrible thing took place. And we have an act. You all know what that act represents. And it was a bipartisan bill. Many Democrats signed onto it. That's something that is a tribute to Lakin, a beautiful young lady who was killed viciously by an illegal alien. And we passed a very powerful bill and it was just approved. And we'll have a ceremony sometime very shortly. I'll be signing it. In other words, if you're asking, I will definitely be signing it. Yeah.

[Governor Josh Stein]

The security detail for Anthony Fouche was terminated last night. And I'm wondering if you have any.

[Donald Trump]

Comment about what security detail for Anthony.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Fauci was terminated last night.

[Brian Glenn]

Sir, do you have a problem?

[Donald Trump]

No. I think, you know, when you work for government, government, at some point you're security detail comes off and you know you can't have them forever. So I think it's very standard. If it would be for somebody else, who wouldn't be asking the question. The question is very fair. But, you know, you work for government. We took some off other people too. But you can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government.

[Steve Bannon]

Ask for it to be taken off.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

[Steve Bannon]

Would you feel partially responsible if something.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Were to happen to, say, Dr. Dodd? No. No.

[Donald Trump]

You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too. All the people you're talking about, they can go out. I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they, you know, felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.

[Press]

North Carolina is a state that relies on trade and manufacturing. Are you going to have an announcement on new tariffs coming soon? Is there a timeline now?

[Donald Trump]

Yeah. The tariffs are going to make our country rich. We're going to be a rich, rich country very soon. Tariffs are going to make it rich. And competence. We have common sense. Competence and tariffs. The word tariff is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary.

[Press]

Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary of the United Kingdom, said that there's an even trade between the US and the UK So they shouldn't have tariffs. Does trade imbalances or a balance trade affect tariffs in your decision?

[Donald Trump]

Yeah, unbalance and balance and also deficits, like with Canada. We lose $200 billion a year with Canada. That's because we allow them to make cars. We allow them to take lumber. We don't need their cars. We don't need their lumber. We don't need their food products because we make the same products right on the other side of the border. It's sort of crazy. So we've just allowed that, you know, bad management has allowed it over the last four years in particular, to become very imbalanced. And I said to. I call him Governor Trudeau, but he's Prime Minister Trudeau. When he was prime minister, I asked him, why would we do that?

[Governor Josh Stein]

Why?

[Donald Trump]

And he was unable to give me an answer. He said, I don't know. And I said, do you think it's fair that we're paying $200 billion to keep Canada going? And what would happen, I said. I asked him what would happen if we didn't do that, if we didn't subsidize Canada. He said, we'd be a failed nation.

[Governor Josh Stein]

And I said, then you should be.

[Donald Trump]

A state, because why are we paying all of that money to Canada when, you know, we could use it ourselves? Right? So we take care of their military. You know, we ordered. We're going to order about 40 Coast Guard big icebreakers, big ones. And all of a sudden, Canada wants a piece of the deal. They say, why are we doing that? I mean, I like doing that if they're a state, but I don't like doing that if they're a nation. Also. They've been very nasty to us on trade. Historically, Canada has been very, very bad to us, very unfair to us on trade. So we'll see how it all works out. I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut, tremendous tax cut, because they're very highly taxed. And you wouldn't have to worry about military. You wouldn't have to worry about many of the things. You'd have better health coverage. You'd have much better health coverage. So I think the people of Canada would like it, you know, if it's explained. But just to start off, they'd have a very. They'd have a massive tax cut and they'd have a lot more business because then we'd let business go to Canada routinely. And there'd be no tariffs. You know, if we did that, there'd be no tariffs.

[Brian Glenn]

First, Reverend Franklin Graham has been a great asset to the state. Talk a little bit about the way Samaritan Purse has helped North Carolina.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Yes.

[Donald Trump]

Once again, the first Franklin Graham has.

[Brian Glenn]

Been a big part of Samaritan Purse and their aid to North Carolina.

[Steve Bannon]

Just want to get your thoughts.

[Donald Trump]

Well, Franklin Graham has been a big.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Asset to the state.

[Donald Trump]

His father was a big asset to the state, to the country, both of them. I just think this, I think Franklin and other people that are doing what Franklin have done. But, but you know, I've known Franklin so long. He was at the inauguration. He made a speech, beautiful speech, beautiful prayer. Just he does a great job. And we gave. We made a big donation and it was, it was money well spent. Sometimes you make donations. It's not well spent. He's done a great job here. He's done a really great job. So I want to thank you. We're going to the site now and one of the sites and we'll. I think you'll. For those that haven't seen it, you won't even believe it, but not enough work was done. We'll get it done fast. And I can speak for the Republican congressman. We're going to knock it out, right? We're going to knock it out. And I think we take it very personally because it was North Carolina was very unfairly treated. Very, very unfairly treated. And it was obvious. It was too obvious. And we're going to make up for lost time. So thank you to the people of North Carolina. Thank you, everybody.

[Steve Bannon]

Am I on that? Is the president right there with Franklin Graham from Samaritan's Purse. Billy Graham's son runs this big charitable organization. Is really taken care of. You saw week 10 days ago when we were there. It was at the forefront of the relief work, which really is private relief work. Present in that Q and A. He signed an executive order to get rid of FEMA and man, he's held Benford Leather from doing this. Do I have. Is Brian. Are you with me? Brian Glenn. I know Brian's right there. Brian asked a couple of great questions. I think his audio may be turned off. He's going to get back in the pool. That's our own live shot from Real America's Voice. The First Lady. The first lady and the President there with Franklin Graham. Other he's got Michael Watley, the head of the rnc. Michael Watley is from North Carolina. Love North Carolina. No, let's go back to that shot, please. You don't need me in a full shot. Let's think these shots through, gentlemen. Oh, they're going to take it down. Okay, can we go to the poll feed? Let's go to the poll feed. Let Brian Glenn's going to take his thing. Let's see of the poll feed. The president's there with the first Lady. He he answered questions. Brian. Hey, Brian, what do you got for us?

[Brian Glenn]

Hey. Hey, Steve. Yes, he just wrapped up here shortly talking to the members that we recognized earlier. From this point, we will get in the motorcade and follow President Trump to a disaster area. And what. He would tour that area, take some questions, I would imagine, and talk to the local homeowners in that area. But really kind of going over the magnitude of this area and I would think the demand for. Let's see if he's for the. Let's listen in real quickly if he might come over here. He looks like he's posing for a couple. Thank you. Posing with first lady. Okay, so we're good. We've got to take direction from the press lead right now, Steve. So we do have to kind of hustle into a different area as we transition into location number two, Steve. So I'll hit. I'll come back to you when we have a steady shot. We're in place.

[Steve Bannon]

Go ahead. Yeah, maybe keep that shot. Just cut the mic off.

[Brian Glenn]

Okay.

[Steve Bannon]

This is what's called a. That's called a press gaggle. Let's get that shot back up there for. We can. Got enough of me. Let's get that shot back up. It's okay to see the unsteadiness. It's going to be fine. Let's double box it. I got to anchor this and produce it and direct at the same time. Just teasing the team. I want people to see it. This is called a press gag. You know, gaggles. When you have all these press. This is the pool that's with the president the entire time. Now, did we see the. Now you're going to go out. When you're on the White House staff, you have what's called wranglers. You have press wranglers. There's our own Brian Glenn right there. You have press wranglers. And the press wrangler's job is to keep this unruly element, keep those great shots. It's fantastic. You're seeing the sausage being made, folks, right there. And I want to join. I think we're getting ready to go to the Charlie Kirk. Yeah. In fact, we're into the Charlie. Charlie Kirk show now. I want to welcome the Charlie Kirk audience. Just to do a reset, we are live from Asheville, North Carolina. Our own Brian Glenn has been invited to have our own camera today. Not taking a press feed, but our own camera is there with the president's motorcade. The president landed at about 10:30, 10:40 Eastern Standard Time. He did a short meeting with Officials on the tarmac. He then had a press availability, answered a few questions. Then he went over, got his Secret Service vehicles out of the line, and actually went to go see his people, war room posse and MAGA members on kind of a rope line. He did a meet and greet there, shook hands, had people really saying, Mr. President, we love you. Then he went for what we call roundtable. These are very traditional when president goes to a local area, either even for a factory opening or to see people, particularly when you go to these disaster areas. The theme of the day is President Trump is getting all direct briefings from people. Are there. Franklin Graham, Samaritan's purse. I can't tell you how important Samaritan's purse has been. Ten days ago, when Ben Berkhom was there for two days, all we heard was, Samaritan's purse, Samaritan's purse. They'd been out in western North Carolina and East Tennessee bringing kind of philanthropic and charitable relief that the federal government had one of the major questions. And I was actually impressed with the press not asking wise guy questions. I think you see a very big difference in President Trump's first term and second term. You don't see the snarky questions that the press asks every day. Some snarky question about Russiagate or. These so far have been pretty, I think, pretty good, pretty thoughtful questions, although a lot of them are from the liberal media. Right there, you're seeing a shot inside the press van. We're there with our own camera not taking the pool feed, which is pretty extraordinary. Now, the Secret Service requires you, as you're gonna see, Brian doesn't have his audio. That's cut off for security reasons. And they tell you to put the camera straightforward, what's called a tail light shot. The president went to a briefing over of what they called traditionally, these roundtables, where local officials, people, you know, ask questions who introduce local dignitaries, in this case, local congressmen who had been there for North Carolina. Then the president gives you some comments. Once again, the president, the most available president, I think, in the history of this republic to the press. He took questions from the. From the media. And most of these questions really revolved around disaster relief, what's going to be coming up in California, and particularly fema. He did sign an executive order that really looks to a pretty substantial restructuring or elimination of fema. The president gave you what he intends to do, and what he intends to do is to look at local authorities and kind of the femas, the emergency groups in each state and Just give this money for support. Support. Give the money to the governor, give the money to the states and let the states deal with it and really cut out the middleman, which is fema. And I think part of that is because of the politicization of fema. And the other part is just because the incompetence of fema. Remember, this is part of the deconstruction of the administrative state, particularly in the Alphabet agencies. There's a lot of folks, including myself, that think these Alphabet agencies have just grown and grown and grown with virtually little regulation or supervision from Congress. And that has led them to be not just overly bureaucratic, but also incredibly and highly inefficient and too politicized, too able to be weaponized. One of the things the President is there today in western North Carolina is to get the answer to the questions, why are we in the fourth month of this? And you're going to see things today, and I'm sure the President is going to see things that are going to shock him. When Ben berquam was there 10 days ago, I was quite frankly, stunned. My kid brother had worked in western North Carolina and actually lived in Asheville for a couple of years. And it is, in fact, my college roommate and other people I'm very close to are very. Are down in Asheville, one of the most beautiful parts of the country and just a magnificent location. It's become a big retirement area over the last decade or two. As people, you know, Florida is a little too much for them as far as no change of seasons and maybe up north is a little too cold. So the environment in western North Carolina is perfect. So Asheville has been a tremendous and really high explosive growth. Talk about this cold winter. It's been a kind of a bitterly, brutally cold winter with this kind of arctic, you know, air arctic weather coming down. But really since right after Thanksgiving has been pretty cold. And I think we're three or four months into this. What the President's most upset about, about, and he wants us to get answers from, is why is he coming out to North Carolina to visit with and hear from the forgotten man and woman when this should have been taken care of months and months ago? Is this just bureaucratic inefficiency? Is this just incompetence? Are they not going to work because they're still heaving to on Covid so they're working from home or was this political? And I've advocated from the beginning that you have to have a thorough investigation of this to find out what happened. California is very different. California's about policies that have been decades in the making. Josh Pettit, who's a golf course architect and we normally have him on here talking about for the major championships about the golf course. He walked through the kind of how the radical part of the environmental community has a structural, has structurally do commissions, committees, you know, coastal committees, have put a stranglehold on really common sense environmental policies, along with radically left Democrats to kind of, you know, be the predicate for this disaster that happened. The President's going to discussions out of that because in Los Angeles you could be talking about in the great LA area, $200 billion of destruction. I can tell you, having very close knowledge of home ownership in Pacific Palisade Age. One of the most remarkable little villages in all of America, and particularly in Southern California is where Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan lived for many, many decades. A very understated elegance of just really this very nice village. Completely gone. Worse than Dresden in 1945. It's like the Tokyo firebombings in March of 1945. President's going to want answers for that today. Shifty Schiff was supposed to be with him, but Shifty Schiff made a big deal about not going. Really? Really. That's tied to these votes in the Senate. Right now you're in the motor pool right here. You're in what's called a press van. You can put the camera straight forward. That's called a tail light shot if you're watching it right there. I want to thank the Charlie Kirk audience for joining us. We're hearing rural America's voice. This is live, uninterrupted coverage. We're blowing all the commercial breaks so that we can do the coverage of. Since we've been invited by the comm staff to be there. Kind of a hat tip to the new rising power of the podcast and particularly the rising power of these streaming services. Getting away from mainstream media and our own. We got Ben Berkwam in Chicago and Brian Glenn. Ben, who was out there 10 days ago. Brian Glenn is with the President today. Brian Glenn has asked three great questions. I mean, really appreciated by the president. President gave him a kind of a thumbs up and hey, thank you. On the way up, Brian Glenn, a total professional, is now with Right side Broadcasting for years doing the coverage of all the. Of all the events and is now with his real America's Voice. He'll be doing both the White House and Capitol Hill. The reason Schiff's not is really not out there. Is Schiff there's major votes. So we talked about the actions the president has to take. We also talked about the resistance. You've got Democrats have gone to court on the deportation. They're in court on the 14th amendment. They're in court on many, many things. I'm sure they're going to try to go to court on fema. Anything to do with deconstructing the administrative state that they're going to stop. But particularly in the Senate, there's been kind of a brutal fight. Schumer, who is having these press conferences or having press availabilities where he will go up and literally rip apart someone like Russ Vote. I heard one last night. I listened to it from about 30 or 40 minutes. Schumer and other Democrats just saying how terrible Russ Vote was, how Russ Boat was the godfather of Project 2025, how Russ vote was absolutely, was absolutely terrible. Now, MSNBC is all over President Trump taking down fema. Their coverage is hysterical on everything that President Trump does. Their hair's on fire on all of it. The president, let's go back to the Senate. So remember, we have John Ratcliffe has just been confirmed as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Senator Marco Rubio is now secretary of State. President Trump, four days into his administration, only has two approved cabinet members. Everything else is on the interim that are really not his people. And this is after flooding the zone last week with just to go back and think about it, spectacular performance of his, spectacular performance of his, of his, of his nominees with no real Democratic pushback on the ideas or the representations. Just one more to reset. You're in a press van. That's Brian Glenn and his cameraman. Our team we're heading to now, we're going to go to a disaster site outside of Asheville, North Carolina. President Trump will walk around, he'll meet some local folks, meet the forgotten man and woman, have some interchange. We will cover this live. I'm going to remain here for this coverage until the end. President Trump will then return to the airport. I'm sure he's going to say a few words in the tarmac. Then he and the first lady will enter the Air Force One. And I think it's scheduled to end about 1pm Eastern Standard Time, although I believe he's going to run a little late here. He's then going to take off for Los Angeles, Angeles. He arrived out in Los Angeles, I think early afternoon local time. And then he will have a once again, you know, meet some officials. He will have a roundtable where he'll meet you know, a bigger group of officials and then I'm sure he's going to tour the area. I will tell you, President Trump knows Los Angeles. He owns a house in Beverly Hills. He hasn't spent as much time in LA as obviously in other parts of the country. Really not a California guy, although he loves California. I know he loves his house he's had in Beverly Hills Hills. The President of the United States knows Pacific Palisades. He will be absolutely floored. The people I know that live out there have many, many friends. I lived in California for 20 years, although spent time all over the world and in New York a lot, but had a home base there. People are, you can't believe what's happened to the Palisades, what's happened to Altadena, which is out by, in by Pasadena. What's happened in these towns is really just unbelievable. It's military level devastation that it's all gone and what is standing has been condemned. So once again, we're in the press pool right there. We've got our own camera. We're not taking this off the press feed. That's rill America's Voice, Real America's Voice was invited and here's why. Back in 2021, when the president left the White House, the President Trump back in Mar a Lago was cut off from any access. I don't believe mainstream media covered him live until the midterm election of 2022. Even Fox News, I think blocked him for a year and a half. Rupert Murdoch went out and said they were going to make him a non person. He was covered live nonstop by Real America's Voice, right side broadcasting. Brian Glenn was one of the chief anchors over at right side at the time. We knew the right side guys very, very close to him. Great, great team over there. They were covered nonstop. Remember all the rallies. Real America's Voice would be there. We would do coverage. We tossed our teams. He covered President Trump live. He covered Matt. Remember the days Ben Berkwam would be out there hours and hours in advance. On Saturday, we'd have Ben on the Saturday morning show with war room posse members that were already there 5, 6, 7 hours before the event started. The White House staff and Caroline Levitt, you remember Caroline. Caroline as a young woman ran for the house a couple of years ago and we did a lot of coverage of her in the primary. She was an engaging personality. She was a young woman woman. She's an absolute firebrand. She would not back down. And Caroline Levitt became beloved by the War room audience and really embraced. Caroline Levitt is now the press secretary of the president United States. I think one of the things I've had the most fun in the show is to see the people that have been contributors or been part of it, the Jason Millers, the Boris Epstein's, the Caroline Levitts, the Liz Harringtons, the Natalie Winters we got now we have. So it's Scott Besant, Russ Von Vote in the, in our own Peter Navarro. Peter's actually in the White House as the, as the senior advisor on trade and manufacturing. That's obviously going to be very important. You heard President Trump today talking about Canada. It was of all the talk on Canada is probably the most blunt talk. I mean, he made a proposal. He said, hey, look, you know, you can cut out a lot of costs if you defense a lot of things going on. We'd love for you to be the fifth for a state. We can make you a deal. I don't know, maybe it cut out two, maybe it makes two states, who knows? I know the western part of Canada. I spend a lot of time with people from western Canada over the weekend. They're very different in their philosophy from Quebec and where Toronto is, the eastern part where 80% of the population lives. But the western part of Canada is saying, hey, we don't speak for all of Canada. But they think people would love some sort of closer association. They're kind of loggerheads with the Trudeau administration. Once again, you're in a press van. That is a shot from our own camera, not a press feed. If you notice why we're not looking at the side and some of the Trump supporters over there, is that the Secret Service? When you have a camera and it's on, it's called a tail light shot. They don't want it going to and fro for security reasons. Brian Glenn is in there. The audio is always cut off for security reasons. Reasons. Brian is going with the rest of the press with our own camera, not a pool feed. We're going now to the actual site of some of the devastation. So here's what will happen is the advance team will work through with local officials and they'll figure out, hey, particularly in a devastated area that's this huge, I mean, this is all the way from northwest Georgia up through the Appalachians to western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and all the way up to Virginia. You know, people, for historically, a lot of this was part of this. At least was part of that. We're General Sherman right there. We just lost the feet Entirely back here. We'll get to that in a second, maybe take a poll feed. President of the United States is heading to the site of the devastation. He'll get a walk around. The advance team will work with local officials and say, hey, look, right there. We got our feedback. We say, hey, look, you know, we want some areas. The President can get a real feel for what's going on. He wants to meet people there, he wants to meet things. So that will become his understanding of the entire area. The president already committed on the tarmac, and he said again at the, at the roundtable, he says, hey, we're going to take care of this problem. And this is what. If you go back 10 days, remember our coverage people saying, you know, Ben Berkhwam, Mr. Bannon, you know, any way you can get to the president, make sure the President comes here. We, we've been. We've basically left to fend for ourselves with no money, no resources, no assistance on this biblical level flood that's devastated so much of the area. They've just been, you know, cut off. And look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I don't believe in coincidences. I'm sure it's the pattern recognition here is this is part of the strongest part of the support for President Trump. They just said in the meeting right there at the roundtable, one of the individuals said off camera, hey, there's a county here that gave you 88% support. 88% support. It's just, it's left a bad taste in people's mouths that the Biden regime, somehow, this was some sort of political payback or the lack of. There was just a lack of urgency all around there. It's one of the reasons President Trump is not enthusiastic about fema. You know, what professional organization would allow that to happen? What professional organization would not be down here taking care of this basic, you know, basic destruction of one of the most beautiful areas of the United States, but particularly where American citizens are living in tents. The night after we were there, I think it was six degrees in the mountains of western North Carolina. Some of those mountains got real out. When you're in Asheville, you know, you're in the mountains of Western, you know. You know, you're in the mountains and it's cold at night. And people. The FEMA advance hadn't been brought up. FEMA trucks hadn't been brought up. People were left by and large to fend for themselves. This is why Samaritan's Purse was so amazing. All the local charities People were, you know, giving as the American people are, want to do the most charitable people in the history of the earth, the most giving nation in the history of the earth. But this is not. It shouldn't be upon local charity to pay for this. It shouldn't be Samaritan's purse that has obligations all over the world as they try to. They have a huge, you know, evangelical mission. That is their task and purpose. Every dollar they have and every dollar they raise has to be used for the task and purpose. And when they're in western North Carolina, they're doing it because it's Billy Graham and Franklin, you know, Billy Graham's legacy, Franklin Graham and just the giving nature of this organization and many, many, many others. But it's all coming from private charity. Well, one of the reasons you pay your taxes is that in those extraordinary instances like massive hurricanes, massive flooding, like you see on something that was biblical, that came off of Hurricane Helene, that left, you know, what, a trillion gallons of water into the hills and hollows of Appalachia and wiped out so much. You anticipate and expect in kind of the compact you make with your government, you know, for its sovereignty is that in these situations, extraordinary situations, they step up. You know, people are just not prepared. And it's no hit on people. You're just not prepared. No one's prepared. Here in western North Carolina, you have folks that are, you know, making the average wages of citizens in the United States, many people working two, three jobs, working overtime in Pacific Palisades, a very different breed, you know, very different group that's to the, you know, you're getting close to the top 1% there, definitely the top 3% of wage earners, governors. And it'swhere as Appalachia is kind of, you know, good old fashioned conservative right wing populism. And traditionally conservative Republicans, Pacific Palisades, the exact opposite. I would not be surprised if 88% of Palisades had voted for Kamala Harris. It's one of the biggest areas for fundraising where Southern California and Northern California, Silicon Valley and the Hollywood area are really cash machines for the Democrat Party. I think one time I heard a story statistic 50% of all money for Democrats comes out of California, for the entire nation. That shows you how big it. So their political philosophy is very different. It's not that President Trump's a president for everybody. He's been very adamant about that. But it's a different set of questions in North Carolina is why was the aid. Why is we four months into this. And President Trump's not going to Davos because he knows he's obligated and has a commitment to the American people and a love for the American people. So he is where the forgotten man and woman is. Why is it four months into this, why was this not taken care of? This is going to be tough to do. You got a lot of reclamation to do, like claimant, but it's doable. We've done it before. There's organizations and institutions that have the organizational wherewithal and capacity to do it. Why was it not done? California is a very different situation. California is a situation that it's a little bit like the Maui situation. How did this happen? You've really got to get down to California of, you know, was this a loaded cannon of kind of environmental decisions have been made and those sparks that kind of flew from these fires or into the power lines that ignited and where were the firemen? Where were the. Where was the water? What shocks me is how this embers are spurred from house to house and house. And it looks like nobody defended. I mean, the questions are not answered in the Palisades. And we say strings attached. Well, you've got to come in and get answers first. You have to get answers. And you have to understand if you're going to put the money in, and particularly the federal government is going to put the money in to reclaim this and reorganize it, that it has to be at a situation that it can't happen again. We can't have the same type of decision making. We can't have the same type of interconnections of these radical environmental groups coupled with, let's be blunt, radical politicians that created a witch's brew that allowed this devastation that was every bit as bad as the firebombing of Tokyo in 1940, in March of 1945. How did that happen? What were the policies of this? And people say it's contingent. It's contingent upon what President Trump summed up yesterday in Davos. What was his opening statement? Statement? A revolution of common sense. He reiterated today. He says, hey, we have, you know, common. He was talking about the economic model and for Canada to think about. He says it's a combination of common sense, tariffs and competence. And that's, I think, based upon his economic model. If you remember yesterday in Davos, the opening shot from President Trump, President Trump, with all, you know, Klaus Schwab had just groveled to him on the global stage. I mean, groveled. And we had Graham Allison in that clip beforehand that played the day before. Graham Allison said, hey, look, this guy was politically dead and he's been resurrected. He resurrected himself with his populist base and he's back. And Graham Allison said, remember, three and four years ago, we wrote this guy off and we would laugh at him. Well, they ain't laughing now, they're groveling. And yesterday he sat up there and said, part of these radical policies, policies that you see in Los Angeles, he said point blank, he says, hey, we've had a revolution of common sense in the United States of America. Revolution of common sense, and we're not doing this anymore. And he says, let me tell you what action I'm taking. Immediately I'm pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. The Paris Climate Accord, boom out. We tried to do that seven, eight years ago. It's been blocked. It was blocked. It was blocked by the administrative and deep state constantly. And of course, all the trader politicians come to President says, oh, you can't do that. You're going to get a bad story. President Trump knew it was a scam from the beginning. In the interim, when President Trump pulled it the first time, you had the yellow vest. Remember what Gillet Jean in the yellow vest representing the rural part of France, they put the diesel tax Macron and these elitists in Paris put the diesel tax rate on them and the people revolted. They burned down, you know, big parts of Paris in protest, saying, hey, you're putting the burden. Burden of the Paris climate change is really underwriting Chinese pollution and Chinese industrialization at the expense of the west and we're not going to tolerate it. President Trump said, hey, number one, we're getting out of the Paris Climate Accord. Ba boom said number two, I'm reversing everything from the green new scam. And last night I was doing this rush going over Russ vote his testimony. We're done. President Trump said additionally, unfortunately, I am stopping anymore. Right there the headline Yesterday, Trump stalls 300 billion of infrastructure funds as Biden climate agenda is ditched. He told him right there the entire. If the camera can just get this for a second. Can we cut back to this for a second? Can you cut back to see. Thank you very much. And then we come back right there they said that on this climate. President Trump, this is impoundment. Okay, we go back to the feed. This is called impoundment. Remember, we've talked about this. Take your number two personal out. It's a piece of nomenclature. You're going to want to keep impoundment. They've been Banging on. Russ, vote on this. This is a theory, right, put into practice that the, that the, the money that's appropriated in the appropriations bill is a ceiling that the president can come in and impound unspent funds and either use it for different purposes or just kick it back to the Treasury. The president has gone into the, into the green New Deal fiasco, giveaway of Biden, which caused so much inflation. He said, hey, there's 300 billion there. All engines stop. I'm impounding that immediately. I'm going to use that and divert it to other things that be done right away or just put it back to the treasury so it doesn't add to the deficit. And they're going absolutely crazy. The Democrats are addicted as bad as the Republicans are. The Democrats are addicted, addicted, addicted to vast spending. I think we're coming up now. We're seeing about three minutes out. The president's going to do a walk around. He's going to get a real. He's going to get to really see and meet some of the folks at local officials working. You see they got the split screen. Off to the right there is where the president will be coming in a second. He's three minutes out the press pool with Brian Glenn. And we'll get Brian back up here in a second is to our left. I'm going to hang for the coverage the entire time. The Charlie. We're in the Charlie Kirk Show. I know it goes out nationwide on radio. Want to thank everybody. We're doing very special coverage today. We've been invited to kind of be the lead sled dog on coverage by the White House communications team. Want to thank Taylor Bodowich, Stephen Chung and of course Caroline Levitt for thinking of real America's Voice and kind of a. I think they're looking for alternative sources now besides the mainstream media who quite. The audience is so pathetic and they're still snarky. It looks like the van's getting close to coming to a stop there. Brian will be jumping out and see to the right. Let's do the split screen again if we can. Thank you very much. That's Swannanoa, North Carolina. That's where I think Ben Burkhram was the other day. Part of the trip was to Swannanoa. Let's do the split screen. I'm a direct here. If you make a split. There we go. There we go. That's okay, Wendell. I'll just take control of this and get back to my old directing days. You think. You think I'm Obnoxious behind a microphone. You ought to see when I'm directing something really, I really turn it up. Harry over there is give me stink eye already. My producer. So you see a split screen right there on the right. Swannanoa, North Carolina. And that is where the President will be in a moment. That's going to be a walk around, actually see some of the devastation. It's breathtaking. Ben Berkhom was there a couple weeks ago. And the left is the press van that is our own. And Brian Glenn is right now with his cameraman. We're not taking a feed. The feed is to the right. So we'll be there momentarily. The President didn't go to Davos because he wanted and needed to go to both Los Angeles, but he wanted to. He made an adamant. He says, I'm stopping in North Carolina first. This is not acceptable. This really played into what the President's been very concerned about. FEMA played into his fears about female fema. He finally said, I've had enough about it. Now this Is of the 200 EOs, executive orders and or executive actions taking place the last couple of days. Everything from using military transport command to ferry illegal aliens out of here into other locations, principally their home countries, all the way to changing the names of this migrants. And all the official, official reporting, official proclamation from the White House to illegal aliens as they are is a term of art, a term of law in the American, American system. The President's done so much on the economy with tariffs, trade, also the deportations underway. Our own Ben Berkwam is in Chicago. He's out with raids today. He started off Ben, who had just gotten back from western North Carolina. Ben was at a hotel, a holiday in that had been totally refurbished and filled up, sold out with illegal aliens. Are there three hots? Three hots a day in a. In a clean, in a clean. Let's go ahead, Vance, pull up. Let's go and do the big. Can we do the. You got the establishing shot there. You want to take the full screen on that while Ben and those guys. While Brian and those guys get positioned. No, let's go to. Let's go. You want to go to the feet for a second?

[Brian Glenn]

Yes.

[Steve Bannon]

Go to the podium. President's going to step up in a moment. Brian will be coming up. Brian's right there. Okay. Okay, there we go. Right there. You got the podium present to come in to a moment.

[Governor Josh Stein]

Those.

[Steve Bannon]

Some local dignitaries people. Ben Berkram was there last week. The devastation is horrific. It's an outdoor, you See, it's an outdoor facility. I mean outdoor door. President's going to actually go and do a walk and talk where he'll walk around with local officials. This always normally takes place after a roundtable where the President get briefed. They'll also put somebody in the normally in the car with the President, a couple of local officials and they'll be giving him an update on what's going on. So when he's out, he's pretty fully briefed having been briefed the night before at the White House, briefed the White House in the morning before he goes normally in the residence. Then when he comes, comes out, goes to Marine One, gets on Air Force One. He'll be further briefed on Air Force One. So he comes. He's got a lot of backup material, a lot of. He's. He'll be pretty far up the speed. The President's a very quick study. Not just his experience in business and capital markets over 30, 40, 50 years his time, first term as president and can really absorb tremendous amount of information. If you have to think with this guy manages every day and keeps the air, you know, juggles the balls. Everything from the economy and these major geo economic decisions he's making about changing of the model of the economic model of the United States and how it's financed everything to geostrategic model. Where he's looking really I think to expand the Monroe Doctrine and I call it Fortress America that he's going to secure the western hemisphere and eventually put it on Iron Dome over the United States. So he will leave his term of office, whether it's this term that started in 24 or one that starts in 28. Our own Andy Ogles, the Congressman from Tennessee has put that in as a bill to start moving forward changing the. The Constitution. Okay, here we've got one of the. One of the staff is there to make sure the mics work. Brian Glenn is, is coming up with the camera crew right now. Brian Glenn, I'll be here in a moment. The President will arrive in a moment. Maybe we could we do a split shot with Brian Glenn at this time and maybe see what we got right there. We're gonna. Okay, they were doing it here. We're doing a walk right now. Do a splits. There we go. Got Brian Glenn on the left. He's going to go with the. Is that up with the President right now? We have any audio?

[Brian Glenn]

Can we.

[Steve Bannon]

As soon as we get audio. Brian. Let's go to Brian Audio. Not saying I'm talked out. I could do this forever. But this is a lot easier than interviewing people. This is just giving you a stream of customer. We're doing. Got Brian. Is that Brian?

[Brian Glenn]

Glenn, hey, can you hear me?

[Steve Bannon]

All right, Brian, go ahead, Steve, I can hear you. Put us in. Put us. Where are we? Yeah, get us up to speed.

[Brian Glenn]

Well, it looks like we're at what was at one point a family's home that obviously has been damaged for the hurricane. We're setting up here. We just got to the site. You saw the. What the. What the road looked like, and obviously about the, you know, the 100 yard or so dash that we had to make. Actually flip this camera around because he's gonna come. He's coming from here. He's gonna come around from this way. We're just waiting for the President to get out of his vehicle, walk over here. And I'm trying to look around, see, because we just ran and got to this location. So let me just kind of eyeball it. It looks like we do have a family. And let's. President Trump, first lady, stepping out of the vehicle right now. Let's listen in to what it's like here on the ground in Asheville, Steve. Let's just listen. The President speaking with Reverend Graham and I think the Smith family, from what I caught. But let's see if we can listen in a little bit more, Steve.

[Donald Trump]

Yeah.

[Brian Glenn]

Yeah, I'm just trying to hear. And Steve, at this point, we don't have any idea what's been said. Obviously, the President is listening to this family and they. I would imagine, talking about some of the. The grief and the struggles that they've been going through since the hurricane hit this area on September 27th.

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The country is broke.

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