The interesting tale of the general who called China. We ll be talking about General Mark Milley. Second, new information coming out about CIA teams that first went into Afghanistan. Third, 50% of voters out of Rasmussen reports say that people with natural immunity should not be forced to get the vaccine. And finally, a new update on a partnership I m doing with Brave Books on an anti-communist book for kids. All this and more on today s Human Events Daily.
00:02:51.840I've had at least one White House official reach out to me and say that there are officers that were in this meeting with Milley that are willing to testify under oath, should they be called.
00:03:02.460Many people, including Republicans and some senators, Rand Paul specifically, calling not only for the resignation, of course, of General Milley, but also potential military charges under the UCMJ.
00:03:14.040Second, we've also got reporting now from an IC official that there were U.S. partners, possibly the U.K., possibly Australia, that were tapping the phones of these top Chinese generals.
00:03:28.800And all of a sudden they hear, what the heck is going on?
00:03:32.660A U.S. general is telling China that we are going to give our advance warning of any military plans to them.
00:03:41.500Understand the risk that this just put the world in, that Milley put the world in.
00:03:47.500What if the Chinese side views that as a veiled threat?
00:03:53.300They could have viewed it as a situation and then miscalculated and said, are they threatening us?
00:04:27.080We view it as a rogue, wayward province.
00:04:29.360And of course, Xi Jinping, who is now faced with financial crisis on his hands, we talked about it yesterday, is going to look at that as a perfect get out of jail free card for this.
00:04:38.720Because even though he can say, yes, we might be having our layman moment with Evergrande and we don't want to have to bail them out, and it's looking like that's not going to happen.
00:04:46.940But then instead, no, rattle the sabers and go say, be the one who can say, I was the chairman that brought back Hong Kong.
00:04:54.300I was the chairman that brought back Taiwan.
00:04:57.720Does Milley even understand the implications of his actions?
00:05:00.920This is what happens when you have an anti-charismatic bureaucracy in charge of the military.
00:05:11.720This isn't the leaders of our past that knew how to win wars, how to lead men, and how to attain victory.
00:05:18.540This is someone who knew how to check all the right boxes, who knew how to play the game, who knew how to come up under Obama, under Bush, under all the, you know, the political correctness that's been going on, all the wokeness.
00:05:31.780Check the right boxes, say the right things, and get to the head of the bureaucracy.
00:05:36.720Milley is like resistance-pilled over here, thinking that he's in a Hollywood movie.
00:05:42.260I'm going to call China and save the world, right?
00:05:44.980This is the same Milley, by the way, who just last week couldn't get us out of Afghanistan without blowing up an entire family of innocents.
00:06:50.560Now, of course, my heart and soul always goes, number one, humanevents.com.
00:06:56.200But, number two, I'm thinking it might be DailyMail.
00:06:59.700Here's the exclusive that they have up today.
00:07:02.900Three members of the first CIA teams to enter Afghanistan after 9-11 fear disciplinary proceedings and possibly even dismissal over their refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccinations.
00:07:19.220Officers say they have to face a disciplinary action after refusing.
00:07:56.560I'm talking about these guys specifically, willing to go in, do the job, do the dirty work, get their boots a little bit dusty, and actually go in and do something right.
00:08:08.500See, one of the biggest problems with Afghanistan wasn't how we conducted ourselves immediately after the 9-11 attacks.
00:08:18.180It was a special forces, special operator-run mission.
00:08:21.760You had people that were in the soft community on the military side as well as people led by the CIA.
00:08:26.240They went in, they busted skulls, they got the job done.
00:08:30.940Then the U.S. decided to occupy for 20 years and push gender studies programs.
00:08:35.540But now, because in the new regime of political correctness in the United States, the new regime of our working regime, it's almost sacramental.
00:08:49.980It's actually almost sacramental when you think about it, where they're saying that even if you've conducted all of this in your past,
00:08:56.720even if you are this great of a hero, if you don't follow the sacramental decision, if you don't follow the edicts coming out.
00:09:06.980By the way, is there any question that these guys need this?
00:09:34.480But what I do have a problem with is when the government comes down and mandates it, and especially when the government comes down and is mandating it on the people like this.
00:09:43.940This is just a small microcosm of what's going on across the private sector and across the military in terms of who we are going to be losing, right?
00:09:54.540Millie loves to use this word capacity, right?
00:09:59.700Is it building capacity when some of the greatest heroes that actually are still willing to work for this corrupt government are leaving en masse because of what you're forcing them to do?
00:10:13.940Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Air Force pilots, submariners, that you've got all sorts of private sector, technical workers, et cetera, et cetera.
00:10:41.780The liberal, neoliberal Afghanistan policy was that we were going to impose gender studies programs for 20 years and somehow try to turn Afghanistan into Silicon Valley.
00:12:55.120But one thing that we're going to do is a regular feature here on Rasmussen Reports.
00:13:00.900They provide us with some exclusive polling.
00:13:04.260We actually get to look at this here at Human Events Daily a little bit before everybody else gets to see it publicly.
00:13:10.160And so I wanted to share three polls with you, and I'm going to give you the top lines if you want more interesting or if you're interested in more resources on these, if you want to dig down into the different, you know, check marks and crosstabs and everything else, how different demographic groups broke down, go to Rasmussen Reports, check that out.
00:13:27.540But here are the top lines that I am going to share with you.
00:13:30.580Number one, Joe Biden's approval rating dropped yet again by another point.
00:13:36.960He's now down to 44%, and a little birdie tells me that he's got further to go.
00:13:44.320So, like I said in the last segment, it's true.
00:14:12.320Number two, January 6th, Rasmussen ran a poll.
00:14:15.680They said, do you agree, yes or no, with U.S. likely voters, are the January 6th rioters that have been imprisoned, are they political prisoners?
00:14:45.740But the broad mass of people, and I was there across the street watching this happen, 99.9% of people were standing around holding little American flags, right?
00:14:56.060And so to say that everything that happened throughout 2020 was mostly peaceful protests when it was actually the most damaging riots in American history,
00:15:06.920and then turn around and say that all the people from January 6th have to be locked up, I think people can understand that there's politics at play here.
00:15:15.020Now, the other piece of this that I really wanted to get into from Rasmussen, very, very, very interesting, natural immunity.
00:15:46.240I'm eating, you know, like Vietnamese pho and watching TV, like actual fatigue, had to take a nap every afternoon, like my three-year-old COVID, right?
00:16:56.520And you're sick of every time you go in to buy a book for your kids and you walk into a Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, whatever it is, and you see all this stuff out.
00:17:13.820Every book that's out, it seems to be this woke, leftist junk that they're trying to push on your kids.
00:17:20.560And you think, my gosh, I wish I could do something about this.
00:17:24.100I wish there were something that just had conservative, traditional American values that I could give to my kids and that they could actually learn something from rather than be indoctrinated into this crazy way of thinking.
00:17:38.400Well, have no fear, folks, because I'm here now to show you that, no, this is not a MyPillow promo, but what it is is I've actually partnered with a group out of Texas called Brave Books,
00:17:48.220and they've put together a book series all about just specifically meeting this need.
00:17:59.360We all remember what it was like when we were kids and someone came along saying, hey, free ice cream.
00:18:05.580You know, growing up just outside Philadelphia, that could start a stampede of all the kids in the neighborhood rushing to cram together on that one corner all at the same time.