The Benny Show - Trump Visits North Carolina Disaster Area! Real Leader | Trump Visiting LA, with Guest

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

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What we know so far. This is the takeoff point from the White House. This is Donald Trump early this morning. You can see the press pool there. Locked and loaded, stacked and racked. When was the last time you saw Donald Trump actually... When was the last time you saw a president actually standing in front of the press and taking questions? Let's go ahead and listen to what President Trump had to say here upon departure from the White House.

No, no, no, no, no. Departure from the White House. Give me Trump. What did Trump say during his departure from the White House? ALX, name, no, no. Departure from the White House. Give me Trump. What did Trump say during his depart from the White House? ALX, name the clip, please. That press gaggle at the White House? Nothing? Okay, all right. Ladies and gentlemen.

Yes? Okay, let's go. I think the North Carolina's been a horrible thing the way that's been Okay. All right. Ladies and gentlemen. Yes. Okay, let's go. North Carolina's been a horrible thing the way that's been allowed to fester and we're going to get it fixed up. Should have been done months ago from the hurricane that took place almost four months ago. North Carolina's been treated very badly. So we're stopping there and we're going to then go to Los Angeles and take a look at a fire that could have been put out if they let the water flow, but they didn't let the water flow and they still have it for whatever reason. So I think we're going to have a very interesting time. I think many of you are going with us.

If you'd like to have a ride on the plane, we'd love to give it to you. So that was President Trump earlier this morning out front of the White House. Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump took the opportunity to roast Adam Schiff as well. People asked if Adam Schiff would be joining him on this trip. Donald Trump said, is he? Here we go. I don't know. Is he going?

Is he going? I don't know. I mean, I really don't know. Is he going? Is he going? I don't know. I mean, I really don't know. You know, because if he's going to be there, it would be cheaper. But I didn't invite him. Somebody did. OK. Is he going? Not exactly sure. Donald Trump on the visits to North Carolina and Los Angeles today. Donald Trump is, well, again, going to be doing what a president's supposed to do, which is defending his people. Let's go.

How do you feel about President Trump not just visiting North Carolina today, but making it his first trip since returning to office? I mean, it feels like we're finally being heard for the first time in four months. We've been yelling into the void, it feels like, for months that we still need help, we still need help. And it was like, you know, silence on the other end of the phone. And it just feels like it's very intentional that Trump is coming here, making it his first stop, that he cares and that change is going to happen.

Aaron, it's been about four months. I can't believe it since the storm hit. How would you describe the pace of recovery and what is life like for people in your area right now? I mean, the pace is a snail's pace. If you looked at the footage, I sent you guys all the footage from the day after the storm to now. But if you look at the footage from the day after the storm and you drive down my road right now, it looks almost exactly the same. Add some snow. So, you know, and this is these are bridges down. These are roads that have crumbled on one side, debris everywhere, trees everywhere, trees falling, trees hanging over roads.

We definitely need a larger federal response to come in and help with some of these larger issues. Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump is going to a place that they wanted you to forget. And in many regards, you know, many people saying that they actually wanted this to happen because this is the Trump area of North Carolina. This is the very red part of North Carolina. The federal government refused to help these people. You can see the devastation. I mean, this is like worse than anything that we've ever seen before. It's worse than what happened here in Florida when the hurricane hit.

And these people, of course, are still out of their homes. This is still completely and totally ravaged. And the Biden administration not only didn't help these people, but they refused to actually give FEMA money or assistance to people with Trump signs outside of their houses. This is a story that was really big and then it went away because we live inside of a news cycle that has the attention span of a gnat. But this story is possibly the most damning for the Biden administration of anything that happened over the past four years, arguably on the level of Afghanistan, because it's people's lives at stake. And it's about as cruel. FEMA directed its agents to not assist people with Trump signs in their yards. This is what happened to these people.

So as you're watching the lives destroyed and there are dozens and dozens of deaths, hundreds of deaths actually, in these areas, remember that the federal government, as run by Joe Biden, looked at these people, saw if they have Trump flags, and then let them die. Let them suffer. It's truly the banality of actual evil. And President Trump is writing those evils today. I know we posted this on, I know we posted a clip on X of someone in North Carolina explaining the differences between, please grab me that clip, producers, a resident there, explaining the differences between what happened with Joe Biden

and how they're being treated with President Trump. Speaking of President Trump has just arrived in North Carolina, is according to Margo Martin, who is with the president right now, one of our friends. She is President Trump has has taken off, has gotten off of Air Force One. It's a very quick trip here. So this is him getting from Marine One to Air Force One. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is President Trump getting off of Air Force One onto the tarmac there in North Carolina. This clip just posted. President Trump is with Melania right now. Melania Trump wearing her hat and jacket. I don't think this is the jacket that says, I don't really care, do you, on it.

Kind of a legendary fashion selection from first term President Trump. President Trump, we'll see here, we're monitoring the feed. We'll see if President Trump takes any questions. This is President Trump on Pete Hegseth this morning. Pete Hegseth's vote will take place during our live. Yes. Correct me if I'm wrong here. Oh, it's at 9 p.m. Ah, no. All right. Fine. We'll see. Maybe we'll just go live again. Golden era, ladies and gentlemen. Donald Trump on Pete Hegseth's vote today in the Senate. Multiple senators have confirmed to us that he, Pete Hegseth, does have 51 votes, but J.D. Vance will be there just in case to cast the tie-breaking votes. Ladies and gentlemen, let's listen to the president on Pete

Hegseth today. Look, whatever it is, it is. He's a good man. I don't know what's going to happen. You never know in those things. But Pete's a very, very good man. I hope he makes it. I hope he makes it. I was very surprised that Collins and Murkowski would do that. And of course, Mitch is always a no vote, I guess. Is Mitch a no vote? How about Mitch? Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. So here's what we know. The move to put Pete's name on the floor for consideration, that's a motion that has to pass. That motion is effectively how the senators are going to vote for the actual nomination, right?

If you don't want Pete's name on the floor, you're not going to vote for that. So this happened yesterday. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted against it. Those are two Republicans from Maine and from Alaska, respectively. I'm going to save my fire for Susan Collins. Susan Collins is from what is a blue state. Maine voted for Kamala Harris to their great shame. It is a state you can see here that sort of gets affected by the eastern seaboard of blue and that state's population centers swing it leftward. Susan Collins is a Republican representing a blue state. Not the same for Lisa Murkowski, who represents this right here, that state, who represents that state. That's red Alaska.

Not going to tangle up here in my little earpiece. That's red Alaska. Lisa Murkowski is somebody who represents a state that votes 10 and 20 points for Donald Trump. There is literally zero reason for her to ever oppose any of Donald Trump's nominees, yet she opposed Pete Hegseth and announced that she will be voting no yesterday. I used to live next to a Lisa Murkowski consultant in Washington, D.C., and that consultant would come over to my house and drink a little too much of my bourbon and would tell me all of their secrets. And let me tell you what, Lisa Murkowski, who has lost two Republican primary races, two, two, is not a Republican. She is literally a Democrat, live action role playing as a Republican. She has used Democrats, Democrat consultants and Democrat money to maintain her

seat in Alaska. She is somebody who regularly and often sides with the Democrats. She voted in favor of Alejandro Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin. She voted in favor of Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco. Lisa Murkowski voted in favor of all of Joe Biden's criminal regime. And yet she refuses to give Donald Trump picks votes. Pete Hegseth today will have to pass without the votes of multiple Republicans. Now, Mitch McConnell did vote for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. And so this is a very, this is very interesting, something I wasn't planning on. But nonetheless, this is Lisa Murkowski's state in Alaska. They have something called rank choice

voting there, which is this deeply confusing model of voting that is intended to actually sabotage Republican and populist candidates by muddying the water. Lisa Murkowski is a nepo baby. She's probably IQ of 50. She's a vengeful witch. She's a nasty person like most low IQ people are. High IQ people tend to be cheerful and like happy and low IQ people tend to be mean and nasty and cruel. And so we fully look forward to supporting, I will travel to Alaska to support the primary challenge for Lisa Murkowski. I am sickened by this and I know too much. I watched Lisa Murkowski and I watched her entire team work in Washington, D.C.

These people are fit for a single party and that is the Democrat Party. This is a party of losers. This is a party that does not have the capacity to lead or to rule. And Lisa Murkowski is a blight, a scar on the face of this great movement. And she should not

be allowed to call herself a Republican. So ladies and gentlemen, this is my jihad against Lisa Murkowski. I'm officially ready. We're officially ready. We're going to lock in for Alaska. I will physically travel to Alaska. Expect a massive, well-funded primary challenge for Lisa Murkowski. You totally and completely disgust and sicken me. All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's who Lisa Murkowski is voting against. Donald Trump, my producers are telling me,

is live on the tarmac. Donald Trump, live on the tarmac, and is going to be taking questions, okay? So here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's rock and roll. President Trump on the tarmac in North Carolina, off Air Force One. North Carolina first because they've been abused

by what's happened. I mean, it's terrible. It should have been done. It should have been, a lot of things should have happened that didn't happen. So we're here, we're going to fix it out. We're working with the gentleman behind me and you know who they are and we're going to fix it. And we're going to fix it out. We're working with the gentleman behind me, and you know who they are.

And we're going to fix it. And we're going to fix it as fast as you can. It's a massive amount of damage. FEMA has really let us down, let the country down. And I don't know if that's Biden's fault or whose fault it is, but we're going to take over and we're going to do a good job. We're going to assign Mr. Watley, who's fantastic,

frankly, and the governor and everybody else that's going to work. We're going to supply the money. We're going to supply a lot of the money. Maybe you have to chip in something. You'll chip in a little something, like maybe 25 percent or whatever. But we're going to get it done as quickly as we can.

And we want to take care of the people of North Carolina. It's so interesting. Everybody is talking about California, and that's a mess. But I said, I'm not going to California until I stop in North Carolina. So here we are. We're going to go visit the site, and we're going to work with probably three of the congressmen,

Republican congressmen, who have been fantastic, whose areas have been affected, and with Michael Watley, the governor, and whoever else is, you know, we decide to get involved. Probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn't done the job. And we're looking at the whole concept of FEMA. I like, frankly, the concept when North

Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it, meaning the state takes care of it. To have a group of people come in from an area that don't even know where they're going in order to solve immediately a problem is something that never worked for me.

But this is probably one of the best examples of it not working. And there's been some others, like in Louisiana, et cetera. So we're going to be doing something on FEMA that I think most people agree. I'd like to see the states take care of disasters. Let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen. And I think you're going to find it a lot less expensive. You'll do it for less than half,

and you're going to get a lot quicker response. So that seems to be the recommendation. But we'll be making that recommendation over the next couple of weeks. We're going to go to the site now, and we're going to figure out a plan for, really, demolition and cleaning, because not a lot has been done. And we're very disappointed in the Biden administration,

but we're going to make up for lost time. And I said I'd do that, and this is about the earliest we could possibly be here. And we're honored to be here. This has been a great state. They're great people, and they've really been mishandled. But it's all — this group is going to be great, and we're going to get it taken care of.

Any questions? The Press How will you respond to FEMA? Do you expect to ask Congress for additional aid for North Carolina and California? The President Yeah, I will be direct. In other words, the aid will go through us. So rather than going through FEMA, it will go through us. And I think maybe this is a good place to start.

Because — and in all fairness to the governor and all fairness to everybody else FEMA was not on the ball and we're gonna turn it all around. A lot of Americans think that this is symbolic of what your campaign was all about America first putting your priorities to Americans even going to California where their policies might have been more the biggest reasons why they've had these problems, but you're putting American people first. Your thoughts on that? We are. Thank you. I like that question. Boy, I want more questions like that.

That's even a statement. Thank you very much. He's a good man, that guy. And he's also a very professional reporter, I have to say. Thank you very much. Yeah, we're putting America first. We're putting, in this case, North Carolina and California. We're going to do a good job in California. That is a disaster like, I don't know if we've ever seen anything like it, frankly. They say the biggest in the history of California. I think, has anything bigger than that happened

in the whole country, ever. It looks like — I don't want to say what it looks like, but you know what I'm going to say. It looks like something hit it. And we won't talk about what hit it, but it is a bad, bad situation. And I guess I'm going to meet with some government officials, but I mean, much more importantly,

and in California, just to repeat to it for a second, millions of gallons of water are waiting to be poured down through already the half pipes that are already built. I mean, they've been up for 40 years. And about 20 years ago, they turned off the water. And it's the water that comes from the Pacific Northwest.

Some of it comes out of Canada, and it flows there, and it probably has flowed there for a million years. And they turned it off, and they rout there, and it probably has flowed there for a million years. And they turn it off, and they route it out to the Pacific. And in the meantime, you don't have water in the hydrants. You don't have water in the streams. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And everyone's trying to figure out,

why aren't they turning it back? They say it's the Delta smelt. It's a fish. But I find that hard to believe. But we'll figure it out. The Press And without doing that, you're going to continue to have problems. The Press President, what are you prepared to do,

sir, if OPEC doesn't respond to your call to cut oil prices? The President Well, we want to see OPEC cut the price of oil, and that will automatically stop the tragedy that's taking place in Ukraine. It's a butchering tragedy for both sides, by the way. A tremendous number of Russian soldiers, a tremendous number of Ukrainian soldiers, and a lot of people bombing of the cities.

But right now it's just bullets whacking and hitting men, mostly men, almost in all cases men. And over a million men are killed. And they're losing thousands of people a week. It's crazy. It's a crazy war. And it never would have happened if I was president. Would never have happened. This is crazy that it happened.

But we want to stop it. Now, one way to stop it quickly is for OPEC to stop making so much money and to drop the price of oil, because they have it nice and high. And if you have it high, that war is not going to end so easily. So OPEC ought to get on the ball and they ought to drop the price of oil, and that war will stop right away. The Press Is the president funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy?

The President I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID, so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen. I want the water to come down and come down to Los Angeles and also go out to all the farmland that's barren and dry.

You know, they have land that they say is the equivalent of the land in Iowa, which is about as good as there is anywhere on Earth. The problem is it's artificial because they artificially stop the water from going onto the land. So I want two things. I want voter ID for the people of California, and they all want it. Right now, you have no — you don't have voter ID. People want to have voter identification.

You want to have proof of citizenship. Ideally, you have one-day voting. But I just want voter ideas to start and i want the water to be released and they're going to get a lot of help from the u.s thank you very much i'll see you we'll see you at the site all right ladies and gentlemen so i'm being told by my producers we apologize you can see there there were glitches there in the pool feed this is like yesterday when they had a pool feed and it was in the Oval Office and it was really hard to find because the White House is just getting their

feet underneath them right now. So there's no schedule out. So I'm being told by my producers that that event happened. You can see the glitching live and that's why it's delayed. And ladies and gentlemen, that President Trump is live right now at a round table. Okay, finally, we got a schedule out. Okay, finally, we got a schedule out. Okay, President Trump live at a roundtable. We're going to jump over here to President Trump at the roundtable. Okay, here we go. SECRETARY KERRY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT'S A LITTLE COLD OUTSIDE, BUT YOU'RE GETTING USED TO THE COLD. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND ONE OF THE REASONS I'M HAPPY THAT WE WON SO CONVINCINGLY IS TO HELP NORTH CAROLINA GET FIXED UP. THEY SUPPORTED US IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND I'M SUPPORTING THEM IN RECORD NUMBERS TOO. AND THEY HAD ME SET. and I'm supporting them in record numbers too. And they had me set. I wanted to go to Los Angeles and see what was going on with California,

why they aren't releasing the water. Millions and millions of gallons of water. They're sending it out to the Pacific. Someday somebody's going to explain that one. In the meantime, they have no water in Los Angeles where they had the problems. So we're going there. But I said, well, what about North Carolina? Well, you could do that.

No, I can't. I said, we're stopping in North Carolina first, and then we're going to Los Angeles. And we just appreciate the outpouring of love that we've had here. Laura was, as you know, very instrumental in the campaign. And she lived here and is loved, and we appreciate it. And Michael Watley has been incredible, wherever Michael is.

Hello, Michael. Michael Watley has been great, and your congressmen have been great. And what we thought we'd do is take a quick look around. First, we wanted to do this, I want to say that we're very disappointed in FEMA. Your new governor, it's not his fault, he's brand new to the whole situation. But we're going to work together with the governor, we're going to work together with the senators. But really, we're going to work a lot with your congressmen, especially the three that are in the area, and Michael Watley.

And I'd like to put Michael in charge of making sure everything goes well. And Franklin Graham has been unbelievable. We've made a big contribution to Franklin and will continue to do so. But I've been hearing nothing but praise for the job that Samaritan's Purse has done with Franklin and we appreciate it. Where is Franklin? He's around here someplace and that good-looking guy he's always been a good-looking guy his father was a good-looking guy too I'll tell you we loved his father right I saw his father in the latter years and I said well he he doesn't have long to go

he was having a hard time and he lived about three four years after that right he was they call they say it was good stock he had the ultimate good stock but I want to thank you frankly you were you've been fantastic here and everywhere he goes he's always he's always the first one I see does people don't realize how good it is. A lot of people, they go, well, maybe it's for the people that he's got. And you guys know because you're here, but the people that he's got have done amazing work. So I just want to thank everybody.

We're going to get over and take a look. We'll say a few words. I do want to introduce some of the people that we have. And our First Lady, we'll start with our First Lady. She wanted to be here because of North Carolina, and then I said, well, you can do that, but you're going to have to come to California too. And she said, that's okay. And we got to fix that one up too. Do you ever see anything like that one?

Who would have thought that could have happened? So Governor Josh Stein, thank you very much. We appreciate it and we're going to have a very long and good relationship. Representatives, maybe stand up if you would so the press can see. Representatives Chuck Edwards. Chuck, thank you. Thank you, Chuck. Tim Moore.

Virginia. You know Virginia Fox, a legend. She is such a powerful woman. Pat Harrigan. Pat, thank you very much. Your Agriculture Commissioner, who I hear is excellent, Steve Troxler. Steve, thank you very much. Good job, Steve.

You got plenty to do, right? More. More than you ever thought. North Carolina Speaker Dustin Hall. Thank you, Dustin. Thanks, Dustin, very good. House Majority Leader Brendan Jones. Brendan, thank you very much.

We're making progress, Brendan. State Representatives Dudley Green, Carl Gillespie. Thank you very much, fellas. Good, good. Thank you very much. State Senators Kevin Corbin, Warren Daniel. Thank you. Thank you very much, Kevin, Warren.

And County Commissioner Jennifer Best. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. Thank you very much, Kevin Warren. And County Commissioner Jennifer Best. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you. So Hurricane Helene was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. It was far worse than it was even billed. I have never seen such water damage. It was largely water damage, wind damage, but water damage nobody's ever seen. I've been here, as you know, numerous times, but now I'm here in a position where we can do something, meaning I've been in office for four days. And I wanted to come sooner, but actually they had a little problem with getting logistically in here, but I would have been here even sooner. 104 North Carolinians have at least have lost their lives. Is that now a fairly firm number, or are they still finding people? You know, what do you think? They're still finding people? Pretty much okay? It's a lot of people. 104 people lost their lives.

73,000 homes were severely damaged or destroyed. And I'll tell you, I've been to a lot of them, and this was like lots of hurricanes in one. I've never seen such damage done by water. And the water came. It was violent, and it left, and there was like nothing left. It's really pretty amazing. At one point, half of the emergency calls to FEMA went unanswered. That's real bad. FEMA was not doing their job.

The city of Asheville went without running water for two months. A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who display Trump signs on their property. I think that's true, isn't it? I read that. It's not nice. It's not too nice is it but whoever those property people were thank you very much Michael is that true that's not good about the property owners you put a Trump sign on that they wouldn't help FEMA earlier this year FEMA kicked 2,000 North Carolinians out of their temporary

housing into below freezing temperatures. What was that all about? Do you know about that? What happened? Tell me. We had an incompetent administration under Biden, and we had a disaster, and we call it the disaster after the disaster. That was the FEMA response. You had nothing but disaster since then.

It doesn't matter at this point, Biden did a bad job. Some residents still don't have hot water, drinking water, or anything else. And many of them don't have quarters, they don't have anything. They got a stipend for what they lost, and we're going to take care of it. This is totally unacceptable, and I'll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild. We're working on it very hard. And I think if Michael Watley does half as good a job for North Carolina as he did for my campaign, we'll be very happy.

Him and Laura were a very powerful team. So you think you can handle it, Michael? I don't know. I'm not sure, Michael. I think this is maybe in many ways easier, okay? Maybe easier, but you're gonna lead the team. You wanna say who the congressmen are that you wanna appoint? You wanna introduce them? We have Virginia Fox, Chuck Edwards, and Tim Moore, whose districts encompassed the area.

And they are the districts that were most severely impacted, right? You were affected then? Yes, I lost my own fire department. Really? I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA's not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and, whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area. They've never been to the area.

And they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have and FEMA's turned out to be a Disaster and you could go back a long way you could go back to Louisiana you could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it I think we're gonna recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly we pay a to be the state that ends up doing the work, it just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away, and we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state. But the state should fix this. If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation. I think you guys agree with that, right?

So I just want to say that Asheville, I know it well, it's a great place, and we're going to have it be a great place again. That was the one that was most severely affected. But North Carolina is going to come back bigger, better, stronger than ever before. And you're going to be very thankful. And you've already seen, I know that it really began four days ago, but you've already seen more action than you have in the last three months. And we're going to get it together. we're informing the Army Corps of Engineers to get going because you have a lot of river breaks and a lot of areas that

you're gonna need some pretty big work and they're on their way they're going to be working very much harder than they've been working in the past and we're going to take care of it. Any questions from the press of any of the congressmen, governor, anybody? Sir, are you going to sign a second order on FEMA, getting rid of it? Can you say more about signing a second order to get rid of FEMA, please? SECRETARY KERRY, FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a tremendous amount of money. It's very bureaucratic and it's very slow. Other than that, we're very happy with them.

Okay? And I think when there's a problem with the state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state. That's what we have states for. They take care of problems. And a governor can handle something very quickly. You know, one of the things I've noticed, because I've been doing this for a while, and we had a pretty good FEMA. But I also noticed that when they come, they end up in arguments, and they're fighting all the time over who does what.

It's just not a good system. This system is so beautifully designed over 250 years approximately, and we'll soon be celebrating the 250th year. It's going to be a very big celebration. But it's been designed very well, and we're going to leave it that way. When North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, when everybody knows the governor of Tennessee, I think. Everybody?

Do you know everybody here, pretty much? I never thought of it. I never thought of it, but you're right over the ridge. Right over the hill. So you're here to help. That's great. The people in this region, including Tennessee, the people of Appalachia, are grateful that you are here and that you haven't forgotten it.

There are other disasters, but this one was enormous for both North Carolina and Tennessee, so thank you. You know, I've seen a lot of disasters. I came here right after, the day after. And when I came here, I couldn't believe it, actually. I couldn't believe the damage. And I've seen a lot of them. This was more like a tornado than it was what we witnessed.

So we're going to get it very much taken care of. Good job. That's nice that you can't. And so you call it you're right over the ridge, right? I like Tennessee too. Let's see, where did I get more votes, Tennessee or North Carolina? I hate to tell you North Carolina. It was Tennessee.

There's one of the counties in this disaster that had 88% for you. 88% yeah, the people are just incredible people. So do you have any questions? Press? President, you talked about conditions being placed on aid to California, boat variety and the like. Are there any conditions that you're going to put on aid to North Carolina? We're going to put on aid to North Carolina? The President We're going to do a lot for North Carolina. They've been very slow. I don't know why it's been so bad.

This has been one of the worst I've seen. Katrina, of course, you know, was something that, obviously, that was a long time ago that was not good. But this has been very slow. I don't know if that was for political reasons because they lost the state. You know, Biden lost the state. Maybe he felt he doesn't care. Maybe there were other reasons. I don't know. But this has been very slow. By any standard, this has been very slow. And we're going to we're going to make up for lost time.

No conditions you're going to push for aid. Well, in California, I have a condition in California. We want them to have voter I.D. So the people have a voice because right now the people, I have a condition. In California, we want them to have voter ID so the people have a voice, because right now the people don't have a voice because you don't know who's voting, and it's very corrupt. And we also want them to release the water. If they released the water, they wouldn't have had a problem. If they released the water when I told them to, because I told them to do it seven years ago, if they would have done it, you wouldn't have had the problem that you had. You might not have even had a fire. So, but here I don't have that. It's a different thing. You got hit by a storm. The people are incredible. They worked really

well. Franklin was fantastic. And other groups, by the way, other groups came in that were also fantastic. And other states came in, Tennessee and a couple of others came in and they really helped that's the way it's supposed to be no this is a different kind of a thing about what I haven't just have to see what it is Are you disappointed that Senator Schiff hasn't joined you on this trip? It's reported he invited Senator Schiff to join him on this trip, and he was too busy. Are you disappointed? I don't know. I was told that Schiff was going to travel with us to California. I wasn't thrilled, to be honest with you. And I saw him last night on television.

It looks like he got hit with a baseball bat or something. What happened to him? Something happened to him. It looked like he got hit. It looked like he got beat around. hit with a baseball bat or something what happened to him something happened to him it was it looked like he got hit it looked like he got beat around but but uh i'll ask caroline to find out what happened to him no if he wanted to come out i would have done that but uh i don't know i somebody said that he wanted to come on the plane but i think he's staying back for the votes there's some pretty good votes going on yeah what is your timeline for getting rid of fema's staying back for the votes. There's some pretty good votes going on. Yeah. Mr. President, what is your timeline for getting rid of FEMA?

For this one? You just talked about possibly getting rid of FEMA. What timeline are you looking at, and how would you do that? Well, we're looking here. Here you're talking about. To start, we're going to start immediately, timeline. And to finish, it's going to be a period of time. You know, people are also rebuilding their houses. How long does it take to build a house, right? It takes a time.

And I want them to build houses bigger, better, nicer than they had before so they can have, at least they get something out of this disaster. This was a real disaster. No, timeline will be fast in terms of infrastructure, I think very fast. I want to thank Elon because Elon was able to get us communication systems, as you know, Starlink. We had no communication. The first day I got here, I was asked by one of the people, one of the really great representatives, professionals, is there any way you could get Starlink here because they had no communication whatsoever? And I called up Elon Musk and he had hundreds of units brought here,

like brought immediately and it's hard to get, they couldn't get them before. And that made a lot of difference. I think it saved a lot of lives actually, yeah. Infrastructure wise, we'll do it quickly. Sir, can you just talk about how long you think it might take to get rid of FEMA? What's the timeline on that, if you're going to roll it back? THE PRESIDENT Yeah, I would say, look, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not really thinking about FEMA right now.

Here, I'm thinking about Michael Watley, and I'm thinking about the three Congress people that you just heard from, and also the other people in Congress. And they'll be working with the governor. They'll be working with the governor. So that's what I see. Change the subject real quickly. The Lake and Riley Act was signed by my Speaker Johnson yesterday. When do you anticipate to sign that? Well, we're honored by that Lake and Riley. I was there at the time and we had a big meeting with the parents right after that horrible thing took place. And we have an act. You all know what that act represents. And it was a bipartisan bill. Many Democrats signed signed on to it. That's something that is a tribute to Lakin, a beautiful young lady who was killed viciously by an illegal alien. And we passed a very powerful bill and it was just approved and we'll have a ceremony sometime very shortly. I'll be signing it.

In other words, if you're asking, I will definitely be signing it. Yeah. Mr. President, the security detail for Anthony Fauci was terminated last night and I'm wondering if you have any comment on that. be signing it. Okay? Yeah. The Press The Press Mr. President, the security detail for Anthony Fauci was terminated last night, and I'm wondering if you have any comment on that. THE PRESIDENT About what? The Press The Press

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The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press The Press comes off. And, you know, you can't have them forever. So I think it's very standard. If it would be for somebody else who wouldn't be asking the question, the question is very fair. But, you know, you work for government. We took some off other people, too. But you

can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government. The Press Is this a press corps you're taking on, sir? The President Yeah, we'll see what happens. The Press Would you feel partially responsible if something were to happen, you could say, Dr. Fauci or John Bolton? The President No. No. The Press Would you feel partially responsible if something were to happen, you could say, Dr. Fauci or John Bolton? The President No. No. You know, they all made a lot of money. They can hire their own security, too.

All the people you're talking about, they can go out. I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility. The Press A North Carolina is a state that relies on trade and manufacturing.

Are you going to have an announcement on new tariffs coming soon? Is there a timeline now? The President Yeah, the tariffs are going to make our country rich. We're going to be a rich, rich country very soon. Tariffs are going to make it rich in competence. We have common sense, competence, and tariffs. The word tariff is one of the most beautiful words in the dictionary.

MR. Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary of the United Kingdom, said that there's an even trade between the US and the UK so they shouldn't have tariffs. Does trade imbalances or a balance trade affect tariffs and your decisions? Yeah, unbalance and balance and also deficits. Like with Canada, we lose 200 billion dollars a year with Canada. That's because we allow them to make cars, we allow them to take lumber. We don't need their cars, we don't need their lumber, we don't need their food

products because we make the same products right on the other side of the border. It's sort of crazy. So we've just allowed that, you know, bad management has allowed it over the last four years in particular to become very imbalanced. And I said to, I call him Governor Trudeau, but he's Prime Minister Trudeau when he was Prime Minister. I asked him why would we do that, why? And he was unable to give me an answer. He said, I don't know.

And I said, do you think it's fair that we're paying $200 billion to keep Canada going? And what would happen, I said, I asked him, what would happen if we didn't do that, if we't subsidize Canada he said we'd be a failed nation and I said then you should be a state because why are we paying all of that money to Canada when you know we could use it ourselves right so we take care of their military you know we ordered we're going to order about 40 Coast Guard big icebreakers, big ones. And all of a sudden, Canada wants a piece of the deal.

They say, why are we doing that? I mean, I like doing that if they're a state, but I don't like doing that if they're a nation. Also, they've been very nasty to us on trade. Historically, Canada has been very, very bad to us, very unfair to us on trade. So we'll see how it all works out. The United Kingdom might be the best spot. SECRETARY KERRY, I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, if that happened, would get a very big tax cut, tremendous tax cut, because they're

very highly taxed. And you wouldn't have to worry about military. You wouldn't have to worry about many of the things. You'd have better health coverage. You'd have much better health coverage. So I think the people of Canada would like it, you know, if it's explained. But just to start off, they'd have a very, they'd have a massive tax cut. And they'd have a lot more business,

because then we'd let business go to Canada routinely, and there'd be no tariffs. You know, if we did that, there'd be no tariffs. The United Kingdom might be in a better spot. The Press Reverend Franklin Graham has been a great asset to the state. Talk a little bit about the way that Samaritan's Purse has helped North Carolina. The President Yes, say it once again. The President Reverend Franklin Graham has been a big part of Samaritan's Purse

and their aid to North Carolina. I just want to get your thoughts on that. The President Well, Franklin Graham has been a big asset to the state. His father was a big asset to the state, to the country, both of them. I just think this. I think Franklin and other people that are doing what Franklin have done, but I've known Franklin so long. He was at the inauguration.

He made a speech, beautiful speech, beautiful prayer. Just, he does a great job. And we gave, we made a big donation and it was money well spent. Sometimes you make donations, it's not well spent. He's done a great job here. He's done a really great job. So I want to thank you. We're going to the site now, and one of the sites. And we'll, I think you'll, for those that haven't seen it, you won't even believe it.

But not enough work was done. We'll get it done fast. And I can speak for the Republican congressman. We're going to knock it out, right? We're going to knock it out. And I think we take it very personally because it was, North Carolina was very unfairly treated. Very, very unfairly treated. And it was obvious.

It was too obvious. And we're going to make up for lost time. So thank you to the people of North Carolina. Thank you, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, here we go. President Trump and we... I want to just apologize to the chat. What happened yesterday...

We can put it up right now. Why don't we put it up? Put up the schedule. Here's, and I want to like explain how the sausage is made here. The president's team is doing a absolutely spectacular job with what's going on right now.

Because President Trump is off like a freaking bull in a china shop. However, the only way we can plan programming is to get the president's schedule, which just was released like five minutes ago. The press team who we were on the phone with today, actually this morning, we were on the phone with the press team. Um, they're not fully staffed out yet. They have, they have hired approximately 25% of the people they need to actually run the president's schedule. So we apologize, ladies and gentlemen, for being caught a little flat-footed this morning

on the president talking. We want to always give Donald Trump an opportunity to speak to the American people. There are so many people who censor Trump. They won't even take him live on CNN, MSNBC. Get a load of this. So Donald Trump was signing his first slate of executive orders, freeing January 6th political prisoners the day he was inaugurated and CNN and MSNBC wouldn't even cover it. They wouldn't cover it. Fox News has commercials. Fox Business, I think, had it. But anyway, ladies and gentlemen, the point is that we're trying to create here and we'll show you this. And I was on the phone this morning. I'm not going to say who because they're private calls, but I was on the phone

this morning with multiple members of Donald Trump's press team to make sure that we have the best, most locked in programming for you so that we can state officially that we are the front row seat to the golden era. And let me tell you what, we schemed this morning. We have some very special content we're gonna be bringing to you from, let's just say the Washington DC area very soon. Got some great things hatched,

but the purpose of this program is to be as quick and as accurate with President Trump this morning. And we were a few minutes delayed this morning. And so we apologize for that, given the fact that it's, well, it's Donald Trump. I mean, the guy's doing literally an impromptu press conference every 10 minutes. And so we're going to lock in. We're built for this and we are ready to go. We just wanted to say thank you.

Jeffrey Jackson, the chat sent, Jeffrey Jackson just sent a, if we pop this up, a $100 baby gift. I will tell you that our, we have a, thank you, Jeffrey Jackson. This will go to Rles and, uh, loveys for baby Whitaker. Um, baby Whitaker born on Monday, waited until Joe Biden was no longer president. I kid you not. My, my son waited until Joe Biden was not president anymore to be born.

Watch the inauguration from the hospital room. And so we just say thank you for rolling with us this week as we lock back in. Ladies and gentlemen, we are 100% up to date on where President Trump is. And let me bring you some behind the scenes. Let's do some things that our show hits very hard that nobody else can do, which is behind the scenes President Trump. President Trump walking up and greeting people in North Carolina who lost everything at the airport. This is President Trump right now meeting with families. According to our sources inside of President Trump's team, and boy, we have muscular sourcing from inside of the White House, Donald Trump will meet with hurricane survivors for 20 minutes, or as long as it takes to take

every photo, to sign every hat. You can see there President Trump outside of his vehicle. They are meeting with survivors of the North Carolina hurricane. God bless this man. So awesome. God bless this man. There's no audio here. Obviously, some of these conversations are going to be very personal, so we're not going to be able to get crisp audio from this because a lot of these people are going to be sharing stories. There have been hundreds of deaths in these hurricanes, hundreds of deaths. And so you want to give your you want to give the best that you possibly can deference and and a little bit of a little bit of space and calm to these people who are obviously still reeling.

Here's an angle from President Trump's team, Margo Martin of Donald Trump, greeting everyone and walking back to his he's in a motorcade right now, and he's off, he's in a motorcade as we speak, and he's off to a disaster site, to go tour a disaster site. And so we await that, and Donald Trump has now done, Klein, I'm like, I've lost track, three press conferences this morning. Donald Trump's done three press conferences this morning, and we expect him to speak again to the camera and the press pool yesterday. Sometimes, and this is us bulking for the golden era and for these moments. Sometimes, like yesterday, there was like a pool feed inside of the White House. And then that feed like glitched like it did this morning. Right. And so that's why it's tough to

sometimes take these things live because they only allow one camera into the room. This is what they did yesterday. They allowed one camera. That feed goes out and then you have to see who's going to take it. Right. For us to get it up, you have to see who's going to take it. Now Now we are going to the white house. I can tell you that we are going to the white house. We're going to be doing some critical meetings, uh, with the press team at the white house. I've been speaking with president Trump's press team all morning, and we are going to be doing our level-headed best to make sure that you are at the front seat to the golden era that you will know first and that you will know again, my producers are laughing in the chat. Literally while we're live, that's when the president's schedule finally

got released, right? So it's just right. They're just barely catching up just as we are. It's breathless. They're like catching up, but we want to be, we want to be the first. We want to be first. We want to give you access that nobody else can get you. We are going to be potentially putting a reporter inside of the White House press pool, getting the Benny Show actual credentialed reporter inside of the White House. And ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna be locked in. We're gonna be the first.

And it's gonna be a really fun couple of years for us. Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Let's look at the press, real fast. Let's look at the schedule just to see where we're at right now. So President Trump has done his hurricane recovery briefing. We just watched that live. And then President Trump meets with families

affected by the Hurricane Helene. And then President Trump departs at approximately 1 p.m. So it's going to be President Trump. You watch him meet with the families there on the tarmac, and then Donald Trump's going to go tour, going to go tour the disaster area. Expect another press conference then.

So we're just going to, we're going to chill and we're going to wait for the next press conference, ladies and gentlemen. We've got an entire fun show for you. That's the other thing. We like build out this gigantic show.

And then Donald Trump starts talking to the press. And it's like, like record scratch. Let's freaking go. And that will be us. That will be us here. So we love you. We thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for trusting us in this fast moving, quick moving time.

And I assure you there is nobody that is more locked in than we are. You're going to get, it's going to be really fun. It's going to be, it's going to be very, very fun. Yeah, we are ready to throw down. Yesterday we threw down,

didn't even know, not to brag, but we were the only team that was able to get up with the JFK live. This is it. It was it. We were the only team that was ready with the JFK live. This is it. This is it. We were the only team that was ready

with the JFK announcement live stream. And next week we have all the hearings. Boy, it's gonna be fun. So anyway, it's free for all Friday. Just wanted to talk with you guys about how the sausage is made here. And well, what we were doing to make sure that you are able to be up to date on this,

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you're going to. Too bad Joe Biden didn't cut your check. You're going to have to play ball. No more California having no voter ID. That's obscene. That's insane. What you heard yesterday from Nicole Shanahan, who clearly wanted to be governor of California and was this close to announcing on her show, was that the entire state is effectively in the death grips of the Democrat Party because no one knows who's voting, how they're voting. The state is packed with criminal aliens and illegal immigrants. The only purpose to rid yourself of voter ID would be obviously to facilitate illegal fraudulent votes that nobody could ever track,

making the capacity to track voter fraud impossible. It's impossible if you don't know who's voting to root out voter fraud. Nicole Shanahan saying that California is the nexus point, the ground zero contagion point for their world economic globalist debasement of Western civilization spawn. This is how they destroy California. They take the policies that they wish to inject into every Western nation. You have to find an entry point. It has to be an entry point that is completely controlled with a trifecta of Democrat legislatures, the house, the Senate, the governor's office, all controlled by Democrats, all controlled by world economic forum apparatchiks.

And since it was the World Economic Forum Davos yesterday, this was top of mind. And Nicole Shanahan is like, we are the entry point, the test case, the patient zero for the most horrible policies on earth. And what they want is they actually don't want democracy. What they want is they want single party control and they want algorithms to ensure election results. And the way you do that is you actually get rid of democracy. You make this system so, so rife with fraud and so incapable of developing and understanding fraud that you break it entirely. So the votes mean nothing. So ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump saying, no, no, no, we, you're going to change your voter laws in California or else you'll get no aid. The art of the deal, ladies and gentlemen, the art of the deal. So of course we showed you the damage of North Carolina. I just want to jump

very quickly to what it looks like in Los Angeles. I mean, look at this. Look at this devastation. These are two places that Donald Trump's going to go today. This is the, I mean, take your pick. Who has more devastation? You feel bad for everyone. Although, I'll say this, and it's probably going to get me in trouble, but I don't care. People in California voted for this. You didn't vote to get your house burned down, but what you did was you voted for incompetence. You voted for DEI radicalism that clearly puts people in positions of power over you because of their

skin color or who they want to have sex with, which is possibly the worst way to run any municipality, state. You obviously wouldn't, like, run your household like that. So why would you vote for that? That's an insane way to structure your society. And people in California voted for this, if you can believe the numbers of the vote tally. And so they voted for this, and so expecting competence, which is what they've done. So I feel bad for them. Vote differently. If you really like, don't like what happened in LA, lady in LA, lady in LA who runs up to Gavin Newsom here as he's faking a phone call, then stop voting for Democrats. Put on the red MAGA hat. Do it. It's the coolest thing you can possibly do.

It will most likely save your life. Put on the red MAGA hat. If you don't like this, it's like hard to not feel like incredibly bad for these people. Listen to this hysterical mom run up to Gavin Newsom and like Gavin Newsom, what does he do? He freaking fakes that he's on a phone call. I'm on a phone call. No, you're bro. Here we go. Governor you got a second? Governor, governor, I live here governor. That was my daughter's school governor. Please tell me what you're gonna do. I'm not gonna hurt him, I promise. I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter. Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it. I'm sorry. There's literally, I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around to make

the call. Why is the president not taking your call? Because it's not going through. Why? So I have to get cell service. So let's get it. Let's get it. I want to be here when you call the president. I appreciate it. I'm doing that right now. And it's to immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help you on the road. Devastating for you. I'm so sorry. Especially for your daughter. I have four kids. Losing the school. Everyone who went to school there,

they lost their homes. I know. They lost two homes because they were living in one building and another. Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you gonna do with the president right now? We're getting the resources to help rebuild. Why was there no water in the house? and building another. Governor, please tell me, what are you going to do with the president right now? We're getting the resources to help rebuild. Why was there no water in the hydrants, Governor?

That's all literally... Is it going to be different next time? It has to be. It has to be. Of course. What are you going to do? To fill the hydrants. I would fill them up personally.

You know that. I literally... I would fill up the hydrants myself. I understand. But would you do that? I would up the hundreds myself but would you do that I would do whatever I can but you're not I see the do you know there's water dripping over there governor there's water coming out there you can use it I appreciate I'm gonna make the call to address everything I can right now including making sure people can I have an opportunity to at least tell

people you're doing what you're saying you're doing? Could somebody have a contact? Can I have your contact information? Doesn't it feel like in this country that there has been a very long time, perhaps all of your life, certainly all of my my life i was born in the late 1980s so i feel like in this country that the leadership of this nation has felt like we are a burden to them they don't have any obligation to us they don't trust the american people they don't't even like us, actually. Sort of like a prerequisite to running a country should be you actually like the people who are in the country. But no, they behave like Gavin Newsom.

It's repulsive. Gavin Newsom is sitting there faking a phone call. Faking a phone call with Joe Biden. Gavin Newsom is going to have to tuck tail and grovel to Donald Trump today. This jackass represents exactly what we voted out in the last election. The reason your nation looks like that is because this leadership, these ruling elites are despicable. They've wrecked a country that they didn't build. They've hurt people in the process and they're indifferent. The purpose of a democracy is that over the period of your life and mine, eventually we get what we want. Not everybody. You can't always get what

you want. To paraphrase the Rolling Stones and one of Donald Trump's favorite rally songs, can't always get what you want. But the will of the majority over time gets enacted. What you see in Gavin Newsom and what you see in the management of California is the opposite. In fact, you see policies that are set up for the explicit purpose of cruelty and the destruction of a great state. It really hard to watch we look forward to seeing what happens with uh donald trump he's gonna have to fly across the nation he's gonna have to fly across the country to los angeles today but he's gonna he's gonna grease up he's gonna grease up gavin newsom i really hope that he really hope that he hits gavin newsom for this one here we go

just really because i'm not just i just want to do a little bit of extra business, a little bit of extra smoke for Gavin here. Gavin Newsom standing in front of a burning down building with no water in the hydrant saying, local folks are just going to have to figure this out. I mean, who am I? I'm just like the chief executive here. What is the situation with the water?

Obviously, in Palisades, it ran out last night in the hydrants I was trying to firefighter in this block they left because there was no water in the hydrant here. The local folks are trying to figure that out I mean just when you have a system that's not dissimilar what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system I mean those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire. You have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be determined by the local. Guys, local people is I mean, you know, what am I? Who am I? It is the banality of evil. To see people like that hysterical mother who's shaking, crying,

and to look at them and say, I don't care. Indifference is actually the most evil approach to any of these disasters. You can see here, ladies and gentlemen, posted just a moment ago, President Trump traveling through the North Carolina hills on his way to visit a disaster site. The differences between Gavin Newsom's style of leadership and Donald Trump's style of leadership on full display today. And we'll go to, we'll cut to Donald Trump as soon as we get a live feed. If Donald Trump is answering questions, ladies and gentlemen, joining the show live right now is the great Corey Lewandowski, senior advisor to the president and was the 2016 presidential campaign manager. Corey, of course, is somebody who can probably,

probably the world's final and first authority on the differences in leadership styles between a Gavin Newsom and a Donald Trump. And we look forward to getting his insights live now. Corey, welcome back to the program. It's great to see you, man. We're going to see major displays of differences in leadership styles between Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump. But since you know the man so very well, could you elucidate for us what are those differences? Well, Benny, first and foremost, Donald Trump can put together a comprehensive sentence, right? He can walk up a flight of stairs without falling down, right? No one has to direct him off

of the stage and ask permission. Can you imagine if Donald Trump has asked permission, should I go this way? Is it okay? I mean, this guy's the boss. That's the difference, right? Joe Biden has been such an unmitigated failure that, and listen, Donald Trump is a boss of bosses, that when you put the two of them next to each other, Donald Trump holds a press conference on his first day in the Oval, and the press ran out of questions because he just said, hey, give me some more, right? And when you watch that North Carolina thing, the guy asked him a question, he goes, I like this guy. They came off the plane, Trump takes questions. They go somewhere else, Trump takes questions. The press doesn't know what to do. He's running them ragged. And now what we're seeing is Donald Trump is going to be

doing some overseas travel. He's in North Carolina this morning. He's in California tonight. He's doing another stop on Saturday in another part of the country, which I don't want to get in front of him on. But look, the truth is, this guy has a lot of work to do in just four short years. Joe Biden's entire objective was to hide from the media, to let a staff make the decisions, and to let someone else run the country. Very different leadership style. As you are and have crafted White Houses and White House teams for President Trump and crafted so much of his message. His approach seems to be radical transparency, where in radical access, and there's no arguing with it when you get a chance to ask Donald Trump questions. Corey, we are on our third press conference of the day. And what is it? It's noon. Donald Trump's done three press conferences

outside of the White House, on the tarmac, on the plane, and then during the hurricane disaster relief. That is unprecedented. Donald Trump in this hour, since we've been live, Mr. Lewandowski, Donald Trump has taken more questions than Joe Biden took in four years. It's exactly right, Benny. And you know what? He loves it. He loves the questions. And here's what he said. I'm going to sign, by the way, huge news. I'm going to sign an executive order he talked about getting rid of FEMA. Okay. By the way, who thinks FEMA is working? This is an organization that's got like $60 billion of fraud, waste and abuse. And they manage all the DEI grants that have gone over the last four years. So getting rid of that organization sure sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe that falls under Doge. But then don't forget when he's done here in North Carolina, he's got on the plane. He's going to fly to California. You know, with him and Gavin Newscum, he's going to do another press conference. You know, that's coming, right? Hopefully he's going to hold him accountable. Then he's going to tour some more and then he's going to fly again from California. I expect Donald Trump to finish up tonight at about two in the morning Pacific time, which is about five in

the morning Eastern time. That's the kind of hours that this guy's keeping. I'm not a betting man, Corey, but will Donald Trump call him new scum to his face? Hundred percent, right? I mean, look, did you see what he did at the Davos thing yesterday when he calls up the Bank of America CEO and Jamie Dimon? These guys are such bad guys and Donald Trump doesn't care. There's some luxuries of being in a second term. You don't have to worry about running again, even though Andy Ogles thinks we're going to file for

a third term. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. Who knows? But I will say Donald Trump called these guys out right to their face yesterday and they made him uncomfortable and I love it. It was wild. We were screaming about it, Corey. We were screaming. That was probably the mic drop moment. There were many, but that was the mic drop moment. There were many, but that was the mic drop moment. Maybe stop debanking conservatives. And now my entire feed is filled with people with debanking stories about Bank of America. How utterly humiliating for them. They had to turn off the comments on their post where they lied about debanking conservatives. Do you know stories like that? Oh, not only do I know my Bank of America, but I was debanked at UBS. I had a relationship with them for 18 years. It was

great during the Trump years. Donald Trump leaves and they say, Hey, Corey, I guess what? After 18 years of being a valued client and probably making a lot of money off of me, they said, your business is no longer welcome here. And if you don't withdraw whatever you have in your measly accounts in the next 15 seconds, right, we're just going to issue you a check and be done with you. I said, this isn't even possible. And 15 seconds, right? We're just going to issue you a check and be done with you. I said, this isn't even possible. And they said, well, we're a private institution. We can do what we want.

That's what they've done to conservatives. And so, listen, I would have relished four years of back-to-back Trump administration, so a total of eight. I relish this even more, Benny, because we are so much stronger and better positioned starting on Monday of this week to be successful, to hold the bureaucracy accountable, to hold these unelected individuals accountable, and to remember what these people did to us. And look at the first four days, deportations, the pardons of the January 6th, there's so many other great things we're doing.

Trump is at a breakneck pace that no administration's ever seen. Since you brought it up, I was planning on asking about it seen. Since you brought it up, I was planning on asking about it, but since you brought it up, Andy Ogles from Tennessee says, hey, why not a third term? Any commentary on that, Corey? Listen, I love Andy. I've known him, and in full disclosure, Andy used to work for me. So I think he's a really smart guy. Look, I like that piece of legislation. I don't know if it's constitutional, but look, here's a better piece of legislation, Benny. Some really smart congressman should go and say, Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore.

OK, what are we waiting on? We can rename the Ronald Reagan airport. It used to be National Airport. It's not Ronald Reagan. I love Reagan. Go put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. We got the votes in the House. We got the votes in the Senate.

I know a guy's going to sign it named Donald John Trump. Let's get it done to memorialize what this man's been able to achieve for this country. All right. All right. So, OK, it's very interesting. It's like a lot of people are saying, well, you know, they didn't sabotage his first term and they effectively ran hoax after hoax after hoax. The state did to President Trump round number one. And if you speak with anybody in the administration, I know you know them all. Like it's really over the last four years, how crippling Russiagate was

to President Trump's first term. And what a job they did on him. What a con job they did on the president entering office. So unbelievably nasty. So magnanimous for Donald Trump to be able to look Obama in the face and like laugh and chuckle and pat him on the back. The magnanimity of that moment, really remarkable. But still, it's like they really did sabotage term number one. They did. And did you see Brennan on MSNBC this week

when they asked him about the fact that the president has pulled the security clearance? He said, no, no, no. The letter that we signed said it had all the hallmarks of Russian good information, not disinformation. I mean, these guys just make stuff up. It's amazing. And I love the fact that Trump pulled Fauci. By the way, I'm sure your listeners have seen this. He's already pulled Fauci security detail, just did it. He's pulled Bolton security detail. Listen, here's the thing. These guys lied to the American people. Anthony Fauci lied to the American people and then tried to rewrite history saying, I didn't close any schools. I never told anybody to stay home. I never said to you that this wasn't a Chinese virus that came out of there. We're not sure. This guy is a total fraud. And today, just like almost every other

American, myself included, you drive yourself around in your own vehicle and you don't get a limousine service at the taxpayer expense. Yeah, that's right. So Dr. Fauci, we have had members of Congress on our show saying this guy is not off the hook. First off, you don't, you shouldn't have to take advice from a doctor that's gotten the presidential pardon for potential crimes. That seems like a bad setup, right? You don't want to trust that doctor. If a doctor needs a presidential pardon, you probably shouldn't be listening to him. But members of Congress on our program, Corey, saying, no, we are going to call him in. He is now going to be forced to answer questions along with Liz Cheney, along with J6 committee. And if they lie

to us, they're going to get fresh referrals to the DOJ for crimes. Do you agree with that process? 1,000%. And listen, Rand Paul has been the member who has been like a dog with a bone on this thing. And now that he's the chairman of a full committee, he has the luxury to use his subpoena power to bring Fauci back in, to ask him questions under oath. And he no longer has the luxury to use his subpoena power to bring Fauci back in to ask him questions under oath. And he no longer has the ability because he accepted that pardon to plead the fifth amendment. So I love this fact that Fauci is going to still be held accountable. I mean, you're the highest paid government employee in America. You lied. You cost Americans thousands, tens of thousands of lives, no accountability whatsoever. We're living high by having a black

car outside with armed guards to protect you while you are lying to the people. I can't wait for him to be brought back in front of Congress and have to tell the truth. I don't think that anybody knew that we were spending $12 million a month on Dr. Fauci's security. It's insane. Actually, no, no, that is insane. Even by government standards, that's lunacy, right? And these people who are being protected, you know, why is John Bolton,

look, hey, John, shave your mustache. You don't really know who you are. Okay? It's like a disguise. You know? You're in the walrus look. You shave your mustache.

You walk down the street. Some guy says, that guy kind of looks familiar, but I can't be Bolton because I have the mustache. Right? Boom. I just say the Secret Service

any kind of possible concerns they have done uh the lorax from dr seuss i think that's like that would be mine like it looks just like the lorax right it looks just like uh a dr seuss character why are we spending that nobody knew. Nobody knew like these guys are getting all this. John Bolton needs secret service. Why? Like, I don't understand. It just seems like at some point, it's how much taxpayer dollars can be set on fire like the Joker. Well, look, you're right, Brian Hook. You know, look, the story goes and what I've read is that Bolton got woken up at twelve.01 from a Secret Service detail. They got him out of the slumber. He came down as, you know, Curt Chief and Hat and said, you know, hello, can I help you?

And they said, sir, we've got a problem. What's that? I'm under, you know, do I have a real threat? Yes, sir. Your detail is gone in eight hours. Good luck to you. Have a good night. And that was it.

I mean, you know, and then they're out there ripping the stuff out of his house, his cameras and all the other things that they were doing. So, hey, tough it out, buddy. Welcome to a new world order. OK, so let's talk about that really quickly, Corey. So what we're seeing right now from the Trump administration is just pure shock and awe. It is clearly ruffling a lot of things. Clearly, there's like people who are in total panic, but it seems like a strategy, perhaps a strategy that you helped craft because it seems very much your style because the left doesn't know what targets to hit. I've never seen them so disorganized. I've never seen the left so incapable of actually attacking and landing any legitimate punches.

They seem utterly demoralized and then frozen in panic. Is this the strategy of the Trump White House? Shock and awe. You hit it right on the head. Now, look, the left got a little bit of a victory yesterday when some lunatic leftist federal judge said, I'm going to suspend the president's EO on birthright citizenship. Okay, fine. That's fine. By the way, we knew that was coming. 200 plus EOs. What are we seeing for the first time since the Eisenhower administration? Military aircraft are flying people who don't belong in this country out of this country, okay? Who doesn't think that's a good idea? We have made a promise to the American people.

Donald Trump campaigned on it, and now we're fulfilling it. We're going to get the worst out first. You're seeing doors getting kicked in. You saw it up in Boston. You saw these guys say, hey, F you, Trump. We love Obama. We love Biden. Hey, do you think those are the guys in the country with the face tattoos that we actually want hanging around your daughter's school? Of course not. These guys are going. ICE has their handcuffs taken off, and we're putting them on the bad guys. We're deporting the bad guys.

This is a historic event that Donald Trump has told his team, we're going to go and implement this. That's what we promise. Your communities will be safe. We're going to close the border. I'm going to have a great country once again. Yeah, that's going viral right now. The guy saying, I'm not going back to Haiti, F Trump. I'm not going back to Haiti, F Trump. And then followed up this morning with this post from the White House, which is such an alpha move. The post from the White House showing the is such an alpha move. The post from the White House showing the military C-17 loading up criminal aliens, deporting them back home. What energy, Corey. It's amazing. By the way, Benny, I give credit to Secretary of State Rubio for

helping make this happen. You know, Tom Holm and Stephen Miller, the entire Department of Homeland Security, you know, the Department of Defense, the support that the president has put in place to make this happen has been unprecedented. We didn't have the support in Trump 1.0. Everybody now is fundamentally aligned. You think that Rex Tillerson and John Kelly and these guys went on to do this?

Of course not. But you've got incoming secretary, hopefully very soon, Pete Hegseth, right? You've got Marco Rubio in a position. You've got staff who learned in the Trump 1-0 what we had to do and were ready on day one. And this, this work right here, these planes being loaded with people who shouldn't be in this country, the worst who are going out first is something that's making our country safer. ICE is on point right now. CBP is on point right now. Tom Holman is out breaking doors down himself, maybe with his head, because that's how hardheaded this guy is. I love him. Just go hard, Tommy. Keep going.

What's your message to any, and is this Carolyn Levitt's post? Oh, this is great. I mean, to see a post like this, back to the original post, please, this is great. I mean, to see this, to see a post like this back to the original post, please from the white house press secretary, deportation, deportation flights have begun. This is my first, this is the first thing at the top of my feed this morning at 6.00 AM. Corey, it's like, I'm living in a dream, man. It's amazing. It's very simple, Benny. If you're in this country illegally, we will find you. We will deport you. If you're thinking about coming to this country and it's illegal, do not come. The border is closed. You will be you. We will deport you. If you're thinking about coming to this country and it's illegal, do not come. The border is closed. You will be stopped.

Stay in your home country. The CBP One app has been shut off. We are not taking mobile applications for people who we don't know. If you're a military-age man and you think you're going to sneak across the border, you missed your window. The Biden administration is no longer here. Do not come. I promise you. You will not like the journey and where we send you and put you back on the plane.

And if your home country won't take you, we'll put you in another place that won't be as nice. Antarctica. Why not? You know, we want to explore the Arctic. So you have been doing an enormous amount of work. I know behind the scenes, making sure that President Trump's cabinet is confirmed. I'd love to have you tell us as much as you can about your knowledge about upcoming votes. Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth tonight at 9 p.m. in the Senate. Are we going to get a confirmation there, Corey? Look, Pete's going to go through. I was with him over the weekend, had some time to spend with him and his family. He's eminently qualified for this. Look, we're losing the rhinos. Is anybody surprised by that? You know, these are the same people who voted for

Obama's choices and Biden's choices, but they won't vote for Pete. I mean, it's kind of crazy when you think about it. But here's where we are. The Republicans are going to, by and large, hold firm. J.D. Vance, Vice President Vance, may have to make the deciding vote, and that's perfectly fine. Pete Hegseth is going to get in, and he's going to reform the Department of Defense. Besset is going to go through. You know, we continue to see. Look, what bothers me, Benny, is this. John Radcliffe got 75 votes yesterday from the U.S. Senate, but they held him for 30 hours.

Marco Rubio went through on a 99-0, which I think is fantastic. But John Radcliffe, eminently qualified, was the DNI in the Trump 1-0. Goes and is nominated for DCI, Director of Central Intelligence. They hold him for 30 hours and they vote for him 75-25. This is just politics. You know, what they should be doing is giving President Trump, his senior leadership team, his security team, his national defense team on day one. We're already five days in.

And look, you know, they're saying, well, we're going to stay all weekend. Wow. What a profile and courage. The U.S. Senate has to work all weekend. Oh my God. Right. And so we're going to make votes at three o'clock in the morning. Give me a break. These guys are going through and bipartisan support. They're non-controversial by and large. They are imminently qualified. Scott Besson, Doug Collins, Pam Bondi, right? They're holding Pam for like 10 days. It's just crazy talk. Get these people in their positions. Let them do their job so we can get back to work for the American people. You're a campaign guy and you know states and their electorate really well. And you know, the MAGA base as good as anyone helped create the MAGA base.

Alaska cannot be happy with Lisa Murkowski right now. Any message to Lisa Murkowski? You know, it's such a hard place. Even when we beat her in the primary the last time, she came back into that write-in campaign, if you remember. So, you know, it's a really hard place. Running for a statewide office in Alaska is like running for a small town mayor, except the geographic area is a thousand times bigger than anything you've ever seen. So you only need like 130,000 votes to get elected statewide in that state. It's just that the state is bigger than the state of Texas. And so it's so difficult. That's why you see some of these mayors that try and run up there. Look, Mike, big Mike, too tall Mike, we call him, right? The governor up there,

he'd be a fantastic candidate to run against her. I don't know if he would, but if he would, I'd be happy to help support Governor Dunleavy up there. He's been a great friend of President Trump, and I know someone who the president respects enormously. That being said, you know, it's so dishonest that Lisa Murkowski and Collins up in Maine, you know, oh, we're so outraged by Pete Hegseth from the fake lies that the left has put in place. That's what this has been, right? Completely unproven fake lies. But when it's on the other side, they give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Look, I didn't hear the outcry when the former second gentleman of the United States was sleeping with a nanny. Where's that story? That's right. Or beating his girlfriends, right?

Right. He put her in public and knocked her down, right? Nobody ever says anything. Yeah, that's exactly right. so uh we can expect we can expect everything from a landscape just very quickly here from the landscape is there anything that you're concerned about next week cash patel tulsi gabbard rfk yeah look i think cash is is an incredible and again a friend of mine he's an incredibly smart individual he's going to go through there they'll they'll rough them up a little bit i'm sure look i think tulsi and rfk have a little bit of a harder time. Neither really have that conservative base. Both have been former Democrats.

And, you know, they're going to have to articulate whether it was the trip overseas to see Assad or RFK statements on some of the things, particularly the vaccines, which, listen, anybody who doesn't want their kids to be healthier is insane, right? When RFK's message as it comes to getting those, those chemicals out of our food hits spot on, but they're going to want to go. I think RFK gets through. I am very, very confident on cash. I think Tulsi is going to get roughed up a little bit, but the president and his team and us on the outside are all in and making sure he has the team in place and very quickly. Excellent. Corey, it is always so high energy.

It's like when I get a chance to speak with you, it's like, oh, obviously, this is how the White House is being run. Now it actually makes sense. Now this landscape makes perfect sense in how so much can be done in three days. It's been three days. It's been three days.

Quickly and finally, RFK, MLK, JFK documents that shocked the world. Nobody can believe Trump actually went through with it. What's going to be in there? Look, I can't wait to see it, right? I've seen all, you know, everyone has seen so many things and all the conspiracy theories. I love the fact, I mean, what a set of cojones on Trump.

He's like, hey, this is a big one. Oh, and by the way, give this pen to Bobby, would you? I mean, he's just way, give this pen to Bobby, would you? Like, hey, I just declass, I just declass your uncle and your father getting assassinated. And, you know, MLK Jr. Oh, by the way, it's a kind of a cool pen. You might want to hold this one. Hey, give this one to Bobby. I'm like, oh my God. Like nobody, nobody could do this stuff. And I love it because it follows up, Benny, on what Donald Trump said. I'm going to make a promise. I'm going to fulfill it. In the first term, he said he was going to do

it. There was a lot of promises made that weren't fulfilled because the deep state was there. This second term is very, very different. And you're going to see big things happening from Donald Trump because he is completely empowered with a mandate, 312 electoral votes to come to Washington, D.C. and break this place in half. And Epstein, Diddy Lists, those things, those people are still around, right? So it's like different because those people are still living. One of them is a U.S. president, Bill Clinton. Are we going to see the declassification of those things? Sure. I hope so. And listen, I think if Cash becomes the FBI director, I think we're going to see officers back on the streets. We're going to see, you know, officers back on the streets.

We're going to see what the government has been doing to target these individuals through the FBI. Let's stop. Let's stop pretending that every guy at the FBI is a good guy except the top. OK, it's just not true. OK, they've been targeting Americans for a long time, spying on us, tracking us where they shouldn't be. So, look, I'm excited for Cash.

And look, maybe someday and I kind of half kid about this, a cash, maybe if you ever maybe get in. Right. The only ask I would ever have is about this, Cash, maybe if you ever maybe get in, right? The only ask I would ever have is, show me all the shit they've been spying on me on. Like, show me my file, maybe. I don't think I can do that. So fine, but just tell me how much crazy stuff is in there. Because you know, because I'm a Trump guy,

and have been from day one, before we ever came down the escalator, the FBI has weaponized against us and used their badges and their guns to go after American citizens. And it's shameful. And I hope that a swift and severe penalty is coming if they actually broke the law. Yes. Yes, please. We want we want to keep pushing for it because we don't want to get lost. We don't

want to get lost in the shovel. The way you actually increase the faith from the American people in these agencies is to just be honest with us. And the transparency is the first first step. Right. Just be just be honest with us about what's going on and what you've done. And America is a forgiving country. And especially if we can hold people accountable, like, I think that's the only way, actually, that you get people back on the side of federal law enforcement and believing the FBI and Department of Justice. You said Donald Trump for Mount Rushmore. My team found this photo. I wonder, just in closing here, do you agree with this location in Mount Rushmore?

Look, I think it actually looks like it's already meant to be, right? It's almost there. Like, if you look, there's a little hair right there on the top. If you look at it closely, we could expedite this thing. Look, we're sending all this frigging money to the Ukraine. How about we spend some of it on our own country? How much does it cost to get a couple of guys up there to chisel something? We have these great artists.

They can go up there and bang this thing out in like a couple of weeks, right? Let's find it. Let's put it up there. Let's make it happen. Perfect. Corey Lewandowski, everybody needs to follow right now. Obviously the energy behind the man himself. Corey, Godspeed, sir.

Thank you, Benny. Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump live right now. Let's rock and roll in North Carolina. I'm honored to be here with these people today that have suffered so much and to lose everything you have and you just wonder what you're going to do and where you're going to go and we just thank God and that's one of them I want to say thank God that he's given us the resources to be able to help and And a lot of people have helped. And not just Samaritan's Purse, but there's been many different organizations and volunteers that have just come to western North Carolina and east Tennessee to help.

I grew up, this is my backyard, I grew up about eight miles or so from here. And a lot of, went to high school right down the road, about a mile down the road. And so this is this is home to me but we've got a family today and we've got the west family uh there this is their house so we're here today uh to show the president uh just a little bit of the damage and the problems that the people of Western North Carolina are facing. So, Mr. President, thank you for what you have done for Western North Carolina. Thank you for coming again to see. Thank you, your son, Don Jr., he came with us twice.

And so they've taken a real interest. And this isn't a politician coming down here looking for votes. This is a man who wants to do something, who wants to see some changes, who wants to make life better for you. So thank you. And Melania, thank you so much for coming. It's an honor to have you here with us. So Mr. President, please. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. And Melania, thank you so much for coming. It's an honor to have you here with us. So, Mr. President, please.

The President Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, good man. He's done a great job, fantastic job. And we've come to North Carolina with a simple message for all the people of this region who were hit so hard by Hurricane Helene. And that message is very simple.

You are not forgotten any longer. You were treated very badly by the previous administration. And I'm here after a few days of the administration. We're going to California, Los Angeles. They got hit hard, as you know. A lot of that could have been prevented, I think, if they had water, which they had plenty of, but they didn't use it.

But I'm going there. But it was set up to go there. And I said, well, what about North Carolina? They said, well, what would you do? I said, I have to stop there first. I'm stopping in North Carolina. So we made the stop, and I feel very good. You're represented by some great people.

Great, great congressmen are with us, and we're going to get involved with them. And Michael Whatley is here, who is the head of the Republican Party. He worked with Laura Trump to take us through to a tremendous victory. One of the, as the media says, one of the most consequential presidential elections ever.

They say in 129 years, whatever that may mean. But whatever it is, it was a great election we had. And we won your state all three times we won your state. And all three primaries we won your state. So we won it six times, I guess, Mr. Congressman. And it's a great place. And I wanted to come here before I went anywhere, frankly. And the campaign, I promised that I'd come

back to Western North Carolina to help the people of the state. And today, here I am to deliver on that promise. And we have a lot of things in mind, and we're getting the Corps of — the Army Corps of Engineers all set. You need your riverbanks fixed. You need a lot of roads fixed.

And we're going to get it done in rapid time. And I've asked Suzy Wiles and all of my people to start calling up, get the Corps ready, and they're going to get ready to go. I don't know what it is. I don't know what took so long for the other administration. But remember, I wasn't here for the first four

months or three months, whatever it may be. You see, we can only start as of essentially one or two days ago. And we've made a lot of progress over the last couple of days. Michael, I understand we're going to get you the resources you need and the support that you deserve. And we'll be at your side through every step of the rebuilding. And no American is going to be left behind.

The people that I just met are so great. And the people that own that house, that house is going to be very beautiful in a little while And who knows if Franklin decides maybe I'll rip it down and build him a new one Because sometimes you can do that just as easily but we're gonna take care of the people I want to thank our great first lady for coming today. She really wanted to be here. She said no I want to go and you know, she sees what happened and she felt very badly and she wanted to be here. She said, no, I want to go. And, you know, she sees what happened and she felt very badly and she wanted to go. And we're then going out together to Los Angeles. But she wanted to be in North Carolina. She saw what happened. She has a she has a feeling

like I do for North Carolina. So thanks as well to a great gentleman, Franklin Graham and his father, Billy Graham. I used to go with my father to Yankee Stadium and places to watch his father preach. And he was some preacher. Where is he? You got good stock. You come from the ultimate genes, I can tell you.

But he was really something. And Franklin, though, has done so much, and his father is looking down on him right now. I guarantee for a long time, he's been looking. And Franklin, though, has done so much. And his father is looking down on him right now. I guarantee, for a long time, he's been looking down on Franklin, saying, I'm very proud of you, son. He really is, because what Franklin has done with Samaritan's Purse is incredible. They told me just yesterday that Samaritan's Purse

has been great, but the FEMA people sort of left you high and dry. But we're going to change that around. We're not happy with FEMA. As well as all of the representatives. You have great representatives here. Chuck Edwards, who's here someplace. Where's Chuck?

Where's Chuck? Chuck. Tim Moore. Tim, thank you, Tim. Great job, too. Both of you guys. Virginia Foxx, a power. She's a power, that one.

Don't ever have her as your enemy. It's not good. It's not healthy. Pat Harrigan. Good job, Pat. Addison McDowell. These guys were just here, just put in, and they're doing a fantastic job.

Addison, thank you very much. Great. Mark Harris. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Mark. Brad Knott. Thank you, Brad. Greg Murphy.

Fantastic guy. My friend for a long time now, right? And the RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, who really, as I said, brought us to a great victory with Lara, the chairman of the party, the whole Republican. I took Michael Whatley from North Carolina because he did the best job and put him in charge of everything.

And the job they did together was incredible. Last September, Hurricane Helene became one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern American history. Rainfall rose to far more than 30 inches, which is lethal, unleashing unprecedented devastation throughout western North Carolina and many other states, as you know. But you got hit the hardest. The highest responsibility and deepest obligation of the American government is to protect its people. And that's never truer than in times of emergency like this.

Unfortunately, our government failed you. but it wasn't the Trump government. It was a government run by Biden. What a terrible situation. But our government failed the people of North Carolina in this horrible crisis. For two months, Asheville lacked running water, and even today, some North Carolinians can't take a hot water shower. They can't drink water. They don't know where to get it.

They have to — it's delivered to them by somewhere. They just go out and somehow find some. It's been four months since the storm made landfill, and still 180 roads remain closed. And in ruins earlier this month, The Biden administration kicked 2000 displaced. North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20 degree weather. I don't know how they did that one because it was cold, even while your government provided shelter and housing for illegal aliens from all over the world. But under the Trump administration, the days of

betrayal and neglect are over. They are over. As I said in my inaugural address, we restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of the American government, and I think I said most of it in the inaugural address. We said a lot of things, but one of the groups of people I was thinking about is you in North Carolina.

A lot of that was in reference to you and what you've had to suffer. I'm pleased to announce that under our leadership, the federal government will be surging housing solutions to this state that go beyond mere temporary hotel stays that ended up being very short-term. The government wouldn't do it any longer, which is ridiculous. beyond mere temporary hotel stays that ended up being very short term. The government wouldn't do it any longer, which is ridiculous.

We'll marshal all available resources that bring back potable water and make your water and infrastructure dramatically more reliable very quickly. Today, I'll also be signing an executive order slashing all red tape and bureaucratic barriers and permits to ensure the rapid reconstruction of the roads here in Western North Carolina. We're going to go through a permitting process that's called no permitting, just get it done. That's the way they built them many years ago, I guarantee you that, right?

We will get them back very quickly and we'll begin the work of fundamentally changing, terminating, or overhauling FEMA. FEMA has been a disaster no matter where they are. We're honored to be joined today very quickly by several families affected by the vicious storm. I'd like to ask each of them to share their story. Chris and Kim West, you could come forward. Ramona Nix, Jackie Mitchell, and Thomas Gary Bright.

And finally, the Wright family. And come on up and maybe say a few words, please. Thank you very much. The Vice President of the United States of America and the United States of America. The Vice President of the United States of vehicles to the top of the road. And by the time we got the vehicles moved, the water had already hit our ankles in the house. And so I grabbed my purse and my little pug dog.

And my husband grabbed the dog food and put it in a trash bag and by the time we got out into the driveway it was already waist deep and there were sticks and that kind of thing I didn't think I was gonna make it but we did make it out and we made it to the top of the road and we were kind of stuck there for hours because we couldn't get out any of the ways because it was flooded all the way around it took us hours and we sat there and finally it receded enough to where we could actually get out it was probably like close to midnight and it started

like five six o'clock in the morning um we just lost everything that we had didn't even have a brush for like three days thank you would you like to say something with that beautiful day Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. But unfortunately, my dad was still at home and my mother was staying at our house with our animals.

The waters got so high that it actually lifted between that and the tornado that came through, or microburst is what they've been calling them, and lifted his home and the house that I grew up in and crashed it into our barn. It took away his business, it took away all of our tools and tractors and everything needed to keep the farm going. And my mother was trapped in the house and there was no way to escape because the water got so high the only thing she could do was ride it out and wait till the waters came down. So we've been doing a little bit of battling with our insurance and FEMA. We did have proper insurance with flood insurance and homeowners insurance

but since we had proper insurance FEMA has not been able to assist us with a whole lot of things and again we've been having some issues with trying to get some payout for our insurance in a timely manner. We had to do mold mitigation on our home, which is extremely expensive, before the structural engineer even came out in order to get our flood payout. And to me, that was not really acceptable. Has the insurance company been responsive or not? Not so much. Um, you know, again, I'm hoping so.

And we might mean we need some assistance with that. We reached out to an attorney, North Carolina Farm Bureau. Yep. That's what we're after here. Are a lot of people having that problem too? With insurance companies in general? Different insurance companies? And they're all difficult or just one particular one?

I've heard different stories from others and a lot of folks are... Have you heard some that are responsive? And I've heard some good instances of even Farm Bureau themselves, but in my case, you know They'd sent out a third party adjuster immediately. Well, they wound up firing that third party adjuster group He gave us a quote for a much higher estimate than what we received and then he got let go. Yeah, he got fired So then they brought in another third party adjuster to come in and lowball us we've not received any kind of so the flood insurances are primary insurance. And

um, so there was roof leaks in the home that the inspectors found the adjusters. Well, that contributed to us losing some of our personal properties that come in the third story where there's no or second story living space where the flood water well above the floodwaters so they've neglected us for yes yes she saved she's right here so we yeah we made it that's right did you think you're gonna make it? No, you didn't think so No, I just started praying So you were sort of on a boat your house became a boat? Big pontoon

Was next door to the house and my son was out of town so when he came in to Charlotte to my sisters he called about 2 in the morning because at midnight the water was still in the stream and then the banks. So when he called, the water was coming up. So I started moving vehicles up to about 5.30 in the morning and she was in the house and I pulled up to the steps and I said, hop on the fender and I'll get you out. Well, he built a beach house on stilts, up to the steps and I said hop on the fender and I'll get you out. Well he built a beach house on stills five times higher than the floodplain and she said

well he said I'd be okay so I'm staying with the dogs. So I went to higher ground with some vehicles hers included and the water covered everything. But I'd already seen it come around both sides of my place. So I got my blind and deaf dog and a bag of valuables and took up off the side of the hill behind my house. And then was heading to the cemetery back there because I knew it was open because there was trees falling and right uprooting it was raining. No, no I've been through floods all my life around here.

Never been. Never been in a flood? No. But you're okay, right? Yep. House destroyed. Well, we're going to help you out. We're going to help you out.

Appreciate it. Thanks for being here. Anybody else? You guys okay? Our day that morning began a little taller with some trees falling into our house, which our house goes back four generations, 80 years, and never came close to flooding. And we woke up to the trees about 4.30 or 5 in the morning, and our house sits three-tenths of a mile back off the road.

We've had flooding and such in the lake but nothing like we saw and like most everybody else we moved five vehicles as far up lawn mowers and everything else and the water started coming in the house and when I got up to about ankle high we have a loft I got her up in that and tried to gather what you might want which was totally random. And when it made it to the loft and started getting up to about her hips, I built a little makeshift ladder. And we got out on our roof and we spent four hours on the roof. I had a little baggie. I did notes on my cell phone to my two kids and my two grandkids.

And something to identify me in case we were lost in it. Did you think you were going to make it? on my cell phone to my two kids and my two grandkids and Something to identify me in case we were lost in it No, we're We're gonna make it at all. I mean our house was 25 feet underwater No, we were watching houses trailers bodies coming by us And we live in the Azalea Road area in East Asheville. We watched our garage float by. But we got to a point where it crested about four feet up on the roof. We took about three or four hours for it so we could kind of do everything in reverse

and got out in the mud to higher ground and I got out higher ground up to a subway and got over to her daughter's house where when she saw that I didn't have her she lost it I was like she's okay she's alive and we tried to make our way back in there and gather things best we could but you know found a body right away. We had about eight bodies in our area that first two weeks located. And we were lucky we weren't one of them and blessed. But like other people, no insurance on flood insurance.

So we had to depend on FEMA. They did what they could do. And, of course, it's not enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, that's crazy. But, again, we're thankful to be alive, but it's a long haul. What are you doing now? Staying in a camper.

I've never been. If you all notice, I'm a big guy. I don't sleep in campers very well. And the first night we spent in the camper, very grateful with the Asheville Dream Center coming through with one. Do you still have the land with one and oh yeah it's family land yeah the land it looks like a beach now it's saying yes Samaritan's Purse we're working with them we're working people we you know it's it's 80

years four generations no the house is there. What's down to you? They came in and murdered it. But everything in it was completely destroyed. But yeah, it's it's tough. I think we're at a point in Asheville people's forgotten about Asheville. And it's stagnant. Everything is stopped. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Pastor Nix. Our church is right down the road. We had only purchased in May.

And it's a big church. We're a small congregation. And I had people say, what are you going to do with this big building and I said only God knows and we had our dedication and the storm came the next week and the outpouring of people my son brought the first load of supplies and from there I stayed there for about three months I slept on the floor for about three weeks because the need was so great. The people were so devastated and I said I want to be here for them. And they were coming in just day and night, so

there's really no need for me to go home. But we had people from Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma, people from all over. We have not received any help like from the government anything but I said Lord if you want us to do that. People all over the states. The locals and the people that knew us. And before the week was over, our church was so packed with supplies, we couldn't even walk. Even in our sanctuary, it was up to the platform of things, and in our halls and in our rooms.

And we're just now beginning to get a little straightened out. But somebody said, how long are you going to be here? I said, I'm going to be here through the winter and even on, if possible, because when you meet people that's been through the struggle, I had a little lady come up, and I said, can we do anything special for you? And she said, I don't want to be selfish, selfish but said could I have a cup of coffee and I handed her that coffee and she stood there and tears just poured she said you don't realize how how important that the little things it's not the big things in life that we have but it's the little

things and and knowing that God is our source I don't to man, I don't have to have a lot of things. I had trees, about 20 trees down in my yard, but that didn't really matter, doesn't matter, because the needs of the people is what I want to be there for. God is good, he's very good. And my daughter, she her house is really in bad shape and I'll let her tell you about that but thank you president this

is our president we appreciate you so much I live out in the Fairview area of North Carolina and the near the Batcave Lake lower area and our area was hit it was hit really hard I was home alone and my husband had stayed in town because we take care of a little lady that's 98 years old and she lives out in woods by herself and I said just stay with her and make sure that she's okay and I got it the next morning and my first thought was i want to go see what our road and bridge looks like so as i was making it down to the road and the bridge there was no road and bridge and so you know here we are we're like a little island you

know we can't access the main road or anything and um then the fire department came by the next day and said that they were evacuating me and my neighbor because a landslide was going to come and they told me to get my stuff and get ready and so while I was getting my stuff and getting ready there was a knock at the door so I thought it was the fireman and I went to the door and there stood my 21 year old son his name's Nathan and he had drove as far as he could to get to me but he hiked five miles and it took him a really long time and he got there and he said he said mom grab a bag we gotta go and I said son there's no way I can I can hike out of here and he's like no he said we gotta go. So we started hiking out, and I seen one of my neighbors who, she had no clothes on. Her skin was like chunked up.

It was just, she was blue. She had been in the waters, and where she had went or I don't know but it horrific is just all I can say but then as me and my son hike going out we went through where this this place we call it Craig town but there were like a lot of family members there that passed away like 11 of them and and there there were people out everywhere looking for their loved ones and they were there were dead bodies you know. My son's like, Mom, you're going to see things you don't want to see.

And so anyway, we got through all that. But I stayed at our church in our sound booth. My husband and I, we just slept up in the sound booth for a couple of months because we didn't have power or anything for about two months out there. And then we have went back. I've been fighting with FEMA since day one. Our community, there's like 32 homes. We don't have a road and a bridge.

We're driving through our neighbor's property. You know, I went to EMS, and I said, look, my concern is if we have a fire or we have an emergency out here, you're not going to get to us. You can't get those big trucks up here. And I've called and called and called FEMA. And, you know, I said, this happened on September 27th. That's four months ago. Well, for us, today is still September 27th.

You know, we haven't had help. And so when I talk to FEMA, I'm explaining the road and the bridge and they send me a letter that tells me to to basically fix it and send in my receipts and they'll refund me some money. I'm looking at a road and bridge that honestly the bridge itself is probably going to be $300,000 and the road could be close to that also because we have to have the community has to have big boulders brought in we're not a rich community we can't fix it ourself you know it's just and as far as like house repairs I'm still pending I can't get money

from FEMA until I fix the road and bridge and send in my my my proof that it's fixed and everything. It's just, it's been a nightmare and I totally feel like that we have been forgotten. If it had not been for our fellow American citizens who stepped up to help us, I don't know what we would have done. I have five neighbors around me who completely lost everything. You know, I have damage to my house, and I feel, I don't feel entitled. I'm embarrassed to even say I need help because, you know, and sometimes there's even that survivor's guilt is what they're calling it, but you feel guilty you didn't be alive sometimes.

You know, when you look around, you see your neighbors that are gone. And it's just, you know, we need help. I wrote a letter to send to Congress, you know, I don't understand what's going on. If we can't get FEMA help, then will you guys help us? Will you step up and be our fellow citizen? Will you step up and be our neighbor and send us something? Help us. Help us get our community back. I could go on.

It's just a, I don't know, it's just heartbreaking. I appreciate you. Good daughter you have, huh? No. Take care of mom. And your son must be great. My son is great. No, he sounds like a real leader.

He really is. To hike in. How would you have been if he didn't come and get you? I don't know. I just would have been there until, because the only thing we could do, there was no way to get out there. The only thing we could do is just hike up to the church, the first church that was up there, about three miles,

to get, you know, maybe what we needed or something. He is. Thank you. The President Again, thank you very much, everybody. So we're going to be here. We're going to be working with our congressmen and women, and they're going to do a job. And Michael Watley is going to be very much in

charge, and you'll get it done. And FEMA is ready to rock. They haven't done the job because they weren't really told to do the job by Biden. I guess Biden was thinking about other things, wasn't he? But they weren't told. What they did to what the past administration did to North Carolina is a disgrace.

So I just want to wish you all well. I was here right after the event, and I couldn't believe it. I have never seen anything like it. I've seen a lot of bad things, but I've never seen anything like it. And it's an honor to meet the people behind me, and it's an honor to be with our congressional delegation and some of the other politicians in the area.

And it's an honor to have Michael Whatley at my side because maybe we wouldn't be standing here as President if he wasn't. Him and Laura, Laura Trump, were unbelievable. He's the head of the Republican Party. So he happens to come from a place called North Carolina. So I said, Michael, fix it. So good luck.

Good luck. And we'll supply what you need. You know that. Okay? Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. The Press Thank you, Mr. President.

We're hearing all these heartbreaking stories and how there's been so many local groups stepped up to assist these families. Is there any talk on having money, instead of going to FEMA and going through bureaucracy, to go to them? The President That's what I want to do. We want to bring it locally so that a state

takes care of its problem, and then they can bring it down to a local level, like Samaritan's Purse and Franklin, because that's, you know, one of the better examples. But you had numbers of people that did a great job. You have groups that did a great job and organizations. The one that didn't do a good job was the

government. They did a bad job. They did a, in many ways, they did no job. They weren't even available. So, good question. The answer is we go local. That, I think it'll work much better. FEMA is a very expensive organization that really

doesn't work out very well. It hasn't. This is not the only example. So, it was up to me right now. It ended right now. And I just let the state take care of the problem. I mean, you can always have problems. Let the state, if it's Florida, it's a hurricane.

Let Florida take care of it. They don't need FEMA to come in. Yeah. The Press What kind of role do you envision for Mr. Watley? Is it within FEMA, outside of FEMA? The President Yeah, I envision a very important role for him.

It's any role he wants. He's a very capable guy. Michael Watley, a very capable guy. And he's friends and works with these guys. Keeps them elected, right? They have to do a good job. Otherwise, no matter how good Michael is, not going to work. But they've done an amazing job.

They've been great. You're lucky you have great congressmen here. And woman, by the way. A great woman. Very powerful woman. And they're going to do a great job. They'll do it together. They'll work together and we'll supply what they need

as they need it. We'll coordinate that. And we will immediately get the Army Corps, Michael, because you need roads built. You know, we're talking about the bridge. We're talking about roads and things. So we got to get them built. All right?

Okay? Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. The President Thank you very much, everybody. We'll get it going for you. We'll get a little bit of advice. Man, it is so inspiring to see a president again. You've never seen Joe Biden do anything like that. Four years of zero leadership.

Four years of cruelty towards the American people and the people who they represent. No visits, no embraces, no funding, no compassion, no care. It is so inspiring to see Donald Trump in presidential mode again. It is so inspiring to see Trump locked in and ready to serve once more. Do you see Donald Trump like sitting there asking the guys about real estate questions? How their houses are built? Where their houses are built? It's incredible seeing him go back and forth with Franklin Graham there,

obviously the son of Billy Graham in charge of Samaritan's Purse. And there it is, ladies and gentlemen, there it is. I want to tell you that this is what we worked for. This is what we worked so hard for this past four years. We've been team never quit, team always grind. And we have wanted this return to an administration that actually cares about the people that they represent. And it is the most inspiring thing to see this actually be made real once again. You might have remembered it from six, seven long years ago during Trump's first administration when he was so good at this. Here's some more B-roll, ladies and gentlemen, of Donald Trump just going up and meeting with the families there in North Carolina, just walking up, embracing the moms and dads and people who lost everything.

I haven't seen anything like this. Joe Biden doddering in, having to be told where to go, having to be told what to say. Ladies and gentlemen, J.D. Vance, soon to speak at the March for Life, checking with my production team to see if we can cut in live to check in with J.D. Vance speaking at the March for Life.

Again, J.D. Vance, Vice President, will be speaking at the March for Life. It is live right now. We've had some difficulties today being on time, but we are going to make sure that we correct that and that we are going to lock in. And yeah, let's just go ahead and check. Here's a photo of J.D. Vance from this morning holding up. I am the pro-life generation. This is Vice President JD Vance just wearing like an overcoat, chilling in the streets. Holding up a sign. But we'll see if JD Vance is actually speaking. Guys, we got to be able to have like an actual schedule here.

Let's go ahead and see if we can track down the approximate time for when JD is gonna be speaking and if it's gonna coincide with our show and with what we just witnessed from Donald Trump in North Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, what we're witnessing is history. What we're witnessing is the reassertion of the will of the people. This is actual democracy, which is when the country that we want slowly becomes real. And the will of the majority, ladies and gentlemen,

and this is what we're seeing right now. This is live. We apologize for our communication areas this morning with our lives getting a little behind. This is live right now. J. D. Vance speaking at the March for Life. Perhaps we've change packaging here. Let me say thank you, good afternoon, marchers. Thank you for having me. And it is an honor to be standing with you here today for life. We are proud to march with you.

And yes, we will be back next year. The excitement, the passion, the unwavering conviction that every single person here on the National Mall clearly feels, it is deeply moving to me and means more to President Trump and I than I could possibly say. For over a half century, this march has united tens of thousands of Americans from all walks of life to rally for the cause of life in our nation. It is the single largest gathering in the world to celebrate our movement, the victories we've fought so hard for, and yes the victories yet to come. And I want to personally welcome all of you who have traveled from far

and wide to our nation's capital. Thank you for your dedication and it is an incredible crowd and it's great to see you today. You know, on Monday, we were forced to move all of the inauguration events indoors because of the bitter cold, and it was cold. But you guys, and it's cold today, here you are outside in an especially frigid January, and I don't think I've ever seen such a joyful crowd out here, particularly during this time of year. As you all know, the event theme this year is life. Why we march. And there are obvious answers to the implicit question it poses.

We march to protect the unborn. We march to proclaim and live out the sacred truth that every single child is a miracle and a gift from God. Now each time Usha and I welcomed our own children into the world, we saw firsthand the indescribable beauty of new life and yes, as you can see, sometimes the behavioral challenges that we had on Monday, but they were good. They were good. And watching all three of our kids grow, learn, and become who they are today has been the

single greatest blessing of our lives. Now every parent here knows that feeling, that awe at a newborn child. It is our responsibility to cherish and to protect it. But thinking about the question of why we march, there are also some subtler but equally more important answers to that question that I want to reflect on today. Now the task of our movement is to protect innocent life. It's to defend the unborn and it's also to be pro-family and pro-life in the fullest sense of that word possible. Now across my own lifetime, I can't tell you the number of friends and other acquaintances

I've had who, facing a pregnancy or the prospect of one, react not with joy but with concern. They wonder how can they afford it. What will it mean for their education, their career, their relationship, or their family. And I know how many of you in this crowd have devoted immeasurable time and resources to help answer those questions and to lend a hand to young people facing a moment of desperation. But by and large our society, our country, has not yet stepped up in the way you have, and our government certainly has failed in that important responsibility. We failed a generation not only by permitting a

culture of abortion on demand, but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to live a happy and meaningful life. A culture of radical individualism took root, one where the responsibilities and joys of family life were seen as obstacles to overcome, not as personal fulfillment or personal blessings. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with. So let me say very simply, I want more babies in in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world, and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they

are here at the March for Life. Now it should be easier, easier to raise a family, easier to find a good job, easier to build a home to raise that family in, easier to save up and purchase a good stroller, a crib for a nursery. We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages, one that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our GDP number or our stock market, but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country. And that brings me back to where we stand today. Earlier this week, President Donald J. Trump stood in the Capitol Rotunda and took the oath of office becoming not just the 45th but now the 47th President of the United States and I know all of you helped. With the inauguration on Monday, our country faces the return of the most pro-family, most

pro-life American President of our lifetimes. Now this is the man who delivered on his promise of ending Roe, giving us a monumental, earth-shattering decision in Dobbs. The man who appointed hundreds of pro-life judges dedicated to defending the constitutional liberties of all Americans. And the man who supported pro- family policies like doubling the child tax credit which happened during his first administration and which we're going to do so much more on in the second administration, now he's back and we're gonna do it again. Now yesterday, President Trump issued a strong endorsement of the Born Alive

Abortion Act, ensuring that those babies who survived botched abortions enjoy the equal protection under law, which is the obligation of every citizen to enjoy in this country. With his return to office, no longer will the federal government direct FBI raids on the homes of people like Mark Houck and other Catholic and Christian activists who are fighting for the unborn every single day. And no longer will our government throw pro-life protesters and activists, elderly, grandparents, or anybody else in prison. It stopped on Monday and we're not going to let it come back to this country. Instead, and I know you all saw the news, the 47th president has already issued pardons to those unjustly imprisoned. And I want to be clear that

this administration stands by you, we stand with you, and most importantly we stand with the most vulnerable and the basic principle that people exercising the right to protest on behalf of the most vulnerable should never have the government go after them ever again. Now the crowd assembled here in this incredible National Mall provides an extraordinary example for our nation. You donate to diaper banks, you help find housing for those in need, you help fund the crisis pregnancy centers that give help to young women and young men in a time of crisis.

You guys are the beating heart of the pro-life movement and you have saved many lives already and you're gonna save more again. You being here this very March is a reminder of the incredible strength and unity of the pro-life movement and from the bottom of my heart thank you. Thank you for being here and thank you for marching here today. And most importantly, in your works, you remind us that the March for Life is not just a single event that happens on a frigid January day. The March for Life is the work of the pro-life movement every single day from this point forward. Now it is a lifelong call to action, a moment in time, but every single day that you guys

do what you do, from supporting young moms and dads, to fighting for the unborn, to working with our legislatures at the state and federal level, fighting for the unborn, to working with our legislatures at the state and federal level, you make it possible for us to stand here and say that America is fundamentally a pro-baby, a pro-life, and a pro-family country. Now, I hesitate to give you all advice because I can see there are young and old people who have been in the pro-life movement, some of you for longer than I've even been alive, and I'm grateful to you. But if I could offer one piece of advice, it's a piece of advice born out of my own

experience. There was a point when I would get frustrated with people who didn't see what we saw. I would get frustrated that people could look at a picture of a baby on an ultrasound and see not a human being but just a clump of cells. But one of the things that being a father has taught me and one of the things that being in politics has taught me over the last couple of years is that it is a blessing to know the truth and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection. So please go forth not frustration, but with joy. We are joyful to march for life.

We are joyful to know that that picture on an ultrasound, that is a picture of a baby with hopes and dreams and potential to come. It is a joy and a blessing to fight for the unborn, to work for the unborn, and to march for life. God bless you all, and thank you for having me. It's an honor to be with you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, in my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, the John McCains, the Mitt Romneys, they all claim to be pro-life. They all said that we're Christians, and we go to church, and we care about the unborn. Yet every single one of them cowered in fear in the White House. By the way, this takes place across the street from the White House.

Every one of those pro-life Republicans hid in fear whenever the March for Life happened. It was just too politically costly for them. And now, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump has not sent one but two vice presidents to speak at the March for Life. Donald Trump has spoken at the March for Life himself. Donald Trump sent a video in today to the March for Life confirming that he is the most pro-life president in American history.

Not by a little, by a lot. Make more babies, ladies and gentlemen. Make more babies. President Trump's message to the March for Life, ladies and gentlemen, I think to sort of make, to sort of cement the point here, why not? Let's rock and roll. Hello to everyone at the March for Life. It's a pleasure to speak to you from the beautiful Oval Office. That's where we are right now, the magnificent Oval Office. And thank you for turning out once again to show your extraordinary love and compassion

for the unborn. Each year, Americans of every age, color, and background travel to our nation's capital by the tens of thousands to stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves. I am proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person. As you know, this annual march started 52 years ago on the first anniversary of the disastrous ruling known as Roe v. Wade. That unconstitutional decision took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger. But thanks to your tireless work and devotion across five decades, that historic wrong was

set right three years ago. I was so proud to be a participant. Six courageous justices of the Supreme Court of the United States returned the issue to the state legislatures and to the people where it belongs. It became a vote of the people. In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life. We will protect the historic gains we have made and stop the radical Democrat push for a federal right, unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth and even after birth. Think of that, after birth.

And some people want that. Can you believe it? We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support adoption and foster care. We will protect women and vulnerable children. Under my leadership, a reformed Department of Justice will finally investigate the radical left attacks

on churches and crisis pregnancy centers, and we will bring perpetrators to justice. We will get them to justice one way or the other. I will also end the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith, and I am releasing the Christians and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith.

I just signed that document, and they're being released. One such American was Paula Harlow. At 75 years old, Paula was sentenced to two years in prison after praying outside of a clinic. That's why she was sentenced to two years. That's what happened under the Biden regime. In her sentencing, the judge mocked her Christian faith while her husband pleaded to be thrown in jail, with his wife fearing she would die alone behind bars. This week it was my honor to grant a full and complete pardon to Paula and many others who were the victims of this horrific weaponization. Never again will religious persecution be allowed

to happen in America. To all of the very special people marching today in this bitter cold. I know your hearts are warm and your spirits are strong because your mission is just very, very pure to forge a society that welcomes and protects every child as a beautiful gift from the hand of our Creator. Thank you for never losing hope and never giving up. Thank you for your tremendous support. God bless you and God bless America. So wonderful to have a country that doesn't worship baby murder anymore. And it really is remarkable that the Democrat party was able to run on a platform of worshiping human sacrifice

like as as a core Tenet as a pillar of their woke religion child sacrifice means something to me again ladies and gentlemen here is my here's what kept me from the studio uh this morning uh got me into the studio a little bit late this morning we welcomed our newborn child to the world the newest american of the golden era this is baby Whitaker and then these are my other three kids show your dances your best dance doing doing dance moves for everybody this morning this is what I wake up to how anybody on this planet could see life and images like this and say no no no no, no, it would have been better if all of them weren't born

or if people just didn't have children at all and if the human race just died out. It is truly evil and it is what we fight against and honestly what we fight for. And what we fight for on this channel is a future for those children and your children and for all Americans. We fight to make this country great. We fight to make the country

great by preserving the country, but also making it better than how we found it. That's what a blessed generation does. That's what a good and honest generation does. Make the nation better than how they found it. We are living in a horrible time in American history because for the first time ever, we're really teetering on a generation handing the country off and it being worse than how they found it. The country is, I think in many ways, you could argue worse than the way that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell found it. They ran it into the ground. It's why you have to have parents and moral parents running this nation. They have to have the right motivation. J.D. Vance has young children, small children. And so it is a wonderful motivator, the best possible motivator that you can have.

What a wild and fascinating morning. What a very, very interesting and inspiring time to see actual unashamed leadership back in action. President Trump saying, I am your retribution. Well, this is what he meant. Taking away the security clearances and the security details from Dr. Fauci, John Brennan, John Bolton, stripping the capacity for security clearances from the 51 intel experts who lied to the American public to protect the Bidens, to manipulate an election, to rig an election. That's retribution. President Trump talking about it this morning, asked about Dr. Fauci's security detail being ripped from him. Here we go. You know, you work for government.

We took some off other people, too. But you can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government. The Press Could you ask for a free ticket officer? The President Yeah, we'll see what happens. The Press Would you feel partially responsible if something were to happen, you could say, Dr. Fauci or John Bolton? The President No. No. You know, they all made a lot of money.

They can hire their own security, too. All the people you're talking about, they can go out. I can give them some good numbers of very good security people. They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility. These are the people who cheered when President Trump was shot. When President Trump was surrounded by the lady Ghostbusters. These are the people

who were thrilled that Joe Biden was able to keep Secret Service protection away from RFK. Even when RFK Jr, his uncle and his father were both murdered. But clearly by nefarious actors. actors, state actors, like, like it's obvious when you look at the evidence. RFK runs as the most successful and powerful independent candidate in a very long time for president. And Joe Biden keeps security details from him, all but inviting inviting begging for somebody to go continue the work of the state against the kennedy family ladies and gentlemen rfk posting this about the declassification of the jfk and rfk files we were waiting for him to sound off let's go ahead and read jfk wanted uh every the very word secrecy jfk warned that the very word secrecy is repugnant in the free and open society, and we are a people inherently and historically opposed to secrecy. We decided a long time ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers that are cited to justify it. Sixty-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, defamation,

employed by intel officials to obscure and suppress the troubling facts about the JFK assassination as provided by the playbook of a series of subsequent crises—the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9-11, Iraq, COVID—have all accelerated this version of our exemplary democracy by the military and medical industrial complex and pushed us further down the road of totalitarianism. A nation that does not trust its people is a nation that is afraid of its people. A government that withholds information is inherently fear of its citizens' ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in a democracy. Thank you, President Trump, for trusting American citizens and taking the first step down a road towards revising this

disastrous trajectory. Beautiful statement there from RFK, who's the most famous Kennedy living. RFK, someone who will be facing a real gauntlet in the Senate next week for his confirmation hearing to be HHS secretary. This was what Tucker Carlson found when he investigated who actually killed JFK. He asked the CIA. Now, the director of the CIA has been sworn into office. His name is John Ratcliffe. He sailed through confirmations. Also Marco Rubio.

Soon today, hopefully, we will have Pete Hegseff as well. So ladies and gentlemen, here's what Tucker found when he did just a tertiary investigation into the declassification of what exists still in the JFK files. We decided to find out. We spoke to someone who had access to these still-hidden CIA documents, a person who was deeply familiar with what they contained. We asked this person directly, did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American president?

And here's the reply we received verbatim. Quote, the answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It's a whole different country from what we thought it was. It's all fake. It's hard to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a, quote, conspiracy theorist that we spoke to. Not even close. This is someone with direct

knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public. And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president. Now, some people will not be surprised to hear that they suspected it all along, but no matter how you feel about or what you thought about the Kennedy assassination, pause to consider what this means. It means that within the U.S. government, there are forces wholly beyond democratic control. These forces are more powerful than the elected officials that supposedly oversee them. These forces can affect election outcomes. They can even hide their complicity in the murder of an American president. In other words, they can do pretty much anything they want. They constitute a

government within a government, mocking by their very existence the idea of democracy. As cynical as we have become after 30 years of watching government officials ignore the voters who employ them, we were shocked to learn this. It's not acceptable. Americans have trusted their government less with every passing year since the killing of John F. Kennedy. Maybe this is why. And people have known this for a long time. The people who knew would include every director of the CIA since November of 1963.

And that list would include Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, one of the most sinister and dishonest figures in American life. That list would also include, we are sad to say, our friend Mike Pompeo. Not our friend. Mike Pompeo had his security clearance revoked along with his security detail. Why did Mike Pompeo have a security detail? You paid for it. You have a right to ask. John Brennan as well. Security clearance is stripped.

Security detail is gone. And now Doge, just seconds ago, announcing $480 million worth of government waste has now been returned to the taxpayers in the cancellation of leases and the ending of consultancies and stupid security programs and protocols for guys like Dr. Fauci, $12 million a month. Let me say it again. $12 million a month being spent on Dr. Fauci's security by the American

taxpayer. These people killed the president, JFK. They've been trying to hide it from you for a very long time. And then they use taxpayer funding to guard themselves in case you don't like the totalitarianism and lies that they have been forcing all of us to eat for a very long time. And it's now over, ladies and gentlemen. We've had a belly full of it. And Donald Trump ordering the declassification of these documents is the first step. It's the first step towards transparency and establishing faith, once again, in the federal government. You can't have a relationship with people if you don't trust them. If you don't believe what they're saying, then you can't have that relationship. Ladies and gentlemen, this is

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Patriotmobile.com slash Benny to defend freedom. Patriotmobile.com slash Benny, defend freedom. Patriotmobile.com slash Benny. Call 972-PATRIOT today. So speaking of the CIA, Donald Trump's CIA director, John Ratcliffe, talking about John Brennan, says that the tenure is the worst things that has ever happened to the agency

and needs to politicize it. Man, John Brennan getting just completely cooked. John Brennan is a just deeply sinister, evil individual who by every measure is the man who launched Russiagate, helped the Hillary Clinton campaign launch Russiagate. There was this famous meeting at the White House where John Brennan briefed Barack Obama and Joe Biden about Russiagate and about making sure that they can criminally prosecute members of the Trump administration over this lie and over this hoax. How many other dark and filthy, illegal things has John Brennan done? I'm not exactly certain, but ladies and gentlemen, it sure would be nice to see the Brennan files. President Donald Trump's newly confirmed Central Intelligence Agency director, John Ratcliffe, told Breitbart News exclusively that he views his mission as restoring the world's preeminent intelligence agency

and its core primary objective and undoing a lasting damage that one of his predecessors, John Brennan, did. It would be fair to say that his tenure was one of the worst things ever happened to the agency, Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview after becoming CIA director. Ratcliffe served as the director of national intelligence in Trump's first term and was just confirmed on Thursday afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, he's the guy who's stripping the security clearances from all of these orcs and goblins from inside of the deep state to make sure that they can't make any more money. If you don't have a security clearance, then you can't be handling state secrets

and you can't tell all of your lobbyist friends or all of your military consultants that you'll be able to do their dirty works. This is a really great way to make sure that these people get impoverished. Ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing a lot of news happening this morning. And we're not done yet.

President Trump is going to go to California. He's going to be facing off with Gavin Newsom on the tarmac. Tonight, we're going to figure out how we're going to cover that. And then there's going to be a Pete Hegseth confirmation vote inside of the United States Senate. That's going to be something, obviously, that we're going to be watching very, very closely. Please, ladies and gentlemen, consider joining our Benny Brigade if you want to get locked in with our programming and up to date and ask questions for Ask Benny Anything of the Week. Join right now at BennyJohnson.com. When you join the brigade, you obviously get access to us, our show, our programming,

exclusive behind the scenes, and also you get access to the content ahead of time before we publish. And we're going to be unveiling a lot of new features on this, including an interview series that we're going to be doing with key officials in the Trump cabinet, getting your chance to ask a question of them. Before we launch that, we have the Ask Benny Anything that we do every single Friday. So here we go, ladies and gentlemen, Ask Benny Anything. Joel, I thought we had a stinger. Do we not have a stinger for that? We do, yeah. Okay. All right. Why not? Why not? Tradition is all we have in life.

Let's go. Juiced Griffin says, what big Trump surprise do you expect or hope is coming next? I'm very much looking forward to seeing Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom tonight. I think Donald Trump's going to roast Gavin Newsom to his face. That's what I believe. And it's going to be particularly entertaining. From a larger perspective, I think that Donald Trump's going to end the war in Ukraine. I think that's next. From a larger geopolitical perspective, Donald Trump's about to end the war in Ukraine. Everybody think that's next. From a larger geopolitical perspective, Donald Trump's about to end the war in Ukraine.

Everybody's signaling that. So he's going to be like the peacetime president. And it's going to be a beautiful thing. He's probably going to announce like a crypto reserve that's going to send the internet screaming and celebrating. And then we're going to have to wait until he gets his entire cabinet for like the entire machine to start rolling effectively.

He's going to have to get his whole cabinet in. So that is the main drive of this program to ensure that Donald Trump gets his people in their chairs. K.R. Hubbard, thank you, by the way, Juice, for that question. K.R. Hubbard saying, is there going to be any attempt to get Congress to pass laws making these executive orders permanent? If we don't turn them into laws, we are going to be fighting the same battles forever. Well, that's exactly right, KR. There is, we spoke about this yesterday, I believe. We spoke about this yesterday with a member of Congress on this program about how there needs to be action on everything from the budget to the border to men and women's sports this is what we talked about uh this is what we talked about with oh gosh his name's on the tip of my tongue guys help me out please uh member of congress was on the show yesterday. Come on, let's go.

Yeah, Greg Stubbe, that's right. Greg Stubbe, sorry about that. Greg Stubbe say, again, about five hours of sleep this week I've gotten. Greg Stubbe saying he's going to, he wants to codify into law the banning of men and women's sports. And that it's great that Donald Trump does it by executive order,

but we need laws to back these things up. So Greg Stubbe has written that bill. And ladies and gentlemen, we need to back up members of Congress who are actually writing the bills and are actually making these executive orders permanent because as you saw, what is done by the pen can be undone by the pen. Ned is asking, why doesn't Trump put CNN, MSNBC and network lamestream media news back of the press pool and put true news up and influencers at the very front. Well, that's exactly why we're going to be heading to the White House very soon. Part of the reason why we were behind today was we were talking with the White House

and on a very interesting series of phone calls about doing just that, about being in the room, about asking questions, about getting White House credentials for this program and for other influencers, and making sure that we can actually ask the questions that the American people care about, because clearly the corporate media doesn't. This is a good example, and it's good to keep in mind. While President Trump was doing all of this today, going to North Carolina, the J.D. Vance March for Life, Donald Trump did three separate press conferences in North Carolina. Corporate media didn't cover any of it. Fox went in and out. Fox went in and out. But MSNBC and CNN, CNN was doing, were doing segments on panda bears. And MSNBC were doing segments on DEI and universities and how to save DEI and universities. So this is why independent media

is so unbelievably important. Obviously, Fox has commercial breaks that they have to go do, and they have segments in and out. So it is so important to support independent media and to know that the corporate media is not going to be delivering to you accurately and on time what's actually going on. The three cable networks, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN, only Fox News cut in and out a little bit of Donald Trump's visit to North Carolina. CNN and MSNBC ignored it entirely, never took any of it live. This is the difference for what we're trying to build here. So thank you for your question, Ned. The answer is yes, we are doing that right now. Good news to send you off into your weekend. This is the border right now. President Trump securing the border,

getting Marines on the border, sent the Marines to go secure the border, which is freaking awesome. You see some of the footage here. And the border wall must be built. And the military, now there is approximately 5,000 uniformed military with, who are armed, this was something that we talked about this week, who are armed, they're up against the United States border. The amount of border apprehensions

have gone down so precipitously that it's hard to even chart. The charts don't even look real. They're down from like 10,000 and 12,000 a day to like 500, 300 was the number yesterday, 300 apprehensions. These are the lowest numbers ever. And I think, ladies and gentlemen, we can go even lower. Stay high, not low, stay high with us by lifting your heads and lifting your spirits with our verse of the day, Jeremiah 29. For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Boy, it feels like that this week, doesn't it? It feels like we have a future now, again, as this country. It was dodgy there for a little while. We were at the cliff and on the cliff and on the ledge. And I truly believe that Kamala Harris's job was to finish this nation off and to

make it utterly unrecognizable permanent democrat majorities election cheating across the entire nation uh nobody trusting anything ever before in like pure fascistic tyranny but now ladies and gentlemen we're here and we've won and it is incumbent upon us to govern and to ensure that this prosperity that is promised to us here that hope and a future that god gives to us that is not squandered or wasted and that we're not and that we're not ungrateful for it and that we're proud ladies and gentlemen, of this moment, and that we protect it, that we're thankful, and that we march forward together to save this place. You can't defeat an army of happy warriors. Enjoy this great weekend in this,

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