Trump Claims 'There Is No System Right Now' That Could Have Alerted Victims To Incoming Texas Floods

During a roundtable discussion in Kerrville, Texas, President Trump spoke about flood warning systems.

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00:00Yes, please.

00:01It's Joe Paggs, Mr. President.

00:03It's been a while since we've seen each other.

00:05Obviously, the staffing was where it needed to be.

00:07In fact, it was heavier than it should have been because of the holiday weekend.

00:10Whatever they're saying in the left news isn't the truth.

00:13You're a developer, though.

00:14At 1 o'clock in the morning, the technology only goes as far as it goes.

00:17Kids don't have their phones.

00:18Phones are dead.

00:19People by the riverside don't have electricity.

00:21They're not going to get a phone alert that way.

00:24As a developer, going forward, knowing that everything was done lightning fast by Secretary

00:28Noem, by you, by the governor and everybody else.

00:31You did everything right.

00:32What do we do next time, though, to make sure that people are alerted if they're dead asleep?

00:36Maybe an alarm system.

00:37Maybe a siren system.

00:38You might know better than I.

00:40But what do we do going forward?

00:41Because we've got to make sure that people get the alert when it's time to get the alert.

00:45Yeah.

00:46You'll probably have to do that.

00:47You'll probably come up with something very unique because there is no system right now.

00:51There's been no — this is — a thing like this has never happened that anybody knows.

00:55Certainly not to this extent.

00:57But I know the governor and everybody is working on it.

01:00They're meeting, and they'll figure something out.

01:03Go ahead, Governor.

01:04So we begin a session in 10 days.

01:07We will address every single question that you just asked.

01:10You mentioned some of the ideas.

01:12There are many more.

01:13And we want to hear — most importantly, we have to devise a response that's right for this community.

01:20And this community has to weigh in, and they need time to be able to convey that to us.

01:25But we're going to work on alerts.

01:27We're going to work on every single solution to make sure things like this don't happen again,

01:30not just in this community, but in other river basins across the state also.

01:34So we will work to get it right.

01:36And we've jotted down, Joe, every idea that you just mentioned.