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AND HE WANTS MANY PEOPLE ON HIS SIDE. WE NOW SEE THE PRESIDENT. THE SENATOR RIGHT BY HIM. JULIE: THE GOVERNO LOTS OF CHEERING OUT THERE? 6 CAMILA THERE ARE SOME INTERMITTENT CHEERS. FOLKS BEHIND ME WITH FUNDS OUT. CHEERS ON PRESIDENT TRUMP CAME OUT OF THE DOOR. THINGS ARE QUIET NOW. EVERYONE WATCHIN IT LOOKS SICK YOU PRESIDENT IS GETTING IN THAT OFFICIAL VEHICLE WAITING FOR HIM. YOU CAN’T SEE THE REST OF THE MOTORCADE BY AIR FORCE ONE. THEY WILL BE GOING DIRECTLY TO THE PLANT. HE IS JUST CHATTING WITH SOME OF THE OFFICERS THERE. HE IS BEHIND THAT OFFICIA VEHICLE. NOT THE GREATEST VANTAGE POINT BUT WE EXPECT HIM TO GET IN THAT VEHICLE AND ON HIS WAY. HE IS RUNNING ABOUT 55 MINUTES BEHIND SCHEDULE, WAS SUPPOSED TO BEGI SPEAKING AT THE ENERGY PLANT AT 3:15. I EXPECT THAT WILL BE PUSHED BACK QUITE A WAY. RO PEOPLE CAME OFF THE PLANE WITH HIM. GOVERNOR PETE RICKETTS, SENATOR DEB FISCHER, SENATOR JONI ERNST. WE SAW THE AGRICULTURE SECRETARY RIGHT BEHIND GOVERNOR RICK ITS -- GOVERNOR RICKETTS. LOOK SICK THERE SPEAKING WITH THE KERNEL AND THAT WELCOMING OFFICIAL DELEGATION, INCLUDING THE OMAHA MAYOR. CAMILA THERE IS A LOT OF MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY HERE IN THEIR UNIFORMS. CAN’T SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE STANDING BEHIND US. THERE ARE SOME BIG FANS HERE. SEEING LOTS OF TRUMP T-SHIRTS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HATS. PEOPLE WERE EXCITED TO SEE HIM. RECORDING HIM RIGHT NOW. HE WILL BE HEADING STRAIGHT TO THAT PLANT AND THAT IS AN INVITE ONLY EVENT, LIKE WE MENTIONED. NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. HE WILL BE TAKING A TOUR OF THE ETHANOL PLANT. PRETTY B DEAL WITH THE E 15 ANNOUNCEMENT. YOU CAN HEAR T CROWDS. MAKING HIS WAY WITH LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEADERS. MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA RUNNING OVER TO GRAB SHOTS OF HIM AS HE WALKS TO THE CROWD. LOOKS LIKE HE IS CHATTING WITH THE MAYO

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President Donald J. Trump will be in Council Bluffs on Tuesday afternoon.The president plans to participate in a tour and deliver remarks at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC in Council Bluffs.In his remarks, the president is expected to focus on the finalization and implementation of the year-round E-15 rule and highlight his administration’s accomplishments for American farmers.The president made a promise for year-round ethanol and he kept it. Now, workers at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy want to show him how important that decision was.The plant is getting ready for the president’s visit Tuesday.The majority of their product is ethanol, now a hot commodity for the plant.“I remember a year ago or when he was at a rally when he made the promise for E-15,” Dan Wych, SIRE plant manager, said.President Trump will see that ethanol, when he tours SIRE Tuesday.“What the ethanol plant represents is the farmers vision and the building of an industry that didn’t exist for all intents and purposes a couple decades ago,” Mike Jerke, president and CEO of SIRE, said.Workers plan to teach the president how they make ethanol, what its benefits are, and what else the corn is used for, including cattle feed.Most of that corn comes from Iowa farmers.“The more ethanol being created and used and blended into gasoline the more corn we can buy. It overall circles around and helps everybody,” Wych said.That "everybody" includes Kelby Vorthmann.Vorthmann, his wife, and five daughters farm.“The farm economy, I mean the prices have been down for about four or five years so that’s probably been our biggest struggle,” Vorthmann said.Vorthmann is one of several farmers invited to hear the president speak at SIRE on Tuesday.“Farming is in a challenging spot right now and I think he's done some things that down the road will really help farmers,” Vorthmann said.Trump will be joined by both the governors of Nebraska and Iowa, as well as Rep. Cindy Axne and Sen. Joni Ernst.KETV NewsWatch 7 will stream the president's speech live here.