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00:00:50.840This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec. Christ is king. Last minute deal
00:00:56.240tonight between the U.S. and Iran to stop the fighting at least temporarily after 38 days of
00:01:01.680joint U.S.-Israeli military operations against Iran, known as Operation Epic Fury, that agreement
00:01:07.440announced this evening by President Trump. Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, that crucial oil
00:01:13.000shipping lane that has been choked off for weeks, and the U.S. will stop its attacks for at least
00:01:18.420two weeks. The double-sided ceasefire, as the president calls it, was brokered by Pakistan.
00:01:23.580After multiple delays, the president had given Iran's leaders until 8 p.m. Eastern to reopen the strait or else threatening attacks on power plants, bridges and more.
00:01:33.640As a president truth this morning, a big day for world peace.
00:04:54.180Understand what this means for the petrodollar.
00:04:57.020Understand what this means for the global system.
00:05:01.540All right. That's what this is all about. And where is the Taiwanese opposition leader right
00:05:07.420now? The head of the Kuomintang Party. She is not in Taiwan. She's in China. Who's she going
00:05:15.760to be meeting with? Xi Jinping, the same Xi Jinping that President Trump is going to be
00:05:21.320meeting with on May 14th in the Forbidden City up there, Zhongnanhai in Beijing, with the Chinese
00:05:28.500leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the same Beijing, the same Xi Jinping that worked
00:05:35.060with Pakistan to set up the negotiations that ended this thing. Understand what's really going
00:05:41.980on here. That's what Human Events Daily is here for. We are here to explain all this to you.
00:05:49.620This is about who controls the money. OK. And yes, of course, the spice must flow.
00:05:58.020but where does the petroleum from Iran flow? It wasn't going to Europe. It wasn't going to
00:06:06.380the United States. No, it flows to China. And so China is looking at that and they're looking at
00:06:13.060this imperial artery, the imperial artery of the Strait of Hormuz, the same way that the Suez
00:06:22.480Canal was the imperial artery of the British Empire. President Trump has been the one to see
00:06:30.720this through. President Trump, the dealmaker in chief, he's putting together a grand deal right
00:06:37.100now. It's behind the scenes, but I'll tell you something right now. The deal isn't about the
00:06:41.820deal that we make with Iran or with Pakistan or Israel or Lebanon, any of this. The deal is all
00:06:49.500about what President Trump is working on the grand deal with China coming up on May 14th.
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00:08:43.600All right. I want to bring in Matt Boyle here. He's the Washington Bureau Chief for Breitbart News and someone who's been writing about China for just as long as I've been talking about it here. Matt Boyle, how are you?
00:09:00.220Well, I've got to ask, you know, so I'm sitting here and I'm going out to, you know, on a limb. Everyone says, oh, it's the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Hormuz.
00:09:07.380how much traffic and is there a toll is there this or that and i said guys you're all looking
00:09:11.640at the at the wrong straight you are focused on the wrong straight the straight to look at right
00:09:16.900now is the balance of power in the taiwan straight because that is actually the leading indicator of
00:09:24.360everything that's going on here because this is not about iran it's not about pakistan it's actually
00:09:30.440about china what say you yeah yeah no you're 100 right that's the defining the civilizational
00:09:37.280struggle of the 21st century here. We're 40 years into the Second Cold War. We won the
00:09:46.080First Cold War. We defeated the Soviet Union. We broke them up. Yes, the Russians are still0.80
00:09:51.820out there, and they're not the greatest actors on the planet. Nobody's defending them. But0.99
00:09:56.660the point is that they're not the Soviet Union. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the0.85
00:10:01.140collapse of that and the victory in the Cold War where the wall came down in the early 90s,
00:10:08.040what we've seen is the rise of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party
00:10:12.560has become the new global communist power. And there's a major challenge between, look,
00:10:20.220the leaders of both countries, the United States and China, see the center of the world as their
00:10:24.840capital. The Chinese see the center of the world as Beijing. The Americans see the center of the0.81
00:10:29.120world is Washington. The rest of the world faces a choice. Which one do you want to be the world's
00:10:36.800superpower? Do you want America or do you want China? I think the vast majority of the planet
00:10:41.420sides with America, even if they do so kicking and screaming along the way. Some of our Western
00:10:46.660European partners, I would point to about that, and NATO, and so on and so forth. And Trump's not
00:10:51.780wrong to call them out. But the fact is, is that you're 100% right. By the way, all of this has to
00:10:57.220it has to do with energy. China needs significant levels of energy to continue its explosive growth
00:11:04.220that we've seen over the last several years. They need to import oil. They've been doing it
00:11:09.860from Venezuela and from Iran. And they've been doing it at a significant discount, by the way.
00:11:16.500And they engage in, as you point out there, currency shenanigans and whatnot to be able to
00:11:50.860and there's all sorts of questions about Lebanon
00:11:52.700And there's questions about, you know, you've got the Israeli prime minister out there saying the war is not over.
00:11:58.860The campaign's not over. I think the war is over. Right.
00:12:01.620Like and based off of what we're hearing from the White House and from the president.
00:12:06.620So ultimately, the big question moving forward here is what does a deal with Iran look like and what does that mean for Iranian oil exports?
00:12:14.020I don't think that by the way, the U.S. doesn't buy any of the Iranian oil.
00:12:18.720Most of it goes where? It goes to China, right? Like, you know, right through the Taiwan Strait. And so the fact is, is that there's a reason why the Chinese stepped in and actually helped negotiate the end of this war in Iran, which all reports are indicating to that, because the Chinese need that oil more than we do, right?
00:12:39.500Like, we don't really, we don't use it, right?
00:12:41.720Like, we don't, it doesn't make it to America, Iranian oil.
00:12:44.980It goes to China, mostly, and, you know, and to other bad actors around the world.
00:12:50.760But the fact is, is that the big question here moving forward, and again, we're going
00:12:58.040to see the big meeting between Trump and Xi in Beijing, and then apparently Xi is going
00:13:04.920to be coming to the United States at some point later in the year.
00:13:08.120That's what President Trump has said. So we'll see how that develops. But I mean, the big, you know, everything that President Trump has been doing for the last, you know, 18 months here, right, since he's, you know, for 15 months, whatever it's been, since he's come back in the second term has been all about cornering and out chess playing China.
00:13:27.260And it's a big chessboard, the whole world.
00:13:31.080And the president's been, frankly, kicking China's butt up and down the court on every level worldwide.
00:13:39.200I would point people back to, though, you know, to your point, though, about the Iran situation being all about China.
00:13:46.320I would point people back to we did a big Breitbart event a little over a week ago here in Washington, D.C., in the nation's capital with Senator Tom Cotton and Senator Jim Banks.
00:13:55.580And Senator Cotton and I spoke exactly about this exact topic, about how it has everything to do with China.
00:14:02.200And I would point people to go back and watch that interview that I did with the senator.
00:14:07.700He's the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.
00:14:09.960He's been on this stuff about China and Iran for many, many years.
00:14:14.840And I would encourage people to watch what the senator had to say because I think that you're spot on about this.
00:14:21.060People that are in the know know that that's what this is all about.
00:14:23.920And the fact of the matter is, is that one civilization will win and the other one won't.
00:14:33.260Is the center of the world in Washington or is it in Beijing?
00:14:36.140And that's the question of the 21st century that will be answered by the moves of these world leaders, particularly Trump and particularly Xi, but also others as well.0.85
00:14:46.660look it's it's entirely clear that it's about can china be put back in a box and there's so0.96
00:14:54.980many people who say the rise of china is inevitable that it's just going to happen it's the way of the
00:14:59.460world and i completely disagree with that i reject that premise and i always have and i think that's
00:15:04.060always been sort of the inherent pledge of maga is that no we don't have to be subservient little
00:15:10.780consumers of the global economy backstopped by the chinese communist party and the elites of
00:15:16.460the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. No, it's about unleashing American economic dominance yet again0.65
00:15:22.780through our heartland, revitalizing the Rust Belt, doing everything that we can to make sure
00:15:29.600that we go out and become players once again in the world economy from an export perspective,
00:15:36.460which we have not done by our own choice for so many years. And the other piece of this,
00:15:43.240Matt, and I'm just going to say it's very clear to me. And I said this CPAC Tokyo a couple of
00:15:49.380years ago when I spoke there. I'm going to say it again. It is time for the United States to look
00:15:54.960to Japan as the regional partner that we should be building up and encouraging their remilitarization
00:16:02.700as a country to be our partner there in that and be the bulwark of the Pacific of the three island
00:16:11.120chains to box them in. Look, the Japanese Navy needs to be restored to the level where it could0.89
00:16:17.480go toe to toe with the Chinese Navy. And the fact that we haven't done that, the fact that we have
00:16:22.680been holding them back for so long is something that I think it needs to change. And I think we
00:16:27.040need to look at that from another perspective, because Japan absolutely is going to be the key
00:16:31.580player here. Yeah, no doubt at all about that. I think, yeah, I think Japan, the US Japanese
00:16:38.180alliance is going to be a defining alliance for the 21st century, maybe the defining alliance.
00:16:44.580And also U.S.-India relations are really important. And frankly, the Europeans are
00:16:50.940part of this as well. But look, when we have all these questions about NATO and whatnot,
00:16:56.760what was NATO built for? It's the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, unlike what the New York
00:17:00.940Times called it. They called it the North American Treaty Organization. It's not. It's
00:17:04.900the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
00:17:06.880NATO was built to win the Cold War, okay?
00:17:33.220And at the forefront of that would be Japan and the United States and, you know, our other partners in the Indo-Pacific, like the Indians, like the Australians, like the New Zealanders, right, like and whatnot, even though they're very, very left wing down there in Australia and New Zealand.
00:17:50.780But the fact is, is that, and yes, the Europeans are part of this, but really the most important alliance, I think, is between the United States and Japan, to your point.
00:18:00.440And I think that President Trump's relationship with Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated later, was critically important in his first term.
00:18:10.160And his relationship now with Shinzo Takeuchi is similarly equally important.
00:18:18.280look at the two of them they're they're extremely warm right like they they both get exactly what
00:18:24.240we're talking about here i would love to talk to prime minister takeuchi about this i've reached
00:18:28.560out to the japanese we've had several conversations about it we haven't been able to schedule it yet
00:18:32.180but i'm hoping that at some point we'll be able to make that work but i know that the president
00:18:36.020deeply understands this it is uh uh critical and by the way also equally important in this
00:18:42.980whole thing is what happens with taiwan back to our original questions there and that's and that's
00:18:47.840Well, Matt, let's get to that in one second because we're coming up on a hard break.
00:19:37.900But you've also look at the neighborhood there and they've got North Korea, North Korea,
00:19:41.460which has the nuke, has nuclear weapons.
00:19:43.700North Korea, which fires their nuclear ballistic missiles, you know, nuclear capable ballistic missiles over Japan every single time they're tested.
00:19:51.520President Trump, of course, was able to work with them.
00:19:54.300But what I'm talking about is a broader strategic picture.
00:19:57.760And the broader strategic picture is that China, for so many reasons, when you're talking politically, when you're talking and we've got an interesting map of China here, slightly different than than the current map.
00:20:10.840But that's you know, that's we'll see about that.
00:20:13.700Um, and we, we need to understand that it's come down to our key allies in the region,
00:20:39.600That's exactly where we left it in the last segment.
00:20:41.560And, Matt, you know, a lot of people talking about this, of course, the opposition leader of Taiwan now on the ground in China planning to meet very shortly with Xi Jinping.1.00
00:20:54.080I think this is the straight that the world should actually be looking at, the chattering class, if you will.0.99
00:21:00.560Yeah, well, look, by the way, the KMT in Taiwan, I went to Taiwan in 2019, I want to say, back in Trump's first term.1.00
00:21:10.960I think it was the 25th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act.
00:21:15.320And the fact of the matter is, is that the or the or the 40th anniversary, sorry, of the Taiwan Relations Act.
00:21:23.420The the the fact of the matter is, is that Taiwan is it is the if you control the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, if you're China.
00:21:33.160Right. Like they they then have like global geopolitical shipping dominance.
00:21:37.740Right. So we're talking about, you know, all of the goods that move around the world, navies that move around the world.
00:21:44.960You know, if you go back to World War Two and when the Japanese were trying to in World War Two, when they were our enemy, they were trying to, you know, gobble up all these islands.0.98
00:21:55.480Right. Like if China controlled Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait in the South China Sea, they would be able to expand beyond that and essentially geopolitically take over the world with their navy.0.95
00:22:07.740And with their trade dominance in ways that are just like, as of right now, people aren't even thinking about.
00:22:16.300But you're worried about, like, you know, this product or that product or whatever.
00:22:21.340They could, for whatever reason, just shut down exports of this product or that product.
00:22:27.100It's so, it's literally everything comes down to the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
00:22:31.680I remember sitting there with an Air Force general back in President Trump's first term.
00:22:35.940you pulled out a map similar to the one you have up on the screen right now and started drawing
00:22:40.860lines across it for me and explaining everything right like uh that they're doing through the
00:22:46.780belt and road initiative and how they've been using that as a strategic hundred-year plan to
00:22:51.460essentially uh create a global hegemony take over the world and uh they were very very very close at
00:22:59.380the beginning of trump's first term trump started turning it around a little bit in the first term
00:23:03.860here in the second term he's blowing them out of the water one of the things that's working too in
00:23:08.700the united states's favor is that any countries that have especially in the west that have joined
00:23:14.540up with china or made deals with china uh that we see this with european nations like italy like
00:23:20.300greece uh etc that have that have made close relations with them uh they were they learn to
00:23:26.340regret it and so and they're turning back to the united states the greeks and the italians in
00:23:31.240particular. I've been to Greece a couple times over the last year. I'm going again in a couple
00:23:35.460weeks. That's really like almost the front line. And by the way, it's worth noting that 25% of the
00:23:42.920world's LNG moves on Greek ships, right? So the Greeks are a huge shipping country. They move a
00:23:50.980lot of these ships. And when we're talking about shipping stuff around the world that, you know,
00:23:54.960the Greeks, the Japanese, et cetera, they're a huge part of this. And, you know, a big part of
00:23:59.500the president's doing whether it's the panama canal whether it's greenland whether it's what's
00:24:03.820happening in iran whether it's um the trade deals and the peace deals what he's doing in africa
00:24:09.820right like frankly with uh congo and rwanda uh you know a lot of this stuff has to do a lot of
00:24:15.900these african nations that made deals with china uh you know where china that just just comes in0.69
00:24:20.460and steals everything from them uh we've learned to regret it um by the way pakistan right like0.87
00:24:26.140Like, we're talking about Pakistan right now because they're a big intermediary here between the U.S. and Iran.
00:24:51.220You see the Indonesia islands there as well.
00:24:54.100So, but the Taiwan is the first one and it's the most important one. It's also the one that the communist government really, you know, they view it as a thorn in their side because the reason why they despise it, it's the old government that, so the old government during the Chinese civil war fell back.
00:25:12.820that it was called the KMT, right, like not the opposition party KMT, but the Kuomintang,
00:25:19.300it was a military dictatorship that fell back to Taiwan when the communists took over the mainland.
00:25:24.360They ruled it as a military dictatorship for like 30, 40 years on Taiwan, and then they opened it
00:25:29.880up and made it a democracy in the late 1980s. And the fact is that since then it's been a major
00:25:37.400democracy and now uh the the um the the governing party in taiwan which continues to win elections
00:25:43.720is very pro-west but as you mentioned the opposition party is very pro-china uh the
00:25:48.840the opposition party is called the kmt the kuomintang and they're the you know they're very
00:25:53.880much trying to make uh you know cross-strait relations their focus rather than uh relations
00:26:00.600with the west so uh it is a very very by the way also we talk about semiconductors right like
00:26:06.760Like most of the world's semiconductors right now are made in Taiwan.
00:26:09.920Now, we're trying to make them here in America, but a lot of them are made in Taiwan right now, like 90-something percent of them.
00:26:16.640If the CCP got control of Taiwan, that could decimate every American industry from automobiles to—
00:26:24.220That is absolutely a wrap, from the shipping lanes to the semiconductors.
00:26:27.520Matt Boyle, where can people go to follow you and get your work, brother?
00:26:30.440Yeah, just on X at mboyle1, true social at realmattboyle, and just breitbart.com.
00:27:05.160You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.
00:27:09.240But we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting policies.
00:27:15.160All right, Jack, we're back live. We're walking around the world.
00:27:18.500We're talking about the geopolitical aftermath of Operation Epic Fury.
00:27:25.260And I want to get on someone that we've had on a number of times because he has incredible commentary when he looks at political geo powers.
00:27:34.200right how does geo power work in the world it's malcolm flex a commentator from and he runs flex's
00:27:41.060warrior way malcolm how are you i'm doing pretty good jack honestly uh you know we got a ceasefire
00:27:49.480which may or may not be over you know schrodinger ceasefire going on right now so it's giving us a
00:27:54.560little bit of reason we can sort of look around so you know that's that's good but you know now
00:27:59.980it's like no time to rest guys you know we kind of got to look at the pieces of this lego tower
00:28:05.300that we just smashed and see all right where do we start building from next or you know what's
00:28:10.060what's coming up next and yeah well and so let me let me throw my hypothesis past you because
00:28:15.860like a lot of people have been spreading this out in the you know in the ether over the last
00:28:22.020couple weeks they're saying this is america's suez moment the american suez that in the same way that
00:28:27.820the Suez crisis of the 1950s, which was led by Israel, by the way, and then the British and
00:28:33.040French came in, you know, the British's failure to to achieve freedom of navigation there in the
00:28:39.620Suez Canal led to what is perceived as the really the end of the British Empire. It just led to the
00:28:46.620end of the British run system. And this, of course, is done in the context of post-World War
00:28:51.820Two. And it led to the rise of the Americans being the new power. That's the situation we're
00:28:56.760currently in. People are saying, oh, we'll see. Just in that same way, you look at the parallels.
00:29:01.180Egypt did it back then. Now it's Iran. Now we have this situation. They poked a bear. They stood up0.89
00:29:06.340to the United States, the global rules back order. NATO didn't come. You know, NATO didn't join the
00:29:11.820fight the same way Eisenhower didn't get into the American, didn't bring the Americans into
00:29:16.460the Suez crisis. So I can see that I can see the parallels or I can see the parallels. However,
00:29:20.580What I can also see are ways that the United States doesn't fall into that trap.
00:29:26.520And so that's why I've submitted, and this has been my thesis since day one of this conflict, that the strait that we need to be focused on is not the Strait of Hormuz.
00:29:59.100You know, everything that we see, you know, from the iPhones, the new iPhone fold that's coming out, guys, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, in case you're going to needlessly upgrade.
00:30:08.380All of that hangs in the balance right now because of the semiconductors.
00:30:12.340And we're not the only ones that recognize that, actually.
00:30:15.040You know, again, Taiwan's got a couple of different forces pulling in different directions.
00:30:19.360You know, you've got the Kuomintang and you've got the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan.
00:30:24.320The DPP is the ones that we see as the more Western aligned, Western friendly anti-China front.
00:30:31.780But you have the Kuomintang who currently have their leader.0.57
00:30:35.480I believe it's Chin Lee and Ching Lee one.1.00
00:30:38.900I hope I'm pronouncing that right.0.99
00:30:43.680yeah thanks i read a lot of wuxia and so uh yeah there you go i've gotten a little practice
00:30:50.600but uh yeah you know she's a head of the kmt and she's actually trying to meet with china
00:30:55.900the x factor here though is this is going to be before trump meets with g on i believe may the
00:31:03.42014th or 15th and so depending on what happens there as well as what happens in iran it's going
00:31:10.900to shake up the landscape of this future conflict and the reason why i say what's happening in iran
00:31:15.780remember i called it schrodinger's ceasefire because we don't know if that's actually going
00:31:19.200to hold and there's this joint plan apparently you know i've seen things from iran has closed
00:31:24.920straight iran has controlled the straight no iran is that charging a toll and you know what people
00:31:30.400forget was iran was having people pay in the chinese in chinese currency to actually pass
00:31:35.920oil tankers through that damages the petrodollar if this meeting the six-day meeting with chingli
00:31:43.200won goes good and hua ming tang somehow secures what appears to be sort of a peaceful or amicable
00:31:51.520relation with china that on the surface looks good enough for the progressives in taiwan to
00:31:58.160essentially stomach it might reframe that meeting because again now you've got a cooperative taiwan
00:32:05.840One that was staring down a barrel of not only an energy crisis, but also a potential naval invasion.
00:32:11.760And people love to harp on the fact that, oh, China's Navy, you know, they've got all these ships that are going to sink.
00:32:17.960Well, that's true, but they also have the number two rated Navy in the world.
00:32:22.400Now, that goes back to what you said, though, with Japan, because Japan has the number six rated Navy in the world.
00:32:27.660Only number six because China outnumbers them.
00:32:30.740now japanese people and the japanese navy is basically as you know it's it's their bread and
00:32:37.980butter they've always been on naval expeditions naval battles it's what they do so if you want
00:32:42.500to be able to balance and have a buttress against chinese influence in the area you need the0.82
00:32:48.540cooperation of japan and that buttress provides more guarantees to taiwan to prevent them from0.51
00:32:55.500essentially doing what a lot of people are going to say is capitulating to the whims of beijing
00:33:02.260and nanjing so we're really in a situation where these next couple of weeks whatever happens which
00:33:09.040again it could be that ceasefire doesn't hold i pray it does but you know there's a lot of forces
00:33:14.040working against it holding number one being a party that we've essentially excluded from the
00:33:18.500ceasefire in israel essentially now using what is a deal breaker in lebanon to you know basically
00:33:25.180jeopardized it and you know ceasefire doesn't work in israel's long-term plans because they want
00:33:30.140the elimination or at least the very crippling of iran as well as its proxy group so appalled on
00:33:36.520warfare just means all the prior actions that the united states may have taken either at their
00:33:42.500behest or you know in sort of a preemptive form of defense mean nothing and then that all plays
00:33:49.140back into where is our positioning when it comes to being able to actually leverage our military
00:33:54.880power as well as our political goodwill around the world to defend Taiwan so it's a big circular
00:34:02.340picture right here and then it always exactly and the consumer no it certainly does and this
00:34:09.080is something where look what you talk about the semiconductors the fact that they're in every
00:34:12.680iphone that ships you're talking about the world smartphone market the entire market of smartphones
00:34:19.240of technology, everything that ships, AI, all of it, the data processing centers, they need
00:34:25.080the semiconductors. And whether or not, you know, you like that situation and do I want them to be,
00:34:31.920you know, that's why Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley, right? Because that's where
00:34:34.880they invented the chips. I want that industry back in the United States. It should be, but it's
00:34:39.360currently in Taiwan. That's just the reality. It's also about the shipping lane. So look,
00:34:45.540The U.S. can do this through trade. We can do this through tariffs. And we certainly can do it for from revitalizing the and reinterpreting our military alliance with Japan.
00:34:57.960Build the alliance with Japan. That's huge. Make sure. So, again, we re-militarize Japan.
00:35:04.640We restore the Japanese honor. And you saw the president doing that where and I saw and Twitter was all all behind this because, by the way, X for people don't know.
00:35:14.560the largest country in terms of active daily users in our daily active users, the DAOs,
00:35:21.480is Japan. And so this is a place where you find a ton of Japanese users. They have so much
00:35:26.020affinity for the United States. President Trump, you know, makes a, you know, makes a joke. He
00:35:30.300makes a joke about Pearl Harbor there with the prime minister. And he's able to sort of say,
00:35:35.600you know what? It's in the past. We have the situation that we had. Let's move forward now.
00:35:41.460And the best way that you can do that for my money, it's restore the Japanese Navy, restore the ability of Japan to be able to project power throughout the Pacific.
00:35:54.720And I understand, OK, though, but they have the Constitution.
00:35:57.400All right. Well, we wrote their constitution. We can help them reinterpret it.
00:36:00.680We can do whatever we need to do there.
00:36:02.920And then, by the way, now the United States doesn't have to sit there and do everything for them.
00:36:08.720right we don't we're not talking about that i'm talking about a system of alliances that's in
00:36:14.080everyone's benefit that's what president trump wants and you know what that's what shinzo abe
00:36:18.940wanted yes yes it all goes back to the samurais and cowboys we've got to revitalize the samurai
00:36:25.420experience exactly that's it give them the daisho the long guns the the sub guns and the pistols
00:36:33.120the dice show i know i know but that i mean it's true and you said one thing and this is going to
00:36:41.340be a big pivot point a lot of people don't know how much the united states economy rests on this
00:36:46.760new forming ai bubble slash phenomenon whatever you want to call it have those semiconductors
00:36:52.760come under chinese control that large bubble of which our economy is leveraged under of which0.68
00:36:58.540several big companies that have almost nothing to do with ai have essentially taken out loans0.95
00:37:04.600that rest on the future of ai have all of that come into the control of the chinese you will0.81
00:37:12.200see economic hard times of which you've never seen world war three will be a financial war
00:37:17.860that's exactly right malcolm flex i could talk forever about this stuff where good people go
00:37:24.220to follow your brother hey find me on x uh right now i lost my premium handle is malcolm
00:37:30.080underscore flex 48 just find me there or look at look me up on malcolm underscore flex 48 on
00:37:36.600instagram either or all right check them out folks malcolm flex over on on x right back here
00:37:44.200human events daily we're going to call this the jack pasobic appreciation hour i can say
00:37:52.420confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it
00:37:56.720wasn't for Jack Posobiec. And that is, I'll be honest. An early morning FBI fraud takedown across
00:38:05.940L.A. County. Federal agents and police storm a North Hollywood home, zeroing in on a man they
00:38:13.100say is tied to a sprawling mortgage fraud scheme. It's a complex fraud scheme in which people are
00:38:19.180using private citizens homes to leverage that to steal money. Moments later the suspect walks
00:38:25.240out barefoot and in pajamas placed in handcuffs parked outside high-end cars a Range Rover and
00:38:31.540Lexus the home itself appearing freshly remodeled. This arrest related to about 10 others happening
00:38:37.260simultaneously across LA County as far away as Florida and Canada. This organized crime network
00:38:43.620has their minions, so to speak, on the lending side and the theft side of it.
00:38:49.320According to charging documents, the suspects stole identities, often from elderly victims,
00:38:54.360then used those identities to access property records.
00:38:57.520From there, they convinced private lenders to hand over millions, falsely claiming those homes as collateral.
00:39:04.180Total losses, around $17 million in fraudulent loans.
00:39:10.320All right, Jack Percevic back live, Human Events Daily.
00:39:13.160I mean, this massive story out of Los Angeles, right there in California, I want to go through
00:39:19.200some of the details again, 11 people arrested.
00:39:22.020This was a fraud ring, $17 million, very complex to understand all of it.
00:39:29.420I wanted to bring in Natalie Dominguez from HomeTitleLock.com because Natalie, this is
00:39:35.820a story that of course you have warned about.
00:39:39.860There's a situation you've warned about, and it's a story that you're all too, unfortunately, familiar with because this is exactly what home title lock was set up to fight against.
00:39:50.340Absolutely. Thanks so much for the introduction, Jack.
00:39:52.560The cold open scares the heck out of me.
00:39:58.280And the scary part is we this crime itself, this report hits the three main topics that we talk about all the time.
00:40:06.440elderly targeting, public records, and people using this publicly available information to
00:40:13.280an insider knowledge, people that are in the real estate umbrella using their knowledge to
00:40:19.160commit these crimes. And we're looking through some of this, we're talking about elderly homeowners
00:40:24.760again. It's Santa Monica, Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Westwood, Chinatown. I mean, some areas
00:40:31.060with, you know, again, pretty high, pretty high value homes, people who have a ton of
00:40:36.460equity into them. Multiple foreign nationals were involved in this. And really, though,
00:40:42.980you know, when I look through the details, it seems to be the scale of this was extremely
00:40:47.840large, but it really followed the same kind of formula that you always talk about, where
00:40:52.760they file the fraudulent details, the fraudulent details with these, these home loan services,
00:40:59.520and they have fake notaries, and they are able to take out the loans in people's names.
00:41:05.740Yep, absolutely. And what's really interesting about this is, I mean, you saw the footage from
00:41:11.860Fox. They said this is a very complex scheme. It actually isn't complex at all. The way that it's
00:41:17.360complex in this situation is the fact that they were hitting so many houses, there were so many
00:41:21.120people involved, and they were creating fraudulent documents in so many different ways. But the
00:41:25.700reality is this is an easy crime to commit. And that's why they had so many people getting away
00:41:31.680with this and getting this money extracted because of how easy it is to get the information and how
00:41:37.400easy it is to forge these documents. Now, they were going above and beyond and doing a bunch
00:41:41.740of extra stuff. I mean, from what I understand, they were forging death certificates and taking
00:41:47.580over people's identities and stuff like that. But the reality is all you have to do as a criminal
00:41:53.700in this situation is go and file one fraudulent document at the county to be able to on paper
00:41:59.840transfer ownership of someone's home into your name and you can do the exact same thing that
00:42:04.280this ring was doing they were just doing it on a much more massive scale and we look at this the
00:42:11.740fact that there are foreign nationals you know 11 that were taken down entirely this is something
00:42:17.380you got jd vance is talking about fraud that he's fighting at least on the government side
00:42:22.040fraud in so many of these systems. But at the same time, but at the same time that this sets
00:42:27.840them up as eligible for being able to apply for variety, I would I would guess of government
00:42:33.620backed programs for housing, because the government is going to come in the same way that these folks
00:42:39.280would. They're going to do the same type of testing. And until they're caught, they're able
00:42:43.160to rack up huge amounts of money, in this case, 17 million dollars. So talk to us a little bit.
00:42:49.120How were these guys caught? Do we know how they were actually, you know, which which layer of government came in?
00:42:54.160I see there's the DOJ announcing Operation Hard Money is what they're calling it.
00:42:59.680And I'm so glad they were caught. Do we know exactly how they were how they were found out?
00:43:05.260So based on the press release, that information hasn't come out yet because this is very recent.
00:43:10.200They're still under investigation in a lot of areas.
00:43:12.420But what we do know is that on the homeowner side of things, these people that were defrauded and these people who are getting their paperwork changed, their information changed, their ownership changed, this FBI operation isn't really doing much for the homeowner because there's still so much that the homeowner is going to have to unwind in the long run.
00:43:34.740their cloud, their titles are being clouded, their information is being stolen. It's
00:43:38.800essentially, you know, title fraud, deed fraud, identity theft. It's all these things kind of
00:43:42.940wrapped into one. So when we're talking about an investigation of this size, there's really
00:43:48.260two parts to it. There's the, the criminal side where a bunch of these people are getting arrested
00:43:53.480and hopefully you're going to go to jail. It's California. So who even knows anymore? Um, but
00:43:57.940then there's, there's the side of the homeowner having to clean up the mess. And that's really
00:44:01.740what we do and what we focus on is we want to make sure that if you are a victim of a crime like
00:44:07.200this, maybe not on a scale of this proportion, but maybe it's a neighbor. Maybe it's a caretaker
00:44:12.840for your elderly parent. Maybe it's a random stranger that decides they want to start doing
00:44:17.080this on a small scale. For things where the FBI isn't the one cracking the case, you need to have
00:44:23.400someone that's going to fight for you because the government isn't going to do it for you. The FBI
00:44:27.360is not going to do it for you this is happening probably every day um and right under everyone's
00:44:33.120nose and no one knows about it until it's too late most of the time so that's what we do here
00:44:37.520at home title log so walk us through i mean my gosh i'm reading some of this and they they had
00:44:43.280to raid a mansion as they were going through a few you know the investigation even went into calgary
00:44:49.200canada sees another um you know the example of international ties here but they ran this for
00:44:56.000almost three years from 2021 through 2023, falsified bank statements, rental agreements,
00:45:03.400doctor's notes, even death certificates. So with home title lock, how could a home title lock come
00:45:09.520in and start to push back in any of these situations before it gets to the point where
00:45:14.980someone eventually goes to the FBI? Absolutely. So you hit the nail on the head, right? Three
00:45:22.220years for all of this going down and no one caught. We don't know for sure how they caught
00:45:26.380something, but very likely it was because someone was getting a foreclosure notice on their doorstep,
00:45:32.680which is generally how people find out in the first place. So what we do at Home Title Lock
00:45:37.520is we are 24-7 monitoring urgent alerts and restoration. So the 24-7 monitoring is extremely
00:45:44.000important. We monitor the property and not the person so that if any title records or anything
00:45:48.660regarding the ownership of your home are being filed at the county level where you can't stop.
00:45:55.320No one can stop this crime from happening. It's a county problem. If it's filled out properly,
00:45:59.240they have to accept it. So basically, if you're a victim, you have no choice but to be a victim.
00:46:04.200But what we do do is we jump in immediately to get everything reversed and the process stopped
00:46:09.060and the police involved in order to make sure that they don't get away with your money and
00:46:14.300disappear into the abyss and you're left with all of these loans that you now have to prove beyond
00:46:19.520reasonable doubt over multiple years of trying and paying all these lawyer fees and doing all
00:46:24.820these things just to prove that you were taken advantage of by a scammer. So 24-7 monitoring,
00:46:31.300urgent alerts, and then we spend up to a million dollars to restore your property and your
00:46:37.060ownership and make sure that everything's taken care of. So we cover the legal fees. We have a
00:46:42.620network of legal experts around the U.S. to make sure that we are able to jump in
00:46:46.780and fight for you as soon as we can. I mean, this is just there's there's so much here. And
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00:47:08.860Natalie, for coming in, because yet again, and this is just another story that happened between
00:47:12.360the last time i had you on and now yep absolutely i'm always glad to be here always glad to be
00:47:18.600sharing stuff with you guys amen we have to continue to fight this because folks these
00:47:24.060these fraudsters elder abusers they continue to be out there it's home titlelock.com
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