In this episode of Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec and Kingsley Wilson, the new press secretary for the Department of War, discuss the latest in the ongoing investigation into former Navy Admiral Mark Kelly, who has been accused of war crimes by Republican Sen. Roger Wicker.
00:03:38.260I think it was great for the American people to hear from outlets and journalists that they actually follow and read and watch.
00:03:44.640And 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.
00:03:52.300We 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.
00:03:59.140Well, I just want to let everyone know that Kingsley handed me my question on a script.
00:04:06.000There were no, this was not Biden-style at all.
00:04:08.180This 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.
00:04:20.820And, 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.
00:04:27.160So, no, there was – and I saw people making accusations of that, and it just wasn't true.
00:04:34.680We want to make sure that all of the questions that we are getting are authentic.
00:04:38.080And 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.
00:04:46.520So we're able, as a department, to think on our feet and make sure that we get you guys all the relevant information.
00:04:51.560But there was absolutely no planned questions today.
00:04:53.640I was surprised by all of your amazing questions, and, you know, some we can't answer due to operational security reasons.
00:05:00.480Some we can, but we're committed to providing as much information as possible.
00:05:04.200Well, 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.
00:05:46.120So we have regularly been briefing Congress on what's going on.
00:05:49.580And 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.
00:05:58.080Now, can you tell us – was that – you know, roundabout when that call was?
00:06:18.840That would probably be a better question for Wicker.
00:06:21.040But 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.
00:06:33.760That's why it's so important to do briefings like we did today and release the strike videos like we've been doing.
00:06:38.780I 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.
00:06:55.460Well, 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.
00:07:09.360So, 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.
00:07:17.760Jack 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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00:07:42.500All 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.
00:07:54.020Very honored to be sitting down with the Department of War Press Secretary, Kingsley Wilson.
00:07:58.400Very 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,
00:08:04.360but I don't know if the military has a take on this, but did you know that at some point this nation traded real flavor for seed oils and processed junk?
00:08:15.540And it is time to take back not just our kitchens, but our defects.
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00:09:34.580Of 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.
00:10:02.860Sometimes it just means we're here working late for no special reason at all.
00:10:06.720Well, 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.
00:10:39.540Oh, and they have separate holidays to begin with, so, you know, no Thanksgiving.
00:10:43.200We 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.
00:10:49.300But so a lot of questions, of course, today about Venezuela as well.
00:10:56.060Were 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.
00:11:04.920There's going to be no serious questions.
00:11:07.400But you did get a lot of serious questions, I think, on the Venezuela question.
00:11:11.380This 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.
00:11:20.120What do you think the U.S. should do in Venezuela?
00:11:22.160And the audience is very split, Maduro, narco-trafficking, and, you know, other people say get out of it completely.
00:11:29.900From the Pentagon's perspective, though, and you mentioned, it's really more about providing optionality to the decision makers.
00:11:38.080So 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.
00:11:45.620So 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.
00:11:53.300But 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.
00:12:01.900So we'll continue to provide him options.
00:12:03.980And I think that's been a big part of moving our assets into the region, right?
00:12:08.300We brought the forward carrier, the carrier strike group, down to the Caribbean.
00:12:13.080It's the first time in recent memory that that's happened.
00:12:15.660And what that does is provide the president a lot of options.
00:12:18.580And it provides us opportunities to execute if called upon, right?
00:12:22.660If 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.
00:12:29.080So that's important for this department to always be ready.
00:12:31.580The secretary likes to say nobody waits on the Department of War.
00:12:34.360So that's really our approach in the Southcom region for sure.
00:12:37.500And to your earlier point, I was really impressed by all of the very tough, very detailed questions that the new Pentagon press corps asked.
00:12:47.020The lamestream media was honestly very lazy.
00:12:50.420And 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?
00:13:07.560Well, 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.
00:13:17.560Not 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.
00:13:27.160One 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.
00:13:40.860We saw these strikes on oil tankers in the Black Sea that were conducted by Ukraine using UUVs recently.
00:13:48.720Is that something, a new threat vector that the department is tracking beside this use of drone warfare against?
00:13:56.720And by the way, not just the aircraft carrier, but even even the supply ships, tankers, et cetera, everything else.
00:14:03.560That'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.
00:14:13.340I 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.
00:14:22.460We've launched a lot of initiatives and a lot of investment we've poured into drone manufacturing.
00:14:27.260We really want to get fantastic at it and be the best of all of the countries so that we can protect the American people.
00:14:32.940So 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.
00:14:47.140That's something we've really been pushing for as well.
00:14:49.680The secretary gave a great acquisition speech recently talking about reforming that acquisitions process.
00:15:02.680Because 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.
00:15:12.640And 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.
00:15:24.480And yet we don't have the ships, the icebreakers, et cetera.
00:15:27.040Yeah, 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.
00:15:34.200And 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?
00:15:40.900We're going to have threats in the Indo-Pacific potentially that we need to counter.
00:15:44.220We obviously have a ton of Navy assets.
00:15:46.380I think 20 percent of our naval assets right now are in the South Com region, in the Caribbean.
00:16:18.880I 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.
00:16:24.160I 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.
00:17:12.920The 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.
00:17:19.900We are going to make sure that American ships, military vessels have first and free navigation.
00:17:24.080All 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.
00:17:36.440And 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.
00:17:55.740Yeah, it's definitely something that President Trump has always taken seriously and something that this department will continue to take seriously.
00:18:01.480And 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.
00:18:09.700If we don't have a nation, what are we even defending?
00:18:12.160So securing our border has been a huge part of that.
00:18:14.560There's nobody crossing the southern border.
00:18:16.580We've got a lot of border patrol down there working with our troops.
00:18:19.440We've got almost 10,000 troops down there, I think, now, so it's fantastic.
00:18:23.000And 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.
00:18:29.480So homeland defense is really how we make sure that America is kept safe.
00:18:33.700Yeah, and while we're going towards break, I suppose I'll have to ask you a little bit more about that narco-terrorist threat.
00:18:43.760And 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.
00:18:56.880You 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.
00:19:07.600And for once, I have to say I read a little bit more with the New York Times.
00:19:57.260You might not appreciate my next question because so, you know, look, I asked you about the Senator Waker question.
00:20:03.280But, 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.
00:20:18.820Was this something that you were expecting coming from, you know, starting these operations?
00:20:25.540I know you and I have been on the show talking about them in the past.
00:20:28.160But really, what's been the department's thought process in terms of responding to this specific allegation?
00:20:41.320We saw this with Operation Midnight Hammer.
00:20:43.040They said, oh, actually, you may not have obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:20:46.920Of course, we did completely without a shadow of a doubt.
00:20:49.880And the president said as much multiple times.
00:20:52.700The secretary and the chairman said as much multiple times.
00:20:55.600But 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.
00:21:07.020So we anticipated that there would be some mainstream media attacks about these strikes.
00:21:11.840And I think that early on took the form of questioning the legality of the strikes.
00:21:16.460And 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.
00:21:34.240Our intel analysts who are out there doing the tough work making sure that the American people are kept safe from these threats.
00:21:39.520So this is something that we anticipated at the department.
00:21:42.260To your point, the last time I had you on the show, I specifically asked you this question.
00:21:47.620And regarding actual VBSS operations and sending troops onto those boats potentially for capture, et cetera, et cetera.
00:21:57.900And 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.
00:22:25.300They're the best in the world, no question.
00:22:26.380But it's far more dangerous to ask someone to do that.
00:22:30.380And 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.
00:22:40.000And the president was talking about this a little bit with the secretary of war in the cabinet meeting.
00:22:44.640I 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.
00:22:54.820Biden let narco terrorists into our country through our southern border, gave them free health care, free phones, free housing.
00:23:00.720Now we're sinking their boats and that they're at the bottom of the ocean.
00:23:04.800So 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.
00:23:16.320So these lethal kinetic strikes, I think, have been incredibly effective, too, in terms of sending a message to the cartels that we're here.
00:23:23.040This is not the previous administration.
00:23:26.800You 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.
00:23:37.060I was not a fan of drone strikes whatsoever.
00:23:39.220I kind of like him, though, because he's consistent.
00:23:45.860And I had said, you know, well, what would be a better policy of the war on, you know, the war on drugs?
00:23:50.460And I said, well, if we actually wage war on decartels and we just just bomb them.
00:23:56.740And, 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.
00:24:09.700Well, that's what's so interesting when I would talk with journalists from the former Pentagon press corps.
00:24:15.080They exactly what you said, had a really hard time wrapping their head around the fact that these individuals are terrorists.
00:24:20.780And it's funny because the same people for decades cheered on 20 years of war in the Middle East.
00:24:25.280They had no problem going after those terrorists.
00:24:27.860But 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.
00:24:35.420And I'm not sure where these concerns are coming from your point.
00:24:38.040There's there's a viral clip I retweeted earlier today.
00:24:40.760And 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.
00:24:48.320It was this retaliatory strike to the Abbey Gate bombing.
00:24:51.500But it ended up being completely wrong.
00:25:56.580Wilson, I know I'm not going to I'm not going to try to book you for another segment while we're here.
00:26:02.580I know you have places to go, things to do, people to see.
00:26:05.500And I just want to say I appreciate it very much.
00:26:07.380The 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.
00:26:14.940Yeah, well, we look forward to more questions from you.