Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - MAR 18 2022 - WAR IN UKRAINE - DAY 23 UPDATE

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00:01:29.200 Today's top stories.

00:01:31.020 The New York Times has finally admitted, at long last, that the information on the Biden laptop,

00:01:37.560 the hard drive that we recovered two years ago, is authentic.

00:01:41.540 Next, war in Ukraine enters day 23.

00:01:44.980 We're going to give you a full ground update from there.

00:01:47.240 Third, 30% of Ukrainian refugees are reportedly from other countries.

00:01:53.180 And then finally, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

00:01:57.040 We're going to dig into some of the rulings and the way that Senator Hawley is also looking at this

00:02:01.320 for her upcoming confirmation hearing.

00:02:03.020 All of us more ahead, Human Events Daily.

00:02:04.340 Well, the New York Times has finally decided to come out and admit something that we all knew

00:02:21.200 from the start, that the Hunter Biden laptop was, in fact, authentic.

00:02:25.560 That the crimes, the corruption, the depravity and degeneracy that were found on there, the

00:02:32.660 connections to oligarchs from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China, was all real.

00:02:40.060 Of course it was real.

00:02:40.900 It was obviously real.

00:02:42.520 I first got a copy of that hard drive in the fall of 2020.

00:02:47.360 We went through it, reported it publicly.

00:02:49.700 We talked about everything that was in there.

00:02:51.480 I also offered publicly, day after day after day, I'd go on War Room and talk about this.

00:02:58.860 I said, Jake Tapper from CNN, if you want a copy of this, come on down.

00:03:03.380 Maggie Haberman, if you want a copy of this, I will make you a copy of the hard drive and

00:03:07.620 hand it over to you.

00:03:09.440 They never once took me on on it.

00:03:12.440 None of them did.

00:03:13.260 Of course not.

00:03:14.040 Why would they?

00:03:15.180 They smeared it as Russian disinformation.

00:03:17.820 They said it was all a lie.

00:03:19.580 They said none of it was coming true.

00:03:21.480 Yet we had emails, we had files, we had text messages, financial documents.

00:03:27.600 We had everything.

00:03:28.440 We had everything from the hard drive from hell.

00:03:33.520 And that's really what this was.

00:03:35.340 And it certainly was for them.

00:03:38.360 But it's not just about that.

00:03:42.540 It's also about the way the United States and the way the media and the national security

00:03:49.140 state responded to all of this.

00:03:51.620 They called it very specifically Russian disinformation.

00:03:56.040 They didn't say it was China.

00:03:57.420 They didn't say it was faked.

00:03:58.760 They didn't say, you know, Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon, Raheem Kassam and all these

00:04:02.320 guys made it up.

00:04:02.940 No, no, no, no, no.

00:04:03.420 They said it was a Kremlin-backed plot.

00:04:06.980 And they said that the Russians were doing it.

00:04:09.940 Here's Jen Psaki saying just that just a couple of months ago. 1.00

00:04:13.220 The president has said, and you have tweeted, that allegations of wrongdoing based on files

00:04:18.380 pulled from Hunter Biden's laptop are Russian disinformation.

00:04:21.820 There is a new book by Politico reporter that finds some of the files on there are genuine.

00:04:26.200 Is the White House still going with Russian disinformation?

00:04:29.780 I think it's broadly known and widely known, Peter, that there was a broad range of Russian

00:04:33.980 disinformation back in 2020.

00:04:35.580 So did any of these stalwart defenders of truth, these adults in the room, the experts,

00:04:44.160 remember Jen Psaki came from the State Department, the neurotic millennial West Wing LARPer, 0.94

00:04:51.660 did they ever consider the fact that while they were deliberately lying about a nuclear power

00:04:59.500 to help themselves win an election and then also help themselves to demonize their

00:05:05.540 domestic opponents, that they were provoking their foreign adversaries by lying about Russia

00:05:13.200 deliberately?

00:05:14.820 Did they ever even stop to consider the fact that they could have been taken as a threat

00:05:22.340 by the Kremlin?

00:05:23.940 Because obviously that's what ended up happening.

00:05:28.180 You were threatening them over and over and over.

00:05:31.800 While your military was training within the boundaries of Ukraine, right on their border,

00:05:41.140 and now you're accusing them of crime over and over and over, the same way that you were

00:05:46.600 accusing them of crime for years.

00:05:49.200 And look, I'm not saying that that's what happened.

00:05:53.680 But you have to understand how it might come across to the person on the other side of the table.

00:06:01.600 And that's obviously how they took it.

00:06:04.280 They took it as a threat.

00:06:05.960 They took it as a provocation.

00:06:07.660 You poked the bear.

00:06:10.500 And now the people of Ukraine are paying the price for your recklessness,

00:06:17.080 for your insanity, and you're not standing with them.

00:06:22.580 You walked them down the primrose path, and now you're leaving them to their fate. 0.95

00:06:29.100 Cut and run.

00:06:30.800 Yeah, sure, you'll ship some money over, some supplies, make sure the arms dealers get paid,

00:06:39.360 make sure the NGOs get to skim.

00:06:41.920 What was that phrase again?

00:06:43.180 Oh, yeah, 10% for the big guy.

00:06:46.160 Yeah, you're going to make sure that the big guy gets his 10%.

00:06:48.600 And all the while, it's the people in the middle, the civilians, the families, the children.

00:06:57.340 Those are the ones that the shells fall on.

00:07:00.800 Those are the ones that have to see tanks rolling down their streets.

00:07:06.700 Because you couldn't stop lying.

00:07:09.640 You couldn't stop provoking.

00:07:13.380 And you couldn't simply be an adult and tell the truth.

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00:09:16.440 So we just heard there that is Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a massive rally in the center of Moscow to commemorate what today is.

00:09:30.820 Today in Russia is the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, or as they call it, the reunification, right, of Crimea with the rest of Russia.

00:09:40.940 So a huge rally held there in Moscow.

00:09:44.660 Today, though, going back to Ukraine, let's explain what's happening on the ground.

00:09:49.240 Of course, this comes from ISW.

00:09:52.160 Russian forces continued to make steady territorial gains in and around Mariupol, and they are increasingly targeting the residential areas of the city.

00:10:00.720 What they're doing, they've divided the entire city of Mariupol into four quadrants.

00:10:05.800 I think, by the way, I think our program is actually one of the first ones to correctly analyze this, that they first cut it north-south along the river basin and then east-west along that main road, the M14, down the center of Mariupol.

00:10:19.020 And so we have seen images now of thousands and thousands of civilians that have finally been able to leave Mariupol.

00:10:27.240 It does also look, if you watch some of these videos, it looks like the DPR militia, the separatist groups, are actually vetting people as they come out.

00:10:34.980 They're, you know, pulling up their shirts.

00:10:36.380 They're checking for tattoos.

00:10:37.200 They're looking for members of that neo-Nazi Azov battalion, so they usually have tattoos that would signify that.

00:10:43.500 They're also checking trunks.

00:10:44.620 They're looking for weapons.

00:10:45.900 They're looking for improvised explosives because they are worried, of course, about terrorist attacks or militia members getting out.

00:10:52.320 But you are still seeing extremely heavy fighting.

00:10:56.340 Also, last night, and I saw a lot of reporting on this, and ISW has it as well, Ukrainian forces northwest of Kiev and also in the Nikolaev area launched several counterintacts

00:11:06.100 and inflicted heavy damage on Russian forces.

00:11:08.980 So these are probably the largest counterattacks that we've actually seen since the beginning of this war, since all of these movements have been made.

00:11:17.360 And, of course, that area, I want to keep people to understand, the Russian operation is focused on that eastern flank of the country.

00:11:24.000 But what they're doing in Kiev is keeping so many of those Ukrainian defenders and Ukrainian forces bogged down in Kiev so that they aren't able to support the rest of the country, right?

00:11:36.100 This is very similar, by the way, to Grant's strategy when he attacked in the Civil War, attacked the South, because when you have more forces, you create this massive, wider front.

00:11:47.540 And, you know, I know everybody's looking at those maps where they can see that Ukraine is much smaller than the territory of Russia.

00:11:53.220 Of course, Russia's the largest country in the world.

00:11:55.000 But also understand that Ukraine is a massive country.

00:11:58.260 So Ukraine, if you put it on the map, it would stretch between New York City on the east coast all the way out to Chicago.

00:12:04.320 So this is a massive, massive front, and the Ukrainian army has to defend all of it, while the Russians are the ones who are invading. 0.94

00:12:12.240 They're the ones pushing in.

00:12:13.800 So because they have superior numbers, what they're doing is they're advancing on multiple fronts and demanding that the Ukrainian forces have to defend all of them at once.

00:12:23.760 So if you keep that strategic focus on the city of Kiev, that enables them to make—it splits their forces, right?

00:12:30.460 Basic military strategy.

00:12:31.460 So it splits their forces and then has to make them defend all of that territory at the same time simultaneously.

00:12:39.180 That's the operation that you're seeing here.

00:12:41.180 We're also seeing reports of Ukrainian forces repelling Russian operations around Kharkiv.

00:12:46.700 And there's reports that they killed a regimental commander.

00:12:49.060 A lot of these reports, they go back and forth.

00:12:50.600 And I do also say that when you see these headlines coming out of Ukraine, remember, it is the 24-hour rule, maybe even 48-hour rule in effect, because we're not sure exactly what's going on.

00:13:02.360 Ukrainian intelligence, they're putting out that Russia may have extended its entire—or expended its entire store of precision cruise missiles in the first 20 days of the invasion.

00:13:12.320 That being said, you know, we're not sure exactly sure how many they have in reserve.

00:13:16.760 And keep in mind, they've also got their naval elements involved in this.

00:13:20.020 The Russian forces we're now seeing have deployed unspecified reserve elements of the 1st Guard's tank army and Baltic fleet naval infantry to northeastern Ukraine on March 17th.

00:13:29.800 What does this mean, right?

00:13:30.940 You could potentially be seeing a reserve force that could conduct an amphibious operation along the Black Sea.

00:13:37.200 They could be conducting that in addition in support of their assault on Maripol.

00:13:41.340 Or you could see that, by the way, of a likelihood of a Russian amphibious assault on the city of Odessa.

00:13:48.360 Now, actually, one thing that I've noticed in terms of all this, it looks like the—Odessa seems to be more of a feint right now, because you're seeing—you know, this has happened a couple of times over the past three weeks, where you've seen Russian naval forces, you know, they'll conduct presence operations, they'll come very close to the coast of Odessa, and then they'll go back out to sea.

00:14:08.840 What does that mean, right?

00:14:10.120 That's a feint.

00:14:10.740 They're not going to conduct an amphibious operation or amphibious landing on Odessa without having their troops in the area.

00:14:18.180 So their troops currently in the south are near Kherson.

00:14:21.420 You've got those troops all up by Kiev.

00:14:23.100 They do not have the land elements nearby to Odessa to conduct any type of major operation.

00:14:30.260 But what they're doing as well, it's splitting the force of the Ukrainians. 0.98

00:14:34.220 And so they're forcing the Ukrainian army or more Ukrainian forces to have to stay behind in Odessa on that port city and that coastal town, very strategic, right on the border with Moldova, but then also requiring them to be there while they can't be in the fight elsewhere in the country.

00:14:49.620 Now, keep in mind that if they're able to clean up Mariupol and conclude operations there, then those same forces could potentially be moving west to the area with Odessa.

00:15:01.840 The fighting continues here, day 23 of this war.

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00:15:42.780 This next story, it's something that, you know, I got to say, it's really, I wish it was surprising.

00:15:49.760 I wish I could say this was surprising, but it's not.

00:15:52.700 So this headline comes to us by way of Zero Hedge.

00:15:55.380 It's by Paul Joseph Watson.

00:15:56.780 30% of Ukrainian refugees, quote unquote, are actually from other countries.

00:16:02.860 They're from third nations. 0.99

00:16:03.900 Around a third of Ukrainian refugees arriving in France are actually economic migrants from other areas of the world.

00:16:09.960 world, mostly North Africa and the Middle East, according to an investigation by newspaper Le Figaro.

00:16:15.980 What does that mean?

00:16:16.880 What's going on with that?

00:16:18.120 Well, French presidential candidate Eric Samour had something to say about that.

00:16:22.280 Take a listen.

00:16:22.680 I know the immigration of Ukrainians are a Christian European people and are therefore much closer to our French people than the waves of migration from Arab Muslim or Middle Eastern countries.

00:16:35.940 I know it very well.

00:16:38.140 So I know very well that it would pose less a problem in terms of assimilation and acculturation.

00:16:44.400 What I don't want is for there to be a tsunami based on emotion as there was for little Alan.

00:16:51.420 And we had one million or even more Syrian immigrants besides countless Algerians, Moroccans, Africans.

00:16:58.760 Now, we know over two million refugees have left Ukraine at this point.

00:17:04.540 About 5,000 have already arrived in France from Ukraine, with some being transported by bus from Berlin and others arriving by rail and air.

00:17:12.220 However, of those arriving, this is Le Figaro, about 30% are migrants of other nationalities.

00:17:17.900 7.5% are from Algeria.

00:17:20.140 3.5% are from the Ivory Coast or Morocco.

00:17:22.840 There's also Indians, Kyrgyzstan nationals, Congo, Cameroon, Pakistan, Nigeria, China, all of whom we're claiming to be Ukrainian.

00:17:31.760 The incentive for economic migrants is to obtain asylum in France.

00:17:36.160 And it's clear, given the immediate blanket refugee status, guaranteed accommodation, as well as education, financial, and medical support.

00:17:43.660 So understand what's going on, right?

00:17:45.360 Understand what's going on.

00:17:46.360 That, yes, you do have refugees, the same way that we had in the Syria crisis.

00:17:53.440 But under international law, and this is something that Poland has brought up again and again and again.

00:17:58.800 Under international law, a refugee is someone who flees a war zone to the first safe country.

00:18:06.220 France is not the first safe country after Ukraine.

00:18:09.740 Germany is not the first safe country after Ukraine.

00:18:12.400 Austria, et cetera, et cetera, right?

00:18:13.920 It would be Poland or Hungary or Romania, Moldova, or, by the way, also back into Russia and Belarus, because you do have a lot of people fleeing the fighting and going into Russia.

00:18:25.960 This also represents part of the issue with this whole situation to begin with, because some of the people do identify as Russian, and some of them are, nearly all of them are Russian-speaking as well.

00:18:35.900 So understand, though, you've got a situation where, I think we get this, right?

00:18:41.620 A lot of those people who left saw it as a free ticket to the EU, and you've got people who also probably, by the way, made it, you know, why do we have so many of these people from other countries in Ukraine in the first place?

00:18:56.140 Well, they got there through these migrant programs that were being pushed by the EU, pushed by Angela Merkel back when she was still in power, all the way starting in 2015, right, when over 1 million refugees made it from Syria and Turkey and other parts of the Middle East into the EU.

00:19:13.980 It's the same mass migration.

00:19:15.820 And now you're seeing more of that because people are saying, well, they had come to Ukraine in the first place.

00:19:19.880 Now they're moving across Europe because they've got a free ticket, because remember, Ukraine is not a member state of the EU, right?

00:19:27.720 So they do have a visa program, but in order to go into the EU, right, to be in the EU, keep in mind, that you get a tax status, you get benefits, you get education, you get financial support, very, very generous social programs, right?

00:19:41.840 So this is going to be, again, a very strong situation the EU is going to have to deal with, not only for the people who are from these third countries, but also for the Ukrainian national refugees to begin with.

00:19:55.640 Because the question is going to become, will the EU be able to sustain that through their social programs, or will the social welfare system lead to more financial problems for the EU?

00:20:07.580 I've been a federal judge for eight years, and I have a duty of independence.

00:20:18.260 I clerked for three federal judges before I became a judge, and they were models of judicial independence.

00:20:27.400 And what that has meant is that I know very well what my obligations are, what my duties are, not to rule with partisan advantage in mind.

00:20:41.980 Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson is facing some blowback from Senator Josh Hawley, who put out a tweet thread, and he wrote,

00:20:50.620 I've been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews, and speeches, and I've noticed an alarming pattern, especially when it comes to Judge Jackson's treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.

00:21:05.420 Obviously, those are clearly the worst type of sex offenders in the entire country, the worst type of sex offenders there could be, the people who would abuse children.

00:21:16.240 He goes through and says she has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and a policymaker.

00:21:23.700 She's been advocating it for it since law school.

00:21:26.340 This goes beyond soft on crime.

00:21:28.360 I'm concerned that this is a record that endangers our children.

00:21:31.680 As far back as her time in law school, Judge Jackson has questioned making convicts register as sex offenders, saying it leads to stigmatization and ostracism.

00:21:40.620 She suggested public policy is driven by a climate of fear, hatred, and revenge against sex offenders.

00:21:48.980 And so there's a very interesting comment that she made in one of her statements where she goes, listen to this.

00:21:56.500 She also wrote,

00:22:22.740 I don't know what's going on here, but I do hear someone that it sounds like

00:22:47.060 is making excuses in the name of reform, in the name of social justice, for covering up these people who are conducting acts of trafficking, possessing, distributing child pornography,

00:23:03.900 which obviously has a victim, the victim being the child being abused, and thus creating a market and facilitating that market for them, right?

00:23:14.140 That's not her job as a judge to dig into what the person's motivations are, in a sense.

00:23:21.760 I understand for sentencing guidelines, right, that does become an issue.

00:23:25.240 But this isn't just one case.

00:23:27.480 This is a pattern of cases that Senator Hawley has identified.

00:23:32.800 And remember, the Senate is split right down the middle.

00:23:35.860 It's 50-50.

00:23:36.600 So if they want to push her through before midterms, and it does look like they want to do that,

00:23:41.980 they are going to need all 50 Democratic senators to vote for her. 1.00

00:23:48.100 So will Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema, West Virginia and Arizona,

00:23:52.960 who are seen as independent, seen as moderate, will they go along with this?

00:23:57.780 And I'd love to hear their answer to what exactly is going on with these statements,

00:24:03.880 which to me sound absolutely disgusting.

00:24:06.120 And that's all the time we have here, Human Events Daily.

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00:24:18.980 Today's top stories we discussed.

00:24:20.620 The New York Times admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic.

00:24:23.660 We got into day 23 of the war in Ukraine.

00:24:26.200 We talked about how 30% of the Ukrainian refugees are actually from other countries.

00:24:30.600 And we really broke down Senator Josh Hawley's criticisms of Ketanji Brown-Jackson and her previous rulings.

00:24:37.600 But before we go, it's time for today's history break.

00:24:41.120 Today, in the year 2000, Chen Shui-bian was elected president of Taiwan.

00:24:47.720 He was the first pro-independence candidate to be elected.

00:24:52.600 Earlier today, the CCP sent a carrier strike group through the Taiwan Straits.

00:24:58.640 So understand while we're talking about Ukraine, things are heating up in the Far East.

00:25:03.380 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 18, 2022

MAR 18 2022 - WAR IN UKRAINE - DAY 23 UPDATE

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