For the first time in U.S. military history, the United States directly bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran conducted retaliatory strikes on American air bases, particularly one in Qatar.
00:00:30.000This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:40.040A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:00:46.720This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
00:00:50.240For the first time in U.S. military history, the U.S. directly bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:00:56.280These strikes were a spectacular military success.
00:01:01.880Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
00:01:06.860Going into this attack, President Trump was very focused in his team on what would happen next.
00:01:11.900And what he was saying, this had to be a one-and-done attack, focused solely on those nuclear sites.
00:01:17.420He didn't want to get bogged into a long-standing war.
00:01:20.260If there was a follow-up to be done, it was to be done by the Israelis.
00:01:23.860The decision on whether or not this escalates and whether or not the United States gets involved into a deeper conflict in the Middle East is no longer Donald Trump's decision.
00:01:39.600The most powerful military in the world is postured and prepared to defend our people.
00:01:43.480But what the president gave us, as I said, was a focused, powerful, and clear mission on the destruction of Iranian nuclear capabilities.
00:01:53.220Oil futures are spiking in reaction to the turmoil in the Middle East.
00:01:57.580And investors do fear that Iran would disrupt what is global shipping via the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:03.840Is the United States now at war with Iran?
00:02:06.540No, Kristen, we're not at war with Iran.
00:02:08.500We're at war with Iran's nuclear program.
00:02:10.840And what we did is we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program.
00:02:15.320I think we set that program back substantially.
00:02:17.220And we did it without endangering the lives of the American pilots.
00:02:24.200All right, folks, Jack Posobiec here, live, Washington, D.C. here.
00:02:32.200Today is June 23rd, 2025, Anno Domini.
00:02:36.480Just moments ago, Iran conducted retaliatory strikes on U.S. air bases, particularly one in Qatar, the Al-Adid air base, which is held there.
00:02:47.620Now, we're also told, though, by U.S. officials that all missiles were intercepted after being fired from Iran.
00:02:55.640Guys, we can get a map up of the Persian Gulf so people know what we're talking about.
00:02:59.100And we want people to be able to understand that this was intercepted.
00:03:05.640Some of the rockets, if they did fall down, that the damage was minimal.
00:03:11.440We're told no injuries, no casualties as of this point.
00:03:14.420And it also seems as though this is the end of the retaliation.
00:03:20.040And if this is the end of the retaliation, President Trump and also some U.S. officials briefing on background, that it looks as though they're calling it a failed retaliation and thus not requiring an escalation.
00:03:32.000And if so, this could potentially be an off-ramp being offered by the Iranians saying they don't want to break this thing out into a wider scale war with the United States.
00:03:45.140However, the neocons, on the other hand, and guys, if you could just put that map up, that the neocons are still, still foaming at the mouth for a full-on war on Iran.
00:04:30.180Mark Levin, who said he would never vote for Donald Trump, comes out and just like in 2003, you're not patriotic if you don't support this war.
00:04:39.960And then he went and even said that perhaps we should give nukes to Ukraine, which is strange because I was told that all of this was about non-proliferation.
00:04:50.600We don't want to see the proliferation of nukes, so why are you suggesting that we give nukes to a non-nuclear country?
00:04:56.720Folks, the neocons are at it again, but Human Events Daily is here to draw the line in the stand.
00:05:03.120And this retaliatory strike, whatever it was, seems more like a work than anything else.
00:05:29.860Welcome to the second American revolution.
00:05:34.320All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back here, live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C., breaking down all the updates.
00:05:46.640The Pentagon now putting out statements regarding this attack.
00:05:50.640And it looks as though, to be said, that it seems that this is the end of it.
00:05:56.380It seems, though, the retaliation was may or may not have meant to be a little bit of theater, a little bit of pay fave, as they say, in the pro wrestling community.
00:06:07.320I want to bring on now the D.C. Bureau Chief for Breitbart News, Matt Boyle.
00:06:12.520Matt, you actually have the DOD report.
00:06:17.160So here, I'm going to look down on my phone so I can read the statement for you.
00:06:20.420So this is from the DOD that they can confirm that Al-Adad Air Base, and I'm probably not pronouncing that right, in Qatar, was attacked today by short and medium range ballistic missiles originating from Iran.
00:06:33.740At this time, there are no reports of American casualties.
00:06:36.360We are closely monitoring this situation.
00:06:38.180We'll provide additional information as it becomes available.
00:06:41.380Look, I think the big picture here is, is that, first off, let me preface this by saying we only know what we know and we don't know what we don't know.
00:06:50.900But the big picture here is, is that I think this is why we elected President Trump.
00:06:55.560I think he's handled this masterfully since the very beginning.
00:07:00.440He's shown thoughtful deliberation and consternation as he's made, as he made a very critical decision to send in the B-2 bombers over the weekend to take out the nuclear sites in Iran.
00:07:15.160And the other missile strikes that you saw, the Tomahawk missiles from the Navy ships that they used on the other sites.
00:07:26.680This is a huge moment for the president.
00:07:30.720And I think he's handled it masterfully.
00:07:32.240And now we're seeing what appears to be, and again, this is early, so we don't know if there's other things coming or if there's other stuff going on, what appears to be a chance for de-escalation and a shot to do exactly what President Trump set out to do on this, which was, this was a one-and-done thing, right?
00:07:52.620I think that the speech you saw from President Trump on Saturday night, which was very short, where he was flanked by the Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as the Vice President, when he announced this to the nation and to the world, you know, it was a little bit bellicose, right?
00:08:09.020Like, so he was up there very aggressive with the Iranians, talking about future strikes as a possibility.
00:08:15.160And I think a lot of America First folks were a little bit perturbed by that, but I think that the point of that speech was to deter any serious Iranian response, and it seems to have worked, right?
00:08:26.820Like, so again, I think that the point here is, is that people across the America First movement, and I've been saying this throughout the entire process here, dating back two weeks now since Israel's began striking Iran, is that people have trust in the president.
00:08:44.240I think that the MAGA America First movement is unified behind President Trump.
00:08:49.020They want to see, they have a lot of trust in him, and frankly, they have a lot of distrust in our establishment and institutions, et cetera, the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, et cetera, and rightfully so because of the failures of leaders in both political parties for the last 30 or so years, really dating back to, you know, in the post-Ronald Reagan era.
00:09:11.700Both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Biden, you know, all of these presidents have done serious damage to the credibility of our various institutions, our intelligence agencies and our military institutions.
00:09:26.140But I think President Trump is bringing it back.
00:09:28.860And I think this is a big part of the reason why, too, you're seeing huge numbers, booms in recruiting, right?
00:09:34.980Like, I was speaking this weekend to the Navy's, U.S. Navy Secretary's spokeswoman, who's our former Pentagon correspondent from Breitbart, Christina Wong.
00:09:43.700She was telling us that they've already, three months ahead of schedule, already hit the fiscal year's recruiting goals for the United States Navy.
00:09:50.820And that's because Americans have confidence in President Trump.
00:09:55.020And I think that as President Trump navigates this, you know, really powerless situation in the Middle East, I think he's done a masterclass.
00:10:02.660And we'll see where things go from here.
00:10:04.820But I do believe that America First leaders have the utmost confidence in President Trump.
00:10:55.340And I think that President Trump clearly drew a line around this nuclear program, saying that this was always going to be his main priority when it came to this situation.
00:11:08.080Now, obviously, there are going to be questions as we go down the line between Israel and Iran and how much longer that air campaign will come down.
00:11:17.460We talked about here on this program the worry of air attrition and whether or not Israel can keep up the air defense that they've been conducting.
00:11:27.520Actually, just as we were preparing for the show, I was watching some of the air defense over Kiev because they're getting hit right now.
00:11:33.280Now, the Russians are still, by the way, rocking Kiev, and they're really advancing along the front lines because a lot of people aren't paying attention to that while everyone's distracted.
00:11:43.720And, of course, Kiev looking as though its air defense resources are running low as well because this is a finite world.
00:11:50.760And by the way, this is something that makes conservatives different from liberals.
00:11:54.200We understand that we live in a world of finite resources.
00:11:57.360Liberals don't seem to quite grasp that.
00:11:59.320And so when we look at all of this, the question, of course, for President Trump is, what is the best America first way through the entire thing?
00:12:10.140And to your point, I think he's played it very well.
00:12:12.520And I think he understands that for the U.S. to get involved at a higher level, the way you're hearing all these neocons call for is just not something that there's an appetite for.
00:12:24.080But, again, a lot depends on events from here, right?
00:12:26.960And I do think that people have the utmost confidence and trust in President Trump to handle it well.
00:12:33.260And, again, it's sad that we have to go through this, right?
00:12:36.680But the reason why we have to have this debate and this discussion openly is because of the failures of people like George Bush and the failures of people like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
00:12:48.980Like all of these loser presidents, right, of both parties really did a number on the credibility of our government.
00:12:55.880And President Trump is having to dig us out of this mess.
00:12:59.640But, again, I think that if you compare the way that Bush handled Iraq to the way that Trump is now handling Iran, it's just night and day better.
00:13:12.480And I think that the president is going to continue to – look, I always tell people, because I know President Trump really well.
00:13:20.680I always tell people this, and I've talked to him so many times over the last decade plus, right, like even before he came down the escalator.
00:13:26.840When he came down the escalator that day, I was standing at the bottom, and then I did the first interview with him up in his office later that day in the 26th floor of Trump Tower.
00:13:35.600That was a little over a decade ago, a decade and a week ago or something.
00:13:40.820I always tell people one of his best qualities – and you don't always see this because you don't always see it when the cameras are rolling.
00:13:57.780He's an excellent listener, and he's really trying to strike the right balance, and he's very thoughtful and deliberative, right?
00:14:05.160And I think that as he made this decision going into last week, I think he went back and forth on it, and he was really seriously – he wasn't sure –
00:14:15.560By the way, it was funny because you saw the reporters there in the White House when he was putting up the flagpoles last week trying to nail him down on, oh, are you going to do it?
00:14:28.500I don't even think he knew what he was going to do.
00:14:30.620I think he was still soliciting information from different people and different opinions and considering it, and then he made his decision.
00:14:38.480And I think that the America First movement, which President Trump created and built, stands behind him.
00:14:44.540And I think that all of these establishment media people that are out there saying that there's division in the MAGA movement and so on, there is no division.
00:14:52.920I think that people are very unified behind President Trump.
00:14:55.940They support him as this is going forward, and they know that he's handling it very thoughtfully and carefully, and he's trying to not get us dragged into a long-term war or conflict in the Middle East.
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00:18:05.220They're going through what's called the birdbath right now in the U.S. Senate.
00:18:08.340That's named for Robert Byrd, the former Senate Majority Leader, where they go through the process of determining what can and cannot go through the reconciliation bill process,
00:18:18.200which is a budget gimmick that allows them to pass stuff on a 51-vote threshold rather than a 60-vote threshold.
00:18:25.140So they don't have to do the nuclear option, get rid of the filibuster.
00:18:27.980Filibuster, obviously important, because if the Democrats, you know, if and when they retake the Senate, that they will, you know, ram through all sorts of radical things.
00:18:36.580So the filibusters are checking a balance there against that.
00:18:39.280So they're going through that process right now.
00:18:42.540But I do think that the events that you're seeing in the Middle East, particularly with regard to energy, are probably going to increase the urgency for this, right?
00:18:52.020Like, because one of the things that's, you saw this this morning from President Trump.
00:18:55.980He came out and said to the Energy Department, drill, baby, drill, right?
00:19:00.080Like to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
00:19:01.480Now, tomorrow morning here in Washington, D.C., I'm going to interview Secretary Wright at a Breitbart event.
00:19:07.620We're going to carry video live on Breitbart.com.
00:19:11.000And I'm sure it will be picked up in other places.
00:19:14.400But we're going to talk about exactly this.
00:19:16.100Now, there are things in this big, beautiful bill on energy that are extremely important, like, for instance, mandatory permits given out for auctions where the energy companies will bid to, and this will raise major revenue for the federal government, but it will also get the energy going for offshore drilling in the Gulf of America, as well as onshore drilling throughout the continental U.S., as well as up in Alaska.
00:19:45.000So we're going to talk all about that with Secretary Wright and the factors that are in this legislation.
00:19:50.520And the president is exactly right to focus on that, because you're hearing the Iranians talk about possibly trying to close the Strait of Hormuz.
00:19:57.960If they close that straight down, there's a lot of energy that goes through that straight.
00:20:04.760Now, it's not going to completely shut down energy development and trade throughout the world, but it would have a big impact on things.
00:20:30.260And just before we run out of time, I want to throw out that oil prices are down right now because it looks as though Iran has ended its retaliation.
00:20:38.160So we are seeing that price of Brent oil go down just as we're tracking many things here on the program.
00:20:55.940Well, Matt, it's about time you finally got back on X because we need your plugged in voice and everybody needs as much analysis as they can get as we go through these turbulent times.
00:21:08.100Is everyone enjoying the fourth turning?
00:21:10.960We told you it would happen and we told you that President Trump was the man to see it through.
00:21:42.820And these are the guys who should be getting policemen.
00:21:47.400All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back live human events daily, Washington, D.C.
00:21:52.200Beautiful flags flying over the White House.
00:21:55.520You can see that great shot right there, Jefferson Memorial in the background.
00:22:01.000It is a sweltering day here in the D.C. area, all up and down the East Coast.
00:22:07.520So if you've got a swimming pool, make sure you take care of that.
00:22:10.220Also, when you go in the pool, keep in mind, keep an eye on those kids when they go swimming.
00:22:16.040It's something that I always have to say in summertime, and people don't realize that drowning doesn't look like it does on a TV, you know, on TV or like in a movie with all the screaming and splashing.
00:22:28.840No, it's actually very quiet, and it's very quick, and it can happen within moments.
00:22:33.520Also, make sure you check your back seat when you get out, especially if you have small children.
00:25:07.900They have been doing this, the neoconservative characters, neoliberal characters, for a very long time now.
00:25:13.000And you and I also collaborated on a little book called Bulletproof, the first and only investigation to the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump.
00:25:20.300And we wrote about the intended escalation by the military industrial complex over the Iranian plots hypothesis that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Butler, Pennsylvania shooter, was in fact in league with the Iranian intelligence service.
00:25:38.060And we found that there was simply no evidence of that scenario.
00:25:42.820It's a little bit plausible, but we point out that the sustained military engagement and defense spending, which benefits the military industrial complex, could very well be behind that narrative for which we found no evidence for.
00:25:57.400An unspoken by most reason why the neoconservative crowd who call themselves Christians in many cases, an unspoken reason why there's such almost like a desire for war in the reason has to do with bad theology.
00:26:17.360There is a type of eschatology, which has to do with one's belief in an end times, let's say, called premillennial dispensationalism.
00:26:27.660That is a lot of syllables right there in that mouthful.
00:26:31.280But characters like Mike Pence, the former vice president who is praising President Donald J. Trump, we have Mark Levin, we have other characters who are on the right.
00:26:43.720They're evangelical Christians who ascribe to this idea that, and Ted Cruz spoke about this on the interview with Tucker Carlson,
00:26:51.880that the modern state of Israel, founded in 1948, is somehow the fulfillment of Old Testament biblical prophecies that are about the Jews' return to their homeland following the Babylonian exile.
00:28:52.260But we also don't like World War III, so we don't want that.
00:28:55.440And we certainly don't like the idea of the price of gas going up to $6 a gallon at the summertime.
00:29:01.480But what you're saying is there's even another group that looks at, and this, by the way, you know,
00:29:06.440if you're someone who has these beliefs, there are, understand there are people who don't, who are also Christians.
00:29:11.840So what you're saying is, they might actually be rooting this on because of this worldview.
00:29:16.700Yes, this worldview that I'm laying out, this eschatology of like end times prophecy was popularized first amongst the baby boomer generation in the late 1970s and 80s by a character named Hal Lindsey.
00:29:31.220The number one bestselling book of the 1980s was called The Late Great Planet Earth, and it was laying out everything I've just said.
00:29:38.500The 1948 refounding of the state of Israel is literally in the Bible.
00:29:42.360The modern Jewish state is literally God's chosen people.
00:29:45.780Israel is the clock is something that Hal Lindsey said.
00:29:48.860And then tens of millions of Americans grew up, came of age, and then many of them became bureaucrats, politicians, and neocons with this information environment.
00:29:59.500And part of the set of prophecies is that the biblical lands of Gog and Magog are referring to modern day Russia and Iran.
00:30:09.000So when evangelical Christians who have this eschatology, this background, when they see these headlines about Russia saying this, Iran saying this, they go, that's literally in the Bible.
00:30:22.820But wait a second, as Hal Lindsey, let's say John Hagee, T.G. Jakes, and others who put forward this idea, wait a second, Iran and Russia are literally obviously in the Old Testament prophecy, in the book of Daniel and Ezekiel and so on and so forth, Isaiah, right?
00:30:41.520They would say, the United States of America isn't in here.
00:30:44.420So the United States of America must have been absolutely wiped out in a nuclear war.
00:30:48.800So the only way for Jesus to come back is for the United States to no longer exist.
00:30:53.780And it gets a little bit dark when you realize this, but yet this is what I heard as a child growing up in this particular sect of evangelical Christianity.
00:31:03.100And while they don't say this, they don't all say this openly, I don't believe we should be following neoconservative evangelicals who believe the decisions they're going to make will necessarily result in the destruction of the United States of America.
00:31:17.220Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Mike Pence, these are probably not the influencers that we should be taking our counsel from with regard to making peace, not war.
00:31:26.960And Joshua, when we look at all this, that this is something where you can see, and I'm sure there's a variety of interests, right?
00:31:36.280I've talked about how I'm sure the Arab monarchies, who are no fans of the Persians, they're looking at those oil fields across Iran, along the Persian Gulf, and they're licking their chops, thinking that they can perhaps get access or gain control there.
00:31:51.060I've talked about how regime change schemes went on Tim Pool last week and broke down all of Operation Ajax and how that was a scheme between the CIA and originating with the MI6 to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, reinstall the shop, and completely blew up on our faces and led to the Iranian revolution.
00:32:13.320So the thing with these regime change operations is they always seem good, but then everybody forgets that the enemy gets a vote, and they always seem to spiral out of control.
00:32:23.340I can't necessarily think of a single one that's actually gone well for the United States or for anyone in any of these regions.
00:32:31.280But Joshua, that's what it comes down to, because therefore, put it this way, war is a racket, and for those on the warmonger side, they seriously want, for a variety of reasons, as you've laid out, one of the bigger ones, they actually want to see the U.S. go to war.
00:32:49.580So we have both the religious and the economic arguments for war, war, war, when in reality, I don't believe that that's what the American people want.
00:32:59.960Every survey, every poll shows how despairingly unpopular regime change in Iran is amongst not just Trump voters, but Americans more broadly, and also throughout the world.
00:33:13.660There is simply not an appetite to do this once again, even though there is, for some, a religious motivation to escalate.
00:33:21.840There's financial benefit in escalating for the military-industrial complex.
00:33:26.160It's just simply not necessary for our president of peace to, from my perspective, escalate in here.
00:33:34.100And there is that temptation for upsell.
00:33:37.020Well, it was just the one of nuclear strikes.
00:33:39.960Well, actually, maybe there's other sites.
00:33:44.640And before you know, we've added all of our shopping cart.
00:33:46.040I actually want to ask you about the psychology of upselling, you know, because this is something, a tactic that people can possibly look into on their, in their own daily basis when they know that it's coming up.
00:34:27.860And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
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00:35:40.160And Joshua, you're the co-author of the books Unhumans as well as Bulletproof, the first book that you and I wrote together, the first book all about President Trump's two assassination attempts.
00:35:50.580By the way, there was a foreign country that had a connection to one of those attempts.
00:35:55.000That was the country of Ukraine because Ryan Wesley Routh, of course, was a Ukrainian foreign fighter and appeared in propaganda videos for the Azov Battalion.
00:36:05.780But Joshua, we were talking about, and I've talked about this all last week, I've called the regime change upsell.
00:36:11.120And I see it all across the media, this constant propaganda.
00:36:14.340It was like, well, you can't just do one strike, Mr. President.