Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - February 14, 2025


JD Vance Throws Down at Munich Conference, Peace Talks with Zelensky Continue


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

174.3194

Word Count

7,846

Sentence Count

605

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

Jack Posobiec is joined by his good friend and former Navy SEAL, Kevin Kogan, to discuss the latest in the news involving AOC, the IRS, and the Eagles. Plus, a new segment called the Poso Daily Brief.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:39.560 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:00:46.240 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:00:49.840 If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding,
00:00:55.420 you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
00:00:57.820 And of all the pressings, challenges that the nations represented here face,
00:01:02.680 I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.
00:01:08.100 The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China,
00:01:13.800 it's not any other external actor.
00:01:16.540 And what I worry about is the threat from within.
00:01:19.540 The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
00:01:27.600 Tom, you got AOC out there doing a webinar to help illegals avoid, I guess, apprehension.
00:01:35.100 And I sent an email today to the Deputy Attorney General.
00:01:38.220 At what level is that impediment?
00:01:39.640 Is that impediment?
00:01:40.760 I'm not an attorney.
00:01:41.840 I'm not a prosecutor.
00:01:42.500 Is that impediment?
00:01:43.660 Is that impeding our law enforcement efforts?
00:01:45.720 So what are we going to do about it?
00:01:47.600 Is she crossing the line?
00:01:49.060 So maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now.
00:01:50.960 Well, I feel sorry for Mitch.
00:01:52.540 He's not equipped mentally.
00:01:53.860 He wasn't equipped 10 years ago mentally, in my opinion.
00:01:57.340 He'd let the Republican Party go to hell.
00:01:59.280 If I didn't come along, the Republican Party wouldn't even exist right now.
00:02:02.720 Those workers arrived today, Gavin Kleiger and others arrived today at the IRS.
00:02:06.440 Do you expect to close the IRS?
00:02:08.880 Or what are you expecting?
00:02:10.120 No, I don't expect it.
00:02:11.620 You're talking about the IRS.
00:02:12.240 But I think that the Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else.
00:02:18.000 Just about everybody is going to be looked at.
00:02:20.280 Vance is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference.
00:02:25.780 We want the war to come to a close.
00:02:27.900 We want the killing to stop.
00:02:29.120 But we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road.
00:02:39.520 And welcome in to Human Events Daily.
00:02:41.780 I'm Michelle Bacchus filling in for the great Jack Posobiec, who is currently in Munich, Germany, right now.
00:02:48.300 Of course, he is over there where a lot of things are going on.
00:02:51.120 We're going to dive into it in just a moment.
00:02:53.180 But Jack's been circulating in the news, folks, over the past day.
00:02:56.560 And I'll tell you what, the Washington Post, nonetheless, a little late on this.
00:03:00.580 We've been saying it all week.
00:03:01.660 Your scoop is a bit late here.
00:03:03.980 Nonetheless, here's the headline.
00:03:05.960 Pete Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip.
00:03:12.280 The offer triggered alarm among Pentagon officials concerned about the military being dragged into partisan warfare.
00:03:18.480 Hmm, far-right activist.
00:03:20.380 You couldn't say veteran naval intelligence officer.
00:03:22.680 You couldn't say New York Times best-selling author, father.
00:03:25.720 You couldn't say husband.
00:03:28.200 It's really interesting because when does the Washington Post ever talk about a far-left activist?
00:03:32.920 I'm waiting on that one.
00:03:34.040 Let's bring in Kevin Posobiec as well.
00:03:36.280 Kevin, I don't know.
00:03:38.540 Jack being labeled as a far-right activist?
00:03:41.420 To me, I just think that they're getting desperate at this point.
00:03:44.320 A majority of Americans, quite frankly, and this is true through the mandate, don't care.
00:03:49.600 We don't care.
00:03:50.640 This is supposed to be fear-baiting.
00:03:52.540 This is supposed to be so viral.
00:03:54.520 Nobody cares.
00:03:55.640 The only people that care.
00:03:56.640 That's right.
00:03:56.960 We can talk about these Pentagon officials.
00:03:59.020 No, it's the deep state.
00:04:00.320 The deep state that has been corrupt and just riddled with fraud over the past four years.
00:04:05.060 That's who cares.
00:04:05.880 You know, Michelle, it's great to be back with you.
00:04:09.900 It makes me think of the Eagles parade today, actually.
00:04:13.820 Nobody likes us and we don't care.
00:04:16.020 You know, that was the Eagles phrase recently.
00:04:18.840 But everyone likes us, Kevin.
00:04:21.440 Let's just look at November.
00:04:23.320 Everyone likes us.
00:04:25.920 That's true.
00:04:26.520 That's right.
00:04:27.000 That's right.
00:04:27.460 And, yeah, we're right so far, I think is the term as well.
00:04:33.540 It's amazing to see you got Danny Lamb trying to blast Jack about it.
00:04:37.800 And I love what you said there.
00:04:39.300 It's only taken them all week to really catch up.
00:04:42.060 And you know why?
00:04:42.660 Because we're the media now.
00:04:44.600 Like, sorry, Mr. Danny Lamb.
00:04:46.560 Like, we have access and you don't.
00:04:49.360 He wasn't invited on the Trump envoy to Europe.
00:04:52.420 Sorry, you know, he probably couldn't pass the P.E. test, the P.T. test to get to get out there anyway.
00:05:01.880 It's it's amazing that they're just catching up now.
00:05:06.000 Yeah, what really cracks me up, Kevin, is they have it as breaking news.
00:05:09.860 We have this inside scoop.
00:05:11.700 This has been this has been a thing for days.
00:05:14.260 You're late to the game.
00:05:15.360 But that's exactly why, Kevin.
00:05:16.980 We are the media now.
00:05:18.780 This is a new generation.
00:05:20.080 And we are advocating free speech, not these closed off informational rooms that only some people have access to.
00:05:25.620 Don't go anywhere.
00:05:26.700 Stand in our way and our golden age has just begun.
00:05:30.280 This is Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:05:32.020 Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.
00:05:36.700 Welcome to the second American revolution.
00:05:43.840 And welcome back to Human Events Daily.
00:05:45.820 I'm Michelle Bacchus filling in for the great Jack Posobiec.
00:05:49.000 Guys, J.D. Vance is really ensuring that America is first yet again, showing peace through strength, showing power.
00:05:57.420 Something that's quite refreshing after the past four years.
00:05:59.600 He's over at the Munich Security Conference right now.
00:06:02.300 And it's funny to watch the headlines.
00:06:04.320 For instance, I'm looking at Yahoo News right now.
00:06:05.840 J.D. Vance escalates conflict with Europe in alarming speech at Munich.
00:06:11.060 This is what they're doing right now.
00:06:12.760 If you haven't noticed with the mainstream media, they're trying to paint these images as if Republicans are stirring the pot and we're going to cause these massive conflicts.
00:06:21.320 No, for the first time in four years, we are showing strength.
00:06:24.620 We're putting our foot down.
00:06:25.740 We're not letting everyone walk all over us anymore.
00:06:28.300 Those days are done.
00:06:29.500 And that's what the American people voted for.
00:06:31.440 Of course, let's continue this because the Washington Post, of course, is trying to come out with this breaking news.
00:06:37.760 That Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip.
00:06:43.740 Again, let's be clear.
00:06:45.040 We've been talking about this for days.
00:06:46.440 They are late to the game.
00:06:48.060 It's funny that they're trying to make nothing into something.
00:06:52.020 That's how desperate they are right now.
00:06:53.820 But here's the thing, Washington Post.
00:06:55.980 Where was your invite to Munich?
00:06:58.640 Where's your invite to be on the front lines, understanding exactly what's going on as history is in the making?
00:07:04.420 Oh, wait, you're not there because you keep peddling false narratives and propaganda.
00:07:10.740 You want to talk about far-right activists.
00:07:13.100 Where the heck are the far-left activists?
00:07:15.060 Why aren't you ever talking about them?
00:07:16.860 Because I could name quite a few right now.
00:07:18.860 But in the meantime, let's actually hear from someone who is in Munich right now and does have a front seat to history in the making and isn't trying to peddle some propaganda.
00:07:29.340 Jack Posobiec, who's over in Munich right now.
00:07:31.560 This is Jack Posobiec reporting live from Munich, Germany, the Munich Security Conference, where Vice President J.D. Vance just delivered a fire-burner speech dissenting against the EU leadership here on the European continent.
00:07:50.520 J.D. Vance came out swinging, saying that the main threat to Europe is not Russia, it is not China, but it was in fact the abandonment of traditional European values, and the main urgency was about mass migration.
00:08:05.860 The open borders spectacle that has led to multiple attacks on the European homeland, including an attack at the Munich Security Conference itself on the very day that it began, an Afghan migrant driving into a crowd of German citizens, killing at least one.
00:08:23.160 He directly, J.D. Vance, blamed these attacks and blamed this on the policies of mass migration pushed deliberately by the European leaders.
00:08:33.200 He also excoriated Europe for continuing to censor and even criminalize free speech and free expression, giving multiple examples of this, including the arrest and imprisonment of a man in the UK for praying outside of an abortion clinic.
00:08:50.420 J.D. Vance then held a bilateral summit with Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.
00:08:56.140 All eyes were on this summit after Pete Hegseth's speech to NATO talking about future membership for Ukraine and, of course, from J.D. Vance's speech itself.
00:09:08.740 Scott Besson had traveled to Ukraine earlier this week, which we exclusively reported on at Human Events Daily, with the mineral treaty that President Trump and Zelensky had discussed.
00:09:20.040 That treaty was not signed at the meeting there in Kiev, President Zelensky told Besson at the meeting that he would review it within two days and then bring it back to the Munich Security Conference to potentially see if there would be a signing.
00:09:35.220 As of this report, it does not appear that Zelensky has signed the mineral deal that was discussed very publicly by President Trump and by J.D. Vance and presented to him by Scott Besson, the Secretary of the Treasury.
00:09:50.780 It remains to be seen what Zelensky is asking for.
00:09:54.300 In Kiev, we reported exclusively on the ground from Human Events that Zelensky was asking for a security agreement and potentially more material aid to the Ukrainian state in their fight against Russia to provide for the ability to wind things down as well as for a lasting peace.
00:10:11.040 The Washington Post is also reporting that multiple members of the U.S. Congressional delegation senators who are here in Munich presented Zelensky with essentially the same document asking him to sign regarding the minerals.
00:10:26.860 Zelensky, according to the Washington Post, politely declined.
00:10:30.320 All of this goes to show that the entire European delegation here to Europe has not ended with a direct deal between the U.S. and Zelensky.
00:10:41.460 Instead, President Trump's envoys, as we have discussed all week, Secretary Scott Besson, Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President Vance, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
00:10:53.560 who also participated in the meeting between Vance and Zelensky, have led to a sea change in opinion and a sea change in the directionality of the Ukraine-Russia conflict,
00:11:05.700 a way in which President Trump personally came in and stated that he is now conducting one-on-one negotiations with President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
00:11:16.940 What this means is that NATO, of course, is very, very upset.
00:11:22.340 The leaders of the European nations are very upset.
00:11:25.720 One European leader of Defense Minister of Germany coming out in response to J.D. Vance's speech
00:11:32.020 and even said that its speech itself was completely inappropriate while J.D. Vance is still here in Germany.
00:11:39.060 This is a shock to the European allies, but it shouldn't come as a shock because President Trump and J.D. Vance stated unequivocally many times
00:11:48.060 that they viewed that Europe needs to shoulder their burden for this conflict.
00:11:53.320 And if they wanted it to continue, that it would be done on a shared price value,
00:11:58.080 that the United States would no longer be delivering the blank check for all European security, certainly not for the Ukraine war.
00:12:05.880 President Trump campaigned on peace and putting an end to the war is the first way to get there on the European continent.
00:12:13.420 J.D. Vance as well coming out and saying that he was not looking for a short peace,
00:12:18.480 but was in fact looking for a comprehensive peace deal to not only secure the end of the Ukraine war,
00:12:23.840 but also a lasting peace for the European continent.
00:12:28.400 President Trump's envoys have been here this entire week, as well as your humble host,
00:12:33.100 Jack Posobiec, for Human Events Daily, reporting live and on the scene.
00:12:39.540 That's the key word, on the scene, live there in Munich, where history is happening, where real news is happening.
00:12:46.300 Let's bring in Kevin Posobiec as well.
00:12:47.900 You know, Kevin, it's interesting that other nations want to come for J.D. Vance
00:12:52.900 as he talks about them needing to step up, because the U.S. paid 60% of NATO's defense bill.
00:12:59.920 Listen, we have been carrying the burden for way too long,
00:13:03.200 and I don't think they're used to somebody coming up and actually showing strength.
00:13:07.540 We're not allowing other nations to walk all over us anymore.
00:13:10.340 No, we sure aren't.
00:13:13.220 And it reminds me, in 2017, Trump went over to NATO the first time and said,
00:13:17.280 listen, we're not paying anymore.
00:13:18.500 You guys are going to pay up now.
00:13:21.100 And I believe it was 2% GDP spent on the defense,
00:13:26.140 and Pete Hegseth said that we're going to raise it to 5%.
00:13:29.080 And it turns out Poland actually is already doing that, which is amazing to see.
00:13:36.820 And yeah, I really like that J.D. Vance put out there that the main threat is against European values
00:13:44.380 and, you know, also the mass migration, but it's God, family, and country.
00:13:52.800 And where do we see that is historically from Europe, but also in America,
00:14:00.460 and these are things that we really hold in high regards.
00:14:05.020 So why is that such a problem to see in Europe?
00:14:08.100 Why do we have so many more of these crimes happening from Afghans,
00:14:15.720 Afghan immigrants coming, running over people outside of the conference?
00:14:19.820 What's going on here?
00:14:20.800 Yeah, it comes at such an opportune time, right?
00:14:26.080 Just, what, yesterday we see an Afghan migrant run into a crowd?
00:14:31.340 This is just one of many attacks that have happened by, quote-unquote,
00:14:34.680 asylum seekers over in Germany over the past 12 months.
00:14:37.920 I'm getting reports here that J.D. Vance had a great speech in Munich, by the way,
00:14:41.700 but I am seeing reports here that CNN and MSNBC pulled away about halfway in or so,
00:14:47.320 which is interesting to know.
00:14:49.160 And you know, Kevin, isn't that funny?
00:14:51.780 And I know we're going to dive into it more, but basically, from what we're seeing here,
00:14:56.120 not a lot has happened yet in terms of peace negotiations with J.D. Vance and Zelensky.
00:15:01.520 Again, we're keeping an eye out for that.
00:15:02.960 Don't go anywhere.
00:15:04.100 You're watching Human Events.
00:15:05.360 We have some really fiery content from that speech with J.D. Vance here in just a moment.
00:15:10.240 We're going to show you, and, of course, you're going to see the left's reaction to all of it.
00:15:13.980 Don't go anywhere.
00:15:14.600 You're watching Human Events daily.
00:15:16.080 I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist
00:15:37.200 for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder.
00:15:43.740 And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression
00:15:50.200 do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting,
00:15:53.820 a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
00:16:01.060 And that is Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference
00:16:05.280 with a blistering speech that the mainstream media is trying to twist already.
00:16:10.520 They're very on it today.
00:16:11.840 It must be a slow news day.
00:16:13.340 Now, really interesting, because he name-checked every single European country
00:16:17.880 that violated very blatant free speech rights.
00:16:22.380 He's calling out countries.
00:16:23.400 He's calling out specific incidents.
00:16:24.780 And we've seen this firsthand.
00:16:26.180 Look at what's happening over in Europe right now
00:16:28.020 when citizens are trying to speak out specifically on the massive amount of asylum seekers,
00:16:33.760 as we're still saying that, that are coming into the country.
00:16:36.980 And ultimately, a lot of them, let's look at what happened yesterday in Munich,
00:16:40.260 are causing issues.
00:16:41.960 They're terrorizing the citizens.
00:16:43.260 A lot of the citizens don't want this either.
00:16:45.460 Let's also bring in Kevin Posobiec for more on this.
00:16:47.920 Kevin, I'm reading some articles here.
00:16:50.320 For instance, here's one.
00:16:51.780 J.D. Vance escalates conflict with Europe, an alarming speech at Munich.
00:16:56.040 They're trying to do anything they can at this point to make it seem as if
00:16:59.940 the Republicans are going to cause conflict and they're off their rocker.
00:17:03.820 Let's remember what happened when Kamala Harris went to the Munich Security Conference
00:17:07.540 as opposed to J.D. Vance.
00:17:11.100 That's right, Michelle.
00:17:12.680 So I keep recalling that meme that's going around with Elon and Doge, really,
00:17:17.840 where it's like if you see if there's people exposing fraud
00:17:21.380 and then there's other people saying, hey, stop doing that,
00:17:24.800 that's usually the people that are guilty.
00:17:28.820 So it's like that analogy we said the other day.
00:17:34.780 If you're cheating on your girlfriend and your girlfriend has to go through your phone,
00:17:38.840 if you have nothing to hide, why aren't you going to give your phone over?
00:17:41.880 But if you have something to hide, you're not giving your phone over.
00:17:43.680 That's right, that's right.
00:17:46.260 And we're just putting our finger in the wound over here.
00:17:49.440 And it's been going on for about a decade, really, with the mass migration.
00:17:52.920 You have people like Tommy Robinson, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posovic.
00:17:58.440 They all went over and reported on these immigrants,
00:18:02.540 most notably like the Muslim rape gangs, everything happening with like Ubers
00:18:06.520 and just general violence against people that, you know,
00:18:14.660 you're claiming you're a refugee coming into somebody's country
00:18:18.760 and then berating and attacking people,
00:18:21.900 totally disrespecting where you're going to.
00:18:25.500 And this is why we need an end to the war.
00:18:28.120 If you don't have a war, you can't have refugees.
00:18:31.380 So that's what we're trying to do with Mexico.
00:18:34.740 from the United States perspective, but also ending these wars,
00:18:38.620 especially with Ukraine and Russia recently.
00:18:42.140 That's why we're over there for this peace deal.
00:18:44.180 And why doesn't Zelensky want to reach a peace deal?
00:18:48.380 He doesn't want a peace deal with Putin.
00:18:50.040 He doesn't want it with Trump.
00:18:51.120 But listen, I believe Jack reported on it recently, too,
00:18:54.300 that, hey, Vladdy, you know, for this Valentine's Day,
00:18:58.340 if you just want to give us some names and drop some secrets for us,
00:19:02.200 we'll gladly bring you to the United States,
00:19:04.120 put you in witness protection.
00:19:06.000 You know, you want these security guarantees.
00:19:08.180 Like, is that code for you want to make a deal with Trump
00:19:11.380 and, you know, just wash your hands?
00:19:13.560 Because we know all the billions of dollars that we sent over to you
00:19:16.760 aren't in your hands anymore.
00:19:18.600 It went all in the black market,
00:19:19.920 and you don't have any leverage in making this deal anymore.
00:19:23.580 So what do you want to do?
00:19:26.220 It's your move.
00:19:27.400 And I think having a real president in office now
00:19:32.320 definitely gives us the leverage to accomplish that.
00:19:37.700 What do you think, Michelle?
00:19:38.940 Well, and that's the golden question, Kevin.
00:19:41.440 He talks about these security guarantees.
00:19:43.420 What exactly is that?
00:19:44.500 What does that entail?
00:19:46.040 Is this on behalf of your people?
00:19:48.080 Is this on behalf of specific people?
00:19:49.800 Is this on behalf of you alone?
00:19:51.760 Because there's a lot of things that happened in Ukraine
00:19:53.800 over the past few years that we still aren't uncovering.
00:19:57.320 And as we know, the Biden administration, Joe Biden,
00:20:00.340 has got some extra bumps in pay
00:20:02.860 from the things going on over there.
00:20:04.480 And as we've reported multiple times,
00:20:05.880 I mean, the Mexican cartel literally has U.S. weapons
00:20:08.120 that were supposed to be sent to Ukraine.
00:20:10.120 Zelensky has admitted that he doesn't know
00:20:12.300 where some of that money went.
00:20:13.420 That was billions of dollars.
00:20:15.320 And not to mention countless lives
00:20:17.680 that were just wasted and died for nothing.
00:20:20.880 You know, it's interesting because really,
00:20:22.660 Zelensky's only bargaining power, Kevin,
00:20:25.060 was these rare earth materials.
00:20:27.400 But if he's not willing to come to the table on that,
00:20:29.940 really, what does he have left at this point?
00:20:32.820 He doesn't have anything.
00:20:34.060 He doesn't have anything.
00:20:35.000 We're going to go over there and strike a deal.
00:20:38.220 He thought it was going to be farmland,
00:20:39.980 but nope, we're going over.
00:20:41.160 We're going to get some lithium.
00:20:42.080 We're going to get some titanium.
00:20:43.820 And clearly the uranium,
00:20:45.700 which is what everybody's after.
00:20:47.780 And hey, this is going to be
00:20:49.100 more of just American dominance.
00:20:51.840 It's great to be winning again.
00:20:54.000 And it's just amazing that Zelensky
00:20:55.940 couldn't figure this out ahead of time.
00:20:58.660 But here we are.
00:20:59.620 Here we are.
00:21:00.280 We're going to take back America.
00:21:01.480 We're going to take back
00:21:02.340 all the taxpayer-funded things.
00:21:05.920 Jack and I went over there
00:21:06.820 when we gave them $40 billion,
00:21:08.640 saying, what's going on here?
00:21:10.240 And now we're in upwards of hundreds
00:21:11.860 of billions of dollars
00:21:12.900 that Ukraine has taken from us.
00:21:15.940 We are just Ukraine sugar, Daniel.
00:21:18.300 I'll tell you what,
00:21:18.800 we're finally putting our foot down.
00:21:20.440 We're realizing our worth.
00:21:21.720 That's a joke.
00:21:22.320 If anyone lives around the area,
00:21:23.980 they might be able to get that.
00:21:25.000 All right, you're watching Human Events.
00:21:26.120 We'll be right back with more.
00:21:27.120 Don't go anywhere.
00:21:27.560 And Jack, where is Jack?
00:21:30.720 Where is Jack?
00:21:33.020 Where is he?
00:21:34.300 Jack, I want to see you.
00:21:37.940 Great job, Jack.
00:21:39.380 Thank you.
00:21:40.140 What a job you do.
00:21:41.560 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:21:42.940 We're always talking about
00:21:43.780 the fake news and the bad,
00:21:45.240 but we have guys,
00:21:46.640 and these are the guys
00:21:47.640 who'll be getting Pulisic.
00:21:48.720 Welcome back to Human Events Daily.
00:21:52.980 Guys, as Trump continues
00:21:54.480 to make massive waves
00:21:56.440 and put this country back on track,
00:21:58.520 you also have these federal judges,
00:22:00.240 activists is what I would like to call them,
00:22:01.900 that are continuing to try
00:22:03.020 and block the MAGA mandate.
00:22:05.700 Again, this is what
00:22:06.540 a majority of Americans here voted for.
00:22:08.800 This is what Americans wanted.
00:22:10.060 They voted for reform,
00:22:11.760 and they received it with President Trump.
00:22:13.340 They received it with his cabinet picks
00:22:14.960 and the moves that are being made right now,
00:22:16.940 and yet you still have the deep state.
00:22:18.200 You have these bureaucrats,
00:22:19.660 the Democrats,
00:22:20.640 everyone that is getting paid off
00:22:22.260 and has been infiltrated in D.C.
00:22:24.880 over the past four years,
00:22:27.060 freaking out.
00:22:28.300 In fact, we were just talking
00:22:29.180 about it yesterday.
00:22:30.080 Criminal defense lawyer searches
00:22:31.960 are up on Google now in Washington, D.C.
00:22:34.480 I wonder why that is.
00:22:36.520 It's interesting, though,
00:22:37.580 because you keep hearing from Democrats
00:22:39.320 the term constitutional crisis.
00:22:41.040 Remember when they were talking
00:22:41.720 about threat to democracy?
00:22:43.040 Well, that didn't work,
00:22:43.860 so now they're in constitutional crisis,
00:22:46.960 and we have our own little term
00:22:49.020 that Josh Hammer,
00:22:50.300 the host of The Josh Hammer Show
00:22:51.520 and America on Trial,
00:22:52.560 is now talking about
00:22:54.100 called judicial insurrection.
00:22:55.920 Let's bring him in right now
00:22:57.240 along with Kevin Pasovic
00:22:58.480 to explain exactly what's going on there.
00:23:01.180 Josh, thanks so much for being with us.
00:23:04.200 You talk about a term
00:23:05.420 called judicial insurrection.
00:23:07.640 Break that down.
00:23:08.220 Well, great to be with you guys.
00:23:11.220 So, I mean, I'm not sure
00:23:12.380 how else to describe
00:23:13.240 what we're seeing unfold
00:23:14.380 before our eyes here.
00:23:15.580 And, you know, first of all,
00:23:16.700 you're totally right
00:23:17.480 that the American people
00:23:18.820 gave a mandate to Donald Trump
00:23:20.800 and his movement there
00:23:21.720 and that these judges
00:23:22.420 are being obstinate
00:23:23.300 and they're trying to thwart it
00:23:25.240 by any means necessary.
00:23:26.080 But I think it's worth
00:23:26.720 just contextualizing
00:23:27.660 what we're seeing.
00:23:28.300 Let's flash back
00:23:29.260 to Donald Trump's first four years.
00:23:31.060 There were 64,
00:23:32.560 by my tally, instances
00:23:33.900 of so-called nationwide injunctions,
00:23:36.220 universal injunctions against Trump
00:23:38.040 the first time around.
00:23:39.400 That number 64
00:23:40.360 is actually more
00:23:41.620 than the first 44 presidents combined
00:23:44.080 actually dealt with there.
00:23:45.960 Which makes sense
00:23:46.760 because the entire idea
00:23:47.860 of a so-called nationwide injunction,
00:23:49.520 the entire idea
00:23:50.340 that a puny little single federal judge
00:23:53.160 deep in the bowels
00:23:54.020 of a forum shop,
00:23:55.060 deep blue jurisdiction,
00:23:56.200 whether it's in Hawaii
00:23:57.100 or Seattle, Washington
00:23:58.340 or Portland, Maine,
00:23:59.200 the notion that that single judge
00:24:01.280 can bring the entirety
00:24:02.340 of the government to a halt
00:24:03.560 is completely unconstitutional
00:24:05.680 and it is only
00:24:06.640 a modern fabrication.
00:24:08.100 It only came into being
00:24:09.220 in the late 1960s.
00:24:11.140 So really,
00:24:11.700 the ball has been
00:24:12.540 in the United States
00:24:13.300 Supreme Court's court,
00:24:14.940 no pun intended,
00:24:15.880 for years now
00:24:16.700 to once and for all
00:24:17.640 definitively rule
00:24:18.540 that these things
00:24:19.140 are actually unconstitutional.
00:24:20.820 But unless and until they do so,
00:24:22.560 the courts are going
00:24:23.200 to keep on acting up.
00:24:24.640 Fortunately,
00:24:25.120 there are also ways,
00:24:26.040 I think,
00:24:26.380 for the Congress
00:24:27.120 and for the executive branch,
00:24:28.620 for the Trump administration
00:24:29.340 to deal with these courts
00:24:30.540 in a way that would not
00:24:31.660 necessarily require SCOTUS review.
00:24:33.380 So SCOTUS should
00:24:34.200 for once and for all
00:24:35.680 deem that this judicial insurrection,
00:24:38.020 these nationwide injunctions
00:24:38.980 are lawless,
00:24:39.980 they run constitutional
00:24:40.760 and they will never be
00:24:41.680 the law of the land
00:24:42.380 any longer there.
00:24:43.480 But Congress is going to have
00:24:44.640 to start to get
00:24:45.140 its hands dirty here.
00:24:46.160 So Jim Jordan,
00:24:46.800 the House Judiciary Committee,
00:24:47.840 guys,
00:24:48.080 it's time to start filing
00:24:49.160 some articles of impeachment.
00:24:50.380 Elon Musk said that
00:24:51.220 earlier this week.
00:24:52.220 He is completely right there.
00:24:54.120 The actual legal language
00:24:55.540 in Article 3 of the Constitution
00:24:56.580 says that judges
00:24:57.500 shall sit, quote,
00:24:58.560 during good behavior.
00:24:59.740 We know from some
00:25:01.340 pretty good legal scholarship
00:25:02.820 and some historical research
00:25:03.900 that during good behavior
00:25:05.100 has the same meaning
00:25:06.120 as high crimes and misdemeanors
00:25:07.880 in Article 2 of the Constitution,
00:25:09.620 which Alexander Hamilton
00:25:10.540 defines in Federalist No. 65
00:25:12.260 as basically being
00:25:13.140 a breach of the public trust,
00:25:15.240 which basically means
00:25:16.020 that when you act
00:25:17.040 in a manner
00:25:17.520 where the public
00:25:18.460 has lost trust in you,
00:25:19.760 then you have committed
00:25:20.460 an impeachable offense.
00:25:21.820 How else to describe
00:25:22.720 what we're seeing
00:25:23.260 from people like
00:25:24.020 Judge McConnell
00:25:24.880 in Rhode Island
00:25:25.720 who threatened the Trump administration
00:25:26.920 with criminal contempt?
00:25:27.980 How else to describe
00:25:29.400 what we saw
00:25:29.840 from Judge Engelmeyer
00:25:31.000 in New York City
00:25:31.760 earlier this week
00:25:32.540 who threatened Elon Musk
00:25:33.680 and Doge very, very badly
00:25:35.760 unless they submit
00:25:36.700 all funding decisions
00:25:37.640 when it comes to
00:25:38.280 the Treasury Department
00:25:39.040 through his desk there.
00:25:40.000 So I want to start
00:25:40.700 to see articles of impeachment
00:25:41.760 as well there.
00:25:42.860 And last but not least,
00:25:43.920 when it comes to
00:25:44.640 the executive branch,
00:25:45.980 if Judge McConnell
00:25:46.680 actually tries to follow through
00:25:48.220 on this criminal contempt threat,
00:25:50.320 let's see how that plays out.
00:25:51.600 Okay, dude,
00:25:52.160 what are you going to do?
00:25:52.800 You're going to hold
00:25:53.300 a Trump administration person
00:25:54.900 in criminal contempt there?
00:25:56.220 Well, Trump can just issue
00:25:57.160 a pardon on the back end.
00:25:58.540 It's not going to end well for you.
00:25:59.760 So the judiciary,
00:26:01.040 we know,
00:26:01.640 is the least dangerous
00:26:02.500 of the weakest branch.
00:26:03.740 And I think,
00:26:04.500 as Anton Scalia once said,
00:26:05.560 that they are about
00:26:06.080 to be reminded, frankly,
00:26:07.220 of their own impotence.
00:26:13.440 Well, just to follow up there
00:26:14.840 on that, Josh,
00:26:15.760 talking about Judge McConnell here,
00:26:19.200 he insisted that it's okay
00:26:21.820 for judges to have
00:26:23.040 personal opinions
00:26:23.840 and allow that
00:26:24.660 to influence their decisions.
00:26:25.720 It's on camera.
00:26:26.380 Natalie Winters
00:26:27.000 actually uncovered that
00:26:27.720 just the other day.
00:26:28.800 He calls President Trump
00:26:29.940 a tyrant.
00:26:30.500 I mean,
00:26:30.760 how is this okay?
00:26:34.340 Yeah, I saw that clip
00:26:35.380 from Natalie.
00:26:35.900 That's a great poll
00:26:36.520 from her.
00:26:38.080 These judges are activists.
00:26:39.420 You're totally right to do it.
00:26:40.780 Look, look,
00:26:41.220 I clerked on the Fifth Circuit
00:26:42.420 Court of Appeals myself
00:26:43.500 seven, eight years ago now.
00:26:45.380 I mean,
00:26:45.880 I have seen,
00:26:47.000 I've met any number
00:26:47.800 of federal judges
00:26:48.380 over the course of my lifetime.
00:26:49.320 This notion that every person
00:26:50.680 who puts his hand
00:26:51.740 on the Bible
00:26:52.220 and takes the oath
00:26:53.040 is necessarily a fail,
00:26:55.560 neutral arbiter of the law.
00:26:57.800 Thank goodness
00:26:58.400 we're blessed
00:26:59.220 to have many such constitutionalists,
00:27:01.060 including my own foreign boss,
00:27:02.220 Judge Ho,
00:27:02.560 on the Fifth Circuit.
00:27:03.220 But there are many people
00:27:04.520 on the left
00:27:05.040 who are just literally
00:27:06.440 just political activists
00:27:07.740 in robes.
00:27:08.340 By the way,
00:27:09.080 going all the way up
00:27:09.960 to the United States Supreme Court,
00:27:11.560 Sonia Sotomayor,
00:27:12.840 that woman is a political activist.
00:27:14.320 I'm sorry.
00:27:14.940 But when she is issuing
00:27:16.220 decisions there,
00:27:17.360 I genuinely do not think
00:27:19.000 that Sonia Sotomayor
00:27:19.940 and Ketanji Brown and Jackson,
00:27:21.020 but especially really Sotomayor
00:27:22.180 are probably more
00:27:22.600 even so than Jackson
00:27:23.620 if we're splitting hairs there.
00:27:24.720 I do not think
00:27:25.500 that she is arriving
00:27:26.460 at a seriously considered
00:27:28.420 prudential judgment
00:27:29.840 as to what the law requires there.
00:27:31.520 These people are just issuing
00:27:32.540 political mandates there.
00:27:33.820 And we saw that in that clip
00:27:34.700 that you mentioned
00:27:35.240 that Natalie Winters
00:27:35.960 brought up about Judge McConnell
00:27:37.100 talking back in 2021
00:27:38.880 in the post-George Floyd era there
00:27:40.960 about how he grew up
00:27:42.420 as a privileged white man
00:27:43.760 and how it is incumbent upon him
00:27:45.300 to try to think about
00:27:47.000 how if there is a black
00:27:48.640 or a gay or a transgender
00:27:50.540 or alien, whatever,
00:27:52.160 defending before his court,
00:27:53.620 he has to think about
00:27:54.440 how the criminal law
00:27:55.160 should apply to him.
00:27:56.580 You know, what happened
00:27:57.220 to the good old notion
00:27:58.160 of equality under law?
00:27:59.820 The good old Declaration
00:28:00.680 of Independence,
00:28:01.500 the 14th Amendment
00:28:02.320 to the Constitution,
00:28:03.200 the Civil Rights Act there.
00:28:04.520 You know, once upon a time,
00:28:05.460 this country actually stood
00:28:06.460 for equality under law.
00:28:08.360 I'm heartened to see
00:28:09.480 that that was basically
00:28:10.700 what Trump went on
00:28:11.760 in contrast to their
00:28:12.740 dystopian vision there.
00:28:13.860 But these judges
00:28:14.460 have to be taught
00:28:15.440 a pretty severe lesson,
00:28:16.820 I fear.
00:28:21.920 Yeah, these judges
00:28:22.840 are evil, Josh.
00:28:24.280 I got to say,
00:28:25.760 it's amazing to see
00:28:27.400 such a pushback.
00:28:28.760 And like you said,
00:28:29.440 Sotomayor and
00:28:30.280 Ketanji Brown-Jackson,
00:28:31.600 who doesn't even know
00:28:32.500 what a woman is,
00:28:34.440 push back against
00:28:35.940 all these doge,
00:28:37.160 all these doge policies
00:28:38.880 being put in place.
00:28:39.800 And they're just
00:28:40.560 on their heels.
00:28:41.540 They're being put back
00:28:42.460 on their heels.
00:28:43.300 I saw just yesterday
00:28:44.320 at the Maryland State House,
00:28:47.620 you know,
00:28:48.280 just outside of D.C.,
00:28:49.420 there's a trans,
00:28:50.300 a trans protest
00:28:52.420 going against the laws
00:28:53.800 coming down there
00:28:54.620 saying that
00:28:55.840 they're going to be
00:28:57.200 stripping funding
00:28:57.800 for sex change surgeries.
00:28:58.980 And now even like
00:29:00.040 U.S. District Judge
00:29:01.140 Brendan Herson
00:29:02.000 got blocked,
00:29:03.340 you know,
00:29:03.960 by President Trump's
00:29:04.900 EO on this as well.
00:29:06.900 And also the
00:29:08.380 hormone drugs
00:29:09.400 for minors.
00:29:10.260 Like,
00:29:10.960 why are we seeing this?
00:29:12.900 Why are we seeing
00:29:13.440 such lawfare now?
00:29:16.220 Well,
00:29:16.760 their first form
00:29:17.840 of preferred lawfare
00:29:18.940 failed, right?
00:29:19.940 I mean,
00:29:20.120 their first form
00:29:20.820 of preferred lawfare
00:29:21.840 was the prosecutorial element.
00:29:23.880 I mean,
00:29:23.980 that was so-called
00:29:24.700 special counsel Jack Smith.
00:29:26.100 By the way,
00:29:26.380 I call him so-called
00:29:27.980 because he's actually
00:29:28.640 not a legitimate
00:29:29.180 special counsel
00:29:29.840 as Justice Clarence Thomas
00:29:31.300 and Judge Aileen Cannon
00:29:32.400 in Florida
00:29:32.760 both correctly ruled.
00:29:33.620 But we saw that lawfare
00:29:35.000 from Jack Smith.
00:29:36.320 We saw that lawfare
00:29:37.280 from Fonnie Willis
00:29:38.420 in Georgia.
00:29:39.320 That case technically
00:29:40.560 is not over yet,
00:29:41.620 actually,
00:29:42.020 which is kind of weird,
00:29:43.140 but I guess it'll come
00:29:43.820 to a formal end
00:29:44.640 one way or the other.
00:29:45.760 It'll peter out here
00:29:46.460 essentially of its own accord.
00:29:48.000 Alvin Bragg in New York City.
00:29:49.220 So that lawfare failed, right?
00:29:51.580 I mean,
00:29:51.920 the American people
00:29:52.380 voted for Donald Trump,
00:29:53.580 all these stupid
00:29:54.420 criminal indictments
00:29:55.360 notwithstanding there.
00:29:56.180 So now they're on
00:29:56.700 to their next stage
00:29:57.640 of lawfare,
00:29:58.480 which is the judicial insurrection.
00:30:00.360 But again,
00:30:00.720 to the weakest branch,
00:30:01.660 they have it coming
00:30:02.320 at this point, I think.
00:30:03.620 All right.
00:30:05.460 So, Josh,
00:30:06.200 Letitia James
00:30:07.020 isn't going anywhere,
00:30:08.240 unfortunately.
00:30:09.240 She had a press conference
00:30:09.960 earlier today
00:30:10.560 raging about
00:30:11.920 the Trump administration
00:30:13.080 after they halted payments
00:30:14.620 to New York City.
00:30:15.720 Let's remember,
00:30:16.640 by the way,
00:30:17.540 what was it,
00:30:18.280 $59 million
00:30:19.240 FEMA sent to New York
00:30:21.220 to house illegal immigrants
00:30:22.420 while our own people
00:30:23.680 were freezing in the cold
00:30:24.760 from Hurricane Helene.
00:30:26.200 This comes as well
00:30:27.300 as Pam Bondi,
00:30:28.640 new attorney general,
00:30:29.500 announced that the DOJ
00:30:30.440 has filed charges
00:30:31.160 against the state of New York.
00:30:32.460 Kathy Hochul,
00:30:33.580 Letitia James,
00:30:34.300 the DMV commissioner.
00:30:36.040 What do you think
00:30:36.820 is going to come of this?
00:30:38.300 And how do you think
00:30:38.940 this is going to play out?
00:30:39.860 Is Letitia James
00:30:40.900 just freaking out right now?
00:30:42.940 She's trying to do anything
00:30:43.740 she can to save herself?
00:30:46.420 Well, first of all,
00:30:47.480 these are righteous lawsuits
00:30:48.780 that Pam Bondi
00:30:50.020 is filing
00:30:50.480 against New York State,
00:30:51.760 against Kathy Hochul
00:30:52.620 and Tish James,
00:30:53.460 and out in Chicago
00:30:55.020 against the very socialist mayor
00:30:57.160 there, Mayor Johnson,
00:30:58.120 as well as the governor,
00:30:58.860 J.B. Pritzker.
00:30:59.460 I mean, you have to go after
00:31:01.180 these so-called
00:31:01.820 sanctuary jurisdictions.
00:31:03.180 And the somewhat provocative way
00:31:04.640 that I like to phrase
00:31:05.580 what these so-called
00:31:07.160 self-professed
00:31:07.880 sanctuary jurisdictions
00:31:08.920 is doing,
00:31:09.980 they're basically trying
00:31:10.800 to relitigate the civil war.
00:31:12.700 And let me explain
00:31:13.500 what I mean by that.
00:31:14.880 This country fought
00:31:15.600 a very bloody, tragic war.
00:31:18.220 Many, many, many people
00:31:19.540 on both sides
00:31:20.220 lost their lives
00:31:21.120 160 years ago
00:31:22.300 to once and for all
00:31:23.540 resolve the question
00:31:24.540 as to whether or not
00:31:25.500 the states
00:31:26.080 can nullify federal law.
00:31:27.940 That was the old theory, right?
00:31:29.140 I mean, that was
00:31:29.580 John C. Calhoun,
00:31:30.780 the slave-holding
00:31:31.720 South Carolinian
00:31:32.860 back in the 1830s, 1840s,
00:31:35.480 the idea of a nullification crisis
00:31:37.280 that the states
00:31:37.820 can just nullify federal law.
00:31:39.720 That was what the Democratic Party
00:31:41.200 stood for
00:31:41.940 before the civil war.
00:31:43.820 And now, apparently,
00:31:45.140 really just
00:31:46.360 neo-Confederate Democrats,
00:31:47.880 frankly,
00:31:48.360 in the year 2025
00:31:49.580 are basically trying
00:31:50.700 to resuscitate
00:31:51.500 the ghost
00:31:52.160 of John C. Calhoun.
00:31:53.320 They wouldn't call it that,
00:31:54.360 obviously.
00:31:54.760 They think that they're
00:31:55.240 taking the moral high ground,
00:31:56.260 but that's actually
00:31:57.340 exactly what they're doing here.
00:31:58.860 So what Pambani is doing
00:31:59.980 is basically just affirming
00:32:01.860 that, no,
00:32:03.120 federal law is supreme.
00:32:04.720 Under Article VI
00:32:05.600 of the Constitution,
00:32:06.340 the Supremacy Clause
00:32:07.100 very clearly says
00:32:07.960 that this Constitution
00:32:09.160 and all statutes
00:32:10.140 and treaties passed
00:32:11.060 pursuant to the Constitution,
00:32:12.460 that is a supreme law of the land.
00:32:14.600 The states cannot nullify
00:32:16.080 or cannot undermine
00:32:17.360 federal law.
00:32:18.640 So she's basically
00:32:19.160 just trying to uphold
00:32:20.180 federal law.
00:32:20.740 I would actually take it
00:32:21.660 one step even further
00:32:22.760 than this.
00:32:23.760 There's a 1987
00:32:24.660 Supreme Court case
00:32:25.620 called South Dakota
00:32:26.460 versus Dole,
00:32:28.520 which basically stands
00:32:29.400 for the proposition
00:32:30.040 that the Department of Justice
00:32:32.240 and Congress,
00:32:33.180 if they want to,
00:32:34.380 can attach federal funds
00:32:36.320 to states and localities
00:32:37.780 on the condition
00:32:38.920 that they do something
00:32:40.220 as long as that something
00:32:41.580 is related to the funding.
00:32:43.280 So in concrete terms,
00:32:44.220 what I mean by that,
00:32:45.560 the federal taxpayer
00:32:46.500 actually subsidizes
00:32:47.520 a lot of local police departments
00:32:49.340 across the country.
00:32:50.520 At this point,
00:32:51.120 the DOJ working hand-in-hand
00:32:52.620 with Majority Leader Thune,
00:32:54.060 Speaker Johnson,
00:32:54.680 and the Republicans
00:32:55.240 in Congress,
00:32:56.080 they should make sure
00:32:56.800 that not a penny
00:32:57.880 of U.S. taxpayer dollars
00:32:59.620 flows to any local
00:33:01.520 police department
00:33:02.260 in a so-called
00:33:03.260 sanctuary jurisdiction.
00:33:04.460 You should basically
00:33:05.040 require that as a condition
00:33:06.460 of receiving that aid
00:33:07.860 from the federal taxpayer
00:33:08.800 that these local jurisdictions
00:33:10.540 do not obstruct
00:33:11.860 federal law enforcement
00:33:12.820 when it comes
00:33:13.360 to the deportation operation,
00:33:14.900 when it comes to ICE,
00:33:15.740 DHS, and so forth there.
00:33:17.060 And ideally,
00:33:18.040 you would condition
00:33:18.540 that funding on them
00:33:19.320 not just obstructing them,
00:33:20.860 but actually actively
00:33:22.040 assisting them.
00:33:22.840 So, you know,
00:33:23.280 basically,
00:33:24.180 put the ball
00:33:24.980 in their court.
00:33:25.800 So, I love these lawsuits.
00:33:27.520 Pam Bonney's doing
00:33:28.140 the right thing,
00:33:28.680 and I hope that there's
00:33:29.200 frankly more to come.
00:33:32.620 I love hearing that.
00:33:34.460 That shows the connection
00:33:36.320 between ICE and DOJ.
00:33:38.680 It's incredible to see,
00:33:39.960 and we just had that report
00:33:40.880 from Tom Homan there, too,
00:33:43.100 seeing if AOC might be
00:33:45.840 in some deep water there
00:33:47.480 teaching people
00:33:49.040 how to resist ICE.
00:33:50.440 But that's amazing to see.
00:33:52.120 Yeah, hey, the left said,
00:33:53.340 you know, defund the police.
00:33:54.940 Like, my how the tables
00:33:56.580 have turned.
00:34:00.120 Put the ball in their court.
00:34:01.260 I love it.
00:34:01.780 It's time to go on offense, guys.
00:34:03.820 It's good stuff.
00:34:05.760 It's time to go on offense.
00:34:07.620 Josh Hammer
00:34:08.080 from the Josh Hammer Show,
00:34:09.220 thank you so much
00:34:09.960 for being with us
00:34:10.820 and providing that insight
00:34:12.380 as well.
00:34:13.000 Do not go anywhere.
00:34:14.160 You're watching
00:34:14.560 Human Events Daily.
00:34:15.660 I'm going to show back.
00:34:16.080 It's filling in
00:34:16.520 for the great Jack Posobiec,
00:34:17.780 who's over in Munich
00:34:18.580 right now causing an uproar
00:34:20.360 with mainstream media,
00:34:22.540 which is quite literally
00:34:23.520 outdated media at this point.
00:34:25.800 We're going to have more
00:34:26.380 right after the break.
00:34:27.320 Don't go anywhere.
00:34:32.640 I'm always listening
00:34:33.640 to Human Events
00:34:34.420 with Jack Posobiec.
00:34:36.460 All right.
00:34:37.060 Welcome back
00:34:37.460 to Human Events Daily.
00:34:38.480 I'm Michelle Backus
00:34:39.220 filling in for the great
00:34:40.020 Jack Posobiec.
00:34:40.880 Some breaking news
00:34:41.580 coming in right now
00:34:42.820 as two people were shot
00:34:43.940 at the Eagles'
00:34:45.260 Super Bowl parade.
00:34:46.100 Of course,
00:34:46.500 this is early reports
00:34:47.560 coming in,
00:34:48.400 allegedly over a dispute.
00:34:50.660 This comes as just last year
00:34:52.160 during the Kansas City parade
00:34:53.560 as well.
00:34:54.020 One person was shot
00:34:55.500 and we're going to continue
00:34:56.360 to pray for those victims
00:34:57.540 as we find out
00:34:58.320 more information there.
00:34:59.940 Happening as well,
00:35:00.820 only moments ago,
00:35:01.960 some other breaking news.
00:35:03.540 President Trump
00:35:04.160 signing an executive order
00:35:05.580 halting all federal funding
00:35:07.520 for schools
00:35:08.200 which mandate
00:35:09.040 the COVID vaccine.
00:35:10.920 Guys,
00:35:11.120 this is a long time coming.
00:35:12.620 This is something
00:35:13.000 that we've all been waiting for.
00:35:14.800 Many of us
00:35:15.480 have felt the effects
00:35:16.520 of this unconstitutional
00:35:18.120 COVID vaccine mandate.
00:35:20.240 Mind you,
00:35:20.560 we're going to take that
00:35:21.220 right now.
00:35:21.660 Take a look.
00:35:25.040 Okay.
00:35:25.440 that solves that problem.
00:35:43.160 Sir,
00:35:43.680 will the Department of Education
00:35:46.280 have to handle that?
00:35:47.840 Yes,
00:35:48.260 it'll go through
00:35:48.840 the Department of Education.
00:35:50.360 Okay?
00:35:51.660 Thanks.
00:35:52.040 Can I make one comment,
00:35:55.760 Mr. President?
00:35:56.080 Yes, please.
00:35:57.140 As a father of nine,
00:35:58.760 thank you.
00:35:59.620 We should have parental freedom
00:36:00.900 to decide what vaccines
00:36:02.160 our kids take
00:36:03.660 as opposed to school systems
00:36:05.440 and the governor's course
00:36:06.360 upon the people
00:36:08.540 that love these kids the most,
00:36:09.640 which is the parents.
00:36:10.220 So thank you for signing that.
00:36:11.120 Great.
00:36:11.500 Thank you very much.
00:36:12.520 People wanted that very badly.
00:36:14.540 Okay.
00:36:15.300 Okay,
00:36:15.860 and here is an executive order
00:36:17.600 we are establishing
00:36:18.340 the National Energy
00:36:20.240 Dominance Council.
00:36:21.320 So that will be chaired
00:36:23.160 by the Secretary of the Interior,
00:36:25.940 Mr. Burgum,
00:36:27.280 and the Vice Chair,
00:36:28.700 Chris Wright.
00:36:29.780 And so this will reduce costs
00:36:32.040 with respect to energy,
00:36:33.800 establish American independence
00:36:35.940 with energy,
00:36:37.360 and also unleash energy dominance.
00:36:39.700 Good.
00:36:40.020 Thank you.
00:36:40.540 And this is a big deal.
00:36:42.200 We have more energy
00:36:43.420 than any other country,
00:36:45.420 and now we're unleashing it,
00:36:47.040 to put it nicely.
00:36:48.520 And I'd like to ask,
00:36:50.000 Doug,
00:36:50.400 you're going to be heading it up.
00:36:51.840 You and Chris,
00:36:52.680 would you say a few words
00:36:53.640 about this?
00:36:54.360 Yeah, absolutely, sir.
00:36:55.780 Good afternoon.
00:36:57.280 President Trump wisely understood
00:36:58.960 that under the Biden administration
00:37:01.080 there was a war
00:37:02.880 against American energy,
00:37:04.200 and today that war
00:37:05.120 officially has ended.
00:37:06.700 President Trump,
00:37:07.360 on day one,
00:37:08.000 declared a national energy emergency,
00:37:10.380 and this is a real emergency
00:37:12.340 because under the Biden administration
00:37:14.000 restricted the production
00:37:16.000 of oil and gas.
00:37:17.380 Production's still coming,
00:37:18.420 but when you stop holding leases,
00:37:20.400 when you take 625 million acres
00:37:22.820 of land out of ocean,
00:37:25.060 land out of production possibilities
00:37:26.920 through an executive order,
00:37:27.960 you're really restricting
00:37:29.080 the balance sheet of America.
00:37:30.680 But today,
00:37:31.640 as President Trump said,
00:37:32.760 this is unleashed.
00:37:34.400 The National Energy Dominance Council
00:37:36.740 will be made up.
00:37:37.820 All the folks
00:37:38.340 that are standing beside me here,
00:37:40.180 other cabinet leaders,
00:37:41.300 and many more,
00:37:42.620 represent President Trump's wise decision
00:37:45.080 that we need a whole-of-government approach
00:37:47.060 to unwind.
00:37:48.400 The Biden administration
00:37:49.480 had a whole-of-government approach
00:37:50.840 that had the war against U.S. energy.
00:37:53.320 Now we need to turn that around
00:37:54.640 100 degrees
00:37:55.480 and unleash that potential.
00:37:57.020 We've got to unleash it
00:37:57.900 from the Gulf of America
00:37:59.800 all the way up to Alaska.
00:38:01.560 We have amazing resources
00:38:02.980 in this country,
00:38:04.000 and we haven't been getting
00:38:04.860 a return on them.
00:38:05.640 Many of these are under public lands.
00:38:08.420 The interior has 500 million acres
00:38:10.320 of surface,
00:38:11.000 700 million acres of subsurface minerals,
00:38:14.000 critical minerals,
00:38:15.020 and offshore,
00:38:16.160 close to 2 billion acres.
00:38:18.460 And that balance sheet
00:38:19.680 is the biggest balance sheet
00:38:21.880 in the world,
00:38:22.340 and it's been completely underutilized.
00:38:24.240 Everybody knows
00:38:24.860 we have $36 trillion in debt
00:38:27.020 as a country,
00:38:28.080 but no one knows
00:38:29.140 how many hundreds of trillions
00:38:30.960 of dollars of assets we have.
00:38:32.440 And President Trump
00:38:33.020 is asking us
00:38:33.840 to go get a return
00:38:35.180 on that investment
00:38:35.900 for the American people.
00:38:36.860 And with that,
00:38:37.780 we're going to have prosperity
00:38:38.620 at home with lower prices,
00:38:40.360 and we're also going to have
00:38:41.460 peace abroad
00:38:42.180 because the wars
00:38:43.440 that we've been engaged in
00:38:44.980 or our allies have been fighting
00:38:47.160 over the past few years
00:38:48.240 have been funded
00:38:48.920 by the oil sales
00:38:49.940 of our adversaries.
00:38:51.600 And so we have an opportunity,
00:38:53.000 and we also are in
00:38:53.740 an AI arms race with China.
00:38:55.380 The only way we win that
00:38:56.440 is with more electricity,
00:38:57.660 and we also have
00:38:58.740 an energy emergency
00:38:59.620 in terms of electricity.
00:39:01.560 Too much intermittent,
00:39:03.180 unreliable,
00:39:03.940 not enough baseload.
00:39:04.920 We've been shutting down
00:39:05.780 the baseload that we have.
00:39:07.160 President Trump
00:39:07.660 is going to reverse that,
00:39:08.840 and it's going to allow us
00:39:09.800 to win the AI arms race,
00:39:11.200 which is the most important thing
00:39:12.720 that we have to do
00:39:13.540 relative to our future.
00:39:16.060 So with that,
00:39:16.720 I want to say again
00:39:17.480 thank you to President Trump,
00:39:18.560 and I want to thank
00:39:19.140 my fellow members
00:39:20.400 of the Energy Council.
00:39:21.420 I'm going to kick it over
00:39:22.040 to the Vice Chair,
00:39:23.280 Chris Wright,
00:39:24.240 who's the Secretary
00:39:25.180 of the Department of Energy.
00:39:26.640 Thank you, Secretary Burgum.
00:39:28.000 Today is truly a great day
00:39:30.020 for our country today,
00:39:31.620 and Secretary Burgum
00:39:32.640 laid out so many
00:39:33.800 of the problems
00:39:35.020 the last four years.
00:39:36.420 If you put barriers
00:39:37.360 in front of energy,
00:39:38.320 you make it more expensive,
00:39:40.020 you make it less reliable,
00:39:41.540 you make it harder
00:39:42.100 to do business here,
00:39:43.360 and harder for our consumers
00:39:44.540 to pay their bills.
00:39:46.260 With this fantastic action
00:39:47.920 from our President,
00:39:49.160 we now have authority
00:39:50.520 across the government
00:39:51.600 to lean in
00:39:52.580 to fix these problems.
00:39:54.500 And I'll start out
00:39:55.220 with one specific right away.
00:39:56.720 This morning,
00:39:57.800 I signed our first
00:39:59.160 LNG export license,
00:40:01.720 unpausing the pause,
00:40:03.700 in action.
00:40:04.920 The Commonwealth LNG project
00:40:06.820 that will be on the Gulf Coast
00:40:08.060 in Louisiana
00:40:08.720 is now officially ready to go.
00:40:11.620 This will be a large
00:40:12.460 construction project
00:40:13.420 for American workers.
00:40:15.000 It will draw demand
00:40:15.860 for more American energy production
00:40:17.720 that will be shipped overseas
00:40:18.840 to our allies.
00:40:20.100 Many more of those to come.
00:40:22.260 We're also working aggressively
00:40:23.480 to roll back standards
00:40:25.000 that have made appliances
00:40:26.480 more expensive for Americans.
00:40:29.160 And dishwashers
00:40:30.380 that take two hours long
00:40:31.680 and don't get your dishes clean.
00:40:33.460 Nobody likes that.
00:40:35.360 That's about standing in the way.
00:40:37.540 And with this President,
00:40:39.080 President Trump,
00:40:39.920 and our new National Energy
00:40:41.040 Dominance Council,
00:40:41.960 there's so many things
00:40:43.100 we can do
00:40:43.880 to make American lives better,
00:40:46.000 bring down costs
00:40:46.840 and grow opportunities.
00:40:48.340 And with that,
00:40:49.120 I'm going to kick it over
00:40:49.860 to a fellow member
00:40:50.780 of the Council,
00:40:52.140 our Administrator of the EPA,
00:40:53.940 Lee Zeldin.
00:40:54.440 Thank you, Secretary,
00:40:56.040 and honored to be serving
00:40:57.240 on the Energy Dominance Council
00:40:59.240 at EPA.
00:41:00.160 We're doing our part
00:41:00.980 to power the great
00:41:01.800 American comeback.
00:41:03.320 And President Trump
00:41:04.180 has made it clear
00:41:04.960 that he wants EPA
00:41:06.020 to be doing our job
00:41:07.720 to ensure that we are
00:41:08.940 unleashing energy dominance,
00:41:10.540 however we can help,
00:41:12.040 that we are assisting
00:41:12.820 in making America
00:41:13.660 the AI capital of the world,
00:41:15.660 that we are pursuing
00:41:16.640 permitting reform,
00:41:18.000 that we are helping
00:41:18.680 to bring back
00:41:19.680 American auto jobs.
00:41:20.920 This is the mandate
00:41:22.380 of the American public,
00:41:24.440 that the Trump mandate
00:41:25.580 was clear,
00:41:27.120 and the guidance
00:41:27.960 from President Trump
00:41:28.940 to me when he asked me,
00:41:30.900 thankfully,
00:41:31.760 for the opportunity
00:41:32.900 for us to be able
00:41:34.360 to serve together
00:41:35.300 in partnership
00:41:35.820 to unleash energy dominance,
00:41:37.840 this is a moment
00:41:38.800 that we must meet.
00:41:40.540 To that end,
00:41:41.580 it is important to note
00:41:43.280 that the prior
00:41:44.900 Biden-Harris EPA
00:41:46.100 issued a waiver
00:41:47.980 to California
00:41:49.000 for tailpipe emissions.
00:41:50.940 This was a rule
00:41:51.780 that should have been
00:41:52.420 submitted to Congress.
00:41:53.700 We will submit it
00:41:54.600 to Congress.
00:41:55.580 Congress will have
00:41:56.200 the opportunity
00:41:56.820 through the Congressional Review Act
00:41:58.360 to make that waiver go away.
00:42:00.720 We will do everything
00:42:01.900 in our part
00:42:02.480 to help the American people
00:42:03.740 to make life in America
00:42:05.220 more affordable.
00:42:06.540 The golden age
00:42:07.360 of American success
00:42:08.260 is upon us.
00:42:09.200 If you're excited
00:42:09.840 about the last three weeks,
00:42:12.080 that was just a taste
00:42:14.380 of the main event,
00:42:16.920 the entree to come
00:42:18.020 the next four years
00:42:19.180 being the greatest term
00:42:20.300 in the history
00:42:21.100 of the American presidency.
00:42:22.840 With that,
00:42:23.500 I'd like to introduce
00:42:24.440 Sean Duffin.
00:42:25.340 Thank you.
00:42:25.760 So, first of all,
00:42:26.900 thank you for the work
00:42:28.920 on dishwashers.
00:42:30.540 We use more water
00:42:31.540 to wash our dishes
00:42:32.420 before we put them
00:42:33.220 in the dishwasher.
00:42:33.880 That's right.
00:42:34.420 We're not saving water,
00:42:35.520 we're using more water,
00:42:36.300 so thank you for that.
00:42:37.940 But I'm also joining the EPA.
00:42:40.320 We introduced our rules
00:42:42.320 to start to look at
00:42:43.500 the cafe stankers.
00:42:44.880 So we're looking at
00:42:46.000 how much it costs
00:42:47.180 for end users
00:42:48.020 when they put gas
00:42:49.920 in their car.
00:42:50.880 And the Biden era
00:42:51.920 standards are costing
00:42:56.400 billions of dollars
00:42:57.640 in taxes
00:42:59.000 and car credit credits
00:43:00.600 which drive up
00:43:01.380 the costs of vehicles.
00:43:02.640 And so we're going
00:43:03.840 to repute that,
00:43:06.080 rectify it,
00:43:07.100 and make sure
00:43:08.060 we're bringing up
00:43:08.460 the cost of the car.
00:43:09.320 Number one,
00:43:09.800 number two,
00:43:10.320 I'm going to
00:43:10.540 special,
00:43:10.880 Mr. President,
00:43:11.720 for your correction.
00:43:12.480 We are going to
00:43:13.500 move forward
00:43:14.700 with a committee process
00:43:16.060 for the Texas
00:43:17.020 Gulf Link Deep Water
00:43:18.920 Report,
00:43:19.740 making sure we can
00:43:20.980 move energy
00:43:22.180 in and out of the country.
00:43:23.460 So that was held up
00:43:24.600 for five years.
00:43:26.280 And it was stonewall,
00:43:28.160 we don't have just
00:43:28.620 gotten in the way.
00:43:29.600 We're now going to
00:43:30.040 move forward with that
00:43:30.860 and making sure
00:43:31.460 we have great oil
00:43:32.460 infrastructure.
00:43:33.460 Great, thanks.
00:43:34.400 Oh, our line.
00:43:36.480 Yes.
00:43:36.780 So, the nanny state,
00:43:40.520 you're feeling the end
00:43:42.160 of the nanny state
00:43:43.380 from straws made of paper
00:43:46.380 to regulation endlessly
00:43:48.660 harming Americans
00:43:50.520 and holding us back.
00:43:52.320 It slows down
00:43:53.320 our production
00:43:53.980 and manufacturing
00:43:54.760 which we were talking
00:43:55.640 about with the
00:43:56.300 Prime Minister of India
00:43:57.640 yesterday.
00:43:58.520 You're hearing that
00:43:59.180 about energy dominance.
00:44:00.680 It's going to go away.
00:44:02.200 We're going to care
00:44:03.320 about Americans.
00:44:05.160 The Trump administration
00:44:06.260 and this president
00:44:07.060 cares about Americans
00:44:09.300 and you're going
00:44:10.240 to feel a change.
00:44:11.860 You're going to feel
00:44:12.680 the price of energy
00:44:13.720 coming down.
00:44:14.320 You're going to feel
00:44:14.780 prices coming down.
00:44:16.240 You're going to feel
00:44:16.760 an explosion.
00:44:17.700 The golden age
00:44:18.520 of manufacturing
00:44:19.400 of America
00:44:20.400 has always been there.
00:44:21.480 It's just been stifled
00:44:22.620 by regulation
00:44:23.380 and that time is over.
00:44:27.100 Thank you very much.
00:44:29.080 Please.
00:44:30.000 Mr. President,
00:44:30.720 I just want to say
00:44:31.340 that you've built
00:44:31.820 such an incredible team
00:44:32.920 and Secretary
00:44:34.780 and Chairman Bergen
00:44:36.100 that he's been working
00:44:37.720 on this his whole life
00:44:38.740 and so what I expect
00:44:39.960 you to see, sir,
00:44:40.820 is action as early
00:44:42.200 as next week
00:44:43.000 that it's going to shock
00:44:44.100 people about how good
00:44:45.080 it is for Americans
00:44:45.920 and so thank you
00:44:46.600 for your leadership, sir.
00:44:47.840 Thank you very much,
00:44:48.900 Governor.
00:44:49.040 And we are also
00:44:50.240 working on a project
00:44:51.380 that has been
00:44:52.380 under wraps
00:44:54.020 for 20 years.
00:44:55.360 Everybody wanted it.
00:44:56.300 Thank you.
00:44:56.900 Thank you.
00:44:57.240 Thank you.
00:44:57.300 Thank you.
00:44:57.340 Thank you.
00:44:57.920 Thank you.
00:44:58.340 Thank you.
00:44:58.520 Thank you.
00:44:58.880 Thank you.
00:44:58.920 Thank you.
00:44:59.340 Thank you.
00:44:59.360 Thank you.
00:44:59.380 Thank you.
00:44:59.980 Thank you.
00:45:00.340 Thank you.
00:45:00.400 Thank you.
00:45:00.440 Thank you.
00:45:00.520 Thank you.
00:45:00.540 Thank you.