On today's show, Jack Posobiec talks about the indictments of Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, Tammy Duckworth, and why they should have been brought to light sooner. Plus, a look at why the DOJ is targeting Sen. Menendez.
00:01:14.200As I mentioned, this is a problem that's been around for some time now, for decades.
00:01:18.620Together with our partners in Ukraine, we have provided humanitarian aid as well as tens of millions of people with food, clean water, and so much more.
00:01:30.980War is inherently unpredictable, of course.
00:01:33.160So I can't look you in the eye, and I certainly can't look them in the eye and predict exactly what's going to happen on exactly what timetable.
00:01:39.660And therefore, we need to have a degree of flexibility.
00:01:42.860I'm not going to stand here and give a precise figure.
00:01:45.040What I will tell you is that we have supplied to the Congress every dollar that has been obligated.
00:01:49.340The United Auto Workers strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis has entered its third day.
00:01:55.700It's the first time members have struck all three unionized U.S. automakers at the same time.
00:02:01.440New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife have been indicted on corruption-related charges.
00:02:07.760Menendez is the powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:02:12.600He and his wife are accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for the Democratic Senator's influence.
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00:02:34.140Now, today is September 22nd, 2023, Anno Domini.
00:02:39.520Folks, look what's going on around us here in Washington, D.C.
00:04:55.140Of course, this regime that we are living under, they've decided that when someone becomes too much of a problem for them, regardless of the issue, Bob Menendez is still liberal.
00:05:11.520They don't want him on the Foreign Relations Committee as a Democrat saying what he's saying the same way that they don't want Russell Brand out there saying what he's saying, Elon Musk, Donald Trump.
00:05:22.180And we're going to have a conversation later in the show about someone that the regime has moved heaven and earth to silence.
00:05:56.380And he has been swinging on this Ukraine funding and specifically the issue of this Sarah Ashton Cirillo, we call her Big Mike, who seems to have lost their job as the spokes preacher for Ukraine.
00:06:12.400We've got a lot of show coming up today, so stay tuned.
00:06:15.900Human Events Daily will return in just a second.
00:06:42.400All right, Jack Posobiec back here at Live Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
00:06:57.800Very excited to bring on our next guest.
00:07:08.280So walk us through the situation that you found yourself in this week.
00:07:13.080You know, this individual from Ukraine suddenly is out there putting people, myself included, on hit lists, saying they're going to be tracked down.
00:07:22.260At the same time that the president of Ukraine, Zelensky, is in D.C., demanding billions and billions of dollars, all at the same time that you guys are currently locked in a budget fight right now.
00:07:36.420What is it like to be in the middle of all that?
00:07:43.320So last week, this person, it's a transgender person who is a spokesman for the Ukrainian military, publishes a video, basically says, if you engage in, quote, Russian propaganda, you will be hunted down.
00:07:55.560Well, that kind of caught my eye because I've been accused of Russian propaganda.
00:08:00.440Pretty much anybody who questions the party line on Ukraine has been accused of Russian propaganda.
00:08:05.720So I naturally ask the question, are you going to kill me and a bunch of my friends because we don't think the United States should drop another 25 billion into Ukraine?
00:08:14.080That led to a sort of a social media firestorm where eventually, I guess, this person stepped down from the post as Ukrainian spokesperson.
00:08:22.600And as you said, at the very same time this is all happening, Zelensky comes to the Senate yesterday and is demanding another 25 billion dollars.
00:08:31.680And I think, Jack, if you sort of set this against the backdrop of the government shutdown fight, this guy is basically coming and saying, if you don't give me my 25 billion dollars, I'm going to shut down your government.
00:08:44.680That's exactly what he's doing, because Chuck Schumer will not fund the government unless it includes money for Ukraine.
00:08:51.260So the Democrats are really setting up a fight here where do we continue to pay our Border Patrol agents or do we pay the 25 billion dollars to Ukraine?
00:09:01.100It's crazy to me that they've gotten themselves into this political place.
00:09:05.840And you put out a statement earlier, and I'm not going to ask you to reveal anything that you learned in your classified briefing, other than the fact that you put out basically an assessment of that briefing and back briefed your constituents and really the whole world as to saying that what they're asking for in terms of this, because, OK, we have a new we have a new chief of the joint staff over at the Pentagon.
00:09:26.020We've got, you know, hopefully new planners. We're looking at the counteroffensive. Is there actually a plan in place? Do they have a set objectives and goals where they're going to be in a month, six months?
00:09:38.080Those kind of things that you would normally see when we're being asked to essentially underwrite another country's war.
00:09:45.280No, they don't, Jack. And before I give you some details there, of course, without revealing classified information, let me just say that these briefings are very often a farce.
00:09:53.100So you sit down with these guys and you get two hours for a briefing and 50 minutes is taken up by them giving introductory remarks of repeating the same slogans.
00:10:03.480You could live stream that 50 minutes to Russia and China. It wouldn't matter because there's no real classified information.
00:10:11.360There's nothing really interesting coming out of it. Then the Q&A starts.
00:10:15.200And that is sometimes interesting because some of the senators have interesting questions.
00:10:18.560And what became very obvious, Jack, is number one, our government does not believe that there will be a major breakthrough.
00:10:26.720You can see this in The New York Times. You can read this anywhere.
00:10:29.340They do not think there's going to be a major breakthrough in this conflict.
00:10:32.400So what they're really asking is for an indefinite amount of funding for an unlimited amount of time.
00:10:38.800And that is ridiculous. We cannot sanction this.
00:10:42.320You know, Jack, I've been skeptical of this from the very beginning.
00:10:44.700I was one of the few who said we should not be funding the war from the very beginning.
00:10:48.780But whatever. A year and a half ago doesn't matter.
00:10:51.880The fact that we're talking about funding this war indefinitely is insane.
00:11:01.400You know what we don't talk enough about, Jack?
00:11:03.980We're causing a worldwide spike in food prices, especially in Africa, because Africa gets so much of its food from Ukraine.
00:11:11.240What happens when 1.5 billion starving Africans decide they're going to start engaging in mass migration into Europe and to Asia?
00:11:21.060That's another worldwide refugee crisis on the back of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis.
00:11:27.400Are Europe and Asia prepared for that? Is the world prepared for that?
00:11:31.320The knock-on effects of continuing this war indefinitely, it's going to lead to mass starvation, refugee crisis, and, God forbid, nuclear war.
00:11:41.080We've got to stop, and there's no end in sight.
00:11:43.200Our government is not telling us the very basic issue, Jack.
00:11:47.420The government is not telling us how long is this going to go on for, what are we trying to accomplish, and how much money does it take to accomplish it?
00:11:54.580Until they give us those answers, no senator should vote for another dime to Ukraine.
00:11:58.440Well, and I should also ask, you know, we did have breaking news, I guess, earlier this morning, that even though Biden had said in the past that we would not be providing long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine,
00:12:11.840that it's now essentially come out as sort of the deliverable for Zelensky's visit, that, and NBC News has a story that an agreement has been made where a small number of ATACOM's long-range ballistic missiles are going to be transferred from the United States to Ukraine.
00:12:28.080I'd love to get your response on that.
00:12:30.360Yeah, so I'm still digesting it, Jack.
00:12:32.020I just first heard this news about an hour ago, but my initial reaction is it is crazy.
00:12:45.740We're talking about hundreds of thousands of just military dead, to say nothing of the fact that we have millions of civilians on top of that affected by it.
00:13:04.920At what point do you have U.S. senators recommending that we give them tactical nuclear weapons?
00:13:09.780I fear that we're actually not far from that point.
00:13:11.640Of course, it would be psychotic, but so much of what we've done up to this point has been equally psychotic.
00:13:16.740Well, that's exactly right, because last night, for example, there was this attack.
00:13:20.740It looked like a strike on the Russian Baltic naval fleet there in Sevastopol, which, of course, is in Crimea.
00:13:27.320So much of the conflict, even going back to the Maidan, is centered around that naval base really being the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet for the Russians and has been for a very, very long time.
00:13:38.440This attack apparently was conducted using the Storm Shadow cruise missiles and out of the U.K.
00:13:48.160So the real question, I suppose, then becomes, how do the Russians respond if Atakum's missiles are being used not directly on the battlefield,
00:13:58.540but going and hitting targets within Russian-held territory like Crimea or even within Russia proper?
00:14:04.140Well, that's the question, right, Jack?
00:14:08.440Do they continue escalating their side of the conflict?
00:14:11.100And so you have this tit-for-tat that ends up in an extraordinarily dangerous situation, God forbid, a nuclear war, maybe a broader land war within Europe.
00:14:50.640You hear this talking point, Jack, from people who support our continued involvement in Ukraine.
00:14:55.080They say, if we don't continue to support the Ukrainians, the Chinese will think that we're weak because if we abandon the Ukrainians, maybe we abandon Taiwan, maybe we abandon someone else.
00:15:05.120I don't think the Chinese give a damn if we thump our chest and act tough.
00:15:49.400If there's anything you were able to tell us about what you've heard the latest, and we know there's CRs, there's Ukraine funding on the table.
00:15:56.740What's the latest that you're hearing as we are now?
00:15:58.620Because as it stands, I think last time I checked, we're, what, six, seven days away from a potential government shutdown over these very issues.
00:16:05.800Yeah, well, I think where we are, Jack, and just to sort of lay my cards on the table,
00:16:09.440I think the House conservatives who are trying to really negotiate some significant cuts, some, frankly, defunding of the weaponized Department of Justice,
00:16:18.040Of course, they have to negotiate with themselves and deliver a package to the United States Senate.
00:16:22.840But what we're then hearing is that Chuck Schumer will not fund the government, will shut down the government unless there is a spending package that includes $24 billion for Ukraine.
00:16:34.000So this really is the fight that's being set up on the United States Senate.
00:16:37.660Do we pay our Border Patrol agents, or do we pay Zelensky and his generals?
00:16:42.620Do we continue the war in Ukraine, or do we actually spend some resources defending our own sovereignty?
00:16:48.240I don't think we can hammer that message home enough because it's the sort of thing that drives home how much this war is a distraction from core American priorities.
00:16:56.460I obviously don't want a government shutdown.
00:17:01.860I think the House can deliver a package that does just that, that ensures that we have a functioning government, but also gets us back on a sustainable fiscal pathway.
00:17:09.960But I worry that the Democrats in the Senate might screw it up because it's Ukraine or nothing for these guys.
00:17:15.300And if that's what they're doing, if they're holding the U.S. government hostage to Ukraine funding, we've got to hammer them over the head with it, and we've got to make them pay politically.
00:17:24.220Well, it's a simple question, and I think your colleague Mike Lee out of Utah posted pretty well.
00:17:29.940He said, you know, this is the flag of your country, U.S. flag.
00:17:33.340This is not the flag of your country, the Ukrainian flag, and it's just as simple as that.
00:17:37.700And if the government's going to be shut down over Ukraine funding, well, I think the government should focus on funding for Americans first.
00:17:44.700J.D. Vance, where can people go to follow you to get all the updates?
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00:19:57.260So there's been a case that's been going on in U.S. courts, British courts, and international courts for years at this point.
00:20:06.840Almost a complete decade plus at this point.
00:20:09.580Something that we haven't talked about here on the show in quite some time.
00:20:14.000But our next guest is here to give us an update on it and a special petition because it's been a long time since we've said the name or talked about the case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
00:20:29.100Every time the United States government, particularly this State Department, comes out and says we support the rights of journalists, we support the right of freedom of speech, we support the right of journalists to be able to conduct their craft and do so upholding the rights and privileges of a journalist.
00:20:48.560Then the real question is, why has the United States gone and filed charges against Julian Assange?
00:24:24.580It's very interesting from an outsider's point of view.
00:24:27.140But what is very, very unique is to see a cross-party delegation like this.
00:24:31.880I mean, we've had people on this delegation that wouldn't agree on anything anywhere except the plight of Julian Assange.
00:24:38.720So we've got people from the left, people from the right, people from the centre.
00:24:42.440And we're here with the purpose of taking the message to the United States lawmakers and the various departments, the Department of State, the DOJ and others, that Australians overwhelmingly want to see Julian Assange home.
00:24:55.580And we'd like to see him home before Christmas.
00:24:57.320He has a wife and two kids, two kids that he hasn't seen, by the way, as a free man.
00:25:03.300He's been his entire time, the kids have been alive, either in the Ecuadorian embassy or now in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom.
00:25:11.420So this is a, it's not a left and right issue in Australian terms.
00:25:15.520We know now that from polling that was done that about nine out of 10, just short of nine out of 10 Australians believe that Julian should be brought home.
00:25:22.580We also bring with us a letter signed by 67 of our parliamentarians.
00:25:55.420He's done his seven years or thereabouts in the, in the Ecuadorian embassy and now I think another four in, in Belmarsh.
00:26:02.400And, you know, we are talking about the act of journalism ultimately.
00:26:05.980I mean, he, he is not the person that, that, that, that, that got his hands on this material.
00:26:11.220You know, whether or not you think Julian's a good guy or a bad guy, it doesn't really matter.
00:26:15.260Ultimately, this is about the rule of law and it's time to bring Julian home.
00:26:19.460Now, so the, the, the current status is that he's awaiting extradition to the United States where he has been charged with, with essentially stealing and publishing government documents.
00:26:31.320And, and we could spend a lot of time going through those actual charges, but that he is charged in the U S the UK has yet to really come to their final ruling on whether or not he will make that extradition to the United States.
00:26:44.140He's, there's appeals he's going through. So when you say bring him back to Australia, are you, what is the specific ask?
00:26:50.420Are you asking for the charges to be dropped or an extradition to Australia?
00:26:53.660And, and of course, by the way, if we haven't said it, Assange is an Australian citizen, Australian national, Australian native.
00:26:59.580That's why for Australia, it's so significant.
00:27:01.960That's right. Well, he's an Australian citizen and he's not someone that even on any measure committed a crime in the United States.
00:27:06.620These are extra territorial offenses, which bring with them a range of other issues.
00:27:10.660We've at the moment got an Australian journalist, a Chinese Australian journalist called Cheng Lai that is detained in, in China and mainland China for undisclosed, you know, crimes of, you know, the journalism in a very similar manner.
00:27:23.740And, you know, ultimately, if we're going to become world citizens and be able to, you know, say that we support free journalism, then this could happen to anyone, anywhere, you know, for an Australian to travel, say, for example, to Indonesia, where there's an extradition treaty and Australian journalists and pinched off the street.
00:27:40.120How can the United States complain about the treatment of its own prisoners overseas when in circumstances where we're really seeing an Australian citizen being detained for things that he didn't, didn't, didn't even consider on American soil?
00:27:54.380You're right about the extradition proceedings.
00:27:56.200The extradition proceedings are before the courts at the moment.
00:27:59.320We're led to believe through his lawyers that the decision on whether or not to extradite Julian could happen at any day, literally could happen today or tomorrow or in a week's time or in a month's time.
00:28:08.060We just don't know that's a matter for the courts.
00:28:10.240But ultimately, they are hand in glove, those two matters, a matter of the charges and a matter of the extradition.
00:28:15.420Really, without one, the other doesn't follow.
00:28:17.160Without the charges, there'd be no extradition.
00:28:28.340And of course, by the way, we saw this already with Joe Biden's predecessor, Barack Obama, because, as you mentioned, there was a source for Julian Assange.
00:28:38.980That was Bradley Manning, you know, it goes by Chelsea Manning.
00:28:42.460And that soldier, former soldier, actually was not pardoned by Obama when he left office, but ended up having their sentence commuted, essentially.
00:28:52.840Which means, so you still have this, it's on the books, but you don't have to serve your time anymore.
00:28:57.180So basically what you're saying is there's already precedent for something like this.
00:29:25.280You know, he has very little, very little free time, very little air, very, you know, airtime in the outdoors, very little time outside of almost a solitary confinement type arrangement.
00:29:35.180So these are difficult, difficult, difficult conditions.
00:29:38.080And of course, if he was to come to the United States, he would be, I presume, taken to a supermax prison.
00:30:02.480He's not in good mental health, we're told.
00:30:04.480And ultimately, you know, our message here, though, is not really to go into the detail of the of the charges.
00:30:10.140And our message is here is just to bring the suggestion to the American lawmakers and departments that Australians, great allies of the United States, great friends of the United States say it's time for this to end.
00:30:25.640Look, we we we speak out when Wall Street Journal reporters is currently there's one being held behind bars in Russia because he was investigating the Wagner Group and their their recruitment practices all the way out and deep within central Russia and Siberia.
00:30:39.900How can the United States claim any kind of moral superiority over a regime like Russia or regime like China when we are locking up people for the crime of doing journals?
00:30:53.060We've got another couple of segments coming up here.
00:30:55.200Australian Senator Alex Antic joins us live in studio.
00:30:58.520We're talking about the case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
00:31:01.980I'm buzzing in my ear about the boring people at your office.
00:31:08.240I'm trying to listen to the new human events with Jack Posobiec.
00:31:12.940All right, Jack Posobiec back here live, Washington, D.C., human events daily.
00:31:18.260Have you ever had a conversation with someone and the very next thing you know, you're getting ads for products that match exactly what you were talking about?
00:31:25.120I call it ad popping between the government, big tech, corporate America and criminals.
00:32:44.320Alex, when we look at these situations, one of the things that always gets me about Assange is this was a guy that when Bush was president and he was speaking out against the Iraq war,
00:32:58.680his first videos came out, this helicopter attack, which ended up killing journalists that the administration had tried to at the time,
00:33:07.780the Pentagon really tried to cover up when he exposed secrets in Afghanistan.
00:33:12.380He was viewed as a hero by the international celebrities.
00:33:17.820People were out there speaking about him all the time, received so many awards.
00:33:50.700He was the rock star outside a journalist for a little while.
00:33:54.840And then for whatever reason, of course, it appears that, you know, he became the, you know, the crazy asylum ridden lunatic who wasn't shaving and doing all this sort of thing.
00:34:03.540Now, that that didn't happen by accident.
00:34:05.240That happened presumably because the media had a narrative, had a reason to try and demonize him.
00:34:11.400And I think there was a very, very effective smear campaign that was released onto Julian.
00:34:17.540You know, the idea of this, of course, is to sort of, you know, dehumanize the person.
00:34:22.800And I don't know that, you know, there can be other many other examples we can think of where that's been quite as effective as this.
00:34:30.600But in this instance, it was very, very effective in taking Julian from being, you know, almost this sort of hero of the media world to, you know, this sort of disparaged figure who was ultimately sent to jail.
00:34:42.620So it did, it felt to me like it happened very quickly, but I suspect it happened over a series of, you know, death by a thousand cuts in a sense.
00:34:55.360And the thing that's most alarming, I think, though, now is the fact that as we've come to D.C. to talk, it feels like the case has just been lost in the system.
00:35:03.620Now it's almost as though the media don't want to talk about it at all.
00:35:06.260And yet this man has a wife and two kids.
00:35:10.240And, you know, he's got a life outside here that goes on while he's languishing in a U.K. prison.
00:35:40.880Because, you know, here in the U.S., we are consumed with what, you know, sort of the lawfare of the Department of Justice.
00:35:49.920We have political candidates that are now being placed under indictment here in the United States.
00:35:56.220Leading political candidates, depending on which poll you look at, that it almost seems like the Assange case is something that's just almost on the back burner.
00:36:03.700So when it comes to Congress, what's the reception been like?
00:36:40.340And we want to be bringing that awareness that this is still an issue.
00:36:43.200And I think most of them actually said what we've been saying, that is, I hadn't thought about this for years in many respects.
00:36:49.220But all were across it and all were of the view, I think, that something needs to be done.
00:36:54.480And once again, shows how this is one of those views, it's not a left and right view in politics.
00:36:58.780You know, we had both sides, very interesting political dynamic.
00:37:02.080We had two sides from two different countries all agreeing on the same thing and all yet being frustrated by the fact that the dial's not moving and this seems to be languishing.
00:37:10.000So it's been a very important exercise.
00:37:11.820We had a full page ad in the Washington Post or the Assange group did with all of the signatures from the 67 Australian parliamentarians, which we hope has raised the awareness.
00:37:22.140And the other thing I'll say about this is to show you how unique this is to the Australian psyche.
00:37:27.000We've now got the Australian prime minister who's due here on the 26th of October for a state visit.
00:37:31.540So he's coming to talk to the Biden administration.
00:37:33.980But we've also got the opposition leader, the leader of my party, the center-right party, which is oddly named the Liberal Party in Australia.
00:37:40.240But, you know, it's a different interpretation in Australian terms.
00:37:42.540I've always said, by the way, that just my little bone to pick with U.S. politics versus everywhere else is that we get the colors wrong, right?
00:37:51.300We get the colors so wrong in the U.S., right?
00:37:53.940It's the communists are supposed to be red, right?
00:37:56.640Everywhere else in the world, the communists are red.