On this episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec talks about the disappearance of two college students in Georgia, Jose Antonio Ibarra's arrest in connection with the case, and Biden's response to Morning Mika.
00:01:12.120If I were the Biden campaign, I would pay to have every American see the CPAC convention, because the thing that has been thwarting Republicans in the midterms and since has been this impression of the Republican Party as an extreme party.
00:01:29.100Yesterday, you had someone stand up at the CPAC convention, a speaker, and basically talk about, we almost toppled democracy on January 6th.
00:01:58.200When you see them using the Bible in a distorted way, but even if they were using it in an actual way, that is against what the country was founded on.
00:02:10.840Following some breaking news out of Athens, Georgia.
00:02:14.440Two colleges have canceled classes today as police look for a murderer.
00:02:19.300Lake and Riley was described as a shining light.
00:03:15.600So, promised a response to Morning Mika, who was very unsettled about me, the comments I made at CPAC.
00:03:26.580Mika, when you see what's going on to the people of this country, when you see what's happening to regular folks out there, like the families of Lake and Riley,
00:03:43.940is this really the most important thing that's going on in the world, is this really the most important thing that's going on in our country?
00:03:54.640I'm going to read for you the affidavit for arrest on Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal alien, who had been released from custody in New York City after endangering a child, then went down to Georgia.
00:04:17.260He was arrested in Georgia for crimes against Lake and Hope Riley in the state of Georgia.
00:04:31.220The prosecutor further states that the accused, Jose Antonio Ibarra, did commit the offense of aggregated battery when he maliciously caused bodily harm to another by seriously disfiguring her body or a member thereof by disfiguring her skull.
00:04:52.560So, Lake and Hope Riley, 22 years old, at the University of Georgia, she was a nursing student down there, out for a jog, just out for a jog.
00:05:07.380And this depraved animal chased her down, beat her, and savaged her body so much that he disfigured her skull.
00:05:28.700And more than Mika's upset at me for holding up a rosary.
00:05:34.900I do think it's time for a little bit more prayer in this country.
00:05:38.340I think it's about time we have a little bit more turning towards the cross in this country because we can see what's being run amok across our border, across our land.
00:05:50.580You want to talk about someone, some conflict going on 10,000 miles away?
00:05:54.820How about the one that's going on right here in our own country?
00:14:36.460Just FYI, please, when you start rolling up our guys in Ukraine, I laugh, but it's it's it's it's ridiculous, but it's actually quite dark that, you know, they're they're knowing that when Russia starts rolling up their guys in Ukraine,
00:14:48.660they're saying, please don't, you know, give us the reprisals that we probably justly deserve for this.
00:14:54.240Yeah, that's an interesting question as to sort of the the meta story of this piece, like what political purpose does it serve?
00:15:06.200Before getting into that, though, just there's some other some other points in the article.
00:15:10.140One was so they're basically Ukrainian operatives, trained operatives are caught red handed, stepping far outside of the prescribed boundaries given to them by their basically their Washington handlers.
00:15:23.680And the one thing that salvaged that frayed relationship was the ostensible need for Ukrainian help in exposing and providing intelligence in relation to Russian meddling in the election.
00:15:45.380So it is very interesting to see as part of like a really important sort of sub theme within the article is the degree to which I guess geopolitical rationality in some ways is completely sacrificed to this fool's gold obsession with Russian meddling in the election.
00:16:08.660That's one thing that really struck me.
00:16:10.880The other thing that struck me that's really interesting, and in fact, it's not surprising to those who serve in the Trump administration, but maybe to people who follow these things casually, is that they said, well, everyone was very concerned in 2016 was Trump was running and he seemed to have a cozy relationship with Putin, you know, whatever that means.
00:16:31.460It's a kind of ridiculous statement, but they said, but luckily, Trump staffed his cabinet administration with extreme Russia hawks who effectively continued the very same policy and even intensified these pre-existing policies of cooperation and collaboration with Ukrainian authorities.
00:16:55.320And within the context of the CIA, and within the context of the CIA's number one priority remaining, addressing the question of Russian meddling.
00:17:03.760So under the Trump administration, the CIA, run by Russia hawk, Pompeo, Pompeo and Bolton, both Russia hawks, the CIA maintains its cooperative relationship, maintains the same programs within the context of considering Russia meddling.
00:17:23.660The very meddling that Trump knew was a hoax, the very meddling that was effectively discredited in the Mueller report, was the number one CIA priority here, even under the Trump administration, which gives people a sense of what the deep state really means.
00:17:41.080Well, and Darren, it also says that there were, and just before we go to break here, I'll remind everyone that it specifically says that these same CIA individuals also took steps to conceal these relationships and these operations from President Trump, the highest echelons of the NSC.
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00:19:57.400Darren Beattie is our guest right here on Human Events Daily.
00:20:02.700Darren, so we're going through this article and there's these, these, it's just this bizarre relationship between CIA station chiefs and the heads of Ukrainian intelligence.
00:20:12.920And this guy Budinov comes up through the unit.
00:20:16.300He's sort of the star of the, of the road.
00:20:20.420Well, he's the star of the element, right?
00:20:38.540Of course, Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador, pouring out a whiskey for, for the head of the assassinations of this special unit.
00:20:47.040It really shows how the U.S. and this proxy force were in, in, in, in, indelibly interlinked here.
00:20:54.460And so my, my big question, I guess, is why now?
00:20:57.960Why put all this information out now when they've denied it for so many years?
00:21:01.160When so many of the players, like Yovanovitch, who were involved in President Trump's first impeachment over Ukraine, as well as Budinov, who's currently the head of Ukraine's military intelligence, as well as the guy who's out there saying that Navalny, by the way, wasn't killed, you know, by murder, that he died of a blood clot.
00:21:19.260I'm trying to make some sense of what all is going on here.
00:21:22.700Why would the New York Times put out something like this at this juncture?
00:21:28.140You know, that's a great question to ask.
00:21:30.780It's not the easiest question to answer.
00:21:33.380There could be a multifactorial explanation.
00:21:37.900I think just the timing of it is telling.
00:21:41.840It seems to be at a critical moment for those who are kind of interested in prolonging this war.
00:21:47.840There are several references to the existential threat of Republicans not going along with perpetual funding packages for the operation, even saying that this carefully crafted CIA-Ukraine relationship going all the way back to Euromaidan could be in jeopardy if the Republicans refuse to play ball.
00:22:09.240And I think partly we have to think of this in the aftermath of J.D. Vance's very admirable and effective public efforts in calling into question what our actual objectives are in continuing to dump tens and tens and tens, really hundreds at this point, of billions of dollars into something with, you know, no clear goal other than to, you know, allow some of these CIA people to play these spy games.
00:22:38.240And kind of some grandiose and exaggerated fashion with, you know, no particular reason to fill the coffers of our defense contractors.
00:22:47.560And, of course, to enrich the corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine who are responsible, arguably more so than Russia, for the immiseration of the Ukrainian people.
00:22:58.800So I think that sort of political element is certainly a part of it.
00:23:04.120And there could also be concurrent objectives, for instance, telegraphing this information to Russia and, you know, kind of blaming certain things on Ukraine.
00:23:14.000But I don't see how ultimately one could read this and not just be reinforced in the notion that the U.S. and Ukraine are, you know, at, in essence, the same thing when it comes to these types of operations.
00:23:30.000Well, you know, it certainly, if anything, I think the biggest takeaway from all of this, number one, is that it backs up pretty much everything that Putin had said to Tucker Carlson a couple of weeks ago,
00:23:44.160specifically talking about the CIA building bases in Ukraine along the border with the target, by the way, not being the defense of Ukraine, the target being this, call it what it is.
00:23:56.880It was a shadow war that the CIA was waging against Russia, which now look, spy on spy stuff happens all the time.
00:24:04.140We have a huge history of this with the Russians, by the way, back to the time when they were the Soviet Union.
00:24:09.180But it doesn't usually spill over into this level of bloodshed.
00:24:13.460But it could be perhaps that it was this unit or this unit's rogue motions that led to Russia eventually doing what they did and conducting this invasion two years ago.
00:24:24.940But I would say that it certainly eviscerates the narrative that there was that this was unprovoked aggression on behalf of the Russian state.
00:24:33.040Sounds like they were provoked quite extensively.
00:24:35.460And that's, you know, that's such an interesting thing, because I think ultimately, you know, we're Americans, we're America first.
00:24:41.920And we say whatever advances American interest, that's what we should do, regardless of whether or not it's like, quote unquote, fair or reciprocal.
00:24:50.140But in this case, we really have to look at, you know, what are the stakes here?
00:24:53.740And it seems like the stakes are we, you know, is a quid pro quo, you know, to use a kind of loaded phrase.
00:25:00.820But the quid pro quo was us basically, you know, doing everything Ukraine wants, building up their intelligence apparatus to antagonize Russia.
00:25:08.340And in exchange, we get some like fake flimsy information about these hacker groups that turn out to be a complete non-entity, even according to the Mueller report.
00:25:22.500And it's just so geopolitically sloppy when you think about what we're actually getting out of this versus, for instance, what the stakes would have been in the Cold War.
00:25:33.780And also, you know, just to do an analysis on these things, it's important and it's unfortunate that so few decision makers have this capability of looking at things from the other side to really understand the situation.
00:25:46.820Well, I really do think that in this situation, the difference from the Cold War to now is that in the Cold War, the United States was attempting.
00:26:03.100And we know this from the, you know, the memos that were written at the time from the State Department, that the United States was attempting to isolate the spread of international communism.
00:26:13.100Because, again, you had this this group of virulent communists that took over the state treasury of Russia and then were attempting to export communism throughout the entire world.
00:26:24.760What is which country or I should say which group of people, which group of national leaders in the world is attempting to be expansionary?
00:26:38.200It turns out we are the ones who are trying to advance what we call the international rules based order and take over the internal affairs and internal doctrine of every single country on the planet.
00:26:51.240We were the ones that were conducting these color revolutions.
00:26:54.740We were the ones that were conducting shadow wars against the Russian state and picking the fight for no reason other than ideology.
00:27:01.600We are the ones that are emboldened by a radical ideology the way the Russians were when they were controlled by the communists.
00:27:07.840It's kind of so, Darren, it's sort of like an inversion in terms of geopolitics here.
00:27:11.540It's certainly an inversion and it underscores just how needlessly and foolishly aggressive we've been in this domain of, you know, we know that Ukraine is a den of corruption, but it's, you know, that goes part and parcel with Ukraine being a bastion of U.S. intelligence and all for what?
00:27:29.820So we can antagonize Russia on their own borders.
00:27:34.820I mean, again, you know, by analogy, if Russia or China or some other country were doing anything remotely the equivalent of this, everyone would be going apoplectic, not only Fox News, but across our news stations.
00:27:50.300They'd be calling for total war and such.
00:27:52.980And so the question is, what do we get out of this provocation?
00:27:57.160And it's not clear that we get that much, if anything.
00:28:01.320Darren, imagine Sean Hannity the night that we find out that Russia was installing bases along the Mexican border and training, let's say, Mexican cartel members to go across the border and attack Americans.
00:28:16.740Or imagine, like you'd think of that, imagine if Russia were responsible for a policy that compelled us to not enforce our border security such that we're allowing unprecedented numbers of millions and millions of illegal aliens and criminals coming into our interior and murdering innocent American citizens.
00:28:36.660Imagine if Russia were responsible for something like that, you know, it's like.
00:28:40.260Maybe we should just maybe maybe we should just try to, you know, I don't know, we'll go down and we'll we'll we'll put some memes up.
00:28:48.180We'll get Ricky Vaughn to make some memes that say Russia was behind it.
00:28:52.380And then finally, we can get some MSN coverage.
00:28:58.140And another thing, I don't know if you've discussed on the show, but it is interesting to see Putin kind of pivot away from the American right.
00:29:09.260And I think that kind of signals something interesting as well.
00:29:12.140Well, I think, as you and I have said, and we've only got about a minute left that we have you, I think I really do think that it seems as though Russia may have given up by and large its aims to engage with the wider West.
00:29:26.580And I think those lie at the bottom of the Baltic along with Nord Stream 2.
00:29:50.520I hear that the last thing that Nord Stream 2 posted on Facebook was that it had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
00:30:20.620All right, if you're going to play Russian roulette with the globalists, you're going to need a revolver.
00:30:27.280Darren Beatty, you've got to go follow him, get all the scoops.
00:30:30.780Rahim Kassam of the National Pulse joins us next to talk more about the 10-year anniversary of Maidan, the Ukraine coup, and what's going on now with the U.S. government.
00:30:40.580This latest story out in New York Times.
00:30:59.280You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:31:01.100We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:31:06.840All right, Jack Posobiec back live, Human Events Daily, continuing our conversation about this incredible, and I just think surprising, very surprising story that we read in the New York Times going all the way back to the days of the Maidan coup,
00:31:27.360which took place in this week, this very week, 10 years ago, so late February 2014, at a time where Ukraine's duly elected government was thrown out of power.
00:31:41.000Russia then moves in to secure its positions, particularly the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea, which led to the Crimean crisis, all of this kicking off the Donbass war a decade ago.
00:31:53.540A man who was there on the ground and can tell us firsthand what he witnessed is Raheem Kassam.
00:32:06.060Well, I promised folks that we'd get you on, and the question that I have is, you know, you've been saying this for years at this point, talking about the Maidan coup, talking about everything that took place.
00:32:19.260Did you ever expect that the New York Times, no less, would come out, tell us what happened, and did you know, by the way, that when you were there, apparently, according to the New York Times, again, that John Brennan, the head of the CIA, was landing in an unmarked plane, apparently at the same airport that you used?
00:32:35.020Well, yes, in a sense, there was a lot of chatter on the ground at the time about, well, multiple different elements coming in.
00:32:45.820There was CIA, of course, naturally, State Department, naturally, European Union, Brussels, the United Kingdom, Westminster, Foreign Office, lots of talk about that at the time.
00:32:57.660And we were very interested in trying to get to the bottom of what was really going on.
00:33:03.340So if you cast your mind back to 2014, an old friend of mine said to me, well, you know, should we go to Kiev?
00:33:12.700I said, what on earth would we want to go there for?
00:33:14.820He said, how often in your life do you get a revolution on your doorstep?
00:33:20.200And here I am on Capitol Hill, by the way, where we had similar scenes.
00:33:24.660Well, you know, Rahim, just flash forward a couple of years later, and, of course, I was your friend that day.
00:33:33.600And so off we went to Kiev, not really knowing what to expect, and honestly, not particularly assured in our perspectives on this either way.
00:33:43.100That came as we walked around the Medan Square, as we explored the different tents, the different offerings, the different communications, speeches, leaflets, pamphlets, talking to people around the fireplaces, really getting to grips with what was going on.
00:34:00.320And it became apparent to me very quickly that this was going to turn into a hot war as a result of really EU expansionism is how I perceived it back then.
00:34:10.980I think now we can we can trace lines closer to or we can trace lines closer to Langley.
00:34:18.580We can trace lines closer to Foggy Bottom here in Washington, D.C.
00:34:22.160And also to NATO to answer the question as to whether or not I thought The New York Times would do this.
00:34:29.320Well, yeah, call me naive, but I actually expected The New York Times to do it in, oh, I don't know, 2014 or 2015.
00:34:37.340But we all soon learned that this was this was part of the op.
00:34:41.120The media buying into this, they still do it.
00:34:43.940Yes, somebody at The New York Times may once in a while be able to get, you know, a special investigation published on a Sunday.
00:34:52.260But on a day to day basis, the American public, the British public, the European public, the Ukrainian public and to whatever extent they can.
00:35:00.140The rest of the world is still told that this is a Putin war of aggression that could have been avoided by Putin just caving to NATO expansionism.
00:35:09.440We now know, of course, and unfortunately, I have to tell everybody to read The New York Times, but we now know that there is so much more information out there to play with.
00:35:23.860Well, so Rahim, you're someone who is very adept on understanding how newsrooms work, particularly on the mainstream media side in a way that I think few on the right actually understand.
00:35:37.620So that being the case, why is it then on this 10th anniversary at a time where $60 billion might be on the line, you've got this guy Zelensky who's blasting J.D. Vance and others in the United States for demanding that we put border funding and ice deportation funding alongside this Ukraine bill.
00:35:59.880Why would they publish a story like this and sort of turn around and just verify everything that we've been saying for years?
00:36:07.780It's a very good question, and it goes to institutionality, I think.
00:36:12.820And I'd be keen to hear your thoughts on this as well, Jack.
00:36:16.000For me, this is aimed at trying to win over those people in the middle who, while they might not like the idea of splashing a load of cash around again,
00:36:25.820and who may be hearing from the constituents at home that this is not a good thing as far as they're concerned,
00:36:33.060that the institutions actually have been involved in this for a very long time, don't you know?
00:36:38.120And we've already spent a lot of money here, don't you know?
00:36:40.800And we'd hate for that to have all been wasted, don't you know?
00:36:43.840Also, the CIA isn't an enemy you want to make, don't you know?
00:36:47.660And that, you know, can have a splash effect on everything that goes on.
00:36:55.080It's pretty much aimed at middle-of-the-road lawmakers here in Washington, D.C.
00:37:00.880to kind of twist their arms and say, yeah, there is a long-term geopolitical strategy that's being played out here,
00:37:08.180and if you force us to abandon it now, you're effectively giving Vladimir Putin a win geopolitically.
00:37:15.040Anyway, it's fair in a sense when you consider it from their perspective.
00:37:20.580The problem is their perspective is retarded.
00:44:29.640I was, God, I cannot believe the gall of these people sometimes.
00:44:34.080I was reading an op-ed, I think it was in The Hill, and it was by the Atlantic Council, you know, this NATO incubator, this adjacent creative set, the think tank set that come out of the NATO apparatus.
00:44:50.600And in the article, they said, well, you know, Donald Trump can talk all he wants about getting more money into NATO, but more money doesn't actually help NATO.
00:45:00.120Well, OK, but I mean, fine, if you don't want it, then you don't get it.
00:45:04.080He was then also saying, you know, the Europeans can't actually put up enough of a field army themselves anyway, can't deploy anything, you know, don't have any military readiness.
00:45:16.980And then I thought to myself, yeah, that's exactly also what Donald Trump and MAGA has been saying for all this time.
00:45:24.220And then finally, the argument in the same op-ed was made that actually Russia doesn't pose an existential threat to Europe.
00:45:31.780Yeah, it's also what we've been saying.
00:45:34.540So you see that their perspective, and a lot of these people I used to respect, by the way, especially in my late teens and early 20s, as I was reading around all these topics,
00:45:43.840their perspective has now changed from being, you know, what advances the American national interest, even from what advances the American foreign policy establishment interest, to simply whatever position Donald Trump and MAGA take, we are going to take the diametrically opposite position for the sake of it.
00:46:03.580And that alone is undergirds their entire political philosophy.
00:46:12.100And I think between now and the election, that will be the prevailing, that will be the prevailing theme.
00:46:17.540And so essentially, you know, if you come out and say, I'm against illegal immigrants, I'm against, or, you know, excuse me, I'm for illegal, or, you know, for deportations, I'm against illegal immigrants, I want more border security.
00:46:32.580Then the Democrats are going to say, no, we don't want any of those things, we don't want safety, we don't want security, they'll try to have some, you know, some imaginary discussion about IVF and say that all the Republicans are trying to take this way, even when I don't think any Republican on record, certainly not any of the ones that are running, or even the ones in Alabama are saying things like this.
00:46:55.520In the wake of this, they're desperate to change the conversation, is my point.
00:47:01.000And they thought this would be a layup for them, when unfortunately, what's really going on in this country, and it's horrific that I have to say this, but there's a new Lake and Riley that takes place every single day in this country.
00:47:16.220Okay, this is one of the ones that we've heard about, the story has taken off, because of the fact that this guy slipped through the net in New York City.
00:47:25.860Now, it was one, I was going to pin it on Alvin Bragg, but apparently it was one county over, so it's Alvin Bragg's colleague, the Queens DA, who was actually the one that let him out.
00:47:35.400Of course, Letitia James could have played a role if she, her office was working closer with ICE, and she wasn't so focused on trying to get Trump, then she could have gotten the murderers and rapists off the streets of her city, and in fact, out of the country by simply handing them over to ICE.
00:47:55.760Yeah, I'll come back to the point, you know, it's kind of a version of the wonderful Kang and Kodo scene from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, right?
00:48:04.580If Donald Trump gets up there and says, abortions for nobody, they go, boo, if he goes, okay, well, abortions for everybody, boo, well, okay, abortions for some, miniature American flags for all, but still, even on the compromise point that Donald Trump has been making in recent months, the chorus from the globalist left, from the progressive left, from the corporate class, has still been, boo.
00:48:29.860Boo. So, again, my point being, whatever this guy comes out and says, they will oppose, and you can set your watch by it.