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00:00:52.500Christ is King. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:00:59.380We're here live on Real America's Voice. Today's April 28th, Anno Domini, and we are here,
00:01:05.8602026, Anno Domini, and we are here joined today by Senator Josh Hawley. Senator, how are you?
00:01:11.660I'm doing great. Thank you for having me, Jack. Well, I've just reviewed,
00:01:15.920and Human Events has this open letter that you've put out earlier today regarding the
00:01:22.000White House Correspondents Dinner, your call for an investigation into what went on here.
00:01:28.340Tell us your thoughts regarding this situation. Well, I think we need to know exactly what
00:01:33.680happened, what the security protocols were, what was followed, what wasn't. And we also need to
00:01:38.040know in light of what happened in Butler, what happened in the fall of 2024, this is the third
00:01:43.060attempted assassination on the life of the president in the last two years. I mean, that's
00:01:47.040a pretty extraordinary number. And I can tell you, Jack, having talked to Secret Service whistleblowers
00:01:51.760for years now who have come forward to me and talked about what happened in that agency in
00:01:56.780the Biden years, what happened with the second assassination attempt on Trump, the sort of
00:02:02.000reforms that needed to be made. I think that the American public deserves a full accounting
00:02:06.200of what is going on at our security agencies. Have the changes been implemented that should
00:02:11.540have been after Butler and after the second attempt on Trump's life? And what's going on
00:02:16.160now internally? I think we need to know. I think the American people deserve full and total
00:02:20.180transparency. I'm not sure, frankly, they've ever gotten it on Butler. I think we need to get it
00:02:24.780here. Well, I certainly agree with you. I actually wrote the first book on the Butler assassination
00:02:30.580attempt, the bulletproof, and then, of course, we got into the second attempt as the book was
00:02:37.160almost published. We had to sort of actually call halt the presses, which I found out costs a lot
00:02:41.200of money because you actually have to reprint covers. But we were happy to do it, and our
00:02:47.700publisher was able to do so because unfortunately the violence has gotten so strong. But I remember
00:02:51.800one of the big key takeaways there, lack of communication, lack of coordination, lack of
00:02:56.780planning. And you had a, an agent that was put in charge who had only graduated a few years before
00:03:03.840from FLETC, which is the federal law enforcement training center down in, uh, in Brunswick,
00:03:09.340Georgia, someone who just simply wasn't ready to maintain the task of a president, or in this case,
00:03:16.300a former president who has a higher degree of threat than any president we've seen in recent
00:03:22.640history. Yeah, I still remember when a Secret Service whistleblower came to me and told me that
00:03:28.180in the days following Butler. And at first I was like, this just can't be right. I mean, surely
00:03:32.120that person would never be put in charge. Surely they would have fully staffed what was, of course,
00:03:38.060a Butler, an outdoor rally. It was very complicated to secure. Surely they were sending the A-team,
00:03:42.280The answer was no. I remember talking to local law enforcement. I went myself to Butler. I talked
00:03:47.480personally with local law enforcement who told me they did not get any coordination from the
00:03:51.840Secret Service at the time. Obviously, this is the Biden Secret Service. They were not looped in.
00:03:56.880I was on the roof myself of that building. I talked to the local agents who were supposed
00:04:01.540to be there and staffing it. They were told that they were supposed to stand down. My point is this,
00:04:05.980there were all kinds of shortcomings. We saw it, obviously, in real time. It was just a miracle of
00:04:11.400God that the president lived. I think we need to know, have those shortcomings been addressed?
00:04:16.680Is the Secret Service getting the resources it needs? Has it had the reforms made that were
00:04:21.480needed? And the other thing is interagency cooperation. And we saw Butler, there was
00:04:25.780terrible coordination between the Secret Service and other agencies. I was told in the aftermath
00:04:30.480of that that the Secret Service was having to rely on agents from Homeland Security who were
00:04:35.420probably very good agents, but not trained at all to do personnel security. I think we need to know
00:04:41.820in light of the events over the weekend, is that still happening? In other words, is Secret Service
00:04:45.720getting the agents they need? Are they getting the cooperation they need? What is going on? And
00:04:50.540are we really keeping the president and the cabinet secure? Sure didn't look like it on Saturday
00:04:55.020night. Senator, I have to ask, you know, just something that struck me from having visited as
00:05:00.680well you said you were on that roof that you know it one thing that struck me going to butler the
00:05:06.080first time was and i wasn't at the original rally but it's not a big area it looks larger on some
00:05:12.180of the photos the way it's set up it's not a large area that roof being unsecured i mean this
00:05:19.240was essentially the closest roof with a direct line of sight to the stage and if someone were
00:05:24.980attempt to try something, you would think that that would be the most high visibility risked
00:05:31.180site in the entire area. And the fact that they dropped coverage, they didn't have full coverage
00:05:35.860on it. It's inexplicable to me. It's still inexplicable. And all of these months later,
00:05:40.700two years later, it's still inexplicable. I don't think we've ever really gotten
00:05:44.320straight answers on this, to be honest with you. And I had the same reaction when I was there.
00:05:48.860It is very easy to get onto that roof, by the way, as you remember. And I remember thinking
00:05:52.600when I was there, I was like, surely this isn't the play. I mean, surely this isn't the one
00:05:55.700because, you know, you can literally just, just hoist yourself up. It's a pull-up just to get up
00:06:00.360there. It's too close. It's right there. Right there. And, you know, and everybody's like,
00:06:04.060no, this is it. This is the one. I'm like, how in the world was this not secure? And to your
00:06:08.260point, Jack, I mean, clear line of sight to the stage, not that far away at all. And then here
00:06:13.260we go. A couple of nights later, a couple of nights go from now, we have a shooter get through
00:06:18.700security, get to the steps of the ballroom, shoot a cop, shoot an agent. This looks like a pattern
00:06:25.700here. And I want to be sure that we are getting all of the facts. I want to be sure that our good
00:06:30.020agents in uniform are getting all the resources that they need, that the protocols in place to
00:06:34.780give them success are there, and that most importantly, we're keeping the president,
00:06:38.140we're keeping the cabinet, we're keeping ordinary people safe. I mean, let's not forget that the
00:06:41.440people who were killed in Butler were good, honest, everyday American citizens. We just can't
00:06:46.160have it in this country be a fact that if you go to a political event, your life is in danger. I
00:06:51.700mean, we just cannot assent to have that become the norm in the United States of America.
00:06:56.460No, we can't. And that's why I've constantly advocated for the highest possible charges and
00:07:02.600punishments against any of these individuals, whether it be the attempts on President Trump,
00:07:07.920Charlie Kirk, Luigi Maggioni, and the UnitedHealthcare. You can't allow assassinations
00:07:13.360to breathe into our culture because it's the most corrosive form of cancer to any political
00:07:22.000society. And it always has been since the dawn of time. And Senator, when you look at the
00:07:27.800culture here, these breakdowns, I feel like maybe in the security posture, there's a lack of urgency
00:07:35.320that just doesn't seem to have been taken root. The lessons of Butler, this idea that we have a
00:07:42.160threat situation for President Trump, for conservatives, that is just unprecedented.
00:07:47.580And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to say it when I see those videos and I see the
00:07:51.840agents, they're up against the wall, right? I remember growing up, my manager at the store
00:07:58.580I used to work at used to say, if you have time to lean, you have time to clean. And I remember
00:08:03.620being in the Navy, we would not allow someone to do that while they were standing watch. And I
00:08:07.540can't believe they're doing that at a presidential level event where the entire cabinet and vice
00:08:12.940president are present. You know, and you mentioned a minute ago that Charlie Kirk, the Charlie Kirk
00:08:19.360assassination really is the proof of what you were just saying about our culture now, a culture of
00:08:24.800violence, particularly on the left, where, you know, you can't, if you're a conservative leader,
00:08:28.840conservative figure, you can't even go to a college campus and feel like you're 100% secure.
00:08:33.240Just as importantly, the people who come out to hear you and exercise their First Amendment rights,
00:08:36.680they're not safe either. And we do need to have a sense of urgency, to your point.
00:08:40.800We need to make sure that everybody in our protective agencies, everybody in our law
00:08:45.900enforcement agencies has that sense of urgency and is being equipped accordingly. And I just
00:08:50.960worry that that is not the case. And we need to make sure that the public knows exactly what's
00:08:55.360going on, that there's full and total transparency. And that's why Congress needs to do its job. We
00:08:59.700need to have hearings. We need to get the facts out there for the American people.
00:09:02.900have you uh received any response from either dhs or the agency since this letter's gone out
00:09:12.060no i i have not and i hope that i hope that i will and i hope that the chairman of the homeland
00:09:18.620security committee rand paul will say immediately we're going to hold hearings on this we're going
00:09:22.060to do this in public we're going to get answers but i would just go back two years rewind two
00:09:26.540years to butler literally when i went to butler jack for the first time i had the fbi come onto
00:09:32.280the field there at Butler. I was there with my team. They came onto the field and told me I had
00:09:37.980to leave. And I said, what do you mean I have to leave? Like, who's under, who's jurisdiction?
00:09:41.960I'm a member of the Senate. I'm on the committee of jurisdiction. I'm conducting investigation.
00:09:45.620And they're like, no, no, no, no, no. You know, you can't be here. Now they didn't have a perimeter
00:09:49.600set up at the time, Jack, at all. They said, no, you can't be here because, you know, we're going
00:09:54.320to, we're going to control this. We will give you the facts when we want to give them. And for
00:09:58.000months, they stonewalled us. At the time, the Secret Service, again, Biden leadership stonewalled
00:10:03.580us. This has become a pattern. And I think we've got to break that pattern. And I know we've got
00:10:07.720new leadership, thank goodness, at both FBI and Secret Service. I know they're doing things
00:10:12.180differently. We've got to make sure we're giving them the support to change what they need to
00:10:16.160change, to get the resources that they need to get, and to get the facts out there to the American
00:10:20.300people. At the end of the day, it comes down to safety. And this is not a partisan issue,
00:10:27.520Certainly at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, there were many people who were not members of the administration or not conservative from all political walks of life and, you know, backgrounds, etc.
00:10:39.320This was not one, you know, Republican event or a Trump event or something like that.
00:10:43.960But it certainly was an event where everyone was at threat and everyone was at risk because of these lapses.
00:10:52.080So who, you know, whoever becomes the next president, the next vice president, et cetera, et cetera, on down the line, this is going to be an issue for everyone.
00:11:00.940And again, there's nothing more corrosive than assassinations.
00:11:04.120And certainly that's something that I think we all learned following last following last year's situation with Charlie.
00:11:11.820But Senator, if I could ask, what do you make? Because I know you've written a lot about this.
00:11:16.800What do you make about the rise of this assassination culture to begin with?
00:11:22.080and the fact that it is on the rise. We haven't seemed to have dealt with this at the federal
00:11:27.300level in terms of these agencies and pushing new guidance. And I wonder if there's something there
00:11:32.120that perhaps we could learn and then push down. As a prior intelligence officer myself, I know that
00:11:38.040a lot of these agencies, they love their guidance, they love their studies. But I think it starts
00:11:42.000with understanding that the situation on the ground has changed. It really has changed. And
00:11:46.820we have this very paradoxical situation now where actual political speech, you know, words are thought
00:11:52.760to be harmful, are thought to be triggering. You know, you go to any campus and, oh my gosh, well,
00:11:58.000you can't say that. You have a different political viewpoint. You're a conservative. Oh no, that's
00:12:01.540hurtful to me. You can't say those words. And yet actual violence, shooting people, oh well, you know,
00:12:07.100that's becoming the norm. It should be just the opposite. I think we've got to recover a healthy
00:12:11.780and robust appreciation for the constitutional principle of open political debate. You know,
00:12:17.340Abraham Lincoln famously said that when in a democracy, we don't appeal from ballots to bullets.
00:12:22.260I'm worried that a lot of people now, and frankly, a lot of people on the left are more than happy to
00:12:25.900do that. They want to appeal to bullets. They are out there literally engaging in political violence.
00:12:31.420Many portions of the left are fine with political violence, but political speech they're against.
00:12:35.360We need to reverse that. We need to get back to saying, you know what, we can have big,
00:12:38.340robust debates in this country. We can have big disagreements. We can air that out in speech.
00:12:43.760What we don't do is we don't go shoot each other. I mean, come on. We're Americans. You can really
00:12:48.460disagree with that guy. You can really dislike some political leader. Fine. That's your right.
00:12:53.000You don't go shoot him. I mean, what's wrong with you people? I think we've got to have a reset here
00:12:57.460and we've got to drive that in our conversation. It really gets back to valuing speech,
00:13:02.960valuing free and open debate, valuing the constitution.
00:13:05.400well this is the this is the value that charlie kirk lived every day he said if you disagree with
00:13:13.320me come to the front of the line i'm going to give you a microphone i'm going to let you have
00:13:18.060the opportunity to you know change my mind or prove me wrong that's the entire bedrock of western
00:13:24.540civilization is the idea that we will have this debate and that we will hash these things out
00:13:30.440as free citizens and what what other place could there be than the modern public square than you
00:13:36.480know a college quad right the college uh the college campus and it i actually agree with you
00:13:42.280that it does begin with this idea that words are violence you're not allowed to say that and that
00:13:47.920you should be censored so that if you aren't allowed to say those things and we can't get
00:13:54.640you censored from being thrown off of campus we can't get you censored from being shut down on
00:14:00.240social media, perhaps. And of course, you've been one of the leaders on the big tech fight there.
00:14:04.920Then censorship comes instead of soft beans. They'll choose harsher means. Do you agree that
00:14:11.480there seems to be a pipeline there? Yeah, absolutely. And I think the irony is that if
00:14:15.940you treat words as violence, what you get is more actual violence. If you say we're going to shut
00:14:20.900down the free exchange of ideas, you're going to get people with guns doing insane stuff like this
00:14:26.700nut who tried to kill the president and others who have tried the same thing and obviously come
00:14:31.100very very close in at least one instance so and and in the case of charlie kirk succeeded i think
00:14:36.720we've got to take a hard look here at what we've allowed to have happen on our campuses but also i
00:14:41.380think at the root of it jack as i think on it the root of it is we there's too many people in this
00:14:45.920country who no longer share our bedrock principles that unite us as a nation they don't believe any
00:14:52.440longer in those core values of liberty of the individual, family, God, country. You know,
00:14:58.200there was a certain, there used to be a certain bedrock of values in the country that everybody
00:15:02.160agreed on. And no matter how vociferously you disagreed on policy, you agreed on those
00:15:06.840fundamental things. And that gave us a framework for our debate. I think as that erodes and as
00:15:11.360the left attacks those fundamental things, our debate becomes much more polarized. It becomes
00:15:16.620more vociferous. The censors become more empowered and you get more violence. And we're in that
00:15:21.560spiral right now. We got to pull this country out of that spiral. Well, I couldn't agree more with
00:15:27.280that, Senator. I know you have to run. You're working today. You're earning that salary. Where
00:15:31.620can people go and follow you and put out everything they're putting out? Hey, you can go to
00:15:36.560joshholly.com or follow me anywhere on social media. Holly Moe, thank you so much, Jack, for
00:15:40.920having me. God bless, Senator. Thank you for your words and for your kind words about Charlie as
00:15:45.360well. Folks, we are going to go to our cold open here for a second. I'm going to replay the intro,
00:15:50.660But we do have breaking news that I want to let everybody know, because this just came across the wire as I was speaking with the senator, didn't even get a chance to read the message.
00:16:01.460I have it now. A federal grand jury has just indicted former FBI director James Comey after a longstanding controversial Instagram post from last year that President Trump and members of the administration claimed was a threat against the president.
00:16:17.940Very interesting indictment. Obviously, I want to read more into that, see which jurisdiction this took place in, because we know that had been an issue with Comey and some of the others in the past.
00:16:28.360So for for now, we will dig into that. And guys, let's go and run the show opening.
00:16:34.340The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C. for the first time yesterday.
00:16:41.700Cole Allen, a 31-year-old part-time teacher from California, faces three charges, including attempting to assassinate the president.
00:16:50.080Prosecutors say Allen is likely to face more charges as the investigation continues.
00:16:55.160Melania Trump sharing a blistering takedown of Jimmy Kimmel.
00:16:59.180The first lady's post on X coming after Kimmel's scathing parody of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Thursday.
00:17:05.780Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
00:17:08.500The United States about to enter a third month of war with Iran.
00:17:13.040Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirming details of Iran's latest proposal,
00:17:17.540conditions under which the regime would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
00:17:21.140What they mean by opening the straits is, yes, the straits are opened as long as you coordinate with Iran,
00:17:25.760get our permission, or we'll blow you up and you pay us.
00:17:28.780That's not opening the straits, nor can we tolerate them trying to normalize a system
00:17:33.080in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway.
00:17:36.480King Charles is in Washington for the first state visit by a British monarch in almost 20 years.
00:17:41.220Here he is arriving with Queen Camille at the White House.
00:17:43.820Some of the team may not have the fortitude that President Trump does.
00:17:49.780Trump's the best deporter that I've ever worked for.
00:17:53.960You know, I think that sometimes cold feet, whether that's polling numbers or whatever, can come into play.
00:18:00.540And that's too bad because, again, this is for America.
00:18:03.100I don't give a damn about the polling numbers.
00:18:14.880The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German,
00:18:22.520Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War XI.
00:18:26.700Federal agents are conducting several search warrants across the Twin Cities.
00:18:31.140FBI agents, Homeland Security, they're inside that building right now.
00:18:35.500This is the Somali Senior Center. We're in the West Phillips neighborhood.
00:18:40.000There's also a child care center here, so we're unsure which or both of these businesses is involved.
00:18:46.920Now, this is one of nearly two dozen spots where we are told that federal agents are stopping today.
00:18:54.820All right, folks, we're back here, Human Events Daily.
00:18:57.900And that was the big story earlier this morning, folks. Accountability, accountability for Minnesota, for the fraud, for the Somali fraudsters that we have seen time and time again.
00:19:09.860And by the way, I love the fact that Tim Walz is trying to get ahead of this, but I'll talk about that in a second.
00:19:16.420So this was a story that I actually heard about late last night, and I put a tweet up early this morning in the 7 o'clock hour
00:19:25.840about sort of referencing that something might be coming with these daycare centers.
00:19:31.000And, of course, I didn't want to get ahead of the operations.
00:19:34.080I didn't want to get ahead of anyone who was going to be on the ground.
00:19:38.260then had a discussion with the attorney general's office and just to get the confirmation,
00:19:45.640got the confirmation, and they were able to provide a statement to human events.
00:19:49.980And I put that out later and had some media hits, did War Room as well, talking about this.
00:19:55.540They confirmed that there would be 22 search warrants, raids executed this morning across
00:20:03.480Minnesota and largely in the Minneapolis area.
00:20:06.520We're going to have Liz Collin here from Alpha News, who is just always in the know on everything that takes place in Minneapolis ever since the events of George Floyd.
00:20:17.360She'll be joining us just after the break.
00:20:20.240And what we need to see here, what we need to see, and obviously want to find, what were the organizations that were targeted?
00:20:27.440And you got Tim Walz now saying that, oh, these were state generated leads, that the state actually played the role in identifying the federal government.
00:20:37.600No, that's not true, Tim. That's not true because it was new media.
00:20:41.480It was new media like Nick Shirley that was out there.
00:20:44.680It was new media on the ground, citizen reporters, citizen activists taking up the ball.
00:20:51.520It was places like Alpha News that were going in day in and day out that were going after the truth.
00:21:00.560They were simply going after the truth of what's been happening in their area, what's been happening in their city.
00:21:06.060The fall of Minneapolis was a documentary that Liz Collins put together.
00:21:09.900And there's so many of these aspects to it.
00:21:14.460So no, Tim, you were not the one who was trying to fix it.
00:21:18.020You, in many ways, are the one who is responsible for it.
00:28:32.020But in the documentary, I will say that we interviewed some folks who went to China with him, and they have some pretty interesting insights that they're going to share for the very first time.
00:28:42.420And in fact, they've been trying to get the attention of local governments, of federal governments as well over the years, saying that this guy really had no reason to be in public office.
00:28:56.920And these were years ago that they sent these warning, these warning signs to many, many people.
00:29:02.860And yet here we are kind of dealing with this mess in Minnesota.
00:29:07.140Wow. I do not want to have to wait until June 4th.
00:29:10.360But apparently we will. Liz, where can people go to see the documentary when it comes out?
00:29:15.060It'll be MinnesotaMau.com. Also, our YouTube page, Alpha News MN.
00:29:20.000Check it out and give her a follow, Liz.
00:29:22.120I don't know if I ever if I ever see the guy, maybe I can test him on his Mandarin.
00:29:25.620we can do a little uh uh check it out see whether or not he holds himself up to snuff right back
00:29:33.460jack so with more human events daily where's jack where is he jack i want to see you
00:29:41.700great job jack thank you what a job you do you know we have an incredible thing we're always
00:29:49.140talking about the fake news and the bad but we have guys and these are the guys should be getting
00:29:54.100All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live, human events, daily, Real America's Voice.
00:30:05.720Folks, I talk about government overreach every single day on this show.
00:30:10.080Well, we are securing the border, cleaning up our elections, and there's one thing Washington still can't protect, unfortunately, and that is the deed to your house.
00:30:18.220And this time, it's not the government coming for you, though.
00:31:36.280You know her. She's the author of Can I Say That? and Nervous Energy.
00:31:40.020She is a clinical psychologist, and she has reviewed the entire published manifesto of the would-be assassin of President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
00:32:18.520Because this is what you've been writing about, how these, unfortunately, it's not just a
00:32:24.660bad idea, but how it's these worldviews and these thoughts can, negative thoughts can lead to
00:32:30.200negative actions. Yeah. And actually, as well as very distorted thoughts and, you know, repetitive
00:32:36.520thoughts. So the manifesto, as you mentioned, was basically a parroting, a regurgitation
00:32:44.340of media talking points, as well as left-wing politician talking points. But I repeat myself,
00:32:52.460right? You know, he goes and, you know, refers to Trump as a pedophile, rapist, traitor. He goes and
00:32:59.740he says he has to do these things because of, quote, fishermen being blown up in boats. I mean,
00:33:05.640presumably he means the Venezuelan drug dealers that were trying to pump fentanyl into our
00:33:10.140country. I just, I think that there's a level of delusion that people are susceptible to when they
00:33:17.440keep hearing the same quote facts or misinformation repeated over and over on the news as well as in
00:33:24.600academic classrooms. And that's so interesting to me because you're right. It's this idea that
00:33:33.560he's talking about, oh, Trump does violence. Trump does violence. But what you're talking
00:33:38.960about here are law enforcement operations against known criminals or non-drug traffickers,
00:33:45.100military operations in a completely different context and yet he's using this as justification
00:33:52.440for his interest in committing violence on and and this is very interesting to me because he
00:33:59.000talks about his selection of targets at great length he talks about you know he he used buckshot
00:34:06.880instead of slugs because he didn't want it to go through the walls and he only had specific targets
00:34:12.140Walk me through, why is the intentionality so important to these individuals?
00:34:17.860Well, I think it's really important to him that he wants to claim himself as, you know, one of the good guys.
00:34:24.000So it feels like a very showy display of, you know, here's all the ways that I thought about this.
00:34:30.340And to your point of, like, just kind of distorting a context, he even went so far as to pull Christianity into that, right?
00:34:38.600To, you know, distort and misuse Christian theology and scripture to talk about turning
00:34:44.980the other cheek and standing up, you know, for the oppressed.
00:34:49.640You know, there was such almost deliberate confusion or delusion there.
00:34:54.740But, you know, another point from the manifesto that I don't hear a lot of people talking
00:34:59.040about quite as much is that one of his, quote, objections and rebuttals that he raises is,
00:35:05.340is, you know, he imagines people saying to him, well, what about you as a half black and half
00:35:10.940white man? You know, why are you the one that should have to do this, right? Which was such
00:35:16.120interesting language. And then his response was, well, I don't see anybody else picking up the
00:35:21.900slack. And it's just, it was interesting to me and telling to me as far as his left-wing ideology
00:35:29.480that he's also, of course, a part of this group called the Wide Awakes. I assume that's like
00:35:33.700the ultra wokes or whatever, but that he even sees his race as some kind of a driving factor
00:35:41.240here. Or why should you have to as a half black and half white? Just so obsessed with this identity
00:35:48.880politics and such a blindness to the actual facts of our lives. So the fact that he brings up
00:35:57.800about his racial identity and in that context. And I was actually planning to ask you about this
00:36:04.180because there's just so much to it. But do you see that as it I mean, to me, it just seems very
00:36:09.320much, you know, I guess what we would call main character energy of this idea that he seems to
00:36:15.520think that the world revolves around him and these decisions and his role as half white.
00:36:21.800It's like, dude, nobody knows who you are. You know, you're not special. You're just another
00:36:26.100another American citizen like the rest of us. But, but it seems to me in his mind,
00:36:30.720he has a very, very inflated sense of self. Yeah. In fact, that could even ironically be
00:36:36.820part of the issue there is, is a sense of not mattering and a sense of a lack of purpose.
00:36:44.240And, and he even talks about that in the manifesto is that he's directly imagining
00:36:49.680that everybody's going to be reading this and everybody's going to be talking about this. And
00:36:54.760he addresses his students and his family and even his church and all these people. And he's clearly
00:37:01.300aware, as you said, and focused on the fact that there's going to be a lot of people talking about
00:37:07.640him. And to your point, nobody had ever heard of him before, and that this could be part of that.
00:37:13.280Another issue kind of within that is we know that in addition to being some kind of a teacher or
00:37:19.360Tudor, which again, hello, left-wing ideology. He was also apparently, or is also apparently a
00:37:27.000game developer, which of course tells us it doesn't take a psychologist to know that this
00:37:33.100means he's spending a great deal of time online. And as well, to your point about identity,
00:37:40.480people who get super invested in games, it's a virtual identity. So they can start to have a
00:37:48.380little bit of a kind of a soft sense of their own identity and then of course meanwhile they're
00:37:54.120spending a great deal of time online they can fall down a group think rabbit hole very quickly that
00:38:00.760way oh no you're right and and and certainly you know i don't ever want to be one of those guys
00:38:09.040who says oh if you play video games it's going to make you violent i just i just don't think that
00:38:13.220works but i do think that what you're saying it's the question of identity right it's the question
00:38:17.540of do you start to lose that sense of who you are as an individual and then identify
00:38:23.760with these other, and what we see predominantly in video games these days is created characters.
00:38:31.360So creating your own character, creating your own avatar.
00:38:34.460So we see that as a game developer with Cole Thomas Allen.
00:38:38.080We know that Luigi Agioni was also a game developer, by the way.
00:38:41.840We know that Tyler Robinson was known to play games featuring extreme pornography and extreme sex involving bestiality, among other things, of games that he was playing.
00:38:54.620And it's all been reported as public knowledge that is out there that people can go and find.
00:38:59.360And so, and clearly any of the relations to the trans community do tie into this, this, this, I liked what you said, soft identity, this idea that your identity itself is something fluid as if we're not, you know, we're not all created individuals.
00:39:51.880Similarly, when we think about somebody who's just going through school versus somebody who's really starting to immerse themselves within academia, and again, I'm obviously not seeing all academics, however, there is a very interesting correlation between academia and the left and an endorsement of political violence.
00:40:17.660So we know that statistically, there is a relationship.
00:43:32.340I mean, you'd think that perhaps here's why I was thinking there might be more to it than
00:43:37.020that, because he seems to have spent so much time going through these objections and responses
00:43:43.080and has this, you know, in his mind, at least a well-formulated thought for all of his other
00:43:48.780choices that I was, I don't know, perhaps I was hoping that he had some more of a specific
00:43:53.360woke, you know, woke ideology of, well, I'm going after white people and he's not white and that's
00:44:00.740it. Well, I would think so. But he did also mention his own race where he said, why should I
00:44:06.420as a half white, half black person have to do this? So he obviously thinks about race as more
00:44:12.800than just your skin color, that it that it connotes something about who you are or your
00:44:17.920responsibility for things. He made that very explicit. And so, you know, there's probably
00:44:25.260another reason, as you said, but that was just the one thing that stood out to me about him and
00:44:29.860Kash Patel. I don't know. No, I think that's certainly potential. Anything else about it,
00:44:37.940just in general? What takes someone who's so gifted intellectually, he's, you know,
00:44:45.900top marks on college entrance exams. He's working in some of the top fields. He's at Caltech. He's
00:44:53.900at extremely elite university. What could take someone, make someone like that in that situation
00:45:02.440who seems to be coming from a loving family? There's no broken home here. There's no socioeconomic
00:45:07.260factors. What else or what other could it be that drives someone like that into committing an act
00:45:13.880like this or thinking that this is a good course of action? Yeah, so it's a good question. And
00:45:19.200ironically, it could even be the fact that, as you said, he is so intelligent and he did receive so
00:45:24.060much education and he may have grown up with a great deal of respect for authority. And very
00:45:30.200sadly, that can actually make someone quite vulnerable if they go into some of these very
00:45:35.720leftist institutions and all of a sudden the, you know, the top professors and whatnot, this is
00:45:42.920another component of groupthink, by the way, is that there's these self-appointed mind guards
00:45:48.160in these expert classes. And if he's just a very intelligent person that's trained to
00:45:53.600learn and accept what authority figures are saying and just download that, he may have just taken his
00:46:00.200big, powerful brain and just simply downloaded the wrong information because he mistakenly thought,
00:46:07.120well, these are smart professors. I'll go by what they tell me. And they very well may have been
00:46:12.180teaching some really twisted left-wing political ideology. That could be the case.
00:46:19.980Is this something that you've been obviously not asking about any specifics on cases, but
00:46:25.140is this something that you may have run across before at all with people who
00:46:28.800come from this environment, who are extremely intellectually gifted, that they may become
00:46:35.020perhaps more susceptible to that group think because they think, well, this is what all the
00:46:39.240smart people think. Sure, absolutely. And then moreover, a lot of, you know, masters and above
00:46:46.580type programs, when they're interviewing candidates, understandably, they're actually
00:46:52.040seeking candidates that are going to be very coachable, that are, you know, going to be good
00:46:57.920research assistants and help that professor to, you know, do their work as the principal investigator.
00:47:03.840I actually experienced it myself. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't go to school until much later in life when I already had a solid sense of my worldview, I probably would have completely absorbed all that left-wing ideology as well.
00:47:21.160It's actually one of the things I talk about in my book is how students can resist that type of indoctrination, how they can stand up for themselves and their values when they are getting this incredible pressure, which I can share some statistics as well.
00:47:38.160But I think we just kind of all know it, that at these left wing universities, which is most universities, students experience a great deal of pressure that if they want to get good grades and if they don't want to be labeled as, you know, some, quote, idiot redneck or whatever, that they better just go ahead and sing that professor's song.
00:47:58.500yeah no i i i can remember that as well of course i i was not the student that went along with the
00:48:07.040professors when i was in uh when i was on campus as i'm sure will surprise absolutely no one um
00:48:13.480that uh yes there are articles from when i was in school that i was uh conducting i was i was
00:48:18.460rousing quite a lot of rabble even back then actually at one point uh because i went to a
00:48:23.180I wasn't a state university, it was state-related, and I actually called in legislative hearings on my professors because of the indoctrination that they were doing on campus.
00:48:34.440And so while an undergraduate, I was working with the David Horowitz Freedom Center back then and Students for Academic Freedom.
00:48:40.360And we had hearings that I actually forced my professors to have to testify.
00:48:50.680Hey, that's Turning Point USA these days.
00:48:52.660This was this was pre-Turning Point, but this was that's the mission of Turning Point USA.
00:48:57.640That's how Charlie built Turning Point USA was all about the indoctrination on campuses.
00:49:02.720And if that didn't exist, then Turning Point USA would not exist because there would not be a need for it.
00:49:08.380Yeah. And, you know, there is actually an interesting psychological process of how that indoctrination works.
00:49:13.600So if you're a student and you're on campus and you're like, oh, well, I know that that's not really true, but I'm just going to write this paper the way the professor wants or I'll just raise my hand in class and say what they need to hear.
00:49:25.860there's because of a psychological process called cognitive dissonance and because of things like
00:49:31.580repression and suppression and denial what ends up happening is that you ultimately can lose touch
00:49:37.580with your own real thoughts and you can just start adapting and taking on the thoughts that
00:49:44.220you were just pretending to have just the same way like they say well if you just put a smile
00:49:48.600on your face and you're sad it'll start to lift your mood the same thing can happen when you start
00:49:54.240pantomiming the viewpoints of professors. So it's really important for students that are in
00:50:00.940universities, either they should somehow be bold and speak up, and I have ways that they can do
00:50:05.940that, or at the very least, make sure that they talk or write down their real thoughts later.
00:50:11.000Dr. Chloe, where can people get the book?