Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - September 03, 2026


JD VANCEļ¼š THE FUTURE OF THE GOP


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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, it's Jack. I wanted to let you know that we're starting a new push for subscriptions here on Human Events Daily.
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00:00:22.440 Look, we've done so much over the past couple of years since this show started, and we're only going to do so much more.
00:00:29.360 Let's get it.
00:00:59.360 of Hormuz is effectively gone, and it's a diminishing asset. So if you go back three
00:01:04.280 months ago, how much oil and gas was coming out of the strait under Iranian threats? It was
00:01:09.420 virtually nothing. Now it's almost back to where it was before the conflict even started.
00:01:15.240 So my advice to the Iranians is stop acting like crazy people and stop shooting at commercial
00:01:19.460 shipping. And in the meantime, we've got to do what we've got to do, despite what a foreign
00:01:25.380 country is going to do in the Strait of Hormuz. And the Iranians say that an attack on a wedding
00:01:30.180 celebration earlier this week killed several people, injured dozens of others. I know CENTCOM
00:01:34.720 says it's investigating, but have you been briefed on that attack, and was the U.S. responsible?
00:01:39.360 So I've been briefed to the extent that I know that we're investigating. I've seen the same
00:01:42.520 public media reports everywhere else. I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very
00:01:50.620 good scribe about what's happened in the conflict thus far. So I'm extremely skeptical of this.
00:01:55.780 What I can say with 100% confidence is that unlike the IRGC, the United States never targets
00:02:01.860 civilians in combat. We never will do that. We never have done that. And unfortunately, obviously,
00:02:08.520 sometimes things happen. But in this particular case, I don't think that we have any information
00:02:13.040 one way or the other. We're investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know. And
00:02:16.740 And if we do make mistakes, again, this is a big difference between us and Iran.
00:02:20.520 When our military makes mistakes, they learn from them to try to get better from them.
00:02:24.400 So we're investigating it very fully.
00:02:25.780 Mr. Vice President.
00:02:26.780 The Press.
00:02:27.780 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
00:02:28.780 Do you share any of the concerns of Secretary Driscoll and several Republican lawmakers
00:02:35.800 about the current state of the Army, specifically about the departure of so many generals and
00:02:41.080 other top officials?
00:02:42.080 Well, first of all, look, Dan is obviously a very good friend of mine.
00:02:45.080 I think he was a great Secretary of the Army. Pete is also a very good friend of mine, and
00:02:48.480 I think he's an amazing Secretary of War. Fundamentally, there are a lot of issues
00:02:55.700 where I agree with Pete on. The issue where I'm in the most strident agreement with Pete
00:03:00.800 is that we needed to have a culture shift at the Department of War. We have to ask ourselves
00:03:05.500 some very difficult questions, and it has nothing to do, I want to be clear, this has
00:03:08.900 nothing to do with the amazing troops that we have, the amazing military officers, non-commissioned
00:03:13.580 officers and enlisted personnel that we have. But America has fought a lot of wars since
00:03:18.980 I've been alive, 42 years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump
00:03:24.980 became the president of the United States. What does that say about the culture of military
00:03:29.280 leadership, the way that we did planning? And what does it also say, frankly, about
00:03:33.320 the political leadership that we've had in the White House, at the Department of War
00:03:37.580 for 40 years of, frankly, military misadventures. What Pete came in wanting to do was revive the
00:03:45.260 warrior spirit in the United States of America. And I think you see evidence of that happening
00:03:48.880 in a lot of different ways. Two important ways is, number one, we have recruitment at all-time
00:03:54.360 highs. We had real recruitment problems under the Biden administration because people didn't want
00:03:58.320 to join a woke military. And what I mean is they didn't want to join any military that was geared
00:04:03.520 towards a particular political narrative. They just wanted to join a military that was willing
00:04:08.760 to defend America's interests and do so at the very highest levels of professionalism and
00:04:13.920 excellence. That is what the military under President Trump's leadership is geared towards
00:04:18.100 doing. The second way that I judge just that esprit de corps, that warrior spirit that you
00:04:23.000 see at the Pentagon is when you go out and talk to troops today, they talk about how much better it
00:04:28.580 is, how much prouder they are, how much more they feel supported from Washington as opposed
00:04:33.640 to, frankly, oppressed by Washington. We're trying to bring the best and the brightest
00:04:37.700 into the United States military and support them in every way that we can. If you recall,
00:04:42.240 under the Biden administration, guys were getting fired because they were making their
00:04:46.440 own health care decisions and the Biden administration was treating them like they were convicted
00:04:50.900 criminals. We're not doing that. We're taking things in a much different direction. So I
00:04:54.940 I feel like the military is in a much better place than it was 18 months ago.
00:04:59.080 Of course, there's a lot of work still to do, and of course, some of that work is going
00:05:02.280 to take years because, frankly, the rot got so deep under previous failed administrations.
00:05:08.480 Sorry, I'm sorry.
00:05:12.760 I'm always confused a little bit by the chaos here, and unfortunately, I'm old and blind
00:05:16.440 now.
00:05:17.440 But let's go to Carrie Pickett.
00:05:19.820 The Press, President, Tucker Carlson has called for the President's impeachment and
00:05:24.820 many accused him of trying to jeopardize U.S.-Israel relations.
00:05:27.820 What do you say to those who are uneasy with your close relationship with Carlson and claim
00:05:32.820 that you're avoiding addressing a lot of these issues which may be causing divisions within
00:05:37.820 the GOP?
00:05:38.820 Mr. Well, look, I'm not avoiding addressing anything.
00:05:40.820 Everybody knows that Tucker Carlson and I are friends.
00:05:42.820 And I think it's very obvious that Tucker has said some things that I disagree with.
00:05:46.820 He said some things about the President of the United States that I think are just wrong.
00:05:50.320 I think yesterday somebody sent me a clip that said that he would support El Syed over Rogers.
00:05:55.500 I think El Syed is a crazy person.
00:05:57.340 And I think whatever your views on Mike Rogers' specific policy prescriptions,
00:06:01.620 I'd like to have a non-crazy person like Mike Rogers representing Michigan in the United States Senate
00:06:06.660 rather than a crazy person like El Syed.
00:06:09.240 That said, my attitude towards this, and I try to practice what I preach.
00:06:14.320 And I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest things for me personally is not when people attacked me, but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her heart, who knew what a good person she was.
00:06:29.700 And I remember thinking to myself, what a travesty it is that in the United States of America, we let political disagreements define who our friends are going to be and not going to be.
00:06:40.560 So, yeah, Tucker is a friend of mine.
00:06:42.260 Tucker is a friend despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things.
00:06:45.640 And I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with them.
00:06:51.340 I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go.
00:06:54.660 And if you have a disagreement with somebody politically, even over a deeply held issue, you should still be friends with that person.
00:07:00.960 Because the whole republic depends on people of different perspectives being able to talk to one another.
00:07:06.740 That's how I try to live my life, and I encourage everybody else to do the same.
00:07:10.940 All right.
00:07:13.080 Let's go to...
00:07:16.720 You don't have to go by that list.
00:07:18.580 Well, the problem is...
00:07:21.400 Okay, here's the thing.
00:07:22.300 You guys can see the list here.
00:07:23.880 It doesn't...
00:07:24.460 You can take your zoom-up lens here.
00:07:27.200 It doesn't...
00:07:27.940 Nobody's even circled.
00:07:29.360 Nobody's even circled.
00:07:29.960 If Carolyn Leavitt was still here, she would have told me who to call upon.
00:07:34.380 But clearly that hasn't happened here.
00:07:36.100 I am going to go. I'm going to go to Nick Popley from time. Thank you. President Trump asked on
00:07:41.940 social media, when are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? Is the administration
00:07:46.980 considering either arming or giving other direct support for Iranian dissidents?
00:07:54.020 Wasn't it Peter Doocy asked this question this morning on Fox News? It's a great question. And
00:07:58.420 what the president said is exactly what I'm going to say, which is, of course, I'm not going to talk
00:08:02.940 about that. There are a lot of things that we're doing. A lot of things that we're doing, of course,
00:08:07.520 to try to apply pressure on the Iranians, to get them to stop shooting at commercial shipping,
00:08:12.960 accepting that they're still going to try to shoot at commercial shipping. Obviously,
00:08:15.880 we're protecting a lot of ships, which is why we have not had a worldwide energy crisis. I can't
00:08:20.240 repeat this enough. But for the leadership of President Trump and the hard work of our troops,
00:08:24.940 we would have had an energy crisis because the Iranians refused to stop acting like terrorists
00:08:29.480 in the Strait of Hormuz. Now, that said, there are a lot of, of course, additional tools that
00:08:33.920 we have at our disposal. Some of those the president will use and some of them he won't.
00:08:37.820 But I'm not going to advertise exactly how we're going to engage with the Iranians in the months
00:08:43.820 and years to come, because it frankly would take away the president's decision space.
00:08:48.740 But everything that could happen is on the table. Economic pressure, military pressure,
00:08:55.380 diplomatic pressure covert pressure of course these are things these are tools
00:08:59.580 in the president's toolkit but part of the reason they're tools in the toolkit
00:09:02.760 is because the vice president hopefully is not dumb enough to stand up before you
00:09:07.060 know all of you and a million Americans watching at home and say exactly what it
00:09:10.920 is that we plan on doing okay all right I'm gonna go to Emily Gooden or Good
00:09:17.140 I wanted to ask you, why are you going to New York on 9-11 instead of the President?
00:09:25.700 Because it's the 25th anniversary, is there some special security concern?
00:09:29.020 We know the President has been a target before.
00:09:31.020 No, I don't think it's a special security concern.
00:09:33.740 Actually, we'll follow up with Secret Service just to get you an actual answer on that,
00:09:37.600 but that's not what I've heard.
00:09:38.600 I mean, you have a Vice President, you have a President, and there are two very ā€“ frankly,
00:09:43.480 like to be three or four places on 9-11 but you can't have one person be in multiple locations at
00:09:48.920 the exact same time and so we just decided as a team that i would go to new york for 9-11 and the
00:09:53.880 president would stay here in dc of course to commemorate what happened at the pentagon because
00:09:57.400 that was a critical part of of the tragedy of 9-11 as well i will say that as much as it's it's
00:10:03.240 tragic and it was a terrible day i am looking forward to it because it's such an amazing honor
00:10:09.240 to be able to get to go to New York and to share in that moment, you know, where the parents and
00:10:15.060 the kids read the names of the people who lost their lives. I did it once before, I think during
00:10:19.780 the 2024 campaign. It's one of the most amazing experiences of my life. And I encourage every
00:10:24.980 American, particularly the people who are young enough to not really remember that day, just to
00:10:30.260 tune in for a couple of hours and see what it meant. And I think that sense of commonality and
00:10:35.440 common purpose that we all had on 9-11. That's something that we should really try every single
00:10:40.240 day to get back to. And if even just for a day, even if just for a few hours, I would encourage
00:10:44.540 people to tune in. I'm also, as you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to
00:10:48.480 hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure that we'll have many, many intense intellectual conversations
00:10:53.980 and, you know, it'll be great. We'll have a great time with Joe Biden and the other presidents.
00:10:58.700 A minute ago you said that there is not a global energy crisis because U.S. is helping
00:11:08.240 commercial ships.
00:11:10.180 Given that you don't have diplomatic talks with the Iranians to make them stop shooting
00:11:15.460 commercial ships, are we talking about an indefinite naval blockade?
00:11:20.200 Isn't that costly and hampers U.S. readiness elsewhere?
00:11:26.120 how will the president declare an end to the war if the U.S. naval blockade is still in place?
00:11:32.420 Well, first of all, the phrase an end to the war, I want to push back on that just a little bit,
00:11:38.120 because major combat operations are currently not ongoing, and they haven't been ongoing in a very
00:11:42.880 long time. In fact, what we did just a couple of days ago is that we made it harder for the Iranians
00:11:47.620 to shoot at commercial shipping, again, in order to ensure the flow of oil and gas into world
00:11:52.720 energy markets. So, you know, we have, again, a lot of tools at our disposal. But what we're
00:11:58.120 talking about here is trying to maintain some basic balance in these world energy markets. Now,
00:12:06.360 you ask about these things, don't they cost a lot, etc, etc. Well, look, the alternative, I think,
00:12:11.340 costs a lot more, which is what the Gulf Arab countries have begged us not to do. And what a
00:12:17.360 number of other countries have begged us not to do, including those in Europe, who will publicly
00:12:21.780 criticize us on the one hand, but then privately acknowledged that if we weren't doing what we
00:12:26.020 were doing, nobody else in the world could do it. We are the only country in the world that can
00:12:32.480 ensure, as you heard the president say, the control over the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians would like
00:12:37.640 zero million barrels to come out of the Strait of Hormuz. Last night, 15 million barrels came out
00:12:43.720 of the Strait of Hormuz. That's because of the United States of America. And if we don't do it,
00:12:48.200 nobody else would do it. And if nobody else did it, we would have a catastrophic world energy
00:12:53.480 crisis. And our message to the Iranians is simple. It's been the same from the very beginning is
00:12:59.680 you've got to stop shooting at commercial shipping. They've got to stop. It's that simple.
00:13:05.340 And to your point about negotiations, the president's been very clear. We're not talking
00:13:08.620 to them. And we're not going to talk to them unless they stop shooting at commercial shipping.
00:13:13.000 that's uh i think darren go ahead thank you mr vice president um so president trump you posted
00:13:22.020 on truth social let data reign but there's a fox news poll with 70 of respondents um voters saying
00:13:28.960 that they do not want a data center in their area so how do you bridge the disconnect there before
00:13:33.920 the midterms in about two months and also second part of the question if uh democrats do take
00:13:39.280 control of Congress, then do we lose the AI race to China? Well, look, I think there's a very good
00:13:44.160 chance that if the Democrats take control of Congress, we will lose the AI race to China,
00:13:48.000 but we'll also lose a lot else. You will see higher energy prices. The Democrats have promised
00:13:52.160 that they will raise taxes on working Americans. The Democrats have promised that everything that
00:13:57.040 we've done to protect American industry and rebuild American manufacturing, that stops as
00:14:01.780 soon as the Democrats have real political power in this country. There's a lot that would go wrong
00:14:05.940 if the Democrats take control of the House or the Senate or, God forbid, both.
00:14:10.480 But let me just say, on the data center question, you asked how do you split the difference
00:14:14.880 or how do you bridge the gap, or I forget exactly how you phrased it.
00:14:17.760 But look, man, the simple answer is the way that you bridge the gap is by following the
00:14:23.320 president of the United States' lead.
00:14:25.020 What was the most important thing that we've done on data centers?
00:14:28.560 He, excuse me, came out and said, we have to have ratepayer protection.
00:14:33.720 If you're going to build a data center, you have to feed power back into the grid as opposed to taking power out.
00:14:39.680 I'm a strong believer, and I've seen the same polls that you're talking about, that the political backlash over data centers, a very large chunk of it, not all of it, of course, but a very large chunk of it, is that people associate data centers with my neighborhood's going to get worse.
00:14:54.680 In particular, my power bills are going to go up.
00:14:57.780 The way to bridge that gap is for people to do what the president of the United States has enabled.
00:15:02.340 He's made it easier to build a nuclear power plant or any other power plant next to a data
00:15:07.440 center. He's made it easier for people to put power back into the grid as opposed to take it
00:15:12.380 out. And there's a broader and deeper issue, I think, that's much bigger than data centers.
00:15:17.440 And it's the United States, what the president is really trying to train, frankly, American
00:15:21.840 industry to do is to build again. We cannot be a country that says we're not going to build more
00:15:28.420 power. We're not going to build more rockets. We're not going to do anything because the regulations
00:15:32.840 or the cost of the risk are just too high. There's a chart that I'm obsessed with and it looks at the
00:15:39.640 amount of energy generated by the PRC, the People's Republic of China, the amount of power generated by
00:15:45.160 the United States of America. If you look at that chart in about, I want to say 2005, is when China
00:15:52.600 finally started producing the same amount of power as the United States of America. That was before
00:15:57.400 Before that, they produced way less, they caught up to us, and then they passed us.
00:16:00.720 And today, China produces three times as much power as the United States of America.
00:16:05.560 The way to get around that is, as President Trump's leadership has showed, to become a
00:16:09.840 nation of builders again.
00:16:11.420 We've got to build more power plants.
00:16:13.040 We've got to make the regulatory state easier to work with, and of course, we've done that.
00:16:17.440 You've got to make it easier to reinvest in the United States of America.
00:16:21.160 That's what we're doing every single day.
00:16:23.780 We cannot be a country that says we're not going to build anything anymore.
00:16:27.460 But this backlash on data centers, I think that it is downstream of the fact that the
00:16:31.860 United States doesn't build enough power, or at least it didn't until about 18 months
00:16:36.380 ago.
00:16:37.380 But obviously that stuff takes a little while to come online.
00:16:39.400 It's going to come online really fast under the president's leadership.
00:16:43.160 Okay.
00:16:44.160 All right.
00:16:46.680 Let's go to, okay, somebody said left side.
00:16:52.660 Let's go to Joey Garrison.
00:16:53.660 Yeah, right here.
00:16:54.660 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
00:16:55.660 You're speaking Wednesday night at the midterm convention in Dallas.
00:16:59.620 Several Republican candidates in close congressional races have said they don't plan to attend
00:17:04.580 the convention or they're being noncommittal about attending.
00:17:07.860 Why do you think some of them are making that decision and do you have any concern about
00:17:10.780 there being absences from some of the battleground midterm Republican candidates?
00:17:15.900 No, that doesn't concern me.
00:17:18.620 So when you're running a congressional race, especially in a very tight race, you have so many things that are local that you're focused on.
00:17:25.780 You've got fundraising. You've got money you've got to raise.
00:17:28.020 You've got staff that you've got to deal with and obviously give directives to.
00:17:31.400 And then most importantly, you've got to go out there and meet voters and message to voters.
00:17:35.020 I think the unfortunate reality of the national media for this midterm convention is, like, my speech will get covered a fair amount.
00:17:42.680 The president's speech will be covered a ton.
00:17:44.340 we can make the argument as much as possible that if you elect congressional democrats you're going
00:17:49.620 to see higher prices worse energy higher taxes and more fraud the president i can go and make
00:17:55.940 that argument on national tv we don't need a congressman in a tight race to be there in all
00:18:00.500 cases sometimes it might be better if that guy's out there raising money but i think people are
00:18:04.460 going to make a determination what is the best way for me to spend my time as a candidate
00:18:07.940 fundamentally the president and i get one vote each just like every other american and what we
00:18:12.540 We want every person in a tight race to go out there and make the best case they can
00:18:17.520 to their constituents so they can get reelected and so we can do more good for the American
00:18:21.580 people.
00:18:22.580 That's the goal.
00:18:23.580 I've got two questions for you.
00:18:25.580 First, the widow of an airman who was killed in the Iran war says she's having trouble
00:18:29.700 getting some of the benefits that they should have access to because it has not been officially
00:18:34.400 declared a war.
00:18:36.120 Can you and the President personally ensure that the family of Alex Klenner gets all
00:18:40.820 all the benefits that they deserve given he died serving the country.
00:18:44.060 Yeah, so what's her name?
00:18:45.060 You said his name is Alex Klinner?
00:18:46.580 Yeah, he was an airman who was killed in the plane that went down over Weston or Iraq.
00:18:49.820 So what I'd say, Caitlin, is please, if you, especially if you have the private contact
00:18:54.260 information, we will reach out to her directly as soon as this is over and make sure that
00:18:58.480 she gets what she's entitled to.
00:19:00.320 Obviously, you know, our heart breaks for every single person who lost their lives in
00:19:06.820 this operation.
00:19:07.820 And, you know, as much as our heart breaks, I can't possibly fathom a young widow, what she's feeling and dealing with it.
00:19:14.820 And so we want to be as helpful as we can and ensure she gets everything that she's entitled to.
00:19:19.360 So we will certainly work that on the back end as soon as that.
00:19:22.140 And my message to her would be, we love you, we're grateful for the sacrifice, and we very much take very seriously our commitment to get you what you need to get.
00:19:31.840 Yeah, she's got three young children.
00:19:33.580 Secondly, in terms of the war and the timeline, given this administration has put timelines
00:19:38.180 out there before, what you just said about no negotiations happening with Iran, will
00:19:42.840 this war be over by the time of the midterm elections?
00:19:45.340 Well, Caitlin, again, I don't ā€“ I wouldn't call it a war.
00:19:49.860 Right now, there is no active shooting.
00:19:51.260 I recognize there have been places where this has flared up.
00:19:56.180 Major combat operations ā€“ again, major combat operations lasted for about six weeks.
00:20:00.500 And since then, we destroyed, of course, their nuclear facilities with Midnight Hammer.
00:20:06.240 With Epic Fury, we destroyed their defense industrial base for producing weapons and
00:20:10.660 also a lot of their conventional military.
00:20:12.860 And then we made it harder for them to rebuild that nuclear program.
00:20:16.180 But when you ask, when will this end, you're asking me a question like, when will the Iranians
00:20:21.480 stop shooting at ships?
00:20:23.180 I think the reality is I don't know the answer to that question.
00:20:25.840 You'd have to ask the Iranians.
00:20:27.740 will the Iranians shooting at ships stop having an effect on world energy markets? And the
00:20:32.140 answer is it has less effect day by day. So what we're going to do is not depend on the
00:20:37.200 Iranians behaving responsibly or negotiating in good faith. What we're going to do is use
00:20:42.620 the tools that we have at our disposal to ensure that the American people, one, never
00:20:47.280 have to deal with the threat of an Iranian nuclear program, and two, that world energy
00:20:51.700 markets are properly supplied well if the Iranians keep on but Caitlin if the Iranians keep on
00:21:00.600 shooting at commercial ships again we have I think a responsibility but certainly we're the only ones
00:21:08.220 with the capability to ensure that the Iranians are not destroying world energy markets and our
00:21:14.300 attitude is we're not going to set an artificial timeline because let's just say hypothetically
00:21:19.860 let's say I told you three months say I told you three days okay and then the
00:21:23.880 Iranians start blowing up oil and gas ships and the United States is the only
00:21:27.960 country with the capability to ensure that those oil and gas ships get to
00:21:31.560 market well what I would say is it would be irresponsible for us to write out our
00:21:36.360 strategy in our timeline for an Iranian nation that simply cannot honor its
00:21:41.580 commitments and cannot stop shooting at commercial ships.
00:21:44.340 The Press on the Press on the Press on the Press
00:21:46.720 The Press on the Press on the Press on the Press
00:21:48.720 The Press on the Press on the Press on the Press
00:21:49.720 James Carville famously said that when he dies,
00:21:52.320 he wants to be reincarnated as the bond market,
00:21:54.520 because you can intimidate everybody.
00:21:56.820 We've seen higher bond yields throughout the year this year.
00:22:00.240 And I'm wondering if you can tell us how the U.S.
00:22:02.140 government thinks about the bond market right now,
00:22:05.440 in terms of its impact on U.S. ability to borrow
00:22:08.380 to finance our massive deficits,
00:22:10.680 and also on its impact on your decision-making about the Iran war and also American spending?
00:22:18.940 Well, you know, obviously the president cares a lot about interest rates,
00:22:21.580 and I think one of the main reasons he cares a lot about interest rates is because he wants
00:22:24.840 Americans to be able to afford a home. When interest rates go higher, that means that
00:22:28.820 borrowing costs are higher, and that's particularly true if you have a mortgage. So our view,
00:22:34.920 and this has been a consistent message from the president and the rest of the administration on
00:22:37.920 down is that we believe that the Fed should be lowering interest rates. We feel quite confident
00:22:43.620 that if you look at the inflation numbers, if you look at the CPI numbers, that it's proper and
00:22:48.760 responsible for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. So that is a very important thing.
00:22:53.380 It's something we care a great deal about. I would defer like the deeper questions about the bond
00:22:57.340 markets to Scott Bessent, who probably knows more about the bond markets than anybody that I've ever
00:23:01.100 talked to. But obviously we care about this issue. We're doing a lot of things to try to keep those
00:23:05.200 interest rates down but it would be nice to have some help from the Federal
00:23:07.820 Reserve okay all right okay so does does Andrew Feinberg have a question of less
00:23:16.000 than 30 seconds no okay then we'll go on to roll call roll call yes sir mr.
00:23:22.480 vice president obviously President Trump has let his frustration show at times
00:23:27.640 recently with Senate Majority Leader John Thune you worked with John Thune
00:23:32.800 When you were a senator, there will be leadership elections after the midterm elections in the Senate.
00:23:38.820 Today, will you endorse John Thune to be the GOP leader in the new Congress?
00:23:42.880 Man, it's just not my business.
00:23:45.080 It's the business of Republican senators to determine who their next leader will be.
00:23:48.920 I will say about John Thune that we have a very good relationship.
00:23:51.140 He has a very good relationship with the president of the United States.
00:23:53.420 That doesn't mean you don't disagree with people from time to time or have a preference or a priority.
00:23:57.480 That's going to be different from the Senate majority leader.
00:23:59.540 but it's really not my business weeks, months before a Senate election to talk about who should
00:24:05.400 be the next Republican majority leader. I suspect John Thune will run again. I suspect that he'll
00:24:10.480 get the support of a lot of his colleagues, but I would defer to, uh, to, to those folks about who
00:24:14.720 their next leader is going to be. The most important thing, and I think John Thune would
00:24:17.720 agree with this. I know the president agrees with this is we got to keep the Republican Senate
00:24:21.820 majority because if we elect Senate Democrats, what are they going to do? We all know what
00:24:26.440 they're going to do. They're going to try to raise your taxes. They're going to try to stop us from
00:24:30.560 preventing money going to fraudsters. They're going to try to investigate and investigate and
00:24:35.620 investigate rather than legislate things that are in the best interest of the American people. So
00:24:40.400 I think Senate Democrats taking over would be a nightmare. I think it'd be bad for the American
00:24:45.700 people. But ultimately, the American people are going to make that judgment. And when they do,
00:24:50.520 then we can have a conversation about who's going to be the next the next Senate leader.
00:24:54.060 Okay, let's go to Libby Dean. Libby? Can you guys not hear me? Libby? Okay, Libby, go ahead.
00:25:08.460 I'm Libby, Mr. Vice President. Thank you so much. First, a question on Iran, but also
00:25:13.240 I want to ask you about East Palestine. On Iran, how concerned should Americans be about
00:25:17.860 these cyber attacks by Iranian hackers? And then also on East Palestine, you called for
00:25:22.300 an investigation on Friday into that train derailment I mean it's been three
00:25:26.660 years News Nation has been talking with some of the people who live in that
00:25:29.740 community sure who say their health concerns have been suppressed would you
00:25:33.340 consider an emergency declaration to give those people the federal help that
00:25:37.420 they need while that investigation that you called for plays out well in East
00:25:41.060 Palestine I wouldn't commit to something unless I would know that it would do
00:25:43.720 some good and so having it been asked that question I'll think about it I've
00:25:47.080 never thought about whether that's necessary to facilitate people getting
00:25:49.960 what they need. But on the broader issue, you know, what we've learned over the last couple
00:25:54.100 of months is something that I suspected, but frankly, could never prove, which is that the
00:25:58.220 Biden administration radically underestimated the risks to the people of East Palestine and that
00:26:05.020 their Environmental Protection Agency wasn't being honest with the American people about what
00:26:09.320 the consequences of that train derailment were. So, yes, we want that to be investigated. We want
00:26:13.580 the Biden administration officials to be investigated about whether they were, you know,
00:26:17.480 hedging, whether they were lying, whether they were doing something malicious, and
00:26:21.260 that's what motivated the letter that Lee Zeldin and I sent. And then your first
00:26:24.900 question was about, remind me? How concerned should Americans be about these cyber attacks by Iran and others?
00:26:30.240 I see, yeah. So, you know, look, I'll tell you that we're concerned about
00:26:34.880 everything, because that's our job. And I think you always have to, of course,
00:26:38.420 balance when you're an American citizen. You have to balance, obviously, assessing
00:26:43.440 the real risks that are out there, but also going about and living your life,
00:26:47.100 because none of us can be too overwhelmed by risk or by fear what I would say is that we feel quite
00:26:51.980 confident the homeland is safe we also feel quite confident that the Iranians are going to try to
00:26:56.380 do a lot of things that they don't have the capability to do and that your government the
00:27:00.060 American people should know that your government is obsessively focused on both anticipating any
00:27:05.820 potential cyber threats but also responding to them appropriately and ensuring they don't happen
00:27:10.940 so you know if you look at the Iranian ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans I think
00:27:16.220 think it's quite limited. It's not zero, but it's quite limited. I'd be much more
00:27:20.720 worried about cyber attacks from other actors. But again, we're doing everything
00:27:23.960 that we can to stay ahead of this stuff. And I think we're the best government in
00:27:27.140 the world at anticipating and preventing cyber attacks. So what I would say to
00:27:30.980 the American people is it is a risk that's out there, but I don't think it's
00:27:35.360 wise to worry about these amorphous risks. You elect a government that's
00:27:40.160 going to fight for you, that's going to defend you. And that's what we're doing
00:27:43.340 every single day.
00:27:45.940 Let's go to Christian Datak.
00:27:48.240 The Press, sir, you called on Green Media.
00:27:50.240 Christian, come on.
00:27:52.840 The Press, sir, thank you.
00:27:53.980 Two questions, one foreign, one domestic.
00:27:56.380 First, since this economic D-Day announcement pertaining to Iran,
00:28:01.300 has President Trump spoken directly to President Xi,
00:28:05.100 asking him to stop Chinese banks
00:28:07.660 from lending financial services to Tehran?
00:28:11.200 So we've certainly had a number of conversations with the Chinese, and frankly, I think the Chinese have been responsive to some of the requests that we've made.
00:28:20.860 I actually don't know whether the president has spoken directly to Xi, but we will get an answer for you in follow-up.
00:28:26.020 Okay, thank you, sir. And then I know you don't want to talk about your own potential 2028 prospects, but Senator Ted Cruz and your good friend, Secretary Hegseth, apparently have been privately and publicly, in the case of Senator Cruz, positioning for 2028. Could you see yourself supporting either one of them for a presidential campaign?
00:28:48.400 that's an innovative way to ask the question but i'm still not going to take the bait
00:28:53.120 uh let me look first of all i'd encourage any republican if you care about the country and i
00:28:59.400 think all of us do you should be focused not on a job a few years from now you should be focused
00:29:04.880 on the midterms and that's the approach that i've taken i think people sometimes don't believe me
00:29:09.240 because they assume you're the vice president you must think about this all the time what i'm
00:29:11.940 focused on man is trying to get as many republicans as elected as possible so that we can do as much
00:29:17.380 good as possible for the second two years of the Trump administration. That's a long time.
00:29:21.820 There's a lot of opportunity there. And this job is so crazy. Look at this, guys. We're at the
00:29:25.300 White House. That's the front lawn of the White House. We get an opportunity to come to work
00:29:29.220 every day and make 350 million people's lives better. That's what we have to be focused on.
00:29:35.020 And so politically, I'm very much focused on the midterm elections. I mean, Pete is a great guy.
00:29:40.800 And yeah, I could see myself supporting a whole host of people. But most importantly, right now,
00:29:46.720 I've got a lot of people that I'm supporting right now to get elected for the November
00:29:50.720 2026 elections. And on Ted Cruz, I mean, look, man, he's just
00:29:54.740 clearly Ted is a very authentic and likable guy
00:29:58.800 and I'm sure he'll do great.
00:30:02.320 Newsweek. Newsweek.
00:30:05.360 Can you tell me, Maria Bartiromo just left
00:30:08.700 Fox News. Is she going to be the next White House press editor?
00:30:13.820 I don't know, man.
00:30:14.800 uh no i don't think so you know i just saw the news literally as i walked out before i love
00:30:21.200 maria i think she's an amazing person amazing talent i don't get involved in the the personal
00:30:25.860 drama of uh of media stations in fact i'd like to invite peter ducey to come up here and ask
00:30:30.780 answer a question about what happened to maria but i i think whatever whatever she does look
00:30:36.420 she's she's gonna do great and i wish her all the best she's a very very dear friend
00:30:40.160 i haven't even talked to her so i don't know the backstory about why she's decided to leave fox
00:30:44.280 news i'm gonna do a i'm gonna do a couple more i'm gonna do a couple more i've got
00:30:51.160 whip okay on the side here okay pink tie pink tie there we go that's why i wore pink tie today
00:31:00.200 anyway nine justices we all know growing up since grammar school there are nine justices
00:31:05.160 on the u.s supreme court yep how long does it stay that way based on what happened yesterday in the
00:31:09.000 House. What do you mean? Well, you know, going forward, how confident are you? It will remain
00:31:14.300 at nine. Well, look, our commitment in the Trump administration is that we would like to have nine
00:31:18.980 Supreme Court justices. That's the way that it's been for a long time. And we think that's the
00:31:22.780 the way that it should stay. We also know that Democrats have explicitly promised that they will
00:31:27.560 pack the United States Supreme Court if they're given additional power. And again, this is this
00:31:32.020 is why I think that the choice in this election is not between this set of policies that are good
00:31:38.100 and this set of policies that are not so good. The choice in the election really is between crazy
00:31:42.480 people who are trying to rig the game and common sense people who you may have disagreements with
00:31:46.960 from time to time, but at least they're rooted in common sense. The Democrats are saying they're
00:31:52.440 actively bragging that they don't like the rules of the game, meaning Americans vote for House
00:31:57.300 members. Americans vote for senators. And then we all try to make the best government and the
00:32:01.340 best rules and the best legislation in the interest of the American people. They're saying
00:32:05.580 that they think that the rules don't allow them to run roughshod over the
00:32:09.840 American Constitution, so they want to change the rules. They want to add
00:32:12.540 additional states so there can be more Democratic senators. Note that they're
00:32:16.020 not proposing to add territories that are heavily Republican. They just want to
00:32:20.400 add the territories that are heavily Democratic. They also, of course, want to
00:32:23.760 pack the Supreme Court. So how long will it last? I think, frankly, so long as
00:32:28.200 Republicans are in power, we're gonna have a Supreme Court that is good and
00:32:33.380 and honest, and fair to the Constitution.
00:32:35.280 What's up, ma'am?
00:32:36.780 Yeah, you right here.
00:32:38.860 The Press, thank you, Mr. Vice President.
00:32:40.120 You mentioned something very interesting earlier.
00:32:41.980 You said you wanted to, the President was focused
00:32:43.960 on creating a nation of builders.
00:32:46.420 The ISM manufacturing PMI showed that manufacturing activity
00:32:50.360 in the U.S. expanded for eight consecutive months.
00:32:53.000 When you've hit the trail, particularly in the Rust Belt,
00:32:55.600 have you noticed the trickle-down effect of the tax cuts
00:32:58.800 and the trade policy of the President
00:33:00.240 having a positive effect on U.S. manufacturing?
00:33:02.780 And does that make ideas like the Foundry School,
00:33:05.700 which you were talking about at the Institute of Peace,
00:33:07.600 that much more important?
00:33:09.320 Yeah, so let me just take a couple more questions here,
00:33:11.880 but I appreciate you asking that.
00:33:13.300 So, what I think President Trump will be remembered by,
00:33:18.460 rightfully so, is for a renaissance
00:33:20.860 in American building and American manufacturing.
00:33:23.020 That he is the President who said
00:33:24.540 40 years of bipartisan policy,
00:33:26.940 where we ship American jobs, we ship American industry,
00:33:29.600 we ship American pharmaceuticals,
00:33:31.580 We ship everything overseas and hope that it's all going to work out for the American
00:33:36.000 people.
00:33:37.000 He said enough.
00:33:38.000 This is a terrible idea and it happened because we are being taken advantage of by both by
00:33:42.140 corporations that were shipping American industry overseas, but also by other nations that were
00:33:46.240 getting rich by pursuing policies that the United States leadership was too unwise to
00:33:53.040 pursue themselves.
00:33:54.040 So you're right.
00:33:55.040 The manufacturing index is at the highest level that it's been, by the way, after many
00:34:00.300 left of center economists and many Democratic politicians predicted that the manufacturing
00:34:05.020 index would fall to historic lows. It is now at historic highs. The tax cuts have been a major
00:34:10.460 part of this, one of the most important data points in the economy. And again, this takes a
00:34:14.700 little bit of time to bear fruit, is that you're seeing businesses buy capital equipment, buying the
00:34:19.820 big machinery, buying the things that allow them to hire people and build more stuff. They're buying
00:34:24.300 that stuff at a record level. And that's because of the working families tax cuts, because we
00:34:29.100 We invested in people who are building and making right here in the United States of
00:34:33.560 America.
00:34:34.560 When those pieces of equipment get online and then you got to hire the workers who actually
00:34:38.180 run those pieces of equipment, what does it mean?
00:34:40.200 It means more products and lower prices for American consumers.
00:34:43.380 It also means good middle class manufacturing jobs for American workers.
00:34:47.740 But it's not, if I'm being honest, it's not just the carrot, it's also been the stick.
00:34:52.060 I do not think that you could have the beginning of a manufacturing renaissance were it not
00:34:57.800 for President Trump's willingness to penalize corporations and foreign countries that take
00:35:03.680 advantage of the American worker. So it's been both. It's been the tax cuts that induce people
00:35:08.520 to invest in our country. And it's been his willingness and sometimes him following up with
00:35:13.760 action to say that if you're going to shut down an American factory and put an American worker out
00:35:18.260 of a job, then we are going to charge you a big fat tariff on anything you try to send back into
00:35:24.160 to the United States of America.
00:35:25.400 That's done as much as anything to protect American jobs
00:35:28.740 and protect American workers.
00:35:30.800 Go ahead.
00:35:31.800 The Press, thank you very much, Mr. Vice President.
00:35:34.980 I want to ask you about the announcement made
00:35:37.280 by Secretary Besson back on August the 24th,
00:35:40.140 the economic outcast operation.
00:35:43.880 Since that time, besides the UAE,
00:35:47.040 has any other country joined in isolating Iran in that way?
00:35:51.460 And secondly, how can that operation be successful
00:35:55.440 if you don't have China coming on board
00:35:57.740 and isolating Iraq?
00:35:59.340 Well, first of all, you do have, I think, the Chinese,
00:36:02.940 the PRC, being willing to play ball here.
00:36:05.980 And we all know this, and I think it's an open secret
00:36:09.440 for anybody who understands the People's Republic of China.
00:36:12.720 Say what you will about them.
00:36:14.080 And of course, we have some policy disagreements.
00:36:16.180 The President has a very good relationship
00:36:17.980 with President Xi.
00:36:19.120 But obviously, we have some misalignment of interest,
00:36:21.020 some issues where the president has to pursue our interests at the expense of everybody else.
00:36:25.360 Say what you will about them. They are not the sort of nation that shoots at commercial shipping
00:36:29.940 because they're not getting their way in an international dispute. They are, in that way,
00:36:35.260 I think, willing to be a little bit more responsible. Again, I'm not saying they're
00:36:38.780 doing everything that we've asked them to do, but I think that the PRC has been much more
00:36:43.960 responsible, certainly than the Iranians, and much more responsible than a couple of other nations
00:36:48.860 as well. But it's not just the PRC. If you look at Turkey, if you look at Azerbaijan,
00:36:54.860 if you look at UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, a lot of the Gulf Arab coalition. But if you
00:37:00.700 look all across the world, we're actually seeing a lot of countries. Sometimes they're
00:37:05.520 not willing to say so publicly, but privately, they're doing a lot of good things to help
00:37:10.660 us ensure that the Iranians pay a penalty for firing commercial shipping. Now, I have
00:37:16.260 Just to remind you, it's not just that they're paying a penalty when they fire at commercial
00:37:20.340 shipping, it's also denying them the economic resources to rebuild their nuclear program
00:37:26.360 if they try to do so.
00:37:28.360 So far we haven't seen them try to do so, but part of what we're doing here is having
00:37:32.540 destroyed their nuclear enrichment capacity, we're trying to ensure they don't rebuild
00:37:37.380 it even if they try to do so in the future, and that's why this matters.
00:37:41.340 We're protecting commercial shipping, we're protecting world energy markets, but it's
00:37:45.020 all in the service, all in the service of ensuring that Iran does not become a nuclear
00:37:50.240 weapons power.
00:37:51.240 Let me ask a final question of Mary Margaret Olehan.
00:37:55.600 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
00:37:56.600 I have two questions for you, if that's okay.
00:37:59.600 Go ahead.
00:38:00.600 On the first one, were you or the President involved in the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos
00:38:05.580 and when did you learn about that activity?
00:38:08.020 And then on the second one, could you give us your elevator pitch for why Americans should
00:38:12.520 choose between why Americans should choose Republicans over Democrats in the midterm elections?
00:38:17.500 Yeah, so on Milo, I won't speak for the president, but I found out, I think like so many others
00:38:22.240 found out, if you can imagine, we are because the last administration brought in so many
00:38:27.560 illegal aliens. I don't keep track of every single person that DHS deports. So I found
00:38:32.680 about it out about it publicly. I'm not sure if the president knew about it beforehand,
00:38:35.860 but I'm sure we can follow up with the president and get you an answer to that question. It's
00:38:39.340 interesting. I didn't expect to be asked that. That's one thing I did not talk to him about
00:38:42.700 before I came out here for the briefing. And then, look, my elevator pitch is actually,
00:38:47.540 it's very simple. Do you want to live in a country that has safety and security and prosperity?
00:38:54.120 If the answer is yes, and I think most Americans do, then vote for congressional Republicans over
00:38:59.760 congressional Democrats. On every single issue, the Democrats have taken the side of fraudsters,
00:39:05.960 of criminals and a far left interest groups over the side of the American people. Let me choose
00:39:11.100 just a few issues. Okay. So on fraud, we are trying to take money out of the hands of fraudsters
00:39:16.400 so that people who rely on Medicaid or people rely on food stamp benefits, they're able to get what
00:39:21.880 they need because we've ensured that Americans people's tax dollars actually go where it's
00:39:26.540 supposed to go rather than fraudsters. Democrats have fought for the fraudsters and Republicans
00:39:31.080 have fought for the people who deserve these benefits and the American taxpayers who are
00:39:36.100 paying those benefits. If you look at oil and gas policy, Democrats for a generation have gone to
00:39:42.560 war against energy. We've tried to make it easier to build additional energy capacity, and we've
00:39:48.400 done that for the past 18 months. If you look at crime, we have had, I think, the most successful
00:39:53.780 anti-crime policy maybe in the history of, I can't think of a single 18-month period where you've
00:40:00.700 seen violent crime drop so significantly thanks to the work of a single administration. And at
00:40:07.300 every step of the way, the Democrats have fought us to open prisons. They fought us to prevent us
00:40:12.820 from putting people, violent criminals, behind bars. They fought us on basic things like funding
00:40:18.080 and supporting law enforcement. They fought us on giving tax breaks to our police officers.
00:40:24.020 So on every issue where we've been successful in promoting law and order, the Democrats have
00:40:29.160 been for the criminals and we've been for the American people. And finally, just just one other
00:40:33.560 very, very important issue, and that's building in the United States of America. This guy,
00:40:39.560 Abdul El-Sayed, he says that he stands for working people. Well, if you stand for working
00:40:43.780 people, then why have you supported the same policies that for 40 years shipped the Michigan
00:40:49.320 auto industry to foreign nations? We are the people who have been fighting for the jobs of
00:40:54.900 Michigan auto workers. We've been the people willing to stand up, both to the big corporations,
00:40:59.780 but the big foreign competitors and say, you are not allowed to steal American industry anymore.
00:41:05.720 So on all these issues, Democrats stand for somebody else. The Republicans stand for you.
00:41:11.480 My argument to the American people is not that you're going to agree with us on every issue,
00:41:14.740 but they're a bunch of crazy people. Elect the common sense people to Washington and
00:41:19.360 we'll keep on doing great work. Thank you all. Good to see everybody.
00:41:21.820 This is what happens when the fourth turning
00:41:40.860 meets fifth generation warfare.
00:41:47.300 A commentator, international social media sensation
00:41:51.020 and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:41:53.860 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:41:56.980 Christ is king!
00:41:58.540 Tensions are simmering in the Middle East.
00:42:00.700 Iran is hitting back at American allies and accusing the U.S. of committing war crimes.
00:42:05.580 President Trump told reporters yesterday, Tuesday strikes hit Iran very hard.
00:42:10.220 I'm not affected by the election.
00:42:12.340 Number one, I'm not running.
00:42:13.880 My party's running, and I'm going to help my party.
00:42:15.940 But I think my party respects the fact that we're not allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
00:42:21.020 Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are back deliberating for a sixth day this morning
00:42:25.540 with the possibility of a mistrial now very real. The jury has spent about 30 hours over five days
00:42:32.580 trying to reach a verdict and jurors have told the judge twice now that it's deadlocked. The
00:42:38.360 second time came Wednesday afternoon. That led Judge William Sullivan to give the jury what's
00:42:43.680 known as the Tui Rodriguez charge, essentially asking jurors to take another look at their
00:42:49.000 positions and make one more effort to reach a unanimous verdict. Small, small memorial outside
00:42:55.000 of this home here where a two-year-old boy died. His mother hospitalized after police say she
00:43:01.460 herself attempted to self-harm. Germany is now accusing Russia of carrying out a drone attack
00:43:09.020 targeting the airport in Leipzig last month. It's ordered retaliatory measures including closing
00:43:14.420 Russia's consulate in Bonn and a Russian cultural center in Berlin. NATO has already responded,
00:43:21.280 saying it will continue to strengthen our ability to deter and defend all allies against any threat.
00:43:27.100 The EU says it will discuss the attack with NATO on Wednesday, adding that EU foreign ministers
00:43:32.640 are working on a joint response. Using government data obtained by the Deportation Data Project,
00:43:38.160 along with the latest figures confirmed by our ICE sources, the agency has now made more than
00:43:43.120 300,000 arrests since the beginning of the 2026 calendar year. Now, it is worth noting that the
00:43:49.100 DDP has questioned who ICE is arresting, challenging the worst of the worst narrative.
00:43:53.960 Now, this all comes after arrests dropped earlier this year before beginning to climb again in May
00:43:58.680 and then surging in June, July, and now August. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's
00:44:05.240 edition of human events daily today is september 3rd 2026 anno domini jd vance up there round
00:44:14.400 robin interview just a master class in terms of the interview press conference that he gave going
00:44:20.140 from topic to topic everything from uh deportations to iran to his diet and apparently he's eating a
00:44:27.980 lot of sauerkraut these days. I got a question about that from one of the reporters. I don't
00:44:36.060 know why you'd want to waste time with that when you get a chance to ask a question to the vice
00:44:41.200 president, but hey, that's what we got. And it comes down to a lot, folks, that clearly the
00:44:47.960 vice president is very adept at doing interviews like this. Clearly he's very able to, he's quick
00:44:55.180 on his feet, is able to jump around from topic to topic. And, you know, it really shows perhaps
00:45:01.140 a new forward approach for the press conferences for the White House, where, you know, we're
00:45:06.140 going to have a situation where, you know, Caroline Levitt has stepped out, but perhaps
00:45:11.860 more and more officials will be stepping up and providing that direct information, direct
00:45:20.160 implementation for the White House. So we are coming up on a break, getting back on our clock
00:45:26.100 here. Jack Posobiec, real America's voice. We will return in just a few moments. Do not swipe away.
00:45:50.160 I can say confidently I believe I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee
00:46:07.400 if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec and that is I'll be honest
00:46:10.820 all right folks jack so we're back live here real america's voice human events daily
00:46:19.620 ladies and gentlemen you may think you slept all night but let me tell you something if your body
00:46:23.260 was fighting to get comfortable you're going to feel it the next day that's why i sleep on a ghost
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00:47:52.280 I want to bring Rich Barris on here.
00:47:54.340 He is the people's pundit.
00:47:56.700 Hey, Rich, um, got to say, what did you think?
00:48:00.160 What did you think of, uh, JD's, uh, really just, just Matt.
00:48:04.600 thought it was a masterclass um his round robin interview there the vice president is just so
00:48:11.160 good at this jack and i'm watching it and i'm thinking two things one nobody there's not a
00:48:17.660 close second on the bench on the right for 2028 there's just not a close second and maybe somebody
00:48:24.280 can come out of nowhere and emerge but nobody has the skills to do what he does and the reason why
00:48:29.880 is because he's a millennial and he's from the midwest and his life experience put it made him
00:48:34.480 the person he is today and he's able to do that and come across as believable jovial
00:48:39.540 and uh authentic and the second thing i was thinking was can we get more of these
00:48:45.740 like seriously um i think it's good when you have an asset that you put it forward as much
00:48:53.900 as possible and he was bringing up how the convention and i know i read the political
00:48:58.420 article. I'm sure a lot of people did, but he's, he gave an answer to that, which surprised me.
00:49:04.560 And it also convinced me, which is that the truth is it doesn't really matter if how many
00:49:10.900 congressmen or senators that were running for these offices come up there and speak.
00:49:14.400 It really just matters if president Trump and the vice president Vance can go and make the case to
00:49:19.340 the American public to vote for Republicans down ticket, because let's be honest, the votes that
00:49:24.220 they got in 2024 were not their votes there were votes for president trump and vice president vance
00:49:29.020 and while there's a core constituency that of course no matter what will go and vote republican
00:49:33.980 the fact of the matter is it's not big enough to win national elections those two men did it and
00:49:39.140 they can't you know and and what he said is true and i'm not saying it's all on them and it
00:49:44.280 shouldn't be but if they do good there'll be a benefit no and here you know herein it's it's
00:49:53.380 It's really because you look at it, look at it in terms of ROI and that's, that's what
00:49:57.120 he's talking about as well.
00:49:58.180 That was his same.
00:49:59.180 And here's what I'm going to say to, to, you know, to the vice president, you know, publicly
00:50:03.620 here is that, you know, if you look at it in terms of ROI, so, okay, the ROI is that
00:50:08.880 you're getting president Trump at a rally.
00:50:10.500 Great.
00:50:10.860 Got it.
00:50:11.480 So wouldn't you make the same argument then for getting the vice president at a daily
00:50:16.560 or, you know, maybe like a couple of times a week, three times a week press conference,
00:50:20.620 your ROI is going to be higher.
00:50:23.380 Do you remember during the 2024 election when the president picked Vice President Vance, now Vice President Vance, as his running mate?
00:50:30.160 There were a lot of people who did not think that he would be able to fill this role and that he would be a benefit.
00:50:35.400 And he turned out to be a huge boon, huge benefit.
00:50:38.660 And I'll never forget the day he like walked across the tarmac from the plane to go and speak to reporters about the Tim Walsh stories that were coming out.
00:50:46.960 And he could have done what most politicians do, which is just pound and attack.
00:50:51.700 And of course, that still would have been the right move, but he actually didn't. He walked
00:50:55.600 across there. He just started taking questions. He made jokes out of it, but also just made Tim
00:51:00.200 Waltz look stupid, you know? And it was during his questions about whether or not he had stolen
00:51:06.220 valor and some of these other things that had come up. And there was some other stuff that
00:51:09.360 were plaguing Kamala Harris's pick for vice president. And he just shined at it. And he
00:51:14.620 turned out, of course, to be a huge benefit to the president as his number two on the ticket,
00:51:20.500 not only in his own state, but in that region, which is must win. And again, millennial men
00:51:26.680 particularly, of course, we can talk about a lot of different groups, but millennial men were so
00:51:32.000 key to Donald Trump's coalition and making some of those states, you know, going from 10,000 vote
00:51:38.220 margins to relatively easy wins. And the vice president, without a doubt, helped appeal to
00:51:44.640 those men because he is one of them. And it's important to remember that.
00:51:50.500 Oh, that's exactly right. And he communicates in such a way. He just communicates in such a way that the under 40 crowd is going to listen to.
00:52:01.460 You notice and you notice this, Rich. Why is that, too? He's he's making appeals to tangibles.
00:52:06.640 And that is something that's so important for the under 40, for the working class crowd.
00:52:10.840 He's appealing directly to to excuse me, directly to tangibles, not into he doesn't say, oh, we need to do it for, you know, for the you know, the the the honor of America on the world stage.
00:52:24.780 And he doesn't say, oh, we need to. I remember, you know, Obama used to say, oh, if you sit down with Kim Jong-un, you're legitimizing his regime, you're the legitimization of it was like, well, he's the leader of North Korea.
00:52:36.540 Like what does legitimization mean? What is that? How do you can you put legitimization into your gas tank and drive your car off of it?
00:52:43.780 No, you can't. So when J.D. speaks, he'd make sure to talk about it, talk about things in those concrete tangibles,
00:52:50.440 which directly impacts voters in these in these age groups and in the working class areas.
00:52:57.580 Yeah, I think that's perfectly stated. He gave the first coherent answer on data centers.
00:53:02.920 I've heard out of any Republican's mouth this entire cycle, period.
00:53:08.620 And look, I may not even totally agree with what he said, but I'm a pollster and I'm looking
00:53:14.620 at the toxicity of this issue.
00:53:17.600 And Republicans, I have said this now for I don't know how long, but look, maybe because
00:53:21.800 I'm old enough to remember it.
00:53:22.900 But do you remember the nuclear age and how the construction of nuclear power plants in
00:53:27.740 this country, they were toxic too, politically.
00:53:30.260 and then it led to us getting behind the world stage when it came to nuclear power so we had to
00:53:38.120 quickly build power plants and it was just we were behind and playing catch up today he made
00:53:42.820 an argument that is one that not only is like you said that that's kind of intangible intangible
00:53:47.900 but he made an argument about how it even could benefit you and why you may need to start to
00:53:53.220 think about this in a different way nobody else has said that before jack nobody else it's like
00:53:57.880 the china thing and that's it and i know the president tried to do that in his true social
00:54:03.300 post but i think he he could have done that better for sure i i don't you know i've tweeted
00:54:08.000 it publicly i don't think that's the right way you have to start to make a case to speak to people
00:54:12.720 in their own language about it i mean when the florida primary what did he say too he flipped
00:54:16.840 it around too because that shows that he's actually listening to people on data centers
00:54:21.160 understands how unpopular it is and says okay the main thing is that people keep saying it's
00:54:27.480 it's about energy. Um, you know, your energy price is going up. So he said, flip it around,
00:54:32.300 make it so that a data center coming into your, your area. And by the way, I'm not even saying
00:54:36.120 I agree with this. I'm saying that you, I'm just talking about his technique, his technique,
00:54:40.200 his argument was that you have to make it so that you're providing something to the community. I
00:54:46.800 would, I would go a step further and say, you've got to, you've got to actually build things.
00:54:50.840 I've talked about, uh, you know, they should be building like new town centers. I said,
00:54:55.200 bring back the mall, you know, bring back something, a place where people could just go
00:54:58.860 and enjoy. You should be funding like baseball fields and Friday night lights in the South,
00:55:03.980 you know, for football games and, and make it so that you're, that it actually becomes synonymous
00:55:08.960 with, Oh, we're getting jobs. No, we're not getting these migrant bombs like Josh Shapiro
00:55:13.300 is doing up in Allentown right now in the new Chobani plant and that your energy prices are
00:55:17.780 going to go down. Rich, unfortunately a truncated show because of the, uh, the vice president,
00:55:22.620 because of 48 today where people go to follow you or get working to get the new book yeah definitely
00:55:27.120 on locals peoplespundit.locals.com and the link is up there simon and schuster amazon go get burn
00:55:32.800 it down folks thanks all the best jack i'll talk to you soon brother you too man ladies and gentlemen
00:55:36.760 as always you have my permission to lay ashore
00:55:52.620 We'll be right back.