Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 29, 2025


American Stasi - Declassified Documents Show Biden FBI Spied on 160 Conservatives, TPUSA


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

183.70457

Word Count

8,918

Sentence Count

739

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

What happens when the Fourth Turning meets 5th Generation Warfare? A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran joins host Jack Posoe to discuss the latest news and notes from the past 24 hours. President Trump visits South Korea for his third and final stop on his tour of the region, while China's Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, D.C. for a meeting the president is optimistic will garner results. A new poll of likely voters in New Jersey s gubernatorial race shows Democrat Mikey Sherrill leading Republican Mikie Sherrill by 10 points going into Tuesday s primary election. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Jackson, Miss., and the big party is on down in Ole Miss.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:39.360 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:00:46.040 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
00:00:48.980 Christ is king.
00:00:50.720 Israel launching retaliatory strikes inside Gaza and threatening more after accusing Hamas of violating their peace agreement.
00:00:57.440 14 narco-terrorists just became fish food.
00:01:00.500 These strikes are turning up the pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, along with a stepped-up U.S. military presence in the region.
00:01:08.600 The Justice Department announced a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
00:01:14.120 A key U.S. senator warning on 60 Minutes, Maduro's running out of time.
00:01:18.120 President Trump is in South Korea this morning for the third and final stop on his tour of the region.
00:01:23.680 The president's arrival last night came after North Korea announced it test-fired sea-to-surface cruise missiles off its western coast.
00:01:32.180 Now, despite the escalation, South Korea's leader put on a lavish welcome for President Trump.
00:01:36.700 You see it here, awarding him the country's highest honor as the pair are set to work on ironing out a trade deal.
00:01:43.160 Meanwhile, attention is also on President Trump's highly anticipated meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping Thursday.
00:01:50.640 A meeting the president is optimistic will garner results.
00:01:53.780 I think we're going to have a deal. I think it'll be a good deal for both.
00:01:57.540 And that's really a great result.
00:01:59.600 The world is watching.
00:02:01.360 And I think we'll have something that's very exciting for everybody.
00:02:04.300 In the most consequential election the city has seen in recent memory, it's a race the whole country is watching.
00:02:11.720 A new Suffolk University poll of likely voters shows him trailing Mamdani by 10 percentage points.
00:02:17.460 And Gothamist crunched some numbers, did some analysis of early voting data.
00:02:22.860 And what Gothamist came up with is that more than half of those who voted early this weekend are 55 and older.
00:02:29.160 Experts say that could be an encouraging sign for Cuomo.
00:02:32.980 The Jersey gubernatorial candidate, Mikey Sherrill, taking her campaign on the road.
00:02:37.460 The Democrat just kicked off a bus tour called Driving Down Costs.
00:02:41.320 Sherrill launched the event in Bloomfield and plans to chat with voters in each of the state's 21 counties in the coming days.
00:02:47.500 Meanwhile, Republican Jack Cittarelli has a full plate on his own.
00:02:50.600 His diner tour continued this morning in Madison.
00:02:53.940 And later today, Cittarelli will be in Camden and Gloucester counties hosting two rallies for early voting.
00:02:59.940 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:04.440 Today is October 29th, 2025.
00:03:07.400 Anno Domini.
00:03:09.060 The American Stasi.
00:03:11.360 Now, we've done enough programs here on Human Events Daily fighting against the FBI's recklessness,
00:03:18.100 reckless work and reckless, just complete disdain for the law and disdain for political opponents and targeting political opponents last year.
00:03:28.620 And now we've got the receipts.
00:03:31.200 I want to get into all of that today.
00:03:33.460 And we will with a Jay Sixer himself who will be joining us.
00:03:37.800 I just want to tell you right now, by the way, that before I forget, tonight, the big party is on down in Ole Miss.
00:03:46.260 And huge event tonight.
00:03:47.620 If you can't be there, make sure you are watching this.
00:03:50.880 Make sure you're locked in.
00:03:52.380 J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, along with Erica Kirk, our CEO at Turning Point USA,
00:04:01.100 are going to be on stage together down at Ole Miss.
00:04:06.120 So today is the day that Charlie would have been there.
00:04:09.640 This, of course, was at the University of Mississippi, right there in Jackson.
00:04:13.460 And this would have been when Charlie was arriving.
00:04:18.580 This is obviously his new, we've reformatted the tour.
00:04:22.480 And it's incredible to see Vice President J.D. Vance and the new CEO of Turning Point USA, Erica Kirk, will be appearing live.
00:04:32.060 And I'm told the vice president, at least, will be taking questions.
00:04:35.060 Not sure if Erica will take questions or not.
00:04:37.000 We'll have to see exactly how the format goes.
00:04:39.840 But it's incredible that they're both going to be there.
00:04:42.340 And as far as I know, I've checked in on this.
00:04:44.340 As far as I know, this might be the first time that Erica has done a campus tour before or a campus stop like this.
00:04:53.620 So it's really going to be interesting.
00:04:55.400 And obviously, you know, she'd done them.
00:04:57.060 She'd done so many events with Charlie.
00:04:58.560 But this will be one of the first times.
00:05:00.460 So people really need to tune in tonight.
00:05:03.600 I believe it starts around 7 o'clock.
00:05:06.180 And so make sure you tune in.
00:05:07.320 I'm, of course, going to share that across my social media profiles.
00:05:10.700 And it's going to be great.
00:05:11.540 And God bless to everybody who's going to be out there.
00:05:13.320 And don't worry, because we are taking everyone's security very, very seriously, working with multiple levels of police, with law enforcement, local, state, and, yes, of course, federal, to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch.
00:05:27.940 And, yes, of course, with the vice president there, Secret Service, it will also be indoors.
00:05:34.960 Getting back to the FBI, we've uncovered, and I've just been running through these 200 pages of documents that were released by House Judiciary Committee.
00:05:43.320 One of the first things that popped out of me is very simple.
00:05:47.560 Turning Point USA.
00:05:48.920 And you go right there, you zoom right in, and it's, what does it say?
00:05:52.280 Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point USA.
00:05:55.480 And that, of course, was and is Tyler Boyer.
00:06:00.300 Tyler is, of course, the COO of Turning Point Action.
00:06:04.760 And you look, and his name is redacted, but we know it's him, because they were going after him for what they called the, quote, unquote, electors scheme, which is something that Tyler was indicted for in Arizona.
00:06:16.060 But here's what's interesting.
00:06:18.240 They always claimed that this was just the state of Arizona, the same way they did it in Georgia, the same way they did it in, I believe, Wisconsin and Michigan as well.
00:06:26.240 They always claimed that these were just state-level prosecutions.
00:06:29.600 Well, now we have the facts.
00:06:31.480 It was, in fact, the federal government, which we always knew.
00:06:34.840 We always knew the feds were behind this.
00:06:36.720 We always knew it was Biden.
00:06:37.820 We always knew it was Chris Wray.
00:06:39.120 We knew it all along.
00:06:40.740 Jack Smith was the one who dug up this information.
00:06:44.480 But then when he couldn't find a specific federal crime to go after them for, he passed it off to the Democrat AGs.
00:06:50.640 So this was Jack Smith's plan all along to take the J-6 operation, and that's what it was, ladies and gentlemen, operation, and move it forward just like the Stasi.
00:06:59.640 And just like the Stasi in East Berlin and East Germany, after the Berlin Wall fell, you could go and request your surveillance file from the Stasi, find out who they were spying on and what cases they were looking at their political enemies for.
00:07:17.680 Guess what, ladies and gentlemen?
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00:09:20.740 So as we're talking about all this, we're digging into Arctic Frost, these new revelations that have come out.
00:09:26.420 The J6ers were so unfairly targeted and persecuted for everything that they did and everything they went through over the four years.
00:09:35.160 Now we're finding that Jack Smith, who ran this entire thing like a communist-style Stasi operation, was doing the same thing to patriots all across the country, including, by the way, my friend Tyler Boyer, which we just broke the story that his name was, of course, on the Arctic Frost list.
00:09:52.580 I wanted to get on someone who knows all too well the power of the federal government and what they can do and how they can unduly do it.
00:10:01.540 His name is Brandon Straka, and you know him, of course, from the great walkaway campaign.
00:10:07.100 But now we also know him as a man who has been a political dissident.
00:10:10.960 Brandon, how are you, my friend?
00:10:13.360 See you, Jack.
00:10:13.860 Thanks for having me.
00:10:14.460 Well, I just have to ask, man, you know, after everything you've gone through, do you feel at all a sense of vindication, at least knowing that, you know, the truth is finally coming out?
00:10:27.420 I think, yes, the answer is yes.
00:10:30.460 I do think that there were opportunities for the truth to begin to emerge a lot sooner than this.
00:10:36.400 I mean, one of the really unfortunate things about January 6th is that and all of the weaponization of the government that was taking place over the last during the four Biden years is that it really created a climate of fear.
00:10:49.240 And I think intimidation and even really isolation, I think, for a lot of people, a lot of people were afraid to associate with me and a lot of people were afraid to even have people like me on to share our stories about what was going on.
00:11:05.920 You know, so, I mean, it was a very sort of isolating experience, but I think that is one of the unfortunate things.
00:11:11.280 And this is, by the way, why they do things like this.
00:11:14.100 This is why all of this was happening.
00:11:16.060 This was a coordinated attempt by our government to try to not only destroy Donald Trump, but to destroy the MAGA movement in general and to also make conservatives afraid, afraid to go out and engage in activism, afraid to go out and start organizations, afraid to start movements and afraid to associate with one another.
00:11:32.180 And it goes far beyond just, you know, charging people with crimes as you're I'm sure we're about to get into in this discussion when you're just even under investigation.
00:11:41.440 Then that sends the message out to other people.
00:11:43.760 Oh, they're looking at his emails.
00:11:45.060 They're looking at his text messages.
00:11:46.420 They're looking at his phone calls.
00:11:48.180 Maybe we shouldn't email him.
00:11:49.580 Maybe we shouldn't text him.
00:11:50.960 They try to kind of fragment everybody and create this division because they want to make people afraid to be able to organize and come together and build with each other.
00:11:59.400 Well, that's exactly right.
00:12:01.660 And you look at some of the names that were on this list.
00:12:04.420 You look at the names of the J6ers.
00:12:06.160 You look at the names of prominent J6ers like yourself who were and are, you know, leading such incredible movements all around the country.
00:12:14.820 And obviously, you and I have done events together and get places as, you know, far flung.
00:12:19.120 We've done like what, Florida?
00:12:20.320 We've done like Minnesota, Wisconsin, different things.
00:12:23.380 And so it's like they knew they knew who they were targeting.
00:12:26.160 It's just it's very it's very simple to me when I look at this.
00:12:29.580 Anyone that they could build a case against, that's exactly who they went after.
00:12:34.320 And then you could see, by the way, they were even tracking.
00:12:37.340 Is this person a political activist?
00:12:39.620 Is this person a member of the media?
00:12:41.540 Is this person tied to this?
00:12:43.080 Is this person a lawyer?
00:12:44.040 They didn't even care.
00:12:45.400 Right.
00:12:45.580 They didn't even care.
00:12:46.360 They just ran a roughshod over all of their own standards, over their own guidelines, over their own practices, because this was a political witch hunt.
00:12:54.420 And I was saying in the opening and you are chatting during the break a little.
00:12:58.080 It's it's this is like after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the East German Stasi were finally disbanded.
00:13:04.880 And then you as a citizen of Germany who had lived through communism could go and request your own surveillance file and you could find this great movie, The Lives of Others.
00:13:14.040 And the very last scene is the guy goes in and he's able to request his own file and find out that, oh, wait, all these horrible things that were happening to him at that time in his life were because of the intel agencies screwing around with him, messing with his life.
00:13:28.280 And as you just say, they isolate you, they create a a this this sort of environment of fear and they want you to feel atomized.
00:13:37.320 And in fact, what if you watch the movie Lives of Others, they were trying to drive political dissidents to suicide.
00:13:43.620 And in fact, there are many cases of J6ers who did do, in fact, that the very it's the very same thing, man.
00:13:48.880 Absolutely. 100 percent. And I'll tell you, too, so you're the comment that you were just making about sort of like the far reaching effort to destroy people.
00:13:57.780 So first and foremost, I want to say for any of your audience out there who doesn't know, I was I was raided by the FBI.
00:14:04.380 I was thrown in jail. I was I was I was actually charged with more felony charges than most people who went inside the Capitol on January 6th.
00:14:12.820 But just to be clear, I never entered the Capitol on January 6th. I didn't engage in any violence, vandalism, theft or destruction.
00:14:19.560 I didn't even witness any. I maintain I did not break the law on January 6th.
00:14:24.660 I stood outside the building for a minute shooting a video. But because of who I am and what I do, which is the founder of the walk away movement,
00:14:30.520 I believe that they thought that by arresting me, they were going to find a treasure trove of information.
00:14:38.260 I mean, it's important to remember, yes, these people are corrupt, but they truly believe oftentimes the ridiculous stories that they themselves make up.
00:14:50.240 And so by arresting me and charging me with all of these things, they were able to come into my apartment, take my computer, my hard drives, my thumb drives, my my my phone, go through my emails, go through all of my stuff.
00:15:02.460 And then it was a condition for every person who is charged with January 6th.
00:15:06.420 If you were going to take a plea deal, which, again, I was stacked with felony charges.
00:15:10.980 I knew I was going to take a misdemeanor plea deal.
00:15:13.160 You have to sit down and interview with the government to be able to get a plea deal.
00:15:16.300 So I sat down and interviewed with the government and my entire interview was them.
00:15:20.660 They had a list of names of conservative activists and personalities, and it was just the most ridiculous questions.
00:15:27.200 How do you know this person? What do they do? Are you are you friends with this person?
00:15:31.180 Are you just acquaintances with this person? I'm sure your name was probably on the list.
00:15:35.160 I don't really remember anymore. It was four years ago, but it was it was absolutely my name is on a lot of lists.
00:15:41.760 I have no doubt. I have no doubt. But yeah, no, I mean, it was absolutely.
00:15:45.540 No, actually, I could just I could just tell you that I know that my name was on a number of lists when people were in those situations,
00:15:52.740 because I was definitely someone they were looking at for J6.
00:15:56.640 Yeah. Well, it was anybody who questioned the 2020 election.
00:15:59.580 It was anybody who was leading a powerful and influential movement.
00:16:05.020 It was anybody who was doing influential activism work.
00:16:08.220 Those are the people that were absolutely at the top of their their hit list.
00:16:11.480 And, you know, by coming after me, they again, I believe that they thought that they were going to get a treasure trove of information.
00:16:17.820 Of course, there wasn't any because there was no plan to attack the Capitol.
00:16:21.440 There was no plan to try to overthrow the government.
00:16:23.440 But by being arrested for January 6th, they also used this as an excuse to permanently ban the walkaway campaign from social media and to ban us from banks and payment processors and email services and things like that.
00:16:37.380 But to that point, I actually just won a legal battle against Facebook.
00:16:40.420 So we're actually getting the walkaway campaign back on Facebook.
00:16:42.960 So, oh, congratulations. That's huge.
00:16:45.960 Thank you. I know that I know that Robbie Starbuck is is over there and hopefully, you know, hopefully able to do some good for conservatives who have been so wrongly treated by these platforms.
00:16:58.140 I know that I know that Charlie, when he was still with us, that one of the one of the and, you know, people obviously saw this.
00:17:06.180 But one of the things that he was trying to do is have engage with Mark Zuckerberg directly and talk about that and say, look, you know, OK, you're here at the inauguration when Trump got inaugurated and you're here and you put some money in fine.
00:17:19.020 But when are you going to start bringing people back that you have banned?
00:17:24.000 And that's something that Charlie even took up, obviously, for Turning Point, but also just for everybody else, too.
00:17:29.780 Yeah, and I'm glad to hear that because we do need to be doing a lot more, I think, at this point.
00:17:34.440 You know, when when President Trump got reelected and we saw a lot of the big tech giants there at the inauguration,
00:17:40.220 and I like seeing that there could potentially be a change in the culture and that, you know, more of an embrace of conservatives being able to feel free on social media.
00:17:50.940 But to your point, there's still an enormous amount of people who never recovered their accounts, who never should have been taken off the platform in the first place.
00:17:57.940 And we should live in a country where we're allowed to challenge ideas, ask questions, particularly like with what was happening in 2020 with COVID vaccines and medication.
00:18:06.540 These are conversations Americans should be allowed to have in a free country.
00:18:10.220 No, it's simple as that. And so, you know, you're in which which, by the way, that was the entire and has always been your entire message to say, you know, you know, I do a show that's predominantly for conservatives.
00:18:23.300 But you weren't talking to conservatives. You were talking to people who were liberals, who were leftists, who were members of the Democrat Party to say, hey, you know, I was one of you.
00:18:32.800 And I kind of woke up and let's let's have a conversation about whether or not this stuff is working.
00:18:38.140 That's always what you've been about. So what did they do?
00:18:41.380 They shut down your ability to talk to those people because you were so effective.
00:18:45.640 Yeah. And the thing, too, that what makes me want to rip my hair out is that it's like somehow through the narrative of who I am.
00:18:53.200 If you're to read, you know, Wikipedia or the left wing media or anything after January 6th, you would believe that I'm like one of the most crazed anarchists, you know, far right.
00:19:03.340 The thing is, I was always one of the most moderate people in the.
00:19:07.820 No, I mean, you know, we talked about it. Hold on. We got it. We've got a quick break.
00:19:11.320 We'll come right back because I want to get into what you're up to now, by the way, check out Grokipedia, because I've been looking into that a little bit.
00:19:17.360 It's pretty good. I've got to say, it's pretty good. Right back. Jack Posobiec.
00:19:25.640 We talk about influences. These are influences and they're friends of mine.
00:19:31.600 Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack? Jack. He's done a great job.
00:19:36.560 All right, Jack Posobiec back live here. Human events daily.
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00:21:15.580 All right, we got Brandon Strzok back on.
00:21:16.980 And Brandon, now, what I love about this is that, look, you know, you've taken your hits and you've got back on your feet and you're getting back in the fight and you've been in the fight in New York City.
00:21:29.620 You're a New Yorker, of course.
00:21:31.320 And you're saying, you know what?
00:21:33.400 I'm not going to bug out.
00:21:34.360 I'm going down with the ship or, excuse me, I'm going to stand and fight rather than go down with the ship.
00:21:40.340 What are you doing to fight against the Mamdani takeover?
00:21:44.860 Yeah.
00:21:45.140 So, first of all, I want to address that and say that I remain optimistic even at this point, believe it or not.
00:21:50.460 So, we began our fight about four and a half months ago here in New York City.
00:21:55.520 And my team with WalkAway, we built what I believe is the largest anti-Mamdani ground game in New York City.
00:22:02.080 We have 1,000-plus volunteers that have signed up over the last four and a half months all over the city.
00:22:07.660 We've been doing rallies against Democratic Socialism, rallies against Zoran Mamdani.
00:22:12.020 We've been also doing open mic street debates, much like, you know, you guys at Turning Point have done going to college campuses.
00:22:18.740 We've done the same thing with WalkAway.
00:22:20.540 But these events have been very successful.
00:22:22.580 And I thought to myself, why are we limiting this to college campuses?
00:22:25.620 Like, we should be getting out and having debates with adults and everyday citizens all the time, everywhere, out in the streets.
00:22:31.720 And so, when we're doing these rallies, I usually have three or four of my speakers.
00:22:35.240 We'll get behind the table, pop up a microphone, and encourage everyday New Yorkers to approach the microphone, debate us, ask us questions, have discussions about Zoran Mamdani, about his policies.
00:22:45.220 They've been phenomenally successful, including going to Washington Square Park, which is essentially an NYU campus.
00:22:52.580 And as you're showing there on your screen, I've also been putting out these videos every couple of days or so.
00:22:57.580 These videos were just basically running around New York City, but debunking Zoran Mamdani's policy promises that he's making to people, as well as a lot of the lies of Democrat socialism.
00:23:08.340 As I say, Democrat socialism takes vulnerable people and lies to them.
00:23:12.560 And I think that that's what Zoran Mamdani is doing.
00:23:15.480 But, you know, here we are now.
00:23:17.260 Let me ask you about that real quick.
00:23:18.160 Let me ask you about that, because that's something that we've been, you know, I've been talking with, like, Steve Bannon about and others.
00:23:23.620 This is this is sort of the difference between, like, right wing populism and MAGA populism versus this what I call resentment populism, where democratic socialism is like, hey, your life sucks.
00:23:35.980 Prices are high.
00:23:36.820 Rent is high.
00:23:37.540 Housing is expensive.
00:23:38.680 Everything's expensive.
00:23:39.500 So let's take it from all those rich white people, you know, and tear it down.
00:23:43.960 And let's blame let's blame Israel.
00:23:45.580 Let's blame everything under the sun that we can rather than just try to make things better for everyone.
00:23:50.680 Does that is that kind of track with what you're seeing?
00:23:53.620 Hundred percent it tracks with what I'm seeing.
00:23:55.500 And in addition to that, I'd say so what I'm noticing here in New York City, and it's important to remember, obviously, this is a very left leaning, very liberal city.
00:24:03.560 So people are already sort of programmed to fall into that left wing ideology in their politics.
00:24:09.160 But I think what I'm seeing in all the conversations I've been having, and I've been talking to many, many hundreds and hundreds of New Yorkers over the last four and a half months.
00:24:17.020 It's very reminiscent to me about what Donald Trump, the way he appealed with two people in the 2016 election, people who wanted to change, people who thought the system was broken and wasn't working for them.
00:24:29.300 It's absolutely left wing populism happening here in New York.
00:24:32.900 The difference is what Donald Trump said was, I agree with you.
00:24:36.620 The system is broken.
00:24:37.780 So let's go in and give the system less power.
00:24:40.980 Let's dismantle the system and give the power back to the people.
00:24:44.160 What Zoran Mamdani is saying, I see you, I hear you, I agree with you.
00:24:48.380 The system is broken.
00:24:49.680 So let's give that system more power.
00:24:51.900 Let's give that system more control over your lives.
00:24:54.740 Let's give infinite power to the system.
00:24:56.920 And people, for some reason, are not connecting the dots.
00:24:59.640 And that's what I'm trying to help here in New York is for people to connect the dots.
00:25:03.420 You're being lied to.
00:25:04.360 You're being deceived.
00:25:05.240 Democratic socialism is going to take the very real pain points that you're describing and make them much, much worse.
00:25:11.260 I couldn't agree more.
00:25:14.500 That's that's what happens every single time.
00:25:17.120 And so, yeah, they're going to make it worse for, you know, these target groups, police officers, affluent, you know, middle class.
00:25:25.700 Obviously, if anyone is is and the first thing you're going to see, by the way, is anyone who has the money to flee, anyone who has the money to get up and go, they're gone.
00:25:34.380 Right. They are going to jet off down to down to Florida or maybe down to Texas or wherever.
00:25:40.280 Or Tennessee, who cares?
00:25:42.160 Right. They're going to get out of New York and you're going to see all that huge financial capital leave.
00:25:46.500 And then and that's the deal. Right.
00:25:48.080 New York is the world's financial capital.
00:25:50.280 But when you start going after those markets, guess what that's going to do?
00:25:53.360 That's going to ruin your tax base.
00:25:54.820 So what do you think that's going to happen to the downstream effects down in of the secondary and tertiary businesses and communities that that operate there?
00:26:02.340 Like, you know, like your East Village, like Greenwich, like everything else.
00:26:05.660 It's all going to be downstream.
00:26:07.440 And it's like they don't see that because they just think we're I want someone to fight for me.
00:26:13.780 But the guys like Mamdani, he's smart enough to understand exactly what he's doing.
00:26:18.700 We've got a minute left. Tell people where they can go to get involved.
00:26:21.500 Please check out walkawaycampaign.com, whether you want to volunteer, whether you want to make a donation to the cause, whether you want to just learn more about what we're doing.
00:26:29.900 We are the largest national movement of former Democrats walking away from the Democratic Party.
00:26:34.380 And we never stopped.
00:26:35.840 January 6th didn't stop us, didn't slow us down.
00:26:38.400 And I think the future is really bright for the movement.
00:26:40.700 So please get involved with what we're doing.
00:26:42.820 Go to walkawaycampaign.com.
00:26:44.680 And don't give up on New York.
00:26:46.380 We have a week left, and I truly believe we can defeat this guy.
00:26:50.140 We've done some amazing work.
00:26:51.380 The early voting returns are looking really good.
00:26:54.680 Record numbers of people over the age of 55 coming out to vote.
00:26:57.960 That's a very, very positive sign.
00:26:59.620 Do not give up on New York.
00:27:00.460 That's good. They're not from Mamdani.
00:27:02.940 That's right.
00:27:03.480 That's actually a really good point.
00:27:04.700 That's actually a really good point.
00:27:06.280 Brandon Strzok, God bless you, man.
00:27:07.880 More power to you.
00:27:08.740 I'll see you soon, I'm sure.
00:27:10.140 All right, folks, right back.
00:27:11.700 We're going from New York to New Jersey.
00:27:13.720 Cliff Maloney joins us next.
00:27:21.420 Jack.
00:27:23.360 Where's Jack?
00:27:25.460 Where is he?
00:27:26.720 Jack, I want to see you.
00:27:30.380 Great job, Jack.
00:27:31.820 Thank you.
00:27:32.540 What a job you do.
00:27:34.000 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:27:35.380 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad,
00:27:37.680 but we have guys,
00:27:39.060 and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:27:41.160 All right, Jack Pasovic back live, Human Events Daily.
00:27:45.740 Now, yesterday, you may remember that we spent the whole day really slamming this idea
00:27:51.360 that the courtroom would have no cameras in it for the Tyler Robinson case.
00:27:58.000 This is the murder trial of Charlie Kirk.
00:28:00.520 And that's something that, just from the public perspective, I can't abide.
00:28:06.860 And so Human Events Daily, Human Events Media Group put together an open letter
00:28:10.840 and submitted it to the court requesting and really opposing this ban on cameras
00:28:18.320 and really excited that the great Julie Grant, none other than the great Julie Grant of Court TV,
00:28:26.120 ran a segment on the very same subject just yesterday, and we've got a clip of it.
00:28:31.540 Let the cameras roll.
00:28:33.920 The defendant, accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk,
00:28:39.040 wants to keep the cameras out of the courtroom.
00:28:42.080 His lawyers argue it will taint the prospective jury pool
00:28:45.460 and jeopardize his right to a fair trial.
00:28:48.440 They say after his first court appearance,
00:28:50.400 the public scrutiny of his appearance and his movements
00:28:53.780 was happening excessively because of what was shown in the courtroom.
00:28:57.260 Well, when you pick up murder charges, public scrutiny usually comes with it.
00:29:06.040 What did defendant Tyler Robinson think was going to happen next
00:29:09.600 after he allegedly confessed to his lover that he assassinated Charlie Kirk?
00:29:14.760 Do you think a walk in the park was what was coming next?
00:29:17.540 No, criminal charges in a trial, if he so chooses, are what comes next.
00:29:22.600 And in Utah, cameras are permitted to film and photograph court proceedings.
00:29:26.560 We've seen time and time again with the trials that we broadcast here on Court TV
00:29:31.420 that the cameras have zero bearing on the fairness of the trial.
00:29:36.600 We've seen defendants get a fair trial with intense public scrutiny time and time again.
00:29:41.840 Examples, O.J. Simpson, Casey Anthony, Karen Reed, just to name a few.
00:29:47.420 The jurors aren't watching the trial on TV.
00:29:50.680 They're not allowed to do that.
00:29:51.860 So it sounds to me like this defendant just wants some special treatment.
00:29:57.640 But he's not special.
00:29:59.400 And I suspect the judge will deny his request to exclude the cameras.
00:30:03.960 But yet still, that judge will ensure that Mr. Robinson...
00:30:07.720 And just a shout-out to the great Julie Grant,
00:30:10.600 another fellow Temple Owl, by the way, I should mention,
00:30:14.280 over doing the yeoman's work at Court TV.
00:30:17.140 And I'll just quote from the Human Events piece yesterday.
00:30:21.500 Charlie Kirk did not have a choice or even any say
00:30:26.440 over whether or not his murder would be live-streamed.
00:30:29.840 Only his assassin had a say in that.
00:30:33.360 Charlie Kirk didn't get to have a say.
00:30:35.480 His murder was on video, on live-stream, in front of the entire world.
00:30:38.860 His children will see that one day.
00:30:40.940 They will.
00:30:41.620 That's just the nature of things.
00:30:42.880 But what we do have a say over is whether or not the trial will be open to the public.
00:30:49.520 And we all believe that it should.
00:30:52.000 And I'm just really grateful that Julie put that video together
00:30:55.120 and has come out swinging on this one.
00:30:56.860 Cliff Maloney, another good friend of Charlie Kirk,
00:30:58.960 who also runs the P.A. Chase and the N.J. Chase, joins us now.
00:31:02.180 And Cliff, I'm sure I don't even need to ask you your sense on this.
00:31:06.260 Cameras in the courtroom, yes or no?
00:31:08.500 100% yes.
00:31:09.520 Open transparency, that's what we need.
00:31:11.280 It's what the people want.
00:31:12.700 Let everything be seen with you 100%.
00:31:15.200 No, it's as simple as that.
00:31:17.300 And it's this idea that they could shut it off.
00:31:19.500 It's just ridiculous.
00:31:20.500 No, people need answers.
00:31:21.540 This is what we want.
00:31:22.380 This is what we fight for.
00:31:23.500 This is what America is all about.
00:31:24.520 It's about having this done in public.
00:31:26.380 Because, by the way, the public having access is a check on the court process, right?
00:31:32.300 Because then you have the voters, the voters, the electors, the residents, the citizens.
00:31:37.180 They have the ability to see what's going on.
00:31:39.780 And that's the entire point of America, last I checked, last I saw.
00:31:45.040 Yeah.
00:31:45.480 And don't we want people that are thinking about committing horrific acts in the future to have to see what he goes through?
00:31:51.680 I love that they're saying that people were judging him.
00:31:53.880 It's like, come on, we need people in the future to not realize that, oh, I can do this and then just hide away.
00:32:00.640 They need to be seen.
00:32:02.580 Let us see their face.
00:32:03.840 Let us see the reactions.
00:32:04.960 I want to see what this monster is doing when, hopefully, he is strongly convicted.
00:32:11.420 But I want to see it.
00:32:12.820 And I think not just we deserve it as people who knew Charlie.
00:32:15.840 The American public deserve it.
00:32:17.940 And it will detract people in the future because they will see what this guy goes through, which should be a horrific process for what he did.
00:32:26.260 No, and I think it will be, Cliff.
00:32:29.680 No, I'd be remiss because we do have some work at hand, and that's what Charlie would want us to do.
00:32:33.540 We want us focusing on the mission.
00:32:35.460 And the mission and task in front of us is New Jersey, this race where I'm looking at some of these polls, man.
00:32:41.920 The new I think it was the Qantas Insights poll that came out last night.
00:32:44.800 Really interesting byline.
00:32:46.560 If you went into the crosstabs, one of the questions they asked was that old question about not who are you voting for, but who is your neighbor going to vote for?
00:32:55.020 And there was this really interesting phenomenon that we also saw with a candidate named Donald J. Trump last year where if you asked the question who's your neighbor going to vote for, suddenly Trump's numbers would bump up.
00:33:05.720 And they called that the shy Trump voter effect.
00:33:08.200 Well, we might also be seeing a shy Cittarelli effect because his numbers bumped up.
00:33:14.760 Now he's leading by six points when they asked that poll, asked that question, who's your neighbor going to vote for?
00:33:20.920 So what I'm thinking is, man, there could be a chance that our boy Chitt up there in New Jersey, he might actually be able to have a groundswell of support that we're not yet tracking in a lot of these polling numbers.
00:33:35.900 I know you've got new numbers on the mail-ins.
00:33:38.000 Break us down.
00:33:39.660 Yeah, and look, you know, once again, if you would have told me months ago that this race would be neck and neck, you know, I would have said, look,
00:33:44.620 we're not supposed to be able to win Jersey.
00:33:46.540 We're not supposed to be able to flip a blue state after the White House turns red and we've got all of Congress, right?
00:33:52.080 We're used to a pushback.
00:33:53.680 That's not happening right now, right?
00:33:55.200 We are in play.
00:33:56.180 New Jersey is competitive, and it's because of all the work of so many people coming together.
00:34:01.040 Here are the numbers that we just got hot off the presses about 25 minutes ago.
00:34:05.320 Okay, if you look in Jersey, 184,000 registered Republicans have requested a mail-in ballot.
00:34:13.720 The good news is, the good news is a bunch of them have sent it back.
00:34:17.700 The bad news, 76,000 New Jersey registered Republicans have a ballot sitting on their dining room table.
00:34:27.760 Jack, this is the entire election, right?
00:34:30.400 We at New Jersey Chase, njchase.com, we have 105 full-time ballot chasers.
00:34:36.640 This is what they're doing.
00:34:38.140 I want to be very specific.
00:34:39.540 We are going to the houses of those 76,000 Republicans that went through the process to request a ballot, but they've yet to send it back.
00:34:48.200 If we can bring that number down and make sure that tens of thousands of them send it back.
00:34:53.780 Remember, Jack only lost by 80,000 votes in 2021.
00:34:57.760 This is what we must prioritize.
00:34:59.380 We've got to compete in early vote, and then we've got to dominate election day.
00:35:03.080 But right now, the battle is getting that 76,000 number, getting to those people, and getting those ballots back in.
00:35:11.400 Look, this is what it comes down to.
00:35:13.120 And Charlie was the one who understood this, that our elections have changed from a persuasion process to a collection process.
00:35:22.340 It's about putting pieces of paper in boxes.
00:35:25.980 That's what it's all about.
00:35:27.280 And the Democrats changed this.
00:35:28.740 We don't want to be doing this.
00:35:31.420 Those of us who have done politics and turning point action and the rest, we would much prefer to go back to the old method.
00:35:38.240 But if this is going to be the new method, we've got to fight smart and win the same way we did last year.
00:35:43.940 Isn't that right?
00:35:45.240 Yeah, it's 100 percent correct.
00:35:46.720 Look, you have two options.
00:35:47.740 One, you can complain about the rules and guarantee a loss.
00:35:50.740 Or you can say, hey, let's fight fire with fire.
00:35:53.420 Let's try to compete against the Democrats using their own tactics.
00:35:57.460 And that's exactly what we've done.
00:35:58.960 As you know, this whole Chase thing is just me taking Biden's 2020 playbook in Pennsylvania, rerunning it in 2024, but for our side.
00:36:07.640 And now just taking all the things that we learned from Pennsylvania, doing the PHAs, and using it in New Jersey.
00:36:14.180 Here's my ask to everybody out there, Human Events Daily, everybody in POSO Nation.
00:36:19.420 If you want to help us win New Jersey, there's two things you can do.
00:36:23.480 One, come to New Jersey.
00:36:25.720 We've got Super Chase events that Jack and I will be at both Sunday and Monday.
00:36:29.960 Big events.
00:36:30.660 If people want to come, come out and help us knock doors.
00:36:33.020 But if you can't, njchase.com.
00:36:36.380 Go there right now.
00:36:38.100 Sponsor a ballot chaser.
00:36:39.640 We've only got six days left.
00:36:41.280 I need to keep as many of these people on the ground.
00:36:43.900 I want to really make sure that we don't have to pull out, that we can finish strong.
00:36:47.580 That's 76,000 number.
00:36:49.260 If you chip in $175, that is a full day of ballot chaser.
00:36:54.160 That is us talking to dozens of voters on that list that have a ballot right there.
00:36:59.000 But those are the two options.
00:37:00.320 Either come out to Jersey.
00:37:01.720 If you can't, go to njchase.com.
00:37:04.420 Sponsor a ballot chaser.
00:37:05.940 This is the fight.
00:37:07.380 And Jack Chittarelli has a real shot at winning.
00:37:10.200 I love it.
00:37:11.120 Vote, vote, vote for Chitt.
00:37:12.620 I saw somebody calling him Chitt, you know, because it's Chittarelli.
00:37:16.240 He said, we got to get up there and got to go vote for Chitt.
00:37:18.420 And I'm like, okay, all right.
00:37:20.300 I'm down with that.
00:37:21.240 I could think of some other puns that maybe we got to be careful with.
00:37:25.120 But no, that's great.
00:37:26.340 And you're right.
00:37:26.760 I will be there this Sunday, Tom's River, for the Turning Point Action, joining up with the NJ Chase.
00:37:32.740 And we're going to be doing that event.
00:37:34.840 It's 1 p.m. in Tom's River.
00:37:36.540 Go to turningpointaction.com.
00:37:38.120 You can get all the information on this.
00:37:39.920 First time the Turning Point Action has deployed to New Jersey.
00:37:42.640 And it's really just because when you look at the race itself, when you look at the metrics, when you look at the momentum, and Chitt has got the momentum.
00:37:51.340 Jack Chittarelli has the ability to win this race and tell the entire political ecosystem that, guess what?
00:38:00.640 The Republicans just flipped a blue state when you said it was impossible.
00:38:05.560 We'll see right back, Human Events Daily, special guest, and sticking with Cliff Maloney, going over to Pennsylvania next.
00:38:18.780 Jack is a great guy.
00:38:20.320 He's written a fantastic book.
00:38:21.960 Everybody's talking about it.
00:38:23.220 Go get it.
00:38:24.380 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:38:28.300 And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
00:38:31.500 Amen.
00:38:35.100 All right, Jack Wasovic, we're back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:38:40.000 We're on with Cliff Maloney of the NJ Chase.
00:38:43.220 And, of course, you know him from the P.A. Chase.
00:38:45.140 He's putting his P.A. Chase hat on right now, as well as his Philadelphia Eagles hat, who defeated the dreaded Giants last weekend and restored the honor of the city.
00:38:55.240 But we're also excited to be joined by a very special guest.
00:38:58.680 Her name is Maria Batista, and she is running for Superior Court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, our all.
00:39:06.660 So you've got a Pennsylvania-wide panel here today.
00:39:10.180 I think we've got Monaco.
00:39:12.200 We've got Delco.
00:39:13.080 We've got Oil City.
00:39:14.560 Are you Benango, or is that Butler County?
00:39:17.780 I'm in Clarion County.
00:39:18.700 I don't live in Oil City.
00:39:19.740 I was close.
00:39:20.760 I was very close.
00:39:21.920 Oil City's close.
00:39:23.080 It's about 20 miles away.
00:39:24.420 That's in Benango County.
00:39:25.660 I live in Clarion County.
00:39:27.520 Okay, okay.
00:39:28.240 So you're right.
00:39:28.620 I've been to Oil City.
00:39:29.640 Then, all right, though.
00:39:30.460 But I've been to Clarion.
00:39:31.380 I've been to Clarion.
00:39:32.140 So tell us about the race.
00:39:34.520 Tell us what you're up to in Pennsylvania.
00:39:36.020 Well, you know, I have been working hard.
00:39:39.740 As of Monday, I've hit all 67 counties.
00:39:43.860 Very excited about that.
00:39:45.660 Many counties I've hit multiple times.
00:39:49.020 You know, what people want, no matter where they are, whether it's a rural county or it's a more suburban or urban county, is they want a fair shake when they come to court.
00:39:59.540 And, you know, some people do not have trust in our judicial system.
00:40:03.280 They want transparency, and they want to know that politics is kept out of the courtroom.
00:40:08.960 It doesn't matter where you come from.
00:40:10.920 You know, that was my map that you're showing right now from 2023.
00:40:14.800 There were two seats in 2023, four candidates, two Republicans, two Democrats.
00:40:20.160 And I came in first place in 52 of 67 counties.
00:40:24.920 And people said to me, Maria, if you've won that many counties with four candidates, why isn't that you don't have a seat on the Superior Court?
00:40:33.860 And, you know, I lost by 1.39%.
00:40:36.360 That comes out to 77,995 votes.
00:40:41.480 The race was too close to call.
00:40:43.580 I won at the polls by almost 200,000 votes.
00:40:47.420 But it was the mail-in ballots.
00:40:48.980 You know, two years ago, many people were still skeptical about the mail-in ballots, but we've seen great strides and great improvement in that number.
00:41:00.480 And because of organizations like PHA's Early Vote Action, Turning Point, since 2023, our registration numbers have really improved dramatically.
00:41:12.960 Especially with the new registrations and more people getting engaged with these judicial races, I have a lot of confidence that we're going to be successful on November 4th.
00:41:24.460 Well, it's incredible to hear.
00:41:27.320 So, you know, you mentioned the PHA's, and we've, of course, got the founder of the PHA's right here, Cliff Maloney.
00:41:32.660 Cliff, walk us through, you know, sort of the sea change that she's talking about from 2023 to 2024 and now going into 25 when it comes to mail-in ballots.
00:41:42.400 Because this is very new for Pennsylvania.
00:41:45.060 Early voting is not something that we've had sort of in our lifeblood, in our DNA, in our history, right up until these recent years.
00:41:53.580 Yeah, well, let me start off by saying Maria's a fantastic candidate.
00:41:56.560 She's working hard, all 67 counties.
00:41:58.960 I mean, that's the type of person that we love to have at the top of the ticket, and she's just working so hard.
00:42:04.380 We appreciate that.
00:42:05.700 The good news is she's right when she says the problem in 2023 was mail-in ballots.
00:42:10.960 Well, if you look at the numbers, I want to pull these real quick for you guys.
00:42:13.700 At this time, if you look right now, when we're talking about the vote-by-mail discrepancy, Republican versus Democrat in Pennsylvania, the Democrats are up 270,000.
00:42:25.780 Now, you might say, well, that's horrible.
00:42:27.000 You know, well, Maria's going to dominate Election Day, right?
00:42:29.120 We're going to turn our voters out.
00:42:30.800 What was it in 2023?
00:42:32.300 Remember, right now, Democrats are up 270,000 when it comes to returns, Republican versus Democrat.
00:42:39.100 In 2023, it was 430,000.
00:42:43.700 So think about that.
00:42:44.600 They're obviously going to keep climbing, which is what they do, but we only lost that race by 70,000 votes, right?
00:42:51.580 Maria's working hard.
00:42:52.860 We're fixing the vote-by-mail, and I really do think, you know, people talk about the Supreme Court retention races.
00:42:58.280 That's great.
00:42:59.040 At every door we knock on, we've knocked on 440,000 doors since August 4th.
00:43:04.160 We're on our way to 500,000.
00:43:05.640 At every door that we knock on, we're talking about the retention races, but they're pretty much impossible to win.
00:43:12.480 We're going to fight hard, but you know what's winnable?
00:43:15.420 Maria Batista's race, both the Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court with Matt, another great candidate.
00:43:21.120 These are big races where you have actual Republicans and actual Democrats on the ballot.
00:43:25.800 And if we're returning at the rate that we are right now, Maria Batista will get elected to the Superior Court.
00:43:32.220 It will be a huge win, and the P.A. Chase is honored to be a part of it.
00:43:37.640 Well, that's absolutely incredible.
00:43:39.860 Maria, when you're out there, when you're meeting with people, when you're talking with Pennsylvanians,
00:43:44.160 what are some of the people really telling you as we go through the state, as we go through the Commonwealth there,
00:43:51.060 in terms of what their main interests are in this race?
00:43:55.980 You know, they want politics out of the courtroom.
00:43:59.140 They feel like, you know, at the federal level, you know, the judges are appointed by the president.
00:44:06.080 You know, in Pennsylvania, we're very fortunate still that people can elect their judges.
00:44:11.400 That's not the case like in New Jersey.
00:44:13.880 You're talking a lot about New Jersey right now, the governor's race.
00:44:17.500 So it's a privilege, and people don't understand how important that is.
00:44:22.700 But anyone on the ground is, they just want fairness.
00:44:26.420 They want honesty.
00:44:27.340 They want integrity.
00:44:28.780 And that hasn't changed.
00:44:30.760 That message hasn't changed.
00:44:32.960 The message that I hear more resoundingly than I did in 23 is keep politics out of the courtroom.
00:44:39.820 We want independent people that are going to do what's right in every single case.
00:44:45.420 That is what our judicial system is.
00:44:47.540 It is a separate branch of government from our legislative branch and our executive branch.
00:44:53.580 And, you know, people ask me, well, why did you get in this race in the first place?
00:44:58.340 You know, I was not recruited to run.
00:45:00.900 It's not something that I thought about just last year.
00:45:04.200 This actually started 15 years ago.
00:45:06.740 I was one of the few lawyers in the Commonwealth that I was teaching a course called Juvenile Justice.
00:45:15.040 And that's when the Cash for Kids scandal broke in 2009.
00:45:19.540 And so we designed a program.
00:45:21.740 We aired it statewide on Pennsylvania Cable Network in 2010.
00:45:25.860 And the courts as protectors of children, over 5,000 children's lives were impacted
00:45:30.780 based on the corruption of two judges in Luzerne County.
00:45:34.460 Some committed suicide and two justices and some court of common pleas judges and some
00:45:40.440 of the other high courts, including the Superior Court, were on my panel.
00:45:45.000 And so Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, who was the first female elected to the Supreme Court,
00:45:49.600 says, Maria, this is great what you're doing.
00:45:52.080 You're trying to give a voice to the voiceless.
00:45:54.440 But why aren't you running for judge?
00:45:56.340 I never thought about it before that.
00:45:58.480 It took me 13 years before I made that affirmed decision that I was going to run.
00:46:04.860 But, you know, it's very important.
00:46:07.020 We can only impact our judicial system one judge at a time.
00:46:12.320 And these are 10-year terms.
00:46:14.580 You know, this court has been coined as the People's Court, the Superior Court,
00:46:19.200 because people are familiar with the Court of Common Pleas in each of the 67 counties
00:46:24.300 in Pennsylvania, and that hears all of your criminal cases and civil cases.
00:46:29.040 But when those criminal cases go up on appeal, they go to the Superior Court.
00:46:34.580 And I ask people when I'm traveling, do you care about your families?
00:46:37.940 Do you care about your children?
00:46:39.480 Do you care about your property rights, business matters?
00:46:42.560 If you've ever engaged in a contract, either personally or professionally,
00:46:46.280 if you're injured, and I'm not talking about workers' comp because it's a little different,
00:46:50.820 but, you know, say that you're injured in a hospital setting or in a car accident
00:46:55.580 and so many other ways, all of those types of civil cases, if appealed,
00:47:00.660 from the Court of Common Pleas, which is right below, if you see this triangle,
00:47:04.320 at the top of the triangle is our Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
00:47:07.500 There are seven justices.
00:47:09.080 But the busiest court in Pennsylvania is the Superior Court.
00:47:12.960 The one in red, there are 15 judges.
00:47:14.860 Well, we certainly know, we certainly know that after the last couple of years,
00:47:18.780 we certainly know the importance of getting the right judges.
00:47:21.540 Cliff, throw out, if people want to get involved, what's the best way?
00:47:25.780 Sure, if folks want to sponsor a ballot chaser, pachase.com.
00:47:29.460 But if you want to give directly to Maria, she's a little,
00:47:32.700 she has to hold back on what she says, so I'll say it.
00:47:35.820 Batistaforjudge.com, batistaforjudge.com, pachase.com.
00:47:40.560 Maria, we're rooting for you.
00:47:41.620 We'll be right there through the finish line.
00:47:43.500 Jack, thanks so much for having us today.
00:47:46.440 Thank you both so much.
00:47:47.360 I appreciate it.
00:47:47.460 Thank you so much, Maria.
00:47:48.520 Thank you, Cliff.
00:47:49.840 Thank you.
00:47:50.740 God bless.
00:47:51.760 All right, I'll see you both of you guys very soon.
00:47:54.740 Ladies and gentlemen, get ready.
00:47:56.340 Remember, J.D. Vance and Erica Kirk tonight, Ole Miss.
00:48:00.200 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:48:02.920 We'll see you all soon.
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