ICE Is Rescuing Small Town America, Parents' Rights & The Latest On Epstein
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ICE raids in the streets of Norristown, PA have the entire community on edge of a panic. President Donald Trump is doubling down on his trade war with China. The FBI is stepping up its search for the person who drew a gun and fired at officers during a protest in Camarillo last week. The Senate passes a massive spending cuts package and it heads back to the House for final approval before tomorrow's deadline.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Today we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers, and criminal cartels
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that we've all been hearing so much about for so many years.
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And we take a historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge
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The Senate approving a massive spending cuts package just in the last few hours.
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So now it heads back to the House for final approval before tomorrow's deadline.
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Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but as it got deleted, must have
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All these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein files, you might think his approval
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He is at the apex or close there too in terms of his popularity with Republican voters.
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President Donald Trump is doubling down on tariffs.
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He says he'll likely impose pharmaceutical duties at the end of the month and eventually
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Trump also says he'll impose a 19 percent tariff on Indonesian goods soon.
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The FBI is stepping up its search for the person who drew a gun and fired at officers during
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The FBI now offering $50,000 for information leading to his identification, arrest, and conviction.
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ICE agents on the ground in West Narrington this morning taking more than one dozen individuals
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into custody as outraged community members looked on and some tried intervening.
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ICE tells NBC10 federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the IRS were at
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the super gigante farmer's market conducting a federal court-authorized search.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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As of yesterday, ICE began raids in bodegas in my hometown, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
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By the way, we had the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security on here yesterday.
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Obviously, this isn't something that's run from the top down like that.
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And apparently, this left-wing organization and this left-wing absolute just nut job.
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About, again, my hometown ICE raid, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
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I've been waiting for this for 20 years, personally.
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There's an outpouring of support at Project Libertad.
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Which is, by the way, they call it Libertad, not Libertad.
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You know, we have volunteers and community members.
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No, you're aiding and embedding an illegal invasion of the United States of America.
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And probably, if you're aiding and embedding this, you should be arrested along with them.
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Justice is finally being done for the people who were run out of their homes and the people who lost their communities.
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Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.
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By the way, we understand that the press conference is still going on.
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I wanted to also put some information out regarding that.
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And I want to, we're going to work on that very quickly.
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But until then, I want to bring on Richard Barris,
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Because, Rich, you've been outspoken regarding the handling of a number of these issues
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And, you know, something that I've been reading and I've seen a lot of people point this out
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And the brocasters, your Shane Gillis's, like last night at the ESPYs, making fun of Epstein.
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Shane Gillis also recently said on his podcast that the reason that Trump won't release the Epstein files,
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in his view, is that Trump is in the Epstein files.
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And then Theo Vaughn said, you know, you know, basically re-upped the clip of J.D. Vance from 2024,
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back in October, their own interview saying, what changed?
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And you've also seen Andrew Schultz, someone who wasn't really on the Trump train,
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but at least one of these brocasters who has a massive audience,
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saying that not only does he not support Trump anymore, he regrets it.
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These brocaster types, does it make sense, does it make sense that we should view them,
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are they part of the liberal establishment, or should we view them as sort of a proxy
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for those low-prop independent votes that you and I were talking about so much last year,
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specifically in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan?
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By the way, Shane Gillis, he's from the exact same place in Pennsylvania that I'm from,
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or at least he came up in the Philadelphia area.
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So, Mike, I think we know a little bit about these guys because we're, like, from there.
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Well, and thanks as always for having me on, Jack,
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but I would point out that they're not alone, right?
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So they're, you know, people that may not traditionally be seen as MAGA,
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but certainly there were a lot of OG MAGA types who also had their own questions.
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And there's a reason why these people do appeal to certain segments and certain audiences.
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So to pretend like they don't mean anything is, of course, just foolish.
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I mean, the podcaster crossover between MAGA and certain liberals that even supported Trump
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and independents, and going all the way down to Joe Rogan, right?
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They, without a doubt, beat out the legacy media establishment in the narrative war with the 2024 election.
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So to now just dismiss the, oh, and by the way, one of them, who is a mutual friend of ours,
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probably did more to get out the vote in a certain battleground state,
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and a couple, but one particularly, than the RNC has ever done.
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He had to take his own organization and turn it into a get out the vote effort
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because the RNC is absolutely incompetent in doing that,
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targeting low propensity voters and getting them out.
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Of course, Jack, I mean, you know the answer to that question.
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There is a reason why these disconnected and disaffected voters turn to alternative sources of information
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and alternative sources of news outside of the legacy media establishment,
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and it's because that's what fits their profile.
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They deeply distrust the political process, the halls of power in general.
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And they are the voters that Republicans need to turn electorates into something different,
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especially now that they have the low propensity vote.
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And that's something that somebody, everybody, everybody is missing.
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Look what happened in 18 before the redistricting of the map for all of those people
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who are passing around their cute little RCP before and after averages with the last couple of cycles.
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18 was a completely different congressional map, Jack.
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And now we have 22 and we have 24 we can look at.
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They already ran behind Donald Trump among these voters,
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and they have a very difficult time getting them out without him on the ballot.
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It was their core and sole priority to bring these voters permanently into the fold.
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And that is the cause for concern that some people like myself and others are trying to alert people of now.
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So when you're talking about this, no, wait a minute, because I just saw CNN and CNN says Trump's numbers are way up with GOP.
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So how can they be up with GOP if they're down with independents?
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First of all, I mean, if you're a Trump supporter and you are now reducing yourself to citing a Quinnipiac or CNN poll
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and a segment by Harry Enten, you might have lost objectivity.
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The pollsters who actually got the election correctly and have been getting elections correctly,
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it's not a one-off, have been getting elections correctly, all see the same thing.
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First of all, it's not true that Trump is going up.
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Show me this strongly for a somewhat disapprove rating versus approve among those different partisan identifying groups.
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And the reason why they're not showing that is because we can show you what ours also tell us,
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which is that strong disapproval has fallen from 68% to 53%.
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Some of them have moved into somewhat approved, but the idea that a one- or two-point increase is something to jump up and down for joy about is laughable.
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It's a statistically insignificant difference from their last poll.
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If they would have showed you the difference between strongly and somewhat approve,
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I can guarantee you that a huge chunk from strongly approved shifted over to somewhat.
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And some of that somewhat shifted over to somewhat disapprove.
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All right, and the second problem with that analysis is that it's not just about partisan identifying Republicans.
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That's what made him different than other Republican candidates.
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The two things are not mutually exclusive and equal.
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MAGA is Republican, of course, and it's majority Republican, but it also includes a segment of the independent votes,
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specifically one that says that they have not, when we ask them, do you have more in common with the Republicans, Democrats?
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We've been over this on your show a million times, Jack.
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They're the ones who say that I have little in common with either party.
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I mean, if you're jumping up and down for joy because his Republican approval rating went up 1.2 points without considering all of that,
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while his independent number is negative 20, then again, you might have lost objectivity or you may be coping.
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You can celebrate the achievements the president made and recognize the mishandling of certain things.
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If you have any criticism whatsoever, you know, people want to try to, like, you know, browbeat you.
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And then we watch that, you know, we watch that devolve into things that ultimately did harm his presidency.
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And that's why so many of his voters now are upset.
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And it's not that their support for him is in question.
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It's that they legitimately want to see him succeed.
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So they're worried about any repeat of what they had seen in the past.
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I'm going to hold you over, and we've got this clip from Caroline Levitt.
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All right, folks, this is a clip that just played recently.
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Caroline Levitt there in the press briefing of the White House gets asked a question about
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No, I called on Charlie, but Deanna, you can go ahead too.
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The president said that he floated the idea of a special prosecutor in the Epstein case.
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And has he asked the attorney general to do this, to appoint a special prosecutor, to look
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Well, the idea was floated from someone in the media to the president.
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The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case.
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And as for his discussions with the attorney general, I'm not sure.
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There was a report yesterday that President Trump was considering this, but there's the
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Richard, I know that, you know, you and I were on air when this happened.
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I just think, you know, then the clip from John Solomon's show, you know, just the news
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yesterday did get a lot of supporters excited that there would be a special prosecutor.
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And so this is, again, the problem is the mixed message that's coming.
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I think he should have just come out from the jump and said, look, Democrats had these
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And you know how I personally feel about this, Jack.
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I think it was really naive to believe that the Comeys and, you know, the Obama administration
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people, the Biden administration people would ever have left the integrity of these files
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So that if it would have been done and over with, if from the beginning, the administration
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and the president would have just simply taken the stance, look, guys, these are the same
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scumbags who did me dirty with the Russia collusion hoax.
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I'm going to need some time to make sure that we don't run any people through the mud unnecessarily
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You know, we'll see what we can do with it, but we're still looking at it.
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And I'm telling you, we could have rode that to the end of his term and it wouldn't have
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Uh, but it became a big deal because of how it was handled and it's a proxy.
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I mean, this is what I think a lot of people aren't understanding.
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If we poll people and we ask them, what's your most important issue?
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Few people are going to tell us, Jack, that, you know, the Epstein files are their number
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You know, they always say things like the economy and inflation and immigration, but in the
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2024 election, unaccountability in government was a huge, huge issue.
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And we would see it and manifest in phrases like threats to democracy, right?
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And that's why he actually beat Kamala Harris after all of the talk about January 6th.
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He actually beat Kamala Harris among voters who said that threats to democracy was the
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number one issue because the psyche of what it meant to them had changed, right?
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And Republican or right-wing threats to democracy.
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It meant this ruling class, abusing power, getting away with things, weaponizing the
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Justice Department, you know, crippling government with corruption.
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And I just don't think that people fully appreciated that.
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So that being said, here we are now, the, just your, your immediate response, not necessarily
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from a polling perspective, but I guess just from, you know, a comms perspective or a PR
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perspective, you know, the story, as you say, you know, people were very excited about this
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John Solomon report yesterday that just the news and now to hear, and the president certainly
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seemed like he was open to it in that interview, but then he, he denied it later in an event at
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the white house and now you hear this unequivocal, um, you know, basically just shut down from
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Do you think this is the kind of thing that's going to make this story go away or is this
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Uh, no, I mean, I don't think it's going to go away.
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I think it's going to be a problem and I get the president's frustration.
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He's thinking from the perspective, Jack, look at how much I've done.
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And, you know, I, I, we got the big, beautiful bill through we, and I know that people were
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mocking him, but actually the, the cane sugar and Coca-Cola is that's a huge win politically.
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So I get his frustration because he has so many accomplishments under his belt, but that
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If you want people to celebrate those accomplishments, then you can't do things on, you know, that
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And that's been going on for a number of weeks in our numbers.
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It's not just, you know, the Epstein files are not alone here.
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This is like a culmination of, you know, the last month of, uh, people starting to question
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things and starting to, you know, have, have some, have some problems.
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Uh, and I don't think they got the time to get the, the win, the honeymoon, the celebration
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from when the big, beautiful bill, you know, got passed into now another issue.
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I mean, it's, this started with Iran, 18 to 20 year old support for Donald Trump collapsed
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And with all we were talking about his approval rating before, it's interesting because we
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It matters beyond just the headline spin in the narrative.
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The only reason that his approval rating did not fall more in our polling and in others
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is because it's being that decline and a decline among Hispanic men and other groups that were
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core Trump groups that he brought into the fold.
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That was offset by educated voters who are voting for by double digits for Democrats in the,
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So we have actually seen this happen before when he made the decision in the early days
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of the lockdowns to listen to, you know, the advice of advisors like Debbie and Fauci, right?
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His approval rating with these, uh, voters, they increased when he did launch attacks on
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alleged chemical sites in Syria, we saw those voters also increase, but his core vote doesn't
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like it and decline. And I'm going to throw up some, I'm going to throw up this poll that we
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have from democracy Institute regarding, uh, voters agree or disagree on the release of the
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Epstein list. And I know you've seen similar numbers to this and it really gets into those
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Trump 2024 voters, 67% disagree Harris 2024 voters, 58% disagree. This is the big one.
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I think new voters, 2024, 72% disagree, 26% agree. And those are your new voters. Then independence,
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a little bit smaller there, but it's still at 60%, uh, disagree with this. Those new voters and
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working class voters at 72%. I mean, that that's what you're going to need to get. And by the way,
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by the way, there are plenty of ways to get these voters on, on side, by the way, but this is
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definitely something that just, it's going to pile up in terms of the disagreement out there
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among working class voters, independent voters. There are ways to get them back, but browbeating
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is not one of them. And that's the, this has to be recognized and addressed. Voters don't like to
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be lectured. They don't like to be talked down to, and they don't like to be insulted. That is the
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magic of the Trump candidacy turned into presidency. No matter what he did, he, you know, media would
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always say, Oh, he lied about this. And voters would not take them literally. And they would say,
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you know what? Maybe he didn't use the right choice of words, but he wasn't BSing us. Right.
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He wasn't, he wasn't insulting our intelligence and he certainly wasn't attacking us. I mean,
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that's the line. Some of his surrogates are now walking up to. That's the real danger. And they
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have to run back Jack, because there are ways to get it to get it back. Remember they are the low
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locals.peoplespundit.com. Locals.peoplespundit.com. We're right back, Jack.
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And Jack, where is Jack? Where is Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you.
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Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always
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talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who'd be getting
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policies. To every politician and bureaucrat who thought they could bully moms and dads into
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submission to the detriment of their children, you picked the wrong fight. Yeah, that's right.
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Parents don't surrender their rights at the school doors. They don't answer to school boards
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and they certainly don't take marching orders from a weaponized Department of Justice.
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President Trump has stood with these parents from day one and we stand with him and I stand with these
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parents. All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back live, Human Events Daily. Just saw that incredible
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press conference there with Congressman Andy Biggs, Washington, D.C. That was yesterday,
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but we've got the great Sam Sorbo now joining us. She was there at the press conference. Sam,
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how are you? Really good. It was such a great day yesterday. Unbelievable. It was hot,
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but you can't tell that on the camera. And we had Andy Biggs there instead of Andy Ogles,
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who sponsored the conference but was unable to get there because of plane trouble. Andy Biggs filled in
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and he did such a fantastic job. And then, of course, Kelly Walker, my partner spoke and we had
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several parents who have been beaten down by their own governments, which is what this is all about.
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It's Parents Demanding Justice Alliance. And we're asking for an executive order from the commander
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in chief or the person I like to refer to as the president in chief, because we need to make
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parenting great again in this nation. Well, it's exactly that. So walk us through the themes of
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the conference, the themes that we're getting out at the press conference that was held yesterday,
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and also how this ties to the recent Supreme Court hearing that just came down a couple of weeks ago
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regarding parental rights. Well, okay. So the Supreme Court hearing, I think you're referring to the one
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that's a few days ago, where they said that he was, that Donald Trump was justified in firing
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around 1,400 DOE employees. Now, the Department of Education doesn't really have very much to do
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with the actual education of children. If you want to compare that and the challenge that was posed
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that rose to the level of the Supreme Court with the Chicago public schools, who spent too much money
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on illegals and thus had to fire 1,400 teachers, including special ed teachers, just the other day,
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I think that that comparison is, is pretty stark. But what we're arguing is that because of Merrick
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Garland and this letter that classified parents as domestic terrorists that went out during COVID,
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and Merrick Garland then called on the FBI to treat these parents as if they were domestic terrorists,
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that, that resulted in a catastrophic series of events for several of these parents who all they
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were doing was trying to look out for their children, trying to question some of the woke
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agenda that we have in our schools today, or some of the COVID mask policies that were instituted in
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their schools that were actually adversely affecting and, and in some cases, really harming children.
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We have one parent whose child was forced to wear a mask when he took the mask off and threw it in the
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trash in the nurse's office. They made him fish it out of the trash and put that mask back on his face.
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So these things, and by the way, then the parents were then targeted by their communities, by their
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school boards who called for their firing, called for their businesses to be shut down. And, and so many
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of these parents have been almost irreparably harmed. They need some sort of restitution. But bigger than
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that, Jack, you know, this, this set a precedent in our schools to consider parents, um, expendable
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and expose, disposable in terms of the, the education of their children. And that's absolutely not true.
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Uh, parents are the number one indicator. Parental involvement is the number one indicator of, of
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academic success for their kids. And so we need parents more involved, not less involved. Schools that
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try to eliminate parents or sideline parents in the, uh, conversation about their children's education.
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Those places are actually seeking the destruction of those children. That is not what we do in the
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United States. And I know that we're 40th in the world of 40 developed nations for education. The
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easiest way to start turning this around is to put parents back inside the schools, inside the classrooms,
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inside the conversation about the education of their children. I couldn't agree more. And, uh, over here
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in, uh, we also saw there was that Mahmood case that came down sort of the end of June regarding the
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LGBTQ themed books and religious freedom concerns, because there was this group of parents in Montgomery
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County, Pennsylvania, or excuse me, Montgomery County, Maryland. I'm from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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So that's why I think about it. It's right outside of Philly. And, uh, you're, you're a Pennsylvania
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person too. Am I right? Am I right? Or am I wrong about that? Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. There you go.
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See, I knew it. I can always tell. I can always tell. Um, but this is Montgomery County, Maryland,
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and this is right outside of DC where even those parents, by the way, this is, this is like the liberal
00:29:27.520
DC bubble. They were objecting because this LGBTQ, uh, information was going to their kids,
00:29:35.520
was going in at such a level. They didn't want it in there. Took it all the way to the Supreme
00:29:38.720
course, by the way, Mahmood. Yeah. As you can imagine, these were not, uh, these were not
00:29:43.440
Christian families. Many of them, by the way, Muslim, uh, so you had Muslim and Christian families
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saying, we don't want this. We're going to take this all the way up. We're going to fight it.
00:29:51.440
And they got it overturned. And the Supreme court actually did rule that parents' religious freedoms
00:29:57.680
were burdened by the school district's policy of requiring students to engage with those books,
00:30:03.200
issued that preliminary injunction, meaning parents can opt the kids out of those lessons. And this
00:30:10.240
was a six to three decision. There's going to be obviously other cases involving this, but huge,
00:30:15.760
huge win for not just parental rights, but also for religious freedoms and the intersection of those
00:30:22.880
with the public education space. Yeah. I mean, I, I wish I could see it as,
00:30:28.160
as big a win as many are trying to categorize it. In fact, what it says is that they have the right
00:30:34.000
to opt their children out, but that that pedagogy, that, uh, gay and transgender pedagogy will in fact
00:30:40.800
be taught in the schools, which then codifies it as something that is valuable, even though it's rife
00:30:47.280
with lies. Uh, and so even though these parents can opt their children out, then what? In fact,
00:30:52.960
I wrote an op-ed about this. Then what? So those children then become ostracized. They don't have
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the information that the other children has, have whatever kind of information about gay sex or
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whatever you want to call it. Right? And so those children then are integrated back into the classroom.
00:31:09.680
And what? Are we going to allow the children who saw the material to then demonstrate the material
00:31:14.800
for the children who were opted out? I mean, for the parents who send their children to this school
00:31:20.560
for education, to be forced to opt out of something that is so not educational is a travesty. And I
00:31:28.720
find it very sad. We ought to get back to teaching truth in our schools. And, um, that includes traditional
00:31:34.960
values. I'm sorry to say, uh, because those are time, time tested. Well, no, I think that's a great
00:31:42.640
point. And you're right. Uh, this, this obviously isn't something that's going to be solved just by
00:31:47.840
the parents continuing to be involved. So, and this is, well, you know, I've had you on about this as
00:31:51.680
well. So it's kind of a layup question, but so let's say you are a parent out there and you're very
00:31:56.800
concerned about your kids being involved with this. Also, you're just concerned with society in general
00:32:01.760
and how we're raising the next generation. What options are there for you to take proactive steps
00:32:08.720
so that your kid isn't, you know, they're not even entering into this cycle?
00:32:12.800
Well, of course, if you don't want them to enter into the cycle, then you don't enroll them in
00:32:18.080
school. Of course, I'm a home educator. So I advocate for children to be home with their parents.
00:32:23.520
And by the way, home is a generalized term. I don't mean the children should stay inside the
00:32:27.920
house at all times with their parents. That's not how that works. Um, uh, as a home educator,
00:32:33.280
what I've discovered is that education is a lot more organic than we are led to believe
00:32:38.160
by the people who make money, uh, running our schools, right? So we have been taught
00:32:42.560
that school is education where, um, actually that's not the case. Education happens a lot
00:32:47.600
more organically. And in fact, school, uh, sometimes is actually an impediment to education.
00:32:52.880
So, uh, the easiest thing is to not enroll your children, but then, you know, barring that get
00:32:58.640
involved, run for school board, be on the school board. I actually have an initiative that I'm trying
00:33:03.440
to put through for, uh, school boards to be made up entirely of parents of children in the,
00:33:09.680
that school and all school boards to be local to every school because it, it, it ought to be
00:33:15.600
more locally managed. It should not be federally managed. And that's what Trump is thankfully
00:33:21.120
trying to do is to disengage the federal management of education. And, um, it should barely be state managed.
00:33:30.000
It's, it's as simple as that. By the way, I do want to play this clip
00:33:33.360
from Loudoun County because we really do have to remember how bad the, these things got. This was
00:33:43.840
...is wrong, too. You are how you are. You cannot change that.
00:34:27.020
So, so there you go. I mean, that's just four years ago. And you know, Sam,
00:34:56.300
let's look at it from, from that perspective as well. This is how bad it's gotten because we've
00:35:00.880
completely abrogated in this country, here, parental rights to the rights of the government
00:35:06.320
in so many of these situations. And there you go, where this was a member, and for folks that
00:35:10.860
remember the, the story, Loudoun County, Virginia, this was a man whose daughter was sexually assaulted
00:35:17.880
in her high school bathroom by a transgender student who had been passed from another school
00:35:24.080
where apparently he had had another incident and he was trying to speak. The school board told him
00:35:30.000
not to, and then he was forcefully arrested. Right. So this, I mean, this has been going on
00:35:36.600
longer than we care to consider, frankly, but moving forward, let's not just let bygones be
00:35:42.700
bygones. The parents that Parents Demanding Justice Alliance represents are people just like you and
00:35:49.480
me, parents of school children who have been injured by their government. That is the thing
00:35:54.980
that we have to start with. And turning, turning that around is, to me, the most important thing.
00:36:00.940
As a, as a home education advocate, I know that the parental input is the most important thing in a
00:36:07.000
child's education, in a child's upbringing. And the first step to turning this around to uplifting
00:36:11.820
parents is to acknowledge that the government mistreated their parents and to lift them back up again
00:36:17.860
and encourage parenting and families. And let's get back to the, the, the America that we used to
00:36:24.200
have, that really the, the family was the foundation of our society. That's what we need to return to.
00:36:29.780
And the best way, and by the way, that is the best case for, for the children as well. So if we just
00:36:36.740
take that on its face, it's, it's an easy layup for the president to take care of this. And it's a great
00:36:43.000
start to making amends and going forward, uh, in strength.
00:36:49.380
How, how do you view, um, the Department of Education's moves when it comes to this under a
00:36:56.240
You know, you, you broke up a little bit. The, the Department of Education's views on what?
00:37:01.560
Oh, no. How do, how do you view the moves that they have been making?
00:37:06.480
Just the moves so far? Well, yeah. I mean, they're very positive. Certainly getting rid of some of the,
00:37:10.900
the Department employees. And I'm sure these people are very qualified and won't have any
00:37:15.460
trouble finding work elsewhere. But honestly, the Department of Education really doesn't have
00:37:20.340
anything to do with the specific education of children. And if it did, the, the entire
00:37:25.620
department should be fired immediately because we dropped to 40th among 40. So, uh, this is a good
00:37:31.220
start and they have a long way to go, but they are making progress. Um, the funding is not drying up.
00:37:37.780
The funding is simply being sourced to other avenues where it's already taking place. So,
00:37:43.700
uh, really we're just sort of cutting off some of the chaff and there's a lot more to go.
00:37:50.740
I think there is a lot more to go. And I, I do agree with President Trump that when he says though,
00:37:55.460
that he hopes that Linda McMahon will be the last secretary of education and wouldn't that be
00:38:01.220
something, but you know, we're, here we are looking at a situation where this, this isn't some
00:38:05.380
old longstanding tradition. It's not like the, you know, department of state or something,
00:38:10.260
or the department of defense, AKA the department of war, the department of education has only been
00:38:15.140
around since the Carter administration. And this idea that, uh, you know, it's, it's some longstanding
00:38:20.100
traditional form of, and it's gone downhill. It's completely gone downhill. And, and it was under
00:38:26.740
Obama that they put all of the student loans under there. That's where the student loan crisis came
00:38:31.780
from, which is something, by the way, I, I am, uh, I am sympathetic to, because I think a lot of
00:38:37.380
these students, what happened with them was they got absolutely taken advantage of and parents,
00:38:42.660
this is more at the college level, but parents didn't understand exactly how bad it was going
00:38:47.940
in for those kids. So Sam Sorbo, we're gonna, we've got a quick break coming up. When we come back,
00:38:53.780
I believe we'll be joined by a very special guest debuting here on human events daily. Stay tuned,
00:39:12.180
Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it.
00:39:17.540
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:39:21.620
And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to you. Amen.
00:39:29.380
All right, Jack Posobiec. Here we are back. Human events daily live in Washington, D.C.
00:39:36.820
And I told you that we were coming back with a bit of a special guest. And this is a treat. You know,
00:39:44.020
uh, we, we, we, we, we love doing the family stuff here on the show. You guys see, uh, I think I bring
00:39:50.020
on like every single member of my family on human events, but I don't always bring on the family members
00:39:55.700
of my guests until now, because folks, we've got Sam Sorbo and Brayden Sorbo, who is out with a new
00:40:04.900
book called Embrace Masculinity. What's up, Sam? What's up, Brayden?
00:40:11.300
It's good to be here together. You know, we, we live in West Palm and so it's easy to come in at the
00:40:15.300
same time, which always makes it easy. I'm basically her chauffeur at this point.
00:40:20.660
Now, now which one manages which? That's what I'm trying to figure out. Who's the manager? Is this
00:40:24.740
like a Taylor Swift kind of situation? If only what? I'm the manager. I'm the monitor. There we go.
00:40:32.900
Got it. Got it. Right. So you guys are in, you guys are in our palatial,
00:40:36.660
Rob Sig's palatial West Palm studio and I'm schlepping it up here in D.C. I got it.
00:40:41.700
I just flew back from D.C. I think humidity is just about as bad here now.
00:40:45.220
Yeah. I actually thought you were going to be in D.C. when they, uh, when they, when they
00:40:49.060
mentioned earlier, but you know, this, this, this is great. So Brayden, we haven't aired it yet.
00:40:54.660
It's going to come out later, but you and I did a long form interview all about your book
00:41:03.060
that is going to drop, I believe later tonight on the human events, daily podcast side and our social
00:41:09.140
media side where we go way down and deep into all of this embrace masculinity. But, but before I ask
00:41:16.660
you about that, Sam, I got to ask you, have you read the book yet? And what do you think about what
00:41:22.820
Brayden says? Well, of course I've read the book and I taught him everything that he knows. So
00:41:28.660
my mom is my beta reader for all my stuff. She's the beta reader for every single book,
00:41:36.020
everything I've done. Yeah. And I'm proud of him. It is his second book. And, uh, I just, uh,
00:41:41.540
he's done such a great job and he's become such a fine, upstanding young man. And honestly,
00:41:46.500
you're putting me on the spot because I'm really not allowed to criticize him in this capacity here.
00:41:51.060
I am her ride home after all. Mom's a little critical about some of the stuff. Wait, wait,
00:41:58.660
is there, are there other parts where you disagree? Oh, now I'm interested. Well, she's, she's very
00:42:04.100
critical, which is one of my favorite traits about her is because at least I know whenever she's saying
00:42:07.780
something that it's completely honest. And so the whole purpose is to make what I'm doing as good as
00:42:12.180
it possibly can be, which is why I think the book has been so well received from everyone who's read it
00:42:21.060
No, that's great. That's great. No, I've, I had some good ones. You know, when I, when I did, uh,
00:42:25.140
when my mom read over my stuff, she's, it doesn't make any sense. Fix this paper. She just, you know,
00:42:30.180
like redlining different stuff and fix this up. But so walk us through what, what's the core of the
00:42:34.820
book? What's the theme? Uh, why put this book out right now? Well, the core of the book is to uplift
00:42:42.260
specifically men, but, but everyone living in the West today, struggling with the decline of morality that we
00:42:48.420
see in our society. And so I really wanted something that could serve as a guide, as a
00:42:52.900
handbook, as a tool for young people specifically from the perspective of another young person. We
00:42:58.020
have wonderful people in the conservative movement and in the Christian sphere that are doing great
00:43:01.940
things, but we don't have very many Gen Z people like myself. And so I felt the calling, the need to
00:43:08.340
kind of step up and try to take that mantle to be that voice for the young people, which is the entire
00:43:13.060
premise behind the book. It's, it's a message of being able to relate and to, to say to these people,
00:43:18.500
look, I get what you're going through. I've been there. Here's how we can climb out of it together
00:43:22.420
to save this country. Also, it's pointing for, uh, for young women to, uh, understand what masculinity
00:43:29.140
is and why they should be pursuing a masculine male instead of a, what I like to call a lie down guy,
00:43:35.940
instead of a standup guy, uh, because they're being led astray. A lot of women today,
00:43:41.060
young women who are in school are being taught a pack of lies. And, uh, and it's very sad to me
00:43:46.580
because they are squandering, uh, some of their most valuable time, uh, on, on not great guys on
00:43:54.500
young men who are not standup guys. And so that's also what this book is about. It's, it's a, it's a,
00:44:00.900
it's a map, a checklist. No, I, I think that's great. You know, I, uh, uh, look, when I was in my
00:44:10.100
twenties, you know, I was, uh, I was going off, I was definitely, I was doing the military. I was
00:44:13.940
trying to travel. I was trying to do all sorts of different things. I was definitely not thinking
00:44:17.700
about ways that I could be a better man. I was just sort of going out and trying to enjoy life
00:44:23.220
and do it, do everything that I possibly could and go, uh, you know, try and sample everything
00:44:28.100
the world had to offer. But it's really something where I think I see this a lot more now with Gen Z
00:44:33.540
that, uh, there's a general sense. And I would just have a minute left and people can get more
00:44:38.500
into the podcast when it comes out later tonight to make sure you're subscribed human events daily.
00:44:42.900
But there's this general sense that something's gone wrong with the world externally. And the
00:44:47.540
problem isn't that external issue that that's actually a symptom of the internal problems that
00:44:53.460
we're all facing. Does that make sense? Well, Brayden, Brayden had a career as a public speaker
00:44:58.980
before he even started this. And one of the phrases that he used to say, do you want to quote it?
00:45:03.620
Hard times make soft men. Oh, it is the, yes, it is the weak men create hard times. Hard times
00:45:09.380
create strong men. Strong men create good times and good times create weak men. And we are right now at
00:45:13.620
the pinnacle of the weak men who are creating the hard times. And so I like to say that, unfortunately,
00:45:18.340
if we don't turn this ship around, then America, as we knew it, the American dream, which I was sold
00:45:22.900
growing up as a kid will no longer exist. And so we have to take this fight. We have to pick up
00:45:28.180
the reins to save that American dream for the next generation, because I may not have
00:45:32.820
all of the benefits that the previous generations were given, were gifted,
00:45:36.900
but I can certainly try to bring them back for the following generations.
00:45:42.500
It's as simple as that. Tell people, again, the name of the book and where they can go get it.
00:45:48.020
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00:45:52.340
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00:45:58.180
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00:46:03.860
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00:46:11.380
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00:46:15.380
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