Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik has passed away at 69 after a private battle with illness. A longtime New York cop and correction officer, Kerik took his position in the annals of history as Police Commissioner on the city s darkest day, September 11th, 2001.
00:01:04.720Elon will continue to be an important advisor for both me and the president.
00:01:08.880And most importantly, the job, the job of making the government more efficient, of not wasting people's money, that has to continue.
00:01:16.560And a federal appeals court has restored the president's reciprocal tariffs against other nations.
00:01:21.240This comes one day after another panel of judges blocked them.
00:01:24.840President Trump will be in Pennsylvania for a rally today.
00:01:27.260This follows a deal for Japan-based Nippon Steel to invest in U.S. steel.
00:01:32.460Trump had initially pledged to block the takeover of the Pittsburgh-based U.S. steel, but now he says there's an agreement for partial ownership.
00:01:39.560It's not clear how ownership would be structured.
00:01:42.060Today's rally will be at the U.S. Steelworks in West Mifflin.
00:01:44.960The Trump administration is changing leadership in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, due to frustrations over the lack of arrests and deportations.
00:01:53.040Stephen Miller said it out loud earlier this week in which he said he expects the administration and ICE to up its numbers of arrests and deportations to upwards of 3,000 arrests a day.
00:02:04.340That's certainly a number that President Trump has focused on.
00:02:08.560Bernie Kerik, the 40th Commissioner of the NYPD, has died.
00:02:12.960A longtime New York cop and correction officer, Kerik took his position in the annals of New York history as Police Commissioner on the city's darkest day, September 11th.
00:02:22.360Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board today's edition of Human Events Daily here live from Budapest, Hungary.
00:02:51.760A man who stared down chaos and said, not on my watch.
00:02:56.860And I got to meet Bernie many times, and he's always been an incredible force in this movement, an incredible force for MAGA, an incredible force for this country.
00:03:07.420Bernie was appointed by Rudy Giuliani at the helm of the NYPD in the year 2000.
00:03:11.760New York was already on the mend, but he kicked it into overdrive.
00:03:15.660Under his leadership, violent crime down 63%.
00:03:50.500And then came 9-11, the day that broke America's heart.
00:03:55.760Bernie was at ground zero within minutes, covered in ash, coordinating the greatest rescue mission in history, standing shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Giuliani, steady hand in the storm, leading 55,000 officers through hell itself who saved lives.
00:04:44.260And it's said that Eric Adams, the current mayor, former cop himself, actually visited Bernie in his final hours, calling him a friend of 30 years.
00:04:53.980His legacy isn't just medals or stats.
00:04:56.540It's in the lives he saved, the city he rebuilt, the courage he inspired.
00:07:40.160Now, there's some things the Senate's going to clean up on this whole thing, right?
00:07:43.320So first and foremost, the House bill blocks Medicaid access to rural hospitals.
00:07:49.440I would imagine that the Senate's going to clean that up.
00:07:51.760Senator Josh Hawley, one of the leading America First senators, is leading the way on that.
00:07:56.380There's some other things that were tucked in there that the Senate's probably going to clean up.
00:08:00.620But for the most part, I would imagine that the bill looks a lot like what the bill that passed the House is as it makes it through the Senate.
00:08:08.840I would expect, because I've spoken to the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune.
00:10:14.840That is the government funding fight that comes after the big, beautiful bill.
00:10:18.960So they've got to do the big, beautiful bill to lock in the 2017 tax rates, do the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, all that kind of stuff, as well as a lot of the other things that the president has in there, like the immigration enforcement, the energy stuff, etc.
00:10:38.540The government is funded until the end of September.
00:10:41.940So then the Congress is going to, in July, start the process, really, of what's called the appropriations process.
00:10:50.600There's multiple ways you can fund the government.
00:10:53.260You can fund the government through a continuing resolution or an omnibus spending bill.
00:10:57.880That's the way Congress has done it for the last, like, 30 years.
00:11:00.620Conservatives have long believed that we should go back to the way we used to do it, which was the 12 different appropriations bills.
00:11:08.780The House Appropriations Chairman, Tom Cole, he has signaled that they want to go back to the 12 appropriations bills and that he hopes that the Appropriations Committee will have them through their committee, at least, and maybe even the House, by the end of July, setting up a showdown with the Senate Democrats.
00:11:29.320But that's where it's the appropriations process is where, whether it be an individual appropriations bills or an omnibus or a CR, where you would see the Doge recommendations implemented into law because they need to get it through the full Senate with the 60 votes.
00:11:50.260That sets up a showdown with the Senate Democrats and the Congressional Democrats and the House side, but particularly the Senate, because if you do have a funding plan, let's say, you know, you get close to or a little over a majority of the Senate Democrats on board,
00:12:08.920you're going to need at least seven if you add all 53 Republicans, maybe even into double digits.
00:12:16.740It just depends on the actual vote numbers that you have in the end of Democrats in the Senate to vote for this in the end.
00:12:25.280Like, so if you want to see the Doge stuff implemented, and I think a lot of people out there do, you've got to really lean on the Appropriations Committee guys,
00:12:33.800particularly in the House, because that's where this process is going to start.
00:12:38.340So Tom Cole is the chairman of that committee.
00:12:41.980He's been a longtime House Republican, an interesting guy.
00:12:45.380He really likes the process and the nitty gritty of the House of Representatives and views himself kind of like that, like a protector of the rules and like a dean of the House, et cetera.
00:12:56.080But the real fight is going to be with those guys like John Rutherford and Mike Simpson and these other members of the Appropriations Committee.
00:13:07.580They're the ones who are going to decide if Elon Musk's work makes it into federal law or not, right?
00:13:13.800Like, so do the House Appropriations Committee members go for this?
00:13:19.280And then if they get it into the House bills and they pass them out of the House, the various cuts that Doge recommended, then they have to go through the Senate as well.
00:13:31.440But the but the so the question is, is do the Republicans have particularly these Appropriations Committee guys?
00:13:38.220So, I mean, I would literally say that the person or persons who are responsible for whether or not Doge succeeds are the House Appropriations Committee Republicans, right?
00:13:53.020Like so John Rutherford comes to mind, congressman from northeast Florida, total establishment guy, by the way.
00:14:01.300And, you know, folks, folks, this is just to explain, this is where you need to put the pressure.
00:14:09.940If you want to see those Doge cuts in like we all do, that's where the pressure needs to be.
00:14:14.360And that's what Matt is explaining to us here.
00:14:16.700It goes through the appropriations process.
00:14:31.220Our team is working around the clock and also on X at M Boyle one.
00:14:35.820And yeah, and Jack, I'm happy to come back soon and talk more about it.
00:14:40.760Let's get him back on when I'm I'm back in the States and you're around.
00:14:45.400We're going to have to do an entire episode on how to make the Doge cuts permanent with Matt Boyle and probably a few other things as well.
00:15:33.880She's the editor in chief of the Human Events and the Post Millennial, where the Post Millennial has been far and away.
00:15:42.320The lead outlet reporting on this massive confrontation between Christians, Antifa and the mayor of Seattle.
00:15:53.160Libby, thank you so much for the coverage.
00:15:54.980Of course, the great Katie Davis Court, who is doing incredible field journalism down there.
00:15:59.720Can you walk us through what the Post Millennial is uncovering and what the current status of this story has been?
00:16:05.620Yeah, so Katie and Ari Hoffman, I got to give shout outs to them for doing great work covering this story.
00:16:13.640On Tuesday night, there was a protest outside City Hall where Christians showed up to demand the resignation of the mayor, Mayor Bruce Howell, who had sided with Antifa during, in the aftermath of a protest on Saturday.
00:16:30.740And the whole thing there really got a little out of control.
00:16:34.340So some Christians, the group called Mayday USA, they're staging events, concerts, Christian concerts in five cities, I think, across the country.
00:16:44.380This was in Cal Anderson Park, which, of course, you know, was the site of the CHAZ occupation in 2020 during our summer of love.
00:16:54.260Well, I spent many good nights in Cal Anderson Park.
00:16:56.520Yeah, Cal Anderson Park. So, yeah, the concert was held there and Bruce Howell came out and said that this far right rally was held intentionally in Cal Anderson Park to antagonize the LGBT community and our trans neighbors.
00:17:13.900In fact, it was later revealed that the mayor's office had recommended Cal Anderson Park as a place to hold this concert.
00:17:22.560And the organizers had originally suggested Pike Street by the famous Pike Place Market, and they were denied a permit for that location.
00:17:31.660And, yeah, the mayor's office literally recommended the park that Harold then said was an affront to trans neighbors and the LGBT community.
00:17:40.280So that's insane. In response, I think 23 people were arrested on Saturday from Antifa, from that counter protest.
00:17:48.900On Tuesday, this is something Katie Davis Court was covering at City Hall.
00:17:52.640Pastors and Christians went to protest Mayor Bruce Howell, you know, religious discrimination, all the rest of it, in addition to the complete and total hypocrisy.
00:18:01.640And there were more people arrested on Tuesday night in Seattle, and Katie was out there covering it.
00:18:12.440Since then, it's been revealed that Bruce Howell was arrested in 1996 for brandishing a firearm at a pregnant woman in a casino parking lot over a parking space dispute.
00:18:38.580Also, his former police chief, who he appointed in 2022, is suing him for wrongful termination and all kinds of other things.
00:18:46.300There's a lack of due process and termination in that case, and also saying that the mayor was trying to get him to fire people without due process.
00:18:55.980So there's an awful lot unfolding with this guy.
00:18:59.580I don't know how Seattle just keeps getting the worst leadership in the country.
00:19:05.740Well, and we saw with Mayor Jane Durkin, the problem is not the police, and so many people say, oh, we're blaming the police, blaming the police, we're blaming the residents of the business owners.
00:19:19.160I remember being there with my brother when the various car lots were being assaulted and attacked and fires were set and guns brandished by Raz Simone and others during the Chaz incident.
00:19:33.460And the issue is, of course, that people keep voting for the same far left politicians over and over again, even though it's been demonstrably proven where these policies lead.
00:19:50.160And unfortunately, it's also because the main Seattle Times, of course, will lie about these things over and over and over and only ever tell the truth until the very bitter end.
00:20:02.460And that's why we need outlets like the Post Millennial and the great reportage of Katie Davis Court, Art Hoffman, and so many others to tell the actual story.
00:20:17.380I really have a lot of respect for the reporters that go out into the street and cover this stuff from the ground.
00:20:22.720It's where you can really see what's going on, and it's not the kind of coverage that you tend to get from the major news outlets that hang back and, you know, put on their makeup and stand on the sidelines a couple of days later, you know, with their mic and their camera guy.
00:20:38.180So I have a lot of appreciation for that.
00:20:40.080Make sure you're bookmarking the Post Millennial.
00:20:41.280After you bookmark humanevents.com as well.
00:20:45.060Shout out, by the way, to Frontlines, Jonathan Chowey.
00:20:47.420He's been out there as well from the TPUSA team.
00:20:51.120Great guy, great colleague, great man to have in the fight.
00:23:52.320Well, we had an issue, and I had the opportunity to speak with great leader, Prime Minister Orban,
00:24:00.500here just yesterday in an interview that will be released later today.
00:24:03.940And I asked him about this question because, as it turns out, we were not sure exactly who was the president of the United States the last four years
00:24:15.940because we were told that it was Joe Biden, and it turns out that his brain was not quite capable all the time.
00:24:24.400And instead, he was using this auto-pen to sign his documents, and we're not entirely sure who was in control of the auto-pen.
00:24:32.660So to take your phrase and this classic phrase and turn it around, instead of having the government of the people, by the people, and for the people,
00:24:42.000we had the government of the pen, by the pen, for the pen.
00:24:46.920What's your finding of the essence of the democratic way of governance and the NGOs, the so-called civil society behind it,
00:24:58.340which obviously, in brackets, has nothing to do with real civil society?
00:25:01.560Well, this is the George Soros model of government, where when they say it's an open society,
00:25:07.440what they actually mean is that it's open for the bureaucrats and the plutocrats and the technocrats,
00:25:13.220and it is open to all manner of special interests other than the actual people of the nation itself
00:25:20.700because it serves the NGOs, it serves the Soros level, it serves the bureaucracy level,
00:25:26.680the special interests, the corporate level, the multinationals, but it doesn't serve the people.
00:25:31.780And so when you have these governments, like the one that we just experienced in the United States for four years,
00:25:37.580this was not government of the people.
00:25:39.100So, of course, this raises many questions for democracy.
00:25:43.220Who is actually representing the people?
00:39:24.700We saw so many kids just running around, enjoying the music, dancing, having fun, being outside with their parents, being outside, just enjoying the beautiful weather, strolling.
00:39:37.600And it really gave me that sense of how incredible it is that places like this exist.
00:39:43.860And right in the heart of the city, you can just walk off, enjoy a beautiful day with kids, do all the fun activities, and don't have to break the bank.
00:39:54.440Which is, you know, a very big part of raising children.
00:39:58.740All right, Jack-Jack, let me interview you.
00:40:20.680I want to say thank you again to CPAC Hungary and all of the folks there who organized this, from the Poso family, to all of you and everyone watching around the world.