Jack Posobrand, a commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran, joins host Jack Poso to discuss the latest in the ongoing Trump administration confirmation hearings, including the latest on Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and more.
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00:01:46.960Happening today at the nation's capital, the Supreme Court will weigh states' efforts to require pornography websites to verify their visitors' ages.
00:01:55.380Texas and 18 other states have a similar law in place.
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00:02:12.900If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation.
00:02:17.940If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.
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00:02:48.700Folks, we can see the various hearings that continue up on Capitol Hill right now in the United States Senate.
00:03:25.400And look, are you going to see a nomination hearing that goes as well as that did yesterday?
00:03:31.380No, I don't think so, because Pete Hegseth is someone who's uniquely qualified from his years of media service,
00:03:37.840as well as uniquely qualified from his years in the military to understand exactly how to put up or and make them shut up when it comes to all of the questions that went through yesterday.
00:03:50.000And I certainly agree with what Senator Johnson said here yesterday in the program, that all of Trump's nominees are expected to be confirmed and should be confirmed.
00:03:59.520But that doesn't mean there aren't headwinds.
00:04:01.380Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Kash Patel, numerous others all being delayed, all being held up.
00:04:50.800And think of the boldness, by the well, of President Trump, putting them all up at the same time, in addition to taking what we were told was the, quote unquote, most controversial nominee of Pete Hegseth, and then taking him and putting him first right out of the gate.
00:05:06.240That understands, more than anything else, that should make you understand, this is a new management.
00:06:20.920You have five days left to the deep state, to all the rest.
00:06:26.020You've only five days before President Trump's triumphant return here to Washington, D.C.
00:06:32.160And his nominees are already marching up and down Capitol Hill.
00:06:37.040And in fact, the Trump effect is already getting into place because I think people know by this point.
00:06:43.300But if you haven't heard yet, that just about two hours ago, news came down of a ceasefire deal that has been brokered essentially by President Trump's representative to the Middle East, Steve Whitcoff.
00:06:55.500Steve Whitcoff, by the way, the same individual who was golfing with President Trump, one of his just close personal best friends.
00:07:02.120He was golfing with President Trump the day that Ryan Wesley Routh was there on the golf course at Trump International down in West Palm Beach.
00:07:11.240So someone who presumably would have faced an extreme situation with President Trump had that not been uncovered.
00:07:19.020We've got Darren Beattie here from Revolver News to talk us through this because, Darren, you and I were talking about the role of the America First movement in foreign policy.
00:07:29.460And I suppose my question to you is, is that what we're already starting to see?
00:07:35.340Absolutely. And we're starting to see it across a variety of domains across a variety of domains.
00:07:43.000We're seeing it not only in the Middle East, we're seeing it hopefully in Ukraine.
00:07:48.840I noticed that in Rubio's nomination hearing, he basically reiterated Trump's position that, yes, we need to bring an end to this conflict as well.
00:08:00.100And so we're seeing in multiple theaters a very strong prognosis for peace and stability.
00:08:08.360And Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet.
00:08:10.860So I think it's pretty exceptional that we're seeing this level of progress before day one.
00:08:18.320We're in day negative five and we're already seeing a lot done.
00:09:38.260And of course, we know what these ceasefires, it also makes it also portends that, of course,
00:09:42.540both sides are going to have to abide by that, and certainly something that has been an issue with various ceasefires, you know, in the past.
00:09:53.160Yeah, you have to have the right types of conditions, and there has to be some kind of reasonable expectation those conditions will be met.
00:10:00.180And, you know, a lot of it will be contingent on just how much of the work has been done in terms of neutralizing a lot of the radical element in that region.
00:10:14.740You know, Israel has had a long time to do it, but it's unclear to me whether the full job has been done.
00:10:20.720And it seems just as a practical matter that would need to be completed to some kind of threshold degree before there can be any expectation of Hamas or whatever the future version is called not disrupting the terms of any kind of peace agreement.
00:11:10.320An enlargement of NATO pushing in, but he was one of the guys who would go over there with John McCain, with Lindsey Graham, with Amy Klobuchar, so many others, meeting with Poroshenko, meeting with who was the original president before Zelensky came in.
00:11:29.580I mean, this was a guy who has really gone on quite a journey when it comes to politics.
00:11:34.440Indeed. I think it's, yet again, another major testament to Trump's leadership that within the rubric of Trump's leadership, I think Rubio can and will be an extremely effective secretary of state when aligned with this agenda.
00:11:52.720And I think we see every indication that that's going to be the case, certainly the Ukraine-Russia issue is a critical litmus test for this because it's certainly one of those arenas in which U.S. involvement is highly questionable,
00:12:09.980at least in the way that it's been under the Biden regime of simply throwing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars into this war machine that simply contributes to the needless, unnecessary deaths of both sides.
00:12:27.980To the enrichment of what? To the betterment of what? Well, to the betterment of what? Well, to the betterment of defense contractors and to the betterment of corrupt oligarchs in both Ukraine and Russia.
00:12:41.020And this is, you know, this is, you know, inconceivable from an America First standpoint.
00:12:48.440And I think the guidestone is always the principle that I've advocated here on your show multiple times, and I haven't found any way to improve upon it, which simply is to say,
00:12:58.940the victories of the victories of the American empire, the victories of the American system writ large, must also be the victories of the American people.
00:13:12.000We can't have a foreign policy simply based on the enrichment of the defense industry.
00:13:17.840We can't have an economy that simply exists for the enrichment of Wall Street and, you know, various special interests.
00:13:28.940And we can't have an immigration and crime policy that's simply for the benefit of foreigners and criminals.
00:13:40.080The victories of the American empire have to be the victories of the American people.
00:13:48.460That is the core and the essence and the guiding principle of what America First really is.
00:13:54.320It's something where when I hear some of these nominees and various entities going out across, not Pete Hegseth, by the way, that would sole exception there, fantastic exception of hearing his issues with the military and walking through just chapter and verse, something you can tell is actually very studied.
00:14:17.560And clearly he has the experience of being someone who's been on the battlefield in the conditions that we've lived in.
00:14:23.680And Pete Hegseth, of course, came on this program about a year ago and talked about his experiences, having his having his orders pulled from being able to deploy to, by the way, defend the Biden inauguration, which would be four years ago on Monday.
00:14:39.920I think that because of Christian tattoos that he had received while being in the military, believe me, if you want to go through all of the Christian tattoos and other various tattoos that we might find in the military, I think you're going to see the entire collapse of the United States national defense.
00:15:04.600This is, you know, this is, wasn't it actually a policy?
00:15:08.660Wasn't it, I could be wrong about this.
00:15:10.880Was it at one time a policy in the military that you couldn't have tattoos and they basically relaxed that on the basis of basically everybody has one now or a very high percentage of the population?
00:15:24.280They realized that would be an untenable policy.
00:15:29.720And so the current, or at least when I was in, when I was in, it was kind of like, it was like you could have a tattoo, but as long as it was not visible while you're wearing your uniform.
00:15:40.960So you would see people go and their tattoos would stop right where the uniform starts.
00:15:55.980They can make an exception for, for Iron Mike, I suppose.
00:16:02.040Actually, Tanya and I, yeah, Tanya and I were going to get, again, to get matching ones.
00:16:07.100The fact that they're talking about a tattoo just shows you how ridiculous and petty the whole thing is.
00:16:13.300I mean, this guy served his country on the highest levels in multiple domains.
00:16:17.980He's a very, very skilled person in media, skilled communicator, and he's young, like he's exceptional.
00:16:28.260And not the least of which, he took a very keen interest in our story on Bishop Garrison.
00:16:34.160So that's also a major point in his favor, that he was actually the only person other than Tucker Carlson on Fox News that would have on yours truly.
00:16:44.900And he was very interested in the Bishop Garrison story, which is just one story, but it was emblematic of this broader problem.
00:16:51.580Darren, Darren, we're coming up on a really quick break, by the way.
00:16:57.080And I want to finish what you were talking about with Bishop Garrison and also the headset, but I did also pull the, I pulled the policy update on the tattoos.
00:17:04.560So just before we go to this break, very quickly, I mentioned that's what it was like when I was in.
00:17:08.660But now, now the U.S. military allows tattoos on the neck, face, tongue, lips, eyes, scalp.
00:17:16.000Other tattoos are allowed as long as they were not, not deemed offensive or excessive.
00:17:20.280As long as they're smaller, as long as they're smaller than your hand, single band tattoos on the fingers.
00:25:03.600Everybody understood that it was only on the basis of mutual respect for the soldiers that
00:25:12.000a reconciliation could take place going into the future.
00:25:15.900And also, up to this day, my understanding is, disproportionate number of people who go into the military, especially in
00:25:27.200those really life-risking roles in infantry, these people come from the South.
00:25:34.220So it's a very particular kind of slap in the face that the military would go out of its way to offend that sort of consensus of respect to really spit on the ancestors of many people who are currently in harm's way and in danger for no reason whatsoever other than to score political points.
00:26:01.440So I think that's also very telling as to positive direction and really positive outlook that Hegseth has is that he would understand why that problem needs to be corrected and the bases will need to be renamed to their proper and original names.
00:26:20.260Right. And we remember on New Year's Day, we had that sort of these dual terror attacks or strange incidents that involved soldiers who both served on Fort Bragg and everybody referred to it in every single outlet and every single tweet and every single utterance.
00:26:40.400They kept saying Fort Bragg, even though, of course, you know, we're not supposed to call it Fort Bragg.
00:26:44.800No, it is Fort Bragg. President Trump has said this as well as including, by the way, Mount McKinley and Barrow, Alaska and all of these other different name changes that have gone on.
00:26:56.880And we all know that it was done. Yeah, it's and we realized that this was done from a position of a revolutionary regime to push out the history, by the way.
00:27:08.160And, you know, I say this as a guy who's from Pennsylvania, but one of the reasons I didn't even know this, but one of the reasons that a lot of those bases got their names, a lot of one of the reasons that you have the Confederate section at Arlington National Cemetery, which I'm not even currently sure what the status is.
00:27:23.520There was a Supreme Court case on it that the idea was, as a country, we have to come back together again.
00:27:30.460So, you know, it's interesting. We were talking about, you know, Panama and the the Guantanamo Bay and some of these other things that went on in terms of the Teddy with where Teddy Roosevelt came up.
00:27:43.180And it was, in fact, the Spanish-American War was held only about 30 years after the Civil War.
00:27:49.460And so you had, as you say, these southern soldiers that were participating in the same units or, you know, possibly the same campaigns as northern soldiers.
00:28:00.040And so the idea was that we are going to come back together again as a country rather than demonize either side for all of the various issues that they went to the war.
00:28:09.760But instead, understand that we all want to live in the same country again.
00:28:13.440And so we are going to respect the history, the warrior spirit.
00:28:16.840We're going to respect the fact of the soldiers who fought.
00:28:19.600Yeah, obviously, we can disagree with the reasons and the politics of the situation. Fine.
00:28:23.680But the point was, is that you would show respect to the generals like A.P. Hill, General Bragg, General Hood and all the various others through the names of these bases.
00:28:35.120And that's something to allow them to have that respect and to understand, by the way, that yours is a place in America.
00:28:48.300There's a lot of things to correct, not only in the Department of Defense, but in the FBI.
00:28:54.820I mentioned last time we talked that we'd have a major piece on that Loudermilk pipe bomb report that is fresh off the press, just published it an hour ago.
00:29:04.320So people should go to Revolver.News and read that and read what future FBI Director Kash Patel has on a silver platter in order to finally expose this pipe bomb January 6th scandal.
00:29:18.580There's a lot of work to be done all around.
00:29:22.120Biden screwed things up immeasurably, as did a lot of his compatriots.
00:29:28.320And so there's a lot to be done, but Trump is doing a great job so far and he hasn't even been inaugurated.
00:29:35.000So I am very optimistic about the future.
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00:32:44.200It was overwhelmingly supported by Republicans and Democrats.
00:32:47.640And then we started enforcing the law.
00:32:49.860It was my job to enforce the law, and the law was pretty simple.
00:32:53.120It asked these porn sites to do age verification to make sure that the people that were looking at these sites were at least 18.
00:33:01.880If they were 18, then there's no problem.
00:33:03.940If they were under 18, then they were to exclude them.
00:33:07.300It was simply designed to protect children.
00:33:09.660And most people, I think, would agree, at least in Texas and I guess most of the country,
00:33:13.720that that's something that you would want your government to do is to protect children from viewing obscene material or other material that might be objectionable to their parents.
00:33:32.400They chose the court, and we lost, and we got an injunction put on us, which stopped us from enforcing the law.
00:33:37.840We appealed it to the Fifth Circuit, and we got the injunction stayed so that we could start enforcing the law.
00:33:42.820And then these porn sites that have a little free speech, they called some free speech group, sued, took it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:33:53.220And that was what we were doing today was defending our law, hoping to keep that stay in place while the litigation goes on and continue to protect children under Texas law.
00:34:02.120And so one of the interesting pieces of the case that I saw, I was jumping between different hearings today.
00:34:13.100We had the Senate hearings with the nominees and the Supreme Court hearing.
00:34:18.160So really, things are picking up so much in D.C.
00:34:20.980But one of the interesting pieces that I saw regarding this was the Texas side was arguing, and I think it's a very strong argument, that there are lots of things that are regulated for age verification when you would go and purchase them at a store.
00:34:35.700For example, under 18 for tobacco, under 21 for alcohol or various firearms restrictions based on age.
00:34:44.380All of these things exist, and everyone is quite familiar with them, or R-rated movies, quite familiar with them when you're doing so in person.
00:34:51.920And basically what the attorney was arguing was that it's the exact same concept, just applying that in the digital space.
00:36:35.640But they didn't really specify much as to solutions.
00:36:39.720They just said they needed less intrusive, more thoughtful ways of doing this.
00:36:45.100But they didn't really offer up solutions to this problem that actually worked, that we know.
00:36:51.100I mean, they offered nothing up, just that we needed to do something different.
00:36:54.020Which, in my mind, is just stalling and trying to push this off for another day.
00:36:59.880But the reality is, this is a very sensible, common-sense way of dealing with the problem.
00:37:06.720Just make sure that these people that are viewing it are 18 or older.
00:37:10.900Well, and I actually remember, I'm going through some of the minutes here of the case, where even Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that, in fact, going on the Internet and accessing something is fundamentally different than walking into a store.
00:37:29.280Because it's easier, it's more pervasive, it can be done anywhere.
00:37:34.000Teenagers have cell phones all over the place.
00:37:41.060So rather than having to go into the store and at least pass through that basic check of a cashier or the clerk who's waiting there, this is actually delivered straight into your own home.
00:37:53.560Right under the nose of parents who, you know, it's not the old magazines under the mattress anymore.
00:38:03.760He made a very good point, which is it's, you know, push of a button.
00:38:06.700And you're on these websites and access to, you know, all kinds of stuff and large volumes of it.
00:38:13.960And if you think about it, I mean, it's not been controversial that you have to show a photo ID if you go into, you know, adult stores or strip clubs or whatever.
00:38:28.320And somehow, because it's online and easier to get to, somehow this is a violation of free speech rights.
00:38:34.060Look, I would broadly interpret the First Amendment and say, you know, protections for adults are extremely broad and the state does have to show a compelling interest and it should be strictly interpreted.
00:38:45.620But when you're dealing with children with materials that could be harmful to their mental health, potentially their physical health, we have an obligation as a country and as a state of Texas to protect those children because they're not going to be able to make the right decisions at the ages that we're talking about.
00:39:07.440And, you know, I've got, you know, I've got two little boys, age four and six, and they're already, you know, asking us, mommy and daddy, can we use the tablets?
00:39:17.280They already know, you know, how to bypass their and my six year old is figuring out my passwords pretty much on a weekly basis now.
00:39:24.100So I have to keep jumping past him and I'll pop up and he's he's on YouTube.
00:39:27.900Now, fortunately, at this point, when I catch him on YouTube, he's usually just watching Lego videos and trying to figure out how to, you know, how to build the next the next project.
00:39:38.540But of course, you know, I understand that as soon as he gets older, he is going to want to start branching out into that wider Internet.
00:39:44.700He's going to be looking at more things.
00:39:46.320He's going to be fed references to things.
00:39:48.340And certainly, I mean, YouTube is another conversation, you know, we could have about the stuff that gets forwarded to children on that thing that is not vetted in any way.
00:39:58.160And unfortunately, then when they click the links, they jump away from YouTube.
00:40:01.480They think they're looking at something that's just Legos and they bounce around to another one.
00:40:05.620By the way, folks, when we clear about something before the break, we do not allow them unsupervised YouTube access.
00:40:12.680We'll be right back with Attorney General Ken Paxton.
00:40:15.020We're talking about how should pornography sites face any state regulation regarding age verification.
00:40:53.320We're on with Attorney General Ken Paxton of the great state of Texas, where he was at the U.S. Supreme Court defending the Texas new law regarding age verification for pornographic sites.
00:41:05.100By the way, I know this is an issue that really gets a lot of people going because on the, you know, more of the conservative side, people will say, yes, you know, we want to protect the kids.
00:41:15.360But then you'll get your libertarian types who say, no, no, it should all be free.
00:41:19.280You can't put those restrictions on the on on companies like that.
00:41:23.320So if you have a take on this, if you have an opinion, send us your email, 1776 at humanevents.com.
00:41:32.220So, A.T. Paxton, let me actually bring that up then.
00:41:34.840So regarding the First Amendment question, this has been obviously the crux, I would say, of Pornhub's argument and the free speech coalition, as they're calling themselves.
00:41:44.660It's not just Pornhub, there's other sites out there, but they say that they have First Amendment protections and that this law would restrict the First Amendment.
00:41:59.500It covers almost anything you can say.
00:42:02.700But, you know, you can't yell fire in a movie house, even if you're an adult.
00:42:06.960So we have recognized throughout our history some limitations that are that override free speech.
00:42:13.020And there are very few, but this is one of them.
00:42:15.100And it's protecting our kids because they don't have the mental capacity at young ages to make the right kind of decisions.
00:42:21.180And so, you know, we don't let minors enter into contracts.
00:42:25.000Is that discriminating against minors or is it protecting minors?
00:42:28.060We have long protected minors in all kinds of different situations.
00:42:33.160And you mentioned some of them earlier about tobacco and vaping.
00:42:36.400You can't get you can't you can't get you can't vape unless you're 18 years of age.
00:42:40.420So these kind of significant decisions, you know, we just don't let minors make them because we know that their brain is not fully developed.
00:42:48.680And we try to protect them from some from things like obscene materials and from making contracts that would tie them up in a bad situation.
00:42:57.340And that's really what it comes down to is, you know, it doesn't seem like you're trying to shut down these companies.
00:43:07.740It doesn't seem like Texas is attempting to say that they can't operate.
00:43:11.660But what it is, it's the flip side of that.
00:43:14.120It's a basic protection for the rights of parents, for the rights of children.
00:43:18.500And again, it goes well, it goes in the line of the well-established protections and powers given to the states to be able to regulate these things, whether it's gambling or which, by the way, is another huge issue coming in with with kids under 18.
00:43:33.660You know, I don't think that and it's interesting, by the way, because you usually do hear this when it comes to the gambling sites.
00:43:39.460They usually say right up front they're totally fine with age verification.
00:43:44.560Obviously, it affects their bottom line.
00:43:46.020They must because you would think that they would expect that we're going to regulate anything that has to do with children.
00:43:53.460And they know the research and they know that there are damaging effects to what's what's going on here and very young people looking at these websites and they know all of that.
00:44:03.320And yet here they are in court arguing against what I would consider the most basic, most reasonable law that that we pass, which is children protect children first and let adults choose as they please.
00:44:16.760That's right. And for a lot of that, too, for many of these sites, it comes down to right when you're purchasing something regarding gambling sites, it's baked in because you're going to need a credit card to pay.
00:44:31.460So you would already have to verify for getting your credit card in the first place.
00:44:35.340Now, you know, our kids going to steal mom and dad's credit card and put that in.
00:44:38.840Sure, maybe. But eventually that will be caught.
00:44:41.520The issue, of course, with the pornographic sites is it's free by and large.
00:44:54.680This, by the way, was a huge part of the briefing today regarding the mental and psychological damage that is done to kids when they start accessing this type of content at a young age.
00:45:04.920Yeah. And look, I mean, you saw some of the arguments.
00:45:08.700None of these justices appeared to even come close to arguing that the state doesn't have a compelling interest in protecting children.
00:45:16.520I actually, I don't know many people that would argue differently.
00:45:20.180Even the coalition, the free speech coalition, argued that it admitted that we had a right to, we had a compelling interest in regulating this type of activity.
00:45:31.720They're just trying to make it ineffective.
00:45:34.100And I understand they have a profit motive, but the reality is they also know that what they're arguing will not work for us, that we will not be able to protect children.
00:45:42.340And so they're willing to trade that off for profit.
00:46:02.300And that gets into some of the deeper issues that I think are going on in our country right now when we look at these types of things and we ask ourselves, you know, I was, I always use It's a Wonderful Life and the contrast between Bedford Falls and Pottersville, right?
00:46:16.700When he goes to, by the way, my favorite Christmas, my favorite Christmas music movie.
00:46:37.640So the idea is, and, and of course, Mr. Potter loves it because he makes lots of money and when everybody spends all their money at his establishments, well, he's got his little, got a shanty town at the edge of, you know, at the edge of the edge of the city there and they can go live in a shanty town.
00:46:51.880And so it's, it's representing two different visions, I think, of what a town could be and what America could be.
00:46:59.320And that's where I think a lot of people draw the line.
00:47:02.020It's about having a place that's actually healthy for families and healthy for children rather than just putting profit motive over everything.
00:47:10.300Look, I'm not, I'm not against companies making profits.
00:47:13.820What I'm against is companies making profits at the expense of children's lives.
00:47:17.620And, you know, I think the arguments that the free speech coalition made about, you know, sure, yes, the state has a compelling interest.
00:47:26.740I think they knew that they could not go in and argue, no, the state has no interest in protecting children.
00:47:32.720That just sounds like a horrible message, right, a loser message.
00:47:35.720So they kind of argue out of both sides of their mouth.
00:47:38.140They make, they make the argument that the state can do it, but oh, oh, oh, you can't do anything that actually works.
00:47:43.960You can't do age, I mean, how controversial should age verification be?
00:47:47.080To me, it's, it should be non-controversial.
00:47:50.480And yet they're fighting one of the simplest ways for us to protect children because in reality, while they say that we have an interest, they do not actually believe it.