WEBVTT - FEMA Should Go - January 24th, Hour 1 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.080 All right, thank you Scott Channon, and thanks to all 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:04.920 of you for being with us. Right down our toll 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.440 free telephone number if you want to be a part 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.399 of the program, it is eight hundred nine to four 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.799 one Sean if you'd like to join us. We've got 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.880 a lot coming up in the course of the program today. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.760 We expect about the time that I come on TV 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.000 tonight that there will be a vote in the US 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.680 Senate on the nomination of Pete Hegseth. It is expected 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.440 to be close, but you know, you can't say anything 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.240 with any degree of certainty when it comes to Washington, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.920 d C. If you want a friend, get a dog. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.239 There's the best advice I can give people. And at 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.120 this time, when it's freezing cold, you might want to 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.960 get an extra sweater and bundle up to the maximum level. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.360 I've got to give Donald Trump credit beyond moving forget 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.000 about the first hundred days, His first hundred hours have 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.120 been incredible. We're going to play part of my interview 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.880 with him in the Oval Office coming up later in 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.840 the program as well today and the President now and 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.560 just think about this for a second. You think that 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.120 Joe Biden could sit with me for over an hour 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.119 and answer any question. And by the way, I don't 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.360 give him questions ahead of time, and sometimes it doesn't 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.720 even matter what questions I ask him. He wants to 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.280 talk about things. He wanted to talk a lot about California. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.920 He went to North Carolina. We're going to talk about that. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.080 He's headed to California. Gavin is planning on, you know, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.080 sabotaging this. I don't. I don't know what is going 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.640 on in Gavin Newsom's mind. But whoever's advising him, or 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.200 if he's just you know, running rogue, I just think 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.840 it's the wrong strategy in so many different ways. We'll 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.440 talk about that. But while he was in and he 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.600 said this to me in the interview in the Oval Office, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.679 you know, while he was in North Carolina, he said 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.840 he may eliminate FEMA. And we, probably more than any 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.160 other show, have chronicled the disaster that has been the 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.560 northeastern part of North Carolina, that it was devastated by 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.640 Hurricane Helene. It was devastated and that is a failure 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.760 of FEMA. Remember, we kept having the Operation Helo guys 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.520 on there. One of the guys was on yesterday. We 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.120 kept having Franklin Graham on the program. We kept talking 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.760 to people that were raising money, and FEMA for weeks 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.959 was nowhere to be found. And he the President today 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.760 said he's considering an executive order that would eliminate FEMA, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.240 blasting it as a failure, saying that the states should 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:34.520 oversee their own disaster recovery efforts. And if you think 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.680 about North Carolina without neighbor helping neighbor and groups like 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.200 Samaritans Purse and groups like Operation Helo, these people would 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.640 be out in the freezing cold. I mean, just go 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.760 back a week and a half ago, or two weeks ago, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.080 or a week ago, whatever it was. They were on 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.000 a one day deadline if you didn't fill out the 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.840 proper paperwork and you were being housed by FEMA. They 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.280 were thinking of kicking out thirty five hundred people. And 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.959 it's freezing right now in North Carolina. I mean, we've 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.240 got this arctic blast that continues all throughout the country. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.480 But what the President is saying here, he's not saying 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.959 that we're not going to help our fellow Americans in need, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.200 just the opposite. He was in Asheville, North Carolina. He 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:20.040 surveyed the damage which is just devastating. He said a 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.919 state response to the crisis would be faster and less expensive. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.840 He've rightly pointed out FEMA's not done its job. And 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.600 where was Joe Biden, Where's Kamala Harris? During all of this, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.880 we kept calling them out, saying, when are you going 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.560 to go help North Carolina? They never seem to care. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.480 I have no doubt it had an impact on the election. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.520 Early on, we were all worried whether or not people 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.040 in the affected areas would even be able to vote, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.640 But they voted. They voted in big numbers, and Donald 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.040 Trump carried the state by more than was anticipated. And 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.920 he just said FEMA has not done the job. And 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.720 I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.320 that the governor will take care of it. When Arty 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.720 gets hit, the governor takes care of it. And to 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.600 have a group of people come in from an area 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.560 they don't even know where they're going to solve immediately 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.360 a problem is something that never worked for him. And 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.880 he's right, he's not saying not to give money. No, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.760 We're going to give money to North Carolina, and North Carolinians, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.919 you know, deserve the support of the American people, especially 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.480 in light of how much money we give foreign countries 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.080 like Ukraine and others. It's a massive amount of money. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.919 And you know, so the American people are absolutely the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.080 most generous people on earth. They're willing to help the 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.920 people in North Carolina and the people in Los Angeles, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.640 and we want them to rebuild. Now in Los Angeles 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.760 a little bit of a different situation because a lot 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.960 a lot of things were not done properly. And if 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.120 we're going to give billions of dollars, and there's you know, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.520 estimate estimates out there, you know, two hundred and fifty billion, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.640 you know, up toward trillion dollars. It's not that high, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.160 but two hundred and fifty billion dollars a taxpayer money. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.120 You've got to give it with some conditions that prevent 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.560 this from ever happening again, like practicing the science of forestry, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:18.120 removing the brush controlled burns. You know, you build these 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:22.359 these areas, these these gaps where you know, even with 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.000 Santa Ana winds, Santa Ana winds are predictable. Wildfires in 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.000 California are predictable. These are events that can be stopped. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.320 These are events that could be handled. You don't cut 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.080 the firefighters budget. When the lead firefighter is saying that 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.240 you need twice the manpower if you ever have a 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.440 wildfire in the state. I mean, that's just that. That 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.720 is madness by its very definition. It's insane. And you 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.560 do need hydrants that actually have water in them. You 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.920 do need reservoirs that are filled. You can't be pouring 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.039 you know, you know, hundreds of millions of gallons of 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.400 water into the Pacific every year from northern California when 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.760 southern California is very drought prone and you need that water, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.080 and you can easily transport that water from the north 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.680 to the south in that state. It's not that complicated. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.480 It is the highest tax state in the country. And 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.400 all of this is just as basic, simple common sense. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.960 The President also newly confirmed CIA director John Ratcliffe has 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.760 vowed to conclusively answer questions about the origins of COVID. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.560 That was good news in my mind. Today we already 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.000 know the origins of COVID. We know that it happened 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:39.200 in the Wuhan virology lab. Why did Anthony Fauci, you know, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.720 why was he you know, feverishly texting in January of 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.279 twenty twenty as he was with other members of the 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.960 NIH knowing that they gave money to the Eco Health Alliance, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.839 knowing that the Eco Health Alliance had given that money 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.599 to the Wuhan virology Lab that was known for gain 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:03.040 of function research. It's insane, but Trump continues to move 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.360 at the speed of light, at a pace that Joe 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.599 Biden could never think of running at. Donald Trump today 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.800 pardoning twenty three abortion protesters convicted by the Biden DOJ. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.480 These were peaceful pro life protesters. They should not have 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.400 been prosecuted, he said. Many of them were elderly people. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.320 This is insane should they never should have been prosecuted. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.280 This is a great honor to sign this. And he 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.640 issued the pardons on the eve of the annual March 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.480 for Life on DC, a massive anti abortion protest that 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.400 will take place in Washington to mark the Supreme Court's 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.320 Roe v. Wade decision in nineteen seventy three. Back to 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.960 California for a minute. We still have fires as of 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:52.560 today going on in multiple areas in southern California. You know, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.720 you have the huge fire off the Pia Canyon Road 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.600 which is ongoing, and you have other firefighters working to 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.440 prevent the spread of that fire. And in the last day, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.640 hundreds of very tired, weary firefighters because they're undermanned and 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:15.000 understaffed and underpaid. Frankly a battled multiple fire fires in 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.920 the hills of Los Angeles, in Ventura County and other 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.600 areas that are threatened like Brentwood and bel Air, and 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.440 Mayor Bass says her brother lost her home in the 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:30.880 Palisades fire. Okay, but they're not practicing basic fire management. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.959 And then you got to look at how they spend 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.559 their money while they're cutting back. They don't have enough 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.400 firefighters to fight a wildfire, according to the fire chief, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.240 and that yet they still cut the firefighters budget. But 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.920 then they allocate over six hundred and fifty million federal 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.040 and state dollars to make the Port of Los Angeles green. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.960 This is insane. I read this article today. It was 0:08:54.960 --> 0:09:00.200 in Politico, hardly a conservative publication. That Gavin Newsom has 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.000 now said, you know, he's yet to hear from Donald 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.520 Trump and whether he's invited or not. Newsom confirmed he's 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.600 planning to show up at the airport for a customary greeting. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.800 You know, I look forward to being there in the 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.240 tarmac to thank the president, welcome him. And making sure 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.199 that all the resources he needs for successful briefing are 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.720 provided to him. I mean this, this is no way 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.880 to communicate with the president. I don't know who's advising Gavin, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.240 but it's really bad advice. You know, Trump to visit California, 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.319 and he's been very critical of a lot of basic, basic, simple, 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.560 you know, forest management items that have not been handled, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.280 including the water, including the hydrants, including the reservoirs, including 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.640 cutting the firefighters budget, including money billions set aside for 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.440 you know, turbines, and all this other nonsense and all 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.400 these other green products. So that'll be interesting to watch. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.280 I'm not sure exactly if Newsom's you know, doing this 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.520 for show, but we'll see what happens when he gets 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.440 out there. I don't think the President's going out there 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.720 not to help the people of California's going out to 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.199 help them, but they do, they do have to make 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.960 some changes out there. It's simple, basic, common sense. A 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.760 lot of reaction to Donald Trump's signing in order to 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:24.120 declassify the files on JFK, RFK and the MLK assassinations. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.760 He had promised to declassify the previously classified documents during 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.959 the twenty twenty four campaign yesterday. It was when I 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.800 actually saw the tape of it, it was more of 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.280 a beatdown than I thought it was. A President Trump 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.080 did it in a pretty nice way, calling out the 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.560 Bank of American Chief Brian moynihan during the World Economic 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.800 Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He did it visa via a 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.280 zoom link. But these are all important items for the president. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.880 We know that the President's nominations, the way things look 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.199 like they're going tonight, that it looks like Senator Murkowski 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.400 Lisa Murkowski will be a no vote on Pete hagg 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.760 Seth Collins will be a no vote on Pete hagg Seth. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.480 And while Mitch McConnell did vote to move the bill 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.360 to the Senate floor, there is absolutely no guidance at 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.360 all from his office. I called over myself personally today 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.840 as to which way he's going to vote, and so 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.600 in that sense, it does hang in the bounds. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:25.920 JD. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.200 Vans will be on hand in case he needs to 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.000 be a tie breaking vote. Our friend John Kennedy from 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.960 Louisiana gave some pretty hilarious advice to one o' donald 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:39.319 Trump's nominees during his confirmation hearing. Russell Voight, Trump's nominee 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.000 to head the Office of Management and Budget, had his 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.880 second hearing on Tuesday ahead of his confirmation. Void previously 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.520 served in the OMB during the first Trump administration. He 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.680 wants fiscal reform, tackling the administrative deep state. Anyways, said 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.200 many people also call. He said, you served to Washington 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.280 for years. You're going to be challenging the status quo. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.680 You're going to be called crazy. Many people thought, Noah 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.400 and the Bible was crazy equipped and then he and 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.960 then the rains came and all the fact checkers died. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:19.440 You have to persevere. You gotta love this guy. Anyway, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.959 So this major hurdle yesterday. But we still don't know 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:29.240 about Senator Mitch McConnell. There's been some rumblings that others 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.280 there might be some discontent among others until this vote 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.480 takes place. You know, I don't count votes until they're 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.600 actually cast. But this is an important vote because we 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.720 need a Secretary of Defense and we need one in quickly. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.079 John Ratcleff was born in as CIA director. After the 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.520 vote on Pete, heg seth, I believe they're going to 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:57.600 vote next to and debate on PHS Secretary nominee Christy 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:03.440 Nome is not a problem expected in that area. Hawaii's 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.040 Urano is the only Senator to vote know on Collins, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.240 continuing partisan streak of the hearings. Anyway, the only lawmaker 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.680 on the Senate Veterans Affair Committee to oppose Trump's nominee 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.280 to the Department of Veterans Affairs. That's Doug Collins, former 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:26.439 representative from Georgia. So that's the latest on the nominee front. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.040 And there's a lot there. We have a ton of 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.800 immigration news we've got to get to today Donald Trump 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:37.120 more economic news. The economy he is inheriting is an 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.400 unmitigated disaster for the American people. That means all of 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.920 you out there listening, and we'll give you that information 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.600 so you know exactly where Donald Trump is starting as 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.360 he begins the process of hopefully getting this economy humming 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.480 again and getting prices down, and getting energy prices down, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.880 and getting inflation down and getting interest rates down. It 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.680 won't happen overnight, but hopefully it can happen pretty quickly. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.479 Watching the people in North Carolina today, it is unbelievable. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:14.359 When when did Hurricane Helene actually Hitlinda. Was it October November? 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.520 In November, the end of September, right the end of September. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.880 It's been such a long time. Anyway, here's President Trump. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.520 And why Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, you know, didn't give 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.800 North Carolina at the time of day, is unfathomable to me. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.240 Telling the people in North Carolina, the victims, that you're 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.160 not forgotten and how badly they were treated by the 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.160 last administration. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.360 We've come to North Carolina with a simple message for 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.920 all the people of this region who were hit so 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.360 hard by Hurricane Helene. And that message is very simple. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.280 You are not forgotten any longer. You were treated very 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.160 badly by the previous administration. And I'm here after a 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.040 few days of the administration. We're going to California in 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.520 Los Angeles. They got hit hard, as you know, a 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.880 lot of that could have been prevented. I think of 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.160 the head water, which they had plenty of, but they 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.080 didn't use it. But I'm going there. But we set 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.840 up to go there, and they said, what about North Carolina? 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:17.920 They said, well, what would you? I said, I have 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.480 to stop there first. I'm stopping in North Carolina. So 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.040 we made the stop. I wanted to come here, and 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.080 before I went anywhere, frankly, in the campaign, I promised 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.440 that I'd come back to western North Carolina to help 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.600 the people of the state. And today here I am 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.360 to deliver on that promise. And we have a lot 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.760 of things in mind, and we're getting the core of 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.320 the Army Corps of Engineer engineers all set. You need 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.760 your riverbanks fixed, you need a lot of roads fixed, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.360 and we're going to get it done and rapid time. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.040 And I've asked Susie Wiles and all of my people 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.480 to start calling up, get the corps ready, and they're 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:54.840 going to get ready to go. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.680 I don't know what it is. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.080 I don't know what took so long for the other administration, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.320 but remember I wasn't here for the first four months 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.120 or three months, whatever it may be. See, we can 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.280 only start as of essentially one or two days ago, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.040 and we've made a lot of progress over the last 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.360 couple of days. Michael, I understand. We're going to get 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.800 you the resources you need and the support that you deserve, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.560 and we'll be at de side through every step of 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.280 the rebuilding. And no American is going to be left behind. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.240 No American is going to be left behind, and we 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.200 don't need FEMA to do it. Let's go back to 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.280 October Joe Biden telling another lie like the border's secure 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.440 and the borders closed, and inflation is transitory, and all 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.680 the Democrats saying, what a cognitive genius he is. I'm 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:46.000 a young person. He runs circles around four or five 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.560 of us at one time. He's so energetic, which we 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.040 also know is a lie. But him promising that the 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.880 victims of Hurricane Helene were getting everything they need in 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.720 spite of everybody on the ground telling us the exact 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 op Listen, well, what are. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.000 The states in the storm phone? 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.040 What do they need after. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:04.720 What you saw today? 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.000 Oh on the storm zone, Yes, sir, I'm going what 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:08.960 storm is groving of? 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.240 Yeah, they don't ever there they need. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.119 They're very happy across the board. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.879 So we're just trying to have to go back to 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.240 the content and listen more money with. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.640 Her to President. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.399 Now, I will say this, if you want to know 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.000 what really was going on on the ground of the time, 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.880 let's listen to one of the victims that spoke out today, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.040 She saying she'd been fighting with FEMIS in September the 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:37.679 twenty seventh Listen. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.720 I've been fighting with FEMA since day one. Our community 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.960 there's like thirty two homes. We don't have a road 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.119 in the bridge. We're driving through our neighbor's property. You know. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.000 I went to EMS and I said, look, my concern 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.879 is if we have a fire or we have an 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.640 emergency out here, you're not going to get to us. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.239 You can't get those big trucks up here. And and 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.080 I've called and called and called FEMA, and you know, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.480 I said, it's this happened on September twenty seventh. That's 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.080 four months ago. Well for us, today is still September 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.080 twenty seventh. You know, we haven't had help. And so 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.840 when I talk to FEMA, I'm explaining the road and 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.960 the bridge, and they send me a letter that tells 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.439 me to basically fix it and send in my receipts 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.439 and they'll refund me some money. I'm on looking at 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.439 a road and bridge that honestly, the bridge itself is 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.760 probably going to be three hundred thousand dollars in the 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.040 road could be close to that. Also, because we have 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.879 to have the community has to have big boulders brought in. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.560 We're not a rich community. We can't fix it ourselves, you. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:43.199 Know, It's just. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.240 And as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.879 I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:54.600 road and bridge and send in my my my proof 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.359 that it's fixed and everything. It's just it's been a 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.880 nightmare and I totally feel that we have been forgotten. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.359 If it had not been for for our fellow American 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.679 citizens who stepped up to help us, I don't know 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.480 what we would have done. I have. I have five 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.600 neighbors around me who completely lost everything. You know, I 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.840 have damage to my house, and I feel I don't 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:24.080 feel entitled. I'm embarrassed to even say I need help 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.480 because you know, and sometimes there's even that that that 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.040 that survivors guilt us what they're calling it. But you 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.520 feel guilty even be alive sometimes, you know, when you 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.919 look around, you see your neighbors that are gone, and 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.119 it's just, you know, we need help. I wrote a 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.880 letter that to send to Congress. You know, I don't 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.440 understand what's going on. If we can get FEMA help, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.199 then will you guys help us? Will you step up 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.840 and be our fellow citizen? Will you step up? And 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.600 be our neighbor and send us something, help us, help 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.080 us get our community back. It's I could go on, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.760 it's just a I don't know. It's just heartbreaking. God 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:02.760 appreciate you. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.560 Rebuild and will send you a check. Give us the receipt. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.000 What do they think people have hundreds of thousands of 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.919 dollars just standing by to build a new house. Are 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.520 they out of their minds? I've never This is why 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.280 government I always say, don't trust them, don't count on them. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.120 And if you need any more evidence, look at government schools. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.600 They can't keep towns in cities safe and secure. Social Security, 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:34.000 Medicare is headed towards insolvency. Obamacare a disaster, not one 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.280 promise of Obamacare, and they want a green new deal. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.200 Cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, society. That's real 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.359 life what that lady is describing. And again, neighbor helping neighbor, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.640 Samaritan's purse. Franklin Graham was with the President today. He 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.000 grew up right near where the where hurricanes lean struck, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.000 and he pointed out Trump's not coming there for votes. 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.000 The election is over. He's not running for office again. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.199 He wants to make life better to the people in 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.520 North Carolina that have been abandoned. Oh, just just send 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.720 us your receipts. Well, you can't get through the roads 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:12.800 and there's no bridges. How are you going to get 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.679 the building materials there? You're going to fly him in 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:19.480 on a helicopter. These people out of their minds. It's unreal. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.240 They abandoned them. They abandon our fellow Americans, you know. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.000 And then I go to the economic numbers. I was 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.080 pointing out earlier, higher mortgage rates, record home prices, you know, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.600 sales Now, US home sales in twenty twenty four, the 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.399 last year of Biden fell to the lowest level in 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.560 nearly thirty years. This is two years in running. It's 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.240 been a disaster. What do you think that is? Higher 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:48.000 mortgage rates, record home prices, you know, kept sales subdued 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.400 for the second straight year. People cannot afford it. I've 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.359 been there. I know what it's like. It sucks. It 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.240 just does. Then we have you know that more people 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.480 are paying the minimum payment on as credit card balances 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.840 of rising. You know, in the third quarter of twenty 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.800 twenty four, nearly eleven percent of active credit card accounts 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.040 paid only the minimum balance well, you know, with twenty 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.520 one twenty two percent interest rates, you're never going to 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.399 pay that money off. And people using that money not 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.800 for extravagance. They're not going to air mace and sacks, 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.720 Fifth Avenue and expensive stores. No, they're going to grocery stores. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.000 They're putting gas in their cars that is way too expensive. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.240 You know, whether it's a busted refrigerator, car trouble, medical issues, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.920 unexpected cost of any kind. It's a part of life. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:43.560 But even routine curveballs are now spelling serious financial trouble 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.800 for many Americans. According to a new report that came 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:51.359 out surveying one thousand US adults about their ability to 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.520 handle a surprise bill like that, they found fifty nine 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.200 percent of Americans starting out this year don't have enough 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:03.240 savings to cover an unex expected one thousand dollars emergency expense. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:08.760 I mean, I mean that's the bare minimum, a thousand dollars. 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:12.000 Most people can't afford that this has had. This is 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.919