Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Armed Man Shot and Killed at Mar-a-Lago, Cartel Violence Rages Through Puerta Vallarta & the Threat of Regime Change in Iran

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00:00:34.380 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:43.500 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:50.180 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:53.200 Christ is king.

00:00:54.820 well ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard today's edition of human events daily we are here live

00:01:03.420 today is february 23rd 2026 anno domini and as you can see we are here live at liberty university

00:01:11.380 where joshua lysack who here joins me in studio we're in dave brad studio as you can tell uh we're

00:01:17.900 going to be speaking later this evening in beautiful lynchburg virginia of course even

00:01:23.020 though we are here, we're doing human events daily. This show is our show. It is not the

00:01:28.020 university show. And of course, these opinions are ours. What have we seen, folks? Unhumans

00:01:34.540 activity continues. Another day, another example of an attempted assassination of President Trump.

00:01:42.000 This individual, 21 years old, Austin Tucker Martin, shot dead on the scene while attempting

00:01:48.620 to and actually having breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago with a gas can and a shotgun

00:01:56.480 in some sort of attempt, it seems, to kill the president and burn down his home.

00:02:02.800 Joshua Lysak, we've got you for a couple of minutes today. 0.95

00:02:05.040 I wanted to get right into it.

00:02:06.360 Why do we keep seeing these types of activity?

00:02:10.220 One of the things that all of these scenarios have in common with the attempted assassination,

00:02:14.620 first of candidate Trump and now President Trump, seems to be the combination of online

00:02:20.980 radicalization and isolation. We seem to see something like that with Thomas Matthew Crooks.

00:02:26.840 This was an individual. Of course, that's the Butler, Pennsylvania shooter. And we saw that

00:02:32.840 something similar with Ryan Wesley Ruth, the West Palm Beach attempted assassin there during the

00:02:39.760 campaign and also with this particular character what all of them seem to have in common is an

00:02:45.400 anti-trump fervor that starts with and becomes fixated on a particular story or storyline with

00:02:52.480 ryan wesley ruth there there seemed to be a lot of uh free ukraine slava ukraine type of

00:02:58.220 propaganda that he was consuming of course the potential for ties with the azov battalion and

00:03:04.320 And then with the Epstein list allegations, baseless as they are, have been making their rounds in all manner of conspiracy theory forums across the Internet.

00:03:13.180 It looks like this 21-year-old fellow from North Carolina got caught up in that and became radically anti-Trump, similar to Ryan Leslie Ruth, going down that path, past the point of no return, being isolated from one another, family, friends, and so on and so forth.

00:03:30.500 and believing that there's only one way out of this.

00:03:34.720 And we have heard that before, unfortunately, on the right.

00:03:37.720 In some circles, you can't work your way out of this.

00:03:40.680 And we see this, by the way, in a text message,

00:03:43.600 the same way you saw text messages in the case of violence with Tyler Robinson

00:03:48.640 and so many others, where you see this phrase,

00:03:51.200 I don't know if you've read up on the Epstein files,

00:03:53.740 but evil is real and unmistakable.

00:03:55.600 The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have.

00:04:00.080 tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing

00:04:04.420 about it, raise awareness. And so, Joshua, you and I were just talking, literally just talking

00:04:10.660 about what drives individuals to acts of assassination, acts of political assassination.

00:04:16.180 And it really comes into this, this psychological, what you say is this belief in a false reality

00:04:22.380 whereby in they, they feel that they have to take some kind of response, but that it's always been

00:04:28.540 done in a in a self-defense or a defense of others kind of mentality what does that mean

00:04:35.400 what we notice with recent domestic terrorism in the united states is that it follows the cultural

00:04:42.560 marxist oppressed versus oppressor frame where there is this evil figure or their government or

00:04:50.660 their regime and these poor little subjugated individuals who in the case of the the trans

00:04:57.200 with Tyler Robinson, there was that interest group with the Epstein files and all of the

00:05:02.560 storylines and false allegations that have been made against the president on that. People have

00:05:08.880 become hyper fixated on it. And we just have to do something is the belief that comes up here.

00:05:14.420 And it's those of us who are individuals and we're citizens and we're so oppressed and we

00:05:20.500 can't do anything. And our voices don't matter. And we can't vote our way out of this sort of

00:05:25.720 demoralizing language that we often see will take root in an individual like Ryan Wesley Ruth,

00:05:32.540 like Tyler Robinson, like this young fellow, and then they go to the most extreme version,

00:05:38.760 which is responding to speech with violence, ironically, with speech being violence and

00:05:46.040 violence being speech. It's getting it all mixed up, but it falls within the oppressor versus

00:05:50.300 oppressed frame of cultural marxism so in this case he believes he's defending the people

00:05:56.220 defending against and and to be clear what jeffrey epstein did was heinous was disgusting was

00:06:01.860 despicable but again if you're actually looking at these files nowhere in them will you find

00:06:08.040 a spot where donald trump is involved in these you certainly do by the way find um you know find

00:06:14.940 instances where bill clinton is involved in the pictures and involved on on in elements of the

00:06:20.540 island and things like this and so the idea being there that this isn't just that he was reading the

00:06:27.280 files it more than likely he was reading a filtered version of the files where someone had actually

00:06:33.700 taken some elements that responded to or were related to president trump and then put him on

00:06:40.600 top of there. And then what do you do? Just like NPR, as Joshua always says, you repeat over and

00:06:45.840 over and over. So that's the association that they build. Joshua, I know you've got to run. So

00:06:51.860 I want to say thank you for joining us here, sitting down. Joshua and I will be speaking

00:06:55.180 later at Liberty University. We're taking our Tales of Regime Change series and we're turning

00:07:00.840 it into a lecture here down at the great Liberty University at Lynchburg, Virginia. Joshua, thank

00:07:06.780 you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Thank you, Jack. Congrats on the new book, by the way.

00:07:10.260 Go get it. Unelected. Joshua, date a Republican. Talk more about that later.

00:07:40.260 Here comes, Jack Hughes wins it, the golden goal for the United States for the first time

00:07:48.260 since the 1980 miracle.

00:07:50.260 President Trump announced he is increasing global tariffs to 15 percent.

00:07:54.260 The man in his early 20s, carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can,

00:07:59.260 entered a restricted area around Trump's Palm Beach, Florida home early this morning

00:08:04.260 before he was shot and killed by authorities.

00:08:07.260 They confronted a white male that was carried a gas can and a shotgun.

00:08:13.560 He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him, at which time

00:08:20.300 he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position.

00:08:26.920 At that point in time, the deputy and the two secret service agents fired their weapons

00:08:31.760 and neutralized the threat. 0.70

00:08:33.300 Iran is on a full court press trying to talk America out of an all-out war. 0.84

00:08:38.600 Thank you so much for having me.

00:08:39.980 Iran's foreign minister spoke with Face the Nations, Margaret Brennan.

00:08:43.620 But Iran also has one of the largest arsenals of ballistic missiles in the region.

00:08:49.100 Israeli intelligence sources we spoke with confirmed stockpiles are back to the same level seen

00:08:54.720 before Israel and the U.S. launched attacks last June.

00:09:00.360 Explosions erupting across Puerto Vallarta tonight.

00:09:03.300 Black smoke seen rising over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast.

00:09:09.540 Mexico's military force is launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Ruben N, known as El Mencho.

00:09:17.440 Multiple cars on fire in the streets.

00:09:19.500 Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked.

00:09:23.360 We came in contact with masked men in the streets.

00:09:28.360 They had guns. They were ducking behind cars.

00:09:30.720 We watched them pull a bus driver out of his bus and starting it on fire.

00:09:40.880 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec, we're back live here.

00:09:51.460 Human Events daily, and we're in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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00:11:33.660 All right, folks, I'm just going to say it, right?

00:11:35.620 When you talk about this situation, the attempted assassination, again, of President Trump,

00:11:39.980 when you talk about Mar-a-Lago nearly being burned down over the weekend,

00:11:45.020 we have a problem in conservative media, and I'm going to call out conservative media.

00:11:49.300 I'm going to do this because conservative media needs to start taking this stuff seriously.

00:11:54.140 They need to start taking the threats of violence against conservatives and against President Trump seriously.

00:12:01.560 They are killing people.

00:12:03.200 It has already happened.

00:12:05.460 We cannot allow this normalization of violence to say, oh, well, I guess it's another one.

00:12:11.480 And then you give it 24 minutes of a news cycle before you rush off to the other thing.

00:12:15.960 All right.

00:12:16.440 We're not going to be doing that around here.

00:12:18.340 We're certainly not.

00:12:19.300 No, we are going to talk about how violent our country is becoming and talk about the

00:12:24.900 fact that you're, look, imagine if you were a guest, imagine if you were a guest at Mar-a-Lago

00:12:29.580 this weekend and suddenly, boom, boom, boom, you hear shots fired in the middle of the

00:12:35.980 night.

00:12:37.160 Just for what?

00:12:38.020 Just for associating yourself with President Trump?

00:12:40.300 Well, guess what?

00:12:40.960 That's reality.

00:12:42.420 That's real life now.

00:12:45.320 And you don't believe me?

00:12:46.780 Go ask Charlie Kirk about it.

00:12:48.700 Oh, right.

00:12:49.100 you can't. You can't ask Charlie Kirk about it. Or go ask the people at Butler about it. You know,

00:12:54.840 when we were doing the halftime show, there was a young girl came up to me. And she said,

00:13:01.120 thank you, Jack, for writing the Bulletproof book. And I said, I said, sure, you know,

00:13:05.720 I'm happy to do it. But why? Why do you say thank you for writing it? You know,

00:13:09.420 usually people say, I liked your book. They never say thank you for writing. I said, why do you?

00:13:12.920 Why do you say thank you for writing it? She said, because I was there that day.

00:13:16.580 so she was there that day here's a young girl western pennsylvania just a patriot who loves

00:13:23.400 her country she had to see a man gunned down in front of her cory compitore and she had to live

00:13:30.700 through the president united states almost being killed and she herself was in the line of fire

00:13:35.180 and that's 2024 then you have charlie in 2025 now we have this going into 2026

00:13:45.000 when are people going to start taking this stuff seriously you absolutely need to take it seriously

00:13:52.240 and i'm honestly i'm just getting fed up that conservative media barely even bats an eye

00:13:58.120 anymore now one thing that we certainly have to take seriously and i think something that we've

00:14:03.300 been living a little bit in uh denial of for so long is the cartel violence on our border or

00:14:09.660 directly south of our border and directly north of our border.

00:14:13.940 What did we see? 0.99

00:14:15.060 This Jalisco new generation cartel where they take out the leader yesterday.

00:14:19.200 And this guy, it turns out the operation, which, you know, had some U.S. elements as

00:14:22.980 well, targeting intel related.

00:14:24.920 We don't know if any U.S. boots or special forces were involved, although, you know,

00:14:28.740 perhaps not without precedent.

00:14:30.360 But we're now getting indications that the operation to take him out was because he was

00:14:35.380 El Hecho or El Hencho was going to meet one of his mistresses and they caught him at the

00:14:43.200 mistress's place or going into the mistress's place. And they were able to, they were going

00:14:47.860 in for arrest and they took him out. And in response, the cartel starts taking over and

00:14:53.300 laying siege to these tourist areas. Why are they doing it in tourist areas? Because they want the

00:14:59.800 communications. They want the videos. They want, this is psychological terrorism that you are

00:15:05.320 looking at. They want you to share the videos. They want to show the tourists and they know

00:15:09.460 there's Westerners, Americans, Canadians, and others, Europeans that come down there. 1.00

00:15:14.780 That's why they go down. That's why they're doing this in these high visibility locations 0.93

00:15:18.920 because they want it to be seen. I want to bring on now, uh, Sheriff Mark Lamb, who's also running

00:15:23.620 for Congress in Arizona. He's been on the show for a minute. This guy, he is a cartel expert

00:15:29.380 Sheriff Lamb, are you surprised at all that the cartels are doing this?

00:15:34.680 No, Jack, I'm not surprised at all.

00:15:36.720 This is that we have been actually putting our boot in their throats for since President

00:15:42.060 Trump came in, closed down the border.

00:15:43.800 That affected the amount of income they've had come from human trafficking.

00:15:48.040 Their drug trafficking has been impacted.

00:15:50.600 We're actually seeing that it's proof positive in the amount of fentanyl poisonings, the

00:15:54.940 huge reduction in fentanyl poisonings in this country.

00:15:57.500 So the cartels were already getting hit economically, and now they lose one of their leaders, El Mencho, and now they lose it. And you hit it right on the head when you said they want this to look chaotic. They want to strike terror into the hearts of not only those tourists down there in those areas, but they also want to send a message to the world of their capabilities of violence against even their own government.

00:16:24.840 and you talk about these capabilities and we've we've certainly seen the capabilities writ large

00:16:33.240 I mean you're talking about a force down there when we think cartel we usually think gang violence

00:16:38.040 but these look like to my eye a military style attack well there's videos that show just how

00:16:45.080 equipped these uh this cartel especially cjng these guys are not lightly equipped you're seeing

00:16:51.940 the video right now they have vehicles that are armored vehicles

00:16:54.840 They have grenades. They have 50 cows. They've got all the weaponry that a military would have.

00:17:03.460 I have been saying for years, we in law enforcement, we don't have enough equipment to be able to combat these types of groups, these armies that these cartels have created to protect their businesses.

00:17:14.940 They not only protect it from law enforcement, but they also protect it from the other cartels.

00:17:19.640 And what you're going to see now is the compression of power that we've been seeing since President Trump came into office and the moves that he's made to reduce this kind of flow into our country.

00:17:30.340 You're going to see that compression even greater now as CJNG, which has been one of the more powerful cartels, just lost their leader.

00:17:38.100 Well, and they lose their leader. But unfortunately, just like we saw with terrorism, you know, it's they they are able you take out one of these guys.

00:17:48.240 And in many cases, you're able to get him replaced overnight to find someone else to take his place.

00:17:53.120 Because what we're really talking about here is a network and a network that needs to be disrupted and a network that needs to be destroyed, going after the money, going after the communications, going after the key nodes.

00:18:04.100 And, of course, you know, we don't know everything that the administration is using against these individuals, but certainly taking out one of the individuals, it looks like they had the opportunity because he was going to visit his mistress.

00:18:15.080 And it looks like they're able to find, as they say, find, fix and finish this in this high value target here.

00:18:21.620 So they they did so. But unfortunately, this type of violence is something that's been part and parcel because we've allowed for years, we've allowed and let the Mexicans just kind of sit and ride by over and over. 0.96

00:18:33.980 the mexican government as these cartels grew in strength grew in power right on our southern 0.92

00:18:39.560 border right across our southern border and in many cases crossing north of our southern border

00:18:44.280 we're going to a quick break right now but i want to get into how this violence is a real and serious

00:18:49.900 threat to americans not just when you're out of on tourism down in mexico but even when you're

00:18:54.800 living in your own homes north of the border right back jack posobic human events daily

00:19:03.980 You know, they talk about influences.

00:19:10.140 These are influences, and they're friends of mine.

00:19:14.400 Jack Persovic.

00:19:15.900 Where's Jack?

00:19:16.840 Jack.

00:19:17.820 He's done a great job.

00:19:19.280 All right, folks.

00:19:23.020 Jack Persovic, we're back live here.

00:19:25.140 Lynchburg, Virginia.

00:19:26.700 Human Events Daily.

00:19:28.260 Beautiful Lynchburg.

00:19:29.300 Gotta love it.

00:19:30.080 No snow here today, by the way.

00:19:31.700 I know my folks back home in Philadelphia and all my family there definitely got walloped

00:19:38.740 last night, New York City getting it as well, Boston, but down here in Lynchburg, not even

00:19:44.240 a flurry.

00:19:45.360 Another spot where we didn't see any snow, at least in terms of the kind that falls from

00:19:52.380 the sky, but the kind that comes across the border in trucks and in caravans, of course,

00:19:58.080 is down there in Arizona.

00:19:59.320 Sheriff Mark Lamb, so when we talk about these cartels, we talk about the drug running, the narcotics that they have coming across.

00:20:07.680 The armaments, though, I want to get back into this because so many of these arms and people are looking at them saying, wait a minute.

00:20:13.480 These look like American arms, AR-15s and the like.

00:20:17.700 And doesn't this bring us all back to those operations that were being run, these highly controversial operations of Barack Obama and Eric Holder running guns south of the border to try to in some sort of scheme to entrap, you know, saying they were going to be able to track them.

00:20:35.360 It never made any real sense to me how you giving them guns is going to help us stop them.

00:20:40.720 It seems like it's just going to give them power.

00:20:42.760 And is that what we're seeing happened here?

00:20:44.700 yeah i'm glad you brought that up jack because a lot of people forgot about fast and furious you

00:20:50.440 know look the cartel does a really good job of of finding a way to get guns across the border we

00:20:55.440 didn't need the government to help them and if you don't know what fast and furious was basically

00:20:59.680 like you just said they said hey let's allow a bunch of these guns to go down and then we can 0.78

00:21:04.600 kind of track them and where they're going into the cartels it was a dumb idea eric holder and

00:21:09.200 obama are not the bright sharpest tools in the shed and they're certainly uh not the most pro

00:21:14.140 American either, and not cost the life of Agent Brian Terry, who was shot and killed down in the

00:21:21.220 deserts of Arizona by one of those guns that was taken over the border by the Fast and Furious

00:21:26.820 operation. But they were actually, our government was giving these guns to the cartels, and now

00:21:32.940 we're going to be having to deal with these kind of issues for a long time until we actually,

00:21:37.980 like you said, eradicate these cartels and finish them off. They're going to continue to have

00:21:42.620 somebody rise up. El Mencho was one of those guys. He rose up the ranks. He was a part of

00:21:48.980 one of the assassin crews for the drug cartels that he worked with. And then he actually became

00:21:53.320 part of the Los Matasetas, which means those who were killing the Setas. And if you know about the 0.81

00:21:58.680 Setas, there were a lot of military, a lot of guys that decided they were going to protect the

00:22:03.860 cartels. Then they actually became one of their own cartels in and of themselves. And then his

00:22:08.800 group came along and actually eradicated the setas to the point where they became part of cjng so

00:22:14.440 that's a little bit of the backstory on what you have and so this is a violent guy he's no stranger

00:22:20.560 to violence and he ran his cartel with violence which is why it's not surprising to see what

00:22:25.540 they're doing in puerto vallarta in guadalajara and so sheriff when we when we see this and of

00:22:33.100 course you know guadalajara is down in southern mexico and the reason though that you look you

00:22:38.400 a sheriff in arizona the reason that you've had to get so smart on the cartels is because this

00:22:43.580 type of violence unfortunately doesn't stay in mexico does it no it does not in the beginning

00:22:49.380 of last year we had uh we had uh information coming out from border patrol that there were

00:22:55.260 60 000 drone incursions across the border in one month it is tens of thousands of drone incursions

00:23:02.580 every month across the border they attack each other with weaponized drones at one point the

00:23:07.360 Rio Grande Sector, RGV, they basically said, hey, there's a green light from the cartels

00:23:14.020 on Border Patrol agents using drones.

00:23:16.700 So not only do they have these RPGs, grenades, high automatic weapons, semi-automatic weapons,

00:23:24.460 they also have these weaponized drones.

00:23:26.800 And they don't play by the same set of rules that we play by in the U.S. with law enforcement.

00:23:32.180 They're playing by a violent, win-at-all-cost set of rules.

00:23:36.360 and this is a dangerous thing to deal with along the border. This is why it's so important

00:23:40.300 that we secure our border. No, and this is key because the cartels have grown strong or did go

00:23:48.980 strong prior to this administration because in the past, the border was completely open and they

00:23:54.280 were able to use these operations not only to make money, and that's why the cartels are doing

00:23:58.560 these things, is to make money. Of course, they can have this power down south, but also because

00:24:03.800 you had people like Eric Holder, and again, I just keep going back to this, who thought it was a good

00:24:08.400 idea to give powerful American weapons to the cartels. And we were told, by the way, that this

00:24:16.320 was a way that somehow we were going to use that to take down the cartels. And I just, I think it's

00:24:22.100 ridiculous. I think it's one of the most, one of the most idiotic and quite frankly, criminal things 1.00

00:24:28.220 that our government has done in a long time. And these are the types of things that frustrate 0.99

00:24:33.280 americans because it's been government uh failures that have allowed these cartels to grow to the

00:24:38.940 size and yet there's never any accountability why was eric holder not held accountable we had an

00:24:44.220 agent who lost their life they literally put the guns and weapons in the hands of these cartels

00:24:49.000 now we're the mexican government they had i think 27 of their people die in this little skirm and

00:24:55.400 this this little war they're having down there in puerto vallarta so look they should hold somebody

00:25:01.100 accountable that's what americans want to see across this country whether it's epstein whether

00:25:04.580 it's fast and furious whether it's hillary clinton's emails whether it's all these different

00:25:08.780 things we're sick and tired of no accountability americans want accountability because this is the

00:25:15.160 type of stuff we see uh that they cause no and and unfortunately we can see this look it's it's

00:25:23.680 ridiculous to me that we see this going on just south of our border this type of chaos this type

00:25:28.500 of violence, this type of non-state actors who are able to control these areas.

00:25:34.860 I mean, people have to understand, this is where you go back to the 1960s.

00:25:38.540 I always use this example.

00:25:40.340 This is where JFK and Jackie O went down on their honeymoon, was down to Acapulco, was

00:25:44.700 down to this area, right?

00:25:46.160 And so that's how safe it was just one generation ago.

00:25:50.820 And because of our mismanagement, because of our lack of governments, because of willpower,

00:25:56.900 Whatever it is, the situation has gotten to this point.

00:26:00.580 Yep.

00:26:01.620 And we created this to a certain extent.

00:26:04.080 We haven't been held accountable.

00:26:05.260 Under the Biden years, four years of just basically not doing anything and letting these cartels gain immense power.

00:26:13.480 They went from making $500 million a year to $13 billion a year.

00:26:18.560 They've trafficked humans.

00:26:19.900 They've trafficked children. 1.00

00:26:21.060 They've raped women. 0.95

00:26:21.940 And they've killed Americans more than any other army or anybody's been able to do with fentanyl and other drugs in this country. 0.98

00:26:30.860 And yet we haven't held them accountable to where they need to be held accountable. 1.00

00:26:35.860 So I hope that we continue to put our boot in their throat and crush them. 0.97

00:26:41.300 And Sheriff, please tell people about your campaign. 0.98

00:26:43.500 Where can they go to get more info on the campaign?

00:26:46.140 Running for Congress out here in Arizona to replace Andy Biggs, who's running for governor.

00:26:49.920 Please go to marklam.us.

00:26:51.660 All right, good luck and Godspeed, D-Sheriff.

00:26:56.420 Thanks for joining us once again here on Human Events.

00:26:58.000 Thank you, Jack.

00:26:58.480 We'll be right back talking tariffs.

00:27:00.820 Human Events returns.

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00:28:56.160 All right, folks, obviously tariffs back in the news, huge Supreme Court ruling on Friday,

00:29:02.860 and we saw the president's response to that.

00:29:05.780 Let's play it now.

00:29:06.320 Therefore, effective immediately, all national security tariffs under Section 232 and existing Section 301 tariffs, they're existing, they're there, remain in place, fully in place and in full force and effect.

00:29:24.840 Today, I will sign an order to impose a 10 percent global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged.

00:29:35.640 And we're also initiating several Section 301 and other investigations to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies.

00:29:48.720 well so that was the president's response throwing down he's not backing off of tariffs

00:29:56.140 want to get on here the chief economist of american compass orin cast to kind of walk us through

00:30:02.100 some of what's happened here orin how are you i'm very well great to see you great to see you as

00:30:08.080 well so walk us through the theory of the case why did the supreme court rule the way they did

00:30:14.700 on these specific tariffs. And people need to understand this isn't all tariffs,

00:30:18.740 but one specific subset of the tariff basket. Yeah, that's exactly right. There are a lot of

00:30:25.020 very well-established tariff authorities. You heard the president just mentioning some of them,

00:30:30.640 Section 301, Section 232. These are all processes you can go through. You show that some other

00:30:37.000 country is behaving unfairly, some particular product that's important to the U.S. is under

00:30:42.040 threat, and then you could impose tariffs. And the president has done that going all the way

00:30:46.400 back to his first term as well. What the administration did this time around, though,

00:30:51.220 was use a different statute called AIIPA, which is an emergency statute and is basically designed

00:30:58.160 to give the president very quick authority, a lot of flexibility to, as the statute says,

00:31:03.820 regulate imports. And so the question for the court case was, well, does regulate include

00:31:10.800 tariffs or not. And the White House's position was, yes, it does. And that allowed them to

00:31:16.160 move very quickly with a lot of the actions you saw over the last year. Ultimately, the decision

00:31:21.480 by the Supreme Court was, no, no, regulate means you can regulate, you can make rules about what

00:31:26.920 imports can come in under what conditions, but it does not include the ability to actually impose

00:31:32.300 a tariff, which is sort of a tax. And obviously, the Constitution is very strict about who can tax

00:31:38.500 when. And so those very kind of short-term emergency tariffs that the president had been

00:31:44.160 using over the last year of negotiations now go away, but all of those longer-run permanent

00:31:49.620 tariffs are still in effect, and the administration is in the process of using those same authorities

00:31:54.400 to put more tariffs in place, which will leave us pretty much where we were all along.

00:32:02.120 And so this is something that I know you've written about this, I know others have written

00:32:06.100 about this, that a lot of people pointed out from the very start, from the very jump,

00:32:10.980 that the administration really can just move the tariffs over. So even though the authority is

00:32:16.560 different, the actual burden, the actual economic effect won't really be changed that much.

00:32:22.700 Yeah, that's exactly right. What's going to change is really the White House's ability to

00:32:27.340 sort of very quickly threaten to snap tariffs on, take tariffs off, move them up, move them down,

00:32:33.140 which obviously the president was using very aggressively in this first year,

00:32:37.080 especially as he was trying to cajole everybody to the table.

00:32:41.080 Frankly, I think we're better off in the long run moving to these

00:32:44.440 stabler, more permanent authorities.

00:32:47.020 I think if we actually want to get to a new trading system,

00:32:49.720 if we want to have certainty, if we want to have people investing in the U.S.,

00:32:54.040 it will actually be a very good thing that people know,

00:32:56.100 okay, these are not emergency tariffs anymore.

00:32:58.740 These are actually established after investigations

00:33:01.520 based on very clear authority. And they're likely to be here for the long run.

00:33:07.660 Well, and this really does, at the same time, move the U.S. So, you know, you look at where

00:33:12.660 we were coming from the Biden administration to Trump coming in and even without. And I'm sure

00:33:18.260 he's going to look for other ways to get, you know, to get get back another bite of the tariff

00:33:22.740 apple. But even moving that into these permanent tariffs, as you say, this is a totally, totally

00:33:29.560 total sea change or regime change, I guess I should say, from the previous the previous administration and previous efforts, because although although you didn't see these worldwide tariffs under Biden, I will admit, actually, with one exception, because Biden even kept many of the China tariffs from Trump's first term in place.

00:33:48.740 And that's kind of a little a little mentioned fact because they were, in fact, working and because China was, in fact, guilty of the things that the that the American investigators had found.

00:33:58.400 Yeah, that's exactly right. And the tariffs on China are the ones that are the most clear cut. Obviously, we have the authority to do them. China is trying to destroy our industrial capacity. China is our national security adversary.

00:34:13.420 China does cheat every way possible and under every rule of the trading system. 0.98

00:34:18.500 And so we can certainly continue to carry that on. 0.95

00:34:21.660 But I think, as you said, it's really important to say we've seen a much broader permanent

00:34:25.460 shift now in how we're going to think about the global economy.

00:34:29.040 This idea that it's just free trade no matter what, it's free trade no matter how other

00:34:33.160 countries treat us, it's free trade no matter what the results are, is out the window.

00:34:37.840 And I don't think it's coming back.

00:34:39.100 We're moving to a model that says we would love to have strong trading relationships, but they have to be balanced.

00:34:44.880 They have to be good for the United States.

00:34:47.140 And I think what's so telling is, you know, all of these authorities for tariffs do exist, right?

00:34:51.860 It's really funny.

00:34:52.500 You go back.

00:34:52.960 It's from this law from the 1930s.

00:34:54.820 It's a law passed in the 1960s.

00:34:56.640 It's a law passed in the 1970s.

00:34:58.920 Because in all of those periods, everybody understood free trade wasn't always going to work.

00:35:03.320 and you needed to have these kinds of authorities to confront countries that were not playing by

00:35:08.120 the rules or relationships that were not working for us. So only very recently we got to this idea

00:35:13.340 that you just, you can't use tariffs under any circumstances. And so it's really important to

00:35:18.080 be moving back to a world that says, yes, we would like to have healthy trade, but we absolutely can

00:35:23.040 and we will use tariffs if it helps us to get there. And I think, by the way, the team is just

00:35:30.000 putting up, as you and I have been speaking, the president has tweeted or truth. That's always a

00:35:35.940 risk of about this, where where he's funny enough, he's actually just reinforcing exactly what you're

00:35:41.980 saying. As president, I do not have to go back to Congress to get approval of tariffs because it has

00:35:46.700 already been gotten in many forms a long time ago, as you just delineated. And they were already

00:35:51.940 they were also just reaffirmed by the, as he says, the ridiculous and poorly crafted Supreme 0.73

00:35:57.280 Court, lowercase, Supreme Court decision, President DJT. So he's really just outlining

00:36:02.400 exactly what you said. These are longstanding laws and authorities that Congress has delegated

00:36:09.200 to the president when it comes to these tariff powers. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. Now,

00:36:14.600 I do think there are two things, ideally, that Congress would still do. One is this idea of

00:36:20.180 what's called the global tariff. So he has reinstated the global tariff under what's

00:36:24.880 called Section 122, which is only for a limited time. So it's also sort of an emergency

00:36:30.580 provision. I think we should have a permanent long-term global tariff. That is something you

00:36:36.480 would want Congress to put in place. It's also something I think they could put in place. There's

00:36:41.720 actually legislation to do that. There's a conservative Democrat as the sponsor of it in

00:36:47.840 the House of Representatives. And so it'd be great to see Congress move on that. And then the other

00:36:52.400 big one is permanent normal trade relations with China. That's the big thing we did back in 2000

00:36:57.560 when we welcomed China to the WTO. And it's, I think, really important that Congress take the

00:37:02.500 step of revoking that, saying we do not have normal trade relations with China. And again,

00:37:07.360 there is bipartisan legislation on that. It's a bipartisan recommendation of the China Select

00:37:12.460 Committee. And it was in the president's 2024 platform. So that would be another great place

00:37:17.840 to see actually a real push in Congress.

00:37:20.440 Let's actually put our money where our mouth is

00:37:22.860 and do the thing we've all said we know we should do.

00:37:26.680 No, I'd personally love to do it. 0.68

00:37:28.700 It's something that, you know, even coming up as a China hand, 0.57

00:37:31.460 you know, you go back and you look and you say,

00:37:33.400 how did this ever make any sense?

00:37:34.900 Most favorite nation, permanent normal status.

00:37:37.180 Orrin Kass, where can people go to follow you?

00:37:38.500 Get your work.

00:37:40.200 We are at commonplace.org is our magazine.

00:37:43.480 Just published a great analysis of this on Friday.

00:37:45.900 So subscribe there.

00:37:47.000 and I am on X at Oren underscore Cass.

00:37:50.940 All right, take care, man.

00:37:51.900 Thanks for joining us.

00:37:53.100 Great to see you.

00:37:53.660 Thanks.

00:37:54.940 You too.

00:37:55.420 Right back at Human Events Daily.

00:38:05.080 Jack is a great guy.

00:38:06.640 He's written a fantastic book.

00:38:08.340 Everybody's talking about it.

00:38:09.480 Go get it.

00:38:10.660 And he's been my friend

00:38:11.560 right from the beginning

00:38:12.500 of this whole beautiful event.

00:38:14.580 And we're going to turn it around

00:38:15.940 All right, folks, we're back. Jack Posobiec live here, Lynchburg, Virginia on Real America's

00:38:28.660 Voice for Human Events daily. And we have breaking news that actually just dropped out of Axios

00:38:34.200 right before we came to came live today that just kind of crossed my desk where

00:38:40.660 They're now reporting that Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Cain has been advising President Trump and top officials that a military campaign against Iran could carry significant risks, in particular, the possibility of becoming entangled in a prolonged conflict.

00:38:59.440 Why does this matter if there is an ongoing debate at the top levels of the Trump administration on how to handle the Iran standoff and what the consequences of what each option would be?

00:39:08.920 At the moment, several of the voices in Trump's circle are urging caution, though some sources

00:39:14.260 think Trump himself is leaning towards a strike.

00:39:17.220 After all, there's a question of what success would look like when it comes to military

00:39:21.720 action and how risky it would be to try to achieve it.

00:39:25.600 On the other hand, reaching a nuclear deal could potentially mean walking back some of

00:39:30.160 the president's previous red lines.

00:39:32.460 And of course, the envoys, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, have been a huge picket point

00:39:37.160 there.

00:39:37.520 uh kane's position they're saying could be look we know president president trump he loves general

00:39:43.440 kane uh general kane is absolutely someone that he trusts going all the way back to his first term

00:39:48.680 that's why he appointed him chairman of the joint chiefs and made sure that he got there to say look

00:39:53.600 this was a situation where you know he has said that uh you know they're saying that according

00:40:00.160 to reports kane is a reluctant warrior on iran even though he was all in on the venezuela

00:40:06.760 operation, and he's been more cautious in his discussions on Iran. Of course, obviously would

00:40:13.320 support and execute any decision that the president makes, but also more steely-eyed and clear-eyed

00:40:20.440 and realistic. And look, when you look at all of this, go back. So Joshua Lysak and I are going to

00:40:29.420 giving a talk tonight on really the thesis of our discussion going back to tales of regime

00:40:37.120 change, which was the special that we did here on Human Events Daily during the Christmas break.

00:40:42.280 And why did we put that special together? Well, we wanted to talk about how this

00:40:46.760 line of thinking seems to go throughout the American media, particularly conservative media,

00:40:53.420 particularly the conservative right, where we have these ideas that, oh, well, you know,

00:40:58.260 we're just going to knock off the bad guys and the people are going to rise up and everything

00:41:03.220 is going to be great. And so what Joshua and I did is we went and looked at case studies and we

00:41:08.860 went case by case by case. We looked at Iraq. We look at Afghanistan. We looked at Syria and we

00:41:14.600 said, what went wrong in all of those situations? Of course, Iraq knocked them off. That leads to 1.00

00:41:23.120 a massive sectarian civil war. Afghanistan, of course, that ended with the Taliban retaking

00:41:29.920 Kabul and retaking power in the country. Syria, the Syrian civil war, which the United States

00:41:35.600 played a role in fomenting, led to the rise of ISIS, which also spread to their extremists in

00:41:42.100 Iraq across that border, all the way down to the Euphrates. And then we even talked about Ukraine

00:41:48.320 and how it was U.S. operations and U.S. involvement, particularly from the intelligence side,

00:41:54.040 that led to the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych all the way back in 2013,

00:41:59.520 2014, the Maidan Revolution, as it's called, a color revolution, which was held there,

00:42:05.340 which led to the current crisis and the war in Ukraine. And you can certainly point back and say,

00:42:12.220 Would the war in Ukraine have ever happened if the United States and members of the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, and others started their regime change operation color revolution in Ukraine all the way back then, right?

00:42:29.120 We do have to look at these things in totality, that when you knock off a world leader, a foreign leader, and you hear this in the intel community all the time, and again, you hear it in conservative media all the time.

00:42:40.440 Oh, we're just we're going to knock these guys off or we're just going to just going to take out some of the regime's infrastructure and everything is going to work.

00:42:47.640 Really? Are you sure about that?

00:42:49.920 Can you point to an example of a time where it has worked properly?

00:42:54.300 So I just laid out a few.

00:42:55.900 And in fact, if we were going to do, we'd actually, when we were putting together the episodes, we said if we were going to do two more episodes, we'd either talk, the other two on the list, the other countries we were looking at were going to be either Iran itself or Libya.

00:43:11.240 And in fact, we still may go in and do those because in Iran, the United States has been involved in multiple regime changes in Iran.

00:43:20.580 When you look at the Shah, when you look at Mosaddegh, when you look at what was done there, the British MI6 as well has been involved in many times.

00:43:27.720 And it was, in fact, it was, in fact, all right, the imposition of the Shah, backed by the CIA and MI6, that led to so many Iranians being upset at the West, being upset at the United States, that led to them joining the Islamic Revolution of 1979. 0.84

00:43:49.820 That's why they were chanting death to America. 0.63

00:43:52.300 That's why they viewed America as the great Satan and the great evil, 0.96

00:43:56.520 the same way they referred to Israel as the little Satan and the little evil.

00:44:00.700 So you go back and you look at all this stuff, and what I mean to say is this.

00:44:04.840 It's very simple.

00:44:06.120 When it comes to regime change operations and regime change wars,

00:44:11.120 nobody can prove what is going to come next.

00:44:14.540 and ultimately the outcome that that you do get is probably not the desired effect it is not the

00:44:22.340 desired effect at all and so if you have anybody sitting there and promising you that oh well this

00:44:27.760 group is going to take power and the people are just going to rise up and it's going to be great

00:44:31.060 go look at Libya by the way go look at Libya where Gaddafi himself gets gets brutalized in

00:44:38.400 the streets and sits there and gets attacked and gets raked over the coals, literally raked over

00:44:44.820 coals and flayed out there in public. And who takes over? You've got Al Qaeda, you've got

00:44:50.760 terrorists. Benghazi takes place a year later. It was complete mayhem on the Mediterranean.

00:44:57.460 So that's what we got. And now, so it doesn't surprise me at all. The General Cain is out

00:45:02.860 there, Chairman Cain of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, telling the president, hey, Mr. President,

00:45:07.280 just so you know that if we really start to underpin the regime in iran and if we get them

00:45:13.600 into a regime collapse or regime change scenario we have no idea what's going to come out and it

00:45:19.680 could lead potentially to by the way even if the regime doesn't collapse by the way it could lead

00:45:25.180 to reprisals against the u.s and the u.s getting sucked into a larger regional or perhaps worse

00:45:31.780 war. And let's not forget that Iran's two biggest allies are Russia and China. So a Maduro-style

00:45:37.820 operation or a Midnight Hammer-style operation. Again, remember, the General Cain is the one who

00:45:42.960 ran Operation Midnight Hammer. He is an Air Force general that was predominantly air assets. Now,

00:45:48.500 we've also seen those air assets being forward deployed now. We talked to you last week about

00:45:54.020 the importance, the map break on Diego Garcia, why Diego Garcia is so important for a long-range or

00:46:00.920 of sustained bombing runs when it comes to Iran as a staging location. You know, it's positioned

00:46:09.240 southern, directly south of the Persian Gulf, where it can range into Iran and then come back

00:46:15.740 for refueling. And so we need to look at this, again, clear eyes. What do we want? What comes

00:46:24.180 next? What is in the interest of the American people? And I believe that President Trump knows

00:46:28.680 this. And I believe that President Trump remembers, of course, the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:46:34.380 Remember, it was Donald Trump himself in 2015 who stood on stage next to Jeb Bush and demanded

00:46:41.260 that his family apologize for the lies of Iraq, that his family apologize and talk about. And he

00:46:47.340 talked about this in Georgia when we were just down there on Thursday, when I had the honor of

00:46:51.380 spending the day with the president, where he talked about the troops, the boots on the ground

00:46:57.080 coming home and the way that people were maimed, the way that people, American citizens, our boys

00:47:02.540 were maimed, were hurt, were injured and came back forever scarred. And today he's of course

00:47:08.720 meeting with the angel mom. So he understands that the victims aren't just the people killed,

00:47:13.280 but the families they leave behind, that everyone is victimized in these scenarios. And so if you

00:47:18.500 want to pop the Iranians, focus on the nuclear program, that's one thing, but these long-term

00:47:24.700 regime change wars are something that the president ran against in 2024 and something 0.97

00:47:30.300 that I personally am more than willing to call out even here in 2026. And we just heard, by the way,

00:47:36.840 I broke the news earlier that Tucker Carlson is there at the White House today. Is he meeting

00:47:41.440 with the president? I suppose we'll see. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission

00:47:46.140 to lay ashore.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - February 23, 2026

Armed Man Shot and Killed at Mar-a-Lago, Cartel Violence Rages Through Puerta Vallarta & the Threat of Regime Change in Iran

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