Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - May 15, 2026


KEN PAXTON ANNOUNCES $10M “DE-TRANS” CLINIC— FIRING WOKE DOCTORS


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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
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00:00:33.740 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
00:00:42.860 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
00:00:49.540 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
00:00:52.600 Christ is king.
00:00:54.120 Border Patrol chief Michael Banks announced today he's stepping down effective immediately.
00:00:58.780 The Senate unanimously passed a measure to withhold their own pay during future government shutdowns.
00:01:04.820 All in favor, say aye.
00:01:06.760 Aye.
00:01:07.880 All opposed, say no.
00:01:10.440 The eyes appear to have it.
00:01:11.580 The Justice Department now taking aim at Yale's Medical School.
00:01:15.800 The DOJ says the school discriminated based on race in its admissions process.
00:01:21.380 as it's claiming admissions data shows that black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with
00:01:26.860 consistently lower academic qualifications than white and Asian applicants. So far,
00:01:33.260 Yale has not responded to these findings. Nationwide, inflation is getting worse and
00:01:39.220 shoppers are feeling it. Life's tough and you just got to make the best of it.
00:01:43.560 New economic data show that prices for wholesale products jumped six percent last month compared to
00:01:49.000 a year ago. That's the fastest spike since December 2022, driving the increase gas prices
00:01:56.140 surging 15.6 percent. Now, we're just learning the director of the CIA has met with Cuban
00:02:01.720 officials in Havana today. The CIA official tells us that John Ratcliffe was, in their words, in
00:02:06.320 Havana to personally deliver President Trump's message that the U.S. is prepared to engage on
00:02:10.820 economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes. It comes as The New
00:02:15.420 York Times is reporting that Cuba has run out of oil. Reserves are gone, right, as Cuba's been
00:02:20.540 grappling with these major power outages, these blackouts. You see some of that here. Gas stations
00:02:24.940 closed, traffic lights out, etc. China rolled out the red carpet one last time for President Trump
00:02:32.460 before he waved goodbye to his hosts and boarded Air Force One back to the U.S. It's still to be
00:02:38.500 seen how much progress they made to resolve tension over several topics. We've settled a lot
00:02:43.980 of different problems that other people wouldn't have been able to settle on Iran it's very
00:02:48.240 interesting he feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon he said that very strongly they
00:02:54.080 cannot have a nuclear weapon and he wants them to open up the strait but as he said they closed it
00:03:00.240 and then you close them with a smile and it's true we we control the strait and they've done
00:03:07.040 no business literally they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks
00:03:13.980 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:18.100 We're here live on Real America's Voice.
00:03:20.180 Today is May 15th, 2026, Anno Domine.
00:03:25.600 Well, folks, President Trump now on his way back from the high stakes meeting in Beijing,
00:03:32.260 made some comments to the press on Air Force One.
00:03:36.180 We're still waiting to get a full readout of exactly what took place behind the scenes.
00:03:41.980 And we may not get all of that, as we know.
00:03:45.520 But, of course, President Trump giving a list of interviews, multiple interviews on what was said behind closed doors with Xi Jinping.
00:03:54.460 We do know that from the Iran proposal, the latest one, he did reject that.
00:04:00.020 However, he added that China is interested in helping the United States to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
00:04:06.560 This is something that I asked President Trump directly, just steps outside the Oval Office about one month ago at the White House.
00:04:17.460 We also saw President Trump say that China is committed to Iran not achieving a nuclear weapon.
00:04:23.760 And in fact, that is a stance that China has had for many years.
00:04:28.160 Long prior to this situation, China has always, always really had the position that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
00:04:36.560 And on trade deals, look, we saw 200 planes down from the initial 500.
00:04:41.680 We thought it was going to be a potential promise for as many as 700, but we'll see
00:04:47.020 what's more on that.
00:04:48.180 GE, the engines, 400 to 450 engines, many more planes, and potentially, as the president
00:04:54.540 said, up to 750.
00:04:57.340 And of course, lots of questions as well on the role of Chinese students.
00:05:02.920 And I think what's interesting about the Chinese students quotient that President Trump
00:05:06.200 saying that China was pushing very strongly for the 500,000 Chinese students to come to America,
00:05:12.640 also stating that it was helpful, of course, for the universities. But something that I think was
00:05:17.960 unsaid there was how much of a priority the Chinese students, the half a million, are for the CCP.
00:05:24.260 This is leverage. President Trump has leverage with the Chinese students. These aren't just,
00:05:30.360 you know, random Chinese students who excel at the Gaokao with the, you know, basically their
00:05:35.760 SATs and then do well. No, no. These are the scions of the party. These are the sons and
00:05:43.960 daughters of the elite in the CCP. And President Trump knows that he can pull those visas at a
00:05:50.300 moment's notice. And it's something, of course, Stephen Miller knows and has talked about many,
00:05:55.460 many times. So the fact of matter remains that those students are something that Xi Jinping was
00:06:02.460 pushing very strongly for, as well as the farmland. That means it's of utmost importance to the
00:06:09.000 Chinese Communist Party. Now, if it were me, I'd say deport them all, shred every single one of
00:06:15.000 those Chinese student visas and get rid of all the farmland. There's no reason that they should
00:06:20.240 have investment in our country like that. But of course, President Trump on his way back from
00:06:26.060 Beijing, he made those comments while on Chinese soil. Then, of course, when he was on Air Force
00:06:30.700 One, he was still in Chinese airspace. The most aggressive, though, of course, were the comments
00:06:35.940 on Taiwan. And I've been extremely outspoken about that. The president, of course, responded.
00:06:41.200 He said, well, perhaps the Xi Jinping was talking about America fading under Joe Biden.
00:06:46.560 But the fact remains, that was said with the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in the room, the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square.
00:06:57.880 This is the most aggressive we've ever heard China or any Chinese leader on Taiwan.
00:07:02.880 They made it their top line issue and referred to the United States as a fading power.
00:07:09.340 Folks, we've got to wake up to this.
00:07:11.420 Very excited and honored to have next on the program, greatest attorney general in America today, Ken Paxton of Texas.
00:07:19.580 Stay tuned. We'll be right back.
00:07:20.740 And in our way and our golden age has just begun.
00:07:24.160 This is Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:07:25.900 Now it's time for everyone to understand what America first truly means.
00:07:30.620 Welcome to the second American revolution.
00:07:34.980 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec, we're back live here.
00:07:39.740 Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.
00:07:41.580 I told you before the break, and I am delivering promises made, promises kept.
00:07:46.080 Ladies and gentlemen, the best attorney general in the United States today,
00:07:50.140 Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, joins us on Human Events Daily.
00:07:54.220 Mr. Attorney General, how are you?
00:07:55.980 I am doing great.
00:07:56.980 It's a great day in Texas.
00:07:58.320 Obviously, we're in the middle of a runoff election against the sitting incumbent
00:08:02.440 who's been in office for 42 years.
00:08:03.880 that all happens early voting all happens next week and then may 26th tuesday may 26th is our
00:08:09.320 is our runoff election day after memorial weekend by the way no the day after the more weekend okay
00:08:14.600 so let me so the early voting what does that start on tuesday starts on monday of next week
00:08:19.640 it goes through friday we have five days of early voting a lot of people are used to in a regular
00:08:24.040 primary we have like i think it's 12 days of early voting and then one day of election this
00:08:28.360 time it's five days and one day so they so can they vote over the memorial day weekend or no
00:08:34.360 they have to come back on the 26th so if they haven't voted between monday and friday they
00:08:39.000 cannot vote over the weekend they have to vote on tuesday all right so i hope everybody within the
00:08:44.040 sound of my voice in texas or if you know anyone within texas understand the rules here because
00:08:49.320 we're not democrats we we don't uh we don't play games with that if it's five days then you take
00:08:55.160 Take the weekend, the holiday. You come back the Tuesday. We play by the rules.
00:08:59.680 So, Mr. Attorney General, tell us with with your campaign, how are you working to get out the vote?
00:09:04.360 What are you instructing people to do when it comes to this the early voting and then day of voting?
00:09:09.940 Yeah, obviously, we're on TV advertising. I'm doing, you know, lots of media.
00:09:13.840 I've been out speaking everywhere. My opponent doesn't do that.
00:09:17.200 He has a lot of money from D.C. out spending me on the TV, but he's never out campaigning and talking to the people.
00:09:24.060 and we're delivering the message. It's very simple. It's low voter turnout in the runoff.
00:09:29.080 A few people make the decision in Texas for who's going to be the next Republican senator from Texas.
00:09:34.360 And I'm encouraging people to go tell their friends, go tell their family, make them get out
00:09:39.080 and vote. We can win this election. Our polling looks good. But in the end, all that matters is
00:09:43.820 do my people get out and vote or do his people get out and vote? And so that's the issue. And so
00:09:49.260 we've got a really good chance of changing the message in Washington. We're having a senator
00:09:53.280 from Texas that doesn't have accomplishments, that doesn't take care of the people of Texas,
00:09:57.380 it's part of the Washington swamp?
00:09:58.940 Or are we going to send somebody more like Ted Cruz, who actually has some punches to
00:10:02.520 throw and doesn't put up with the Washington establishment and the swamp?
00:10:08.800 Well, you know, you actually just stole my, stole the line right out of my mouth, because
00:10:12.840 I was going to ask you, this has become something of a, of a, almost a running joke within the
00:10:18.260 campaign where you've been going around asking people just if they can name one accomplishment
00:10:23.460 from Senator Cornyn. Have you found anyone who's able to do so?
00:10:27.980 No. So I started April the 8th. I announced my candidates to April the 8th last year. So a year
00:10:32.320 and like two months ago. And every meeting, whether it's one person or it's thousands,
00:10:37.400 I've asked every single time, can you name one good accomplishment? John Cornyn has been in the
00:10:43.340 Senate for 24 years. He's been in office since the 84 when I was in college. I'm now 63. He's
00:10:49.880 been in office for 42 years. And I give him the whole 42 years. As I said, can you name one good
00:10:54.880 accomplishment in 42 years? No one's ever delivered an answer, not one answer. And then my follow-up
00:11:00.340 is take any two weeks. I've been the attorney general of Texas, whether it's the last two
00:11:04.640 weeks, John can pick the two weeks. Other than Christmas and Thanksgiving, I will have accomplished
00:11:09.020 more in any two week period than he's accomplished in 42 years. I think that's pathetic. And I think
00:11:13.660 we need to change. What do you think is the reason that for so long, Texas would send somebody up
00:11:22.760 like that? I mean, I, he, you know, he comes up and he comes across as, as well, I'm just like
00:11:27.860 you, I'm a conservative, but then he goes to Washington DC and he just can't seem to actually
00:11:32.420 deliver on any conservative agenda items. No, he delivers on bad things. I mean,
00:11:37.440 helping Joe Biden restrict second amendments. He blocks the border wall from being built. He's an
00:11:42.020 open borders guy. I think what happens is, you know, the Karl Rove's of the world, the Bush's
00:11:46.400 of the world got behind him and he's never had any real competition. And then they spend $125
00:11:51.220 million from Washington to tell Republicans in Texas that John Cornyn is conservative, that he
00:11:58.140 is, you know, that he has stood against Biden, that he's a Donald Trump guy, voted with him 99%
00:12:02.960 of the time fought for the border wall all this stuff is untrue but with 125 million dollars if
00:12:08.080 you can turn five percent of my voters to him that's a ten percent turn that's what they rely
00:12:12.960 on and then they lie about me with the same money and so that's what they depend on he doesn't
00:12:17.440 campaign he doesn't get out and talk to the voters because it's too risky for him and what he does is
00:12:21.920 they send this money in to really be dishonest about his record and try to convince from dc
00:12:28.480 tell republicans this is the guy stand with our guy and that stuff has worked because in the last
00:12:33.280 40 or 50 years only two incumbents that i know of have been knocked off either democrat or republican
00:12:38.000 and one was in richard luger in 2012 self-funded he had a self-founder and the second was mike lee
00:12:43.200 in 2010 because he was in a convention state no one's ever taken on a senator sitting center in
00:12:48.160 a primary that i know of in the last 40 or 50 years and beaten them straight up without a special
00:12:53.280 either self-funding or a convention state where you don't need money.
00:12:57.760 No, and it's obviously an extremely heavy lift, and that's why the people of Texas have really
00:13:04.560 found themselves in such a corner, and that's why they've now turned to an attorney general such
00:13:09.600 as yourself, a candidate such as yourself who actually wants to achieve things and actually
00:13:14.780 wants to put points on the board rather than just go fill a seat and fog a mirror in Washington,
00:13:20.300 D.C. for 42 years rather than get anything done. Talk to us a little bit about the state of the
00:13:27.340 country, the state of the issues. When you go out there and you're on the ground, you're actually
00:13:31.340 holding these meetings. You're barnstorming across the state. What are the top line issues
00:13:36.480 that people are talking about in the state of Texas? The number one issue, which I've challenged
00:13:41.040 John Cornyn on, is the Save America Act. I mean, this is the president's number one issue. He said
00:13:46.040 it in his state of the union. I was there. I heard it. And it's simple. It requires that
00:13:50.320 citizens not vote. It requires a photo ID, and it requires a revised mail-in ballot structure
00:13:56.980 that stops some of the cheating. And I said, I would even consider dropping out. If John
00:14:01.820 Corey could just deliver on one really significant thing, which he's not done in 42 years,
00:14:06.720 I challenged him right after the runoff, March 3rd. I think it was March 4th or 5th that I said
00:14:10.540 this. I would consider dropping out. But guess what? Instead of getting that pass, instead of
00:14:14.560 getting rid of the filibuster, which they are protecting, they instead, he went on vacation
00:14:19.740 for two weeks and then came back for a week. And I think he then went back on vacation. So
00:14:23.220 even when under pressure, even when it becomes the highlighted issue by the president, by me,
00:14:30.480 John Corrin even then couldn't deliver. And that's the problem. And those are the type of
00:14:35.000 issues that Texans care about, along with the fact that the border would be protected. And
00:14:39.260 unfortunately, John spent all his money in Ukraine as opposed to defending the border in Texas.
00:14:44.560 He was more interested in foreign borders than he was ours.
00:14:49.240 Texans don't want to put up with that anymore, nor do they want to be have a senator that sides with Joe Biden to restrict Second Amendment rights.
00:14:57.300 And that's what John Cornyn has done.
00:15:00.240 No, they don't.
00:15:01.280 And in a state like Texas, it's what's so perplexing to so many people that, you know, in the state of Texas, you're not going to face any political backlash for standing up for voter I.D., for standing up for blocking illegals from voting.
00:15:14.920 This could be a backlash. They might throw a parade for you for doing something like that, but he still won't do it.
00:15:20.100 And to your point, it shows that his roots are not in Texas. They're in the swamp.
00:15:25.360 There's no doubt about it. The guy, I don't even know how often he comes back here, but he lives in D.C.
00:15:30.060 He stays in D.C.
00:15:31.360 He doesn't go out and talk to the voters.
00:15:33.580 And the most common complaint I've heard about him as I've traveled the state for the last year and two months is he won't help us.
00:15:39.440 We ask him for this.
00:15:40.300 We had a base closing in San Antonio.
00:15:42.720 They were trying to close it.
00:15:43.700 We needed him to come in and help us.
00:15:45.020 He wouldn't do it.
00:15:45.780 I hear that complaint every single day.
00:15:48.440 We have Ted Cruz.
00:15:49.380 We have to go to Ted Cruz.
00:15:50.360 Ted Cruz.
00:15:50.820 Ted Cruz.
00:15:51.280 He's the one that helps us.
00:15:52.280 John Cornyn won't help us.
00:15:53.180 He doesn't have time.
00:15:53.940 He sends us a staffer.
00:15:54.900 They don't do anything.
00:15:56.140 I've never heard anybody say, thank you, John Cornyn.
00:15:59.300 you actually helped me. He doesn't do that. That's a problem. We need two senators. We've got
00:16:03.700 basically Texas is fighting with one arm time beyond our back. And that arm is John corner.
00:16:08.580 We have one punch with Ted Cruz and Texas deserves two punches. We don't have it right now.
00:16:15.380 And it's, it's, it's something where you look at a state like that. You look at a state like Texas,
00:16:20.940 the reddest of the red States, the, the crown jewel, what for every Republican running for
00:16:26.380 president, it makes no sense whatsoever that you wouldn't have a senator who's in lock
00:16:32.020 step with the major issues of the state, the major issues of the party, and actually up
00:16:37.960 there delivering.
00:16:38.920 Because, lest I check, the blue state senators don't act like that.
00:16:42.740 No, as a matter of fact, the last Republican convention that he bothered to show up, or
00:16:47.900 he doesn't show up anymore, he got booed for 30 straight minutes.
00:16:51.660 You know why?
00:16:52.920 Because those voters, those Republican-based voters, knew that John Cornyn didn't represent them.
00:16:58.440 Now, look, we would all be fine if John Cornyn were a Republican representing Massachusetts, or maybe Illinois, or maybe New York, or maybe California.
00:17:05.820 But for Texas, it's not good enough to have a guy that votes with the Democrats as often as he does, fights Donald Trump's election, both times, by the way, even though he says he's with Donald Trump now, fights the border wall, pushes for amnesty, pushes –
00:17:21.080 It does nothing about the budget deficit since he's been there.
00:17:23.540 The deficit's gone from $6.2 trillion from the time of Washington to him to, what is it, $38, $39 trillion?
00:17:30.020 This is a guy that does not deliver for us.
00:17:31.960 He's not interested in us in Texas.
00:17:33.840 He's interested in his friends in D.C.
00:17:35.580 His daughter is a big lobbyist up there, and that's where his ties are.
00:17:41.480 I actually – he had – I caught him the other day.
00:17:44.540 I think it was last week where he had retweeted something, and then he tried to un-retweet it very quickly.
00:17:49.380 it was a you know as opposed to attacking you but it was from a group called republicans
00:17:53.860 against trump i said why is there a group called republicans against trump that's supporting john
00:17:59.880 cornyn i mean this should tell you everything right there there's no doubt about it in 2016
00:18:05.140 john cornyn said that that republican nominee donald trump was an albatross around her neck
00:18:10.400 he claims the same thing for me in 2024 he said that trump's day was done he was not endorsing
00:18:16.260 president trump and that he insinuated that he had committed crimes and that he was very open to the
00:18:21.700 idea of potential uh crimes by trump this is not a guy that stands behind donald trump i was at
00:18:27.380 donald trump's announcement with one other politician when no one thought it was cool when
00:18:31.460 everybody thought drawn to sandus was going to win this guy donald this this guy john cornyn
00:18:36.900 has not stood with uh with the president and once this election is over i promise you this one way
00:18:43.220 owe the other. This guy, the real John Cornyn, is coming back. He will not be a friend of Donald
00:18:47.800 Trump. He will not be a friend of our issues, and he will not be a friend, most importantly,
00:18:53.060 of the state of Texas and the citizens of Texas. Mr. Attorney General, give us one second. We've
00:18:58.280 got a quick break. We'll be right back. We're on with Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas.
00:19:03.640 Big runoff. This is for the future of the country. Stay tuned. Right back.
00:19:07.940 They talk about influences. These are influences. And they're friends of mine. Jack Kosovic. Where's Jack? Jack. He's done a great job.
00:19:19.180 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live here at Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice,
00:19:27.280 and we're honored to have Attorney General Ken Paxton here on the program.
00:19:31.320 And, of course, we're talking about his race, the runoff that he's in right now,
00:19:36.800 the primary runoff, early voting begins next week in Texas.
00:19:40.080 So if you're in Texas, next week is the week.
00:19:43.680 Start getting those ballots in.
00:19:46.180 And then Election Day itself, if you want to go day of, it's going to be May 26th, so the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
00:19:53.540 But as it turns out that the attorney general, you're in this race, you're in this huge race.
00:20:00.280 It's for the fight of the movements, for the future of the country, the direction of travel.
00:20:04.500 But you're still out there doing the job as attorney general of Texas.
00:20:08.720 And you guys just announced a massive settlement with the Texas Children's Hospital.
00:20:14.620 I just saw this breaking news. Walk us through what happened.
00:20:18.060 So we sued Texas children. This all started several years ago when I came out,
00:20:23.760 when it seemed like this whole idea of transitioning kids was a big thing and no one was speaking out.
00:20:29.300 We came out with an opinion, a legal opinion, saying that we viewed that as child abuse.
00:20:34.820 And shortly thereafter, issuing that opinion, the legislature stepped in and banned transitioning of children in Texas
00:20:41.020 and banned hospitals and doctors from doing it.
00:20:43.560 However, we started discovering hospitals that were doing it.
00:20:46.360 We were able to force some hospitals out.
00:20:48.720 This one is obviously a Texas hospital, so they couldn't leave.
00:20:52.120 And so we sued them.
00:20:53.680 And we got a settlement last night with them where they are firing all of their doctors
00:20:57.900 that do this.
00:20:58.520 They've agreed to never hire anybody doing this again.
00:21:01.480 And they have some compliance to do to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:21:06.260 They also agreed to pay $10 million.
00:21:08.560 And they're going to use part of that to create a detransitioning unit
00:21:12.660 where they actually cover for the next five years they will cover for free anybody that wants to come
00:21:17.460 and de-transition i think it's the first of its kind uh program in in the united states and maybe
00:21:23.700 anywhere in the world i don't know but it is going to happen in texas and we're going to give some of
00:21:28.100 these children an opportunity who couldn't afford it who who were in a bad spot because they were
00:21:33.460 young and they didn't know and they their minds their their brains would fully develop and they
00:21:37.220 they were potentially pushed into or made poor decisions based on their age, can now come back
00:21:42.800 and have an opportunity to potentially at least partially or maybe fully reverse what's happened
00:21:47.680 to them. And it's stunning. It's just stunning. So I'm reading through the settlement here.
00:21:54.940 10 million to the state for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal gender
00:22:00.100 transition interventions, including by using false diagnostic codes, compelling determination
00:22:05.980 and revocation of privileges of multiple physicians, as you mentioned, and this detransition clinic
00:22:12.340 funded by the hospital for five years, free of charge for patients that are admitted.
00:22:19.080 Mr. General, this is something that we would hope as conservatives that could be spread across the
00:22:25.720 entire country. I just have to say thank you for your work here and your efforts, because this is
00:22:31.360 something that look you know in conservative media we've always got some outrage about what
00:22:36.540 the radical transgender movement is doing but this is a major major victory and hopefully and you
00:22:43.820 mentioned it's the first of its kind but hopefully it's not the last yeah i think that's something
00:22:48.080 that i hope happens we you know a lot of states don't have laws against this but they may be able
00:22:52.760 to do what we did we used both the current law which has been new but we also went back and
00:22:57.080 looked at medicaid and and the fraud where they were hiding it and they were coding it wrong and
00:23:02.300 billing medicaid inappropriately and illegally and so we were able to use both methods we used
00:23:06.760 the current law that when they were continuing to do it when the law was passed but we also went
00:23:11.020 backwards and use medicaid so other states that other republican states potentially that don't
00:23:15.600 have this law in place should get it in place second if they don't have in place you can use
00:23:20.380 Medicaid fraud. And then third, why not push the same program we did, which was create these
00:23:27.720 programs all over the state. So these kids that were put in such a difficult spot, they don't
00:23:32.340 have the resources to accommodate what they might want to do now. Give them the opportunity to get
00:23:37.660 as much of their life back as possible, provide them some hope. And that's what I'm trying to do
00:23:42.020 with this program is provide hope to kids that have no hope. When you're going through the course
00:23:49.700 of this of this investigation, I have to imagine that there were individuals that that came forward
00:23:56.600 and you met with and you hear how emotional it is for so many of them, because and we've had
00:24:01.560 a few folks, Chloe Cole and others who have come on to talk about this. And what they were saying
00:24:06.780 was that the doctors would go to the parents and say, you know, your your child might might die
00:24:12.560 or might commit self-harm if you don't go forward with this. And, you know, as a guy who has a
00:24:17.700 couple of kids. I mean, I would never go down this path, but I can imagine how hard that is
00:24:24.000 for a family to hear from someone you trust. Yeah. And look at these doctors had their own
00:24:29.060 preconceived ideas about what they wanted to happen and maybe their own bent. And they also
00:24:33.640 made money on this. So there's a lot of incentives for these doctors to push parents this direction
00:24:39.020 or push children in this direction. And unfortunately, these doctors have done great
00:24:43.560 harm they did no good they did great harm and they cost these children's these children part
00:24:49.980 of their lives and part of their opportunities to potentially have children and have families
00:24:53.700 that's a big deal and that's something obviously that we wanted to stop in texas something that i
00:24:58.140 was committed to but now what are we going to do with the with the problem with that we have with
00:25:02.880 these kids that haven't been treated we got to go help them and that's that's what this program is
00:25:07.100 designed to do and that's why it excites me today that we're announcing this because no one else has
00:25:12.680 done this, then maybe it will lead to other states doing the very same thing.
00:25:18.920 I mean, these harmful medical interventions, the fact that there is a detransition clinic,
00:25:24.240 hopefully, by the way, and this is something I suppose that, you know, I have to imagine
00:25:28.300 there's more hospitals than just this one in Texas that may actually fall on, may have
00:25:32.940 been doing similar procedures.
00:25:35.920 Yeah, there's no doubt.
00:25:36.760 We chased one hospital, it was a Seattle hospital, and we made them quit, and they agreed to
00:25:41.060 leave the state. And so that was the settlement with them. But we've definitely looked at others.
00:25:47.280 And anytime we find this, we are laser focused on eliminating it, because we now have the power
00:25:54.460 of the law. And we also have our Medicaid resources. And we're pursuing all angles on
00:26:00.360 those. So a lot of times we're in an investigation, we don't talk much about it. We don't talk about
00:26:04.080 it until it's done. And that's where we're at with some of these others. You put actual results on
00:26:09.240 board and because you put such results on the board that's why and guys i think we have this uh
00:26:14.840 this special image from the uh the attorney general's campaign here that we wanted to show up
00:26:21.080 that's why of course we've given you the nickname that's well earned of action paxton and uh i think
00:26:27.320 we have the uh some action figures that i'm hoping will be available from the campaign at some point
00:26:31.560 oh i love it thank you for uh for mentioning that
00:26:35.180 that's pretty good uh i don't i uh i have to say that's an aspiration more than a reality but we're
00:26:42.860 working on it you have to have to get in the gym after the campaign's over i'm sure uh mr ag where
00:26:49.540 can people go to get access to the campaign ken paxton.com to donate and then of course that
00:26:54.140 ken paxton tx for twitter and facebook godspeed to you sir and for all the patriots of texas go
00:27:00.060 out there and support action paxton you're right back where's jack where is he jack i want to see
00:27:10.680 you great job jack thank you what a job you do you know we have an incredible thing we're always
00:27:18.560 talking about the fake news and the bad but we have guys and these are the guys should be getting
00:27:23.500 All right, folks, Jack Kosovic back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:27:30.260 We haven't really done, I've been saying we're doing questions a day all week,
00:27:34.820 and we haven't really done any segments on that, so I wanted to get in that a little bit here.
00:27:39.400 So we're doing no guests for the rest of the show.
00:27:41.240 We have the great Attorney General Paxton on, but the guest for the rest of the show here is you.
00:27:47.000 You, the viewer, are going to be the guest.
00:27:49.140 So send us your emails in. It's 1776 at humanevents.com. And if you're in the chat, if you're on Twitter, if you're on Rumble, if you're on Getter, send in your comments.
00:28:00.680 We're going to be answering those as best as we can. All right. And the question, the topic here is China.
00:28:06.900 So it's ask me anything about China. Anything you want to ask, ask me anything about China.
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00:29:25.320 All right, folks, wanted to get in.
00:29:27.440 So we've got a lot of great questions and comments that are just flying in right now.
00:29:32.380 And, you know, we want to start with the emails, because if you guys took the time to email, I want to take the time to respond.
00:29:38.920 So I've got a question here from Eddie.
00:29:41.760 Does the Chinese government look at it as a positive that and, you know, we're losing the tie for this.
00:29:46.700 We're losing the tie as a positive that their students work hard at English because they dream about going to an American university?
00:29:54.140 Because why would the Chinese want their youth to play into that game if they didn't benefit?
00:30:00.380 Well, yeah, so learning English is something that Chinese students do pretty much, pretty much almost at the same level as American students.
00:30:08.400 So what I mean by that is you're learning English at a very young age.
00:30:12.320 It's taught all across China.
00:30:14.440 So if you're meeting someone who's young in China, someone who's under 40, typically they're going to have, if they've gone through the education system, they're going to have a passing level of English.
00:30:26.020 You can get by with a lot of English in China.
00:30:28.720 And then so this question about the American university is, I want to be clear about this, is that the American universities are really only something that's attainable for upper middle class or the elites in China.
00:30:41.220 This is not something that the average person can go to.
00:30:45.360 And so that's that's a huge, huge part of this.
00:30:48.700 OK, here's another question on Trump's campaign trail.
00:30:51.440 And last year, he kept saying China, China, China, how he hates China.
00:30:55.040 And now it's I love China.
00:30:56.860 That's in from Andre.
00:30:59.520 Look, he's in dealmaking mode.
00:31:01.400 He is in negotiation mode.
00:31:03.280 He is working to put together a deal with China.
00:31:06.160 So the questions, you know, people are, why is he, you know, why is he saying positive
00:31:09.100 things about Xi Jinping?
00:31:10.540 I think it's pretty clear he's trying to get something out of him.
00:31:13.480 Here's a question in from John.
00:31:15.180 Do you think China will ever be a democracy in our lifetime?
00:31:18.360 No, I don't.
00:31:19.280 I honestly don't.
00:31:20.380 This is something that I thought about for a long time and I, you know, would love to
00:31:25.900 see one day. But at the same time, China has no history of democracy to speak of. They were
00:31:31.720 briefly a republic under Sun Yat-sen. And that was, you know, that was overthrown very, very
00:31:37.920 quickly. They were nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek, which obviously I would love to see
00:31:45.260 all of China go back to that. But full on democracy in our lifetime, boy, that would that would be a
00:31:52.920 tall order that would be a very very tall order here's a question in as a long question if i get
00:31:58.460 to all of it but a question from edward president trump is emptying our strategic petroleum reserve
00:32:04.780 and the majority of it is going to china i haven't actually heard that yet um so i wanted that we can
00:32:10.340 double check on that because i was asking something about that if if that were true so he's saying
00:32:15.720 president trump has taken more out of the strategic reserve than any time in u.s history where the
00:32:19.820 majority of our wartime reserve is going to china is anyone on the right saying that is that true
00:32:25.000 strategic petroleum reserve and sending it to china
00:32:34.580 and there have been some
00:32:40.280 yeah i'm i'm hearing that so yeah but there's a congressional ban that started in march of 2024
00:32:48.160 U.S. congressional leaders embedded a provision into a federal funding bill that officially blocked China from purchasing oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:32:57.340 There's export restrictions on that.
00:33:00.040 There could potentially, you know, there could potentially be a, you know, a deal that's done in the future.
00:33:07.900 I haven't heard that yet.
00:33:08.860 But we do know, of course, that China has been building a very, very large strategic reserve, in fact, larger.
00:33:15.840 So China has a larger strategic reserve than we do right now. We have about 400 million barrels.
00:33:20.800 Theirs is 1.4 billion barrels of oil right now in their reserve.
00:33:26.320 And this is something they did because they knew that they were vulnerable to oil shocks in a way that we were not because they don't have those proven reserves.
00:33:35.100 And so this is definitely something, definitely something that they knew was going to be an issue for them.
00:33:41.160 So, all right. This one in from Daniel of Sarasota, Florida for Jack Posobiec. I've yet to hear any questions of how to break up China. If there are enough serious plans on how to break up China, it will throw Chinese Communist Party off.
00:33:55.380 Well, if we're talking about breaking up China, of course, China does have a, you know, areas like Xinjiang and Tibet, which are not majority Han Chinese areas.
00:34:07.360 So Xinjiang, of course, this is the Uyghurs and then Tibet is the Tibetans.
00:34:12.580 The question is, of course, is there a viable separatist movement there or something like that?
00:34:18.600 i just you know i just i don't see it i don't see something that has the ability to actually
00:34:22.900 challenge the chinese communist party in fact if you watch the great movie seven years of to
00:34:27.860 in tibet where brad pitt was for many years uh you know there's a uh brad pitt around the same
00:34:32.960 time was making troy right and there's a huge controversy about that right now but he was
00:34:37.000 banned from china because of that film in the way they depict the chinese communist party because
00:34:43.080 seven years in Tibet is one of those movies where I think it's the only time, you know,
00:34:49.400 I could, you could think maybe on, you count on one hand, the amount of times that the Chinese
00:34:53.640 communist party is depicted negatively in a Hollywood film. And seven years in Tibet is
00:34:58.100 actually one of them. So you can see at the very end how that goes down. All right, here's a,
00:35:05.520 this is an interesting one. This is from Constantine and in Finland. Hi Jack, I loved
00:35:12.560 your book on humans i lived in finland and ordered my copy from ad libris it shined a new light on
00:35:18.200 many things i feel we have been egregiously lied about in the educational system such as the french
00:35:22.540 revolution and franco amen to that my question about china is what to be aware of there as a
00:35:28.620 foreign tourist payment options i understand that cash is severely restricted traveling on a bullet
00:35:33.760 train possible tourist trap scam surveillance use of vpm for the great firewall any advice to a
00:35:38.940 first time westerner tourist in china is welcome all right you are in luck uh so yes you want to
00:35:44.120 check out the payment options uh we pay we chat are some of the the apps that they really use a
00:35:49.480 lot now cash this has been a big change since i lived there but um yeah cash is just not used as
00:35:55.680 much anymore which is by the way similar to europe and similar to a lot of places in the united states
00:36:00.100 where um you know you're you're using your tap to pay right tap to pay is something that you know
00:36:06.480 really took off in asia years before it hit the west but it's certainly here as well it's just
00:36:11.280 that they almost don't even have places that accept cash in many places and it's all tap to
00:36:16.560 pay so that's something you want to dig into um you know traveling on the trains the trains are
00:36:22.640 relatively good train service will get you pretty much everywhere in china that being said flights
00:36:26.560 are also really cheap so depending on if you want to drive through you know drive through the
00:36:31.520 the countryside, see what it's like on the train. That service is, is fine. If you want to ride one
00:36:37.860 of the high speed trains, you want to make sure that you're actually booking that because there
00:36:41.700 will be, sometimes you're at the train station, different trains you can get to make sure going
00:36:45.820 on one of those high speed lines. And of course you can see, but you can check the, you know,
00:36:49.380 the times there, of course, um, possible tourist traps, like there's tourist traps everywhere.
00:36:52.740 It's, it's, you know, foreign country, there's, there's tourist traps, um, that they're looking
00:36:57.220 forward. One of the scams I will talk about though. I never fell for this, but when I was
00:37:02.180 in Shanghai, I had a roommate who fell for this. This is a big one. Here's what you do. And by the
00:37:07.440 way, yeah, use a VPN. And I would suggest getting a burner phone before you go over because anything
00:37:12.120 you connect to a Chinese network is going to get spyware on it. Here's one of the scams.
00:37:16.680 You go out, some girl walks up to you and she says, she says, oh, I mean, she sees this cute
00:37:21.860 girl. Oh, I'm an American, you know, you know, or I see the American. I want to come, come drink
00:37:26.280 with me come let's go to this bar and people know i don't drink but uh a roommate of mine at the
00:37:32.320 time uh you go out to the bar you're drinking you're drinking you're drinking and then all of
00:37:36.600 a sudden the check comes out and the bouncer comes out and it turns out the girl was working
00:37:41.280 for the bar the whole time and you're getting charged four times as much as usual and if you
00:37:47.660 don't pay there's going to be trouble so be very very careful with that and that's not just china
00:37:53.420 Yeah, that's other places as well, but in any tourist area overseas.
00:37:56.820 Right back, Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily.
00:37:58.840 Call this the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour.
00:38:00.940 I can say confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec.
00:38:06.900 And that is, I'll be honest.
00:38:13.840 All right, Jack Posobiec back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:38:18.260 Just want to shout out to the chat.
00:38:19.720 We see, let's see who's in there.
00:38:21.760 k basil i know expats in china that won out really bad yeah that's um you know i hear that
00:38:28.020 a lot too um who we got um keel rootin pixie cox is in there we've got ak forever in my heart
00:38:39.100 rebel jim says saint peter has a special message for mike pence when he gets to the pearly gates
00:38:46.680 hilarious not about china um foxtail not foxtail says we love ken paxton here in texas amen to that
00:38:54.580 god bless in texas and i hope you know west by god texas and i hope that hope that he is able to
00:39:02.640 get in let's see let's see i want to get some china stuff all right i need some more oh here
00:39:07.260 we go i believe trump is going to continue to squeeze the ccp from the liberties that they
00:39:11.340 have been given to our prior politicians at some point she's ego will leave him essentially cut
00:39:16.300 off. That'd be great to see. That would be great to see. Also, the U.S. education expats are in
00:39:22.060 China and they get paid bigly. China wants to educate their population without reciprocal
00:39:26.460 courtesy. There's a big thing in China where people do expats go over and they do the teaching
00:39:31.380 English to make money over there. I never did that. I said, I'm not doing that. You know,
00:39:37.300 I saw that as like a fallback kind of thing. Not trying to do it. Never did it. Wasn't going to do
00:39:41.820 it didn't happen but yeah it does happen a lot uh all right we get one in from this is jim in
00:39:46.700 ohio says if a chinese business person is allowed by the ccp to come to america to conduct business
00:39:52.260 are they party-line communists out to destroy of america i know a company that started in 1927
00:39:57.940 it was bought by the chinese and was gutted every piece is now made in china now and now have the
00:40:02.540 company up for sale are they allowed to come over if they're not coming to undermine i mean this is
00:40:07.380 the strategy right this is this is just the strategy and if you're at a certain point in
00:40:11.320 China, if you're at a certain point where you've been successful, that's when they come to you and
00:40:16.080 they say, hey, hey, do you want to join the party? They give you the offer. And there ain't no,
00:40:21.180 there ain't no saying, there's only one answer to that offer, okay? There's only one answer,
00:40:25.640 and that's yes. So that's what they do. If you're successful, they come in, they do this. Oh, we
00:40:31.760 have this picture, by the way, you could see President Trump, Xi Jinping, where they deliberately
00:40:36.620 give the shorter chair to President Trump, just another one of the CCP schemes where they say,
00:40:43.240 I mean, think about this. They're going out and designing chairs. They're saying make sure
00:40:47.100 the cushion on this chair is several centimeters shorter than the one for President Xi or give him
00:40:53.100 an extra, you know, pillow cushion or something. It's ridiculous that they're playing games like
00:40:58.920 this, but they're willing to do so. And it's all deliberate. And that's what people have to
00:41:02.620 understand it's not happening by chance it's completely deliberate all right let's see uh
00:41:09.200 this one's in from suzanne hey jack the u.s conveniently left weapons behind during korea
00:41:13.880 and afghanistan wars afterwards vietnam and ukraine ensued additionally russia we are told is our
00:41:20.080 enemy personally i don't believe it they have a narrative we're supposed to believe korea has
00:41:23.840 never entered into a peace treaty there's only a sea fire agreement that's true after the korean
00:41:27.520 war 38th parallel uh china and xi say they own taiwan the military industrial complex is waning
00:41:34.000 under trump even with iran issues peace through strength is a powerful tool um considering all
00:41:39.600 the above what do you see transpiring in the near future look i've been saying it all week
00:41:43.000 that xi jinping clearly uh threatened war with the united states over taiwan and i don't think
00:41:49.260 there's any other way to read that we dropped aircraft aircraft carrier coverage of asia we
00:41:54.060 dropped the Patriot missile battery that was in South Korea. We moved that over to the Middle
00:41:59.120 East. And so China is looking at Taiwan right now. And Xi Jinping said it. You don't take it from
00:42:04.260 me. You don't have to. This isn't my analysis. This isn't, you know, I'm not spinning. He said
00:42:08.980 it. He said it right to the president's face. He said it right to President Trump. Taiwan is ours.
00:42:15.420 Very clear about that. And he said, we don't want there to be a conflict over this, meaning
00:42:19.860 hand it over or we will take it over uh let's see from sharice do you really think that china will
00:42:27.480 do what trump has requested of them um well it depends you know i i think i do think that china
00:42:33.980 will come in at some point on iran and be able to provide the leverage there but when it comes to
00:42:39.620 all of these deals and abiding by them they just they have no history of it just have no history
00:42:43.480 of it whatsoever uh here's one in from lynn in uh georgia hey jack just wondering what's been
00:42:49.120 done to eliminate the over 23,000 Chinese fighting age men that Biden allowed into our country?
00:42:54.180 That's a great question, Lin. That's a great question. I'd love to ask Commander Bovino about
00:42:58.460 that one. This one's in from Colleen. Can we get the land back that China bought and has especially
00:43:04.360 by our military installations? Yes, we can. Yes, we absolutely can. We can take that back from them
00:43:09.540 from with government force. We can declare it national security and we can absolutely take
00:43:15.460 that land back. There's no question about it. And we should take that land back. China should not be
00:43:20.280 allowed to own so much of our farmland, certainly not any land near our military installations. And
00:43:25.620 go look, by the way, go and look at the the Chinese balloon situation. And, you know, if
00:43:31.460 you guys have been watching me for a while, you know that I've said I firmly believe that these
00:43:35.400 UAPs, it's all foreign adversaries. That's what I believe is going on there. These these this is
00:43:42.040 new technology that we are picking up in drips and drabs, ISR platforms, that's intelligence
00:43:48.360 surveillance reconnaissance platforms that are coming across the scope. People are catching
00:43:54.360 wind of it, catching eyes on it. But yeah, China, Russia, and others, that's 100% what I believe
00:44:00.080 is going on here. Sharla, the infiltration of China in our cities, buying up our properties
00:44:06.760 so they can have addresses to have their children attend American universities, let alone farmland,
00:44:11.080 utterly ridiculous ideas on how this can be completely stopped and yeah completely agree
00:44:16.580 completely agree and and you know just said in the above there that that's exactly what that's
00:44:22.820 exactly what i'm calling for okay six degrees of freedom over on the rumble chat now china is
00:44:28.120 buying time they're playing the long game they certainly are they certainly are look xi jinping
00:44:32.280 doesn't have to worry about terms he doesn't have to worry about elections he doesn't have to worry
00:44:36.480 about midterms. He doesn't worry about any of those things, right? As long as he is able to
00:44:41.300 continue his purges and able to prevent anyone who's capable of potentially picking him off
00:44:47.380 from rising up within the party, which is what he does on a regular basis. He calls it
00:44:51.160 the self-revolution. So this is in line with the communist revolution, then the cultural revolution.
00:44:56.780 Now we have the self-revolution. It's an ongoing purge. He's telling people all along that you
00:45:02.720 stay in line with me or you will be purged. And this includes people that he himself
00:45:07.660 appointed. So no one is safe. And if he views anyone who is going a little bit Icarus,
00:45:13.460 flying a little too close to the sun, you're out. This includes the military. This includes
00:45:17.700 the provincial leaders. This includes the Politburo. He is continuing to consolidate
00:45:22.700 his grasp. And he's playing the long-term game, right? I've said for a while, though,
00:45:28.440 I don't think that Taiwan will be taken by force.
00:45:33.160 I don't think that's China's initial plan is what I'm trying to say, that I think that
00:45:37.820 their general plan is for assimilation, that they want to try to isolate.
00:45:42.600 We had the ambassador of Taiwan here earlier this week.
00:45:45.960 The plan has been for years to isolate Taiwan, isolate them from international organizations,
00:45:51.140 the international trade institutions, isolate them from other countries being able to do
00:45:55.820 business in Taiwan, with the major exception, of course, being the semiconductors. This is really
00:46:00.460 the strategic advantage that Taiwan has. Of course, again, it shows the failure of globalism because
00:46:05.440 why aren't we making those chips in the United States to begin with? But I digress. That's why
00:46:09.280 many of us said we shouldn't do these things, shouldn't sign these deals, these free trade
00:46:12.880 agreements. So they've been cutting off Taiwan over and over and over so that the only place
00:46:20.240 that Taiwan can receive business, can receive those economic ties, is, of course, from mainland
00:46:26.420 China. That's been the strategy. And then, of course, using soft power, using cultural power,
00:46:32.420 saying there's only one China, we're all China, we are all part of the Chinese family over and over
00:46:38.020 and over. But then we also had Paula Scanlon on here yesterday, and her family is Taiwanese,
00:46:43.420 and they were saying no. She was telling us that no, Taiwan is not part of China,
00:46:47.740 that has never been part of the People's Republic of China, that Taiwan has its own separate history
00:46:53.080 and its own system of functioning democracy, where, by the way, they can count the votes,
00:46:58.160 all 23 million votes from the island in one day. Why can't we do that? Why can't we do that down
00:47:04.480 in Fulton County or Maricopa County or Philadelphia County? Why can't we do that? I wonder why that
00:47:10.720 might be. If the Taiwanese can figure it out, why can't we? And Fisherman 85 is in there saying if
00:47:16.620 China wants to invade Taiwan.
00:47:18.580 We can do all that as well.
00:47:20.160 Some folks saying the devil is in the details here.
00:47:24.000 I want to go on.
00:47:24.700 There's a couple of, the way they do the rumble,
00:47:26.280 there's like multiple live streams.
00:47:27.560 You got to bounce in between one or the other.
00:47:30.300 And then of course, I don't have it muted.
00:47:31.780 So I'm hearing myself.
00:47:32.760 That's fun.
00:47:34.920 Oh gosh, and I'm not looking at the time either.
00:47:36.740 Folks, this is great.
00:47:37.680 I love doing these kinds of segments.
00:47:39.340 Maybe we'll do more of them on Fridays.
00:47:40.860 I want you to be the guest more so now than ever.
00:47:45.700 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.