00:03:05.760April 2nd, yes, of course, April 2nd, 2026.
00:03:08.740Anno Domini. Here live in studio riding shotgun co-pilot today is Benny Ray Harmony,
00:03:15.320our Washington, D.C. correspondent for Real America's Voice, and as longtime viewers will
00:03:20.220remember, the original producer of Human Events. What's up, Benny Ray?
00:03:23.340Oh, nothing, Jack. Just happy to be here.
00:03:25.160Well, and we see, of course, another big day and yet another change in the White House as we've
00:03:33.140seen another cabinet official is now moving out. News just breaking, really just before we went
00:03:39.840to air here, that A.G. Bondi will be leaving the Department of Justice. And in fact, Deputy Attorney
00:03:46.200General Todd Blanche is moving in as the interim head of the Department of Justice. And interestingly
00:03:52.240enough, we had Todd Blanche here on this program just a few days ago for a full sit-down interview
00:03:58.640where we talked about all things Antifa, we talked about the Epstein releases,
00:04:04.560we talked about the Charlie Kirk case, and he was able to give us as much information as we could.
00:04:09.700So just a few days ago, we had Todd Blanchon, which unbeknownst to myself,
00:04:14.640and his staff certainly didn't notice or certainly didn't mention to us that this would be coming up.
00:04:20.280So this may have been a bit of a surprise move.
00:04:22.340We've also seen, of course, just in the last few days,
00:04:25.480that it was the Department of Homeland Security had its turnover of Kristi Noem and then the
00:04:31.600takeover by Mullins. You're here in D.C. You're on the Hill. You're hearing this over and over.
00:04:37.220What do you what is your make? What are you hearing out of Capitol Hill in terms of some of the
00:04:41.460turnover that's going on? And to be sure, usually at the one year mark, you do see turnover in the
00:04:46.480cabinet. How much of this is that versus how much of this from your from what you're hearing
00:04:50.700is, is the president, you know, putting people into different spots?
00:04:54.940Well, I will say, I remember we were sitting in the briefing room the day that it was announced
00:04:58.040that Kristi Noem was being replaced. And the first topic next was, what's it going to do with Pam
00:05:03.660Bondi? A lot of people had questions. They kind of, I think people saw this coming a little bit.
00:05:07.340There were some questions surrounding it. We were talking about, you know, she's done an excellent
00:05:11.500job and she's been a Trump loyalist for, you know, how many years has been by his side,
00:05:16.180but there have been... She was right. She was right there in Philadelphia in 2020.
00:05:18.760Right there. I mean, she really has not left his side. And so I think that it's probably a difficult decision. What are you going to do? But, you know, with Kristi Noem now leaving and with Pam Bondi, like I said, there's lots of conversations around it. But also, I think this shows kind of the movement of the administration.
00:05:38.480I think a lot of even people in the press, they can see that whereas in former administrations, the president's kind of just even if they weren't happy with the performance of their cabinet members, they didn't do anything.
00:05:48.840And so this shows President Trump he's on top of it and he has certain goals, certain missions that he wants to accomplish.
00:05:53.000And even if that person that he first put into place maybe isn't that person anymore, he's going to relocate them and try new.
00:06:00.520And so I think overall, I mean, I think this was a good move, but I think there are going to be a lot of questions surrounding it.
00:06:05.700Well, and of course, we're digging in as well. And, you know, a lot of questions, of course, to come up. Will there be more? Will there be more turnover for the administration? If there's this rumor that Lee Zeldin may come over from EPA. So, of course, that would create another opening.
00:06:22.660Todd Blanchett, you'll have him interim. And then what's going to happen after that? Is he going to go back to being second in line? What's that going to look like?
00:06:28.700Or maybe he goes over to EPA. Yeah. There's quite a bit. The musical chairs. And of course,
00:06:34.160we know that in the first administration, there was turnover as well. So that is certainly to
00:06:39.620be expected as we are hurtling towards a midterm election in November as well. The president giving
00:06:46.780his remarks last night. We were live here on Real America's Voice, Benny Ray, myself,
00:06:51.300covering all of that in real time. So stay tuned for more. We're going to have updates on this
00:06:57.480And as it develops, Human Events Daily continues here live, Washington, D.C.
00:07:19.420And in our way and our golden age has just begun.
00:07:23.180This is Human Events with Jack Posobo.
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00:17:16.020And also I think someone – I think Pambani was also not the most sophisticated social media user.
00:17:21.860It didn't have a great understanding of the way new media worked, and as a result, some of the communications from her department under her leadership felt a little stilted.
00:17:29.060I think that a new AG who's a little more savvy, because, you know, remember,
00:17:33.480Pam Bondi wasn't in office for quite a long time, and Lee Zeldin was a representative very recently.
00:17:41.360My old boss, Ron DeSantis, I think would be an excellent attorney general, for example.
00:17:44.160So a lot of good names floated, and I think they'll do a better job of handling that public-facing role that the AG is really, really key for.
00:17:53.620Well, that being said, when you have the AG turnover like this, does it have a strong effect, would you say, on specific cases that may be ongoing?
00:18:05.120Not unless you get rid of the whole top floor, right?
00:18:07.360Like if suddenly Blanche was gone and Stan Woodward, who I believe is the number three at DOJ, was gone, that actually could cause real problems because then you have to get a whole new set of people up to speed on all the important matters.
00:18:19.760But as long as Todd, I mean, Todd Blanche actually has more people reporting to him on a day to day basis than Pam Bondi does.
00:18:24.460That's the way the department is structured. So as long as you keep Todd around, you're going to have the continuity.
00:18:28.980And I don't expect any hiccups. No, I think that's exactly right.
00:18:33.660Well, well, are you with us for another segment? We can hold you over. Sure. OK, great.
00:18:38.340Yeah, we'll hold we'll hold you over because there's so much going on.
00:18:41.800I definitely want to get into that. Maybe pick your brain a little bit on where we stand in the Supreme Court with this.
00:18:47.100Jack Posobiec, Benny Ray Harmony, sitting shotgun today.
00:18:50.820My co-pilot here on Human Events Daily in Washington, D.C.
00:18:58.480Talk about influences. These are influences.
00:19:37.800And you kind of fly by the wind, you know what I mean?
00:19:40.880And so that's what me and Bo kind of did. And we did. It was it was awesome to see.
00:19:45.040So I want to get Will Chamberlain. So, Will, we, of course, were covering the Supreme Court case yesterday.
00:19:51.440We had your colleague, Mike Davis, on the program.
00:19:54.520He and I think a lot of people said that, you know, doesn't look as if the Supreme Court is going to rule for the administration on this question of birthright citizenship.
00:20:04.320And so we got into an interesting discussion of what could be done in response then?
00:20:11.300What other alternatives for belief would there be?
00:20:14.180And I suggest, I'll throw it right out there, what if we just ran a massive campaign?0.65
00:20:18.840What if we turned the entire 2026 midterm elections into, go with me on this, illegal immigration amendment to the Constitution?0.53
00:20:28.620Couldn't we do that? Why can't we do that?0.72
00:20:31.400We could. I mean, we're never going to have sufficient votes to actually get those things
00:20:35.620enacted. But I mean, running on them is not a bad idea at all. I also I mean, I do want to say I'm
00:20:40.400you know, and I can I'm allowed to disagree with my boss. Right. I actually am a little more
00:20:45.180optimistic, not necessarily that I think it's more likely than not that will prevail. But I think I
00:20:49.460think Mike is a little more blackpilled than I am on the oral argument. Having listened to the way
00:20:54.800that they went after the ACLU attorney, I thought that they were a lot of the justices were asking
00:20:58.960the right questions, specifically Gorsuch, Alito, Kavanaugh, we're all asking really good
00:21:04.120questions. So I'm not sure that won't, I think it could be a 5-4. I think we might actually swing
00:21:09.160it. But, you know, assuming we don't, assuming my boss is correct on this question. That's one
00:21:15.460thing we can do. I think we can push for illegal immigration amendments. Let me also just throw0.99
00:21:19.140out there as well that perhaps rather than a sweeping opposition, there are also times when
00:21:25.040the court puts out, you know, things that are sort of in part. So, you know, they could sort of put
00:21:31.220out a narrow, they could narrow the scope of birthright citizenship, so not do away with it
00:21:36.500completely, but perhaps make it so that there are some stricter guidelines that need to be followed,
00:21:41.500that sort of thing. Yeah, and it's curious, you know, one of the big questions is like,
00:21:46.520what does the phrase subject to the jurisdiction mean? And the ACLU's contention is that it means
00:21:52.600a limited closed set of three exceptions that were extant at the time of the enactment of the
00:21:58.72014th Amendment. And I think, you know, Kavanaugh had this really interesting point about how,
00:22:03.500you know, if that was the case, why didn't they just list those exceptions rather than coming up
00:22:08.280with this sort of general phrase that could apply to other people as well? So I think you could
00:22:13.380easily see a world where, you know, temporary sojourners who were discussed at the time,
00:22:17.480the amendment, they were much rarer, but they were discussed. Children of temporary sojourners,
00:22:20.520nobody would have thought they would have gotten0.99
00:24:00.440But there are also a number of procedural questions and procedural items that could be done here, possibly not even just the federal level, but even on the state level.
00:24:10.340When you're talking about the birth certificates that the state health departments are issuing, they could simply write non-citizen on them and simply label them as non-citizen.
00:24:18.600I believe the attorney general of Oklahoma has talked about visas are another way.
00:24:23.660What are some of the other options that the administration could look at?
00:24:27.500I don't know that those would work if we straight up lost this birthright citizenship case.
00:24:31.540People need to understand that it's a bad outcome if we lose it fully, because it means that birthright citizenship becomes constitutionalized at the federal level, which means the states can't do things that contradict it.
00:24:40.700So I don't know that that would survive.0.63
00:24:42.400What I think we can do, though, is the federal government has enormous authority when it comes to letting people in and out of the country.
00:24:47.700And so there could be a major crackdown on tourist visa issuances from China, other sorts of visa issuances from China in order to stop birthright citizenship.
00:24:56.820I don't know. Maybe you could also put in place rules that say, you know, from certain nations, you're you cannot be pregnant when you show up.0.77
00:25:03.020And like that would be a very interesting one, because it would mean that, you know, if you're visibly pregnant, you're you know, you're not allowed to get a tourist visa.
00:25:11.240You just get turned away. Benny, Benny, Benny's making a face. Benny, what's the face?
00:25:17.880I you know, Benny, are you breaking news on the show here?
00:25:20.640Listen, I am all, Jack, stop. I am all for it. I just wonder how the Democrats and how the liberals would twist that and make it discrimination on pregnant people at that point and then contradict themselves again when they don't really care about pregnant people to begin with.
00:25:38.460But wait, wait, wait. Of course it's discrimination. That's the role of the visa process. That's what a border is. A border is inherently discriminatory.
00:25:46.320Our entire immigration law is built on discriminating between immigrants of various kinds based on various factors.
00:25:51.760Every immigration law and every rule is discrimination.0.97
00:26:35.540More discrimination ahead here on Human Events Daily.
00:26:43.520Where 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 Pulisic.
00:28:15.260We've seen, of course, you know, the ups and downs of her tenure at the Department of Justice.
00:28:21.440Wanted to get your take on it because we're seeing, you know, that it's sort of the one-year itch that I think is coming up with cabinet officials.
00:28:28.580you know it's like a year and change since the cabinet's been in and you look at the
00:28:33.320confirmation process it really is the one year mark do you think that's what this is or do you
00:28:38.320think there's something more political going on here throw it to you rich rich barris well look
00:28:43.220i've got to pull no punches when it comes to the attorney general as a public opinion pollster it's
00:28:48.200a little hard to point to a single cabinet member who may have hurt the president more than pan
00:28:53.000Bondi. Nobody, you know, nobody is the face of the Epstein file situation more than her. We've
00:29:00.640pulled this, Jack. You've seen it. She's the most unpopular cabinet member in the administration.
00:29:05.640This is a better late than never. I would have liked to see this earlier as far as just, you
00:29:11.320know, the political side of this, you know, what the president, you know, needs to do in order to
00:29:17.040clean the slate, Jack. You know, it is that one year mark, right? And we're going to see a lot
00:29:21.020more probably after the midterms uh but that's that's normal but pam bondy uh is again you know
00:29:27.860not just with you know democrats and independents there are even a lot of republicans who were
00:29:33.400pretty much done with pam bondy at this point this is good this long time coming honestly
00:29:38.060so you think this is something now that being said though uh you know we've seen a lot from
00:29:43.580the president we saw this this speech last night uh this really was there and and by the way rich
00:29:48.380this is something that, you know, the president, when he goes big, he wants to go big. So you saw
00:29:52.400this big speech, this big moment that he gave last night. Now we're seeing Pam. So do you think
00:29:58.080that perhaps he's trying to sort of show some big moves from the White House that are really going
00:30:04.920to grab, you know, grab people's attention? And perhaps, you know, just perhaps he's trying to
00:30:10.600shift some of the narrative regarding the administration that, of course, we've seen
00:31:13.600But I think the president, and I've said this for a while, even though I have been very critical and I've been not optimistic going into November, if anyone can do this, Jack, it's him.
00:31:23.580And he knows exactly what to do in order to shift.
00:31:26.620It's not like he doesn't, in order to make that shift, which needs to be a big shift.
00:31:30.620I just would caution, though, and say, I just hope we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
00:31:36.140You know, make some changes, do what you got to do.
00:31:38.140But, you know, there's obviously we're hearing other rumors.
00:31:41.380you know let's just let's just hope we get this one today and uh we'll see how it goes in the
00:31:46.540future but this is a big step because pan bondy is the face of his first real the real sign of
00:31:52.860trouble jack and his approval rating and in the coalition pan bondy's the face of it so um you
00:31:58.760know for anyone who wants to see or has been wanting to see what you're talking about this
00:32:03.000is a good day well and we have seen we have seen turnover as well we've seen christy noem
00:32:08.720It happens. You know, she's she's gone out. Dan Bongino, by the way, who, you know, wasn't a cabinet member, but also extremely, extremely high profile, certainly, again, with the base.
00:32:19.900And so, Rich, let me ask you this. Do you think in terms of calibration, assuming this is political for sake of argument, do you think this is calibrated as for the base or perhaps more for that broader coalition of voters that seem to have drifted away since 2024?
00:32:36.720Yeah, I think that's why this is so smart, because it is broad.
00:32:41.480When you look at the polling that we did, you know, at the end of the day, Donald Trump is beloved by the base, Jack.
00:32:49.760You know, I mean, they give him so much benefit of the doubt, right?
00:32:53.380This has to go toward the people who are new to the coalition and, you know, loosely aligned.
00:32:59.360I wouldn't even say, you know, they were dating with the Republican Party.
00:33:03.160You didn't even get to take them out to dinner yet.
00:33:05.200They came over in 24 and they were flirting with the idea. And Pam Bond is, again, central to their souring somewhat. So I do think it's to them, which is smart, right? The base is going to go along with whatever, because the base is different folks in that, like when you hear arguments, no matter what, Democrats are worse, so we have to vote, right?
00:33:28.180That's a base argument. But for this move and for people who are out there and that argument's not good enough for them, that's for them.
00:33:37.860And by the way, I hate to say this, but some voters are more important than others, right?
00:33:42.200Some voters are always going to show up, others not so much. And this is for them. And that's why it's good.
00:33:48.420And Rich, I don't know if you, I don't know if Jack kind of already asked this question, but with your research that you do and kind of just with how much you're watching,
00:33:56.420We know some of these main issues going into the midterms that are going to be huge for voters.
00:34:00.740But, you know, after we heard Trump's speech last night, what do you think people really care about the most right now that is going to be the difference maker, if you have any?
00:34:10.900Yeah, that's why I do like to see him make big moves and pivot, because you can go out there and say we achieved our objectives and we won, even take the W and go home.
00:34:20.280But it doesn't help people pay their grocery bill.
00:34:22.680It doesn't help people pay their mortgage.
00:34:24.020So I do want to see the president shift into something else and start, you know, the news, the headlines, they're constantly dominated by foreign policy.
00:34:32.000Foreign policy is number seven on our rank distribution for most important issues.
00:36:17.280Going down to the Supreme Court, taking up birthright citizenship.
00:36:20.380Rich, I want to make sure before we bounce that we do talk about the fact that you have a new book that is racing up the charts on Amazon with Joshua Lysak, our good friend.
00:39:08.480Oh, my gosh, and I have it framed in my house.
00:39:10.240We have that, well, Tanya and I got married in Valley Forge, so that's, yeah, yeah, so that's, for us, we got engaged there, too, actually.
00:39:21.820I grew up, like, you know, going there all the time, Valley Forge, like, every weekend with my family, flying kites, whatever, sledding in the winter, and that's always been so close.
00:39:30.720But what I love about the Museum of the Bible, there's so much stuff for families that if you have kids, you can there's there's tons of interactive stuff for kids.
00:39:37.980There's like a playground area, but it's all it's all like, you know, obviously biblical.
00:39:41.400But then even for like the Bible nerds like me, if you go to that top floor and even like Tanya, because she does the languages.
00:39:48.900I love the section on the translations and the all the different translations of it.
00:39:55.520And the partial pieces of the Bible that have been found over the years, it gives you goosebumps.
00:40:52.660But when you look at the Dead Sea Scrolls,
00:40:54.880What was amazing about it, because they had been, you talk about the translation, they had been under seal from the time of Christ until now.
00:41:04.660And yet we have all these translations over the years.
00:41:07.220And of course, there's that question, right?
00:41:13.420Did they change things up a little bit to meet the politics?
00:41:16.600And to be sure, you know, there are translations that do play a little fast and loose, but not to get into all that.
00:41:21.660But what's amazing was when they pulled those pots out of Qumran in that cave for the Dead Sea Scrolls, they were able to take that and then put it up to the Bible of today.
00:41:32.320It was mostly Old Testament, and they were able to find the translations were almost verbatim, almost verbatim perfect.
00:41:41.220And so now you have a check that that means that so throughout those years, when people were translating it, they were doing so faithfully.
00:41:47.880And when they were copying it down, we get a little we get a little of that.