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Speaker 1: from the Guadalupe River. The death toll has now risen

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Speaker 1: to twenty four people, and one death was also reported

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Speaker 1: in Kendall County. Rescue teams have been working through the

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Speaker 1: night to find survivors as more than twenty people remain

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Speaker 1: unaccounted for from a summer camp in Hunt, Texas. NBC's

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Speaker 1: Ryan Chandler is on the ground with more.

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Speaker 2: In Central Texas. A catastrophic flood emergency.

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Speaker 3: Is going to be a mash casualty event.

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Speaker 4: Forties saying fourteen helicopters are in the air.

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Speaker 2: One rescuer dangling from a shopper appearing to help someone

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Speaker 2: up in a tree as flooding rages below. Cars lifting

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Speaker 2: steps leading to a house that's no longer there.

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Speaker 5: This is our house.

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Speaker 4: Rider, another push down the road. The water started to

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Speaker 4: rise very ira and the Iravel along the river.

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Speaker 2: A series of summer camps, the La Junta camp for boys,

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Speaker 2: posting that everyone is safe, but some girls at Camp

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Speaker 6: Now they're twenty some that aren't accounted for We're praying

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Speaker 6: for all of those missing to be found alive.

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Speaker 7: You can feel the anxiety here as parents are waiting

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Speaker 7: to hear a word about their child. We're told that

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Speaker 7: these children are being transported by helicopter, the only way out.

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Speaker 8: Of the camp.

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Speaker 4: As parents wait to hear they return safely.

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Speaker 2: The county judge pressed on why the camps weren't evacuated.

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Speaker 3: We knew all Why were.

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Speaker 9: These chance evacuated?

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Speaker 4: I can't answer that.

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: These camps weren't Arm's way.

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Speaker 8: We knew the flows.

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Speaker 3: We didn't know this flood was coming. That's sure.

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Speaker 4: No one knew this kind of flood was coming.

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Speaker 2: The tight knit Texas towns across Kirk County are popular

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Speaker 2: recreation areas. Lenn clenden In and Rory Higgins were camping

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Speaker 5: Everything happened so terribly fast.

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Speaker 6: There was mobile homes, travel trailers, cabins.

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Speaker 3: Vehicles, people in the water.

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Speaker 8: It was It was devastating.

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Speaker 4: They took this video showing a building from the.

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Speaker 2: Campground washing away their beloved Border Colie Ripper is still missing.

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Speaker 4: Blood threats were.

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Speaker 2: In place because drenching rain flooded the riverhead. Massive amounts

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Speaker 2: Service data showing the water rising nearly thirty feet in

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Speaker 2: one hour. This region near the Guadalupe River is no

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Speaker 2: stranger to floods. In nineteen eighty seven, rapidly rising water

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Speaker 10: Water was sud that starting.

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Speaker 11: It was real nat So we were going to try

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Speaker 4: Too far back and.

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Speaker 8: It started washing people away.

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Speaker 4: It was supposed to be a holiday celebration is now

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Speaker 4: a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: This came a night before and dead.

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Speaker 8: Please play food.

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Speaker 9: Original forecast that we received on Wednesday from the National

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Speaker 9: Weather Service predicted three to six inches of rain in

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Speaker 9: you can go back and look at your own forecast,

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Speaker 9: and the amount of rain that fell in this specific

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Speaker 9: location was never in any of those forecasts.

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Speaker 11: This rain event sat on top of that and dumped

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Speaker 11: more rain than what was forecasted on both of those forks.

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Speaker 4: But listen to everybody.

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Speaker 9: Got the forecast from the National Weather Service, right, you

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Speaker 9: all got it. You're all in media.

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Speaker 4: You got that forecast.

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Speaker 9: It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.

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Speaker 5: This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray

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Speaker 5: You've not got a free shot.

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Speaker 6: All these networks lying about the people, the people have

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Speaker 5: I know you don't like hearing that. I know you

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Speaker 4: And where do people like that go to share the

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Speaker 8: Mega media?

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Speaker 9: I wish in my soul, I wish that any.

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Speaker 8: Of these people had a conscience.

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Speaker 12: Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

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Speaker 12: If that answer is to save my country? This country

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Speaker 8: Worry use your host, Stephen.

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Speaker 5: K Bas Saturday, five July in the Year of Our

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Speaker 5: we're not even We had a cold open all set

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Speaker 5: But there's many big stories that I know this audience

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Speaker 5: information coming out is very sketchy. We found out last

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Speaker 5: You rushed there from Iowa and it couldn't celebrate Fourth

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Speaker 13: Have been hooked up on Yeah, Steve, Yeah, I was

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Speaker 5: And so we went to the location.

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Speaker 13: I just want to get out of the shot here

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Speaker 5: You know, the closest thing.

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Speaker 13: Not on the same scale, but when you see just

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll cover that live. Here's the thing is that

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Speaker 5: And that's what washed out the question about should these

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Speaker 5: The Atlantic magazine has an Apple bomb who is no

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Speaker 5: Ben Harnwell, can you gets up to speed on everything

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Speaker 8: I'm here. Can you hear me loud and claim?

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Speaker 5: I can hear you next time unhooked? Mute either Denver

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Speaker 10: On the night before US Independence Day celebrations, it's just

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Speaker 10: It's no good that, Steve contrasts with the phone call

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Speaker 5: I mean, President Trump want to stop this. Twenty four

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Speaker 10: And in answer to your question is to how to

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Speaker 10: de escalate the situation and to de escalate America's involvement

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Speaker 10: in this situation. Really, President Trump, I think has to

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Speaker 10: fulfill his commitment in the campaign, which he now claims

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Speaker 10: to have been sort of sarcasm. But many people who

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Speaker 10: supported him in the in the election campaign didn't take

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Speaker 10: our sarcasm and supported him for that. And that is

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Speaker 10: basically to withdraw the United States within twenty four hours.

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Speaker 10: If it's not possible, Steve for President Trump to act

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Speaker 10: as the peace boker here and negotiate a ceasefire, the

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Speaker 10: next best thing he can do is to stop this

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Speaker 10: war continuing, and that is by stopping to supply one

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Speaker 10: of the two sides, which is to say Ukraine. Now,

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Speaker 10: last week he did say that he was stopping some

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Speaker 10: weapons and some missiles, and he threw the justification to

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Speaker 10: that to depleting US stockpiles, but it wasn't a total

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Speaker 10: closure of US provision. Of course, what he was going

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Speaker 10: to continue to provide or not hadn't been defined, and

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Speaker 10: it looks as if what he is going to continue

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Speaker 10: to supply is the Patriot missiles. This is not a

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Speaker 10: de escalatory path, Steve. That's the issue here. This is

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Speaker 10: not a de escalatory path. If President Trump really wants

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Speaker 10: to achieve peace, then you know it's America that is

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Speaker 10: keeping this war going, right.

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Speaker 8: I think President.

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Speaker 10: Trump has to fulfill what he said he would do

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Speaker 10: in the campaign. Stop arming Ukraine definitively, and then the

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Speaker 10: Ukrainians will see since when they realized that that.

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Speaker 8: The munitions, but we're just stop committed. But I negotiate.

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Speaker 5: But he tried. He tried. By the way, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: have to go back to the We're gonna go back

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Speaker 5: to Kerville and the next thing. Then we got real,

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Speaker 5: I need you to stick around because I've got to

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Speaker 5: drill down more. President Trump had the conversation with Putin

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Speaker 5: and then that night they unleashed the worst bombardment on

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Speaker 5: the KIV after the President said, hey, I need you.

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Speaker 5: It was like BB hitting the the Persians after they

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Speaker 5: announced the ceasefire, and then Putin announced us to Trump

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Speaker 5: on the call, Hey I just want to do this

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Speaker 5: by lotterly. I don't need your involvement. They've jammed. They

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Speaker 5: put the President United States, who's trying to be a

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Speaker 5: peacemaker and try to be fair to both sides. They

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Speaker 5: put him in a terrible situation, just a terrible situation

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Speaker 5: for the simple fact of after you have a conversation

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Speaker 5: with him and then you do the biggest bombardment. Anyway, Ben,

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Speaker 5: hang on, I'm gonna get to you after the eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 5: Our very jammed. Today. We're going to go to Rio

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Speaker 5: for the Bricks conference. We got a press conference coming

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Speaker 5: up from Kerrville. We have Peter Theal and Doctor Chambers.

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Speaker 5: Not that Peter Theal, but the head of operations one

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Speaker 5: of the rescue groups is going to be with us.

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Speaker 5: And we also have Doc Chambers from last night, the

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Speaker 5: former the retired lieutenant colonel, and the Green Berets all

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Speaker 5: down there on search and rescue and helping folks out.

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Speaker 5: Bat Okay, let's go down back to Doc Chambers. Doc,

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Speaker 5: we had you on last night before the press conference.

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Speaker 5: Press conference, good information, kind of depressing. Can you give

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Speaker 5: us an update on where we are in search and rescue?

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Speaker 6: Sir Roger That, Yeah, we had over two hundred and

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Speaker 6: sixty rescues yesterday. This is a positive note. Obviously, we're

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Speaker 6: looking at one hundred and some of those were hoists,

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Speaker 6: so this is what we call a JP jungle penetrator type.

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Speaker 6: The old comes down from the helicopter with a operator

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Speaker 6: at the bottom of the line. Somebody pulls them up

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Speaker 6: through the tree line. Because this is triple canopy in someplace,

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Speaker 6: there's lots of foliage in the area. So that's a

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Speaker 6: positive note. Unfortunately, you do have to report that we're

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Speaker 6: at about twenty four right now unconfirmed, twenty four to

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Speaker 6: twenty six deaths reported expected to rise till twenty five

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Speaker 6: missing expected to rise, but we're nearing those numbers down

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Speaker 6: as we speak, so those are just unconfirmed that they

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Speaker 6: are close to the right numbers.

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Speaker 5: What is of the twenty five? What's the status of

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Speaker 5: the Mystic Girls camp They were saying last night twenty

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Speaker 5: to twenty three. Is that still an accurate number that

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Speaker 5: had not been the search and rescue had not located.

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Speaker 5: Is that still been accounting?

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Speaker 7: We have.

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Speaker 6: No because over the ninth we were reporting all the

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Speaker 6: way through zero three hundred. This morning, yeah, there were

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Speaker 6: about seven that I saw that were sent to me.

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Speaker 6: I have not got those numbers yet. I'm on my

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Speaker 6: way to Mystic. We've had a lot of stops along

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Speaker 6: the way. Understand, this is still going on. It's the

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Speaker 6: Geen area, Lake mcqueeney. Is that there's a deluge of

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Speaker 6: rain down from us, so it's adding to the problem set.

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Speaker 6: But we're controlling what we can here and then we'll

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Speaker 6: continue to move to that location. But first I'll hit

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Speaker 6: Mystic and be out there conducting some support out there,

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Speaker 6: ministry support with some of the families.

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Speaker 5: Let's bring a peat teal. Hang on, doc, let's got

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Speaker 5: a peat teal from the minute Man disaster relief I

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Speaker 5: think joins us by phone. Oh no, there we have him, Pete.

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Speaker 5: Can you give us an update on a disaster relief,

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Speaker 5: search and rescue, anything you know.

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Speaker 16: I agree with what what the previous guy said. I

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Speaker 16: was at the operations center there were they were did

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Speaker 16: the operational briefing this morning. I don't have any additional

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Speaker 16: numbers to what he said. Those are are in line

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Speaker 16: with what I'm aware of.

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Speaker 5: When you say in line, this is I just the

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Speaker 5: question last night I think they said. I think they

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Speaker 5: reported at Mystic, at the Bubble End or one of

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Speaker 5: the sub camps at Mystic, that there were twenty to

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Speaker 5: twenty three nine year old girls. Is that was last night?

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Speaker 5: Not the correct answer. That's what the media is been,

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Speaker 5: that that had been unaccounted for. Where there are there

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Speaker 5: still twentys this morning.

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Speaker 16: I don't want to say that definitively because I can't

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Speaker 16: tell you sure, but yes, that is my understanding. I

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Speaker 16: was an eight nine year old camp and a couple

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Speaker 16: of the the camp buildings were swept away. Is what

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Speaker 16: I understand.

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Speaker 5: What is search and rescue still going on? Correct?

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Speaker 16: Yes it is right now. I believe I'm probably on

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Speaker 16: the same highway as Lieutenant Colonel is. There are a

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Speaker 16: number of state police and ambulances, number of game warden

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Speaker 16: trucks just ro by me here while I was talking

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Speaker 16: with you. The sturch and rescue is still going on,

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Speaker 16: although I think at this point it might be more

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Speaker 16: recovery than the search and rescue.

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, where how tough has this search and rescue been?

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Speaker 5: Given the the biblical nature of this flash flood? How

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Speaker 5: tough has it been? Pete Teal.

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Speaker 16: I have not been involved in the search and rescue personally,

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Speaker 16: but just trying to turn around in a truck. The mud,

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Speaker 16: the mud and muck is is unbelievable. The level of damage.

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Speaker 16: I I this is like a hurricane. There are thousands

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Speaker 16: of trees that have been stripped, there are mattresses in trees.

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Speaker 16: There's the height of the flood level. This is unbelievable.

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Speaker 16: They have been using jeeps, they've been using dogs as

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Speaker 16: much as they can with the mud. I mean, every

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Speaker 16: asset is being used. There was an offer this morning

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Speaker 16: from a group that has assessed the three thirty seven

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Speaker 16: with search and rescue package with infrared and everything. I

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Speaker 16: don't know if that's coming over, but every asset the

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Speaker 16: state has, I believe, has been pushed here. The number

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Speaker 16: at the staging area, the incidente command post that we're

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Speaker 16: probably three hundred vehicles of people that are here that

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Speaker 16: are state officials rather than just volunteers that we're for

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Speaker 16: search and rescue. The magnitude of the response from the

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Speaker 16: State of Texas is amazing. This is what makes America

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Speaker 16: great is that people come help each other.

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Speaker 5: Dot Chambers one of the questions last night about people

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Speaker 5: being notified, and one of the officials said that, hey,

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Speaker 5: this area has a history of flooding in your memory,

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Speaker 5: is this the biggest has happened recently? Twenty years, thirty years?

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Speaker 5: The biggest in memory? I mean, how big is this

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Speaker 5: compared to other events that this area has had the Guadalupe.

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Speaker 6: River great question, twenty years, this is the highest one

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Speaker 6: in record now, but understand this is the longest in

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Speaker 6: the corridor of the Guadalupe. We're looking at probably seventy

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Speaker 6: miles as the crow flies, hundreds of miles one hundred

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Speaker 6: and twenty miles of river as it curves. So we're

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Speaker 6: looking at all those low laning areas. And remember all

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Speaker 6: these camps that were plussed up for Fourth of July holiday,

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Speaker 6: that was the evacuation problem set and now when we're

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Speaker 6: spreading those forces thin as Pete was mentioning I'm out

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Speaker 6: here with them, and these guys are running up and

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Speaker 6: down the roads. So are civilian groups. You know, the

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Speaker 6: Cajun navies coming in from Louisiana. There's some great folks.

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Speaker 6: This is what we're dealing with. The thermals are the

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Speaker 6: key for the night time and daytime. The problem set

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Speaker 6: for some of these areas further down is the is

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Speaker 6: the amount of rain that they're still receiving, deluge of

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Speaker 6: rain over Lake mcqueeney so that they won't be able

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Speaker 6: to work there. But from their back yes, there will

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Speaker 6: be up with those fixed wing and rotary wings.

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Speaker 5: Doc Chambers, where do people your sit reps have been amazing?

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Speaker 5: Where do people go that weren't in the audience last night?

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Speaker 5: Where do people go to keep up with this? Understanding?

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Speaker 5: Your heading up to the mystic camp right now? So

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Speaker 5: how do people keep in touch with you on social

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Speaker 5: media to get your sit reps? Affirmative?

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Speaker 16: Sir?

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Speaker 6: Well, what you look is Doc Pete Chambers on X

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Speaker 6: and then I have the Remnant Ministry TX dot org.

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Speaker 6: That's what we'll be totally posting things as where well,

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Speaker 6: but on X is the primary right now. I'll be

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Speaker 6: doing probably probably every couple hours as I can. Just

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Speaker 6: a short thirty second spot.

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Speaker 5: Okay, perfect, thank you, we'll post those up and make

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Speaker 5: sure we stream thank you, Doc, appreciate you, yeah, pe

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Speaker 5: teel before we let you go. Anything to make our

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Speaker 5: audience smart as the day they look at social media

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Speaker 5: or continue to follow the stream here on Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 5: Anything to make us smart about how this search and

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Speaker 5: rescue is going, Sir.

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Speaker 16: I don't have anything in particular. Miniman Disaster Response is

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Speaker 16: an all volunteer group that helps people clean up after

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Speaker 16: major events. We have not done a full deployment yet.

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Speaker 16: We're down here assessing the situation to see if we'll

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Speaker 16: be going. So, I mean, just the the level of

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Speaker 16: damage here is is just it's overwhelming. But I we

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Speaker 16: don't have a public web page where we put sit

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Speaker 16: reps on. Uh, so I can't add on that.

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Speaker 5: Do you have do you have social media? You guys

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Speaker 5: on Twitter, We're on Facebook.

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Speaker 16: I believe we're on Instagram. It should be this Mini

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Speaker 16: Man Disaster Response. I don't know about Twitter. Kay, Well, just.

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Speaker 5: We'll send everybody over well, so that's okay. We'll send

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Speaker 5: everybody over to your Facebook or your your Instagram Pete,

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Speaker 5: thank you so much for joining us. I know you're

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Speaker 5: busy this morning, so thank you for taking a few minutes.

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Speaker 16: Yep, thank you. Goodbye.

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Speaker 5: There'll be a press conference at There will be a

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Speaker 5: press conference at at eleven o'clock eastern daylight time. We

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Speaker 5: will jump into that and get some updates on this.

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Speaker 5: Jason Jones is down there, the congressman trip where is

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Speaker 5: down there? We'll get some other input in the second hour.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to as soon as we get more information.

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Speaker 5: Obviously we'll inform everybody. Let's go to Brazil to Rio.

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Speaker 5: You know, yesterday on Drudge for the entire day of

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Speaker 5: fourth of July until late in the day after President

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Speaker 5: Trump signed the signed the big beautiful bill and had

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Speaker 5: this amazing ceremony Philip Patrick. The headline the Drudge lead

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Speaker 5: was dollar has worst opening six months I think in

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Speaker 5: history twenty years, you know, the drop of the dollar.

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Speaker 5: You're at the conference, and I'm sure that came from

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Speaker 5: the d dollarsation movement of Brooks. What exactly has gone

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Speaker 5: on down in real What are the bricks Nations organizing?

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Speaker 5: We're getting ready to kick off this conference. You've been

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Speaker 5: down for a couple of days get us up to speed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's interesting. It's hustle and bustle. We've been out.

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Speaker 3: We're watching dinners between Chlie's delegates and Brazilian real estate developers.

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Speaker 3: Deals are happening all over the place. The dollar is

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Speaker 3: certainly a topic of conversation, as you rightly point out,

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Speaker 3: a worst start for the year since nineteen seventy three,

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Speaker 3: since we came off the gold standard, dollars lost ten

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Speaker 3: and a half percent of its purchasing power, So you

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Speaker 3: know it's looking primed for the bricks and their plans

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Speaker 3: longer term. We had a very interesting interview with an

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Speaker 3: economics professor yesterday heavily involved in the bricks leadership, and

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Speaker 3: learn a lot in that conversation about different motivations for

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Speaker 3: different bricks companies countries, sorry, particularly Brazil. So there is

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Speaker 3: a feeling here of excitement and that things are moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Is explained to the audience. We know during Biden's time,

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Speaker 5: is this flow over from Biden? Because President Trump puts

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Speaker 5: out the big, beautiful built and clearly it has some

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Speaker 5: defenits in there. They've asked for a five tree dollars,

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Speaker 5: a lift to the to the debt, ceiling, But the

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Speaker 5: global capital markets kind of took this. The ten year

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Speaker 5: treasuries slightly down, Gold's been kind of stable, the stock

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Speaker 5: market's on a run again. Why explain to the audience

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Speaker 5: why does the dollar keep losing value relatives some of

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Speaker 5: these other currencies, Because this is one of the things

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Speaker 5: the bricks are saying. If we can't do another currency,

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Speaker 5: we've got to figure out some way to dedollarize, Right,

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Speaker 5: We've got to get away from the dollar being the

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Speaker 5: center of world currency trade. So why has the dollar

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Speaker 3: Look, I think there's a number of reasons. Right. It

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Speaker 3: and ultimately it showed nations around the world that they

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Speaker 3: have risk. But I think what I'm learning here is

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Speaker 3: people misunderstand what the bricks really are. Right. The argument

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Speaker 3: that I always hear is, look, they're not politically aligned, right,

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Speaker 3: India and Trya can't agree on anything. And the sort

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Speaker 3: of acceptance of that on the ground I mentioned. I

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Speaker 3: know the idea of viewing them as a political unit

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Speaker 3: is the wrong way to look at it. They are

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Speaker 3: not a block, right. They don't have a chairman, they

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Speaker 3: don't have a CEO, they don't have a board of directors,

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Speaker 3: and importantly they don't have agenders to vote on. What

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Speaker 3: they are instead is a group of countries that have

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Speaker 3: come together to basically help one another out right with trade,

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Speaker 3: development projects and love. There's a feeling here of mutual

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Speaker 3: cooperation because I think on the whole Bricks nations feel

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Speaker 3: snubbed by the West and now they with China leading

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Speaker 3: got bigger GDP now than the G seven. So they're

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Speaker 3: not politically aligned, but they are aligned in one area

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Speaker 3: and that is and this is a direct quote from

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Speaker 3: the from the professor himself, and he was not anti Western,

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Speaker 3: I want to be very clear. But the aim here

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Speaker 3: in their mind is to diminish power of the West.

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Speaker 3: And it was very shocking to hear until he started

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Speaker 3: to explain the background right and from an inside of

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Speaker 3: Bricks perspective, it started to make a lot more sense,

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Speaker 3: and that is that BRICKS members want different things. Right

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Speaker 3: for China, it's all about power, right. They don't want

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Speaker 3: a direct economic war with the West or Europe. They

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Speaker 3: still do a lot of business with US, but they

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Speaker 3: do want to become a global leader, and they do

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Speaker 3: want to recover Taiwan. The question is how much of

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Speaker 3: their wealth do they want tai up in US dollars

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Speaker 3: when they try that. So they're very motivated to break

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Speaker 3: dollar dominance. For Russia, it's about economic security from sanctions. Right.

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Speaker 3: For Brazil, in his mind, it was a little more nuanced. Right.

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Speaker 3: They still harbor resentments about deals offered by the IMF

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Speaker 3: when they were struggling in the eighties and nineties, essentially

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Speaker 3: loans with too many strings attached. Right. Those difficult experiences

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Speaker 3: during times of crises, I think make them open to alternatives.

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Speaker 3: They see themselves, as the professor himself says, as a

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Speaker 3: bridge between the global north and south, right, to act

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Speaker 3: as a moderator, balancing between China and the West. This

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Speaker 3: is basically their opportunity to seize a global role. The

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Speaker 3: point being they all want different things that they united

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Speaker 3: around the.

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Speaker 5: Common hang on, hang on one second, that common purpose

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Speaker 5: is diminished to West sharp break Philip Patrick Coromrio.

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Speaker 8: Next Warrior confuse your host.

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Speaker 5: Stephen k Maat, Okay, thank you. We were covering Rio Curville, Texas.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna go there momentary are going to be a

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Speaker 5: Election Integrity Conference. They heard Hotel Mett Mech and the

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Speaker 5: team in Las Vegas. I'll be giving the closing remarks

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Speaker 5: tonight eight to eight thirty Eastern daylight time five five

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Speaker 5: thirty out there in Las Vegas. Also we have Philip

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Speaker 5: Patrick and Rio. So Philip, the mechanisms that they're talking about,

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Speaker 5: we understand they want to diminish the power of the West,

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Speaker 5: although they each have individual agendas. We also understand although

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Speaker 5: the black hand of the Chinese Commis parties in back

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Speaker 5: of this, we understand that they are not fans of

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Speaker 5: the US dollar being the prime reserve currency for many reasons.

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Speaker 5: So what are the mechanisms that you're hearing the conferences

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Speaker 5: A couple of days, you're in breakout sessions, You're getting

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Speaker 5: you know, interviews with the top people there. What are

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Speaker 5: you learning about the mechanisms of how Because the audience

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Speaker 5: needs to understand this not just for the geopolitical and

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Speaker 5: geoeconomic direction of the country, but also for their own

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Speaker 5: personal financial use. Sir.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been very interesting, right. You know, for me,

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Speaker 3: it was always the plan was de dollarization. But what's

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Speaker 3: becoming clear is de dollarization isn't the plan. The plan

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Speaker 3: is to diminish the power of the West. That's the

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Speaker 3: ultimate endgame, and de dollarization is a means to an end.

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Speaker 3: But you see it clearly when you look at the

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Speaker 3: systems that they've created, because the systems are set up

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Speaker 3: to combat their weaknesses. For example, the bricks don't have

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Speaker 3: political unity, right, there's a lack of mutual trust between

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Speaker 3: their governments and their central banks. So what are they doing?

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Speaker 3: Massive central bank gold buying. Remember last year gold has

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Speaker 3: become the number two global reserve asset, so gold is

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Speaker 3: replacing the dollar as a store of value in central

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Speaker 3: banks reserves. Essentially, gold is becoming the national savings account

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Speaker 3: if you will. Right, they need cross border trade, that

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Speaker 3: sanction and Western oversight resistance. What have they built? They

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Speaker 3: US control. They want to use local currencies for trade, right,

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Speaker 3: but they don't want to keep them right enter Mbridge.

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Speaker 3: This is a digital clearing and settlement network which allows

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Speaker 3: nations to trade in currencies local currencies, but then settle

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Speaker 3: trade imbalances with gold. Right, the idea being Russia doesn't

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Speaker 3: want a pile of rupees or rand at the end

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Speaker 3: in gold bullion, zero trust required, So gold essentially becomes

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Speaker 3: Cost border trade becomes easier once they've sold the currency problem.

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Speaker 3: And what are we starting to see? Massive bilateral trade

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Speaker 3: deals happening in local currentencies. What happens is that one

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Speaker 3: by one they chip away at the dollar's primary source

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Speaker 3: I said, numerous bilateral trade agreements signed in local currencies.

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Speaker 3: This was unheard of a few years ago. Now, I

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the opportunity, Steve, I'm glad to be

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Speaker 5: so he can go to Getter, DM him there or

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Speaker 5: go to get the end of the Dollar Empire. We're

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Speaker 5: going to have a new eighth installment coming out after Rio.

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Speaker 5: The seventh three installment is the Rio Reset. As you

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Speaker 5: see what's happening right now, the bricks nations coming together.

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Speaker 5: Their number one thing they got to figure out is

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Speaker 5: how to take power away from the West. That means

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Speaker 5: the United States of America and how to take power

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Speaker 5: away from the United States dollar. Okay, and Taraz takes

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Speaker 5: us up magnificent music and get her DVDs take up

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Speaker 5: on YouTube. She's got two DVDs specifically about these songs

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Speaker 5: of the Revolution. And then I think songs of early

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Speaker 5: America absolutely incredible. We strongly recommend it. We're gonna take

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Speaker 5: a short commercial break. Ben Berkwam is at the press

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Speaker 5: briefing of Kerville. We're also going to try to pick

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Speaker 5: up a little bit of this amazing conference in Las

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Speaker 5: Vegas for Election Integrity. Got Ben Harnwall and try to

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Speaker 5: get back Meghan Kelly is going to join us. The

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Speaker 5: second hour is a little jammed, but we'll figure it

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Speaker 5: out in the war room.

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Speaker 14: our fleet shall speak in thunder to England, France and

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