Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Live from the Pentagon： Department of War Responds to Narco Terrorist Strikes Story

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00:00:48.120 Does the Secretary's office or the Pentagon in general, the department, have a message for Senator Wicker,

00:00:53.380 who, as a Republican, has now backed this inquiry into Secretary Hegseth, again, accusing him of war crimes?

00:01:00.700 It seems strange to see a Republican going after one of President Trump's own cabinet members.

00:01:05.460 So I can confirm that the Secretary of War spoke with Senator Wicker, and they had a good conversation,

00:01:11.060 where he was able to explain to him a lot of the rationale behind these strikes.

00:01:15.300 And we work closely with all of our partners on the Hill, whether Republican or Democrat,

00:01:20.440 to keep them up to date on what this department is doing in regards to the strikes.

00:01:24.220 So we will continue to do that, and we'll continue to brief members of Hask and Sask,

00:01:28.460 and we look forward to continuing those relationships.

00:01:30.860 Quick follow-up.

00:01:31.580 You mentioned working with partners on the Hill.

00:01:34.180 Another senator on the Hill, the Democrat side, is Senator Mark Kelly.

00:01:37.260 Now, we heard some reporting about a possible investigation into him regarding his status as a retired member of the United States Navy,

00:01:45.660 still on pension, and therefore still under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

00:01:51.620 And as such, his membership, you mentioned the Seditious Six.

00:01:54.600 Would that be grounds for possibly bringing him back to active service for an investigation, for NJP, or even a full court-martial?

00:02:01.740 So you're correct.

00:02:02.340 The Department of War received serious allegations of misconduct against Senator Mark Kelly.

00:02:07.580 And in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other applicable recommendations and regulations,

00:02:13.600 we're doing a thorough review of all of these allegations.

00:02:16.440 And the Secretary of War has tasked the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan,

00:02:20.360 with doing a thorough review, looking into all of these allegations, and providing him an update on December 10th.

00:02:26.360 So we will have more information to come on that.

00:02:29.220 If Secretary Phelan were to recommend court-martial, that could be an option on the table?

00:02:34.040 All options are on the table at this moment in time.

00:02:36.500 And we look forward to getting the Secretary of the Navy's review.

00:02:40.460 And the Secretary of War has been very clear in his statements as well that he takes this extremely seriously, and it is unacceptable.

00:02:47.960 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:02:52.300 We are live from the Pentagon, the five-sided puzzle palace here on the banks of the Potomac, Arlington, Virginia.

00:03:02.800 Today is December 2nd, 2025, Anno Domini.

00:03:07.280 And we're very honored not only to be here in the Pentagon's facilities,

00:03:12.160 but also joined by the Department of War press secretary right now, Kingsley Wilson.

00:03:16.260 Kingsley, how are you?

00:03:17.180 I'm doing well.

00:03:17.980 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:03:19.040 Well, I appreciate you having us here, and I appreciate you setting up the briefing today.

00:03:25.680 This was the first briefing of sort of the new Pentagon press corps.

00:03:30.220 How do you think it went?

00:03:31.040 I think it was fantastic.

00:03:32.400 You all asked much harder questions than the fake news journalists we used to have here in the Pentagon.

00:03:37.080 So it was a lot of fun.

00:03:38.260 I think it was great for the American people to hear from outlets and journalists that they actually follow and read and watch.

00:03:44.640 And it was an opportunity for the Pentagon, I think, to revisit that promise of transparency that the admin has been talking about since the beginning.

00:03:52.300 We want to be committed to that, and we're going to continue these engagements so that the American public, through all of you, can be informed.

00:03:59.140 Well, I just want to let everyone know that Kingsley handed me my question on a script.

00:04:03.660 No, I'm kidding.

00:04:04.740 We did not do this Biden-style.

00:04:06.000 There were no, this was not Biden-style at all.

00:04:08.180 This was very much, you know, I was not given any parameters or any, you know, oh, you should ask about this or don't ask about that.

00:04:20.820 And, in fact, I think someone asked me at one point, there was a staffer who asked me what I was planning to ask, and then I didn't even ask that question anyway.

00:04:27.160 So, no, there was – and I saw people making accusations of that, and it just wasn't true.

00:04:31.760 It just wasn't true at all.

00:04:32.900 Yeah, definitely not true.

00:04:34.680 We want to make sure that all of the questions that we are getting are authentic.

00:04:38.080 And I think the benefit of having the new media that we've got here in the Pentagon Press Corps are they ask the real questions that Americans want to know the answers to.

00:04:46.520 So we're able, as a department, to think on our feet and make sure that we get you guys all the relevant information.

00:04:51.560 But there was absolutely no planned questions today.

00:04:53.640 I was surprised by all of your amazing questions, and, you know, some we can't answer due to operational security reasons.

00:05:00.480 Some we can, but we're committed to providing as much information as possible.

00:05:04.200 Well, and I think we broke a little news today with – particularly, by the way, not only on, you know, what you said about Kelly and the senator and potential investigation, what the status of that is, but also about this phone call between Secretary Hegg, Seth, and Senator Wicker.

00:05:19.220 Yes, I can confirm that they spoke.

00:05:21.000 I know you asked about that in the briefing.

00:05:23.640 And it was a good conversation.

00:05:25.440 The secretary felt good about it.

00:05:26.600 We've been really trying to keep all of the members of Congress informed about these strikes as much as we are able.

00:05:33.080 We want to make sure that that's a good working relationship on both sides of the House with Republicans and Democrats.

00:05:38.160 So we'll continue to do that.

00:05:39.680 We've briefed Congress now, department-led briefing-wise, 18 times since these strikes have begun.

00:05:44.980 And there's been 21 strikes.

00:05:46.120 So we have regularly been briefing Congress on what's going on.

00:05:49.580 And we want to make sure that we're keeping them up to date so that they know everything that's going on is in the best interest of their constituents, the American people.

00:05:58.080 Now, can you tell us – was that – you know, roundabout when that call was?

00:06:01.960 Was that last night?

00:06:02.680 Was that prior?

00:06:03.220 It was the evening before Caroline's briefing.

00:06:06.720 Okay.

00:06:07.120 So it was right about when the story broke.

00:06:08.480 Correct.

00:06:09.020 Yes.

00:06:09.960 And then – and you said it was generally well-received.

00:06:12.980 But that being said, is it your understanding that they are continuing forward with their inquiry?

00:06:17.380 That I don't know.

00:06:18.840 That would probably be a better question for Wicker.

00:06:21.040 But what I can tell you is that we're making sure that from our purview, all of our Congress members who have questions about these strikes, who need additional briefing about these strikes, that we're able to provide that information to them and to the American public.

00:06:33.760 That's why it's so important to do briefings like we did today and release the strike videos like we've been doing.

00:06:38.780 I think, you know, it's really historic, these strikes, and the fact that we're declassifying so much and releasing these videos, I think it really speaks to the transparency that we're trying to pursue here at the department to make sure that, you know, the American people can feel confident our success in the Southcom region is true.

00:06:55.460 Well, and, you know, I would – you know, I'd recommend to the mainstream media that they could just watch Human Events Daily because you've been coming on here providing us the video and answering questions about them really since the start of these operations.

00:07:09.360 So, you know, when I read some of these videos or some of these articles, I said, we talked about that weeks ago, and you guys are just now catching up to where we are.

00:07:17.760 Jack Posobiec, we are here in the Department of War, the Pentagon, the five-sided puzzle palace in Events Daily, right back.

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00:07:42.500 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back here live, the Department of War, the Pentagon, the five-sided puzzle palace here on the banks of the Potomac.

00:07:54.020 Very honored to be sitting down with the Department of War Press Secretary, Kingsley Wilson.

00:07:58.400 Very quickly, though, folks, I want to tell you that somewhere along the way in our nation – and, Kingsley, I don't know if you know about this,

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00:09:34.580 Of course, I do also have to say, though, coming from the Navy side, you know, we always knew that when the steaks and lobster came out, that meant, all right, boys, we're going on deployment.

00:09:44.120 Right, right.

00:09:44.840 We're getting bad news.

00:09:45.420 It's not an exciting deal.

00:09:46.640 It's kind of like, all right, I have to ask.

00:09:47.780 I have to ask.

00:09:48.800 Do you guys check the Pentagon Pizza Tracker?

00:09:52.320 Yes.

00:09:52.720 We have laughed about that account so many times.

00:09:55.300 It's actually sometimes accurate, which is very funny.

00:09:58.240 Uh-oh.

00:09:58.640 Uh-oh.

00:09:59.380 Not all the time.

00:10:00.480 Not all the time.

00:10:01.600 Sometimes.

00:10:02.860 Sometimes it just means we're here working late for no special reason at all.

00:10:06.720 Well, I think the Post had something about President Trump's Oval Office schedule, which, you know, of course, it's somewhat public in terms of his hours, and they said that most days he's there about 12 hours.

00:10:17.920 I saw that.

00:10:18.660 Yeah, that's crazy.

00:10:19.700 There are definitely a lot of people working crazy long hours in this building as well, so sometimes they need some pizza.

00:10:24.880 Right, so it's just accurate to the fact that people are working.

00:10:27.800 Yes, 100%.

00:10:28.800 This building never shuts down, even over, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

00:10:32.240 There are always people here.

00:10:33.500 Our enemies don't get to go on holiday break, right?

00:10:35.900 So we're always here, always protecting the American people.

00:10:38.520 The mission never stops.

00:10:39.540 Oh, and they have separate holidays to begin with, so, you know, no Thanksgiving.

00:10:43.200 We have some guys who work on the show that are from Canada, so I always joke and I say, ah, you guys don't get Thursday off. 0.89

00:10:49.300 But so a lot of questions, of course, today about Venezuela as well.

00:10:56.060 Were you expecting that from this because we were told going in, and I read the Washington Post or read the legacy media, they say, oh, this is going to be lapdogs.

00:11:04.040 They're going to be sycophants.

00:11:04.920 There's going to be no serious questions.

00:11:07.400 But you did get a lot of serious questions, I think, on the Venezuela question.

00:11:11.380 This is something where, you know, when I reach out to our audience and I say, by the way, guys, send in 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.

00:11:20.120 What do you think the U.S. should do in Venezuela?

00:11:22.160 And the audience is very split, Maduro, narco-trafficking, and, you know, other people say get out of it completely.

00:11:29.900 From the Pentagon's perspective, though, and you mentioned, it's really more about providing optionality to the decision makers.

00:11:37.260 One hundred percent.

00:11:38.080 So our job here at the Department of War is to make sure the president has every single option available to him so he can make an informed decision.

00:11:45.620 So when we get down there, we, you know, assess the environment, we make sure that we can provide best military advice and recommendations to him.

00:11:53.300 But ultimately, he's going to be the one who's going to make a decision about what we do in regards to Venezuela or any ongoing part of our operations in the Western Hemisphere.

00:12:01.900 So we'll continue to provide him options.

00:12:03.980 And I think that's been a big part of moving our assets into the region, right?

00:12:08.300 We brought the forward carrier, the carrier strike group, down to the Caribbean.

00:12:12.400 It's there now.

00:12:13.080 It's the first time in recent memory that that's happened.

00:12:15.660 And what that does is provide the president a lot of options.

00:12:18.580 And it provides us opportunities to execute if called upon, right?

00:12:22.660 If the president wants us to do something at a moment's notice, we're going to be able to follow through on that order very, very quickly.

00:12:29.080 So that's important for this department to always be ready.

00:12:31.580 The secretary likes to say nobody waits on the Department of War.

00:12:34.360 So that's really our approach in the Southcom region for sure.

00:12:37.500 And to your earlier point, I was really impressed by all of the very tough, very detailed questions that the new Pentagon press corps asked.

00:12:46.140 They were impressive.

00:12:47.020 The lamestream media was honestly very lazy.

00:12:50.420 And they were just asked a lot of regurgitated questions that they maybe saw on Morning Joe that morning about, you know, why are you racist?

00:12:56.940 Why do you hate DEI? 1.00

00:12:58.240 Just stupid questions the American public doesn't care about anymore. 1.00

00:13:01.540 This was the real nitty gritty hard facts that the Pentagon press corps today asked about. 1.00

00:13:06.580 And that was very impressive.

00:13:07.560 Well, I mean, I think it's just, you know, coming from my background as a Navy officer, you know, I know that, you know, carrier strike group, you had 5,000 sailors just on the carrier itself.

00:13:17.560 Not to mention the entire complement of supporting destroyers, cruisers, the air wing, the submarines, et cetera, and all the supply ships and all the rest that you would need.

00:13:27.160 One thing that actually, and, you know, I was one of my sort of pocket questions that I was thinking about asking just as a guy who's worked in naval warfare is we saw these and, you know, I'm sure it's something you're tracking.

00:13:40.860 We saw these strikes on oil tankers in the Black Sea that were conducted by Ukraine using UUVs recently.

00:13:48.720 Is that something, a new threat vector that the department is tracking beside this use of drone warfare against?

00:13:56.720 And by the way, not just the aircraft carrier, but even even the supply ships, tankers, et cetera, everything else.

00:14:01.940 Yeah, absolutely.

00:14:02.580 We're tracking everything.

00:14:03.560 That's our job, too, in terms of being prepared is making sure that emerging technologies, we have the best and that we're watching how warfare is happening today.

00:14:13.340 I think we've learned a lot from just watching the Ukraine-Russia war, especially in terms of drones, and that's really informed a lot of our focus going forward.

00:14:22.460 We've launched a lot of initiatives and a lot of investment we've poured into drone manufacturing.

00:14:27.260 We really want to get fantastic at it and be the best of all of the countries so that we can protect the American people.

00:14:32.940 So we're learning so much from watching that engagement, and we'll continue to make sure that all across the world we're taking notes, we're learning, and we're helping our warfighters get the most lethal weapons they can possibly have into their hands and quickly.

00:14:47.140 That's something we've really been pushing for as well.

00:14:49.680 The secretary gave a great acquisition speech recently talking about reforming that acquisitions process.

00:14:54.980 There's so much red tape.

00:14:56.380 I know I don't have to tell you.

00:14:57.300 You're in the military.

00:14:58.220 No, no, I know.

00:14:59.140 It's crazy.

00:15:00.100 Well, that was the other one is the shipbuilding.

00:15:02.440 Yes.

00:15:02.680 Because we look at it in terms of our Navy and the lack of ships that we have, I think we're less than half where we were during Reagan's Navy during that buildup.

00:15:12.640 And yet we have a larger force posture around the world and more missions that we're either taking on or at least different parts of the sea that we're in, whether it be Somalia, whether it be East China or East China Sea, where the Navy's involved.

00:15:24.480 And yet we don't have the ships, the icebreakers, et cetera.

00:15:27.040 Yeah, and we've even seen, you know, the Army launch its Army Transformation Initiative and really just cut a lot of red tape, cut a lot of bloat.

00:15:34.200 And I think that's a recognition that we're going to have to be putting a lot more funding in the future towards the Navy, towards shipbuilding, right?

00:15:40.900 We're going to have threats in the Indo-Pacific potentially that we need to counter.

00:15:44.220 We obviously have a ton of Navy assets.

00:15:46.380 I think 20 percent of our naval assets right now are in the South Com region, in the Caribbean.

00:15:51.360 That's very historic.

00:15:52.360 So we recognize that this is going to become, you know, a lot of sea warfare in the future, and we want to be prepared for that.

00:15:59.540 And, I mean, it's certainly always been America's preeminent domain.

00:16:04.500 I mean, in addition to, you know, air and army, but their ability to project force on the sea.

00:16:09.740 It's why I joined the Navy, quite frankly.

00:16:11.700 It's, you know, no offense to the other branches.

00:16:14.280 I think the president always says that, doesn't he?

00:16:15.800 Yeah, I would have joined the Navy.

00:16:16.960 I would have been an admiral.

00:16:18.240 That's right.

00:16:18.880 I don't always bring that up because I don't want to rub it in anyone's faces, but I have heard him say that a few times.

00:16:24.160 I just kind of think in the back of my head that, no, no, if you're looking at what the United States – because the United States is, you know, we have our – we're on an island, basically, disconnected from the rest of the world.

00:17:06.640 It's not true.

00:17:07.640 We're doing both at the same time.

00:17:08.640 China is all over the Western Hemisphere. 0.99

00:17:10.640 Yes.

00:17:11.640 It's all over the Panama Canal.

00:17:12.920 The secretary, when he went down to the Panama Canal, talked about that threat and talked about, you know, no longer will China control this canal.

00:17:19.900 We are going to make sure that American ships, military vessels have first and free navigation.

00:17:24.080 All the elites across the entire Caribbean are learning Mandarin right now, whether you look at Trinidad, whether you go off of – right off the coast of Venezuela, if you go – the Chinese are in every single spot.

00:17:36.440 And I remember going and trying to brief this to, you know, a variety of entities in Washington, D.C., and I said, I wonder if it will take the People's Liberation Army Navy building a military base in the Caribbean, either off the coast of Cuba or somewhere else, for people to actually wake up and start taking it seriously.

00:17:55.740 Yeah, it's definitely something that President Trump has always taken seriously and something that this department will continue to take seriously.

00:18:01.480 And I think the biggest thing we can do to protect the American people from all the threats we face, like you said, is to make sure our homeland is secure.

00:18:08.520 That's really where it all starts.

00:18:09.700 If we don't have a nation, what are we even defending?

00:18:12.160 So securing our border has been a huge part of that.

00:18:14.560 There's nobody crossing the southern border.

00:18:16.580 We've got a lot of border patrol down there working with our troops.

00:18:19.440 We've got almost 10,000 troops down there, I think, now, so it's fantastic.

00:18:23.000 And now we're going even further, right, to make sure that narco-terrorists in the Gulf of America and across our shores can no longer threaten our people. 0.99

00:18:29.480 So homeland defense is really how we make sure that America is kept safe.

00:18:33.700 Yeah, and while we're going towards break, I suppose I'll have to ask you a little bit more about that narco-terrorist threat. 0.69

00:18:41.160 We have one more segment, right?

00:18:42.700 Yeah, that's what that works.

00:18:43.760 And we'll hit that because let's just say that in a previous life I know a little bit about the drone warfare program and even Admiral Bradley, believe it or not.

00:18:53.820 Oh, okay.

00:18:54.460 Oh, yeah.

00:18:54.940 Oh, yeah.

00:18:55.560 Navy, right?

00:18:56.220 Yeah, there you go.

00:18:56.880 You know, so I'll just say I read that Washington Post piece a little bit differently than I think most people in media because I actually have a tiny bit of a background in that.

00:19:07.600 And for once, I have to say I read a little bit more with the New York Times.

00:19:11.980 So did I.

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00:19:38.380 Here we are.

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00:19:40.780 The Pentagon episodes.

00:19:42.920 We're here with Department of War Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.

00:19:46.160 By the way, thank you, I should say, for letting us occupy.

00:19:48.940 We've occupied the Pentagon.

00:19:50.300 We've occupied your studio to use our show today.

00:19:53.020 So we're happy to have you.

00:19:54.320 Yeah.

00:19:54.580 No, anytime.

00:19:56.060 Oh, I really appreciate that.

00:19:57.120 All right.

00:19:57.260 You might not appreciate my next question because so, you know, look, I asked you about the Senator Waker question.

00:20:03.280 But, you know, this situation regarding these strikes that took place off the shore of Venezuela, this question about, you know, the order to strike survivors, questions about legality.

00:20:18.820 Was this something that you were expecting coming from, you know, starting these operations?

00:20:25.540 I know you and I have been on the show talking about them in the past.

00:20:28.160 But really, what's been the department's thought process in terms of responding to this specific allegation?

00:20:34.660 Yeah.

00:20:34.840 So from the beginning, we've been expecting that the mainstream media would attack the operations in some sense.

00:20:41.180 Right.

00:20:41.320 We saw this with Operation Midnight Hammer.

00:20:43.040 They said, oh, actually, you may not have obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities.

00:20:46.920 Of course, we did completely without a shadow of a doubt.

00:20:49.880 And the president said as much multiple times.

00:20:52.700 The secretary and the chairman said as much multiple times.

00:20:55.600 But the fake news has such bad TDS that they would rather root against the success of a military operation than admit that President Trump had a resounding victory as commander in chief.

00:21:07.020 So we anticipated that there would be some mainstream media attacks about these strikes.

00:21:11.840 And I think that early on took the form of questioning the legality of the strikes.

00:21:16.460 And it was really interesting for me especially to see the mainstream media just carry so much water for these narco terrorists and really defend cartel members who are trafficking illegal narcotics to our country to kill Americans instead of our brave warriors who are out there doing the tough work.

00:21:34.240 Our intel analysts who are out there doing the tough work making sure that the American people are kept safe from these threats.

00:21:39.520 So this is something that we anticipated at the department.

00:21:42.260 To your point, the last time I had you on the show, I specifically asked you this question.

00:21:47.620 And regarding actual VBSS operations and sending troops onto those boats potentially for capture, et cetera, et cetera.

00:21:57.900 And I'll make the same point I made back then where I said, you know, as an intelligence officer, I always want to detain and interrogate.

00:22:04.860 You know, that's where my mind goes.

00:22:07.020 And having spent time at Gitmo, that's where we get great sources of information for the rest of the narco network. 0.98

00:22:13.980 That being said, I also understand, and as anyone should, that those are incredibly more dangerous for our special operations forces.

00:22:24.220 Obviously, it's what they train for.

00:22:25.300 They're the best in the world, no question.

00:22:26.380 But it's far more dangerous to ask someone to do that.

00:22:30.380 And it seems like they're being very glib by by just demanding, oh, well, you should just go in and, you know, send send sailors on those boats.

00:22:39.120 Right. Yeah, it's ridiculous. 0.95

00:22:40.000 And the president was talking about this a little bit with the secretary of war in the cabinet meeting. 0.82

00:22:44.640 I was watching just before I came in here and the secretary was making the point that thanks to President Trump designating these groups as designated terrorist organizations, the kid gloves have come off.

00:22:54.820 Biden let narco terrorists into our country through our southern border, gave them free health care, free phones, free housing. 1.00

00:23:00.720 Now we're sinking their boats and that they're at the bottom of the ocean. 1.00

00:23:04.800 So that sends a message right to all across the region that if you are a narco trafficker who wants to bring poison into our country to kill Americans, we are going to come after you and we're going to kill you. 1.00

00:23:15.020 That is on the table. 0.94

00:23:16.320 So these lethal kinetic strikes, I think, have been incredibly effective, too, in terms of sending a message to the cartels that we're here.

00:23:23.040 This is not the previous administration.

00:23:25.100 We mean business.

00:23:26.800 You know, I forget if I mentioned this to you or not, but I was in a debate with the libertarian presidential candidates last year and Ryan Grimm from DropSite News.

00:23:37.060 I was not a fan of drone strikes whatsoever.

00:23:39.220 I kind of like him, though, because he's consistent.

00:23:41.740 I'll give him that.

00:23:42.260 He's consistent.

00:23:43.020 He's always been against them.

00:23:43.860 And he was the moderator.

00:23:45.860 And I had said, you know, well, what would be a better policy of the war on, you know, the war on drugs?

00:23:50.460 And I said, well, if we actually wage war on decartels and we just just bomb them. 0.91

00:23:56.740 And, you know, it's it's very interesting that it seems like these there for a certain certain range of people, they can't even quite wrap their heads around actually using the military to directly defend the interest of the American people.

00:24:09.700 Well, that's what's so interesting when I would talk with journalists from the former Pentagon press corps.

00:24:15.080 They exactly what you said, had a really hard time wrapping their head around the fact that these individuals are terrorists.

00:24:20.780 And it's funny because the same people for decades cheered on 20 years of war in the Middle East.

00:24:25.120 Right.

00:24:25.280 They had no problem going after those terrorists.

00:24:27.860 But now that we're going after people in our own hemisphere and protecting our own borders and our own shores, they're suddenly very concerned about it.

00:24:35.420 And I'm not sure where these concerns are coming from your point.

00:24:38.040 There's there's a viral clip I retweeted earlier today.

00:24:40.760 And we didn't pull it up for the show where it's Senator Senator Mark Kelly himself is talking about the strikes that were conducted.

00:24:48.320 It was this retaliatory strike to the Abbey Gate bombing.

00:24:51.500 But it ended up being completely wrong.

00:24:53.680 Right.

00:24:53.960 And, you know, they hit a family.

00:24:56.340 It was horrible.

00:24:56.960 It was civilians.

00:24:58.240 And yet he doesn't seem to have any real problem whatsoever, you know, with this.

00:25:02.240 And, well, you did what you had to do.

00:25:03.420 And you're like, wait, is that the same guy who's, you know, freaking out just because Pete Hegseth is doing it?

00:25:09.120 Right.

00:25:09.460 But not just that.

00:25:10.920 It's not just that a secretary has said, I think it has something to do with the theater of of operations.

00:25:15.960 Yes, I think 100 percent.

00:25:17.240 I think, you know, there was a lot of neoconservative mainstream media big business interest in, you know, endless war in the Middle East.

00:25:26.020 And we really focused on that to the detriment of our own country and our own borders.

00:25:31.040 And President Trump was really the first to come and say, no, we're going to reprioritize the homeland.

00:25:36.180 We're going to put America first.

00:25:37.660 And that has been a total shift of approach for this department and for, I think, the administration writ large.

00:25:44.720 So it's definitely been an adjustment for some of those folks on the Hill, like Mark Kelly, that you mentioned a little bit.

00:25:49.400 You know, it's the unit party does not like actually having to act in the interests of the American people.

00:25:56.080 He's Wilson.

00:25:56.580 Wilson, I know I'm not going to I'm not going to try to book you for another segment while we're here.

00:26:02.580 I know you have places to go, things to do, people to see.

00:26:05.500 And I just want to say I appreciate it very much.

00:26:07.380 The opportunity to be here, obviously, to use the facilities and just the opportunity to ask questions and get that kind of transparency back and forth.

00:26:14.940 Yeah, well, we look forward to more questions from you.

00:26:17.260 And we're excited that you're here.

00:26:18.640 Don't worry.

00:26:19.020 Yes, we know they are.

00:26:20.220 I will not tell you in advance.

00:26:21.940 No, I would not want you to.

00:26:23.480 I will not be the president tweeting out clear the airspace above Venezuela before.

00:26:29.100 Well, nothing I do.

00:26:30.260 Oh, wait, actually, one final question while I'm here.

00:26:33.140 Do you have a favorite Franklin the Turtle book?

00:26:37.020 That's a good question.

00:26:38.160 I can't remember any of the different ones, but I do remember the general Franklin the Turtle from when I was a kid.

00:26:44.120 But I hear there's new ones that are coming out about narco terrorists.

00:26:47.700 New ones that are very good.

00:26:49.020 By the way, I was looking into that book.

00:26:51.660 They're super woke.

00:26:52.440 Oh, did you see the publisher's statement?

00:26:54.880 No, no, no.

00:26:55.540 But go look at the books they've been publishing.

00:26:57.360 Just the queer history for children. 1.00

00:27:01.060 Oh, my goodness.

00:27:01.900 I'm dead serious.

00:27:02.860 So that's the type of people that are coming back.

00:27:05.260 Kings Wilson, absolutely.

00:27:06.440 Thank you so much.

00:27:07.240 I appreciate it.

00:27:07.800 Thank you for letting us occupy your studio.

00:27:10.580 Absolutely.

00:27:10.960 Right back, Human Events Daily.

00:27:12.160 Thanks, Derek.

00:27:13.380 Thank you.

00:27:13.600 Thank you.

00:27:15.400 Thank you.

00:27:16.200 Much.

00:27:16.680 Thank you.

00:27:17.020 Thank you.

00:27:17.300 Thank you.

00:27:17.480 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - December 02, 2025

Live from the Pentagon： Department of War Responds to Narco Terrorist Strikes Story

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