The Forgotten Souls of Appalachia - WE REMEMBER
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a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec. The reason why those Americans in North Carolina were left to die, were left on rooftops begging, begging their government for help that never came,

is because Kamala Harris turned FEMA into an illegal alien resettlement agency. FEMA is tremendously prepared. This is what we do. We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. The Harris-Biden administration says they don't have any money. They've spent it all on

They spent all of their money. They have almost no money because they spent it all on illegal migrants. Across the South this morning, the raging floodwaters may have faded, but the fallout from historic levels of rain and violent winds have left communities from Georgia to North Carolina virtually unlivable. Last night, somebody was at the river and saw Halloween costumes floating down our river. And then she saw faces.

didn't realize they weren't costumes you see these pictures of husbands and wives and children who have lost everything and what does kamala do she comes out and offers 750 look on this bridge and see what's left more or less what's left of my house there's people still stranded i hope that the government or the state or somebody realizes that these small communities small towns

need to be taken care of as much as people in Asheville or Augusta, Georgia. It seems like they're getting the benefit and we're getting the leftovers. I'm so proud of my son because in his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was screaming, Jesus, Jesus, save me. Jesus, I hear you. Jesus, I'm calling upon you. And his wildest dreams and everything that he wanted to be was a superhero. And that was his goal in life. And instead, he's my hero.

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The forgotten souls of Appalachia. Well, we haven't forgotten them, and we are going to keep this story and keep this devastation and keep the disaster front and foremost. And we're going to look at ways to help, by the way. We're not just clickbaiting here. We want to look, and we've been talking all week to folks from the area. We're going to be doing that today with Mayor Glenn Jacobs from eastern Tennessee, and he's going to be talking all about

that we can help and fundraisers. But there's so many questions. Kamala Harris, back when Puerto Rico had a hurricane during President Trump's administration, my gosh, you should have seen her energy. Screaming, stamping her feet, tweeting like crazy about the hurricane. Why won't our government get assistance to these people? Why has our government abandoned these people? But when it's Appalachia, eh.

Here's a check, 750 bucks. Cover a couple of nights at a hotel maybe. Have fun. Best of luck on your future endeavors. See you later. I got other stuff to do. Tim Walls, I haven't seen him there. What's going on? Why isn't our government and the media, the regime, the establishment focused on this? Why? We have a lot of questions. What we don't have are a lot of answers. What I would like to say though is that

late yesterday saw a video posted up 82nd Airborne finally getting involved. And it was after human events and this audience put pressure on the administration, they finally, finally spun up 1,000 soldiers

from the 82nd Airborne. We're told that they're going to be heading over for supplies right now. But the question is, why weren't you there in the first week when you could have been doing search and rescue operations? Why wasn't that order signed that very night? This is what the 82nd Airborne is for. You waited a week. Guess what? The people are already drowned. The bodies are already in the water.

It's too late for search and rescue. That's why we're hearing many of these operations are now returned to recovery. That's why cadaver dogs are being sent out now because we haven't seen the order signed early enough. So, okay, I'm glad that they're now, and I hope that they're able to help. But these people, the people of Appalachia,

They get overlooked because they represent a problem because they're the wrong skin color. By the way, you notice the rescuers, they're all the wrong gender too. Not much diversity among the rescuers. Why is that? Are we allowed to talk about it? Oh, I guess not. I guess not. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be right back. Huge show today. We're talking election and hurricane disaster response. Human Events continues. You know, they talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine.

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Poso. Someone who wants to get on the grid, though, is R.C. Maxwell, and he's joining us right now to talk about how we can get on the grid in states like my beautiful and wonderful home state of Pennsylvania. How's it going, R.C.? It's going very well. I'm glad to be on, and I'm glad Pennsylvania is finally getting the focus it needs. It's the apple of the election here in 2024.

It is the Apple election. And I've been saying the Keystone is the key. Pennsylvania PA is the play. And so people have to understand. Walk us through, by the way, the math on that, because I know I keep saying it, but people need to understand why is Pennsylvania so important?

Well, traditionally, Florida with their, I can't remember exactly, 30-plus electoral votes was usually the swing state that both Democrats and Republicans vied for. Now that Florida is firmly a Republican state, really Pennsylvania is what's there that's left. When you have these states that make up 10 to 15 electoral votes,

Your North Carolina's your Arizona's your Nevada's those are great states to have those are states that Trump's definitely vying for but then you have twenty Pennsylvania excuse me that's nearly double the mass of those states when it comes to electoral votes and Republicans have normally always lost in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has since nineteen eighty eight.

Democrats have always had a certain voter registration advantage, but 1988 was the time in which this data has been tracked. And since data has been tracked, Republicans have made the most significant gains that they've ever seen, according to the data. So Pennsylvania is certainly in play. Democrats are sweating. And I think that's why you're seeing some of the...

I mean, out from Kamala Harris, this weird attempt to embrace fracking, this weird attempt to embrace rural values. You have walls kind of being trounced out there like a white minstrel show wearing camo hats, even though we know that's not his personality at all. So Pennsylvania is in play. It's huge.

And the fact that we have 10 Airbnbs across the Commonwealth, you might think is not that big of a deal, but it's a huge deal for us to have 120 full-time staffers in Pennsylvania solely working on cutting into that disadvantage that Republicans have. And then you have Scott Pressler and you have Turning Point Action. So you have a trifecta of operations trying to work to make Pennsylvania flip. And I'm feeling really good about the Keystone State.

Well, I am as well. And we had Cliff Maloney on yesterday who talked about how my brother is going to be getting involved. And just so for logistical purposes, Kevin and I are going to be flying in tonight to the Pittsburgh area. Then we're going to be heading up to Butler for the rally. R.C., you're going to be there tomorrow, right? I sure am. I'm taking a red eye and I'll be up.

very, very early in the morning. The Trump campaign is also all in on this strategy. They're letting us set up tents. They're letting us have access to outlets and everything, letting us bring in stuff across past their Secret Service barrier there in order to engage the 60,000 plus rally goers we plan on seeing at this event. And you might be wondering, well, these are people that are going to a Trump rally. Surely they're already engaged

You'd be surprised how many of these people are not on the early voting list, how many of these people plan on waiting to vote until Election Day. So that's what our operation is all about. We're not just engaging independents. We're engaging Republicans, trying to get them to vote early and trying to make sure that they become force multipliers

They do what they need to bug their sister, to bug your friend who you haven't talked to in years. Make sure they're registered to vote as well. So that's the kind of things that we're doing to engage people at these Trump rallies. And those efforts are significant. Remember, Democrats only won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. Won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. You may not see my air quotes there. But when you consider how slim a margin that was-

And how much that we've already gained in voter registrations, we're in a good position. But, you know, we're not going to sit in here and start patting each other on our backs before the job is done. We have a lot of work to do here in the next 30 plus days until the election. And that's why I plan on going to Pennsylvania myself three times, although I'm also here working in another swing state in Arizona.

Well, I think that's huge because people need to understand that this has been since 2020. So for the last four years, the Democrats have put mail-in ballots and put these operations first and foremost in terms of

their activity for GOTV. So the Republicans have been behind the ball on this. Now, Republicans traditionally, and you'll hear this from consultants, that Republicans always were good at AB Chase before. That's absentee ballot chase. But this is very different than absentee ballot chase because in Pennsylvania, for example, there's no

There's no culture of early voting. It's just not something the way there are a lot of the Sunbelt. You see a lot of this, but in the Rust Belt, at least PA, there's never been early voting before people vote on Election Day. That's normal. Now, Democrats, because they are herd mentality and they have the hive mind that when they you tell them vote by mail, OK, they all do it because that's exactly how they're wired.

With Republicans, we do tend to be a little bit more independent-minded. That comes with the territory. And so for a lot of people, it's having to shift that culture and having to shift that mindset away. But what I keep telling people, RC, is that, hey, man, my mom already voted. My mom voted before you in PA. So guess what? If my mom's already voted for you, then what are you going to do? Because she already voted for you, so you're behind the ball. Because you know who voted before you? My mom. In fact, she voted before me, too, which is very annoying.

Well, look, you know, everyone in your family is locked in. I'm not surprised that your mom's voted this early. But what a gift it is to be at the doors and tell people, hey, you can go and vote right now. That effort is just so important. You talk about the hive mind of Democrats. It's not just that. Some of these ballot chasing Democrats quite literally

dangle food banks and access to bread and pasta. But before you can get that, please make sure you sign up and make sure you register to vote and make sure you turn that ballot in. Obviously, exchanging goods for a vote is illegal, but Democrats have a way of verbalizing and articulating that. And you may be shocked to hear this, but yeah, Democrats are quite literally dangling food

in front of poor people in order to get them to vote. They've done this historically in North Carolina, the A. Philip Randolph organization is an organization known for doing this. So in order to combat that, Jack, yes, we have to be energetic. We have to convince these folks that it's okay even to use a Dropbox if that's what's gonna get you to the polls easier. A lot of these voters are elderly. They have younger liberal family members

who take their ballot to the polls for them, and that ballot never makes it in. So that's how important it is to have a full-time paid staffer to engage, to build relationships with these people, and to constantly check in. And the Democrats are scared. They're fearful because they know that we have this not only in Pennsylvania, but in Wisconsin and in Arizona as well. So a lot of these states that are purple states that are traditionally going to go used to going blue,

You're going to see a lot of upset Democrats on election night and the day after because that's how long it's going to take to process some of these ballot requests.

And I even saw that Barack Obama is now being activated. They're getting Barry O off the couch and they're getting him involved. In fact, I was at the very last rally in 2016 for Hillary Clinton, which was, and I think Biden was there as well, but it was both Obama's Michelle and Barack, then Bill and Hillary and the Bidens. And it was just a who's who of,

the Democrat Party upstate, and guess where they were? They were in Philadelphia. Elon Musk,

Just spent the day in Philadelphia. Now he's in now. I think he's still in Philadelphia, actually. And he's just announced that he's going to be traveling to the Butler rally tomorrow. There's kind of it's kind of got this Woodstock vibe to it, which is which is good. And we need that. But also, you know, obviously, with the the understanding of what went on there on July 13th. But with what you're saying, this is key. And that's why we had you on today, because it's not just about commemorating J-13. We're going to do that.

And believe me, myself and Joshua Lysak is flying out. So we're going to get to the bottom of everything that happened that day. But it's also a key strategic part of the potentially most key state for this entire election. RC, in our last minute, let people know how they can get involved. And by the way, if they're remote, how can they get involved that way, too?

Look, you should certainly sign up to be a volunteer for Turning Point Action. You can visit turningpointaction.com slash volunteers. I also ask you to visit the pachase.com. We're still looking for volunteers to chase ballots. You know, once you vote, the best thing you can do is sign up to chase another 20 ballots. That's how you can become a force multiplier.

And Early Vote Action is also still paying people. There are still jobs out there this late. If you want to get paid for your volunteer work, you can do that with Early Vote Action. Please visit their website, earlyvoteaction.com. It is a trifecta effort in Pennsylvania. It's all hands on deck, not just in some of these areas like Bucks County and Pittsburgh, but we're also in Philly. We're engaging the Black community in Philly. We're doing all we can. So please take a look at those organizations.

the PHAs, and take a look at what's going to happen. By the way, I'm not going to throw numbers out there, but the pay is pretty good. Actually, I got some of that data. The pay is actually pretty decent. I was like, hold on, I might have to start knocking doors and knock off the show. I don't know. All right, R.C. Maxwell, thanks so much, man. I'll see you tomorrow. And then coming up next, we've got Glenn Jacobs, mayor of Knoxville County, coming on from East Tennessee. ♪♪♪

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with what they've been able to do. And if you go to their website right now, you can find there's a way to be able to donate, I believe, 10% of the proceeds that will go towards those relief operations. Now, I'm very excited and honored to have on the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, Glenn Jacobs, who spent the entire week tirelessly working to help people down there. Glenn, how are you? Hey, Jack. Thanks for having me on.

So I appreciate you being here. Now, obviously, you're there on the ground right now. That's why you're coming in by a phone only. Tell me, what are you seeing? What's going on in terms of, you know, look, we've got a lot of videos. A lot of us are scrolling through X or TikTok or something else. Give us the ground truth of what you're seeing in East Tennessee.

Knox County, we did not get hit very badly at all. Really, we just had to close two roads, and that was about it, just because of high water. But when you move 50 miles east of us to Cocke County, Tennessee, it's a pretty bad situation there. Mayor...

Rob Mathis is, has done a really good job there. I think of kind of getting everything stabilized. Uh, they got their water plant back online, I think a couple of days ago, however, because of the contamination, I mean, there's just, you know, everything in the water, it's awful, but from raw sewage, literally the dead bodies, uh,

And Rob was able, they were able to get that back online, but they'll be under a boil order for the foreseeable future until further notice. So the biggest issue for them is still clean drinking water.

But when you move up into Upper East Tennessee, a couple hours from us, up closer to the North Carolina border, counties like Unicoi County and Johnson County, it's bad. We've seen the pictures coming out of Western North Carolina. It's much similar in Upper East

Upper East Tennessee, I-40, the eastbound lanes going into North Carolina, completely gone. They're washed away. I-26 collapsed. A bridge collapsed in two places. The bridges that were washed out, the force of the water was so much. And normally when it floods, it'll knock off the surface of the bridge, you know, the pavement and all that. These actually took up the piers. So those will have to be completely rebuilt. Correct.

Across the country, obviously, so far, 200 confirmed deaths. That was yesterday, might have gone up by today. 11 of those in Tennessee. And tragically, they'll find more people as the recovery efforts continue. It's not a good situation. And these are poor counties. They don't have a whole lot of resources. So it's going to be a long time, not only...

Just stabilizing the situation and ensuring that people get what they need as far as emergency supplies, water and food and diapers and personal hygiene products and all those sort of things. Restoring services like the roads and electricity, but the economic toll in the long term is also just going to be devastating for that region.

I mean, some of the things that we're seeing here, the images that are coming out, the stories that are coming out, people happening upon people,

victims, people who didn't make it out from the storm. Let me ask you, from your perspective as the mayor of a county that was affected by this, walk me through the early warning process because there's been different stories about, I think one of the stories that I heard was people thought there was going to be flooding, but they didn't realize that the flooding would encompass their buildings, things like that, or other people saying they didn't get warned early enough. Walk me through from your perspective what it looked like. Yeah.

From my perspective, we knew we had storms coming through, but nothing like this. And then what happened was for us, there's a dam up above Cocke County, up above Newport, Tennessee, the Waterville Dam. And initially it was reported that that dam had breached.

In which case, what we're seeing now is nothing compared to what could have happened because you would have had a tidal wave coming down through the Smoky Mountains. And, you know, I mean, you had fast moving water is really bad, the flooding, but this would have been literally a tsunami that would have wiped out not only Newport, but another town down the road, Dandridge, and it would have

caused much more significant problems in Knox County. Um, so, but, but yeah, there, there really wasn't any, any like, Hey, this is going to be really bad. If we just knew there was going to be a storm. And as we always do, we prepared for that. Uh, and it turned into something much, much worse. You know, the hospital in Unicoi County, Tennessee, uh,

The people literally were just rushed up to the rooftop because the water was coming up so quickly. The Tennessee National Guard, Tennessee Highway Patrol, and my hat's off to our own Knox County Sheriff's Department, had to airlift people off of that hospital roof. Then the sheriff's, our sheriff's department helicopter, it was coming home. I called the sheriff. I'm like, man, could you please turn the bird around and head up to Cocke County? Because they just, they're not in that situation.

Dire situation, but it's happened. I mean, they just having flooding. They've evacuated Newport. So they pulled 24 people around roughly off the off the rooftops there in Newport. But as far as any advanced warning, I don't at least on my end, we did not foresee anything like this.

So the idea being, I mean, obviously, look, you know, we all watch the news. We saw the storm track and people could see that it was headed, seemed to be headed in that direction. But it was the severity that people didn't quite prepare for and that people didn't realize that it would be quite as bad as this was. Yeah. And again, you're talking counties that they don't have a whole lot of resources. So it literally...

It was just literally kind of a worst case scenario in that respect. And then it also it happened so quickly as well. And the dams just they just couldn't hold. And they were compromising that the water's coming over the top or over the side. And then they did have to release water out of the dams because if they don't do that, those dams would have burst.

And again, that would have been I mean, as bad as what we're seeing now, that would have been, you know, like disaster movie stuff. It would have just been just truly just absolutely devastating for the entirety of Upper East Tennessee all the way down into Knox County. But yeah, it happened very, very quickly.

So you're talking controlled water releases then that had to be done or else you would have seen the flooding, dams bursting. People, of course, remember the levees bursting in Katrina that weren't designed for that, that you would have seen that type of reaction. And these dams, they held, they're designed to hold...

A large volume of water. There was just so much. I think now that they're saying this was like a once in a 5000 year storm. And again, just I don't think anyone foresaw that happening.

I remember watching some of the data as well that said basically the storm got stuck up in the mountains there. And because there had already been so much rain earlier in this month, just the past couple of days here in the D.C. area, we had 10 days straight of rain. So I can only imagine how much more it was down even before the storm arrived that that kind of already created these sort of slick conditions that really allowed for a lot of these landslides.

And then with the storm getting stuck in the mountains, that just produced a sheer volume of water that I don't think anyone was really prepared for in the flash flooding. And the other thing, you know, the mountains, it's ironic because the mountains often for

protect us from severe weather. You know, we'll have tornadoes in middle Tennessee. We don't really see, we see some, but not that much. We had one last year actually in Knox County, but that's really an anomaly. We don't see them that much. The winter storms kind of break up.

on the mountains and unfortunately this time it it backfired and instead of moving through yeah it got stuck and just stayed there and just hammered and just rained and rained and rained and as you said before this a few weeks ago we're actually in a drought and then we've started to get a lot of rain which of course what that does is that just the the tributaries and the lakes and everything start to rise again and there's just nowhere for the water to go

And with nowhere for the water to go, that ends up hitting the homes, hitting the families, causing the devastation. And thank God, by the way, that the death toll isn't worse. But of course, and we're seeing the images now that are coming out,

We already know that it's hundreds of people and people keep saying expect that number to rise, but it'll be more towns that have been I mean is the recovery crews are able to penetrate further into the impacted areas. You know, they're just going to see more, and we're all expecting that. So, I would expect that to rise significantly. The financial toll. I mean,

you know, who knows. But I think just because of the much larger area, this could be in the Katrina range, if not more, to rebuild. The Tennessee Department of Transportation, a credible source, told me that it's going to be $300 million just in Tennessee, just on the state routes. That doesn't include the local roads or anything like that. And then, of course, that's

That's just a very small part of it. I mean, you have all of these buildings that we're seeing now, the homes, businesses, government buildings, all of them destroyed, the sewage and water facilities, just all of it. And then also the fact that, I mean, the loss of economic activity as well in Cocke County, one of their biggest economic...

economic drivers is tourism. And that's not going to be happening, unfortunately, for a long time. And people aren't going to be driving through Cocke County because once you get past Knoxville, there's really nothing to go except unless you're going up to North Carolina. So the long-term impact is going to be the loss of economic activity, loss of jobs, and just the future burdening of poverty on an

already somewhat accomplished area. And Mayor Jacobs, we've got a quick break coming up. Can we hold you over for a little bit? Because I want to talk about some more operations that are going on so that people who are watching can help. Thank you. Jack, where is Jack? Where is Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you.

Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting policies.

All right, Jack, back here live. I'm in Washington, D.C., but we're speaking with Mayor Glenn Jacobs of Knox County, Tennessee. Glenn, you were just talking a little bit during the break there about how your county is sort of right on the periphery of the disaster region there in East Tennessee. Does that make Knox County sort of a hub for operations so that a lot of these rescuers, a lot of these

disaster relief folks can get into where you are and then make the trek into the actual areas that were affected? Not really. You know, they've the state's already doing things in Upper East Tennessee and has from the beginning. We're probably more of a hub for the volunteer relief effort and just some of those things that are going on, you know, the support and supplies that are going in and all those sort of things. You know, and the one

We're the volunteer state. That's, and that's not, that's not just a nickname. I mean, we pride ourselves on that. And, and,

the amazing thing about events like this is just how many people come forward. And I mean, I, I, I put on Twitter today, I can't even, I can't even keep track of all the people that have called and, Hey, you need help with this. I can do this or folks that I've called handy this. And then they'll say, well, you know, okay, great. And we can help with this. And we know someone who can do that. And it's just been amazing. Just the outpouring of, of,

Help the, you know, just all the supplies that are going up into Upper East Tennessee. In 2016, there was horrible wildfires in Sevier County, which is right next to us down in the Gatlinburg area. And after a few weeks, because of calls for help, the nonprofits down there literally had to tell people quit sending us stuff because we don't have anywhere to put it.

This would be a longer recovery than that. I mean, that was bad, but this is much worse. But nevertheless, I mean, just the amount of stuff that I've seen coming through from private individuals, business organizations, nonprofits, churches, it is unbelievable. And thank you all so much.

Now, what is the sentiment that you're getting on the ground when you're going into some of these areas from people who were affected? What type of sentiment can you tell us? I just lost everything. Some of them, you know, so it's it's that hopelessness is, you know, that kind of what are we going to do? They just they just don't have anything. And, you know, in some cases, they don't even have the ability to rebuild. So it is.

Probably despair and hopelessness. And I mean, you can absolutely see that because, again, this is an area that just doesn't doesn't have a whole lot to begin with. And for something like this to happen and, you know, this was completely unforeseen. We're not Florida where hurricanes come through all the time and that sort of thing. So this is unique for us in a very bad way.

Mayor Jacobs, I understand that you're going to be leading or participating in a fundraiser for an event this Saturday. Please give out the information for that.

Yeah, so this is a canned food and bottled water drive. And as I said, the most urgent need is still bottled water all through Upper East Tennessee. It will be at the Knoxville Wholesale Furniture Clearance Center. That's owned by Tim Harris, who is a great guy. And he's going to make a pretty good donation to the cause himself, which is awesome. But it's right next to it.

Westtown Mall. That'll be from 10 to 4 on Saturday. And please bring canned goods, bottled water especially, but also diapers and all those sort of things. It benefits Mission of Hope. Mission of Hope does work in rural Appalachia, and that website is missionofhope.org.

And they have a banner on their homepage now for hurricane relief. So please visit them. And if you are able, please give a donation. It will go to these efforts as mission of hope.org.

That's fantastic. So missionofhope.org. And I know, unfortunately, something that I've run into, and I'm sure you have as well, that in a lot of these situations, you get a lot of people who come up and say, and certainly with social media, it's only exacerbated the situation where people will say,

oh, you know, I'm from so-and-so and I'm here on the ground and I'm doing this and raising money, but really all the money is going right in their pockets. And so that's why I always try to make sure that I verify these things or like what we are doing right now, that I can speak to someone who's local that actually knows that this is real, that it's legitimate, that it's going where it needs to.

Yeah, and that's exactly right. I've had people reach out to me on Twitter and social media and just personally as well because of that. You know, who should we give money to? Because there's so many, you know, and it's disgusting that people would use a tragedy like this to enrich themselves. But nevertheless, it does happen. So again, yeah, that's missionofhope.org and they're a great organization and they're a faith-based organization as well.

Well, that's fantastic. Actually, and I'll give credit where it's due because a lot of the sites out there, Gives and Go and even GoFundMe, I did a sort of an internet fundraiser for and Fundly I've worked with. So I did a fundraiser for East Tennessee, actually the wildfires a couple of years back and gives for one of the local one local fire stations. And GoFundMe worked very hard to verify even before that the

funds were released, I had to get somebody from the fire department on the phone with them. They had to verify who they were. They had to show credentials, all of that. We also did an online fundraiser for David Dorn and his family through Fundly back in 2020 when he was killed in St. Louis. And it was the same situation. We had to verify exactly where

where the money was going and all of it. And I always said, look, I don't want to touch any of the money. So that's why I'm always happy to come in and partner with or just support somebody that already has it set up and has it here. Last minute to you, Mayor Jacobs, what do you want people to remember coming out of this and where can they go to follow you for updates? Oh, man, coming out of it, just, you know, this is again, this is a devastating situation.

At the same time, it's often during these times that sometimes you see the worst of people, but you also see the best of people. And I have gotten to see the best of people. And we're East Tennessee. I mean, we're going to do it ourselves if we have to. That's...

Just that's just who we are. So I appreciate everybody in advance on Twitter. It's at Glenn with two N's G-L-E-N-N Jacobs TN. And that's that's the best way to follow me on social media.

All right. God bless Mayor Glenn Jacobs. I'll let you get back to it there. Now, I want to bring on Brian Glenn. He's on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, where we will all be traveling tomorrow for the rally. Brian, what's it looking like out there, man?

Hey, Jack. Good afternoon. I'm just really about a quarter mile away from the farm show here in Butler. Earlier, we were on the ground kind of inside the perimeter. We had to leave that area. They were moving some things around that made it difficult for us to broadcast, very much like right now.

But, hey, look, the traffic coming into this area is getting heavier. I was just talking to a colleague of mine that was traveling in that said, hey, you know, there's a lot of traffic right now heading from Pittsburgh into Butler. Security-wise, Jack, if you and the viewers are wondering, they have put in place –

tractor trailers and things around the perimeter of that farm show and really in the parts where the shooter was on the roof. Earlier this morning, we were right in that parking lot and it was...

crazy to think that before someone could stand where we were and have a clear eye view of the president. I just can't believe that was ever approved. So is that what we're seeing right now behind you? Those tractor trailers are being set up as security implements for the rally? No.

Not this one is not. This was not associated with the rally. This is associated, I guess, with another space here nearby. But I will say this security there around the perimeter of the farm show has been enhanced. Now, I haven't seen a lot of security people outside the rally. I haven't seen a whole lot of police officers now that think about it at all outside.

outside the rally. But I think as we get closer to the gates opening up tomorrow, and I know that you'll be doing War Room, which is awesome on the ground there for media. Brian, we've got to be there relatively early presets. Go ahead. One question, one question that a lot of people keep asking me and I haven't quite heard yet. Is President Trump going to be speaking at the same spot? Is it actually going to be on the same location?

It is the same location as before. Absolutely the same. They have just barricaded that place in with big rigs. Now, this one behind me obviously is not associated with that, I don't think, unless it's moving. But it is insane how much barricade they have around that area. Even during our live shot, they moved in trucks behind me that I didn't even know they had. But did you see the speaker list, Jack? Did you see it? You've got...

A lot of heavy hitters that are going to be at this rally. So, personally, yeah, I mean, to think that Elon Musk is going to take the stage is amazing. But we'll have full coverage, War Room, tomorrow. We'll have it to you live right here on Real America's Voice, Jack. All right, we'll be there. I'll see you tonight, man.

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She's a bit worried. Of the apprentice guy?

They fear that power. You didn't do an insurrection. Had you called for one, there would have been one. And there would be one if you called for one now. I'm not sure I want that power. I want the power just to make the country better. America first! And that scares them. A lot about Donald Trump scares them. Let's look at everything. Campaign, his family. Let's get foreign eyes on him.

We have one target. You know who he is. Going after their companies, their families. That is a dictator. It's a very dangerous time for our country. The goal is to put him in jail because they're so afraid of his voice. I am your voice. We'll bury him so deep in legal, it'll bankrupt them. Broke Donald in jail right before the election. Sorry for being that guy, but isn't that election interference?

Vindicating Trump, the new film. Dinesh D'Souza joins us now. Dinesh, this thing looks incredible. It is my most timely and urgent film. It's highly entertaining, at times terrifying, but most of all,

it gives you a real window into Trump and it is a defense of Trump. I mean, a no holds barred, unapologetic, full-throated defense of Trump. And it's an answer to some of these Republicans who say stuff like, well, you know, I don't like him, but I like his policies or, you know, he needs to shut his mouth. There's this effort to sort of create a

a modified, a remade, a rehabilitated Trump. And my argument is no, we don't need to remake him or rehabilitate him. Trump as is, is precisely the leader that we need in the crisis that we face today.

You know, this is incredible. By the way, so I was telling you during the break a little bit. So, you know, I'm flying up to Butler this weekend. We're doing the rally. But Tanya Tay hits me up. She says, I'd love to do a date night with you. Just get a couple of minutes, you know, one night to ourselves. And I said, all right, let's see what's playing down at the movie theater. And I look and I see, oh, vindicating Trump. What do you think? Should I take Tanya Tay to go see it for our date night tonight? Without a doubt, Jack, particularly if you want to put her in a romantic mood, this is going to do it.

This will do it. Look, and by the way, that's no joke because people know, people know that Tanya Tay and I have gone to a lot of your premieres in the past. It was actually the first place we took Jack Jack to see his very first movie. And believe it or not, I don't even think I've ever told you this, that something Tanya mentioned to me that even before we met, she said, you know,

I really like those Dinesh D'Souza movies. And I think she went to go see the Obama one even before she and I had met. So a lot of people think that her politics are like because of me or something. No, no. We may actually have Dinesh D'Souza to thank for converting Tanya Tay and his films because people go to these things, they watch them, and it kind of opens their mind up to this. And that's what this film can do for Trump specifically.

I mean, the beauty of a film is, you know, it's one thing to tell someone about something. It's another thing to show it to them. We show you things in this film that are kind of mind-blowing. One of the things, by the way, we show you is that our election system is so vulnerable that it's possible to make ballots.

to make ballots and reproduce them at scale. It's crazy. And I thought I knew something about election fraud after 2000 mules, and this even blew my mind. The other thing is I was able to do a very interesting one-on-one with Trump right after the assassination attempt, and he was in a certain type of a introspective mood. And so I think you see in the conversation with Trump

the tumblers of his mind, you see a window into the way he thinks and the way he feels, things that he sometimes does not like to display in public. - I just wanna confirm that you're saying this interview was conducted after the shooting? - Yeah, ironically, we were supposed to interview Trump before. It got postponed, I was a little annoyed, but then providentially, we talked to him right after, and of course it makes the film seem very current as if I finished it yesterday.

Well, and there you go, because, you know, you look at it this way and, you know, as a guy who's in the same business, I would have felt the exact same way. But then, of course, you know, something like that happens and you've got to it sort of changes the entire process.

pallor of the film because now it's a which similar thing happened at the RNC which is just the next you know starting the next Monday after the Saturday and so you were able to get that in get the footage in did it did it have a big change to the documentary or just as a filmmaker or was it more of it it same footage but it changes the angle

No, it's the, you know, the film is really about Trump the man, because if you think about the sort of anxiety over Trump, it's really not over his policies. It's over Trump the man. And there are people

who love to point out Trump's vices. Oh, he used to be a playboy. You know, he's an egomaniac. Very little attention is focused on Trump's great virtues. And of course, he has the sublime virtue of courage, which Aristotle says is the greatest of all the virtues. He displayed it not only in his response to the two assassination attempts, but look at the way that he has sort of waded through these 91 criminal charges. Any other Republican facing three

criminal charges would have fled the field, quit the race, never be heard from again. So at a time when you are dealing with this juggernaut of a police state being mobilized on the left, we need a tough guy on our side. And Trump is the toughest of the tough guys we have. The film is vindicating Trump. And what can I say? I might be taking Tanya Tate to see it on our date night tonight. Thanks so much, Dinesh.

Absolutely, Jack. By the way, the website, VindicatingTrump.com. You plug in your city. Thank you. VindicatingTrump.com. Make sure everybody gets that. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll see you in Butler, Pennsylvania tomorrow. As always, you have my permission to play a show.