Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - EPISODE 367： THE CORNHUSKER KICKBACK

00:00:00.000 Folks, we got a huge show today. China is building a naval base in South America. And what's going on

00:00:06.880 in the state of Nebraska? There's something rotten in Nebraska. We're going to talk about it. I call

00:00:10.920 it the Cornhusker Kickback, a story about corruption and an expose on how politics actually

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00:00:57.220 POSO. Let's get into it. But it was clear the person for the job is Senator Designate Pete Ricketts.

00:01:15.900 I often say Nebraska is what America is supposed to be. And it's never been truer at any time in

00:01:32.560 our history than today. We think about all the opportunity that we have here in our state,

00:01:37.520 the jobs that are available, our high quality institutions of education. And what we have done

00:01:44.560 here in state government in my administration over the last eight years was show how can we make

00:01:50.260 government work for the people? You know, there's a fallacy in Washington, D.C. that government can't

00:01:55.240 work and we have to expect failure. But that's not true. We prove that it's not true here in Nebraska.

00:02:01.320 We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable for making sure they're providing the same level of

00:02:06.900 high service that we do here at state government. We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable.

00:02:11.960 We need to hold Washington, D.C. accountable. All right, let's do a little accountability,

00:02:16.920 shall we? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard tonight's edition of Human Events Daily powered

00:02:20.840 by Turning Point USA. Today is January 13th, 2023. Anno Domini. We're going to talk about a little

00:02:28.740 something called the Cornhusker kickback. And believe it or not, I think I'm one of the only people

00:02:35.500 in all of media who's willing to tell you the story. Certainly one of the only people who's on the

00:02:40.180 right to tell you this story because, and I posted this in a thread on Twitter this morning, and I

00:02:45.560 know, I know, I hate threads. I do. But unfortunately, they serve a purpose, at least for now. So I said I

00:02:53.260 was going to expose this story. And I didn't care if it involved people on the right, if it didn't,

00:02:58.220 if it involved conservatives. Because Rod Blagojevich went to jail for selling Barack Obama's Senate

00:03:06.320 seat. Pete Ricketts just sold a United States Senate seat to himself. Let me explain. So that guy

00:03:16.840 you just listened to was the new governor of Nebraska, Jim Pillen. And Jim Pillen, that charismatic

00:03:25.480 debonair, just oozing, oozing charisma through the TV set towards you. I know. Grab some of that

00:03:36.520 pill and mentum. He decided that he would nominate his former predecessor as governor,

00:03:45.960 Ricketts, to fill Ben Sasse's seat. Why is Ben Sasse suddenly not a senator anymore, by the way?

00:03:54.600 There wasn't an election. The people of Nebraska had nothing to say. In fact, Pete Ricketts himself

00:04:00.820 once ran for governor, 2006, spent $12 million of his personal money and lost. Yet he came back

00:04:10.340 and he started financing things around the entire state, financing candidates around the entire

00:04:15.760 state and got to the point where he became governor. Now, the Ricketts family, they're billionaires from

00:04:21.080 the Midwest. His father was the founder of TD Ameritrade and the family owned the Chicago Cubs. We have no

00:04:27.900 problem with their success, right? I don't have an issue with people being successful. But let's continue

00:04:34.040 to see what went through here. So Ricketts lavishly spent to support Pillen in the campaign, even made

00:04:43.760 sure to do everything he could to clear the path through that primary. Totally got into it, made sure

00:04:52.880 that Pillen won. What happened next? All of a sudden, Ben Sasse, out of nowhere, resigns or announces that he

00:05:02.360 intends to resign from the U.S. Senate because he's received a job. University of Florida. I'm not sure

00:05:08.940 exactly why he was given that job and why it was not offered to anyone else. We don't know. I'd like to

00:05:17.600 know. And so if former Senator Sasse would like to tell us or anyone would like to come on the program and

00:05:23.960 explain this, I'd be more than happy to have you on and understand what went on here. So Pillen comes out and

00:05:32.360 says, I'll make my appointment after the election because there was no real challenge. I mean, he was

00:05:39.480 clearly going to win the governor's race. Everybody kind of knew that it was going to be Ricketts because

00:05:45.180 everybody knew that Ricketts always wanted to be a senator. Now he is one. So Ricketts had the ability

00:05:55.320 term limited. He had the ability to name himself senator, but he said, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not

00:06:02.400 going to do that. I'm going to wait. And a couple of days after the inauguration of Pillen as governor,

00:06:09.520 his handpicked successor, who does he name other than the person who bankrolled his entire campaign

00:06:16.560 for governor? Pete Ricketts. And you can go through, we have videos of, of how all this started. We've

00:06:25.260 got the dates, we've got the times, but at the end of the day, what you're really seeing here

00:06:30.200 is machine politics. It's machine politics in the Midwest. Look, I'm from Pennsylvania and guess

00:06:36.820 what? We got lots of machine politics over there. This is normally something you see in Northeastern

00:06:42.880 states. It's like something you'd see in Tammany Hall in New York city, but instead we're seeing

00:06:49.720 it in Nebraska, a state where, you know, it's in the Midwest and people just sort of overlook what

00:06:56.140 happens there. And I had a problem with that because you see, I went to Nebraska and I met the

00:07:03.400 candidates, met all the candidates. I even met Ricketts at one point, met an event. And here's

00:07:11.460 the thing. I don't want to live in a country where elections aren't decided by the people. I don't

00:07:19.920 want to live in a country where offices for our highest land are bought and sold like this. I think

00:07:25.960 that's kind of the whole point. And if we are going to live in a country like that, let's at least be open

00:07:30.220 and honest about it, but go and look. And I'd love to read for you the headline from the Omaha

00:07:35.020 world Herald. Listen to this. You say, surely Poso, the local media would be all over this. I mean,

00:07:40.440 liberal media would do it for some reason. They don't seem to care. What did they write?

00:07:45.000 The Omaha world Herald formerly owned by Warren Buffett in some States, Pete Ricketts might've

00:07:50.720 risked some political peril by being appointed by to the U S Senate by his ally and successor as governor,

00:07:58.320 Jim Pillen, but not Nebraska because it's conservative. Like, so basically they're saying

00:08:05.200 Nebraskans are too stupid to understand what went on. I don't think so. I don't believe that for a 1.00

00:08:12.120 second. I think people are busy, but I don't think people are stupid. No, I don't think it's like that 0.95

00:08:16.980 at all. And so that's why we here at human events strive to give you the facts and folks, that's what we

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00:09:30.540 French news site Intelligence Online reported in November last year that China is putting pressure

00:09:35.420 on Argentina to build a naval base at Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego province. According to Independent

00:09:41.480 Intelligence and local media reports, China is trying to establish a gateway to Antarctica by

00:09:46.560 building a port at Tierra del Fuego that could act as a naval base. The base will bring Beijing closer 0.80

00:09:52.480 to Antarctica and allow it to control the passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

00:09:57.340 Notably, Argentina's southern tip is only 680 miles from the Antarctic coast.

00:10:02.420 So we're going to have to go back here to a long-standing tradition, long-standing function,

00:10:09.600 long-standing feature here on Human Events Daily that we call the Map Break. Folks, Map Break.

00:10:15.200 Here is Tierra del Fuego, located at the nexus of the southern tip of South America between Chile and

00:10:23.120 Argentina. It's also, as we just stated in the clip right there for you, right across from Antarctica.

00:10:29.780 China has now, essentially, it's been reported, been in talks with the government of Argentina

00:10:37.040 to set up not only access to Tierra del Fuego, but potentially a naval base. We're told it's just

00:10:46.400 a research base in Tierra del Fuego. Understand, this is one of the most strategic choke points

00:10:54.280 across the entire world. Also, what are they doing? They are going to use this to go into

00:11:01.060 Antarctica for exploration on rare earth elements. They have an absolute lock on rare earth elements

00:11:08.460 around the entire world, through Africa, through Greenland. You know, if we had a government that

00:11:13.600 wasn't so stupid, perhaps we would actually look at the world this way too and say, what are the 0.99

00:11:18.240 things that we are going to need more access to in the future and how do we get them? Because at the 0.99

00:11:23.480 end of the day, the world is run by real politic. All of the international liberalism, the international

00:11:31.320 world order that we're told so much about doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination. The

00:11:38.540 United Nations does not have an army or a navy. The WTO has no actual enforcement mechanism other than

00:11:46.900 pieces of paper. Do you think the Chinese Communist Party cares about a piece of paper? They don't.

00:11:51.480 You know what they care about? Resources, cash, their one belt, one road system. And so the one belt,

00:11:59.260 one road has now brought them all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. And they're going to be building

00:12:05.640 naval base in South America. Just understand that. Just understand that's what they're going to be

00:12:12.980 doing. And you need to accept that and you need to embrace it. Because our government's not going to do

00:12:17.640 anything about this. Although they might, you know, hem and haw about it. They might say you

00:12:22.100 shouldn't do that. But they're not actually going to stand up to China here. Why? Because they're 0.98

00:12:28.160 getting paid off. Because so many people are getting rich off of our relationship with China. So many

00:12:36.200 people are making so much money off of this in terms of trade, political donations that we just

00:12:41.360 talked about in the last segment. Understand how the system works. You're going to get to a point

00:12:49.620 where China, by the way, already has huge amount of influence over the Panama Canal because of the

00:12:58.720 companies that run the Panama Canal and the ones that actually service that thing. Why the US sold it

00:13:04.680 back to Panama or turned it back over to Panama, I do not understand. Should never have happened.

00:13:10.140 Hong Kong shouldn't be given back either. But we decided to do this because we're stupid. 1.00

00:13:15.100 So we gave up one of the things that the United States built that created one of the most strategic 1.00

00:13:22.020 show points in the entire world. Certainly the most important one in our entire hemisphere.

00:13:27.100 And we gave it up. And Panama turned around and leased it to the Chinese Communist Party. 0.68

00:13:32.340 So before the Panama Canal existed, you had to go all, if you wanted to ship anything from the East

00:13:36.780 Coast to the West Coast, you had to go all the way around the Southern, like Magellan, right? All the

00:13:41.100 way around the Southern tip of Tierra del Fuego. Well, China is going to make sure they get that too, 0.99

00:13:46.120 just to cover all their bases. So what's going to happen? We've also heard very much about the

00:13:51.000 Northern shipping route. So here's the way the world works. Because we have a system of globalism,

00:13:58.540 China is the world's manufacturer. The Middle East predominantly is where the world's energy comes from,

00:14:04.600 but that's changing. Certainly for China, it's where they get their energy. They're building

00:14:08.440 pipelines with Russia. They're building pipelines to Iran. They're building pipelines through Pakistan.

00:14:15.400 Why? Because they need that energy to fuel their rise. All of the Ukraine, Russia stuff, you can,

00:14:23.340 I mean, just look at, look at what the goal is. US LNG exports are up across Europe. The United States

00:14:33.700 is replacing Russia as the importer, the major importer to Europe of energy. Are you paying attention

00:14:44.460 yet? Nord Stream 2 and Nord Stream 1 are sitting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Cherche la petrol.

00:14:53.820 Follow the petrol. Follow the petrol. Okay. You want to understand world politics, follow the petrol.

00:15:04.000 So Russia is going to control the Northern shipping route. Because at the end of the day,

00:15:10.640 if everything is shipped on the oceans from point A to point B, all of that shipping cost

00:15:16.900 goes into the final cost of your product. So if you have the ability to ship something faster and

00:15:24.760 cheaper, then you're going to beat everyone else shipping it the other way through the Straits of

00:15:28.080 Malacca, the Suez Canal, Babel Mendeb, et cetera, et cetera, all the way through. Now, if you want to go

00:15:34.880 from China to Europe by ship, you can go over the North Pole. Who's going to control all those

00:15:40.980 waterways? Russia. That's why they're investing in mega ports along Russia's Northern coast. In the

00:15:47.200 next 30 years, 40 years, that's what you're going to see. China is now making sure that they control 0.96

00:15:53.440 the global South. The United States, like usual, is not playing to win. We're just playing.

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00:17:05.780 You've described it as a one in a trillion shot and the gun was in your hand. How do you come to

00:17:14.140 terms with that? It wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. Well, the trigger wasn't

00:17:19.080 pulled. I didn't pull the trigger. So you never pulled the trigger? No, no, no, no. I would never

00:17:23.120 point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never. What did you think happened? How did a real

00:17:26.820 bullet get on that set? I have no idea. Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn't even

00:17:31.980 supposed to be on the property. I didn't pull the trigger. They pulled the trigger. I didn't pull the trigger.

00:17:35.380 It pulled the trigger. I didn't pull the trigger. It pulled the trigger.

00:17:39.260 Alec Baldwin. So it's been, and, and I'm looking at the dates here. It has been basically forever,

00:17:48.860 forever since this shooting took place, by the way, during the Alec Baldwin situation,

00:17:58.060 after the incident, the shooting death of Helena Hutchins, someone reached out to me.

00:18:05.840 Who had information from rust from the set told me explicitly what was going on, told me it was

00:18:13.120 going on with the armor or told me exactly who the armor was before all of it became public.

00:18:17.520 We stayed in touch. It's called source development and source management folks.

00:18:21.620 That same source tells me rust is still shooting, pun not intended.

00:18:31.260 They're still planning to finish the movie. They're going to refilm going to watch myself

00:18:36.060 there. Watch my language. They're now moving production to California out of state. And

00:18:41.360 apparently Alec Baldwin is still connected. Well, they're finally now announcing after all this

00:18:51.140 time that Alec Baldwin, perhaps just in a few weeks may actually face charges for the shooting

00:19:00.180 that again, he is responsible for. Nobody even questions the fact that he's responsible for the

00:19:06.340 shooting. So what are we told from the post-millennial, the Santa Fe district attorney's

00:19:10.880 office will decide later this month, whether to file charges against Alec Baldwin and others in the

00:19:15.140 production of rust for their role in the death of the film cinematographer, Helena Hutchins.

00:19:19.880 Hutchins was fatally shot by Baldwin. They live round while rehearsing on October 21st, 2021.

00:19:26.880 It's almost been a year and a half. Imagine the lawyers, imagine the fight that's going to,

00:19:34.680 and remember we were told a couple of months ago because human events is not dropping the story.

00:19:39.260 We're not dropping this. We were told that the Santa Fe district attorney's office went to

00:19:45.960 the New Mexico governor, New Mexico legislature, and requested a special dispensation of money,

00:19:55.560 extra money that was required for them because they were projecting out that they were going to be

00:20:02.020 facing a high profile case. So they have potentially said this. And here's the thing, folks,

00:20:10.400 when you are operating a firearm and you're driving a car, it doesn't matter if you don't think

00:20:22.100 the gun is loaded. That's like saying, Oh, I didn't know there was gas in the car.

00:20:27.520 If you push the pedal down and hit somebody and kill them, you didn't mean to, you are still legally

00:20:37.800 liable because you know that a car in that instance is an inherently dangerous object. The same way that

00:20:47.140 if you were holding a gun in your hand, you know that you were holding an inherently dangerous

00:20:52.820 object. And that is why you have anybody in the shooting community. You go out to the range. What

00:20:58.680 are the three rules of safety rule? Number one, it's very simple. And anyone out there who goes

00:21:06.720 shooting, anyone out there who's at any training, military law enforcement, you know exactly what I'm

00:21:11.720 about to say. What is the number one rule? Treat every gun as if it is loaded. Treat every gun as if

00:21:21.760 it is loaded. It's as simple as that. If you always do that, you will always be fine.

00:21:29.800 Here's the problem for Alec Baldwin. That's how the law sees it. For the law, it does not matter

00:21:37.240 if he did not intend to kill Helena Hutchins. Also, and keep in mind, the FBI, the ballistics

00:21:45.820 office has gone through this gun. They've taken the firearm and they've tested it. You know what

00:21:51.640 they found? They found this thing don't fire unless you pull the trigger. Somebody pulled that trigger

00:21:59.120 and there's only, you know, think about it, right? If a gun is in someone's hand, gun doesn't go off by

00:22:06.320 itself magically because he breathed on it too hard or you looked at it too quickly. No. Guns go off

00:22:12.880 when you pull the trigger. Somebody pulled that trigger and it was only in one person's hand.

00:22:20.860 No, I think this is terrible, but I will also say this and shout out to Viva Fry and Tim Poole who

00:22:27.740 have brought up this theory. Why have we yet to see the footage from the camera of the shooting?

00:22:35.040 No, I'm not saying I want to see the actual death, but what I'm saying is there's when you were on a

00:22:43.660 set, if you've done any time working in media, working on a film set like that, there's always

00:22:48.280 a camera rolling. Obviously, we know there was a camera rolling because we know that she, Helena

00:22:52.820 Hutchins, as the cinematographer, director of photography, was holding a camera and was talking

00:22:58.180 about what kind of angle she wanted for the shot with that camera rolling. Where's that footage?

00:23:01.320 We also know there's behind the scenes featurettes. There's people with their cell phones. There's

00:23:05.900 always some camera that's rolling that's out there. Where's the footage? We've seen some footage of it,

00:23:13.320 but we've never seen the actual footage of the shooting because what I'd like to know

00:23:19.120 was Alec Baldwin yelling. Was he upset? Was he angry? Because if this were anyone else,

00:23:29.480 you could say, oh my gosh, that was just a terrible accident. But what do we know about

00:23:33.380 Alec Baldwin when he gets upset? When he gets irritated? He flies off the handle. We saw him

00:23:41.600 do that to his daughter on a voicemail. We saw him do that many times with reporters, people taking

00:23:48.460 pictures, all sorts of things. We know that he has a propensity to do this. Did he do that while

00:23:56.220 holding a loaded gun? And if charges are filed and they should be filed, because it doesn't

00:24:02.580 matter who somebody is, it doesn't matter how connected somebody is. It doesn't matter

00:24:06.840 how politically important somebody is or influential. He was kicked off of SNL.

00:24:13.900 But at the end of the day, he killed somebody. He shot and killed a coworker. And if that had 0.73

00:24:21.720 happened to Jack Posobiec or Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon, or you or anyone in your family,

00:24:28.140 God forbid, you'd all be charged. And it wouldn't be a year and a half. You'd be charged the next day,

00:24:33.260 maybe the next week, because he killed somebody. And in our society, when you kill somebody,

00:24:39.760 there needs to be a debt paid, not just to the person's family, but also to society,

00:24:49.580 because that person's life mattered. That's the society we live in. That's our morality. That's

00:24:56.340 our law. And it's been like that for a long time. And if we play games with it, we are going to lose

00:25:02.260 not only our society, but we are going to lose who we actually are. Ladies and gentlemen, as always,

00:25:08.220 you have my permission to lay short.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - January 13, 2023

EPISODE 367： THE CORNHUSKER KICKBACK

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