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January 15, 2025 23 mins

THE WAR ROOM WITH STEPHEN K. BANNON, JANUARY 15TH, 2025

STEVE BANNON & BEN BERGQUAM INTERVIEW NATURAL DISASTER VICTIMS

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's your host, Stephen k Ba.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're interrupting our live continuous coverage of the confirmation here
because there's a situation down in God's country that is
just not right. It's got to be sorted out. We'll
go back to Ben broke Holm. We got Tyler Burlson
and Misty. Tyler, Misty, just give us a punch list
right now. If you had President Trump and you were

(00:26):
talking to him, what in kind of rank order needs
to be done immediately.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
We need help to rebuild houses and put people back
in their homes. We still have people living in tents
and makeshift shelters. It's going to be six degrees this
weekend down here. It's been below twenty for the past
seven or eight days. We've had you know, not in
this past, but we've had kids die, and you know,

(00:55):
people are freezing to death because it's cold. They don't
have anywhere to go. They don't have the FEMA campers
that were supposed to be given out. We need FEMA
campers down here. We need shelters for people. We need
a way to keep people warm and keep people fed.
You know, we need fuel for generators because you can
only run a generator for so long with on a

(01:17):
gallon of gasoline. We need caro scene for heaters, we
need literally everything that we needed when it first happened.
I mean's it hasn't gotten any better since it started.
We thought it was going to slow down, We thought
it was going to you know, taper off a little bit.
Four months into it, we're still serving sixty to one
hundred and twenty people a day. And that's just this

(01:38):
this center, that's just our organization that's helping that many people.
There's hundreds of thousands of more people out there that
need it. I mean, we we've lost between one hundred
and forty to one hundred and eighty thousand houses between
North Carolina and Tennessee. So we need rebuilding efforts. We
need money to rebuild houses. You know, if you apply

(01:58):
for FEMA and you even get money, you're getting forty
thousand dollars. They have a cap of forty three thousand,
forty three thousands, a slap in the face for a
total loss house that was you know, that would cost
you two hundred and fifty plus thousand dollars to rebuild it.
So that those are the type of things that we need.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
If President Trump was watching this. What's priority one two three?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Priorty one two three is vehicles, replacing vehicles so people
can stand on their own two feet and get transportation
to work. Priority number two is housing. We have four
hundred and eighteen people right now just on our list
on the Tennessee side alone that needs some sort of repair,
some sort of rebuild. Maybe we have one hundred and
twenty five that are just complete rebuilds that are completely

(02:39):
demolished and cannot repair, and then probably long term care
for finances to be able to get on their feet.
When you lose everything, it's more than just like a
shot in the arm for an injection. You need support
for ninety days. You need support to be able to
get back on your feet, you know, helping with utilities,
money for you know, groceries like that. People don't take

(03:01):
into consideration what it costs to live. If you have
to start from scratch, and when you take away somebody's employment,
you take away their vehicle, you take away their house,
and already you're in a lower income area. People can't
pull their bootstraps up from that. They have to have
additional assistance. And most of these people, because we're going
into our four month. Even the people that had complete
devastation that took the buy out for the forty thousand,

(03:23):
they've had to live on that money for the last
you know, going into our fourth month now, they're not
going to have enough money to put a deposit down
on another house to buy a house. There's we have
a lack of houses to buy in our area to
begin with. And when you have a housing lose three
hundred jobs in an area. We have over one thousand
homes just on the Tennessee side. I think that we're
damaged or lost. And so there's you've got to have

(03:46):
something more than just putting a band aid on something.
You've got to have some care come in and you've
got to have people that are skilled to do this.
We were not meant to be long term care. We
were meant to be a hand up and an injection
into the community to help their larger organizations to pick
up where they should have picked up at and we
should have left off at. We've got to get your help.
We've got to get people in here.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Miss mister. Where do people go for for for you
and Tyler? Where do they go to find out more
By the efforts that you guys are doing. They want
to find it. Get more information.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
You can go to the aUI dot Org. Our address
is nine oh one North Main Avenue, Irwin, Tennessee, three
seven six five zero. You can come by and see
us directly.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
You can reach out to us on Facebook, the Appalachian
United Initiative.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Like I said, go to the aUI dot Org. That's
our website. A few different avenues of getting in touch
with us, Instagram, TikTok, you know, every social media platform
out there, you can reach us.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Appalation, uh, appllation, what United? What is it? Initiative? Appalachia United? Perfect,
Hang on, grace, Let's get that in the chat. Let's
go to is it? Mandy and James are not up there?
Mandy and James, Hey on the hill. We saw you

(05:07):
last night in the darken night. Give us an update,
tell us exactly what the problem is down there and
how how can this audience help and how could President
Trump help?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Were you helped last night? I got rich out to
this morning by a lady that's going to donate some
property to put some more people on in Welcome County.
So yeah, you already started to help as far as
the other. I'm looking forward to Monday.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, So what Mandy and James tell us the punch
list from President Trump? What is President Trump's team, his
new FEMA team, What do they need to what do
they need to focus on with you guys.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
Replace him?

Speaker 7 (05:49):
We need replacement homes. The campers are wonderful. We can
kind of move back and let you all see. There's
over our fifty campers up here and over one hundred people,
and I've linked you with more multiple hubs and camps
that are very much similar. But ultimately it's replacement housing.
We talked about, you know, a twelve by sixteen structure
that when you get up in the middle of the

(06:10):
night to use the restroom and you open the door
and all the heat escapes and you have to start
all over again with your woodstove or whatever your heating
source is before you can even go back to bed.
If you have children in the home and you have
to use the facilities, let's say for something a little
more serious, you know one two and are you doing
that in a bucket in front of your family in
a shed? I mean, we need replacement housing that is

(06:32):
sufficient for families to live in, not one room sheds.
This is difficult. This is just very difficult. And the
campers again are great. But in James's situation up here
at Haven on the Hill, you know they're boondocking. I
took a video this morning. You got two gentlemen at
fifty five gallon drums hand pumping fuel into gas cans

(06:53):
to go put in their neighbor's camper so that they
can start the generator to start their coffee. That's how
they start their day.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Where did people go to to We had good luck
last night with some folks. We've got a huge national
audience this morning. Where do people go for Haven on
the Hill? How they reach out to you guys? How
do they make contact the trist Do you want.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
To tell them?

Speaker 8 (07:14):
Though?

Speaker 9 (07:15):
So?

Speaker 10 (07:15):
I have Mighty Fortress Ministries, which is a five on
one C three up here. You can go to my phone.
I put mine out there for everybody, which is a
six five two nine, six eight eight zero five. I
answer every phone call. We have a website as well.
Mighty Fortress Ministries is our website, or we have a

(07:37):
Facebook Haven on the Heill. We answer every message, every
phone call.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
They can take a little walk.

Speaker 10 (07:42):
It may take us a little while because our phones
are always ringing, but they reach out and we do
whatever we can to help them, and we answer every
phone calls. It may take us the end of the
day to get back to them, but we make sure
that every need.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Is Is that on Facebook you said you go to
Haven on the Hill on Faceboo Boo is a website?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Yes, yes, yes, let's face look.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, can we have the phone number one more time?
Slowly this time so people can jot it down.

Speaker 10 (08:11):
Eight six five two nine six eight eight zero five.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, folks, thank you very much. We'll make sure something
and something happens. Can we go to Jason Ward at
Swan and Noah that's near Ashville's Jason there, I'm here,
Jason k Hey, can you tell us your situation in
Swann and Noah.

Speaker 11 (08:33):
We right now are currently running a hub out of
swannaoa North Carolina black Mountain at Silverado's It's valley Strong
disaster Leaf. We started I R five to Oho one
CE directly after this happened. We were in one of
the hardest hit areas. But whenever you say hardest hit,
you look around, somebody's hit worse. But we have been
running a hub out of there Valley Strong Disaster leaf

(08:55):
for the last one hundred and eleven days now, I think.

Speaker 8 (08:58):
And the knee has been so great.

Speaker 11 (09:01):
We have people in campers, we have people that are
being supplied.

Speaker 8 (09:05):
By the people. It's every day. The debris is everywhere.

Speaker 11 (09:11):
There's been no pick up hardly other than just by
independent sources.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
You pretty much name it. It's a nightmare situation.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Here, Jason. Why is no one? I mean, this is
one of the most beautiful parts of the country, you know,
Black Mountain. Why Why Why have no federal officials or
no state officials been all over this? Sir?

Speaker 11 (09:32):
You well, that's kind of in the question. I mean,
you know you can answer that as well as us.
Everywhere that we go, it's done by the people. Everything
we do is done by the people. And thank God
for the people, or we would be way worse than
what we are right now.

Speaker 8 (09:50):
And that's a pretty bad situation to be here.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Jason. No, it's untenable, it's inexcusable. What where do people
go to find out more about your and to find
out more about how they can assist you.

Speaker 11 (10:03):
We are at Valle Strong disasterlif dot org. You can
go there to our website, you can come volunteer.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
We are open. Our hub is open five days a week.

Speaker 11 (10:13):
Right now, we have volunteers from nine am to eleven
and we're just supplying food pro paine or eleven to six.
I'm sorry. We provide pro paine all kinds of the
needs that the people people are looking for.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Man, no excuse for this, but this will change next Monday.
But between now and then, one more time Jason, where
they go to find out more about your situation.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
Vally Strong, Disasterlief dot.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Org, Jason Board and just want to Noah, thank you
very much, sir, thank you. I realized everything falls back
on this audience. But this is just not acceptable. I mean,
and you see Los Angeles, and the thing in Los
Angeles is horrific, But the thing in Los Angeles is

(11:05):
not just simply a natural disaster. The situation in Los
Angeles is criminal negligence by government officials. I mean, the
coast good from all over. You had Josh Pettitt on
the other day talking about that, this interlinking environmental groups
and commissions that have locked things in. You've got a
governor that should be recalled immediately and replaced. You've got
a mayor that just thought to be fired, and you know,

(11:27):
the Just Department. There shouldn't be a penny that goes
out there in disaster relief until we get some things
right and find out, you know, particularly the arrogance of
California officials about sanctuary cities and being a sanctuary state.
Got to get right with that. Not one penny can
go into California if they're diverting money for sanctuary cities.

(11:48):
And they're diverting money, I think they got a fifty
million dollar fund to resist President Trump. Sorry, sorry, not sorry,
can't happen. Let's go to Jason's side down I think, Jason,
are you on the Virginia Are you on the Virginia
side of North Carolina and Tennessee, Sir.

Speaker 9 (12:02):
We're actually we have folks that are working up in
that area. We're covering all of western North Carolina, but
we're headquartered out of McDowell County or Maria, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And tell us what the situation is down there.

Speaker 9 (12:17):
Well, so the situation just like everybody else described, it's bad, right,
We're not getting what we need. It's all it's a
matter of you know, neighbors helping neighbors. Right, the only
thing we get is what we can provide for ourselves,
what people are willing to bring us from other parts
of the country, whether it be canned goods, whether it
be campers, whatever it is. That's the only way that
we're surviving down here.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Now, I'm gonna ask you why, why this is what's
so shocking? You know, these three four states of the
heart of Magya country. Well, forget, I mean, FEMA is
a bit terrible, that's Biden and I'm sure that's payback
from the Biden folks. But what about local officials? What
about local what about the state governments?

Speaker 9 (12:57):
Well, you know, unfortunately, I believe there's a lot of
people that are still playing politics and they're not prioritizing
their own people. But I think it's coming down to
the fact that you know, from the scarcity that we've witnessed,
they're just not doing what's right. They're doing what's right
for them.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Jason, where do people go to find out more about you,
your efforts, your organization, and about your specific needs.

Speaker 9 (13:24):
Now, yeah, go to project your Home dot com, or
you can go to project your Home on any of
the social media platforms. And we even have an app,
project Your Home app where you can apply for housing
and get other resources, perhaps being updated almost daily with
additional resources for everybody that's been affected by the hurricane.

(13:45):
Project Your Home.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Jason Saddel, thank you very much. Andre. Have you guys
on here? Short commercial break back to wrap it up
in the warm in the morning edition next.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Use your Stephen K Bath.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Okay, I guess we're gonna come to me. I wasn't
going to go to is a take crews with the pimp.
Let's go to tak crews of PAMBONDI real quickly. It
will come back and wrap up and tell you what
we're gonna do during the day and tonight when you
come back and see us.

Speaker 12 (14:19):
Four separate times and two assassination attempts, Senator.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
I have to say Javert from Les Miz would be
chagrined at the efforts of Democrats to do anything possible
to take him down. And I believe the real target
in this was not President Trump, but it was the
American people that these prosecutions were brought because partisan prosecutors

(14:44):
were terrified if the American people would do exactly what
they did. In November of twenty twenty four, and vote
to re elect Donald J.

Speaker 12 (14:52):
Trump by seventy seven point three percent million Americans. Seventy
seven point three million Americans.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
Will you commit.

Speaker 13 (15:07):
Every day as attorney general to follow the law, to
follow the Constitution, to uphold the rule of law, without
favor and without regard to the partisan position of any
criminal defendant. Yes, Senator, that's what we should all expect

(15:27):
from an attorney general.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
We'll now recess for thirty minute lunch break. That means
we'll be back at twelve twenty five. Let me have it.
We're going to go back soon as you tell me
about Rubio or go back to him. Okay, we're going
to conclude our coverag chair in about five or six minutes.
We're gonna pass right over to the Charlie Kirkshaw. There's
not going to be any break. Real America's voice, Parker

(15:53):
and Rob Sig I've worked this out. Charlie be covering
a lot of this this evening. And then then and
then Jack Pasovic, somebody's give me a signal, right here,
can we go to Rubia real quickly? Let's go to.

Speaker 14 (16:07):
Rubia thirteen years to Turkmenistan or ta Jikistan, very important strategically.
One of the first goals the caucus at Center Gary
Peters and I creative Central Asia is to repeal the
Jackson Vanik label on the region and extend permanent normal
tribulations with Kazakhstan and Azbekostan. I realize you have a
lot of priorities on your plate when you will be

(16:29):
confirmed as our secretary, but I would say rescinding it
would be a good faith indication the Jackson van acquorments
that Central Asian needs.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Right now to grow.

Speaker 14 (16:38):
My question is would you work with me in Center
Peters to have your team work with us to remove
this designation?

Speaker 15 (16:46):
Yeah, and I believe the permanent removali require legislative action.
I don't think Senator Murphy has a bill on that
as well. Yours is the three countries. Look, I think
this is a relic of an era that's passed. There
are some that argue that we should use it as
leverage for human rights concessions or leverage to get them
to go stronger in our way as opposed to Russia
and the like. But I think in some cases and
it's an absurd relic of the past. I think it's

(17:09):
Kazakhstan who the Department of Commerce has already said is
in market economy. In fact, I think they they hosted
the wt O Ministeria just a couple of years ago,
so just they've met the conditions something that we will
work with you on this because I think it's important start.

Speaker 14 (17:24):
I think it's it's a neglected part of the world.
For working with Center Murphy on this. You know that
C five plus one, which the Central Asian countries plus
the United States. I hope we can work with President
Trump actually to think about maybe hosting some kind of
a summit.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
They're very strategic.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Afflect with you see the tragedy. You know it's Rubio
doing fine. Pam boundies holding her own rat clips, holding
their own numbers two zero two two two four three
one two one. Make sure your voice is still needed.
Let's get these over the top, get them confirmed. Democrats
try to take shots chief shots that I can tell
you all three or are hanging in there. This is

(17:58):
not a Pete hexath. You don't see the What they're
trying to do is chop Pam up on reporting to
the president. She's trying They're trying to chop her up
on the twenty twenty election. They're trying to chop her
up on Jay sixth and particularly the part and trying
to chop her up on Cash Mattel, but she's she's
holding her own. Marco Rubio doing a solid job, great,
great introduction. He's having a c right there. He's handling

(18:20):
these questions like a pro and he's put out of
very America First policy. They're going to try to get
him on NATO and other things, but I'm sure Sentter
Rubia holds on Ratcliffe hanging in there also. But the
CIA needs almost as big a reorganization and deconstruction as
the FBI. So I hope these I know what it
takes to get confirmed, but I hope these people are

(18:40):
still focused on mission. You see the situation in where
the deplorables are, where MAGA is in Georgia and North Carolina,
that part of Virginia, Appleation part of Virginia and also
Tennessee not acceptable. So we're gonna get with Ben after
the show, figure out what we can do. And look,
this is this should be the federal in the state government.
The people rely upon you guys, and the charity you

(19:02):
give is unbelievable. But this is what's carried these people
so far is individual charity right when government should have
stepped in. This is why you pay taxes, This is
why you have these emergency measures. Mike Lindell want to
go to you, Mike. They're coming in and then listen,
they're coming after Lindelle. They got these audits going on.
They're trying to chop him up every way possible. Now
they're getting on folks. Guess why because he's selling these

(19:24):
crosses that are selling out NonStop, So they're all over
him on that. Tell me about that, Mike, and then
tell me what else you got for the audience today.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah. I just reading an article here cash Strap, Mega
pillow entrepreneur Mike Lindell is now selling right cross necklaces.
It goes on and this is the only place we
remember this has been a war room exclusive everybody. And
then it goes on to say, you know that I'm
a conspiracy theorist and you know, and bash me through
the article. But it's not a bad article. It's getting good,

(19:52):
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(20:12):
design them and uh, but the media has been calling
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(20:34):
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(20:56):
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(21:17):
off you know, and I think they've crossed the line here,
I really do, But they don't care. The Independent was
the first one that called me this morning and to attack.
I wondered how they were gonna spin that I might
come on the Warroom show. They attacked me. What's up
with that?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Hopefully so's about our reach, but I know they's a
warm posse and the cadres everything love love the cross
one more time. How do you get how do you
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(22:08):
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Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, thank you, Mike, appreciate.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
You, thanks you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Afternoon, very sobering down there in the heart of Maga country.
We're gonna get to the bottom of all that, this
famous situation of the Quoe unquote running int of cash.
Tomorrow you're gonna have Scott Bessant up on his on
his confirmation hearing this is why I go to Birch
Gold now to get the birch Gold dot com slash Bannon,

(22:56):
to get the end of the dollar empire. You're seeing
the constrain ain'ts on the US government. Everybody's crying. You're
going to quarter of a tree and dollars turing to
fifty billion dollars out in California. Got to think this
through and you get first, you got to get off
this radical theory of modern monetary theory It got us
into this place because the lords of easy money, the
oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the local class in DC wanted it.

(23:18):
They wanted it. It's on your shoulders to get us
out of here. Folks hate to put another burden on you,
but that's just reality. And you know why, because you've
got the right stuff going to end with that beautiful
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(23:38):
masterpiece by Tom Will. Film by Philip Kaufman. Charlie Kirk's
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