Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Inside the Easter Rescue Operation and the Mission to Save CA From Gavin Newsom

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00:00:22.580 Look, we've done so much over the past couple of years since this show started, and we're

00:00:26.760 only going to do so much more let's get it i don't think there's anything because frankly

00:00:32.680 it's not a question of bravery we're all brave right you're brave i'm brave we're all brave

00:00:37.160 but we're also intelligent if you have people shooting at you expert shots with the best

00:00:45.000 rifles you can get and hitting you right between the eyes every single time and you're looking here

00:00:50.760 and you're seeing and you're looking here you're out of there i don't care who

00:00:56.760 mark meredith fox news uh i know that oh thank you go ahead america's watching uh no um can we go

00:01:03.980 back to the weekend first off was everyone on board with the operation or were there people

00:01:08.420 that were trying to talk you out of going through with the operation this weekend not everybody was

00:01:12.000 on board somebody else within no there was military people very professional that preferred

00:01:17.640 not doing it these two were totally on board which was very important they weren't it would

00:01:24.000 had a little difficulty but uh no there were military people that said you just don't do this

00:01:28.640 you don't go into the heart of a very powerful military you know this is hey you have countries

00:01:35.220 and countries you have some countries where military is not there's the wrong suit this

00:01:39.720 whole thing is militarized like nobody's ever seen before half the people are wearing uniforms

00:01:44.660 uh and we had we had people within the military usually it's not done that's one of the reasons

00:01:52.240 I was surprised. Somebody said it's the only time it's ever been done. I said that's not possible, but it is possible because you're going into hundreds of thousands of soldiers along the path. I mean, look at some of the helicopters, how they got hit. So, yeah, there were people within the military that said it's a wise. And don't forget, how many men did you send all together approximately for the operation?

00:02:16.720 I'd love to keep that a secret.

00:02:18.300 Okay, well, we are.

00:02:20.840 But I will tell you, the number, I'll keep it a secret, but it was hundreds.

00:02:26.060 And hundreds of these people, that's pretty good.

00:02:29.260 Is he central casting?

00:02:31.900 But hundreds of people went into this journey.

00:02:36.140 Hundreds of people could have been killed.

00:02:37.720 Forget about the equipment, a lot of equipment, nobody cares.

00:02:40.560 Hundreds of people could have been killed.

00:02:43.300 So we had people that were within the military that said this is not a wise and I understood that but I

00:02:49.400 decided to do

00:02:51.400 Was there a point that they were gonna that you were thinking there's too much on the line and somebody was saying maybe we abort

00:02:56.860 This now and wait

00:02:58.180 I mean given the resource like the general said it seemed like there was so much on the line here

00:03:02.740 You must have been thinking well this could have completely changed

00:03:04.880 So the first one

00:03:06.620 Which was in many ways as dangerous as the second I guess it gets because we're flying over

00:03:13.300 daylight. You know, we're the best at the world at night. We have goggles that nobody. We have

00:03:18.200 goggles. I've tried them. I see better with the goggles at night than I see without them during

00:03:24.640 daylight. I mean, daylight today, we have a beautiful day. You see just as well with goggles.

00:03:30.940 In many ways, it's enhanced. So we have the best in the world. So it's much safe for us to do it

00:03:37.220 at night, whereas other people, no other country has that capability. They don't have that

00:03:42.580 particular piece of equipment like we do but when i was told flying and in daylight i think we flew

00:03:50.580 seven hours over iran and that's a long time over unbelievably hostile territory where they have

00:03:57.540 nothing but weapons we took out their anti-aircraft which is great we took out their radar which is

00:04:03.860 great we took out a lot but they still have you know what hit this one was a shoulder

00:04:07.780 Handheld shoulder missile heat-seeking missile, so it's not like, you know, they're totally whatever

00:04:14.640 But but and they have probably a little luck

00:04:18.100 Because you got to get lucky

00:04:20.020 But they shot it and it got sucked in right by the engine, but these guys were out of there. They were great

00:04:25.620 Their timing was great, but no, I was told that this is a very

00:04:29.760 Dangerous mission. I understand they didn't say it's a foolish mission. They said, you know 0.94

00:04:34.980 we're going to be sacrificing hundreds of people do this this is I mean you

00:04:39.420 have tankers that are flying over this area so that because the flight was so

00:04:43.140 long they had to refuel it's a very dangerous mission I just felt it was

00:04:48.420 worth it if you would have told me that we would have been successful gotten

00:04:52.440 both and nobody was even essentially injured I would have said that would be

00:04:56.820 impossible yeah thank you I'll come back given that you are now dealing you say

00:05:04.660 with a more reasonable less extreme leadership in Iran what does that mean

00:05:10.660 for the protesters for the human rights movement in that country after this

00:05:14.440 conference yeah if they assume control if we do something and they assume

00:05:19.840 control I think it's very positive a big step I don't think you'd see the

00:05:23.800 radicalization that you have seen in the last look what happened I mean women

00:05:28.960 are being executed because they're not properly clothed they say they're not

00:05:33.880 properly clothed and they execute the women. They absolutely they shoot him right on the street. 0.78

00:05:39.880 Now you have a much different group of people. Now I'm not saying we are dealing with them.

00:05:46.920 Essentially they have till eight o'clock tomorrow night Eastern Time. But we are dealing with them.

00:05:52.720 I think it's going well. Mr. Whitcoff is here and J.D.'s involved in the dealing. Mr. Whitcoff

00:05:59.080 is sitting right here and i think it's going fine but we'll have to see you have to understand

00:06:03.480 we've been dealing with these people for 47 years i'm standing here with a much more powerful

00:06:11.560 iran as of a month ago not anymore right now they are decapitated but i'm standing here a month ago

00:06:19.000 with a much more powerful iran than it was at any point during 47 years this should have been

00:06:25.320 handled by seven presidents a lot of presidents and those presidents are

00:06:31.080 saying now every one of them to their friends we should have done this a long

00:06:35.220 time ago so it's not something I like doing it's very dangerous and we're

00:06:40.080 getting them at the height of of their strength if I didn't terminate the 0.62

00:06:45.000 Barack Hussein Obama Iran nuclear deal they would have had a don't forget that 0.54

00:06:50.440 was a path to a nuclear weapon remember this he chose Iran over Israel pure and

00:06:57.040 simple how and how Israel can vote for a Democrat is if you're Jewish in New 0.72

00:07:03.160 York City or anyplace else in this country and how you can vote for a

00:07:08.500 Democrat is unbelievable because he chose Iran a very hostile Iran remember 0.53

00:07:15.000 when he filled up a 757 with cash billions of dollars of cash and he 0.64

00:07:20.120 sent it over to them. Then they gave them tens of billions of dollars. He chose Iran over Israel

00:07:27.080 and really the Arab world, if you look, because, you know, and I can add Bahrain and you can add

00:07:32.540 others. He chose such an unlikely candidate. Nobody could believe it. Frankly, if you're

00:07:39.300 going to choose between Iraq and Iran, he should have chosen, he should have befriended Iraq. He

00:07:45.760 went in the exact opposite direction of of all thinking and he made a terrible mistake but that

00:07:52.720 was a road to a nuclear weapon and when I terminated that everyone said oh he terminated it it was one

00:08:00.240 of the best things we ever did because he had a road to a nuclear weapon and it was going to it

00:08:04.720 was a very short-term deal you know countries don't do 10-year deals countries do hundreds of

00:08:09.880 years you don't do a 10-year deal for a country you need this isn't you're a landlord you're

00:08:14.880 renting a store on on a certain street and you give somebody a five-year or 10-year lease. This is a country. It was a short-term deal. It was ready to expire. I terminated it before it expired. It took a lot of heat and it was one of the best things I ever did because he would have had a nuclear weapon. Then he would have had another nuclear weapon had those beautiful B2 bombers not gone in eight months ago and obliterated that said. And by the way, the word is obliteration. CNN said, well, maybe it wasn't complete. It was so complete

00:08:44.880 that they still haven't been able to get it it was obliteration but if we

00:08:49.520 didn't hit them that was a courageous decision too because we had all those

00:08:53.580 planes flying in at night with very little cover unbelievable stealth planes 0.90

00:08:59.000 and they were able to do their job if we didn't do that Iran would have had a 0.85

00:09:04.520 nuclear weapon at a high level either one of those two instances and if they 0.74

00:09:10.240 did in my opinion I told this to Bibi Netanyahu yesterday Israel would have

00:09:16.720 been extinguished large portions of the Middle East would have been extinguished 0.94

00:09:22.660 whether it's Saudi Arabia Qatar UAE or others and you saw that with thousands

00:09:28.600 of missiles raining down upon them they didn't think they were going to be hit

00:09:31.540 they thought they'd be watching us fight and all of a sudden UAE got hit by

00:09:35.980 1500 missiles he would have taken them out also and they were powerful if I 0.87

00:09:43.360 didn't come along and terminate the Obama deal which was terrible the Iran

00:09:47.980 nuclear deal was a road to a nuclear weapon a big one unlimited legally I 0.65

00:09:54.460 terminated it without even much thought it was so easy I terminated that and then

00:10:00.780 the B-2 bombers and I did one other thing I had killed Kassam Soleimani who

00:10:08.880 was an evil genius and the reason I did it I heard he was gonna knock out five

00:10:14.160 of our military bases and had he lived I believe we would be fighting perhaps a 0.99

00:10:22.840 different Iran right now because because he's never he's never been

00:10:28.800 replaced you know and i also i did one other but that this one was not picked up osama bin laden

00:10:35.680 if you read my book i said you got to take them out one year before the world trade center came

00:10:40.000 down so i wish you'd read the book but you as a president to be a good president i believe you

00:10:49.120 have to have good instincts and a lot of this is instinct yeah please thank you so much for taking

00:10:54.320 last week last week you suggested that Europe should take the lead on

00:11:00.620 reopening the Strait of Hormuz has circumstances changed now that you're

00:11:04.340 issuing a direct 48 hour I mean 48 hour ultimatum and secondly would a new new

00:11:11.180 ceasefire include Israel or would it just be between you I can't talk about

00:11:14.240 ceasefire but I can tell you that we have a active willing participant on

00:11:21.320 on the other side.

00:11:22.420 They would like to be able to make a deal.

00:11:23.960 I can't say any more than that, but I didn't like to do it.

00:11:25.860 The Presser, Mr. President, thank you so much.

00:11:29.100 The Presser, Mr. President, you've listed the goals.

00:11:30.500 Excuse me.

00:11:31.000 The Presser, Mr. President, you've listed the goals.

00:11:32.900 Who you with? Who you with?

00:11:34.400 The Presser, Mr. President, I'm with the largest

00:11:36.140 Kurdish media outlet, Rudow Media Network.

00:11:38.180 It's based in Iran.

00:11:39.340 The Presser, Mr. President, you said before 1.00

00:11:42.080 that you don't want the Kurdish forces

00:11:44.240 to enter Iran and be harmed. 0.84

00:11:46.440 Do you still want them to stay away? 0.99

00:11:48.380 Or what role do you expect them to play now?

00:11:51.080 I'd rather have them stay away.

00:11:53.440 I'd rather have them stay away because I think they bring with them

00:11:56.720 some problems and some difficulties.

00:11:58.860 And I don't think they bring death.

00:12:00.560 I mean, you know, to themselves.

00:12:02.460 But I'd rather have them stay away.

00:12:07.900 Go ahead.

00:12:08.560 The Press. Thank you, Mr. President, for the question.

00:12:10.400 Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure

00:12:12.840 violate the Geneva Conventions and international law.

00:12:16.440 The President. Who are you with?

00:12:17.240 The Press. I'm with the New York Times.

00:12:18.180 Zolan from the New York Times.

00:12:19.600 Are you feeling the feeling are you can see circulation way down at the New York.

00:12:23.500 Are you concerned that your threat to bomb power plants and bridges amount.

00:12:27.400 No, no, no, no. I hope I don't have to do it.

00:12:31.540 But again, I just said 47 years they've been negotiating with these people.

00:12:35.900 They're great negotiators. And because they're not going to have a nuclear weapon.

00:12:41.620 And if somebody that takes my place someday is weak and ineffective, which possibly that will happen because we had numerous

00:12:49.480 presidents that were weak ineffective and afraid afraid of Iran we're never 0.60

00:12:53.920 gonna let Iran have a nuclear weapon and if you think it's okay for people 0.99

00:12:59.560 that are sick of mind that are tough smart and sick really sick ideal you 0.87

00:13:07.600 know from from a policy standpoint from a stamp any which way you want to say 0.99

00:13:13.900 mentally these are disturbed people if you think I'm going to allow them and

00:13:18.580 powerful and rich to have a nuclear weapon you can tell your friends at the

00:13:23.860 New York Times not going to happen

00:13:29.140 means by like you no longer have credibility the New York Times because

00:13:34.880 the New York Times said oh Trump won't win the election and I won in a

00:13:38.140 landslide I won every swing state New York Times said oh Trump won't win the

00:13:41.820 election New York Times has no credibility the credibility they have is

00:13:46.200 it used to be all the news that's fit to print a great the old gray lady it was great but they're

00:13:51.720 they're running on past fumes and you can't keep doing that you have to be able to give the correct

00:13:56.840 news and people like you who i know are fake you're fake go ahead please your messaging on the war has

00:14:05.560 moved from the war is coming to an end to we're going to be bombing iran to the stone ages and 0.90

00:14:10.760 And we've heard a range of those kind of messages.

00:14:13.840 So which is it?

00:14:15.520 Are you winding this down?

00:14:17.100 I can't tell you.

00:14:18.420 I don't know.

00:14:19.320 I can't tell you.

00:14:19.780 Depends what they do.

00:14:20.980 This is a critical period.

00:14:22.600 They have a period of, well, till tomorrow at 8 o'clock.

00:14:27.540 I gave them an extension.

00:14:29.100 They asked for an extension of seven days, right?

00:14:31.220 I said, Steve, give them 10 days.

00:14:36.360 10 days is up actually today.

00:14:39.060 So I gave him 11 I guess indirectly. I thought it was inappropriate the day after Easter. I want to be a nice person.

00:14:46.960 They have till tomorrow. Now we'll see what happens. I can tell you they're negotiating. We think in good faith.

00:14:54.040 We're going to find out. We're getting the help of some incredible countries that want this to be ended because it affects them also.

00:15:02.400 a lot of people are affected by this but we're giving them uh we're giving them till tomorrow

00:15:08.880 eight o'clock eastern time and after that they're gonna have no bridges they're gonna have no power

00:15:15.520 plants stone ages yeah sorry cnn fake are you willing to make a deal that does not include

00:15:29.120 reopening the strait of hormuz or is that now a top priority i would say it's a very big priority

00:15:34.080 because um see that's that's one thing that's a little different than other than we can bomb

00:15:40.160 the hell out of them we can knock them out for a loop but to close the strait all you need is one

00:15:46.080 terrorist that somehow has a truck loaded with because you can carry them in trucks large trucks

00:15:52.720 a water mine drop them in the water and now you tell people that own ships that cost a

00:15:58.880 billion dollars to don't worry about the mine you can do that even just by saying we put mines in

00:16:04.000 the water so it's not like the rest we can knock out their military we already have we've knocked

00:16:09.680 out their navy we've knocked out their air force completely knocked out 158 ships in three days

00:16:16.320 we've knocked out even their mine droppers they don't have any mine droppers anymore

00:16:20.160 but they put them on other boats and they could drop them i'm not even sure they have any mines

00:16:24.080 there by the way i'm not sure i'm personally they say there might be eight i don't know

00:16:29.280 i don't know i think there might be none uh because they're very good

00:16:33.120 artists that's why for 47 years they've been bullshitting other presidents

00:16:37.760 and they haven't done the job and people are living in hell you live in that country they're 0.63

00:16:43.280 living in hell. No, I think that 47 years of this stuff is long enough. They're at the weakest point they've ever been. They have no Navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no radar. They have no communication. In fact, the biggest problem we have in our negotiation is that they can't communicate. I said to Steve, what are they saying? Sir, they can't communicate. They have no method of communication.

00:17:12.040 So we're doing we're communicating like they used to communicate 2,000 years ago with children bringing a note back and forth.

00:17:19.680 They have no communication. But all I want to see is I want to have a safe world. And you're not going to have a safe world.

00:17:27.960 Israel will be gone. The Middle East will be gone. And then they're coming for Europe. 0.97

00:17:33.200 And I have to tell you, I'm very disappointed in NATO, very.

00:17:37.220 I think that NATO, I think it's a mark on NATO that will never disappear, never disappear in my mind.

00:17:43.440 You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday.

00:17:45.080 They're going to say, oh, we'll do this, we'll do that.

00:17:47.440 Now they all of a sudden want to send things, you know.

00:17:50.540 But they said it loud and clear at the beginning when I spoke to UK of all,

00:17:54.260 I would have said they would have been the first because they've been, they're the oldest.

00:17:58.460 And I say, yeah, I'd love to have a little help.

00:18:00.820 He said, no, sir, we'd rather wait till you win. 0.61

00:18:03.200 I said I don't need help after we win they have two old broken aircraft carriers barely work

00:18:09.320 I said I guess we can use them who the hell knows I called the general he didn't even want

00:18:13.620 he said we don't really need him we got we got the SS Abraham Lincoln sir we don't need him

00:18:19.660 you know we have in terms of technology we had one day 101 missiles going at 2,700 miles an hour

00:18:28.620 aimed at the Abraham Lincoln 101 missiles out of 101 missiles 101 missiles were shot down

00:18:38.140 unbelievable technology 10 years ago five years ago I don't know if that would have been possible

00:18:44.840 but 10 years ago that wouldn't have been that wouldn't have been possible 101 missiles heading

00:18:51.700 to a ship that's not that far off the coast and out of the 101 missiles we shut down all 101 we

00:19:01.300 have weaponry uh the patriots are unbelievable we have weaponry that's unbelievable yeah

00:19:11.700 go ahead please thank you mr president um you said earlier today during the egg roll

00:19:16.820 that you would like to take iran's oil but americans want u.s forces home correct

00:19:22.340 what's that trade if i had my choice if i had my choice yeah because i'm a businessman first

00:19:28.740 with venezuela as you know the war was over in about 45 minutes

00:19:35.060 and we have great people running venezuela very good people i mean the relationship is good

00:19:39.780 and we are a partner with Venezuela and we've taken hundreds of millions of barrels hundreds of

00:19:47.780 millions over a hundred million barrels already is in Houston refined and out and paid paid for

00:19:56.560 that war many many times over many times you know the old days to the victim okay you know that to

00:20:04.300 the to the winner belong the spoils go the spoils and I've said why don't we use it to the victor

00:20:12.300 go the spoils and we don't have that we haven't had that in this country probably in a hundred

00:20:17.180 years because even the second world war you look at the second world war we didn't have it with the

00:20:21.900 second world we helped rebuild all those countries we rebuild Germany how about Germany telling us

00:20:26.500 Germany telling us that well it's not their war we had nothing to do with it they wanted me to go

00:20:34.120 and tell them everything I was doing we didn't know anything about it well if I would have told

00:20:38.740 them they would have leaked it and we wouldn't have been nearly as successful possibly right

00:20:43.420 but to the victor belong the spoils so we haven't heard we haven't heard that in I think maybe

00:20:50.720 hundreds of years now with Venezuela and we just so you understand the people of Venezuela they say

00:20:57.460 if I ran for president of Venezuela I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela

00:21:03.600 So after I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela.

00:21:06.540 I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take too long.

00:21:09.240 I'm good at language. And I will go to Venezuela.

00:21:11.700 I'm going to run for president.

00:21:13.260 But we're very happy with the president-elect that we have right now.

00:21:16.980 The people that are running it.

00:21:20.480 If you remember Bush with Iraq, they fired the generals.

00:21:24.720 They fired the police. They fired the people that worked in there.

00:21:28.200 Equivalent of the White House. They fired everybody.

00:21:31.020 And you know what they had? They had a mess.

00:21:32.720 and you know what happened ISIS formed those generals and those soldiers got together the 0.61

00:21:37.760 police got together they all got together they formed ISIS not going to happen with us so Venezuela

00:21:44.000 has been an incredible it's been an incredible situation we went in we were very successful

00:21:50.240 military power like nobody's ever seen the general uh Venezuelan general said I was on that site I

00:21:56.640 said I've never seen ferocity like that I've been doing this for 40 years he said I've never seen

00:22:02.240 in it. They hit us from 17 different it was they were all set. They saw that big beautiful aircraft

00:22:09.660 carrier the Ford in that case and planes were pouring off it at one o'clock in the morning.

00:22:15.520 So typically when you see that late at night you know you could be in trouble right and

00:22:21.940 we were all ready. They had their equipment. It was Russian and they had Chinese equipment. It was

00:22:27.940 all set they were gonna give us a fight he said and then they came and they

00:22:33.280 came at speeds like we've never seen and they came at 17 different angles the

00:22:39.040 general and his people that was a lot of angles they hit him from every angle he

00:22:43.240 said we knew it was over in three minutes we were waiting for them their

00:22:49.660 equipment didn't work and there's a reason it didn't work someday we'll

00:22:53.660 explain that to people they pressed the button nothing happened they pressed it

00:22:58.280 again and again nothing happened and he said we knew this whole thing was over in

00:23:03.020 three minutes we've never seen any he used the word ferocity the ferocity of

00:23:08.360 these planes from 17 different angles and was over they went inside and

00:23:12.740 remember that was on a military base with thousands of soldiers and those

00:23:17.060 soldiers looked and they said get the hell out of here thousands we didn't

00:23:21.660 thousands. We had like 200 people. So we have a great military and I'll tell you what somehow this rescue captured the world's attention more so than normally you're talking about two people. But this rescue captured the world's attention. But we did it in Venezuela. That was amazing. And now we have a very bad man in prison and going to trial. I mean he he released aside from the drugs which he was

00:23:51.340 terrible Maduro released hundreds of thousands of people from jails into our

00:23:57.700 country drug dealers murderers the worst people in the world were released 1.00

00:24:02.680 into our country because we had a stupid president who probably didn't 1.00

00:24:07.660 know and we had a border czar who never went to the border and never once called 1.00

00:24:11.800 our great Border Patrol agents right not once Kamala she never called the Border

00:24:16.240 Patrol she never said how we do I used to call the Border Patrol guys every day

00:24:20.020 you can ask them Paul ask any one of them Brandon ask him all the time how are

00:24:25.480 we doing how we doing and we now I'm proud to say have a totally sealed

00:24:29.380 border nine months nobody is coming through up and nobody even tries

00:24:32.560 because I know they're not going to get through so we don't have caravans

00:24:35.440 anymore so maybe one or two more and we'll be done are you willing to end

00:24:44.920 this conflict with iran charging tolls for passage through the strait uh us charging tolls

00:24:51.640 iran what about us charging is that something you're considering i'd rather do that than let

00:24:57.240 them have them run why shouldn't we we're the winner we won okay they are militarily defeated

00:25:04.440 the only thing they have is the psychology of oh we're going to drop a couple of

00:25:08.440 mines in the water all right no we i mean we have a concept where we'll charge tolls okay

00:25:14.040 I thought you meant us.

00:25:16.840 Your question would have been more accurate if you said us.

00:25:21.340 Go ahead.

00:25:22.340 The Press, just to clarify, in order for Iran

00:25:25.360 to successfully meet your deadline tomorrow,

00:25:28.080 do they have to make a deal, open the street, or both?

00:25:31.600 The President, we have to have a deal that's acceptable to me.

00:25:35.000 And part of that deal is going to be

00:25:36.820 we want free traffic of oil and everything else.

00:25:39.640 Mr. President, thank you very much.

00:25:45.640 You've said glory be to God in this conflict.

00:25:48.440 Do you believe that God supports the United States' actions in this conflict?

00:25:51.360 I do, because God is good.

00:25:53.320 Because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of.

00:25:58.440 God doesn't like what's happening.

00:26:00.300 I don't like what's happening.

00:26:01.520 Everyone says, I enjoy it.

00:26:02.600 I don't enjoy this.

00:26:03.580 I don't enjoy it.

00:26:04.260 These two guys don't enjoy it.

00:26:05.660 You know, people say, oh, boy, they're so tough.

00:26:08.060 they don't want they don't like I don't like seeing people killed I've ended eight wars nobody's ever done it

00:26:14.460 the person who won the Nobel Prize came to me and said you deserve the Nobel Prize she announced that when they announced they said 0.82

00:26:22.120 goes to Maria she's a great person really a good person she said no no no this is ridiculous

00:26:29.900 they gave me the Nobel Prize President Trump ended eight wars I could go over every one of them including India and Pakistan

00:26:37.320 where the Prime Minister of Pakistan said President Trump saved from 30 to 50 million lives.

00:26:44.960 That makes me much happier than what we're doing right now.

00:26:48.960 That makes me much happier. We have one more to end, by the way.

00:26:56.680 President, you called yesterday in your Truth Social, you called the Iranians crazy bastards. 1.00

00:27:02.380 True. 0.99

00:27:02.760 What is your response to critics who say that it is your mental health that should perhaps be examined as this war continues?

00:27:12.160 Well, I haven't heard that, but if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade, on everything, for many years until I came along.

00:27:24.020 So if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people.

00:27:26.340 Josh, you go.

00:27:28.260 Josh, you said that very little is off limits in Iran as far as targeting.

00:27:32.300 including power plants bridges you've mentioned those very little is often are there certain kinds

00:27:37.100 of civilian targets though i'm thinking i don't want to tell you that i don't want to tell you

00:27:41.200 that we have we have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in iran will be

00:27:51.340 decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night where every power plant in iran will be out of business

00:27:59.920 burning exploding and never to be used again I mean complete demolition by 12

00:28:06.220 o'clock and it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to we don't

00:28:10.720 want that to happen we may even get involved with helping them rebuild their

00:28:15.520 nation and you know what if that's the case the last thing we want to do is

00:28:19.780 start with power plants which are among the most expensive thing and bridges you

00:28:24.160 saw the bridge the bridge one we were very close to a deal and then I got a

00:28:29.200 call from mr. Whitcoff mr. Kushner and JD saying I think they're breaking the

00:28:38.180 deal I said tell them that's okay don't worry about it but tell them to look out

00:28:43.120 their window and watch and within 45 minutes I gave the order to knock out

00:28:48.200 the biggest bridge I gave the order knock out the biggest bridge in I believe

00:28:53.740 the Middle East but the biggest bridge in Iran and within 10 minutes after I 0.99

00:28:59.140 gave that order that bridge was was over so so do i want to do that no do i want to destroy their

00:29:07.140 infrastructure no it will take them a hundred years to rebuild right now if we left today

00:29:14.420 it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country and it would never be as good as it was

00:29:19.780 and the only way they're going to be able to rebuild their country is to utilize the genius

00:29:24.100 of the united states of america you voiced your displeasure with nato in the past is there a danger

00:29:33.260 to the u.s. not being the de facto of the leader of the alliance and then other powers within the

00:29:39.260 alliance then getting the decision making when it comes to wars and nuclear weapons it's not a

00:29:43.960 danger nato's look we went to nato i didn't ask very strongly i just said hey if you want to help

00:29:50.500 great no no no we will not help i said that's all right you don't want to help because i've always

00:29:55.780 said nato's a paper tiger see nato is a paper tiger putin's not afraid of nato putin's afraid

00:30:02.660 of us very afraid of us and he's explained it to me a lot of times i got to know him very well i

00:30:08.260 know very well uh nato's a paper tiger nato is us and when we needed them but we didn't need them

00:30:15.460 And by the way, we didn't need them, obviously, because they haven't helped at all.

00:30:20.160 Just the opposite.

00:30:21.040 They've actually gone out of their way not to help.

00:30:23.400 They didn't even want to give us landing strips.

00:30:26.600 Think of it.

00:30:27.480 And it's not just NATO.

00:30:28.800 You know who else didn't help us?

00:30:30.420 South Korea didn't help us.

00:30:32.260 You know who else didn't help us?

00:30:34.320 Australia didn't help us.

00:30:35.800 You know who else didn't help us? 0.96

00:30:37.680 Japan.

00:30:39.320 We've got 50,000 soldiers in Japan to protect them from North Korea.

00:30:44.480 We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong-un, who I get along with very well, as you know.

00:30:53.620 Do you notice? He said very nice things about me.

00:30:55.660 He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person, okay? 0.64

00:31:00.000 So don't tell me about your stuff. 1.00

00:31:03.200 Joe Biden, he said he's a mentally retarded person. 1.00

00:31:05.860 He was so nasty to Joe Biden. It was terrible. 1.00

00:31:08.400 But to me, he likes Trump.

00:31:10.300 And do you notice how nice things are with North Korea? It's very nice.

00:31:13.540 But we have 45,000 people, soldiers, in harm's way.

00:31:19.120 And right next to Kim Jong-un with a lot of nuclear weapons,

00:31:22.860 which should have never happened, if a certain president,

00:31:27.040 I'm not going to mention this president because I happen to like him, believe it or not,

00:31:30.380 but if a certain president did his job, Kim Jong-un would not have nuclear weapons right now.

00:31:35.500 But they were all afraid to do their job properly.

00:31:37.600 But just to conclude and just to finish, Japan didn't help us, Australia didn't help us,

00:31:45.340 South Korea didn't help us, and then you get to NATO, NATO didn't help us.

00:31:49.800 There were some countries that did.

00:31:51.340 Now, countries that have been good, now you could also say they've got to be a little bit more involved

00:31:56.260 because they're in the territory, but Saudi Arabia has been excellent, Qatar has been excellent,

00:32:01.660 UAE has been excellent, Bahrain, Kuwait.

00:32:04.520 I mean Kuwait did shoot down three of our planes the only planes really that

00:32:08.840 we lost with friendly fire they call it I call it unfriendly fire they unfortunately

00:32:14.900 didn't know how to use our our great Patriots the pilot said what kind of a

00:32:21.560 missiles coming at us Patriot boom they got out because they know a Patriot never

00:32:26.780 misses so they had beautiful Patriots there were planes heading in their

00:32:31.380 direction. Unfortunately, they decided to shoot those planes. They were our planes. So, you know, NATO is a paper tiger. Now, he's coming to see me on Wednesday, as you know. He's a wonderful guy. Secretary General is great. And Mark Ruta. He's a great person, but he's got. And you know, it all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us. And I said, bye bye.

00:33:01.380 Okay, thank you very much, everybody.

00:33:07.940 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth-generation warfare.

00:33:21.880 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:33:28.220 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:33:31.380 Christ is king.

00:33:34.700 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board.

00:33:36.120 Today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:33:38.280 We're here live, Washington, D.C.

00:33:40.100 Today is April 6, 2026.

00:33:42.740 And, Domini, we're here in studio.

00:33:44.900 President Trump just giving a round-robin press conference on this incredible rescue,

00:33:50.320 successful mission that took place behind enemy lines in Iran.

00:33:54.780 We've got Keb Sobek, Keb Poso, our field correspondent riding side saddle.

00:33:59.200 We've got Tom Sauer here as well.

00:34:01.060 United States Navy veteran, Tom, you know, you, you've gone through a lot of these courses,

00:34:07.240 E&E walked through, you know, just how remarkable it is that the United States was able to

00:34:12.520 pull off this kind of mission and how, quite frankly, this is the kind of thing that you

00:34:17.240 just don't usually see. No, that's right. And by the way, I'll just say it. I think all of us kind

00:34:22.540 of in the vet community, we're sort of waiting for that, for that message that, Hey, they caught

00:34:26.240 him. Yeah. I was actually really worried about it. Totally. I mean, I'm not saying we wanted,

00:34:30.900 I'm saying there was that anxiety that, like, eh, he's way in there.

00:34:36.260 No, absolutely.

00:34:37.060 And one of the things that they always teach us is that, you know,

00:34:40.020 very rarely do you rise to the occasion.

00:34:41.720 You sink to the lowest level of training.

00:34:43.400 Correct.

00:34:43.800 And so that is something that all these pilots have been trained in consistently.

00:34:47.260 And then this time they knew it was happening for real.

00:34:49.620 And now when that actually happened, he was injured.

00:34:52.820 He knew what to do.

00:34:53.440 He had to get high.

00:34:54.040 He had to hide, and he had to get high.

00:34:55.960 And at the same time, we deployed that Guardian Angel package, which is incredible, with Air Force pararescue.

00:35:03.040 And then we also had the HC-130s with the Little Birds.

00:35:05.920 I mean, we set up our own base out there, our own little FARP, you know, Ford area, what, Ford area, we're fueling point.

00:35:13.180 We're fueling point, yeah.

00:35:14.060 Yeah, I mean, it's just like we set one up right there.

00:35:15.860 We immediately got to work.

00:35:17.340 We bombed the living daylights out of all the approach roads. 0.93

00:35:20.640 I was watching satellite pictures where they actually had all the roads that approached where the Americans were.

00:35:26.780 And they dropped several 2,000-pound bombs there.

00:35:29.480 And these craters, they said from space, you could see them.

00:35:31.640 The craters were about nine meters wide.

00:35:33.940 So basically, like, any avenue of approach for the Iranians to come to where our little base was and to where our downed pilot was. 1.00

00:35:40.480 Because he's way out there in Indian country. 0.99

00:35:43.020 Yeah, he's way out there. 1.00

00:35:43.980 And his call sign is Dude 4-4.

00:35:45.940 How cool is that?

00:35:46.820 Awesome.

00:35:47.500 Kevin, one of the things, let me ask you on this, because I saw a lot of this,

00:35:51.280 and I'm sure you saw it as well online, where people were saying,

00:35:54.220 a lot of foreigners were saying, why do you Americans do this?

00:35:57.040 Who cares?

00:35:57.800 I mean, you spent a bunch of money, you had to, you know, frag a couple of your own platforms.

00:36:02.680 Why do you Americans care so much about getting that one person, that lone survivor,

00:36:09.420 allowing to get that one person home?

00:36:11.360 Why are we willing to go to such great lengths?

00:36:14.100 What do other countries miss about us?

00:36:16.740 Well, this is not just, I mean, all soldiers, we can't leave them behind.

00:36:21.180 No man left behind.

00:36:22.300 And I think that's the motto for the U.S. paratroopers, the Air Force.

00:36:27.380 So that the letters may live.

00:36:28.640 Absolutely.

00:36:29.340 That's it there.

00:36:30.700 Yeah, I mean, this is an F-15 pilot.

00:36:33.520 I believe there was two as well, or just the one was recovered.

00:36:37.100 Well, they're both recovered, the pilot, and then this was the weapons officer.

00:36:40.040 I see.

00:36:40.460 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:41.060 But I'm saying, what does it say about the American ethos that we put our human life on such a high pedestal?

00:36:49.360 Other countries don't do this, by the way.

00:36:51.140 I mean, we value all the American military members, service members overseas.

00:36:55.920 I mean, this is a critical operation.

00:36:57.920 We don't want to see them stuck behind at all.

00:37:01.740 And, you know, it's an amazing mission.

00:37:04.000 We saved the dude.

00:37:05.780 Saved the dude.

00:37:06.280 Just saved the dude 44.

00:37:07.460 Dude is coming home.

00:37:08.560 That's right.

00:37:08.980 Dude is coming home.

00:37:09.640 Tom, let me let me ask you this, because on the same question, because I'll just say that I was involved in an exercise with a, let's say, partner force nation.

00:37:17.920 Yes. As you know, the ubiquitous partner force nation that I'd like to talk about when we don't like to name names.

00:37:23.220 Right. And I remember, you know, talking about this and, you know, this exercise exercise purposes, you know, situation that, you know, they said, OK, we're going to do this.

00:37:31.560 We're going to send this unit in and then we're going to have this.

00:37:33.480 And I said, wait, you're going to send the unit in before you have air assets. 0.99

00:37:37.600 I mean, you're going to get all those guys killed. 0.99

00:37:39.640 Yeah. You know, and and I remember this this part of force nation officer said to me, they're infantry.

00:37:45.760 That's what they're for. Right. Again, there's just other countries don't fight like we fight.

00:37:50.460 I'll give you a great example of this with another partner force nation as a third world country that many people on Twitter love saying poor things about.

00:37:59.540 Third world country. Sure. And we had a picture. We saw a picture from an actual IED event where there was a EOD technician for a bomb technician from this partner force country sticking his hands into a bomb, a live bomb with this bomb suit visor up.

00:38:18.740 As you do. As one does. And then I thought to myself, well, wait, who's taking the picture? 0.70

00:38:22.620 Right. Right. And then we asked him, I said, well, wait, why don't you use the town robots that we sold you?

00:38:27.520 Right, right, right.

00:38:27.980 And that third world country's officer said to me, those robots cost $150,000.

00:38:33.220 Oh, no.

00:38:34.400 There it is.

00:38:35.680 Yeah.

00:38:35.960 You know?

00:38:36.740 Yeah.

00:38:37.020 So.

00:38:37.580 No, actually, come to think of it, I remember a number of times when, as you know, because

00:38:41.820 I had did some EOD work from the Intel side, that that would come up over and over.

00:38:47.900 We would give them, sometimes we'd sell them technology, a lot of times we'd just give

00:38:51.240 it to them.

00:38:51.700 Right.

00:38:52.360 And then you'd go back and it's like, oh, we haven't used it since the last time you

00:38:55.720 guys were here.

00:38:56.380 Right.

00:38:56.620 And you're like, you're supposed to be using those to protect people, especially side scans, all the stuff.

00:39:04.160 And they're just not using it because they don't put that premium on human life that we do.

00:39:10.800 Which, by the way, you know, at the same time, even if you take, you know, sort of, Kevin, like you're talking about the moral aspects of it and even the spiritual aspects, I'd go that far.

00:39:22.660 just from a military perspective think of how much time and investment and money that you put

00:39:29.020 into training whoever that guy is that getting him to that point if if something happens to him

00:39:35.280 you got to yank somebody off the street you know joe nobody and you got to start from scratch tom

00:39:39.280 you can't just buy another experienced f-15 pilot you can't just buy another senior enlisted special

00:39:46.940 operations uh you know team sergeant or team chief or anything like that like that takes time to

00:39:51.880 develop so even again from a military standpoint you know people are far more important than

00:39:56.100 hardware that's something that general kane uh said today and i see it on twitter on x now a lot

00:40:01.820 but to me that's something that like i always knew and i think some people are just now realizing

00:40:05.760 that that is how the u.s military has and always will operate so that's one of the things i thought

00:40:12.080 was really interesting people you know i see the europeans and you spent 300 million dollars and

00:40:15.880 you lost all these aircraft just to recruit one guy and it's like guess what and we'll do it again

00:40:19.980 And we'll do it again. We'll do it every single time.

00:40:22.800 A great example of this as well, if you've ever heard of Neil Roberts,

00:40:25.440 Roberts Ridge was a Navy SEAL from Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6,

00:40:29.840 who was lost in Taqar Gur in Afghanistan in 2002.

00:40:34.440 And they didn't know if he was alive right away.

00:40:36.780 And then eventually, even after they knew he was killed in action,

00:40:40.040 seven men died and 12 were wounded and two or three helicopters were lost just to recover his body.

00:40:46.240 They knew he was dead, but they did that simply to recover his body.

00:40:49.020 So that's something when it comes to combat, search and rescue. It's not just about saving a life. It's like, no, no, because we know that every time, hey, were you going in harm's way? No matter what happens to me, people will fight and kill and die for you, your body, dead or alive, to come home. That's what they know no matter what happens. That's pretty impressive.

00:41:07.620 Well, it speaks as well, I would say, to it is part of the ethos.

00:41:13.160 I mean, I would say it does kind of give you that subconscious knowledge that if something happens to me, that someone's got my back.

00:41:19.720 Yes, because if you want more people to join, you have to understand that's the ethos.

00:41:24.000 But I wouldn't necessarily say that that's something that people actively think about.

00:41:28.640 It's just it's it's not really something that I've heard people talk about.

00:41:31.740 But again, it's it's it's that spirit of core.

00:41:34.960 It's that a spirit of core that, hey, if my buddy's down there, I'm going to go help my buddy or I'm going to do whatever I can.

00:41:40.200 And in many cases, some people were saying that, you know, some of the F-15s that were flying the cab for this thing that may have even been part of the same squadron as the guys who went down.

00:41:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:41:50.640 And it shows we follow through, too, as Americans.

00:41:52.980 You have video games about modern warfare.

00:41:55.600 You got Top Gun movies.

00:41:57.160 You got the movie Behind Enemy Lines was literally the same situation.

00:42:01.040 so talk about joining and you know being pro-military we have this in movie theaters

00:42:06.660 and hollywood's pushing this out but it's like hey guys we're following through well this was

00:42:10.480 that was actually one of the things that was trending this weekend because the the plot of

00:42:13.760 not top gun one but top gun two is the is there the f-15 crash well i guess i guess it's f-35 i

00:42:20.300 think or a 22 in top gun two i forget actually but but the point is tom cruise all right tom

00:42:24.340 cruise crashes with his wizzo and then they have to find a tomcat that just happens to be on the

00:42:30.620 round and again third world nation but it's definitely iran in that movie yeah so so people

00:42:37.000 were saying that is he gonna maybe he'll just find it there and they can right hot wire it

00:42:40.980 and fly it back up again yeah was that was that a little predictive programming what do you think

00:42:45.940 i don't know maybe i mean who funded top gun maverick chinese companies that's a great point

00:42:51.420 because they took they took they took uh they took taiwan they wanted off the patch and i don't 0.91

00:42:56.780 know. I think they want to go after it. That's an interesting take because we know that, of course,

00:43:01.060 the Chinese are standing. Well, put it this way. The Chinese don't like the instability that's

00:43:06.460 going on right now. They want the oil flowing. They don't like seeing this. They're working with

00:43:10.640 the Pakistanis to try to work out this five point plan. They're pushing Iran to say, hey, guys, 0.83

00:43:15.060 say you want to cease fire. But there is. And I'm just going to say as well, there is a huge split

00:43:19.200 right now between the Iranian civilian leadership because you've seen them come out and say, hey,

00:43:25.820 we would like a ceasefire. The president, Pestien, has come out and said this. But again,

00:43:29.360 the military leadership is like, no, no ceasefire. We're going to keep going. Because remember,

00:43:33.780 and this is absolute key, is that the IRGC, right, their loyalty isn't to pragmatism. Their loyalty

00:43:41.420 is to the regime itself. They're considered the defenders of the revolution. That's why it's the

00:43:47.020 Revolutionary Guard Corps. So they're chosen for their loyalty to the revolution. Therefore,

00:43:52.780 They don't care what happens to the economy.

00:43:55.060 They don't care what happens to any of that stuff.

00:43:56.400 They're going all in.

00:43:58.100 They're all in.

00:43:58.900 So just, Tom, last bit to you before I know you've got to run.

00:44:03.180 When you're dealing with all of this, look, let's zoom out here.

00:44:07.060 Great operation, incredible to see.

00:44:09.320 And I said this on Twitter, regardless of what anyone's position on the war is, the strategy, it's just cool.

00:44:14.420 And it's just awesome, right?

00:44:15.920 It's just awesome to see the prowess of the United States military.

00:44:18.800 but Tom that being said the fact that they were able to shoot down a number of our planes that

00:44:24.340 does speak to the fact that they're still in the fight they've still got something I agree I mean

00:44:28.460 there there are they are going to be able to get a few pot shots here and there there might be one

00:44:31.860 or two missiles that they pull out of Heidi there might be a few drones they pull but by and large

00:44:35.700 we've got a lot of control over the airspace and over that country but I agree with you it is great

00:44:41.660 to see winners winning and also I think what one thing it's always important to keep in mind that

00:44:46.780 Like me, for instance, I had some real doubts and reservations on the run up to all this.

00:44:51.120 But now that we're doing as well as we are, despite what many other people would like to tell you, the fact we're doing as well as we are, I'm very I'm actually I'm very pleased about it.

00:45:00.400 Because also, like even if when it's just that success, even if it's something that maybe some people might not have been too excited about us doing, when you succeed at it, it becomes more popular.

00:45:10.920 Oh, winning reads popularity.

00:45:12.360 Tom Sauer, can you follow me, brother?

00:45:13.780 Find me on X at Thomas B. Sauer.

00:45:16.600 Thomas B. Sauer. All right, he'll be right back. Folks, Human Events is a very special guest.

00:45:22.120 You'll only like to understand why. Coming up next, here will be your turn, Real America's Voice.

00:45:46.600 All this, the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour.

00:45:52.540 I can say confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential

00:45:56.780 nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec.

00:45:58.480 And that is, I'll be honest.

00:46:04.460 All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back live human events daily here in Washington,

00:46:11.020 D.C.

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00:47:37.720 I'm very excited right now.

00:47:39.680 Very special guest.

00:47:40.960 I told you guys about this.

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00:47:48.200 He's been on the show before.

00:47:49.580 We've done sit-downs, and he's kind of the man of the hour for a number of reasons.

00:47:53.500 Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Hilton, candidate for California governor, joins us today right

00:48:00.500 on the heels of his endorsement early this morning by President Trump. Steve, how are you?

00:48:06.140 I'm fantastic. Great to be with you, Jack. And I'm thrilled because this is my first

00:48:10.620 public reaction and it's with you. And I'm so happy that it is. We saw each other not that

00:48:16.080 long ago, a few months ago in Bakersfield when we were both there with Megyn Kelly on her tour.

00:48:21.780 And I told you then, I think that we can do this in California. People are sick of the nonsense

00:48:26.560 after 16 years of Democrat one-party rule.

00:48:29.820 And it's been getting better and better since then.

00:48:31.720 I've been leading in the polls, leading on fundraising.

00:48:34.440 There's a lot of energy.

00:48:35.740 And this was a great, great piece of news.

00:48:38.820 Totally unexpected.

00:48:39.980 I hadn't spoken to the president about this at all.

00:48:42.740 I did speak to him afterwards.

00:48:44.840 And it's just wonderful.

00:48:46.000 And, of course, an incredible honor to be endorsed by our president.

00:48:50.480 Well, that's incredible.

00:48:51.380 I was just going to ask you.

00:48:52.620 I can tell you've got some interviewing skills there

00:48:55.540 because you anticipated my first question was did you know beforehand so you said you didn't know

00:49:01.040 you did speak to him afterwards are you able to tell us what the president said to you when you

00:49:05.240 spoke after your endorsement yeah he was he was obviously you know i know the president we have

00:49:10.240 we have a not close um in the sense that we're not on the phone the whole time but we've known

00:49:14.340 each other for years as he noted in his endorsement message um and we had a great conversation and he

00:49:19.760 was obviously very this is the incredible thing about this man um with everything else going on

00:49:24.480 He was very aware of the dynamics of the race, the Democrat candidates, the other Republican in the race.

00:49:30.580 We had a bit of a conversation about that.

00:49:32.060 But the thing that we most discussed and the thing that is so exciting about the prospect of the potential change we can bring about in California is, like, imagine what it will be like when I win in November, take office in January.

00:49:46.480 And then you've got the governor of our biggest state, by far the biggest economy in America, working with the president and his team to advance common sense goals like energy independence and finding fraud and enforcing our immigration laws.

00:50:03.640 All these things and many, many more where literally the people in charge now, Newsom, and especially his attorney general, Rob Bonta, are constantly fighting Trump on everything, anything Trump wants to do or anything that the administration wants to do with respect to California.

00:50:20.020 it's no, we're fighting it, lawsuits, everything. And it's just ridiculous. It's going to be a huge

00:50:25.300 day, not just for California, but for the whole country, when you've got our biggest state,

00:50:29.460 the biggest economy now aligned with the common sense goals in terms of energy and fraud and all

00:50:36.900 the other things and deregulation and enforcing immigration law. It's going to be a huge, huge

00:50:42.300 change for the whole country. Now, I have to ask you, because we've seen recently that Governor

00:50:48.600 Newsom has come out and talked about, oh, the gas prices are so up, they're so much higher in

00:50:54.740 California, and he's blaming all of it on Iran. And certainly, to be sure, the oil markets have

00:51:00.820 absolutely contracted. But Steve, is that the real reason that gas is up so high in California?

00:51:06.980 And is there anything that the governor could do, or perhaps a new governor, to provide relief there?

00:51:12.400 Of course. Look, the reason that we have the highest gas prices, I mean, you go around

00:51:17.000 california i'm on the road the whole time and so you know last week we were seeing 650 690 we saw

00:51:23.520 723 um at one point and it's just insane however bad it is in in america in terms of the temporary

00:51:31.040 spike from from what's going on in the mid east it's at least two dollars a gallon worse in

00:51:35.460 california um trump is the president here as well uh the iran war is also going on um as it were

00:51:43.300 here. So it can't be that. It's obviously not that. It's obviously Gavin Newsom and his policies,

00:51:48.660 a combination of the gas tax, which is the highest in the country, the regulations on production

00:51:56.400 and refining of oil, which are ridiculous and don't do anything for the climate. All they do

00:52:02.120 is cause pain. And then the final part is shutting down our oil and gas industry in California. We

00:52:09.580 have abundant oil reserves in california and yet we're closing it down we are now importing nearly

00:52:14.700 80 percent of the oil we use in california there's a pipeline in and out of california so what we're

00:52:20.480 doing is shipping it in from halfway around the world our number one provider of oil today is

00:52:24.960 iraq it's just insane when we have it here all in the name of climate they're spewing out carbon

00:52:30.900 emissions on these tankers bringing oil from iraq to california when we have it here but they want

00:52:37.160 to pretend that this is good for the environment. It's just insane. And so, Steve, as governor,

00:52:42.380 what could you do to provide relief to Californians on this? So number one is you can suspend the gas

00:52:47.820 tax. And in fact, even some Democrats have been calling for that. And that has to be with the

00:52:52.840 legislature, but that can be suspended over time. It needs to be reduced. But the underlying thing

00:52:58.340 that the governor really can do directly is open up California oil and gas production because

00:53:03.300 they're closing it down through administrative action through one of the agencies of state

00:53:07.580 government, where I would kick out the climate fanatics who are there now, put in place

00:53:12.220 common sense pro-energy people, and tell them to issue every single permit that the industry 0.95

00:53:17.680 needs.

00:53:17.980 I've had these conversations with the industry, and we think that if we've got a sensible

00:53:22.360 attitude there, we can double California oil and gas production every two years.

00:53:26.460 That creates more business for the refineries, so they don't have to close down, so we don't

00:53:31.340 have to import finished gasolines and the whole system can get back on track so actually there's

00:53:37.320 a lot you can do and very quickly as governor to turn this situation around and bring down prices

00:53:41.980 it was actually the first one of my previous conversations with the president i'll share with

00:53:45.280 you um one of the first pledges that i made in fact the first pledge on the campaign trail

00:53:50.220 after i launched my campaign was three dollar gas in california of course three dollar gas for the

00:53:54.940 of the country sounds what's so good about that for us it's amazing um and i remember speaking

00:54:01.480 to the president about something else and he cut me off and he'd seen me talking about he said hey

00:54:05.440 steve i've seen you talk about three dollar gas keep saying that you'll win the race just with

00:54:09.400 that and then he stopped and said wait what about 250 what about 250 steve our real quick our field

00:54:18.260 correspondent kevin posobik has a quick question for you hey steve and and your endorsement now

00:54:23.660 It comes on the heels of another voter ID initiative in California, you know, amidst this filibustering with the SAVE Act.

00:54:31.960 I wanted to ask you, so you guys got over a million signatures and you only needed about 800,000, it seems.

00:54:39.520 What's your team doing to head this on moving forward?

00:54:43.380 Real quick, just one minute, Steve.

00:54:45.000 I'm so glad you raised that.

00:54:46.280 It's actually one of the main reasons we really can pull this off and bring the shock victory in November, which I know no one is expecting.

00:54:54.600 They say California is so democratic.

00:54:56.420 It's all about turnout, of course, in a midterm election.

00:54:59.860 And voter ID on the ballot in November, as it will now be, is a huge driver of Republican turnout.

00:55:06.080 So that's one of the big reasons I think we can win is that voter ID ballot initiative.

00:55:10.380 The other, of course, is the disastrous Democrat field.

00:55:13.900 I mean, look at who they're sending.

00:55:15.680 As the president would say, they're not sending their best.

00:55:18.320 Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter, the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer.

00:55:23.600 These Democrats are all beatable.

00:55:26.320 And now with the president's endorsement, I'm very confident that I will indeed beat whichever one of them.

00:55:31.340 Well, congratulations and Godspeed to you, Steve Hilton.

00:55:34.480 Check him out. Steve Hilton for governor.

00:55:36.700 Check out Kevin Posobiec as well on X.

00:55:39.400 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have our permission to lay ashore.

00:55:45.680 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - April 06, 2026

Inside the Easter Rescue Operation and the Mission to Save CA From Gavin Newsom

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