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

Summary

Podcast Summary: Bannon’s War Room – Episode 4611: The Depravity Of The 'Ruling Class' With Megyn Kelly

Release Date: July 5, 2025

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Introduction

In Episode 4611 of Bannon’s War Room, hosted by Stephen K. Bannon from WarRoom.org, the discussion centers around the recent devastating flood in Kerrville, Texas, and its broader implications on American society and politics. Featuring interviews with key local officials, Congressman Chip Roy, and a commentary segment with Megyn Kelly, the episode delves into the themes of governmental response, elite disconnection from the populace, and the cultural decline perceived by the hosts.

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Tragic Flood in Kerrville, Texas

Timestamp [00:02] – [05:30]

The episode opens with Stephen Bannon expressing frustration over media misinformation and the perceived betrayal by "the ruling class." Bannon emphasizes the importance of national awakening and resilience:

Steve Bannon [00:34]: "Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved."

Fire and Rescue Operations:

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leath provides a detailed update on the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts:

• Timestamp [01:28]: Sheriff Leath reports over 850 evacuations, eight injuries, and 27 fatalities (18 adults and nine children) as of 8:55 AM.

  Sheriff Larry Leath [01:28]: "We are now more than 24 hours into this tragic event......"

• Contact Information for Reporting Missing Persons:

  • Phone: [phone]
  • Email: [e-mail]

Sheriff Leath highlights the community's strength and the relentless efforts to locate missing individuals, assuring continuous updates as the situation evolves.

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Congressman Chip Roy’s Address

Timestamp [05:51] – [26:13]

Representative Chip Roy joins the discussion to offer his support and insights into the flood's impact:

• Heroic Efforts and Community Resilience:

  Chip Roy [05:51]: "Lives lost, saving people like camp directors... we have all been humbled by the outpouring of support."

• Federal and Local Coordination:

  Roy praises the cooperative efforts between state, local, and federal agencies, mentioning direct communication with the President and Secretary of the relevant departments.

  Chip Roy [22:10]: "We've got a coordinated effort, state, local, federal..."

• Personal Anecdotes:

  Sharing a personal story, Roy recounts how a missing schoolmate was rescued, emphasizing the miraculous aspects amidst the tragedy.

• Future Steps:

  Roy underscores the importance of continuing search and rescue operations and maintaining solidarity within the community.

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Local Leadership Perspectives

Timestamp [08:52] – [17:13]

Mayor Joe Herring Jr. and City Manager Dalton Rice provide their perspectives on the crisis:

• Mayor Joe Herring Jr.:

  • Community Support:

    Mayor Joe Herring Jr. [09:06]: "The city of Kerrville is thankful we have help from our city crews, county personnel, state agencies, and federal resources."

  • Donation Information:

    Directs listeners to the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country for cash donations and the city's Facebook page for updates.

• City Manager Dalton Rice:

  • Operational Updates:

    Details ongoing rescue operations, road conditions, and the challenges faced in search efforts.

    Dalton Rice [10:47]: "Operations did continue through the evening... using specialized equipment and helicopters."

  • Reunification Efforts:

    Shares progress on reuniting families with their children and emphasizes the unknown number of additional missing persons.

    Dalton Rice [15:35]: "We have the known, which is the 27... but the unknown is how many people were here locally."

• Community Challenges:

  Addressing the emotional toll and the practical difficulties in managing the aftermath, including social media harassment towards families.

  Dalton Rice [17:13]: "We are not going to give a list of the names... to protect those families."

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Critical Analysis and Commentary

Timestamp [18:01] – [54:50]

Steve Bannon and Joe Herring Jr. engage in a critical discussion about the government's response and the societal implications:

• Media and Government Accountability:

  Bannon criticizes the lack of immediate high-level government presence during the crisis, suggesting it signals a grim outlook.

  Steve Bannon [18:01]: "When the governor and Lieutenant governor do not show up, I think that's also a big tell."

• Social Media Harassment:

  Highlighting the negative impact of social media, Bannon points out how it exacerbates the suffering of affected families by spreading misinformation and soliciting funds irresponsibly.

• Elitism and Cultural Decline:

  The conversation shifts to a broader critique of America's elite, particularly in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Bannon and Herring discuss how elite institutions and cultural shifts contribute to societal problems.

  Joe Herring Jr. [36:44]: "They are being brainwashed and they don't read history because they're not allowed to."

• Call to Action:

  Emphasizing the need for grassroots movements to counteract elite dominance and restore traditional values.

  Steve Bannon [32:58]: "We need to turn the country around as a populist movement."

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Interview with Megyn Kelly

Timestamp [26:35] – [54:50]

Stephen Bannon conducts an in-depth interview with Megyn Kelly, exploring her views on America's cultural and political trajectory:

• Cultural Decline:

  Kelly laments the shift from wholesome cultural values to what she perceives as moral degradation in media and society.

  Megyn Kelly [27:51]: "It's dark, the culture's really slid... you see sunsets compared to the 1950s and 1960s."

• Impact of Education and Socialization:

  Discusses how educational institutions and societal norms are fostering anti-American sentiments and eroding foundational values.

  Megyn Kelly [31:56]: "They have got to watch out. You can't get Puritan like the left did in its holistic messages."

• Economic and Political Critique:

  Criticizes socialism and high taxation models, using Sweden as an example of economic stagnation due to heavy taxation.

  Megyn Kelly [36:44]: "Socialism doesn't encourage any sort of invention or innovation and it leaves you just a flatlined economy."

• Media Representation of the Elite:

  Kelly expresses disdain for the portrayal of elites in media events, highlighting perceived hypocrisy and detachment from ordinary Americans.

  Megyn Kelly [40:55]: "It's disgusting... they're completely vapid."

• Hope for Political Change:

  Advocates for political realignment to counteract the current administration's policies and restore America's traditional values.

  Megyn Kelly [41:07]: "We got to just keep doing our work to try to get the fabric facts out there."

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Conclusion

Episode 4611 of Bannon’s War Room presents a narrative that intertwines the immediate tragedy of the Kerrville flood with a broader critique of American societal and political structures. Through interviews with local officials and political figures like Chip Roy, coupled with Megyn Kelly’s cultural commentary, the episode underscores themes of elite disconnection, cultural decline, and the necessity for grassroots activism. The discussions are punctuated with emotional appeals and strategic directives aimed at mobilizing listeners to support affected communities and challenge prevailing socio-political norms.

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Notable Quotes:

1. Steve Bannon [00:34]: "Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved."

2. Chip Roy [05:51]: "Lives lost, saving people like camp directors."

3. Mayor Joe Herring Jr. [09:06]: "The city of Kerrville is thankful we have help from our city crews, county personnel, state agencies, and federal resources."

4. Dalton Rice [15:35]: "We have the known, which is the 27... but the unknown is how many people were here locally."

5. Megyn Kelly [27:51]: "It's dark, the culture's really slid... you see sunsets compared to the 1950s and 1960s."

6. Steve Bannon [32:58]: "We need to turn the country around as a populist movement."

7. Megyn Kelly [36:44]: "Socialism doesn't encourage any sort of invention or innovation and it leaves you just a flatlined economy."

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Overall Insights:

The episode effectively combines real-time crisis reporting with ideological discussions, reflecting a perspective that is critical of current government and elite institutions. It calls for community resilience, political activism, and a return to traditional values as solutions to both immediate disasters and long-term societal challenges.

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Reasons I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

[Ben Berkwam]

And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

[Chip Roy]

MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.

[Ben Berkwam]

I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

[Steve Bannon]

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

[Ben Berkwam]

War Room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

And then at 2, we'll update you.

[Steve Bannon]

From where we are now.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

And 6, same thing.

[Ben Berkwam]

And speaking this morning, we are going.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

To have Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leatha leading us off. United States Representative Chip Roy is here with us.

[Ben Berkwam]

Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. Will be.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Speaking briefly and Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice.

[Ben Berkwam]

And when we are done, because we are still in active search and recovery.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Mode, we're going to keep this short.

[Ben Berkwam]

We'll allow five questions and I am.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Going to turn it over now to Sheriff Latham. Thank you.

[Ben Berkwam]

As probably a lot of y' all know, Sheriff Larry Leath at Kirk County. One thing I want to tell you, I appreciate you all covering this. One thing I'm really big about is transparency. Really appreciate you all getting the message out there. We will do our best. Like you said, we'll have two more briefings out there to get you information as we get it. What I want to start with, I want to make sure you understand these numbers I'm going to give you are at 8:55am this morning. These are changing rapidly. Okay. So every time, the next time we meet, I'll update you, but just bear with us, okay? They will be changing. They're already changing them up here. And we'll try to do a really good job. I've got some notes here I'm going to read because I want to be pretty accurate on this. Then I'll talk a little bit before I turn it over to Chip Roy. We are now more than 24 hours into this tragic event. And Kerrville Police Department, Kerrville Fire Department and Kerr County Sheriff's Office and other first responders for around the Texas are continuing to conduct rescue and recovery operations along the Guadalupe river corridor. So far, We've evacuated over 850 uninjured people, eight injured people, and have recovered 27 deceased fatalities at this time. Of these, 27, 18 are adults, nine are children. Of that, six of the adults are identified and one of the children unidentified at this time. That's of 8:55 this morning. We're unable to release any further information on deceased at this time. As our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones, we are working hard to locate anyone who is still missing and to ensure they are safe. There are two ways that you can report the missing people. This is something I would really like you all to spend some time getting out. One of the ways is via phone. We have a call center set up to accept information and share that information along our relief and incident commanders. That number is 830-285-1111. I'll repeat, 830-285-1111. Correction, 258. Sorry about that. I'm going to repeat it one more time. 258258. Number for the final time is 830-258-1111. Is everybody good?

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Okay.

[Ben Berkwam]

Second number and second way is via email. Like the phone number, information received will be shared along our relief teams. That email is floodrecoveryo.kerr k e r r tx repeating one more time. Flood recoveryo.cur tx us there is a shelter for the general public who needs assistance at the First United Methodist Church, 321 Thompson Drive in Kerrville. 321 Thompson Drive, Kerrville. At present, we don't need material or volunteer donations at this time. We are coordinating with a strong state response. Currently, cash donations can be made to the community foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Once again, donations can be made to the community foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Our first responders along have been working tirelessly and will continue to conduct search and rescue operations until all citizens are accounted for. Tragic incidents like this affect us all. This community is strong and will continue to pull together during this tragic time. We have been humbled by the outpouring of support. We are very appreciative, everyone that's stepped up to help us. One thing I want to tell you and assure y' all is that we will not stop till every single person is found. We've got all the resources we need. We're here for the long haul. As I said, numbers will be changing rapidly.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

But.

[Ben Berkwam]

But like I said, we will not stop. To everybody, I can't tell you, I've been asked, how long will this take? I can't tell you how long it's going to take. It's going to take a while. Appreciate y', all, like I said, getting the word out. Like I said, after this is we're going to take about five questions at this time. I'm going to introduce you to United States Representative Chip Roy. He's going to say a few words.

[Chip Roy]

Thank you, Sheriff. I'll be brief. You know, I'm here to show support for the community. You know, my family comes here to Kerrville for fourth of July virtually every year, come here for Robert Earle shows. And we were planning to be here for the show with Robert Earle and Beckman. But you know, these are the events that we're dealing with today and trying to explain to a world that's watching this and asking questions what a flash flood looks like where you have a, you know, 26 to 30 foot rise in the water in a matter of an hour, 4 to 6am on a holiday. And the people that are having to respond to that. I just got everybody like pause, take a breath for the recriminations and the Monday morning quarterbacking because there's so many great people in this community that are responding and moving quickly. Lives lost, saving people like camp directors. And I'm going to let other people name names and stuff. That's not my job here. But we know the stories of people that have been heroic in trying to make sure that the lives lost was at a minimum and trying to recover individuals. I got a call and an update this morning. My kids school there was one of their schoolmates was missing and was one of the kids. She was on a mattress for two or three hours in the middle of the night. And you know, she's united with her mom and that's wonderful and those are the kind of blessings that we should be celebrating while we're also mourning the loss of life as we identify those that didn't make it and are now home with their, their Lord. So I just want to appreciate the first responders, the coordinated effort from the state, local, federal partnerships. Yesterday I was on the phone with the president, with the secretary. I expect we'll have, you know, some additional visitors today. I'll let other people talk about that, but I couldn't even get the conversation out with the secretary, trying to explain to her what we were dealing with. That doesn't happen often for me, but it took me a while to collect myself to even be able to tell her what we were looking at. And they've been fantastic. Made available immediately at the request. I talked to Nim about the need for, you know, help with the Army Corps, talked To the secretary and their team, and they're immediate. It's been an extraordinary partnership. I think there's been a thousand or so boots on the ground combined between state, local and federal. I'll let them say the numbers, but obviously hundreds of people that have been rescued. 160 plus air rescues. I think that number is going up, you know, airlifting and taking in resources. Some of these camps that were isolated. So let's focus on that. Let's focus on finding those who can be found. And then we can always assess what we need to do later going forward. But extremely proud of this community. Let's finish the job here over the next few days. Support the local law enforcement and the first responders and pray for the families, particularly those who have lost loved ones. With that, I will turn it over to the mayor. Thanks, Joe.

[Dalton Rice]

I'm Mayor Joe Herring, Jr. Mayor of Kerrville, Texas. I'm glad you're here. And I have a few comments to.

[Taj Gill]

People need to know.

[Dalton Rice]

Today will be a hard day.

[Ben Berkwam]

It will be a hard day.

[Dalton Rice]

This is the message I want to share. The city of Kerrville is thankful we have help from our city crews, from county personnel, from state agencies and federal resources, including the Coast Guard. I have been asked how people can help. The sheriff has mentioned that a fund has been set up by the Community foundation of Greater Hill, the Texas Hill Country. Information about this can be found on the city's Facebook page. In fact, if you want to know how to help, I know from my phone, from my texts, from my emails. Thousands of people across our state and the world want to know how they can help. The easiest way to get information about that is to follow the city of Kerrville Facebook page. City of Kerrville City Hall Facebook page. They have done an admirable job of making sure all resources and all information is available not only to the citizens of Kerrville, but but to the citizens of the world. I'm thankful you're here.

[Steve Bannon]

Today.

[Dalton Rice]

Will be a hard day. Please pray for our community.

[Steve Bannon]

Thank you.

[Dalton Rice]

Next up is city Manager Dalton Rice.

[Taj Gill]

Thank you. Mayor Dalton Rice, the city manager for the city of Kerrville, just wanted to give a couple updates on operations. Operations did continue through the evening. We used specialized equipment with a lot of helicopters, trying to identify any areas that we could. We could find, you know, heat sources or whatever. So operations did continue throughout the night. Obviously, the water did recede into this morning. I do want to encourage folks with road damage in. Even though a road may be open, please use extreme caution if water does get under the road, we are seeing a lot of debris, a lot of asphalt that is washing up. So there could be some other damaged areas. We did start boots on the ground operations about 8am this morning and started about southwest of Hunt. So southwest of Camp mystic, these folks will be traveling very difficult traffic terrain up through Ingram. And we're going to start getting information. So again, as the sheriff had alluded to, the information is changing constantly and it's going to be changing by the minute. Talked about roads. Don't do your own searches. We know everybody wants to get help. As the roads start clearing up, you're going to. You're going to want to get out there. We are in constant communication with, you know, with families. We're in constant communication with, with those around. And so we will continue to effortlessly work through working with our partners. Again, we've been working with border patrol, Texas DPS, game wardens, federal side. U.S. coast Guard is here. We want to thank them. Air assets. Again, we have hundreds of state and federal and local resources out here supporting this community. We do have grief counselors out there. So if there's anybody that needs, you know, any support, please don't hesitate to reach out as well. We still are operating shelters. Shelters are the same ones that we gave out before. Good news is a lot of the shelters have gone down in numbers. So there's either been those that have been reunited or kind of moving on a couple of locations. We had 18 girls in there that have been reunited with their families. We're down to about four that we're working on reunification as well. So reunification efforts are continuously ongoing from the missing person side here. Over the next few hours, we're going to be putting more information out there as far as missing persons on how to contact if you have somebody that is missing or a loved one. Y' all have the camp number right now. We are continuously working on the other missing person side. The best way that I can sum this up is we have the known, which is the 27, you know, potential missing campers that we're looking for. Now, the unknown is how many people were here locally, visiting, on vacation, you know, doing other things in the community that we just do not have numbers. So these numbers are going to. Are going to change throughout the day. And with that, we will take five questions.

[Unnamed Reporter]

All children. And then also, do we know the total number of missing that you know of? Not the unknowns, obviously, but the knowns of adults and children for the county?

[Taj Gill]

No. The 27 missing is the children from. From Camp Mis mystic that we have as far as right now for the number, as far as unknown other missing, we do not have an accurate count, and we don't even want to begin to estimate at this time.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Can you expand on that? A lot of people in the community very concerned, inevitable of missing. They want to know more about how you guys are looking for them, what the efforts are, maybe even some of the challenges.

[Taj Gill]

Yeah, absolutely. So, like I alluded to with the operations piece, we have basically a team of about 34 folks from Texas Task Force 1, DPS, game wardens and border patrol that are boots on the ground on each side of the river, starting in hunt, and they're starting to make their way up across this entire area. It's probably about a 17 kilometer stretch. They are going to be in very debris terrain, very difficult, challenging contours along the riverbanks. So it is a very harsh environment. We are doing what's called a primary search, which is basically a very quick search. But when I say quick, that is up, down, sideways. They're turning over as many rocks as they can. Culverts up in trees. They are looking at every possible location. And then we'll start going into a layered approach or what we also have from the locals, which has been a really great resource in the floods that we have. There are known collection points where debris tends to collect along the riverbank. We do have intel on what sites and locations those are, so we can also put additional resources into those. Those collection sites and start getting a more focused approach on that.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Seen a lot of traffic flooding in Central Texas over the past few weeks. There are so many people. I know this is so early, but there are so many people already asking what can be done to stop the loss of Life. We saw 13 in San Antonio. We have seen an unknown number, but at least 27 here. They're scared.

[Taj Gill]

Yeah, you know, it's a great. It's a great question, and I think that's a question that we definitely need to answer at some point in time. Right now, our focus is on the search and rescue effort efforts, making sure that we get these families out, you know, get. Get some closure, you know, where we can. And so I think that is a great question that we need to ask ourselves. But right now we want to focus on. On search and rescue operations. Yes, we are. We. We have been in continuous search and rescue operations. Again, you know, this river, even though it started in West Kerr, this goes all the way down through East Kerr county, and it's continuing on, you know, to The Southeast. So yes, search and rescue operations are continuously ongoing and we'll continue to update on that. One more question. Typically rescues, if we do find them, they're going to be in trees or we find them, you know, either on high ground. Again, most of the rescues that we are having at this point in time are other camps. So we have a lot of camps and they are all accounted for. But they are isolated because of road damage. So so we know where they're at. We're getting them food, water resources. And now it's a matter of just getting them safely across, you know, low water crossings or other areas to other shelters.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

We know that there's missing kids, there's pictures. Are you going to give a list of the names of the kids?

[Taj Gill]

Absolutely not. We are not going to give a list of the names. We want to protect those families and their information. The other thing I want to point out and thank you for bringing that up, these families are getting bombarded with spam calls and spam information. So we want to keep the kids information and these families names out of, you know, out of any public, you know, light to give them the opportunity to grieve and to make sure that we give them the best possible resources that we can and get them reconnected as soon as possible. So some of them are and some of those have been a great help as well. So yes, it is a double edged sword, but we need to work through it. So our next one will be at 2 o' clock and we'll give updates then. Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, Ben Berkhom asked the first question. It was a great question. Let me be blunt. When the town manager comes up and says it's going to be a very tough day today, I think that's a tell. And I think everybody, including the audience, you know, back on your knees saying prayers. But when the governor and Lieutenant governor do not show up, I think that's also a big tell. This is a pretty grim.

[Chip Roy]

Report.

[Steve Bannon]

I'm not sure there was a ton of information there except that search and rescue go on and they are identifying some of these or there are finding some of these children. But you didn't see any names of the living. I think that was the most important thing is Ben Berkwam. Can we get Ben Berkholm up? As soon as we get Ben up, let's go ahead and do it. Obviously a horrible tragedy. I think what Chip Roy said, just to reiterate and look, there's going to be, as you saw, two things going on that are you know, one is just human nature. There's a lot of recriminations. You should know already about the weather forecast, what people knew, where people evacuated. That's only going to build in size given a tragedy of this scale. The other is social media used to harass parents. In this case you saw where they're getting spam. They probably get people, you know, they get. We see this stuff already putting out names of children that have, that have been found or not live. I mean what they're doing is horrible. They're probably trying to get money out of these folks. So the parents right now, that's where you're going to restrict information. Give me a thumbs up when we got Ben up. Okay, Ben Berkwam and I really want to give him a attaboy. He had the first question and still the best question right there. Ben, we got a couple of minutes here. That was a pretty grim update. Number one, when the mayor sits there and tells you today's going to be a tough day, folks should understand that. You know, it's going to be a tough day. He knows something also. And I'm not faulting the governor, the lieutenant governor, but if there was a lot of good news on children being rescued, I think the governor, Lieutenant governor would want to be there. You can already see the intensity of the recriminations I think in that this morning was the local officials. Can you give. You asked the first question. It's a brilliant question. I'm not sure. Did he actually answer the question? Ben, do we actually have just the basic information of the Christian girls camp? How many 9 year olds are missing? How many have been recovered? How many have been rescued and have they recovered any bodies of the rest, sir?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Steve Bannon]

So.

[Unnamed Reporter]

And I'm standing next to Chip Roy. We're going to try to grab him here in just a second. This is. So he did answer part of the question. The main question was out of those numbers how many are those children? Are they children? Are they adults? Of the 27 missing from Camp mystic are the children? There are additional obviously more adults. The last number I heard was still 30 to 50. So that that number is unknown. But those are the known missing. The big question is the unknown missing. And he didn't answer.

[Steve Bannon]

Okay, didn't have. But hang on. But hang.

[Unnamed Reporter]

But hang.

[Steve Bannon]

But hang on.

[Chip Roy]

But.

[Steve Bannon]

But I know. But hang on. Which is terrible. This is the first time I think that question even Chambers and, and Peter didn't know that from their things. I just want to make sure he got the answer. You Asked the question about the children at Camp mystic, his answer was 27. So it's not 23, it's 27. Am I to take that as 27?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yeah. The missing. So they've found nine of the girls deceased from the camp. They said another 18 adults. But there are still 27 missing from camp Mystic. And we do have Congressman Chip Roy who just joined us. Steve?

[Steve Bannon]

Chip, thank you for joining us. No, terrible time, but talk to us about your first statement about the biblical nature of this. 26ft in 45 minutes and I think 40ft in just over an hour. The rising of this river, sir.

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yes, Chip, I'm just going to have to relay the question, but so talk to us about the, the first comments you made about the biblical nature of this. When you say, you know, people that don't understand what that flash flood, when it rises 20ft, 30ft, what that actually looks like.

[Chip Roy]

Yeah, I mean, like, this is an area that's unique. It's beautiful. That's why there's so many camps here where the river cuts through this part of the hill country. People don't think Texas, they think, oh, it's flat. And also this is a very hilly area. And it's, it's just what we had about, I don't know, 13, 14 inches of rain in a very short period of time. It was like a wheelbarrow was just dumped right into the corridor. And so you had a torque 26 to 30 foot rise in the water in about an hour. That's just, you can't really prepare for that sort of a thing. It was a unique situation. It happened at 4am to 6am the absolute worst time, when people are there, you know, asleep, still dark out. And, you know, look, there's a lot of heroic efforts that have been underway. You know, I was just talking about a woman, a camp director who lost her life, you know, saving kids, people, all these first responders who are out here doing the Lord's work. There's been some miraculous stories. One of my kids, schoolmates, she was alive after, you know, middle of the night, you know, staying on a mattress, floating for a few hours. But obviously we've had some, some heartache and there's going to be some more heartache today. But we remain hopeful as we continue to do the search and rescue operation. And we got to just continue to keep these families in our prayer. It's tragic. I mean, the camp community here is, is real rich. It's been here for decades. Right. And a lot of people send their, I was just on the phone with one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. She herself went to the camps here. She was actually here for the last huge flood in 1987. They happen every once in a while, but this one was, you know, this one was something like we've never seen before. So, you know, we just got to keep working today to try to do what we can for these families and keep the search operation going.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben, ask the congressman, is he keeping the president personally? Is he updating the president personally?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Are you updating the president personally or.

[Chip Roy]

Is there communication directly, you know, private communications. But yeah, I mean, I've been having I talked to the president yesterday. I talked to Secretary Noemi yesterday. Yesterday. Been keeping the White House up to date, you know, and the, you know, his staff. And we'll be having constant conversations. The governor's in constant conversations. I expect the governor to be back here today. I think the secretary might be here, might be here today. We're, you know, it's a coordinated effort, state, local, federal. We've gotten all the resources we've asked for. And yesterday we asked for some support in Army Corps immediately. Got it. There's air assets here. We've had 160 air operations. But, you know, a lot of that credit goes as it should, to the state and local guys. You know, federal comes in to do what they can. But you know, Governor Abbott and, you know, Nim Kidd, I can't say enough about, you know, tdem, the Texas Department of Emergency Management. I've worked too much with Nim, frankly, between Covid and this and other things. But he's a good man and he's doing a great.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben find out where can we get in touch. How do we follow Chip Roy today while he's down there on social media?

[Unnamed Reporter]

How do we best follow you while you're here? Getting any updates for the folks that want to.

[Chip Roy]

Yeah, well, first of all, there's going to be a bigger briefing in the early afternoon. I think we'll have a little bit more information. You can always follow me on Twitter @ChiproYtx, c h I P R O I T X or my official account, Rep. Chiproy. We're putting out what we can, but I'm pretty conservative in what I put out. Other people are throwing stuff out there. I want to wait. We need families to get noticed. We need to take this methodically, do it the right way. You know, people have lost loved ones. There's people out here. All the focus on the camps, understandably, these young girls. But there are adults, people here in Kerrville that are being directly impacted. I saw a story of a couple that was swept away. They'd come down here and they were in a cabin, you know, and other folks that are locals. And so, you know, we got to just keep doing our work to try to get the fabric facts out there. But we'll all come together. We're resilient, we're Texans and we'll figure out how to move forward from this. But right now we just got to, you know, finish the job these next few days.

[Unnamed Reporter]

Thank you, sir.

[Chip Roy]

Thanks.

[Unnamed Reporter]

God bless you.

[Chip Roy]

Thanks.

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yeah. And Steve, the, the big message for everybody out there. Yep. Is is pray, pray, pray, pray for this community. Go ahead, Steve.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben, can you hang on? I'm going to go to an interview I just did with Megyn Kelly. I want you to hold for the end of the show. We'll get any more wrap up and any more information. And we tee up the 2:00pm Central Time, 3:00pm Eastern Daylight Time, another press conference with updates. So Ben Berkhwe, just hang on. I'm gonna come right back to you, okay? Okay. Not a lot of good news out of Kerrsville. That's what we need, prayer. We're gonna go back to Ben Berkwom. Before we sign off at 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time, I was very fortunate to be able to do an interview with Megan Kelly. I want to play that in its entirety if Denver could go ahead. Let's kick in a minute and Kelly and I'll be back right after it. By Megyn Kelly. Megan, on this Fourth of July weekend that kicks off really the year leading up to our 250th commemoration anniversary as a country. You know, very few republics have made it this long. This is theory that a republic only lasts about 200 to 250 years, like the Roman republic and others that come before us. Given last weekend I spent New York called up there to kind of go through some analysis and data what happened in this election to see if there's anything to be done. What is your pull back the camera for a minute. What is making Kelly think about the arc of our country? Where are we now? And given your experience, particularly in New York City, when you're at Fox News in midtown Manhattan, what is happening there now? And kind of the arc of this.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Story, if you just looked, if you zoomed in on what's happening in a city like New York or San Francisco or L. A or Chicago, I think you'd be very pessimistic about the direction of the country, especially if this were 2023 instead of 2025, when we had Joe Biden at the top of the government, the federal government, and in particular when it comes to our culture, I mean, you talk about end times of the Roman Empire and other great empires, you start to see things like total debauchery spread across the culture, the loss of a nuclear family, the loss of the connection to faith. And we're seeing that more and more on the left in these big cities. And the left runs our best and biggest cities. Unfortunately, they're running them right into the ground. But you're seeing just sort of the dehumanization of people, the disconnection from God and from faith of any kind, the running away from family and childbearing as something that's somehow evil or bad for you or awful to do. Transhumanism, you're seeing throuples, you're seeing the rent a womb become a thing. I mean, it's just. It's dark. It's dark. The whole trans thing with the men pretending to be women and women telling other women that they're bigots, if they don't accept that and if they stand up for themselves, is very sick. It's a sick culture in a lot of ways. I mean, you look back, not to sound too Pollyanna about ish, but you look back at 1950s and the 1960s and you turned on the music on the radio and what did you hear about? You heard about sweet love between puppy love, teenagers and families, and how the guy really wished he could get the girl and don't know what a slide ruler's for. You know, it's just sweet and sort of G rated. And you turn on the radio today and you literally hear songs about wet ass P word celebrated and then written up by the New York Times like some sort of modern day genius. So it's dark, the culture's really slid. And just turn on the television for any super bowl, for any music event, any celebratory event of artists of any kind, whether it's music or acting or Broadway, and you see nudity in your child's face. You see J. Lo's vag, which you. You didn't ask to see. It's like it's. The snapshot would be bleak. Would you would have you feeling like it is end times. But the country is not just blue states and blue cities run by Democrats. It's still, I think, majority center, right? And as has happened repeatedly in history, I think it's correcting now it's recognized that it was lulled into a sense of complacency, being told that you had to accept all of these things or you were bad, you were a judgmental person, which no one really wants to be. And the country has realized that too many things have slipped out of control into a very negative, even arguably evil place, and it's fighting back. The election of Trump stood for so much more than just, let's make the Trump tax cuts permanent and clean up what's happening at the southern border. It was definitely those things, but it was about so much more. How many times have you heard people say, we don't have to do that anymore, we elected Trump. And it applies across our culture because it's not just Trump, it's the middle finger that is Trump. It's the right and the normies standing up against the erosion of decency. So that's my initial response. And I just think we've let something that's really important slide for too long and I think we're at risk at overcorrecting like we always do. You have to watch out. You can't get Puritan like the left did in its holistic messages about how you're not allowed to speak this way and you're not allowed to think that way. We on the right have got to watch that and not sort of start judging each other too harshly. But we're on a good course right now toward correction. I don't think the downward slide is as rapid as it was just 18 months ago.

[Steve Bannon]

Dude. The course of American history has always been predicated upon the people and the people ultimately making decisions about what direction we head. But we've always had an elite that was culturally very, very attuned with the underpinnings and the foundational elements of the Judeo Christian West. Can we turn this around as a populist movement? Right? Can we turn this around when you have elites and elites educational institutions? I mean, a lot of our analysis about what's happened in New York is that the breeding ground of this, the recruiting ground for the get out the vote activity is places like Hunter College and Columbia University. They've used the universities and all the way down the indoctrination of the. Not just public schools, but really even worse, the private schools, the high end private schools that we've created. Now a group of elites that not only do not believe in the underlying tenets of the Judeo Christian west, but actually are quite anti American and hate America and hate what America stands for.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Ma' Am, Yeah, you're totally right. I mean, I've lived that through my own children and their exposure to that education and my friends who have college age and younger children as well. I'll just give you one example. When my kids were in this most prestigious boys school, really one of them in the country, in New York City, they had to write little essays in like the second grade. I think it was, why I'm a feminist. Why are you having my child say he's a feminist? We don't embrace that even. I don't say I'm a feminist and I'm their mother. So it starts very, very young. Then the trans stuff was heaped on them in the third grade trying to inject some question about what gender they might actually be with a bunch of boys in the boys school that had absolutely no questions. And then you fast forward to the college years. I've got a good friend whose child is at NYU and was forced to write an essay about how capitalism is bad. And she doesn't feel that way, but she needed to write that because that was the assignment. And if you wrote anything other than that, you weren't going to get a very good grade. She wants to get into grad school, and so she needed to get a good grade. And so she wrote it, she just did it. She went along to get along. And that's how you get ahead at these elite institutions, whether it's at the K through 12 level or above. So you're right. There's been complete capture. And that's why those same kids coming out of NYU and other institutions that are teaching the same thing look at Zoran Mumdami and they think, yeah, he's right, capitalism does suck. We do need socialism. And then we get the myth that, you know, Sweden is some utopia and it's fully socialist and it's not. And every time they lean more socialist, they have to correct it and go back to a forum closer to capitalism. And by the way, I was in Sweden literally 12 months ago, and yeah, there are a lot of things that are, quote, free. It's free for the freeloaders, but the people who actually earn have taxes that are in the mid-70s, mid 70%. You want to pay 75% tax to your government so that your freeloading neighbor doesn't have to work hard. It completely kills any urge to innovate. What is Sweden invented in the past 50 years? Anything coming to mind? Do they have an Elon Musk? I know you don't like him, but I'm just saying he's one of our best inventors. We have people in America who invent great things. We've got Bill Gates, we've got Jeff Bezos. And yes, they're this elitist class, but they make real things. They come up with new innovative things. Mark Zuckerberg, what do they have? Socialism doesn't encourage any sort of invention or innovation and it leaves you just a flatlined economy. So I think these people are being brainwashed and they don't read history because they're not allowed to. All they read is Howard Zinn telling them how bad America is. Another personal example, when we were looking for schools for our kids as Manhattanites, we went to one, Fieldston, which is very well respected. It's a very tony school in the, in sort of the lower Bronx. And they talked about how the entire third grade is spent making the children fall in love with the Native Americans. The entire third grade. That's all they do in history is social studies in third grade and then fourth grade. The entire fourth grade is spent on how we killed them all and how we committed a genocide and how evil the white man is. Like what it starts young so the indoctrination is baked in. Most parents happily hand their child over this, over to this because they really want junior to get into Harvard. Well, they will. It used to be a world in which you could learn actual things, but now it's just all that indoctrination times 100, that indoctrination on steroids and then we're confused when the bom dummies of the world actually score a win. So on that front, I think we're on a collision course because they're going to do it. This guy's going to to get elected unless something extraordinary happens between now and November. And we're just going to have to relearn lessons we learned already about what happens when you put far left socialist Democrats in charge of our major cities. Nothing good.

[Steve Bannon]

How can we turn the country around? I keep arguing this is one of the reasons I was so against the potential getting dragged in to regime change. War in Persia is that the central front of this third world war is in the United States and particularly in the big sanctuary cities, Los Angeles, Chicago, now New York. You have three of the greatest cities in the world and certainly the three greatest cities in the United States of America that are essentially run by and I come from Richmond, Virginia, neo Confederates politicians and people that think they don't have to comply with federal law and not disagreements on the margin of federal law. Just think that they can dictate their own laws, and if they want to make non citizens, essentially citizens, they'll just do it. And you saw what happened in Los Angeles. How can we actually take the country back and get on the right path politically, economically, when we have three of the greatest cities on earth that are controlled by people that hate our values and refuse to comply with federal law? Ma'.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Am, I mean, I have to think it's the same answer you and I have discussed on the lawfare that the Democrats unleashed on Trump, which is, we have to let them suffer on the other side in the same way. In other words, let them elect Brandon Johnson in Chicago and see how that goes. He has an 11% approval rating. Let them elect Mamdani in the world's greatest city, New York City, and see what that does to Manhattan, to the billionaire class whose taxpaying dollars we are dependent on in order to keep the city running. We're already a shadow of our former selves in New York. I lived in New York 17 years. 17 of the past 20 I've been in New York City. And when I got there under the, you know, early Bloomberg years, post Giuliani, it was you could eat off the sidewalks. Sanitation worked, public works worked. The subway was clean and safe. That's why I chose to have three children while living there and raised toddlers in that city. Now it's a shadow of its former self. You can't walk down a block without stepping over garbage, homeless people, human feces. That's thanks to all these years of Democrat rule. Mayor Bill de Blasio ruined the city and Eric Adams didn't do a whole hell of a lot to improve it. And so now they want to go. They want to double down on stupid. So I kind of think they need to feel the full effects of their decisions. They need to actually feel the pain. Why don't we do the mom dummy plan where we drive every one of New York's 123 billionaires out. Let them go to Greenwich, you know, let them go to some beautiful town in New Jersey. It's really not hard to find another place to live in the Tri State area for billionaires and see what happens to the tax base. And not just them, but the hundred billionaires who populate the Upper east side who voted for Cuomo. Let's let them feel the pain that comes with the public housing projects. Mamdani wants to move right into the heart of Manhattan, like right on the, on Central park, so that everybody going for an afternoon stroll with their kids, has to deal with that kind of person who's living in the public housing projects in Manhattan. It's a nightmare. And I really feel like only when they feel the full pain of it and see what they voted for, what it got them, are they going to start voting differently. I think Chicago's gonna vote differently. Don't forget Chesa Boudin, that radical Weather Underground cyan of Bill Ayers. He was recalled as the San Francisco da. The San Francisco school board had a revolution. Like, even in San Francisco, they started to see reason bit by bit. In Chicago, they're starting to see reason. New York apparently needs another four years of lessons. And this guy, I'm sorry, but I think they probably have to get it if we want real change to eventually come.

[Steve Bannon]

The weekend I was last weekend I was there doing this analysis and looking at data. And by the way, 100% agree with you. Unless there's some miracle and people drop out, they're going to get Mondavi. And quite frankly, maybe they deserve him. And you got to play it out and see how it turns out, because it'll burn the city to the ground. At the same time, you're inundated on social media with the Bezos wedding. And so when Mandami goes, I don't know if we need billionaires, you look at the Bezos wedding, not that you agree with them.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

So glad you said that.

[Steve Bannon]

Compare and contrast that. I mean, when these young kids who don't know anything and talk about grass saying, they said we don't need billionaires, you have the Bezos thing, but in your face for 72 hours. Your thoughts, ma'?

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Am? I'm so glad you raised that. I've been wrestling with it, too. It's disgusting. Like the in your face display of extreme wealth. And honestly, like, for me, it wasn't even the Vogue spread or the fake friends at their wedding. It just hit the papers today. I asked myself on the show and asked my audience, what the hell was Sydney Sweeney doing at the Bezos? Sanchez, everybody knows this young starlet doesn't know these two. Why is she there? And I had speculated that sometimes agents and she might be represented by Ari Emanuel. I didn't check, but sometimes they'll cut a deal, like get my client invited to this thing so she'll be a headliner. What it actually appears is she starred in some movie that Amazon has a producing role in. And so her boss, Jeff Bezos, invited her, even though they don't know each other, to his wedding. He Obviously just wanted a headline with her name in it. That's how vapid these people are. I mean, I'm sorry, who would extend that invitation and who would go. Both of these people are just completely vapid. And so you look at. So anyway, that wasn't the worst. The worst of it for me was the shot of them on the yacht. And their yacht has a yacht. You know, their yacht has its own yacht, the second yacht that travels along with all the yacht's trappings, like the helicopter. And reportedly it's where he makes her go when the Kardashians come to visit for their weird parties. Because who the hell wants to be seen with a Kardashian? And on their yacht, they had a foam party in their yacht's pool. Their yacht has a pool. You know, some of these big, big boats might have a hot tub. Theirs has a pool and they dumped all this foam in it so they could frolic in the foam. And you see the foam dripping off of the main yacht into the beautiful Mediterranean in Venice. And you think, how little respect do you have for anything? Like, it's not too far afield from. I went to the Met Gala a couple of years, Steve. I used to be an Anna Wintour favorite when she thought I was a Trump foil. And what I saw in there was stomach turning. I saw this same class of people, they make tens of millions, in some cases hundreds of millions. And yes, indeed, there were billionaires there too. I talked with a lot of them. And you go into the bathroom at the Met Gala, and all I saw was wall to wall Kardashians. Yes, and fake influencer supermodels smoking cigarettes among our classic works of art. Couple dry humping one another. By the way, Sean, Diddy Combs was in there. Absolutely disrespectful, doing drugs. Not the Kardashians. I'm not gonna name who was doing that. But this was witnessed, okay, in one of our most celebrated places of homes of art that we're lucky enough to have in Manhattan and in the United States, it's the same thing. And this is our so called ruling class. Either these are the ones who. Whose endorsement during the presidential election is supposed to matter. And Jeff Bezos somehow finagles an invitation to the inauguration where he steps behind President Trump. What did he do to help President Trump get inaugurated? His Washington Post ripped on Trump every day. You know, it was absurd to me that he was anywhere within striking distance of Trump. Not to mention his now bride. I'm sorry, with her tits hanging out Totally disrespectful. Chrissy Teigen going to the White House correspondents dinner with her vag, hanging out with her, her skirt so high, literally showing her underwear. It's disrespectful. And there is this so called ruling class that doesn't understand anything about regular Americans. So that's why there's this huge vapid hole that's ripe for exploitation by a guy like mom dummy who smiles a lot and is kind of cheery and likable, just done in terms of delivery, saying, geez, New York is too expensive. I'm gonna fix it. That's literally what he ran on. It was like those two lines. It was very simple, it was very appealing. And you think, yes, it is too expensive. Why am I living paycheck to paycheck and have to worry about my grocery store bill when I'm looking at the foam party and these morons who are, you know, going to the Met gala at their $85,000 a ticket, smoking cigarettes and doing drugs and I'm told I'm a bad person if I don't relate to them. I don't get into these elite colleges. They judge me for my community college or for not going to college. Yes, I hate them. And so it does that to the Bezos Sanchez wedding and everything around them feels end times ish. It does feel Late Roman Empire. And that's yet another reason why I don't think those two are a force for good.

[Steve Bannon]

Late Roman Empire. Well, we know the billionaire married the stripper Megyn Kelly. Fantastic. You and I got our work cut out for us in the run up to America's 250th birthday. So thank you so much. Where do people get your podcast and all your, all your writings?

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Well, you can catch [e-mail] Megan Kelly or wherever you get my your podcast for free. Steve Bannon. It's an honor to serve alongside you.

[Steve Bannon]

Megan Kelly. I like being in the trenches with you. We got a fixed bayonets this year. Thank you, man. Appreciate you have a great rest of the weekend.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Thank you. You too.

[Steve Bannon]

We're gonna be back back in a moment for a wrap up for our 4th of July weekend special. Back in a moment.

[Ben Berkwam]

Here'S your host, Stephen K. Band.

[Steve Bannon]

I want to thank, I want to thank Real America's Voice, Ben Burkhram, everybody. Amazing coverage and more to come throughout the day on this tragedy in in Texas. Ben's going to wrap up the show for us here in a few minutes. Taj Gill. Taj Today I think we're going to need a lot of coffee. A lot of Warpath Coffee. It's going to be a long day. The mayor told us it's going to be a tough day. I want to put the coffee forward because I know people are going to want to stay up. We got press conferences, I think at 3 o', clock, another press conference at 7 o', clock and maybe even one later. Ben Berkhom's going to be there. Taj, what do you got for us? Where do people go?

[Mike Lindell]

You go to Warpath Coffee. And I just want to say that my family and I will be praying for Texas today. It's a huge tragedy going on there. And then later on today or tomorrow, we'll be making a donation from Warpath Coffee to a one of these funds for the victims of the floods in Texas. But we're doing 25 off this weekend. The website is Warpath Coffee. We're having a huge sale. We won't have a sale this big again until Black Friday. So stock up this weekend if you need coffee. We just dropped our decaf yesterday on 4th of July. So we finally have our decaf. People have been asking for it for months, or actually for over a year, but we finally just dropped it. And Warpath Coffee promo code war room 25 off for 4th of July sale. And our hearts and prayers go out to the families in Texas and we will be praying for them and wish them all the luck. And let's hope that the first responders do an amazing job.

[Steve Bannon]

Yeah, prayers of them too. Taj, one more time, where do people go? You got the decaf you got today? I'm not sure is a day for decaf, but no, where they go.

[Mike Lindell]

Sir, go to Warpath Coffee. Use promo code war room. That's for the war room posse. It's 25 off this weekend until Sunday night. Stock up. Like I said, we won't be doing a sale this big again until Black Friday. So this is the weekend to stock up. We've already sold out of our espresso. People have been buying tons of it. So, yeah, Warpath thought Coffee promo code war room. 25 off.

[Steve Bannon]

The espresso is unbelievable. Incredible. Thank you, Taj. I'll see you on Monday. We'll get caught up on this tragedy and make a donation. All of us. Go make a donation. And one of the funds in there. Thank you, Mike Lindell. I know you work with. Thank you, brother Mike, I know you work with Samaritan's purse. You're talking about making a donation On a very tragic weekend. What do you got for sir?

[I]

Yeah, I'm in Texas right now, everybody. And yes, my first call will be this afternoon to Franklin Graham and Samaritan birds. Them and myself and my pillow are always there with them for all these horrible tragedies that happened in their country. And we are. And so everything you get today for my pillow, we're going to be, we're going to be donating huge donations to these victims and to this tragedy. So you guys, we're going to run the 4th of July special. We're going to keep running that 50% off or more sale. Promo code. Warren, this is a war room exclusive. Now we need your sales today more than ever. And what we're doing, we're going to add those for kale sheets. We allocated more to the Wardrobe posse. 2988 for the percale sheets, you guys. Any size, any color. Get the percale sheets. There they are. King size, queen size, any size. And know that those funds are going to be going to a great cause down here in Texas. 29.88. We're not going to put a limit on it. Promo code, war room. Go to the website, go down and click on Steve. Now's the time you're getting everything on sale and everything's going to go to a great cause. So there's the made in the usa. My crosses, you guys, Any prayers more than anything right now down here in Texas.

[Ben Berkwam]

So.

[I]

And the, you have the towel sale. You have, by the way, we also put the slippers on sale today. The slippers are 49.98, you guys, that's a one day closeout sale. So get, go to my pillow, do all your shopping right now. Promo code, my pillow. I mean promo code, war room. You can call 800-873-1062. Steve, I'll be, I'll be praying that the war room pass can break some records because we really need help down here.

[Steve Bannon]

Yep. And we'll make sure we get a big donation down to these, to these groups. Samaritan purse is fantastic. Mike, thank you so much. Appreciate you. Ben Berkwam. And I just want to reiterate at 3pm I think it's 2 central, 3pm Eastern time, eastern daylight time. There'll be another press conference and then it looks like 7 o' clock at least for the two scheduled today. AM I correct in that, sir?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yeah, that's correct, Steve. Two local, three eastern and six local, seven eastern.

[Steve Bannon]

And you're going to be down throughout the day. Mo And Grace, we're going to stream it live on our getter and our rumble and all our platforms. Course Real America's voice going to have it. Ben will be up everywhere. Ben, maybe we can get you if we go live on one of our streams this afternoon, given the information. I just want to be. Before we leave, you still asked the best question. I just want to make sure there's no doubt about this. You asked the head of recovery, the director of operations, about the little girls at the Mystic Camp, and correct me if I'm wrong, because there was some confusion throughout the day. He said that there's 27 of these nine year olds of these little girls from the Mystic Camp that have not. There not been. There's the search and rescue efforts to date have not recovered those 27 children, correct?

[Unnamed Reporter]

That's correct. They've recovered nine deceased, but there are 27 that are still missing. They've recovered many more that were alive and they've reunited them with their family.

[Dalton Rice]

But.

[Unnamed Reporter]

But there are. I specified that those 27 are all children from the Mystic Camp, all young girls from the Mystic Camp that are still missing.

[Steve Bannon]

And if you see the horribleness of social media and what they're doing the families, that's where they're not putting out names of the children they're doing search and rescue for because they're spamming the families, they're bothering the families. They're trying to probably get money from the families to do own rescue. Am I correct in that? That's why they said they're not putting the names out?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Steve and I. And if you don't mind, I felt like this at Uvalde and I just would love to end this with a prayer for the families and the little girls that are still missing. As a dad who didn't get to get home to my girls, I've got three girls. I didn't get to get home to them last night, but I get to get home to them. And Lord, I just lift them up to you right now. Especially if there's any girls that are still alive, that are afraid they're alone, I just pray you'd be with them right now. You'd lift them up, you'd let them know that you're there. And the families, Lord, that have lost their children or haven't even found out yet that they've lost their children. Lord, I pray in this situation that you would be the God of comfort to this community, but you would do miracles from now on and we would see miracles happen that girls that kids that thought were gone that you'd bring back. Lord, I just I pray for your hand on this community in this state and this nation. In Jesus name Amen.

[Steve Bannon]

Ben thank you. Where do people go for your social media?

[Unnamed Reporter]

Ealamerica's voice It's Ealam voice and then my personal is just my name Ben Berkwam.

[Steve Bannon]

Amen Ben be strong. We're dependent upon you today for coverage. Appreciate.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

Yep. Amen.

[Steve Bannon]

I want to thank Real America's Voice and everybody that made this possible. Remember 3:00pm Eastern Daylight Time there'll be another press conference. Real America's Voice will cover it. We'll stream it on getter. We'll stream it on our Rumble channel. I'll be coming in and out throughout the day particular hearing news in 7pm this tremendous tragedy in in in Central Texas. Real America's Voice coverage is going to continue right now. I want to thank the Real America Voice team for this incredible coverage they provided us over the fourth of July weekend. We'll see you later today.

[Joe Herring Jr.]

The prince who rules by freedom's laws in North America.