Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Dereliction of Duty - TX Fire Chief's Catastrophic Failure to Act + The Vindication of Doug Mackey

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:39.680 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:46.360 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.

00:00:50.360 Overnight, Russia launching its largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the start of the war.

00:00:55.500 Ukrainian officials say over 700 drones were launched, but most were shot down or intercepted.

00:01:00.860 A major win for President Trump, the Supreme Court sided with his plan to dramatically reshape federal agencies.

00:01:07.400 The number of people missing from Friday's deadly flooding in the Hill Country.

00:01:11.340 At least 161 people are unaccounted for in the Kerrville area.

00:01:15.560 That includes five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor.

00:01:18.800 Eighty-seven people are confirmed dead in Kerr County, and now eight people are confirmed dead in neighboring Kendall County.

00:01:25.920 The total number of people killed across Texas from this storm system is 110.

00:01:31.180 Our firefighters are trained for that area.

00:01:33.500 Our firefighters have the equipment.

00:01:35.080 They have the desire.

00:01:35.980 They have the will.

00:01:36.640 They have the power to go up.

00:01:38.580 And actually, I know some of those girls could have been survived if we had had the best boat crew the day before on scene.

00:01:44.600 I know it.

00:01:45.560 I know it in my heart.

00:01:46.340 I know it as a battalion chief.

00:01:48.260 I know it as a former swiftwater tech myself.

00:01:52.520 And the fact that we didn't do it and we let them down is just, it's unconscionable.

00:01:59.820 What's important is I'm not the last African-American fighter chief.

00:02:02.680 That's more important than being the first.

00:02:04.040 Chief Baker now oversees 49 stations.

00:02:06.680 He says his goal for the department has changed over time, but one has stuck through it all.

00:02:11.420 One of my goals is really to increase the diversity of the Austin Fire Department.

00:02:15.660 The Trump administration pushing back against calls to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

00:02:22.700 A Justice Department report this week revealed the accused sex trafficker did not keep a secret so-called client list.

00:02:29.640 All right, folks.

00:02:30.400 Jack Posobiec, here we are live, Washington, D.C.

00:02:34.300 Today is July 9th, 2025.

00:02:37.160 Anno, Domini.

00:02:38.500 We're very excited to be here.

00:02:40.560 We've got to have a great guest on for you in just a few minutes.

00:02:44.780 His name is Doug Mackey, and he's got a big victory for all of us and for all of our rights.

00:02:49.960 He'll be with you here in a few minutes.

00:02:51.660 But I got to tell you something, folks.

00:02:53.300 I'm upset.

00:02:54.100 I was doing intervals today, and I'm upset because I'm so angry because I'm sick of the lies.

00:02:59.640 I'm sick of the lies out of Kerrville, Texas.

00:03:02.300 I'm sick of the lies out of Austin, Texas, and I'm absolutely sick of the lies out of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General's office.

00:03:12.080 Sick of this.

00:03:13.220 You looked at us.

00:03:14.980 You looked at us, and you lied right to our faces, and you said there's going to be more.

00:03:18.840 There's going to be more coming.

00:03:19.860 Where is it?

00:03:20.840 Where is it?

00:03:21.860 Where's the unsealed documents?

00:03:24.200 Where are the case files?

00:03:25.500 Where are the flight logs?

00:03:26.700 Where are the transcripts?

00:03:28.180 Put it all out.

00:03:29.080 And they said, oh, we can't show you because it's the victims.

00:03:31.500 It's the victims.

00:03:32.280 It's the victims.

00:03:32.860 They're doing the same thing down there in Kerrville.

00:03:34.460 They say, oh, well, you know, we can't ask any of those questions about the victims.

00:03:37.760 Excuse me?

00:03:38.820 Excuse me?

00:03:39.840 No.

00:03:40.360 No.

00:03:41.360 It's time to take accountability.

00:03:44.080 It's time to show leadership.

00:03:46.500 And leadership is not scolding people for asking questions when in one case, right,

00:03:53.260 down there in Kerrville, where you've got, what, 40 young girls who are dead,

00:03:59.100 and I don't even know how many more total, over 100.

00:04:01.800 Then up in Jeffrey Epstein, which spanned all around the world,

00:04:07.160 you've got potentially hundreds more young girls. 0.94

00:04:10.640 You understand?

00:04:11.420 This is what's going on here.

00:04:12.780 These are the young girls of our country.

00:04:17.000 These girls, these children, and in both cases, they were let down.

00:04:23.300 And in both cases, you've got people in power that are trying to pass the buck,

00:04:28.300 that are trying to pass the heat, that are trying to play the blame game.

00:04:31.440 Will someone take responsibility?

00:04:35.060 Because that's what I thought MAGA was about.

00:04:37.980 That's certainly what I thought Texas was about.

00:04:40.920 And I'm not seeing a lot of that right now.

00:04:42.680 I'm not.

00:04:44.380 I'm seeing a lot of people want to play games, want to pass the buck.

00:04:49.060 Now, no, we're not going to do that around here.

00:04:51.180 We're going to demand answers.

00:04:52.660 We're going to demand accountability.

00:04:54.420 And if you knew something before this flood took place, Mr. Mayor, anything at all,

00:05:00.200 then you need to be honest.

00:05:01.560 And if you can't be honest, you got to go.

00:05:04.020 You got to go.

00:05:05.240 You should resign yourself before you get placed under investigation.

00:05:08.560 We'll be right back.

00:05:14.960 Nothing will stand in our way.

00:05:17.120 And our golden age has just begun.

00:05:19.480 This is Human Events with Jack Posobiec.

00:05:21.240 Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.

00:05:25.920 Welcome to the second American Revolution. 0.56

00:05:30.320 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live human events daily.

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00:07:06.180 Without further ado, I need to get our next guest on because, you know, for a long time,

00:07:11.880 this is a guy who's had quite a bit hanging over his head.

00:07:16.600 But now, now, he will be returned to full and absolute restoration of his rights because

00:07:26.480 of a case that was just thrown out in the Second District Court of Appeals in New York.

00:07:34.340 Ladies and gentlemen, Doug Mackey joins Human Events Daily.

00:07:37.520 He was convicted, arrested, indicted, and convicted for making a meme all the way back in 2016.

00:07:46.120 That case has finally, at long last, been dismissed.

00:07:49.440 Doug, how are you?

00:07:51.400 Great to be here, Jack.

00:07:52.660 It's a great day.

00:07:53.720 I got to tell you, I mean, I got to ask, how does it feel?

00:07:56.220 How does it feel after all this?

00:07:58.400 It feels absolutely incredible.

00:08:01.260 Today is a day of vindication.

00:08:02.960 It's four and a half years in the making.

00:08:04.620 And this was not, this case was not overturned on some kind of technicality or even on a

00:08:11.780 constitutional nature.

00:08:13.140 The court just, the circuit court just ordered the district court to enter a judgment of

00:08:18.700 acquittal, a full acquittal, based on the fact that they did not have any evidence to

00:08:24.940 support this conviction, which confirms what we knew all along.

00:08:28.320 They brought this conviction because Joe Biden stole the election and they wanted to put a

00:08:36.220 Trump supporter on trial.

00:08:37.280 They wanted to arrest Trump supporters and make an example out of them, even though they

00:08:41.000 did not have sufficient evidence to prove that any crime was committed.

00:08:44.460 And so I want people to understand the timeline here, because this case, the tweet, you know,

00:08:52.220 the meme, the activity that they're talking about here, that took place in 2016.

00:08:56.940 But your indictment and arrest didn't come until December of 2020.

00:09:03.520 Hmm.

00:09:04.000 December of 2020.

00:09:05.180 That's kind of interesting timing, isn't it?

00:09:06.880 Absolutely.

00:09:09.640 And they didn't move this case forward.

00:09:12.800 You know, Bill Barr, love for more, hate him.

00:09:15.380 Even Bill Barr would not bring this case and put a stamp on this case.

00:09:20.820 They put a stop on this case.

00:09:21.860 And we know a little bit about this from a little bit of reporting by Reuters, if you can

00:09:25.980 believe it, that the Trump DOJ did not want to bring this case.

00:09:29.740 And they did not bring this case because they understood that there was insufficient evidence,

00:09:34.540 according to reporting from Reuters.

00:09:36.140 That did not stop Joe Biden's lackeys from making this case a priority.

00:09:40.820 I was arrested seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated.

00:09:45.120 So your arrest comes seven.

00:09:46.780 And I want people to understand that that this was the height of the you know, at the

00:09:52.380 time, this was all about censorship.

00:09:54.000 It was the height and this this push, this massive push for censoring online voices, for

00:09:59.420 censoring censorship of political speech online, for censorship of the ability of anyone

00:10:05.660 to engage in the political process by using social media.

00:10:09.840 And the height of all of this, the extremism reporters, many of which were in the trial there

00:10:16.300 with you that actually went and visited this because they knew exactly what it was, that it was their work working in

00:10:23.140 In conjunction with the DOJ, the SPLC was all over this case from that perspective, that they wanted you to be the first of many to be a test case to say, we can start locking up Patriots for memes.

00:10:37.480 That's what's really what was going on here, wasn't it?

00:10:39.460 Absolutely.

00:10:40.460 Absolutely.

00:10:41.460 And we don't know the full extent of cooperation between the DOJ career actors of the DOJ.

00:10:47.500 Yes, these people work for Trump and they have nothing to do with Trump or anything like that.

00:10:52.140 These are career actors that have been there a long time.

00:10:54.580 They hate Trump.

00:10:55.440 And when I went on trial, you're absolutely right.

00:10:57.580 The atmosphere was so dark and so dreary and the fight was so lonely.

00:11:02.320 This was right when they were dragging Trump through the mud and he was actually, I believe, indicted during my trial, believe it or not, for the first time, the first indictment.

00:11:12.460 We don't know the extent to which the ADL and the SPLC and all of these censorship organizations were working in conjunction with the DOJ.

00:11:21.940 And we may never know.

00:11:23.400 Hopefully the truth comes out one day, but they were there in the court.

00:11:26.780 They were practically sniggering to themselves.

00:11:29.480 They were celebrating.

00:11:31.560 They were actually one of them almost got himself kicked out of the court at one point.

00:11:37.800 And now, I guess, as you know, as we all could see, there was no evidence for a conviction.

00:11:43.440 I mean, anybody with eyes to see could see it.

00:11:45.580 And people that got to know the case, even people that didn't like me or that didn't like Trump, realized that there was nothing to this case.

00:11:53.480 And the only people who supported this case were blind partisans on the Democrat side, far left activists and the DOJ.

00:12:02.560 So what does that tell you about the deep state?

00:12:05.560 No, it's very clear that this is a partnership between these individuals, these hard left organizations and elements of the Department of Justice, who I've certainly been taking aim at this whole week, really.

00:12:23.420 And by the way, there was something that you mentioned, I think it was the last time we had you on the show, where people understand that this is a federal case.

00:12:31.740 And obviously, President Trump returned to office back in January.

00:12:36.700 He had the pardon pen there.

00:12:38.060 He did the mass pardons of the J6ers. 1.00

00:12:40.380 He's done pardon after pardon.

00:12:42.360 But you actually had the opportunity to receive a pardon from President Trump, and you refused to go for that pardon.

00:12:51.220 Walk me through that process and what this means.

00:12:54.640 Yes, absolutely.

00:12:57.200 So that is true.

00:12:58.280 We had the opportunity to go to Donald Trump for a pardon, and we chose not to at the time that Trump was inaugurated.

00:13:07.360 And why was that?

00:13:08.060 We had a very strong appeal, and the vindication, I've got to tell you, is much sweeter than even a pardon.

00:13:15.560 As great as it would be to get a pardon signed by the president, which would be incredible, this vindication is even better.

00:13:22.260 However, we knew we had a strong appeal.

00:13:24.800 We knew the government's evidence was insufficient.

00:13:27.080 And not only that, we believe their prosecution was also deficient on the law.

00:13:31.760 And the Second Circuit did not rule on those matters because they don't have to.

00:13:36.820 As soon as they find a point of agreement, they throw out the conviction, and they punt on the other matters.

00:13:42.420 So we still feel like their prosecution was legally insufficient in addition to the evidence being insufficient.

00:13:50.400 And I just want to double stomp on that so people understand is that you refused.

00:13:56.940 You could have gone to the president, and I'm sure, I'm sure the president in his heart of hearts would have looked at this situation and given you a pardon.

00:14:04.600 But you didn't.

00:14:05.480 And you kept on in this fight, fighting not just for yourself because you knew that you could get out, but you didn't want them to be able to do this to anybody else.

00:14:14.440 So you stayed in this fight using money from your own pocket, going on shows, going out of places, crowdfunding money, so that you could do this for others.

00:14:24.300 That's what this ruling actually means.

00:14:29.880 Absolutely.

00:14:30.540 That's entirely right.

00:14:32.140 We knew we wanted to set a precedent, and we wanted to send a message to the DOJ.

00:14:36.300 Not that they could say, oh, you know, you just, you know, you've got a pardon for Trump.

00:14:40.320 Doug, Doug, we've got a quick break here.

00:14:42.140 Hold that thought.

00:14:42.940 I want to hold you over.

00:14:43.640 We'll be right back, man.

00:14:45.460 Incredible victory.

00:14:46.920 Huge here in Washington, D.C.

00:14:55.740 Today, you know, they talk about influencers.

00:14:58.200 These are influencers.

00:15:00.060 And they're friends of mine.

00:15:02.480 Jack Persović.

00:15:03.980 Where's Jack?

00:15:04.940 Jack.

00:15:05.260 He's got a great job.

00:15:07.820 All right, folks.

00:15:10.360 Jack Persović.

00:15:10.860 Here we are back at Human Events Daily, and we're on with Doug Mackey with just an incredible story.

00:15:17.000 And I want to reiterate this for folks out there, is that Doug was arrested, he was indicted, and he was convicted for posting a meme in 2016.

00:15:29.020 The Biden DOJ went after him, put him through all of this.

00:15:33.020 They wanted to throw him in jail for seven months over a meme.

00:15:38.120 And now that case has been overturned.

00:15:41.820 And by the way, he refused to request a pardon from President Trump so that he could get this set as settled precedent for everyone else out there, that your right to meme would be protected.

00:15:58.720 So, folks, memes are legal again.

00:16:01.480 Post your memes.

00:16:02.580 Get them hot right now.

00:16:04.060 It's an incredible service.

00:16:05.920 Doug is a master patriot.

00:16:10.160 Patriot gold status.

00:16:12.720 And, Doug, I do have to ask, though, on a serious note, you know, what sort of things or what sort of moves as you've been through this process?

00:16:20.160 Obviously, you've learned so much more than you did a decade ago about how all of this works.

00:16:26.220 What sort of things would you like to see from the Trump DOJ or even on the congressional side to protect this type of behavior from happening again?

00:16:36.640 Well, great question.

00:16:39.100 First of all, I think that personnel is policy.

00:16:42.100 And if you look at what the FBI did and the DOJ and specifically the EDNY did is they sat on this case for over two years because the Trump DOJ, the Trump appointees, rather, wouldn't pursue this case because they thought it was an impeachment on freedom of speech.

00:16:59.900 Not only that, they realized that the evidence was insufficient personnel is policy and something like 60 percent of the current FBI agents, unfortunately, were hired under Christopher Wray.

00:17:13.020 And I think you really need to go through each of these field offices, which is admittedly a daunting task, and clean out the people that were hired for their partisan political affiliations because they're LGBT, because they're a woman, or whatever reason they were hired, other than them being the best candidates for the job. 0.50

00:17:32.920 And we see that in my case with the lead agent, a woman named Megan Reese, who I believe is still working at the FBI in the Boston field office.

00:17:41.520 Not only that, prosecutors looked at this evidence, they saw that it was a joke, and they still felt like they wanted to bring the hammer down and try to get a conviction.

00:17:52.040 And so those individuals need to be disciplined, and the EDNY specifically is one of the worst actors out there.

00:18:00.120 They're known to be cowboy prosecutors who will bring any kind of case, knowing that a journey will go along.

00:18:06.320 Knowing that most of the district court judges, I hate to say it, are complicit, and they never get disciplined for misleading the court.

00:18:16.040 They never get disciplined.

00:18:17.280 So these prosecutors need to face discipline.

00:18:20.820 Heads really need to roll.

00:18:22.260 And the EDNY, let me remind you, they indicted President Trump's, one of his best friends, Tom Barack, who was acquitted on all charges of being a federal agent.

00:18:30.980 So the EDNY is a total cesspit, and I would encourage President Trump to go into the entire EDNY and the SDNY while he's at it and clean those offices out, clean the FBI out.

00:18:43.460 And it needs to be legislation could make clear that this statute 241 should not be used against pure lawful speech.

00:18:50.700 Well, no, it certainly shouldn't, and you're right.

00:18:54.320 This idea of cleaning house needs to be done, and I actually understand that a lot of these U.S. attorney spots, I don't know if EDNY is one of them, but a lot of U.S. attorney slots all around the country are still being left vacant.

00:19:08.480 We've got so many people that are waiting for their approval through the United States Senate, and there's a huge backlog on this.

00:19:14.980 I mean, we're seven months into the Trump administration, or, you know, six and a half, if you want to be serious, but they're pedantic.

00:19:21.960 But at the same time, they've got to go through, and this idea of what you've done, Doug, and I want to be serious about this, and I hope, and I know that there have been some dark moments here.

00:19:32.380 Obviously, on the day of your conviction, that was a dark day.

00:19:35.560 But you went through all of this, so it is now settled law for our whole country, that anyone who is getting involved in the political process, anyone who's posting online like we all do every day in this country, whether you're on the left or the right or you're on Twitch or whatever platform it is, that you have the right to engage in politics.

00:19:59.660 And that's what we've always stood for in the MAGA movement.

00:20:03.880 It's don't censor us.

00:20:05.260 You know, we will beat you, you know, on the battlefield.

00:20:08.340 Just don't go after us and let us step up and actually fight on an even basis.

00:20:14.620 It's really as simple as that.

00:20:16.660 Equal treatment before the law.

00:20:18.460 Doug, where can people go to follow you?

00:20:19.940 And, man, just God bless you.

00:20:21.380 Happy Fourth of July and all the rest.

00:20:24.180 Thank you, sir.

00:20:25.080 Thank you so much.

00:20:25.740 Yes, please follow me on Twitter at Doug Mackey Case.

00:20:30.020 Please, if you can, we've still got legal debts and we've still got to fund a lawsuit against the government.

00:20:35.380 So memedefensefund.com, memedefensefund.com.

00:20:39.320 He's suing the government, folks.

00:20:41.160 Meme Defense Fund.

00:20:42.320 He's suing them back.

00:20:43.580 It's time to take the fight to them.

00:20:46.100 Doug Mackey, this guy doesn't stop fighting.

00:20:48.440 He wakes up fighting.

00:20:49.420 He fights in his sleep, folks.

00:20:50.920 He fights in his sleep.

00:20:52.120 MAGA Fight Club.

00:20:52.820 Be right back.

00:20:57.980 And, Jack, where is Jack?

00:20:59.660 Where is Jack?

00:21:03.320 Where is he?

00:21:04.600 Jack, I want to see you.

00:21:08.260 Great job, Jack.

00:21:09.640 Thank you.

00:21:10.420 What a job you do.

00:21:11.840 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:21:13.220 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who'll be getting Pulisic.

00:21:19.000 All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back.

00:21:22.340 Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.

00:21:26.220 Well, folks, there's been another story that has been going on, and, you know, we've been covering it here and there.

00:21:34.180 We certainly made mention of it, of the horrific tragedy down in Kerrville, Texas, all of these young girls who have been killed in this flood.

00:21:45.260 All of the people who have been killed in the flood.

00:21:47.480 We understand now the death toll is over 100.

00:21:50.520 There's still, obviously, recovering people, and those operations are ongoing.

00:21:56.480 But there was an interesting post that came up on Facebook, and this came up down there in Austin, Texas, not far from Kerrville, as the crow flies.

00:22:10.400 And it was from the Austin Fire Association, and it started making the rounds last night on Twitter.

00:22:17.140 After I found it, I started looking into it some more, I started doing some more digging on this, and then I started sending it out to every single person that I knew.

00:22:28.200 And, yes, to Steve Bannon, to Charlie Kirk, to everyone, to try to get the attention, Libs at TikTok, all the rest.

00:22:34.560 People know who I know.

00:22:35.280 And to get this the attention that it deserves, that there was a situation whereby in, whereby in, the Austin Fire Association president goes up and gives this dissertation where he reveals the fact that they had deployment orders, pre-deployment orders, on July 2nd.

00:23:02.360 So I want people to understand the timeline here.

00:23:05.180 July 4th, that's when the floods hit.

00:23:07.960 That's when the rains fell.

00:23:09.520 But on July 2nd, when people in town, when people in the state of Texas knew that something was coming, the state issued down pre-deployment orders to all the surrounding areas.

00:23:20.420 Well, Austin, obviously, is a huge city compared to some of these small towns.

00:23:24.100 They've got a massive fire response force and disaster response force.

00:23:27.820 And it turns out that they have incredibly, some of the best trained rescue swimmers, what they call swift water techs, in the entire country, who specifically train for the hill country because that's exactly where these incidents have happened in the past, even in the 1980s.

00:23:45.700 There was an entire busload of campers that went down here in a very similar situation because the water rose to flash flood conditions.

00:23:53.480 But here's the problem, is that the fire chief, fire chief Joel Baker, refused the deployment.

00:24:01.880 And he said, no.

00:24:03.980 He said, we will not pre-deploy boats.

00:24:06.840 We will not pre-deploy the rescue swimmers.

00:24:09.900 We will not pre-deploy these assets, even though this has come down from the governor's office.

00:24:14.320 And the fire association says, this isn't a budgetary issue.

00:24:20.420 He said, there was a budget issue.

00:24:21.360 He said, there's no budget issue.

00:24:22.540 You would get reimbursed.

00:24:24.160 He said, how can it be reimbursed?

00:24:25.460 And so they didn't deploy even again on the 3rd.

00:24:28.620 He was asked again the next day.

00:24:29.900 He said, are you sure you don't want to do this?

00:24:30.860 We really would like to.

00:24:31.740 And you had firefighters and rescue swimmers and the swift boats.

00:24:36.120 And everybody set up saying, we will go.

00:24:38.580 Let us go.

00:24:39.340 Just let us go.

00:24:40.100 And the chief denied it, denied it, denied it, denied it over and over again until finally

00:24:45.660 the floods came.

00:24:46.820 And then they're running around sitting there saying, oh, we didn't know.

00:24:48.840 We didn't have any warning.

00:24:50.880 How could you have said you don't have no warning if you denied it?

00:24:55.320 It's as simple as that.

00:24:57.160 And maybe it's because you had some other priorities on your mind than saving lives and

00:25:04.260 coordinating disaster relief.

00:25:06.640 So let's play some tape from this guy.

00:25:08.600 His name is Fire Chief Joel Baker.

00:25:11.160 Fire Chief Joel Baker from Austin, Texas.

00:25:14.540 Let's go listen to Fire Chief Joel Baker and his priorities.

00:25:19.520 What's important is I'm not the last African-American fire chief.

00:25:22.440 That's more important than being the first.

00:25:24.100 Chief Baker now oversees 49 stations and around 1,200 employees.

00:25:29.080 He says his goal for the department has changed over time, but one has stuck through it all.

00:25:33.900 One of my goals is really to increase the diversity of the Austin Fire Department.

00:25:38.600 It needs to reflect more of the community we serve because I believe the youth of the Austin,

00:25:44.320 you know, youth in general, you will be what you see.

00:25:46.640 So for those young African-American, young Latinos or people in the Asian community or the LGBT community,

00:25:54.580 they see more firefighters that look like them and have similar values for them.

00:25:58.440 It does so much for the community.

00:26:01.580 Mr. Lawson, he first called me, I think, when I first came to France here about four years ago.

00:26:07.320 He really induced me to help introduce me to the African-American community.

00:26:10.640 And this community is a whole in Austin.

00:26:12.880 But to have them to continue to do more than just deal with the youth, I mean, it's a bigger footprint.

00:26:18.380 Although youth harvest foundations in the name, but it really goes beyond the youth,

00:26:24.080 at least in my opinion, to have this opportunity to be so engaged in the community.

00:26:28.160 Being involved with the African-American Youth Parish Foundation has really given me an opportunity

00:26:32.680 to give back to the community, to give back to a community that has given me so much,

00:26:37.900 given me so many opportunities.

00:26:38.920 So I'm just really hopeful and pray that I give back to the community more than I have received.

00:26:45.720 So there you go, folks, another DEI hire pushing DEI tactics.

00:27:01.780 And by the way, it was the Obama administration that came in originally back in 2014,

00:27:06.760 sued the city of Austin regarding their, quote, lack of diversity

00:27:11.740 and saying that they needed more diversity, inclusion, and equity programs

00:27:18.780 within the Austin Fire Department.

00:27:20.660 And by the way, the Obama DOJ did this all over the country.

00:27:25.020 So when you have situations like this and you wonder,

00:27:27.340 why is it that the best of the best are raising their hands and saying,

00:27:31.260 Lord, send me.

00:27:32.600 Lord, here I am, send me.

00:27:34.920 And you got this DEI hire up there saying that he won't do it.

00:27:38.920 So they say, ah, don't worry about it.

00:27:40.080 It's a budget thing.

00:27:40.760 And they said, well, what about reimbursements?

00:27:42.520 We can just get reimbursed from the state.

00:27:44.240 And they said he couldn't understand the concept of reimbursements,

00:27:49.460 that the money will come from the state.

00:27:51.320 We pay the money now, but the state will pay the money later.

00:27:55.500 It's a pretty simple concept.

00:27:57.460 But no, he's up there saying, oh, no, no.

00:27:59.880 It's all about diversity.

00:28:02.680 That's what we need.

00:28:03.360 We need diversity, diversity, diversity.

00:28:04.980 And by the way, I saw some people on X saying, well, oh, I'm only hearing this from Posobiec.

00:28:09.140 You know, where is this coming from?

00:28:10.900 Is there a specific?

00:28:11.560 No, I've got the fire association.

00:28:13.040 Here we go.

00:28:13.520 Here's the Austin Fire Association president.

00:28:16.240 Let's hear from him.

00:28:17.440 Our firefighters are trained for that area.

00:28:19.640 Our firefighters have the equipment.

00:28:21.200 They have the desire.

00:28:22.120 They have the will.

00:28:22.780 They have the power to go up.

00:28:24.660 And actually, I know some of those girls could have been survived if we had had a best boat

00:28:28.780 crew the day before on scene.

00:28:30.840 I know it.

00:28:31.700 I know it in my heart.

00:28:32.480 I know it as a battalion chief.

00:28:34.400 I know it as a former swift water tech myself.

00:28:38.380 And the fact that we didn't do it and we let them down is just, it's unconscionable.

00:28:45.500 So the best boat team wasn't there, wasn't on site the day before or even two days before

00:28:54.040 this took place.

00:28:55.380 By the way, this is what a good disaster response force does.

00:29:00.380 So AJDR, we did, you know, I did a little bit of this type of operations when I was in,

00:29:05.040 when I was in the military, we call it humanitarian assistance, humanitarian assistance, disaster

00:29:09.520 relief or AJDR.

00:29:10.600 And it's, you know, it's, these are the types of plans and pre-plans that you would have

00:29:16.380 if you know you're going into a season like that.

00:29:18.620 If you see something that looks bad in the forecast, you say, hey, can we pre-deploy some

00:29:22.160 assets?

00:29:22.760 And you know what?

00:29:23.520 Maybe nothing happens, all right?

00:29:25.240 Maybe nothing happens, but that's why we spend the money.

00:29:27.760 This is the basic construct that you have between the social contract of a people and a government.

00:29:35.320 The very basic building block of why we have government at all.

00:29:40.600 It's for the common safety, public safety.

00:29:44.740 That's what it's there for.

00:29:46.600 That's what our taxes are supposed to be going towards.

00:29:49.700 That's why we have these things in the first place.

00:29:52.660 Police, fire rescue, okay?

00:29:55.640 All of it.

00:29:56.520 We understand.

00:29:57.300 We understand.

00:29:57.800 By the way, I've always been a huge supporter of all of this, military, the rest, but you

00:30:02.840 don't abuse it.

00:30:03.940 And DEI is an abuse of that.

00:30:06.040 I want to put out another example because people say, whoa, maybe this guy wasn't really that

00:30:09.560 woke and maybe he was chosen.

00:30:11.540 It wasn't great.

00:30:12.200 Okay, here you go.

00:30:13.900 Here's something from 2021.

00:30:17.780 In 2021, Dr. Andrew Fox was the lead chaplain in a volunteer capacity for the Austin Fire

00:30:26.900 Department.

00:30:27.380 But that chaplain of the fire department, he'd been there for eight years.

00:30:32.100 He was dismissed in December of 2021.

00:30:35.900 By who?

00:30:36.600 Oh, Fire Chief Joel Baker.

00:30:39.280 And why did Fire Chief Joel Baker dismiss the chaplain?

00:30:43.200 Well, because he wrote on his blog his religious views regarding, you're going to love this,

00:30:48.740 transgender women participating in women's sports.

00:30:52.880 So he wrote on his personal blog.

00:30:54.720 This is the chaplain of the fire department, volunteer fire chaplain.

00:30:56.880 And by the way, the chaplain is the person who sits there before these men have to go

00:31:01.800 into one of these situations where they're conducting rescue swims, where they're going

00:31:06.480 into literally running into burning buildings to try to save people, to save lives, to save

00:31:12.800 children, like the children who died in this situation.

00:31:17.860 The chaplain is the one who prays for them.

00:31:19.000 And the chaplain, by the way, when you have a situation like this where something doesn't

00:31:24.100 go right, a chaplain is someone who could be there for those men, someone for them to

00:31:29.040 be able to talk to, someone that they know, someone that they trust.

00:31:32.420 But this chaplain was fired by Fire Chief Joel Baker because of his religious, which, by 0.98

00:31:39.080 the way, it's not just a Christian belief.

00:31:40.960 It's common sense belief that trans women, or I don't even know what the right word is, 1.00

00:31:46.360 transgenders shouldn't be participating in women's sports. 1.00

00:31:50.100 It's as simple as that. 0.99

00:31:51.120 But you fired him.

00:31:52.140 You fired him because you're woke.

00:31:53.600 You fired him because you're a DEI hire.

00:31:56.200 And now, when you look at the situation, when you look at the floods, Fire Chief Joel Baker,

00:32:02.920 all right, this needs to be investigated.

00:32:04.980 There needs to be a criminal negligence investigation opened into Fire Chief Joel Baker.

00:32:10.900 What did you know?

00:32:12.180 When did you know it?

00:32:14.000 And why did you deny these requests?

00:32:17.420 Why did you deny the requests of your team, of the team under you?

00:32:22.900 The people who have lived in Texas their whole lives, this guy is not from Texas.

00:32:27.600 He just came over from Atlanta.

00:32:29.780 They know the hill country.

00:32:31.160 They know the history of the 1980s and the Guadalupe River.

00:32:34.000 Why did you not listen to them?

00:32:36.240 Why did you not listen to the rescue swimmers?

00:32:38.640 Some of the best rescue swimmers in the world that told you that there was going to be a problem in the hill country.

00:32:44.060 They said it two days before the floods.

00:32:46.380 And then they got the mayor of Kerrville down there, and who's just, this guy, he's like a hobbit. 0.96

00:32:52.560 He's like, oh, you don't ask too many, you're asking too many questions.

00:32:55.120 Why are you asking so many questions?

00:32:56.500 I don't like, raise your hand.

00:32:58.000 Because you have dead children on your watch, Mr. Mayor.

00:33:02.060 And the same deal with this fire chief.

00:33:03.760 And the same deal with all of them.

00:33:05.620 Now, you got to take accountability.

00:33:07.420 And I'll give Governor Abbott credit for that, because he went down there, and he actually listened there, and he took the slings and arrows, and he's taking the accountability as best that he can.

00:33:16.080 But these people, these people, the people who should have known better, who shouldn't have been there in the first place, but were only there because of DEI.

00:33:28.100 Denied.

00:33:29.820 Denied. 0.63

00:33:30.260 And, you know, the Democrats, they're running around saying, oh, well, it's a bunch of white kids, so who cares? 0.93

00:33:35.120 A bunch of white Christians. 0.92

00:33:36.320 Yeah.

00:33:36.460 Yeah, we know whose side you're on.

00:33:38.580 All right?

00:33:39.000 We got it.

00:33:39.700 We'll read you loud and clear.

00:33:42.680 Be right back.

00:33:51.780 Jack is a great guy.

00:33:53.220 He's written a fantastic book.

00:33:55.020 Everybody's talking about it.

00:33:56.140 Go get it.

00:33:57.040 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.

00:34:01.240 And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to him.

00:34:04.540 Amen.

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00:35:05.260 All right, Jack Possoe.

00:35:05.980 But here we are back.

00:35:07.080 Live human events.

00:35:08.860 Daily Washington, D.C.

00:35:10.640 It's twitching gears here because we've got a special guest coming on now from the great

00:35:15.600 state of Tennessee.

00:35:17.500 And no, no, it's not Glenn Jacobs.

00:35:19.080 I know everybody really loves when we've got Glenn on.

00:35:21.540 But actually, it's Tennessee State Rep Lee Reeves who's joining us because he's got a

00:35:27.360 great op-ed up and kind of an announcement in humanevents.com that we have up right now.

00:35:35.540 Mr. Representative, thank you so much for joining us.

00:35:37.980 Well, thanks for having me on.

00:35:39.120 I really appreciate being here.

00:35:40.380 And by the way, Glenn Jacobs is great.

00:35:42.560 He's a friend.

00:35:43.540 And yeah, I do have an announcement.

00:35:46.120 Oh, that's incredible.

00:35:47.480 And one of our producers and Glenn go back to a previous life, shall we say.

00:35:52.800 But let's get over to humanevents.com.

00:35:55.460 What is your announcement?

00:35:57.360 And I have to say thank you again for bringing it to human events.

00:36:02.140 Well, that's right.

00:36:02.800 And so just as the headline says, President Trump is the GOP's quarterback.

00:36:07.940 And I am running for Congress in the special election for the 7th District here in Tennessee

00:36:14.040 to block, to tackle, to run the ball and help him advance his agenda down the field.

00:36:21.880 Well, that's incredible.

00:36:23.160 Congratulations.

00:36:23.760 Tell us, why is it a tremendous undertaking?

00:36:27.080 It's a huge undertaking.

00:36:28.560 It's obviously you open yourself up so much.

00:36:31.000 Obviously, you're in the public's eye already.

00:36:35.380 But, you know, when you go to that higher level, you get more scrutiny.

00:36:37.980 You get more slings and arrows coming at you.

00:36:40.420 Believe me, I know quite a bit about how that goes.

00:36:43.780 And I'm not even in public office.

00:36:45.480 But, you know, I certainly commend this.

00:36:47.120 What made you make the decision now?

00:36:48.960 Well, like I said, the agenda needs to be implemented.

00:36:55.380 And I believe I'm the right person to do that in this race.

00:36:58.780 My entire district is in the Congressional 7th.

00:37:02.340 I've also gotten results.

00:37:03.740 And I've been effective for the state of Tennessee in my first year in public office.

00:37:09.840 I've advanced a number of bills.

00:37:11.720 I have gotten Trump's agenda across the finish line here in Tennessee in terms of school choice, in terms of illegal immigration and other things.

00:37:22.300 Also, I would just say that even though this is a red district, you know, there's always the possibility that Democrats could advance.

00:37:30.920 And we sure don't want that.

00:37:32.880 I think I'm the best position to hold this seat for Republicans.

00:37:37.340 Well, that's absolutely incredible.

00:37:39.180 When it comes to the president and when it comes to, you know, what you've done in the state general assembly there, you know, one of the issues that I think we saw it in the big, beautiful bill.

00:37:49.820 We've been talking about it here for years on this program with the issue of illegal aliens.

00:37:55.640 What are some of the things that you have on your record regarding the fight against illegal aliens?

00:38:00.340 Obviously, at the state level, it's different, but there's things that can be done and that you'd like to see, you know, carried on at the federal level.

00:38:08.600 Well, I'll tell you what I've done so far.

00:38:10.880 I've introduced several different bills, one of which got across the finish line this year.

00:38:15.840 We have taken the states giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and made those illegal and not recognized here in Tennessee.

00:38:26.700 And one of the Democrats argued against the bill on the floor and said, well, what do you expect them to do?

00:38:31.620 And I said to drive around the state of Tennessee because we don't want them on our roads. 0.89

00:38:36.760 The other thing is that I have been pushing very hard.

00:38:41.140 I'm the only public official really pushing for ICE cooperation agreements in all of our sheriff's departments across Tennessee.

00:38:49.400 It's called 287G.

00:38:51.420 It allows them to serve warrants inside the jail instead of releasing criminal illegal aliens and having those warrants served in our neighborhoods.

00:38:59.480 And I'm the only one pushing for that.

00:39:01.860 And it's getting done, by the way.

00:39:04.060 Sheriffs are coming on board.

00:39:06.920 I think we need more of that at the federal level.

00:39:09.620 I know we just got a bunch of that effort funded, which has been great, in the one big, beautiful bill.

00:39:16.240 But we need to make sure it's implemented and that President Trump's agenda on that is carried forward.

00:39:24.720 Well, and this is exactly right.

00:39:26.760 You know, it's illegal aliens. 0.96

00:39:28.600 This is the top issue for, I believe, as our nation.

00:39:32.260 And is it as much of an issue in Tennessee and your district as well?

00:39:37.360 It's really everywhere, Jack.

00:39:39.260 And, you know, every state is a border state, as they say.

00:39:41.920 And that's true in Tennessee as well.

00:39:43.520 We've got almost a billion dollars of impact to our state from illegal aliens. 1.00

00:39:49.860 And that's via several studies that have been done.

00:39:53.020 And that's that's emergency room visits that everybody else pays for.

00:39:56.860 All the things.

00:39:57.640 I hear this all the time, and it never stops to just shock me when I hear this.

00:40:02.840 Congressman or Representative, not yet.

00:40:05.280 I haven't heard that one yet.

00:40:07.300 Mr. Representative, go follow him on Lee Reeves TN on X and go check out his announcement, humanevents.com.

00:40:15.980 Folks, I'm a little upset today, but there's a lot to be upset about.

00:40:19.060 But there's also a lot to fight for.

00:40:21.100 What are we fighting for?

00:40:22.620 The American people.

00:40:24.180 It's all about putting the American people first, and we will fight every single enemy of them wherever they are.

00:40:32.760 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay short.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - July 09, 2025

Dereliction of Duty - TX Fire Chief's Catastrophic Failure to Act + The Vindication of Doug Mackey

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