Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 12, 2024


IG Report Found FBI had 26 Undercover Assets at Jan 6


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50 minutes

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169.7659

Word Count

8,533

Sentence Count

656

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The election is over and Donald Trump has won in a historic landslide. Joe Biden is using his presidential clemency power just weeks before the end of his term. The dollar hits a new low against the dollar, and inflation is hitting a new all-time low. President-elect Donald Trump is taking office and could be the next president of the United States.


Transcript

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00:01:35.620 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:01:46.540 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:01:49.840 Christ is king.
00:01:50.920 After weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to
00:01:56.680 serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down.
00:02:02.160 Smoke rises from the charred tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez.
00:02:08.040 Rebels torched the mausoleum in the Assad family's hometown of Qardaha in northwestern Syria.
00:02:14.180 Rebel fighters held up their three-starred flag as they stood atop the destroyed monument.
00:02:19.200 We've kind of hit a wall when it comes to the inflation progress because this wasn't just
00:02:23.760 a one-month time where we saw this tick back up.
00:02:26.920 We saw this happen last month as well.
00:02:29.400 So now we're kind of in trend territory.
00:02:31.200 We are getting further away from that 2% target that the Fed has.
00:02:35.560 So basically, we're going in the wrong direction.
00:02:37.560 And it's really driven by necessities, shelter, food prices, kind of the things that you need
00:02:43.160 to buy, not that are nice to buy.
00:02:44.680 You can't say, well, I'm just going to get food next month.
00:02:46.740 Joe Biden is using his presidential clemency power just weeks before the end of his term.
00:02:51.180 Today, Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison
00:02:56.420 and placed on home confinement during the pandemic.
00:02:59.020 He also pardoned 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
00:03:03.300 The White House says it's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
00:03:07.580 I have to say, Time Magazine getting this honor for the second time, I think I like it better
00:03:14.400 this time, actually.
00:03:15.980 But I do want to thank Time Magazine.
00:03:18.300 I've been on the cover many times.
00:03:19.680 I don't know who has the record, but I can only probably talk well about 25% of the covers.
00:03:25.200 25% are great.
00:03:26.420 The others I just sort of hide.
00:03:27.940 But it's been an honor, and every time it's an honor, I will tell you.
00:03:31.800 And thank you very much.
00:03:32.820 What's up, guys?
00:03:35.040 It's 948.
00:03:36.220 Shouldn't you be making money?
00:03:39.660 An historic moment at the New York Stock Exchange as we get this opening bell rung by the president-elect,
00:03:47.460 Donald Trump.
00:03:48.020 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board.
00:03:57.360 Today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:59.820 Today is December 12th, 2024.
00:04:02.700 Anno Domini.
00:04:03.800 The IG report, the Department of Justice, has just been released.
00:04:09.620 And about one hour ago, we learned, as many of us suspected, that there were as many as
00:04:17.400 26 confidential human sources, that is to say, undercover assets, embedded within the
00:04:25.860 crowd on January 6th.
00:04:28.640 Now, you'll remember that Chris Wray, Chris Wray, in a huge altercation with Congress last
00:04:40.160 year, was up there saying that he didn't want to say how many informants there were.
00:04:47.000 He didn't want to give a number.
00:04:48.540 I have to be really careful here about talking about whether where we have or have not used
00:04:54.100 confidential human sources.
00:04:56.540 That's the FBI's term for undercover assets.
00:04:59.420 So the undercover assets that the FBI did have in the crowd was as many as 26.
00:05:05.620 Over two dozen of them were there as a matter of fact.
00:05:11.100 And that's beyond and doesn't include, by the way, the number of potential assets that
00:05:16.840 members of the different organizations and groups that were present on January 6th may
00:05:21.120 have been talking to.
00:05:22.660 We're not talking about text messages.
00:05:24.700 We're not talking about their handlers.
00:05:26.680 I'm not even including any of that.
00:05:27.920 I'm just talking about the fact that these this is the amount of people that were there
00:05:33.580 present on the crowd.
00:05:35.700 Of course, when you include the handlers, that's going to be more.
00:05:39.700 And oh, by the way.
00:05:40.520 So you go to Politico right now and they're saying, oh, this undercuts the conspiracy theories
00:05:45.100 because no FBI agents were in the crowd.
00:05:48.500 That's not how undercover informants work.
00:05:51.400 The agent doesn't go themselves.
00:05:53.860 The agent tells the asset to do it.
00:05:56.860 That's why you have assets in the first place.
00:05:59.900 The asset is being run by an agent.
00:06:03.360 What do you think?
00:06:03.680 They're just doing this for fun.
00:06:05.440 You think they're just doing this all by themselves.
00:06:07.540 No, of course not.
00:06:09.420 They're doing it so that they can build cases against patriots.
00:06:14.060 And oh, look, that's exactly what they did.
00:06:17.100 This is why President Trump has said again and again that he wants to pardon the Jan Sixers
00:06:22.620 and that the pardon process will begin on day one.
00:06:26.800 An hour one of day one on January 20th.
00:06:30.060 The pardon process for the Jan Sixers will begin.
00:06:32.700 And now the report is out.
00:06:34.860 Chris Ray, why'd you leave your post so early?
00:06:37.900 So Chris Ray, think about this.
00:06:39.720 Chris Ray resigned just one day before the IG report was revealed.
00:06:46.700 Think about that.
00:06:47.580 I want you to just simmer on that for a little bit.
00:06:50.580 And we're going to talk with Richard Barris and a few other guests that we have coming up next.
00:06:55.680 But oh, yes, Chris Ray trying to run, run, run as fast as he can.
00:07:02.100 But we are going to catch you, Chris.
00:07:03.800 And I think we just did.
00:07:05.700 Human Events Daily will be right back.
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00:08:46.400 So, as we go through the IG report, it's entirely and importantly very clear to us.
00:08:55.280 It's so clear to us what's going on here.
00:08:57.020 Look, Kash Patel has already begun cleaning up the FBI.
00:09:02.360 President Trump has already begun cleaning up Washington, D.C.
00:09:08.120 Why?
00:09:08.960 Because the snakes are draining themselves.
00:09:12.860 The snakes are slithering out of the swamp as fast as they can because they know that Kash Patel is going to get there.
00:09:19.960 President Trump is going to arrive.
00:09:21.640 Look, Chris Wray, just go back.
00:09:23.440 Just go back and look at the pieces of this.
00:09:25.460 He said that he couldn't be sure how many FBI informants were there on January 6th.
00:09:32.940 He said, you know, I don't even know if we had any there.
00:09:35.580 Well, actually, you had 26.
00:09:37.220 You had 26 of them, Chris.
00:09:39.620 26.
00:09:40.700 And now the media, by the way, Politico, CNN, they are trying so hard.
00:09:46.720 They are trying so hard to get this out there.
00:09:50.480 Why?
00:09:50.880 Because they're going to try to cover this narrative up as much as they possibly can.
00:09:55.900 So go look up.
00:09:57.100 Go, you know, go to, you know, any news search app or whatever you want and go look up FBI informants.
00:10:03.100 Go look up FBI Jan 6th.
00:10:05.720 And let's see.
00:10:07.080 Let's see.
00:10:08.800 ABC.
00:10:09.160 Probe finds no evidence.
00:10:11.320 Feds were involved in inciting January 6th.
00:10:14.180 NBC.
00:10:14.920 FBI missed basic step when gathering intel in the lead up to Jan 6th.
00:10:19.260 CNN.
00:10:19.960 No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot.
00:10:24.640 Politico.
00:10:25.520 FBI didn't deploy undercover agents undercutting conspiracy theories.
00:10:30.580 The Hill has the exact same.
00:10:33.120 And yet, oh, I'm going to give them credit.
00:10:35.300 I'm going to give them credit for this.
00:10:36.720 USA Today, USA Today actually comes out and says, listen to this, listen to this.
00:10:43.500 Four FBI sources entered the Capitol on January 6th without authorization.
00:10:50.600 Hold on.
00:10:51.300 Wait.
00:10:51.920 What's this?
00:10:53.080 USA.
00:10:53.920 I'm telling you the worm has turned in so many ways since the Trump election.
00:10:56.960 And this really is the Trump effect.
00:10:58.980 Four confidential sources entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,
00:11:02.660 although none were authorized to do so, according to a Justice Department inspector general.
00:11:07.820 Only one of those four was actually tasked by FBI field offices to report on any potential
00:11:12.780 terrorism that day.
00:11:14.320 The other three were in D.C. and went, quote, on their own initiative.
00:11:17.580 So even in the biggest CYA report of all CYA reports, they are coming out and saying, yes, the crowd was, in fact, filled with FBI supporters, FBI, excuse me, FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, as reported by Rep. Clay Higgins.
00:11:35.580 Higgins, and that you had these people going into the Capitol to some extent.
00:11:42.240 Rich Barris, the People's Pundit, joins us now.
00:11:44.900 Rich, I know the IG report has come out, but walk me through the implications here of the fact that January 6th and the central contention of this,
00:11:53.900 made by folks like the great Darren Beattie, the professor, we call him, and something that the media tried to make the entire election about,
00:12:02.120 is actually a complete lie, and the IG has just come out and said so.
00:12:07.680 Well, let me put this in a little bit of context with what I do.
00:12:11.840 In the first half of the recall, I would call it in the first half of the entire cycle of us polling,
00:12:19.440 what is essentially the rematch, right?
00:12:21.560 Trump versus Biden.
00:12:22.480 In the beginning of this entire sham, they had an advantage, they being Democrats, and especially Biden,
00:12:29.760 had an advantage on one issue pretty consistently outside of abortion,
00:12:33.620 which was protect against threats to democracy and stuff like that.
00:12:39.340 Over time, that evaporated, Jack.
00:12:42.320 And it's amazing, not that any of this surprises me, but what does surprise me and what I think is noteworthy
00:12:49.260 is that this time we didn't have to wait until after the election for Americans to understand that.
00:12:54.540 They already knew by a little bit after 2022 that something was really awry here and something was wrong.
00:13:02.800 And then fast forward into the primary season, and we began to ask people these questions again during all the hypothetical matchups.
00:13:09.500 It didn't matter if it was Biden, Harris, Newsom, whomever.
00:13:13.880 When we asked people who did they trust, the Democrats lost that advantage.
00:13:17.920 It was erased and then even reversed.
00:13:20.240 And now you can see it clear as day in the exit polls.
00:13:23.740 Trump actually won threats to democracy.
00:13:26.720 So they lost control of that narrative.
00:13:29.200 It then became about the weaponization of the Justice Department and also great skepticism over whether or not this J6 was overblown or even a setup, Jack.
00:13:40.300 Even a setup.
00:13:40.960 I mean, people were wise to this before the election.
00:13:46.100 And that's something, you know, with what I do, that is something we don't often see.
00:13:49.860 You find out later.
00:13:51.260 The Hunter Biden reports, we knew about them.
00:13:53.220 We didn't know it that bad.
00:13:54.780 Oh, and by the way, Hunter's laptop isn't propaganda, right?
00:13:58.260 We seem to find these things out there.
00:13:59.800 These revelations come out after the election.
00:14:02.520 Well, Americans didn't buy it this time.
00:14:04.500 And they cast their vote and made their decision, you know, beforehand, and they were ahead of the curve.
00:14:11.160 They were ahead of the news cycle.
00:14:14.080 Absolutely incredible.
00:14:16.180 Absolutely incredible how the IG report comes out confirming everything that President Trump and Trump supporters have said about January 6th.
00:14:26.460 And this report comes out one month after the election.
00:14:30.400 There's no possible way that this IG report could have come out before the election so that the American people would have had this information on the day they voted.
00:14:39.660 No, no, no.
00:14:40.600 No, we had to have that come out after the election.
00:14:44.060 And, of course, there's no additional information here as to the pipe bomber, the identity of the pipe bomber, or the fact that Kamala Harris herself was in the DNC that morning.
00:14:56.160 She herself never brought this up in any of the – I mean, she didn't give a lot of interviews during the campaign, but she never made a point of contention.
00:15:03.140 She never talked about the fact that she herself –
00:15:04.540 It didn't ask her.
00:15:05.520 By their own statement.
00:15:06.740 And even when they asked her about it, she would downplay it.
00:15:09.560 She would shift the conversation.
00:15:11.920 Rich, this thing stinks to high heaven.
00:15:14.380 They know they have a problem with this.
00:15:16.220 And don't tell me for a second that Chris Ray's resignation yesterday is not connected to this report.
00:15:22.140 And I have to bring this up.
00:15:25.480 So I read an article from Jonathan Turley on his own, you know, on his substack or whatever it is.
00:15:30.640 And he basically says, you know, that everyone who perpetrated this fraud or was in on this setup, which is basically entrapment, and then the abuse of their, you know, prosecution, you know, prosecutorial authority.
00:15:43.800 We should just kind of let them go, Jack, right?
00:15:46.140 And anyone who played this charade with the committee, everybody should just forget and, like, let bygones be bygones.
00:15:53.620 I mean, fair enough you don't want to escalate the weaponization of the justice system.
00:15:58.480 But what do we do with people who use something like this to put – I don't want to say innocent, but certainly they were overcharged.
00:16:08.120 You know, people in jail for large periods of their life.
00:16:12.360 I mean this is the problem, Jack.
00:16:13.360 And what did President Trump – by the way, in the huge article that just came out this morning, I really encourage everyone to go read this, the Time Magazine interview between President Trump and Time Mag, which accompanied his man of the year – we're saying man of the year around here, by the way.
00:16:27.840 He's a man of the year award from Time Magazine, and it clearly was the year of Trump.
00:16:31.740 There's just – there's no one else you could honestly give this to if you wanted to be accurate, that when he was asked about the Jan Sixers, he said there's going to be a review.
00:16:40.460 It's going to start on day one.
00:16:41.700 But what I want to know is how come no BLM or Antifa rioters saw themselves in jail after the events of Portland, after the events of Seattle, where people were murdered.
00:16:52.700 He said no one's ever going to jail for these things, and yet you've got Jan Sixers that have been languishing for years over walking through an open door, a door that we found out today may have actually been held open by an undercover FBI asset.
00:17:08.480 Jack, I mean that was very obvious to those of us who have been to the Capitol.
00:17:12.940 I mean this is not exactly a building a group of protesters could like storm and get through easily.
00:17:18.640 I mean there was always something awry there.
00:17:20.620 But, you know, when you ask people who always acted so outraged over J6, why – you know, make those comparisons to BLM and others.
00:17:28.780 They only said, well, this was the Capitol, right?
00:17:31.240 And I guess what it comes down to is your personal property, if you were a victim, if you were a small business owner in Minnesota, Portland, right, any of Seattle, any of these cities,
00:17:40.520 and your town was – your city was burned and your business was, you know, broken into, looted, you know, lit aflame, your stuff just – your property is not as important to these people as, you know, their – this is their town.
00:17:56.040 This is how they view it.
00:17:57.220 This is their town.
00:17:58.160 This is their slice of America, right?
00:18:00.340 It doesn't belong to you, to me, with a taxpayer, the middle America.
00:18:04.060 They view it as, like, sacred to them and that's their own little, you know, haven.
00:18:08.760 And by, you know, by virtue of that, you know, those are, like, you know, trespassing on that property is a graver sin than burning someone's business down.
00:18:19.220 That is their livelihood, Jack, you know?
00:18:21.380 And so I've heard people make those comparisons before and I've heard the most outrageous things come out of people's mouths, you know, to argue that you cannot draw that comparison.
00:18:30.500 But, of course, that's because they feel that they're privileged and that town is privileged and things that are, you know, crimes or sins committed against that town are graver than the sins that are committed against others.
00:18:44.300 And it's – you know, it really is a great, you know, example of how the privileged – believe they're privileged in this country, Jack.
00:18:52.440 I know we're coming up on our break, but I just got to throw it out.
00:18:55.780 How many J6ers didn't know that they were talking with confidential human sources of the FBI?
00:19:01.760 How many people didn't have this at their trial to use in their defense?
00:19:06.740 We're going to be going through all this.
00:19:08.080 Rich Barris, Human Events Daily continues.
00:19:13.780 Long hours.
00:19:14.740 I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:19:17.140 Jack Posobiec back live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C., where not far from where I'm sitting right now, it is found that the FBI held 26 federal informants undercover on January 6th.
00:19:35.560 Multiple numbers, three or four of which, went into the Capitol itself.
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00:20:57.860 Rich Barris, the more I think about this, this is an obvious Brady violation, and it's as simple as that, that none of the J6ers who were put on trial had the opportunity to present this report, which is exculpatory, as part of their defense.
00:21:17.900 And because none of them had this information about 26 undercover FBI assets, confidential human sources, put to their defense to be able to present to a jury, that is considered a Brady violation.
00:21:34.500 And that is something that is completely overturnable on appeal.
00:21:40.140 And President Trump has the ability, with his pardon pen, to commute and pardon every single one of them on the basis of this.
00:21:49.520 What say you, Rich Barris?
00:21:51.340 Yeah, and it's also a pattern of behavior with the FBI.
00:21:55.040 This happened to us in the Rittenhouse trial.
00:21:56.880 I mean, right, how long did they withhold that footage until they absolutely had no choice, which showed different angles, a longer duration of the footage, which obviously was exculpatory.
00:22:06.800 And they had to play.
00:22:07.620 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:22:08.420 Don't bury the lead, Rich.
00:22:09.480 They had the FBI had a secret airplane over flying over.
00:22:15.080 And we here on this program released the video before the FBI ever did.
00:22:20.540 Then the FBI finally had to admit it.
00:22:22.740 It showed everything that you just talked about.
00:22:24.460 They had the FBI operator testify under seal.
00:22:27.920 And even that testimony was stricken from the record because they wanted to cover up the fact, it is my contention, that they were likely spying on all the riots that year.
00:22:38.000 They were sucking up cell phone signals.
00:22:39.700 They were sucking up everything.
00:22:41.180 They were running confidential operations on within U.S. boundaries.
00:22:45.520 And they never told anyone about it.
00:22:48.220 Sorry.
00:22:48.680 Had to throw down on that, Rich, since you brought it up.
00:22:50.620 Yeah, what else would they have been doing?
00:22:51.920 And the important point you just made is that they didn't acknowledge or release it until they were forced to.
00:22:59.140 And again, you know, with talking about, you know, the fact there were informants and sources, confidential sources, and assets on the ground during January 6th, in and of itself, is something we actually asked about.
00:23:10.980 When we polled the difference between America and the District of Columbia, we asked people, you know, how likely is it that, you know, the FBI had people on the ground that we may perhaps instigating, you would find a significant percentage in the rest of the country compared to what would be the potential jury pool in D.C.
00:23:31.500 So it's like, not just the FBI, the entire process was rigged against these people, Jack.
00:23:36.520 And that research, several lawyers wanted to use for their clients who were J6 defendants, and the judge would not let them.
00:23:44.240 We were contacted by several people.
00:23:46.060 Hey, can we use this?
00:23:47.680 Is this something we can, you know, use with your permission?
00:23:50.800 Or maybe even do you want to do some more research to dig deeper?
00:23:54.460 We'd retain you.
00:23:55.240 It didn't matter.
00:23:56.000 The judge wasn't hearing it.
00:23:57.100 They weren't open to the idea that the D.C. jury pool was a lot less skeptical about the potential role the FBI played, which, again, now we know is the truth.
00:24:10.680 When we would ask people in D.C., you're talking about single digits, Jack, who would say that this wasn't an insurrection, who would, you know, entertain the concept or the idea that maybe the FBI played some role here in instigation.
00:24:24.360 They were almost unanimous compared to even at the worst of times where it was the most favorable narrative for Democrats.
00:24:34.820 You know, the country was still roughly split, you know, give or take 55-45, and then that got worse for them over time.
00:24:42.900 They lost control of that narrative.
00:24:44.220 But the fact that that research existed and people were not allowed to use it in their own defense is a travesty in and of itself.
00:24:51.500 Obviously, they were not going to have a credible jury pool.
00:24:56.780 And this is something myself, people like Robert Barnes, we've been arguing this for years.
00:25:01.120 That entire jurisdiction, Jack, needs to be reformed and or abolished, you know, I mean, or just abolished altogether.
00:25:08.240 Because when you're talking about politically charged cases, they are absolutely incapable of giving people a fair trial or on the other side of the spectrum than that.
00:25:17.780 And that's, that should not be going on in this country, period.
00:25:22.500 Now, now that said, Rich, that actually raises a good question, because I've heard this said before, Julie Kelly's brought it up.
00:25:28.700 What would you do then?
00:25:29.760 Would you take those cases?
00:25:31.020 Would you move that to a jurisdiction like Southern Maryland, Eastern Virginia?
00:25:35.060 What would you do with those cases if you got rid of the D.C. circuit?
00:25:39.520 Yeah, I mean, they would have to change the venue and move them to another venue, or you could just come up with another system altogether.
00:25:46.940 And there have been some proposals that are, you know, out of the box, which is a special jurisdiction dealing with, you know, not just capital, but politically charged related crimes, where it would be more representative of the nation as a whole.
00:26:01.540 We're the most technologically advanced country in the world at this point, Jack, you know, it's like, we can't verify a ballot through signature, but we can open our iPhone and we can't come up with an out of the box solution dealing with something like this, where we don't just have one geographic area represent a potential jury poll.
00:26:19.980 We know for a fact that it's a hive mind in D.C.
00:26:23.840 There's no other way to put it.
00:26:25.220 It's a hive mind.
00:26:26.000 And if you are a defendant in anything related to a political crime, you're in deep trouble.
00:26:32.600 You know, you are.
00:26:33.540 But the problem is, the reason why I don't actually favor, like, change of jurisdiction, change of venues in immediate, you know, or not immediate, but within, like, similar jurisdictions and locations, because look at Northern Virginia now.
00:26:49.160 It's not much better.
00:26:51.060 It's just not.
00:26:51.820 And we actually have modern cases where we have defendants within Trump world that did not get, you know, a great, a great shot at justice either there.
00:27:01.720 So I'm more for the out of the box ideas, Jack.
00:27:04.180 I really am.
00:27:05.400 We could do it.
00:27:07.260 I love the out of the box ideas.
00:27:08.940 And I think that, obviously, there's, you know, there's definitely ways you're going to have to, you know, look at this.
00:27:15.780 But, you know, you take a case, like, look at what they're doing to Steve Bannon right now in the city of New York, where they're going after him using a straw donor, a guy who I think donated, like, 14 bucks to the We Build the Wall.
00:27:29.160 And suddenly they're going to go after him and try to put him in jail over that guy's complaint versus, by the way, and I'll just say this about Steve's case and We Build the Wall, which is a complete farce, obviously political.
00:27:41.560 And I've also never once in my entire five, six years, at least six years, six and a half years since this thing started, had anyone come up to me and say that they wanted their money back.
00:27:55.020 The only thing that I've ever heard people say is that they want more of the wall built and they want more illegal aliens deported.
00:28:03.660 I've never heard it happen.
00:28:05.480 The thing is obviously political and we need to do something.
00:28:09.180 I love the idea of a systematized legal system for these potential trials, because this is really the question.
00:28:17.420 And President Trump was asked again and again regarding this.
00:28:20.260 And Pam Bondi, is she going to pursue charges?
00:28:22.380 They keep talking about it with Kash Patel, et cetera, et cetera.
00:28:25.960 So, Rich, no, I think it's a fantastic idea.
00:28:28.780 Before I let you go, there is, since we do have the People's Pundit on, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you regarding President Trump's nominees and his judicial nominees,
00:28:37.460 as well as Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard on the national security front, Kristi Noem as well to some extent.
00:28:45.460 This idea of a threat of primary for the in-cycle senators, Cornyn, Joni Ernst, a few others that are out there, is that really something?
00:28:56.140 I mean, people keep saying that that's really what's putting the pressure on them.
00:29:00.740 What do you see on that front from a polling perspective?
00:29:04.580 Look, there's no doubt that this is the most viable way to get senators to listen to you as the base.
00:29:14.240 Sadly, and it's just, you know, I don't go on programs to try to insult people.
00:29:18.180 But the fact of the matter is the Republican Senate is going to be one of Trump's biggest obstacles, if not the biggest, because there are two things that senators listen to.
00:29:26.900 They're not deliberative. I'm sick of hearing things like the most deliberative body in the world.
00:29:31.340 They listen to rent seekers, which are special interest groups, and they listen to public pressure.
00:29:36.600 And one has to be greater than the other, and that is how they make their decision.
00:29:40.180 If Joni Ernst believes that she will get primaried by the Attorney General of Iowa, who is much more MAGA and would destroy her in a primary, she will change her mind.
00:29:49.420 If John Cornyn believes that somebody else is going to rise, this is a man, by the way, was booed off the stage in his own state party, in his own state party's event.
00:30:00.080 If he believes that there's a viable challenger, he will change his mind.
00:30:03.560 If Tom Tillis believes, I don't know, let's say, Laurie Trump is going to move back to North Carolina, run and primary him and destroy him, because she would.
00:30:12.620 She would stomp him into the ground.
00:30:14.380 He will change his mind.
00:30:16.280 And it's sad that this has to be done this way, because Republicans should be celebrating the very deep and very diverse coalition that Donald Trump just won, which pointed them in the direction, you know, Jack, you and I are both a little old enough to remember the 2012 autopsy.
00:30:33.600 They got the electorate that they claim they always wanted, and yet they're not showing themselves to be very worthy of it, right?
00:30:40.500 I mean, this should not be a case.
00:30:42.100 Did anybody object?
00:30:43.360 Well, here's what it is, though, Rich.
00:30:44.660 If I was in the military, did anybody object to Lloyd Austin not believing in civilian defense?
00:30:50.940 Come on, Jack.
00:30:51.800 That's like the most terrifying thing you could ever hear.
00:30:54.580 What it is, Rich, is ultimately this has become the great revelation, because now we're seeing who actually is representing their constituents and who's there just for money and power.
00:31:07.380 But Rich Barris, got to run.
00:31:09.060 Where can people go to get?
00:31:10.160 And we're going to talk about Pete Hegseth coming up here very soon with someone who actually knows him.
00:31:13.560 Where can people go to get all the info and access to the People's Pundit?
00:31:17.400 Best places on Locals, peoplespundit.locals.com.
00:31:20.900 The Christmas poll's coming up, folks.
00:31:22.620 The annual Christmas poll.
00:31:23.780 Oh, I can't wait.
00:31:24.800 I can't wait.
00:31:25.620 I want to get those numbers up, folks.
00:31:27.140 I want to get those numbers up.
00:31:28.320 We got to get them up in the Christmas poll.
00:31:29.980 And I have a suspicion they will be.
00:31:31.960 Stay tuned.
00:31:32.340 Right back.
00:31:32.780 Jack Posobiec, we're all in on Pete Hegseth.
00:31:40.260 Jack, where is Jack?
00:31:42.780 Where is Jack?
00:31:45.120 Where is he?
00:31:46.400 Jack, I want to see you.
00:31:50.040 Great job, Jack.
00:31:51.440 Thank you.
00:31:52.220 What a job you do.
00:31:53.660 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:31:55.040 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.
00:31:57.140 But we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Puliseth.
00:32:00.840 All right, Jack Posobiec back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:32:05.520 Before we move topics, I just want to say, why didn't the Jan 6 Committee tell us about
00:32:12.720 the 26 undercover FBI assets present on the ground on January 6th?
00:32:19.740 What could it be about the Jan 6 Committee, who sat there for two years conducting interviews
00:32:24.420 and conducting work, that they just decided to not tell us that?
00:32:29.860 Maybe we can check their documents and text messages.
00:32:32.640 Oh, wait.
00:32:33.520 They deleted all the evidence.
00:32:35.660 Very interesting.
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00:33:51.040 I said and promised that we would talk about President Trump's nominees.
00:33:55.460 One nominee who started off, you know, there were some concerns, there was some consternation,
00:34:02.500 but now has pushed through them and was able to rally through, not just because of the MAGA
00:34:09.960 movement, although the MAGA movement stood strong.
00:34:11.880 I got to say, the POSO stood strong, but because, and this was so incredible to see,
00:34:17.300 his friends and colleagues rallied around him.
00:34:20.800 And that man is a man by the name of Pete Hegseth.
00:34:23.840 Pete Hegseth has been here on Human Events daily.
00:34:27.000 He graciously conducted an entire episode with us, did the full hour sit down.
00:34:32.860 It was amazing.
00:34:33.660 We went through all of his ideas.
00:34:35.760 We didn't even know at the time that he would be nominated or potentially nominated for Secretary
00:34:40.080 of Defense, but he did so right here.
00:34:43.100 He was the correspondent that Fox sent to the Deplore Ball all the way back in 2016, 2017.
00:34:49.480 And now his former colleague, Mark Lucas, who is now with the Article 3 Project, joins us
00:34:54.840 to talk about this nomination.
00:34:56.720 Mark, how are you?
00:34:58.320 Good to see you.
00:34:59.080 Thanks for having me on.
00:35:01.000 So tell us your background with Pete Hegseth.
00:35:05.200 How do you know Pete?
00:35:06.720 What in Pete's heck is going on here?
00:35:11.320 I've known Pete Hegseth for over a decade.
00:35:13.720 We served together in the 34th Infantry Division.
00:35:17.540 It's the famous Red Bull Division.
00:35:20.280 Our motto is attack, attack, attack.
00:35:23.660 And Pete was also my predecessor at Concerned Veterans for America.
00:35:26.900 And there's a New Yorker article that came out that was sourced anonymously that accused
00:35:32.260 Pete of all these bad actions.
00:35:34.580 And you came away reading the article thinking that Concerned Veterans for America was a train
00:35:39.180 wreck.
00:35:39.700 I can tell you it was the complete opposite.
00:35:42.020 I inherited a world-class organization.
00:35:45.100 I kept his leadership team.
00:35:47.120 That was incredible.
00:35:48.520 I used his strategy to help me as the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America to
00:35:53.660 brief President Trump in the Roosevelt Room.
00:35:55.920 And it was Pete's strategy going for years back that said that we needed to bring accountability
00:36:01.980 to the VA.
00:36:03.180 We also needed to bring choice in veteran health care.
00:36:06.020 And when I told President Trump that Pete was a friend of my predecessor, his eyes lit
00:36:10.260 up.
00:36:10.480 And he said, you know Pete?
00:36:12.040 I love Pete.
00:36:12.920 He's my friend.
00:36:13.700 And I want to hire him.
00:36:15.140 But my friends say that we need to keep him at Fox.
00:36:17.200 So that helped me out immensely as we move forward in early on in the Trump administration
00:36:23.260 in 2017.
00:36:24.520 We helped pass two of the most historic reforms in the history of the VA.
00:36:29.620 The VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017.
00:36:33.180 And then the Mission Act.
00:36:35.000 So because of Pete Hegseth, Concerned Veterans for America was one of the most impactful veterans
00:36:39.900 organizations in modern day history.
00:36:42.020 And so putting all that together, and why do you suppose it is that initially, and I
00:36:52.260 will say, I think that the tide has turned on this.
00:36:55.120 There were people like Joni Ernst who were kind of holding this up and saying that she
00:36:58.320 wasn't sure if she would support.
00:36:59.700 That was about a week ago.
00:37:01.220 So now she's making very much more positive statements, more supportive statements.
00:37:07.440 We're seeing a lot more senators come out.
00:37:09.940 What do you think it was early on that was really driving this consternation?
00:37:15.000 Because I'm going to say something right now.
00:37:16.660 You know, the people of Washington, D.C., OK, they love their drink.
00:37:22.680 And if you want to tell me that Pete Hegseth is a guy that drinks too much.
00:37:25.360 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:37:26.120 First of all, not only is it not true, but if you want to go down the list of people that
00:37:30.740 are drunk, of senators who are drunk while sitting and voting or sitting in their offices,
00:37:36.140 then I'm more than happy to provide people receipts.
00:37:39.700 You're absolutely correct.
00:37:41.180 And the founder of Article 3 Project, my good friend from college, Mike Davis, had mentioned
00:37:45.720 that if this is the new standard, if drinking and womanizing is no longer allowed for public
00:37:51.820 servants, and there's a lot of people in the United States Senate who might be out of a
00:37:55.240 job.
00:37:56.240 But we saw early on.
00:37:57.900 Wait, wait, Mark, I have an idea.
00:37:59.060 I have an idea.
00:37:59.880 Let's go.
00:38:00.900 Let's go ask Nancy Pelosi.
00:38:03.480 Let's go ask Nancy Pelosi about drinking on the job.
00:38:06.940 Let's go have a little chat with her.
00:38:08.960 Maybe her daughter's got some documentary footage that we can check out.
00:38:12.740 No, I mean, it's ridiculous.
00:38:14.060 The whole thing's ridiculous.
00:38:14.860 Please go on.
00:38:16.080 And we saw early on last month that the media started a sophisticated smear campaign against
00:38:23.820 Pete Hegseth.
00:38:25.240 And what we saw at the Article 3 Project was an opportunity to set the record straight,
00:38:29.920 not just with my personal relationship with Pete and that story, but also to remind people
00:38:34.740 of Brett Kavanaugh.
00:38:36.200 Mike Davis was the chief counsel of nominations in the United States Senate during the Kavanaugh
00:38:42.340 confirmation.
00:38:43.260 And during that time, there were plenty of anonymous people coming out, but then there was false
00:38:49.040 testimony occurring in the Senate.
00:38:51.720 And Mike Davis was alone and unafraid.
00:38:54.540 And he set out a bat signal to the entire country with a tweet that said that he was unfazed
00:39:00.940 and determined.
00:39:01.940 Republicans were running for the hills during Brett Kavanaugh, but Mike Davis was able to
00:39:07.660 help getting confirmed.
00:39:08.620 So the Article 3 Project, we reminded people of that story and said, please contact your
00:39:14.040 United States senators and let them know that President Trump has a historic mandate.
00:39:18.800 We support his nominations.
00:39:21.520 And so in less than two weeks, the Article 3 Project, thanks to you, Jack, and the War Room
00:39:26.800 Posse, were able to lob in over 50,000 messages in the Senate offices.
00:39:32.600 This has been the most historic start of the month for A3P in our history.
00:39:36.800 We have had more grassroots activists engage with their lawmakers than at any point at A3P.
00:39:44.860 Well, and that's actually fantastic.
00:39:46.720 I mean, when you look at what President Trump has been able to do, when you look at the way
00:39:51.520 that his nominations have been able to come through and the public that's seen through
00:39:56.800 this engagement, the social media sentiment, the law of diminishing returns, you know, they
00:40:02.160 call it the boy who cried wolf.
00:40:03.460 And, you know, part of this, by the way, honestly, it kind of goes back to the Me Too movement,
00:40:09.100 which, to be fair and to be frank, has done a disservice to women.
00:40:14.240 Because, you know, when you talk about Joni Ernst, and I remember when that story first
00:40:18.160 came out, and I remember that she was always talking with men back when I served as a Navy
00:40:22.500 officer.
00:40:23.540 And I remember her talking about this idea of setting up an independent investigator similar
00:40:28.000 to the IG for the sexual assault cases and moving them out of the chain of command.
00:40:32.860 I said, that's a righteous issue.
00:40:34.540 That's actually something that we probably should be talking about.
00:40:37.880 But the way that it's been totally weaponized just really distracts and detracts from that
00:40:44.480 initial argument.
00:40:46.500 And I'm from Iowa, a lifelong Iowan.
00:40:49.780 Joni Ernst represents me.
00:40:50.980 I've known her for over 10 years.
00:40:53.360 We served together in the Iowa Army National Guard.
00:40:55.800 And a story a lot of people know in Iowa that maybe the national audience hasn't heard is
00:41:00.260 that Joni herself is a survivor of sexual assault.
00:41:03.900 So she was going to do her due diligence, just like she did with Brett Kavanaugh.
00:41:08.180 But her meetings with Pete Hegseth were very productive.
00:41:12.040 And one of the key things that Joni wants to focus on is what we call in the Army SHARP,
00:41:17.260 sexual harassment and assault response prevention.
00:41:20.540 And Pete and her are 100% aligned on that issue.
00:41:24.760 We want to ensure that we protect our service members.
00:41:28.320 And so the meeting that Pete had with Joni on Monday was really productive.
00:41:31.820 She's moved to a yes.
00:41:33.500 But to kind of pan out and look at what the grassroots can do,
00:41:37.300 it's not just President Trump that has this mandate.
00:41:40.280 Our grassroots volunteers all across the country, they have a mandate as well.
00:41:44.620 And our volunteers don't just care about politics and elections.
00:41:47.180 Second, because we've got a quick break right here, but I want to bring back
00:41:50.860 and I do want to talk about the mandate of grassroots Article 3 Project.
00:41:55.500 Pete Hegseth, we're getting into all of it.
00:41:57.660 Human Events Daily continues.
00:42:07.720 Jack is a great guy.
00:42:09.380 He's written a fantastic book.
00:42:11.000 Everybody's talking about it.
00:42:12.240 Go get it.
00:42:13.360 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:42:17.180 And we're going to turn it around to make our country cry to get to him.
00:42:20.620 Amen.
00:42:23.340 All right, Jack Posobiec back live.
00:42:26.180 Here we are, Human Events Daily.
00:42:28.160 We're on with Mark Lucas of the Article 3 Project,
00:42:30.680 who not only served with but also worked with Pete Hegseth
00:42:34.820 and the Concerned Veterans Group.
00:42:37.620 And he's now with us just breaking down the fact that Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy who,
00:42:43.720 and let's be frank, I personally love the idea of a Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense,
00:42:50.140 because if you take someone who's been from the system,
00:42:53.500 then they're not going to go in and actually shake things up.
00:42:56.560 They're not going to want to fire anyone.
00:42:59.760 They're not going to want to shut down any offices.
00:43:01.820 They're going to sit there, and they just act as managers.
00:43:04.400 They want to keep the paychecks rolling,
00:43:06.140 and they want to make sure that they can move on so they can get whatever position that they,
00:43:11.300 you know, that they can get at a contractor afterwards, you know, Boeing, Lockheed, whatever.
00:43:16.700 Whereas Pete doesn't need any of that,
00:43:18.180 and that's why he's actually the perfect pick to put in there.
00:43:21.560 Absolutely. And we were both infantry officers.
00:43:27.960 We served as platoon leaders, him and Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:43:31.400 I was an infantry rifle platoon leader along the Afghan-Pakistani border in 2010 and 11.
00:43:37.700 It was the deadliest period of the war.
00:43:39.980 So Pete and I, we understand that we want to put the warfighter first.
00:43:44.400 Pete is a door kicker. He's a pipe hitter.
00:43:47.320 Whatever term you want to use for a junior infantry officer,
00:43:50.660 that served his country honorably, Pete Hegseth lives up to that.
00:43:55.300 And these general officers and these people within the military-industrial complex,
00:43:59.680 they know they can't control him.
00:44:02.080 There's nothing that they can take away from him.
00:44:04.740 All Pete Hegseth wants to do is return our military back to the basics.
00:44:09.940 You know, we trained a lot of soldiers as infantry leaders,
00:44:12.320 and I would always focus my men on the big four.
00:44:15.860 Shoot, move, communicate, and stop bleeding.
00:44:19.140 Guess what didn't make the list?
00:44:21.860 DEI, transgender surgeries, and understanding white rage.
00:44:26.200 Pete Hegseth is going to return our military back to this America First focus,
00:44:31.280 which, number one, we got to start inside the Pentagon.
00:44:34.820 We have to lead by example.
00:44:36.720 The Department of Defense have failed, I think, seven or eight audits in a row.
00:44:40.760 We need to clean up our own house.
00:44:42.320 We need to focus on the United States of America.
00:44:44.040 And because Pete and I served in combat, we know the cost of war.
00:44:48.520 We know how deadly it is and the long-term impacts it has on not just service members,
00:44:53.660 but their families and their communities.
00:44:55.500 We will ensure that our foreign policy is focused and that we are not engaged in these forever wars.
00:45:02.040 I could not agree more on a variety of issues.
00:45:08.200 And by the way, the Wall Street Journal had that fantastic headline the other day that said,
00:45:11.720 President Trump keeps appointing angry veterans to his cabinet.
00:45:17.220 And obviously, they had J.D. Vance and Tulsi and Pete were there.
00:45:20.160 I said, I love that.
00:45:21.380 I love the framing of it.
00:45:22.880 Angry veterans who were lied to about the global war on terror.
00:45:26.640 It's so perfect.
00:45:28.260 It's just so perfect.
00:45:30.280 I suppose I'm one myself now that I think about it.
00:45:32.620 You know, I was at Guantanamo, though, not Afghanistan, so I don't really think of it that way.
00:45:36.960 But before I let you go, I wanted to also point out, and I'm told that you at the Article 3 Project
00:45:43.420 also have a project you're working on in addition to just your personal background with Pete,
00:45:48.540 but also regarding election integrity, because election integrity is something that we cannot let get away from us
00:45:56.940 in the midst of everything else that's going on.
00:45:58.900 We have a real shot to actually change things up.
00:46:01.720 What is the Article 3 Project doing?
00:46:04.000 Yeah, so the Article 3 Project was focused on protecting President Trump from lawfare,
00:46:09.420 but also fighting against election interference.
00:46:12.360 So moving into 2025, we have not quite fixed elections that we need to.
00:46:18.540 So we're looking towards 2026.
00:46:21.000 We've partnered with good friends like Cleta Mitchell, working on an election integrity bill of rights
00:46:26.880 so we can look at state capitals all across the country, tighten up election law where they need to be,
00:46:32.280 but also at the federal level with non-citizens voting.
00:46:35.060 I saw a systemic effort in these battleground states, especially your home state of Pennsylvania, Jack,
00:46:41.920 with Governor Josh Shapiro, and where we need to not allow—
00:46:46.340 We love little Joshy.
00:46:47.400 We love little Joshy around here.
00:46:49.940 He's so wonderful.
00:46:50.500 In Wisconsin and Georgia and Arizona and Nevada, these states, Secretary of State,
00:46:57.520 we're working together to try to make it easier for non-citizens to vote.
00:47:02.180 So we're not taking our eyes off the ball.
00:47:04.240 Our majority in the House of Representatives is very tight.
00:47:08.500 We have a quick two years to help enact as much good policy as possible under President Trump,
00:47:13.680 and we must protect our elections so we can maintain these majorities
00:47:18.000 and advance the America First agenda in 2026 and beyond.
00:47:22.940 So what do you say to folks—and I've heard this.
00:47:25.920 This actually came up when I was at Mar-a-Lago recently.
00:47:28.200 I can't say who I was talking about it with—but to folks who say,
00:47:31.900 well, the federal government shouldn't get involved, Republicans shouldn't do that,
00:47:35.040 we should just allow it to stay with the states.
00:47:37.620 What do you say in response to that?
00:47:40.240 Well, the non-citizens voting is a very federal issue.
00:47:44.000 I think it's common sense to say we believe that only American citizens should vote in American elections,
00:47:49.460 but then also have power in the states at the local level on certain election laws.
00:47:55.180 And you also put yourself at risk, right?
00:47:57.220 If the federal government has bad election law, it will impact all 50 states.
00:48:01.400 So I think we have to have balance.
00:48:03.460 But we can agree that we need to have voter ID.
00:48:05.640 We need to have tighter controls on voter registration, on F.C. ballots.
00:48:12.520 I'll tell you, Jack, I really enjoyed watching you on ThoughtCrime along with the Turning Point USA guys.
00:48:18.980 The work that you guys did chasing ballots was so critical.
00:48:22.620 So I think we can—what we've proven in 2024 is that we can leverage early voting to our advantage,
00:48:29.580 but we have to have better laws because the Democrats will look for any opportunity to exploit laws like Iwakava,
00:48:36.620 which a lot of people think that overseas ballots are all military.
00:48:40.980 Well, in fact, they're not.
00:48:42.300 Actually, only 60 to 70 percent of those are military service members.
00:48:48.080 A large number of those votes that are coming in overseas are actually not military.
00:48:53.920 So we need to tighten that up and give—
00:48:56.220 Yeah, I've actually—in my—just in my own life, I've been both.
00:49:01.540 And thank you, by the way.
00:49:02.360 Today is Thought Crime Thursday.
00:49:03.560 We'll be taping that later this evening with Charlie and the gang.
00:49:06.360 But, yeah, no, I've been overseas in uniform and voted,
00:49:10.540 and I've also been overseas as just an expat civilian and voted as well.
00:49:15.060 So that's something that people really do need to take a look at.
00:49:18.220 Mark Lucas, where can people go to follow you and the Article 3 Project?
00:49:22.560 Go to article3project.org.
00:49:25.260 You can take action there.
00:49:26.560 You can contact your U.S. senators to tell them to support Cash Patel and Pete Hegseth during their nominations.
00:49:33.820 And you can follow me at LucasIowa on X, Getter, and Truth.
00:49:39.020 Thank you, Jack.
00:49:40.600 All right.
00:49:41.160 Deus volt, Mark.
00:49:42.700 Deus volt.
00:49:44.120 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.
00:49:46.760 Peace out.
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00:49:55.400 Thanks, Jack Pope.
00:50:05.100 Beautiful.
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