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brought the first load of supplies and from there -- i stayed there for about 3 months. i slept on the floor for about three weeks because the need was so great. the people were so devastated. 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 or anything. but i said, lord, if you want us to do that -- >> president trump: so they came from all over. >> all over the states. >> president trump: fema did nothing? >> it was the -- the locals. >> wasted time and money. >> the locals and the people that knew us and before the week was over, our church was so packed with supplies we couldn't
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even -- we couldn't even walk. even in our sanctuary, 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 but 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 important the little things. it's not the big things in life that we have. but it's the little things and knowing that god is our source. i don't look to man. i don't have to have a lot of things. i had trees -- about 20 trees down in my yard.
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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, now, she, her house is really in bad shape. and i'll let her tell you about that. thank you, president. this is our president. we appreciate you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you for all you do. >> i live out in the fairview area of north carolina, near the back cave 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 is 98 years old and she lives in the woods by herself. i said just stay with her and make sure she is okay and i got up 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
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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 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. while i was getting the stuff and get ready, there was a knock at the door. i thought it was the fireman, and i went to the door and there stood my 21-year-old son. his name is nathan and he had drove as far as he could to get to me but he hiked 5 miles and it took him a really long time. and he got there and he said, mom, grab a bag, we got to go. and i said, son, there's no way i can hike out of here. and he is, like, no, we got to go. so we started hiking out and i seen one -- she had no clothes on. her -- she was -- her skin was
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like chunked up. it was just -- she was blue. she had been -- she had been in the waters and where she had went -- i don't know. but her -- it was just all i can say. but then as me and my son hiked on out, we went through where this place -- we call it craigtown. but there were a lot of family members there that passed away, like, 11 of them. and there were people out everywhere looking for their loved ones, and there were dead bodies, you know, my son is, mom, you're going to see things you don't want to see. and so anyway we got through all of that. i stayed at our church. and our sound booth -- my husband and i 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 had -- went back -- i've been fighting with fema since day 1. our community -- there's, like,
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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. we you can't get the big trucks up there and i've called and called and called fema, and i said, you know, this happened september 27th, that's 4 months ago. well, for us, today, it's still september 27th. we haven't had help. so when i talked to fema, i'm explaining the road and a bridge and they accepted me a letter that tells me to basically fix it and send in my receipts and they'll refund me some money. the road and the bridge -- the bridge itself is going to be $300,000 and the road could be close to that also because we have to have the -- the community has to have big boulders brought in. we're not a rich community. we can't fix it ourselves.
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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 proof that it's fixed and everything. it's just... it's been a nightmare, and i totally feel like -- that we've 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 am embarrassed to say i even need help. and sometimes there's even -- there's that survivors' guilt is what they are calling it. you feel guilty even being alive sometimes, and you look around and see your neighbors that are gone, and it's just -- we need help. i wrote a letter to send to congress, you know, i don't
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understand what is 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 heartbreaking. i appreciate you. >> president trump: good daughter you have? take care of mom. and your son must be great. >> my son is great. >> president trump: he sounds like a real leader. >> he really is. >> president trump: how would you been if he didn't come and get you? >> i don't know. i would just 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 hike up to the church. the first church that was up there. about 3 miles to get -- you know, maybe what we needed or something. i don't know. h[ine indiscernible]
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>> thank you very much. >> president trump: thank you very much, and we'll work with our congress men and women and they'll do a job and michael whatley 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 -- 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. 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 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
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president, him and laura, laura trump and he were incredible head of the republican party. and he comes from a place called north carolina, i said, michael, fix it. good luck. we'll supply what you need. you know that. okay, thank you. thank you all very much. thank you very much. >> what kind of a role will mr. whatley have? >> the heartbreaking stories. and there have been so many local groups that stepped up to assist these families. >> president trump: that's you know of the things you hear. >> any talk on having money -- instead of going to fema and going through the bureaucracy, to go to them? >> president trump: that's what i want to do. we want to bring it locally so that the state takes care of its problem and 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 -- in many ways, they did no job.
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they weren't even available. so... good question. the answer is we go local. i think it will 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 if it was up to me right now, i'd end it right now, and just let the state take care of the problem. you will always have problems, and the state -- if it's florida, a hurricane, let florida take care of it. they don't need fema to come in. >> what is the role for mr. whatley? in fema outside of fema? >> president trump: i envision an important role for him. any role he wants. he's a capable guy. michael whatley, 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 it's not going to work. they've done an amazing job. you're lucky, you have great
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congressmen here and woman, and woman, by the way, very powerful woman. and they're going to do a great job. they'll do it together and work together and we'll supply what they need as they need it. we'll coordinate that and we'll immediately get the army corps, michael, because you need roads built. we're talking about the bridge. we're talking about roads and things. we got to get them built, all right. thank you all very much. thank you very much. >> john: president trump in swannanoa, north carolina, devastated horribly by the rains from hurricane helene. listening to personal stories of hardship and grief and pledging that his administration will do everything it can to set things right. you know, sandra, there are a lot of areas around western north carolina that look exactly like they did back on september the 26th when that hurricane came roaring through. nothing has changed. >> sandra: you got to feel for these people and what an amazing moment that is for them, and probably therapeutic to have the president of the united states,
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the first lady there on hand to listen to those personal stories and personal accounts of survival and how horrific helene was and still is. the future of fema is obviously a big question now. we heard the president say on the record that fema is not good. talking about the massive amount of funding behind it. he is talking about possibly a fema overhaul or as you just heard him suggest there, possibly doing away with it altogether. we'll see what he does. you have to think this is going to have a very significant impact on the president, his visit there today, john. >> john: certainly in north carolina, and thinking of put the money in local organizations, samaritan's purse, and wine to water and others that we've been covering over the last four months who have been doing a great job trying to get people back on their feet. we begin friday afternoon. i'm john roberts in washington. >> sandra: great to be with you, john, and i'm sandra smith in new york.
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and temperatures dropping to the teens, and many hurricane survivors are living in tents and rvs. >> john: our senior white house correspondent is on the road with the president and she is live from asheville and on the point of what happens to fema, what might the president do? >> well, john, as you heard, potentially eliminate it completely. obviously more details need to be fleshed out and exactly how that plan would roll out. but here in asheville, we're 122 days after the hurricane hit, and piles of rubbles all over the place, and i'm told they haven't gotten to the waterway, and even though they pulled out a million cubic yards of debris in the area hit, and one section near to me in polk county where as a popular spot for fishing and there is 2 million yards of
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debris and vegetation in that one area alone, and people involved in the cleanup say fema is not approving requests quickly enough. >> president trump: i'll also be signing an executive order of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema or maybe getting red of fema, i think frankly, fema is not good. i think when you have a problem like this, you want to go -- whether it's a democrat or republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling fema, and fema gets here, and they don't know the area and they've never been to the area and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. >> reporter: the president said he's likely to recommend a change where states make a request directly to the federal government and the federal government pays a percentage to the state but the state handles the cleanup. right now, contractors here are waiting on projects from the army corps of engineers which makes its request to fema. and this proposal could
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potentially cut out bureaucracy, and the president has different request for future aid for california following the wildfires. >> them to have voter i.d. so people have a voice, and right now the people don't have a voice and you don't know who is voting, and it's very corrupt. they want he them to release the water. if they release the water they wouldn't have a problem. if they released the water when i told them to, i told them 7 years ago to release the water. if they had done it, you might not have a problem, you might not have had a fire. >> and the president heading from asheville to california. and those scrambling to meet him on the tarmac, and gavin newsom twill be there and l.a. mayor karen bass will be there at the round table. >> we'll watch for that later on fox and arrives 6 o'clock eastern time this afternoon.
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jacqui henrique for us, and we have the founder of valley strong disaster relief. one of the things that the president said in hard hit swannanoa which is how badly the federal government failed folks there in western carolina. listen to what he said a moment ago. >> president trump: 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 bi biden. what a terrible situation. but our government failed the people of north carolina in this horrible crisis. >> john: ian, the president said moments ago he's going to make up for lost time, do you have hope that he will be dialed in on this situation, this tragedy, this ongoing disaster in a way that the biden white house never was? i mean, we have hope, for sure,
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but, you know, around here, we have a pretty big distrust for the federal government, and we feel that they have left us all hanging to handle this ourselves. you know, the country stepped up to do that. the local people have stepped up to do that. we've had god on our side every step. and we're grateful that people had been here, and as far as the federal government, we'll believe it when we see it. we are hopeful it comes. >> john: what is the situation there? i have seen pictures of some areas that look like the hurricane, as i mentioned a moment ago, came through yesterday. do they still look like that? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, the vast majority of the area still looks like the hurricane came through yesterday. there's been some cleanup, but not anything like you would think would be done in four months from when the hurricane hit. >> john: so the president said
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as he left the white house and reiterated again when he landed in fletcher, that fema didn't step up to the plate and changes are ahead. listen to how he put it. >> president trump: and fema is going to be a whole big discussion shortly, i'd rather see the states take care of their own problems and then the federal government can help them out with the money. the fema is getting in the way of everything. and the democrats actually use fema not to help north carolina. >> john: the president said he's likely going to sign an executive order overhauling fema and he said moments ago there in swannanoa that what he would like to see, particularly, in western north carolina is a situation where money that would have gone to fema for disaster relief would actually flow to local organizations like yours who have been doing such an amazing job helping people get back on their feet. what do you think of that plan? >> i think that that's a phenomenal plan if it actually went through. you know, seeing is believing
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once again. you know, but we've been here since day 1. we've had volunteers on the ground with us from all over the country that have just left their lives on hold to be here. we've had volunteers all the way from italy and i think anybody in the area will tell you that the local organizations have handled this a lot better than the federal government has so far. >> john: yeah, we certainly -- i was just going to say -- >> we'd love to have the funding, john. >> john: i'm sure you would. and we have covered wine to water have been doing and organizations like you, valley strong disaster relief, and samaritan's purse and others, as you pointed out, folks literally dropped everything to pitch in and do what they can, ian monley, thank you for joining us. >> good to talk to you. >> john: we'll watch to see what the results are and make sure it's not just words. appreciate it. >> thank you, john.
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[ ♪♪ ] >> i'm going to answer that question. now we're going to move on. we're going to move on. let me answer -- i'm going to answer your question. the money that we spend in the state of illinois is about protecting the residents of the state of illinois. that's what it is about. we will stand up for anybody who is standing up. >> john: that response from the illinois governor after getting grilled on the migrant crisis in his state. raymond l lopez is here to reat to that. >> ssenator collins and murkowsi said they will vote against pete hegseth. >> president trump: it's too bad. >> despite those two votes, pete hegseth may be confirmed as the secretary of defense, and the vote might come tonight, and we'll show you how the rest of
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switch and save with comcast business internet and mobile. find out how to pre-order and get the new samsung galaxy s25+ on us with a qualifying trade in. call, click or visit an xfinity store today. >> president trump: doing we develop. we are getting the bad hard criminals out. these are murders. these are people that have been as bad as you get. as bad as anybody you've seen. we're taking them out first. >> sandra: all right, president trump touting his border crackdown at the white house. saying the deportation flights have officially begun. and these are some of the first photos we're seeing now provided by the press secretary karoline leavitt sewi showing the first flight, and the pentagon confirming this is a d.o.d. plane heading from the u.s. to guatemala, and in cities across the country, including chicago, i.c.e. is argue illegal migrants accused of crimes, and bringing
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in alderman raymond lopez. you tell it how it is, do you like what is happening in your city since this president took office? >> i'm very pleased that president trump is making good on his province that he is getting rid of those criminals. we can be welcoming in the city of chicago, but we should welcome those who want to positively contribute to our city and to our country. and we know unfortunately especially after the last four years, there are many individuals who are here and across this nation with very different intentions. we have individuals who are very dangerous, who do not belong in our cities, do not belong in our country, and i'm glad that the trump administration is moving quickly to execute these deportations. >> sandra: we know that even though you're a democrat, you have a much different take than your democrat governor. this is some of what we heard from the governor responding to those who say dems are fear
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mongering the mass deportations. listen. >> they are literally threatening people all across the country. how can you say that we're overreacting somehow? they're the ones that are threatening people, again, who are law abiding, who are often the anchors of their communities, who are paying taxes in this country. they're the ones threatening people. we're just standing up for people who live in our state and our city. >> j>> sandra: so how -- i see u shaking your head. how can you have a governor who sees the incredible problems that your state and city faced as a result of the migrant crisis and say this shouldn't be happening. >> there's an incredible disconnect what i hear from our governor, from our mayor, and individuals that live in the communities like the ones that i represent that have high immigrant populations. we understand there's a difference. we know there's a difference between those individuals, the anchors that the governor referred to and those that
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choose to engage in dangerous criminal activity. they endanger the undocumented. they endanger the citizen. they endanger our own people who we should be concerned about, and i know after having met with tom homan that that is exactly the type of individual that he and the trump administration are zeroing in on. those that choose to engage in criminal activity. it's very ignorant for people to blanketly call all undocumented the same and treat them the same when you know that there are individuals who do not care about this country, do not care about their neighborhoods and are committing some of the most heinous dangerous acts in our city. they need to be dealt with specifically and swiftly and the trump administration is doing that in the first week in office. >> sandra: okay, so these are some of the arrests have been made under the new presidency. this is per i.c.e. chicago. migrant 1 citizenship, mexico, accused of assault with a deadly weapon. another accused of attempted murder. sentenced to 17 years in prison, and release by illinois without
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notice to i.c.e., accused sexual predator, citizenship mexico. these are bad guys they are coming in to deport. a final last thought on that and i wonder if more in your party are coming around to this? >> well, i know, sandra, that we've seen many of my colleagues stand up and join my efforts to try to put some common sense back into our sanctuary city laws. we should not give sanctuary to sexual predators. we shouldn't help those who want to use guns to kill people and have in fact killed people. there's a common sense approach by doing both. going after the 2% dangerous and protecting the 98% that are not. sadly some in my party like my mayor who refuse to get on the program and i think time will prove us right in the long run. >> sandra: incredible to see what is happening there. thank you very much. always appreciate your time, raymond. >> thank you. >> sandra: john. >> john: sandra, fox news alert to the mall here in downtown washington and the
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march for life rally is underway, and j.d. vance giving his first public address since being sworn in as vice president back on monday. let's listen in. >> -- 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 by permitting a culture of abortion on demand but neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to lead a happy and meaningful life.
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a culture of radical individualism took root. one where the responsibilities and joys of family life are 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 the united states of america. [cheering and applause] i want more happy children 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. [cheering and applause]
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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. [cheering and applause] 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. [cheering and applause]
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and that brings me back to where they 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. [cheering and applause] with the inauguration on monday, our country faces the return of the most pro-family most pro-life american president of our lifetimes. [cheering and applause] 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.
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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 going to do it again. [cheering and applause] now yesterday president trump issued a strong endorsement of the act ensuring that those babies survived botched abortions enjoy equal protection under the law which is the right 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 halk and other catholic and
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christian activists who are fighting for the unborn every single day. [cheering and applause] and no longer will our government throw pro-life protestors 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. [cheering and applause] instead -- and i know you all saw the news, the 47th president has already issued pardons to those unjustly imprisoned. [cheering and applause] 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. [cheering and applause]
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now the crowd assembled here in the incredible national mall -- you donate to diaper banks, and help those centers in need, pregnancy centers to help young men and women in a crisis. you guys are the beating heart of the pro-life movement, and you saved many lives already, and you're going to 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. [cheering and applause]
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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 prolife 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, 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. [cheering and applause] now i hesitate to give you all
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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 borne out of my experience, there was a point where i would get frustrated with the people that didn't see what i saw, i would get frustrated that people would 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. [cheering and applause] so please go forth not with frustration but with joy.
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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. [cheering and applause] 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. [cheering and applause] >> john: j.d. vance in his first public address since becoming vice president on monday. addressing the march for life down on the mall in washington. the march goes from the washington monument to the supreme court where they celebrate the overturn of roe v. wade. president donald trump also in recent days pardoned ten anti-abortion activists who had been jailed for blocking access
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to abortion clinics, and j.d. vance a very popular figure on the mall. >> sandra: appearing in person and delivering his message, and another chilly day in washington, d.c. 38°. thousands rallies at the march for life. john, i believe the rally organizers estimated about 150,000 in attendance. we don't have an official number. but this is obviously -- these are big crowds still building there and taking in the words of the newly minted vice president. >> john: yeah, i remember -- was it last year or the year before? they were there in a snowstorm. they're a hardy group of people. >> sandra: that's right. we will keep monitoring that. meanwhile, this... >> i look forward to being on the tarmac to thank the president and welcome him. and making sure that all of the resources he needs for a successful briefing are provided to him. >> sandra: all right. the governor there in pasadena, toning down his attacks against president trump ahead of the president's visit to survey the
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>> john: president trump set to arrive in california later on today to survey fire disaster zones. meanwhile, fresh fires erupted yesterday, but crews could see some relief in the form of rain, and chief correspondent jonathan hunt jo joins us now. could the rain help beat back the fire? >> it could help out and it also could put disaster on top of
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disaster, and trigger a mudslides, given how much debris is on the ground and how much vegetation is stripped away. and we have a picture-perfect day, and it gives residents -- some of them a chance to get in the areas like the palisades and take account of the destruction which you can see is far and wide. president trump will get a tour of this very area himself in just a few hours' time. he is likely to bring up some of the preparations that california did or did not make, in particular, he's concerned about whether enough water was allowed to flow from northern california to fill reservoirs here in southern california. listen to the president earlier today. >> president trump: i want to see the water be released and come down into los angeles and throughout the state. >> reporter: now, california governor gavin newsom says the idea of water being delivered
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from north to south -- president trump is wrong on that. and he also says the entire point is completely irrelevant. here's the governor. >> -- a lot of projects have nothing to do with the firefighters, nothing, period. it's not he said she said. it's not just an insertion. it's a foundational fact. >> reporter: but i can tell you this, john, there are very few residents here who will be thinking about the politics of fire or the politics of fire prevention over the next few days. what they will be doing is hoping that the rain is not a significant amount because if it is, that could see mother nature delivering a second catastrophe to follow the first. john. >> john: i noticed that newsom says that the authorities are ready to respond and protect neighborhoods against mudslides or rock slides. let's hope it doesn't come to that. jonathan hunt for us.
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>> president trump: in order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling fema or getting rid of fema, i think, frankly. fema is not good. i think when you have a problem like there, i think you want to go -- whether it's a democrat or republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time, and fema gets here, and they don't know the area and they've never been to the area and they want to give you rules that you've never heard about. >> sandra: that was president trump there in north carolina a few moments ago, and he met with victims on the ground there and heard their stories, and surveyed the damage from helene, and big questions over the future of fema as you just heard. let's bring in mercedes colwin karl rove onthat. and he taking about a major overhaul on fema or possibly getting rid of it altogether. your thoughts on that? >> this is set up on the law
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passed in 1968 called the stafford act and the people in charge of disaster emergency response are the states. each state has a state fema director and the national fema, it's job to principally write cheques, and that is to surge and north carolina doesn't have enough people in north carolina to put all of the power lines back up, so the state fema, and the national fema work with a consortium of power companies who will surge extra people to the state, and similarly, the national fema will upon request by the state provide additional resources. look, the people in charge of disaster emergency services are the states. that's why each state has a fema director and why most major cities have a response but fema's job is to provide money and provide additional resources
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that states simply can't -- you can't have all of the people standing on the state government payroll waiting for the moment that they might be called. so the federal government does provide some surge capacity. >> sandra: this feeds in the broader topic of spending and burdensome regulations. in fact, you write a complimentary piece of the new president in the wall street journal talking about trump setting out to break some burdensome rules. he hits the ground running, you write, as he targets costly and harmful federal regulations, and lifting biden's regulatory burden make america businesses more competitive, and reduce costs for customers, and increase the prosperity for workers and that is a good way to start making america great again. if i didn't know any better, i would think that larry kudlow wrote that piece. >> yeah, look, president trump had great success in his first administration. a young man named andrew brenberg worked in a project underwritten by the founder of the home depot. for the 2016 election, bernie
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wanted to make sure that whoever the nominee was had a plan to roll back the regulatory burden of obama, and he led the effort, and president trump put him in as his domestic policy chief and he computed executed the plan ad as much of the regulatory burden. and think about this, this time around, it's bigger and in four years, the regulations by the biden administration have a cost of $1.9 trillion to the economy. that's not an economists estimate to the economy. that is the cost figured out by the federal agency involved and verified by the office of management and budget and published with the rule. when it gets published in the federal registry it has that cost. barack obama in 8 years had 36% less cost, and $870 billion. trump in 4 years had almost $64.7 billion in additional cost to the economy. $1.9 trillion worth of bad stuf.
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some of it good. but a lot of it bad put on to the economy and the president, to his credit, this week went after two of the biggest regulations with cost in them. take a look at this. the tail pipe -- the so-called tile pipe emissions. the object of this is to basically force the auto companies to have hav half of tr fleet, half of the sales non-gasoline powered automobiles by 2030. nnot too far off, and the cost f the one regulation is $870 billion to our economy. and then also to get rid of a waiver for california that says -- california has the ability to say no gasoline powered cars by 2035 and 11 other states in the district of columbia are following california's law. >> sandra: wow. that was a big part of his campaign promises to roll back the regulations and get businesses going. and karl, two white boards.
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thank you so much. good to have you. >> you bet. thank you, sandra. >> president trump: we're putting america first, and in this case, north carolina and california. they say the biggest in the history of california. i think, has anything bigger than h that happened in the whoe country, ever? >> john: president trump on the road, and next up, wildfires ravaged california. where is the biggest fire threat right now? we'll hear from cal fire justhe ahead. lks down at his queen, and says... (in atrocious french) au revoir mon amour. a bientot let's work on that french, shall we? (♪) au revoir mon amour. a bientot au owwwww bientot au revoir mon amour. a bientot (♪) (in perfect french) au revoir mon amour. a bientot now search with ai assistant with the hotels.com app dexcom g7 sends your glucose numbers to your phone and watch, so you can always see where you're heading
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