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00:00:27.000 Cabinet-level officials and related officials in our government.

00:00:30.000 And we kept this operation secret for a very long time.

00:00:33.100 I'm very proud of that.

00:00:33.880 I think it suggests that the team works very well together.

00:00:37.640 Looking ahead, what is my role?

00:00:38.720 Look, my role is going to be whatever the president asks me to do.

00:00:42.840 Well, every single, or I should say every other day,

00:00:45.620 I'm chairing the meeting that we do on this among White House principals

00:00:49.000 to talk about next steps to try to ensure that Venezuela is stable.

00:00:52.340 And as the president has directed us to do,

00:00:54.080 to ensure that the new Venezuelan government actually listens to the United States

00:00:58.540 and does what the United States needs it to do under our country's best interest.

00:01:03.020 So I'm going to be as involved as the president wants me to be.

00:01:05.740 So far, that's been very involved, and I'll keep on doing that so long as the president asks me to do it.

00:01:09.880 Mr. Rice, do you mind?

00:01:12.000 Even beyond the White House resolution?

00:01:14.840 We'll go purple, and then we'll go paint, or whatever that is in front.

00:01:17.740 Oil purple. And then beige.

00:01:18.940 All right. Are there any indications, you talked about the network,

00:01:22.360 are there any indications that the lady who was shot, I know there are different reports from there.

00:01:26.980 her wife said they were new to the area. Are there any indications she may have been a paid

00:01:32.220 agitator and maybe that there are others that were brought to the area considering everything

00:01:36.440 that's going on in Minneapolis? I wouldn't say that she was paid. I don't have the evidence to

00:01:40.320 say that one way or the other. What I do know is that she was violating the law. And if you just 0.87

00:01:44.000 look at the eyewitness accounts, they were saying she was there to prevent the enforcement of the

00:01:48.400 law. She was trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation. That much is obviously

00:01:53.220 clear. The rest of it, of course, is part of the reason why we investigate this stuff.

00:01:57.100 Mr. Vice President, even beyond the War Powers resolution today, Congress has bucked President

00:02:03.480 Trump on issues like tariffs. Are you concerned that President Trump is losing his grip on

00:02:09.220 Republicans in Congress? And what are you going to do about it? No, I'm not concerned at all.

00:02:13.020 First of all, we talked to some of the senators who were going to vote the wrong way, in my view,

00:02:16.500 on this resolution today. Much of their argument was based more on a legal technicality than any

00:02:21.860 disagreement in policy. If you look at the people who actually voted, every single one of them have

00:02:26.100 supported the administration's plan. Second of all, as the president, I believe himself has already

00:02:30.080 said, every president, Democrat or Republican, believes the War Powers Act is fundamentally a

00:02:35.660 fake and unconstitutional law. It's not going to change anything about how we conduct foreign

00:02:40.120 policy over the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months. And that'll continue to be

00:02:44.360 how we approach things. Go ahead. So we are seeing regarding Iran, we are seeing the protests in

00:02:49.560 Iran these days. The citizens are begging for help from the U.S. and Israel, naming streets in the

00:02:55.020 city after President Trump. It seems there is an opportunity here that may not come again. Will the

00:02:59.940 United States stand by the citizens of Iran? And if Israel decides to strike again, the nuclear

00:03:05.180 sites in Iran, is the U.S. expected to take part? Well, look, we certainly stand by anybody who's 0.99

00:03:10.420 engaged in peaceful protests, anybody who's trying to exert their rights for free association and to

00:03:15.140 have their voices heard. Obviously, the Iranian regime has a lot of problems. And as the President

00:03:18.900 the United States has said, the smartest thing for them to have done, it was true two months

00:03:23.040 ago, it's true today, is for them to actually have a real negotiation with the United States

00:03:28.820 about what we need to see when it comes to their nuclear program. I'll let the President speak to

00:03:33.340 what we're going to do in the future, but we certainly stand with anybody across the world,

00:03:36.980 including the Iranian people, who are advocating for their rights. I'll take just a couple of

00:03:40.360 more questions. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. Concerning Venezuela, how would you

00:03:47.940 assure the Caribbean region that they will remain a zone of peace because some member states in the

00:03:54.440 region are concerned. Well, look, the president had a very productive phone call with the president

00:03:59.300 of Colombia yesterday, and we continue to talk at all levels of government with a number of our

00:04:03.260 friends in the Caribbean region. I actually think this is really good for peace in the Caribbean

00:04:07.560 because when you take away a major source of illegal cartel revenue, which is the cocaine

00:04:13.220 trade the fentanyl trade other sources of illicit revenue you actually remove

00:04:17.540 the power of one of the main destabilizing forces in Latin America

00:04:21.660 and in the Caribbean I really do think look we say it all the time this is the

00:04:25.580 president of peace one of the ways that you establish peace in your own

00:04:29.000 hemisphere is to make it clear that the United States is going to be respected

00:04:32.620 that the United States is willing to take power away from criminal cartel

00:04:36.660 organizations and give it to legitimate governments that's how we see the future

00:04:40.980 of the Western Hemisphere and we think it's going to be much more peaceful than it was

00:04:44.500 certainly under Joe Biden. I'll take one more question. Thank you. On Greenland, do you

00:04:49.880 have a message for European leaders? Many in Europe reject the idea that the island

00:04:55.320 could be forsaken. Well, first of all, Secretary Rubio, I believe, is meeting with the leaders

00:05:01.400 of Denmark and Greenland next week, I want to say it is, but maybe it's the week after

00:05:04.660 that. We'll continue to deliver some of these messages in private, some of them in public,

00:05:09.460 But I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously.

00:05:15.240 What has he said about Greenland?

00:05:17.180 Set to the side the crazy overreactions that I've seen from the press and from certain people in Europe.

00:05:23.140 What has the president said?

00:05:24.280 Number one, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense, but to the world's missile defense.

00:05:30.060 Number two, we know that there are hostile adversaries that have shown a lot of interest in that particular territory, that particular slice of the world.

00:05:37.160 So what we're asking our European friends to do is to take the security of that landmass more seriously, because if they're not, the United States is going to have to do something about it.

00:05:46.520 What that is, I'll leave that to the president as we continue to engage in diplomacy with our European friends and everybody on this particular topic.

00:05:53.120 And again, thank you all for listening. Thanks for taking questions.

00:05:56.280 And I just ask you, look, this is politics and often Republicans and.

00:06:02.020 You know, get in, get in arguments with the press about things.

00:06:05.100 I understand that. I think it's really irresponsible for you guys to go out there and imply or tell the American people that a guy who defended himself from being rammed by an automobile is guilty of murder. Be a little bit more careful. We're going to talk about toning down the temperature, which I know the president wants to do and I certainly want to do. One of the ways we tone down the temperature is to have a media that tells the truth. I encourage you all to do that. God bless you.

00:06:35.100 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth-generation warfare.

00:06:45.980 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:06:52.620 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:06:55.720 Christ is king!

00:06:57.220 President Trump says he wants to slam the door on Wall Street investors buying single-family homes.

00:07:02.560 Trump announcing plans to ban institutional investors from snatching up real estate and

00:07:08.100 driving up housing prices, saying for a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered

00:07:14.100 the pinnacle of the American dream. That American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too

00:07:19.840 many people. A woman in Minneapolis is dead after an ICE-involved shooting. President Trump has

00:07:26.340 weighed in. He wrote, I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis.

00:07:30.580 It is a horrible thing to watch.

00:07:32.880 The woman screaming was obviously a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was

00:07:37.960 very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously

00:07:42.880 ran over the ICE officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense.

00:07:46.740 The situation is being studied in its entirety.

00:07:49.960 But the reason these incidents are happening is because the radical left is threatening,

00:07:55.020 assaulting, and targeting our law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis.

00:07:59.920 Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles.

00:08:08.740 Three of them happened here in Minneapolis.

00:08:11.520 We've seen over 100 of these vehicle rammings happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.

00:08:17.900 In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June.

00:08:27.700 He sustained injuries at that time as well.

00:08:32.120 No! No!

00:08:35.100 S***! S***! 1.00

00:08:37.640 Oh my f***ing God! 1.00

00:08:39.920 What the f***? 0.99

00:08:41.120 My primary responsibility as governor is the protection of the people of Minnesota. 0.98

00:08:45.880 And you can be assured whether it's the state patrol or whether it's the National Guard,

00:08:51.460 their deployment is there to protect Minnesotans from whatever it is.

00:08:55.240 if it's an act of nature, if it's a global pandemic, or in this case, if it is a rogue.

00:09:03.220 In accordance with President Trump's directive, Rook and I will release the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025 to 2030,

00:09:13.780 the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.

00:09:18.960 These guidelines replace corporate-driven assumptions with common-sense goals and gold-standard scientific integrity.

00:09:28.140 These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation's food culture and make America healthy again.

00:09:35.040 Today, the Trump administration is proud to announce the United States of America's updated childhood vaccine schedule.

00:09:41.720 The schedule is rooted in the gold standard of science and widely agreed upon by scientists and experts all over the world.

00:09:49.700 Effective today, America will no longer require 72 jabs for our beautiful, healthy children.

00:09:55.860 We are moving to a far more reasonable schedule where all children will only be recommended to receive vaccinations for 11 of the most serious and dangerous diseases.

00:10:06.120 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:10:13.280 We're here live in Washington, D.C.

00:10:15.280 Today is January 8th, 2026.

00:10:17.880 Anno Domini.

00:10:18.760 I knew I would get the 26th eventually.

00:10:20.640 I nailed it today.

00:10:21.820 Just want to pat myself on the back a little bit there.

00:10:24.060 I'm not going to.

00:10:24.700 Don't worry.

00:10:25.020 I stretched.

00:10:25.480 I stretched before I did that.

00:10:26.820 No.

00:10:27.220 So we just saw J.D. Vance go there.

00:10:29.160 Full buck wild.

00:10:30.340 Full hillbilly energy, as we like to call it around here.

00:10:33.800 defending the ICE agents against this lawlessness that we saw in Minneapolis.

00:10:38.480 Look, we don't want anything violent to happen.

00:10:41.040 We don't want anything like that to happen at all.

00:10:42.900 But the best way to do that is simply to tone down the rhetoric, to tone down the activism.

00:10:50.160 And these agitators, they were following ICE.

00:10:53.100 They were harassing them.

00:10:55.800 They were blocking traffic.

00:10:56.980 And the same agent had been drug himself earlier in the year, earlier in in in the administration.

00:11:06.020 So it's been it's been crazy to see the response for all that.

00:11:09.880 And we're going to go to a special live report from the ground in Minneapolis.

00:11:14.320 We're also going to be talking to a use of force expert, self-defense expert coming up in a little bit to walk us through what that means.

00:11:22.040 But earlier today, I had the opportunity to take part in an incredible forum, a panel and an event over at the Department of Health and Human Service put on by Secretary Bobby Kennedy himself, RFK Jr., all about the new dietary guidelines, the new vaccine schedule, everything that they're doing over there.

00:11:43.760 And we're so excited that sitting down, joining us here live in studio is Callie Means, the new senior advisor, if I understand correctly, over at the Department of Health.

00:11:53.800 Thanks for being here.

00:11:54.460 Oh, it's great to be here.

00:11:55.360 Big day.

00:11:56.060 Big day.

00:11:56.680 So what can you tell us about? 0.62

00:11:59.040 We've seen the new, do we call it the inverted pyramid, the Maha food pyramid?

00:12:04.160 The new pyramid.

00:12:04.900 Okay, we'll go with new pyramid.

00:12:06.020 I like Maha pyramid.

00:12:07.060 That might work.

00:12:07.940 That might work.

00:12:08.680 So we've seen the new period.

00:12:09.880 It's totally inverted, and I've gone through it a little bit.

00:12:14.400 My wife, Tanya Tay, she was there at the event.

00:12:16.320 She loves it.

00:12:17.160 She absolutely loves the way that you're framing all of it.

00:12:20.140 But something that's really interesting to me is that we are not seeing the type of backlash

00:12:26.420 that we kind of thought that we would be seeing from a lot of different groups out there.

00:12:30.740 And in fact, surprisingly, a lot of the main health groups in America have come out and

00:12:37.060 endorsed it.

00:12:37.700 How did you guys get that done?

00:12:39.020 At the highest level, this guidance from the Trump administration, we believe, is the most significant public health guidance in modern history.

00:12:47.800 We are the sickest country in the developed world.

00:12:50.060 Every mom watching knows.

00:12:51.280 You walk into a classroom, we have five times higher obesity rates than any other developed country.

00:12:55.940 Yes.

00:12:56.240 We have 38% of teens that's pre-diabetic.

00:12:58.320 There's something very wrong happening.

00:12:59.760 Every mom knows that's because of the American diet.

00:13:02.520 And the reason I think we're seeing such resonance, you go on social media, you see such excitement about these guidelines,

00:13:08.060 is because finally an administration had the ability and had the courage,

00:13:12.300 and this was led directly from President Trump to his directives

00:13:15.200 to Secretary Rowlands at the USDA and Secretary Kennedy.

00:13:17.560 He said, I want Americans to know the truth.

00:13:20.280 And this document is very simple.

00:13:22.760 It's a simple statement, but it's a radical statement.

00:13:24.820 Eat real food.

00:13:26.120 And the headlines from this document is we should fill our plate

00:13:28.920 with whole food grown by American farmers, 0.96

00:13:31.560 and we should cut added sugar, we should cut highly processed crap

00:13:35.420 that's the majority of school lunch right now,

00:13:38.200 that there's a majority of kids' food right now,

00:13:41.260 and we should cut added sugar.

00:13:43.740 So highly refined carbohydrates,

00:13:46.380 highly processed food, added sugar.

00:13:47.700 These are very simple points.

00:13:49.520 But the key is, and the reason this is so radical

00:13:51.360 and the reason this is so important,

00:13:53.080 the USDA spends $400 million a day on food procurement.

00:13:57.460 There's hundreds of billions of dollars a year

00:13:59.900 that the federal government spends on food.

00:14:02.060 The majority of that funding,

00:14:03.440 the majority of those hundreds of billions of dollars

00:14:05.340 food for our soldiers, for our kids, for SNAP, it goes to junk food.

00:14:08.540 The number one item on SNAP is sugary drinks.

00:14:11.120 The number three item is potato chips.

00:14:13.100 It's crazy.

00:14:14.620 And by the way, I just can remember having served in the military

00:14:18.260 when we would get MREs, when we would get food on the ship in the Navy.

00:14:22.780 You're getting this stuff, and you could tell.

00:14:25.440 I'll put it this way.

00:14:26.500 It was not what I was expecting would be coming from a government mess hall

00:14:30.240 or a galley or a DFAC.

00:14:31.860 Our farmers have been shafted, and big multinational food companies have seen military food.

00:14:37.520 They see it as a piggy bank, okay?

00:14:39.420 This is not a funding problem.

00:14:40.780 We spend a lot in America on food procurement.

00:14:42.960 It has been a political will problem.

00:14:44.960 But when you have SNAP, when you have $10, $15 billion of SNAP, just go to soda companies.

00:14:50.080 This is a very—the dietary guidelines are a huge procurement document.

00:14:54.080 And because of the Maha Moms, because of President Trump, because of the courage of Secretary

00:14:57.800 Rowling, Secretary Kennedy, they said no to the junk food companies. They said, we are going to

00:15:02.880 put a mantle in the ground for real food and make sure our soldiers, make sure our kids, make sure

00:15:07.640 our veterans at our VA hospitals get good American food. And this is going to have massive, massive

00:15:13.860 impacts on the affordability and really the nutrition of food served. I'll just say one

00:15:18.740 thing, talking to many members of the military, there's been this war that we have absolutely

00:15:23.000 ended with this guidance. There's been a war

00:15:24.940 on fat. They basically said

00:15:26.860 if you don't eat saturated fat, you're going to be

00:15:28.960 healthy, and that led to the preponderance of refined

00:15:30.660 carbohydrates, which has been a disaster.

00:15:32.500 We've ended that war, but it's actually led until

00:15:34.820 today, you can't actually serve

00:15:36.760 steak to soldiers. Because of this

00:15:39.180 denigration

00:15:40.740 of fat, soldiers are emailing us

00:15:42.820 like, we're eating soy burgers.

00:15:45.560 They're literally serving the soldiers

00:15:47.040 beyond meat, 0.77

00:15:48.940 just fake, artificial 1.00

00:15:50.700 crap, and they're not allowed. 0.99

00:15:52.940 It's not a funding issue. 1.00

00:15:54.460 They have been prevented, the military procurement,

00:15:57.040 from reaching out to American ranchers

00:15:58.880 and putting steak on the soldier's plate.

00:16:01.240 So for all the enlisted members watching,

00:16:04.200 we are going to be getting more steak on your plate.

00:16:06.540 We are going to be getting more high-quality protein

00:16:08.620 on a child's plate.

00:16:09.700 We are going to be getting whole grains, fruits, vegetables.

00:16:11.680 I mean, this is basic stuff.

00:16:13.040 But no administration in the history

00:16:15.760 of modern American civilization

00:16:18.560 has had the ability to stand up to the big food companies,

00:16:21.820 say your time is over, we're going to recommend whole food,

00:16:25.320 we're going to recommend real food, and we're going to work.

00:16:27.680 And this is happening starting today.

00:16:29.120 The U.S. government is getting whole food to government programs.

00:16:32.080 And what's so key here is that people don't realize,

00:16:34.200 sure, you see the inverted pyramid, we all love it.

00:16:36.440 Can't wait to see that in schools, by the way.

00:16:38.020 But what's so key, and this is what certainly I didn't understand

00:16:41.260 when I was a kid seeing the original pyramid, et cetera,

00:16:43.720 is that, and what I do understand having worked in the government,

00:16:46.420 is that the guidelines set the money.

00:16:49.660 The money. The guidelines are what all of these procurers, all the, you know, the special, you know, the special service, all the GS employees have to go on.

00:16:58.340 When they go for the procurement, they have to match it to the guidelines.

00:17:02.260 So the guidelines set the way the government contracts and the government money is spent.

00:17:06.780 There's two principles that the administration has with Maha.

00:17:10.800 Americans want to be healthy. This is a free country. They should make their own decisions.

00:17:14.140 But the U.S. government does have a responsibility to tell Americans the truth, and they have a responsibility to spend money efficiently.

00:17:21.560 So there's two big, I think, successes and important parts of the Societary Guidelines.

00:17:26.100 Number one is it is important what the federal health authorities say to the American people.

00:17:31.660 And growing up, I think, you know, us as kids, my mom thought she was doing the right thing by giving us the crackers, the low-fat stuff, the refined carbohydrates.

00:17:40.060 And they were, you know, we were educated family.

00:17:42.380 We were trying to do the right thing.

00:17:43.780 my mom ended up getting a metabolic condition cancer very tied to food died and i saw your

00:17:49.880 tweet about that and um and we really did she's pretty diabetic uh dealt with obesity i mean this

00:17:55.080 is the average american americans are dying much younger than people in any other country you know

00:18:00.380 what actually just just thinking back to my memory on this is the thing that made me start to question

00:18:05.980 whether or not the science the experts all this were had it straight was eggs and you remember

00:18:11.880 this because i couldn't tell are eggs good for me or are they not good for me and it felt like

00:18:17.000 they couldn't make up their mind and they said eggs are eggs are bad for you then eggs were good

00:18:20.720 for you then only part of the egg was good for you and now it's like no actually it's just eggs

00:18:25.360 are good for you the fact that the elite medical groups have been suggesting eggs or high quality

00:18:33.420 protein is the problem with american health is a scandal i mean you've had these groups funded by

00:18:38.700 food companies funded by pharmaceutical companies. You mentioned at the beginning,

00:18:42.480 and I think this is very positive, the White House extended an open hand to groups that have

00:18:47.440 made big mistakes in the past, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association,

00:18:51.140 the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is suing Bobby Kennedy on many other, suing the

00:18:55.900 administration. We welcomed them to the White House, and to their credit, they came in,

00:19:00.740 they acknowledged that we have lost our way, and they have put out statements commending the

00:19:06.100 courage, committing the bravery of the Trump administration. And we made it very clear to

00:19:10.280 them, and we're going to be working in very good faith. And everyone watching, the Trump

00:19:13.960 administration is sending an open hand to every medical group, to people across the political

00:19:19.340 aisle. We have to solve this issue. And yes, the food procurement is huge. Hundreds of billions of

00:19:25.780 dollars of government procurement is going to be impacted by this document. If you're a mom

00:19:30.220 watching with a child in school who eats one of those 45 million meals a day that's funded by the

00:19:35.000 federal government, those meals are going to improve as this gets implemented. If you're an

00:19:38.980 enlisted military member, you're going to see better food on your plate. It's going to have

00:19:42.740 real-world impacts. But most importantly, we are shipping this pyramid to every single school in

00:19:47.120 America. And we hope to change the culture for kids, for parents, like my mom thinking the low

00:19:53.020 fat was the right way to go. The right way to go is eating real food, protein, healthy fats,

00:19:58.060 fruits, vegetables, dairy, and a little bit of whole grains. That's the message of this document.

00:20:02.640 And I think one of the great legacies of the Trump administration is that we are going to turn this around, improve the American diet.

00:20:08.280 And that's the key to really getting our budget under control.

00:20:11.180 You know, food-based illnesses, about 40 percent of U.S. tax dollars just go to paying health care on chronic conditions.

00:20:17.420 That's exactly right.

00:20:17.740 We did this calculation.

00:20:18.800 And these are issues that other parts of the world simply don't have.

00:20:21.880 You look at Europe.

00:20:23.040 And I always bring this up, and I don't try to be like, yeah, yeah.

00:20:26.760 But my wife is from Europe.

00:20:28.560 And each of you specifically, they have issues, of course.

00:20:32.360 but not these issues. These issues are things that are totally foreign to them because they

00:20:37.040 just eat real food. I was in Italy recently. I love the Italians, but they live seven years

00:20:41.860 longer. They're all healthier. And I look at that. I'm like, Americans aren't worse people 0.99

00:20:46.660 than Italians. We're not lazy than Italians. The statement from the Trump administration this week

00:20:50.740 is Americans are doing well. They want to be healthy. They don't want to be sick. The government

00:20:54.540 has let them down. The government has not told them the truth. And that's been corrected. And

00:20:57.740 I think these guidelines, the courage of them, the courage to stand up against special interests,

00:21:01.660 stand for American farmers, really revise common sense things that have been backwards for decades.

00:21:07.560 It just shows to me what the administration is doing on every front. President Trump sits at

00:21:12.720 his desk and calls the cabinet secretaries. I see this and he says, go big, go hard. I've got your

00:21:18.240 back. And for the first time a president with the dietary guidelines, which as you noted, it is one

00:21:22.740 of the most important procurement documents in the federal government. Hundreds of billions of

00:21:27.140 dollars flow from this document. It is so lobbied. There's so many calls coming to the White House

00:21:30.520 on this president trump says do what's right this was the story this was the story of the original

00:21:34.840 food pyramid that everybody thought oh there's there's the pyramid you know these are the top

00:21:39.400 this at the bottom this is what you eat the most of but it then came out that the way it was

00:21:43.220 constructed wasn't doctors and dieticians and nutrition all sitting down together no it was

00:21:47.860 massive lobbying efforts yeah and unfortunately that legacy of corporate funded research was

00:21:53.880 represented in the biden nutrition report that we got and people are asking the press why did

00:21:58.880 we turn over the Biden nutrition report.

00:22:00.480 The majority of the people who wrote that report

00:22:02.200 had conflicts of interest with big food companies.

00:22:04.820 And the report in 2024, 2025,

00:22:08.900 did not call out added sugar,

00:22:10.780 did not call out highly processed food,

00:22:12.760 which is 70% of a child's diet.

00:22:14.180 You want to talk about the difference

00:22:15.240 between us and Europe? 1.00

00:22:16.420 70% of a kid's diet is ultra processed crap 1.00

00:22:19.200 in the United States, 0.99

00:22:19.920 and it's 10% in France, Spain, and Germany.

00:22:22.840 That is the core difference.

00:22:24.060 And the Biden document, heavily corporate influence,

00:22:26.900 did not have the bravery to call that out.

00:22:28.880 Additionally, it said the word health equity in a scientific document 178 times.

00:22:34.100 What do you do when you get health equity in a scientific document?

00:22:37.340 The whole thing was an excuse to keep our crappy food system

00:22:40.340 because it would be against CEI principles to recommend healthier food to lower-income people.

00:22:44.940 This document puts a mantle on the ground.

00:22:47.400 It says we must have a real food diet.

00:22:49.780 We must support farmers with our federal procurement dollars.

00:22:53.500 And we have the political will.

00:22:54.920 I should mention, by the way, that Secretary Brooke Rollins was right there in full support of it.

00:23:00.600 She was there today.

00:23:01.420 I didn't mention she was there.

00:23:02.480 She's been incredible.

00:23:02.660 She was there, and it was just incredible.

00:23:05.020 Although I did notice, by the way, that at one point, was there a challenge that went down?

00:23:09.920 I think the, was it the Department of Agriculture?

00:23:12.060 A dodgeball tournament?

00:23:13.100 Challenged the Department of Health to a dodgeball tournament, apparently.

00:23:16.280 Well, we have a massive hall at HHS, so I think they're going to have a dodgeball tournament.

00:23:20.100 Oh, okay, okay, okay.

00:23:20.740 But I think it's worth noting, Secretary Rowland's there just giving incredible comments.

00:23:27.240 And the partnership between the entire government, the partnership between HHS and USDA that

00:23:33.520 puts this document together was historic.

00:23:37.060 And Brooke said this, great agriculture policy and great health policy are the same thing.

00:23:43.260 When 90% of our health care costs in America are tied to diabetes, obesity, really food-based

00:23:48.760 illnesses, the best thing we can possibly do for our country is get more of that money to farmers,

00:23:55.420 get more of that money to real food. And we think Americans are ready for this. It's been

00:23:59.100 unbelievable to see the reception. It's really impossible to criticize. I even ran in at the

00:24:04.140 event today. There was a soda lobbyist there who said, great job, and we want to work with you

00:24:08.060 guys. This document is impossible really to argue with. All of us know we have to improve the

00:24:13.840 American diet. To their credit, a lot of food companies are working to take sugar out of their

00:24:18.360 food, even Coca-Cola. They're moving more and more to no calorie beverages. Like society is

00:24:23.200 changing. The market is changing, but there's a role for the federal government. There's a role

00:24:26.820 for the Trump administration to put good public health guidance forward. And we should never be

00:24:32.020 sending federal taxpayer dollars to sugary drinks, to Doritos, to Ding Dongs. That happens right now.

00:24:40.220 Snap. You can buy. And those companies are great. This is a free country. Those companies should,

00:24:45.940 I hope they thrive.

00:24:46.720 But the subsidization of it.

00:24:47.940 No federal taxpayer dollars.

00:24:49.160 That's the message of this document, and that's why it's going to have a real-world impact.

00:24:52.540 So, again, this is one representation.

00:24:55.040 I know there's a lot of Maha listeners out there, but whether you're tracking this issue closely enough or not,

00:25:00.620 President Trump is doing this throughout the administration.

00:25:04.100 He is urging people to go bold.

00:25:07.540 He has their back against special interests, and we're doing the right thing.

00:25:10.720 I mean, this is just the right thing to do for the American people, and I think it's really resonating.

00:25:14.740 Amen to that.

00:25:15.320 Kelly, it means I can get you on and do, we'll have to do a special where we go into this.

00:25:19.660 We have a ton of, unfortunately, we have a ton of other stories to get to today.

00:25:22.300 Where can people go to get more information specifically on these guidelines and to follow you?

00:25:26.060 Oh, realfood.gov.

00:25:27.420 Joe Gebbia, the founder of Airbnb.

00:25:29.380 I love that, realfood.gov.

00:25:30.300 The founder of Airbnb joined the government and is leading design for the whole government

00:25:34.360 and has designed the greatest government website in history, realfood.gov.

00:25:38.760 You're lying at the great government website.

00:25:41.000 I'm going PTSD over that segment.

00:25:43.080 I'm thinking about the Obamacare.

00:25:44.640 Callie, thank you so much for being here, man.

00:25:45.880 I appreciate you spending the time.

00:25:46.700 You're the man.

00:25:47.240 Thank you.

00:25:48.200 All right, folks.

00:25:48.980 Callie Means. 1.00

00:25:49.820 Go give him a follow.

00:25:50.740 Check it out, realfood.gov.

00:25:53.780 I want to bring on now, so I'm going to switch gears a little bit.

00:25:55.980 We talked a lot about this yesterday, and we got into the specifics of the energy markets, the world energy markets.

00:26:02.840 I was drawing on my background as a naval intelligence officer, understanding how world energy flows work.

00:26:08.260 And I wanted to bring on Daniel Turner from Power of the Future because he's someone who absolutely understands all of this.

00:26:15.100 Daniel, how are you?

00:26:16.420 Hey, Jack. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

00:26:18.280 Hey, good to be back on, man.

00:26:19.420 Look, I was thinking of you when I saw this stuff with the Venezuelan, the tanker, all of the oil, all of the energy, the LNG that flows through that North Atlantic.

00:26:28.700 The fact that the president, J.D. Vance, you just heard him talking about Greenland, talking about the tanker.

00:26:33.160 What does all of this mean?

00:26:34.780 Why is the president so focused on this, and what is the role of energy here?

00:26:39.960 I think the president understandably sees oil as a huge leverage.

00:26:46.360 It's the world's most important asset, and we can wish it were otherwise, right?

00:26:50.320 There are the folks out there who say the world should run on solar or run on wind, but it doesn't.

00:26:55.000 It runs on oil, and it runs the world's economy, and it runs the world's military.

00:26:59.100 Go back almost a decade, that very famous photo of President Trump in Europe, where all the European leaders, Macron and Angela Merkel, are leaning across the table, wagging their finger.

00:27:12.380 And Trump was on the other side of the table with his arms crossed, right?

00:27:15.580 That was the moment that he told them they had to stop buying Russian oil and gas.

00:27:19.800 It was making Russia rich.

00:27:21.580 And then when Russia gets rich, you're going to come to us to bail out your problems.

00:27:25.920 And that's exactly what happened.

00:27:27.240 And now they come to us and they say, well, America, you have to clean up the mess we created.

00:27:32.580 So President Trump sees oil as preemption, right?

00:27:36.440 Let's conquer the oil now, run the world's oil markets, dominate the world oil markets

00:27:42.060 so that then when the bad guys don't engage, you don't come to America and say,

00:27:48.440 now you have to clean up the mess we created.

00:27:50.300 Iran invaded Israel with oil on October 7th, right? 0.75

00:27:54.460 Russia invaded Ukraine with oil. Venezuela releases havoc in American cities with oil money.

00:28:03.280 So control the oil, control the world. And I love the president is this bold and brave on it.

00:28:10.140 Well, I think it's incredible. Now, talk to me a little bit about, if you can indulge me a little,

00:28:16.200 that North Atlantic Sea route. I mean, this is a key route for Northern oil, isn't it? And all LNG.

00:28:22.000 It is. It's a very important route. And that's why Greenland is so important. And the Arctic

00:28:25.820 is incredibly crucial. We know there's a lot of oil in the Arctic, but we're not sure exactly

00:28:30.960 how much because it is very vast and it is very remote. But Russia is engaged very heavily there.

00:28:37.800 Norway, of course, is engaged very heavily there. So Greenland is strategically important. And why

00:28:43.200 would we acquiesce? Why would we give up this land and this area to the Russians, to the Chinese who 1.00

00:28:49.160 drilling there when America can dominate this region. So yes, it's very important for shipping.

00:28:54.460 It's very important for military and space exploration. But it's very important for metals

00:28:59.580 and minerals and oil and gas. And again, my earlier point, we can wish we didn't need these

00:29:05.300 things. But that's silly, right? Wishing Platonic, you know, that famous Raphael photo in the Vatican

00:29:11.920 of Plato pointing to the way the things should be. But it's not, right? Next to him is Aristotle,

00:29:18.200 who's pointing down saying this is reality. And reality is oil and gas and rare earths and metals

00:29:25.200 and minerals control the world. And if America is a force for good and we control them, then we

00:29:31.600 control the world. And that is America first. Right. And so this is this is an example right

00:29:37.840 here of we're not saying that, you know, it's it's that America is going to go and do another

00:29:42.840 Iraq war for oil or that America is going to go do another Afghanistan or one of these things.

00:29:48.640 No, it's basic economic leverage. It's using economic leverage, but also with that little

00:29:55.200 extra taste of, yes, we might use a little group called, oh, I don't know, the United States Navy,

00:30:02.220 the world's finest Navy, by the way, to make sure that everybody out there understands that the

00:30:07.820 rules of the road will be enforced. Absolutely. And, you know, you can go back about 25 years

00:30:13.820 to a document that the great Milton Friedman put together outlying what should happen in those

00:30:19.660 Gulf states after the invasion, how you can privatize the industries there and how you can

00:30:25.320 build prosperous community and why that would hasten the end of the war and stability. Well,

00:30:31.000 you know, you ignore Milton Friedman at your own peril. And we didn't do that. The Bush

00:30:34.740 administration didn't do that. China basically controls Afghanistan at this point. You know,

00:30:40.200 President Trump is looking at the Panama Canal, by the way, and the Panama Canal. China understands

00:30:45.280 that if you want to control the world, all you have to do is control the world's naval choke

00:30:49.620 points, the sea choke points, which is where all the energy of the world flows through.

00:30:54.340 So if you control those strategic points like, oh, I don't know, Greenland, if you, oh, I don't know,

00:30:59.500 the Panama Canal. And to your point, Afghanistan, which is, of course, the key terrain right there

00:31:04.060 at the center of the place where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet, this is why it's so important.

00:31:11.520 And yet we don't look at it that way. We somehow look at it as, oh, well, they're just going to be

00:31:16.220 good players, and we can have them in the United Nations, and that's certainly going to work.

00:31:22.500 Yeah, exactly. And that's why this blueprint that Milton Friedman designed for us is what

00:31:28.100 we're doing in Venezuela. And I love the fact that the president said very clearly,

00:31:31.540 when these companies reimburse themselves, then it will be good for the Venezuelan people.

00:31:36.280 This is not charity. This is not nation building. Only America knows how to do this. And we've

00:31:41.900 built the world industry. It's something that gets under my skin. If you know your history,

00:31:45.800 which I know you do, but it was Americans who helped the czar 140 years ago develop his oil

00:31:53.080 industry in Russia. It was Americans that built the Middle East's oil industry, Venezuela's oil

00:31:57.840 industry, the entire North Sea industry. Americans gave the world this industry,

00:32:04.000 and almost all of those people have used it now against us. So I like the fact that we are going

00:32:09.080 back and reclaiming what is ours. And through this, we will bring peace and we will bring

00:32:14.500 stability. It's really as simple as that. You don't have to do the regime change, Iraq war type

00:32:20.080 stuff. Daniel Turner, where can people go to follow you and everything that Power of the Future is

00:32:23.600 putting out. PowerTheFuture.com. You can follow me on Exit, Daniel Turner, PTF. Thanks, Jack.

00:32:29.080 Thanks so much, Daniel. Really appreciate you being there. I want to go now to David Zier,

00:32:32.500 who's on the ground in Minneapolis. No, he's not dodging Antifa. He's actually there to preview

00:32:39.320 some of the work that our Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, is doing on the ground.

00:32:44.900 David, how are you? I'm great, Jack. We just followed Scott Besant over here from the

00:32:52.260 Metropolitan Ballroom on economic accomplishments and going forward and expanding the pocketbooks

00:32:58.860 of the average American in a new golden age, according to him, and all the accomplishments

00:33:04.720 of Trump's first year in office for the economy, like cutting a trade deficit in half.

00:33:09.580 But we followed him over here to the Providence Academy, K-12 here, and he is going to be

00:33:15.700 giving a speech on financial literacy through Trump-era economic principles to the ninth

00:33:21.680 graders on up the importance of smart saving strategic investing and

00:33:26.060 responsible financial decision-making and how personal financial and fiscal

00:33:31.440 discipline strengthens the future of the natural economy and empowering

00:33:35.840 America's younger generation to contribute to long-term economic

00:33:40.340 success here in the United States now David we understand that the secretary

00:33:45.900 is going to be there for a couple of days this new fraud department that's

00:33:50.660 just been opened up by the Department of Justice. Do we know if the secretary will be playing

00:33:56.220 a role specifically in this investigation into the fraud? Obviously, at the Treasury,

00:34:02.220 he's got all of IRS underneath him. Right. Now, he's the acting IRS commissioner,

00:34:08.560 and Breitbart reported that $700 million in cash, what cash was shipped out to Africa,

00:34:15.020 Somalia in particular, and Middle Eastern countries without anybody blinking an eye.

00:34:19.860 So he talked about some of that fraud in the Metropolitan Ballroom. 0.97

00:34:23.400 By the way, he appeared with Charlie Kirk there last April here in Minneapolis.

00:34:27.640 But, yeah, it's very front and center to them, the largest scandal maybe in U.S. history going on here,

00:34:35.280 money laundering, tax fraud in Minnesota.

00:34:39.080 And, yes, he's taking it head on, and he's taking an express interest in there.

00:34:43.380 He wants to know how much of this misused money potentially went back to al-Shabaab,

00:34:47.840 you know, maybe the biggest scandal ever. Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that,

00:34:53.240 David. And we'll go back to you for more. I know you'll be covering that for RAV throughout the

00:34:57.780 day, as well as other coverage that'll be going on, not just with Secretary Besson's trip,

00:35:02.000 but also with the riots and the protests that are going on there in Minneapolis. We're going to cut

00:35:08.360 to a little bit more of that in a minute. Want to go now, though, to another RAV correspondent.

00:35:13.400 We have Benny Ray Harmony. We've got people all over the place today.

00:35:16.740 Benny Ray Harmony is traveling with Secretary Hegseth today on a trip to see the new Arsenal democracy.

00:35:25.600 Hey, Jack. Yes, we are here at Joint Base Andrews here in Maryland awaiting Secretary of War Hegseth to arrive so we can depart to head to California.

00:35:35.740 Now, this is the Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Jack.

00:35:39.020 Now, you know this, being a former service member yourself, the strength that it takes from America to compete on a world stage is astronomical.

00:35:49.720 Now, this tour that we are on, we'll be traveling right on this plane behind us today and tomorrow.

00:35:56.080 We will be meeting with defense leaders in the industry.

00:35:59.120 Now, this evening, we are going to MEPS to re-enlist and enlist some recruits, where the Secretary of War will be doing that,

00:36:08.160 as well as heading to Divergent Technologies.

00:36:10.980 Now, this company creates the AI and the technology behind our tankers

00:36:15.600 and behind our sonic missiles and things like that.

00:36:19.960 This technology makes it so efficient to do what we do.

00:36:23.580 Now, Jack, I know you talk a lot about Venezuela, a lot about Greenland,

00:36:27.040 and it's important to note in a time like this with what we saw on this trip,

00:36:32.340 we will most likely be getting to see some of those incredible machines

00:36:36.440 that we used against our adversaries just in these past couple weeks.

00:36:40.840 So we will be here on the ground, heading to California, departing D.C. here shortly.

00:36:46.160 Back to you.

00:36:47.800 Watch Benny Ray Harmony there, original producer here on Human Events Daily. 0.96

00:36:52.920 Now she's traveling with the Secretary of War.

00:36:56.180 All right, folks, I wanted to get into, of course, everyone's talking about it,

00:36:59.380 the Minneapolis ice-related shooting of this agitator who, to my view,

00:37:06.280 appeared to be ramming the agent and i said guys clear the decks you got to call one guy the man

00:37:13.300 who wrote the book on the law of self-defense well it is law of self-defense himself the host of the

00:37:18.600 andrew branca show andrew branca how are you my friend i am awesome man living the dream how are

00:37:23.780 you doing i'm doing i'm doing well look i i'm sure you knew that i would be calling uh when when all

00:37:29.080 of this came out and i said i just just uh i think you and i got to know each other really through

00:37:33.820 the Kyle Rittenhouse situation, a couple of other cases that you've weighed in on. And I wanted to

00:37:39.420 go to you directly to go to the horse's mouth for the expert analysis on this video, because there's

00:37:46.100 a lot of armchair Twitter lawyers and ex-lawyers out there, but you're actually an expert in use

00:37:52.740 of force and in the law of self-defense. Yeah, so this isn't a complicated legal analysis. Anyone

00:38:00.240 telling you that this officer shooting of that driver was unlawful is simply propagandizing

00:38:05.860 people. It's a very clear cut case. This woman pointed a deadly weapon at this officer,

00:38:11.300 pointed the wheels of her car at this officer, spun the wheels on the street. And it wasn't

00:38:16.860 until that moment that the officer drew his pistol and then she charged her deadly weapon 1.00

00:38:21.660 at him from feet away. Clearly an imminent threat of deadly force harm. The shooting 1.00

00:38:25.980 was completely and utterly justifiable. So, Andrew, when you talk about the imminence,

00:38:32.160 can you walk us through some of the elements of self-defense and what makes an instance,

00:38:38.640 a use of deadly force, applicable in a self-defense argument?

00:38:43.880 Sure. So any claim of self-defense is really pretty straightforward. There's only five legal

00:38:47.880 elements that exist, up to five legal elements that exist in any claim of self-defense. One,

00:38:52.540 you can't be the unlawful aggressor. This officer was not the unlawful aggressor. The woman was.

00:38:58.780 Second, you have to be facing an imminent threat, meaning not a past threat or a future threat that

00:39:03.740 might never happen, but a threat that's either actually occurring or immediately about to occur.

00:39:08.060 Here are the threats of the car. The wheels are spinning. It's pointed at the officer.

00:39:11.820 It's clearly an imminent threat. Third, if you're going to use deadly defensive forces,

00:39:16.060 this officer did, you need to be defending against the threat that could kill you or

00:39:19.980 cause you serious bodily injury. Not only is that obviously true, this same officer only six months

00:39:26.100 ago was hit by a car driven by an immigration protester. He had to get 33 stitches for that

00:39:32.440 injury. So he's well aware of the serious bodily injury and death risk here. Fourth,

00:39:39.420 Minnesota is one of the 11 states that does impose a generalized legal duty to retreat before you

00:39:45.000 can use force and self-defense. But first of all, law enforcement officers are excused from that

00:39:49.640 duty or they wouldn't be able to do their jobs. And second of all, you only have a duty to retreat

00:39:53.800 if it's possible to do it with complete safety, which obviously was not the case here. And four,

00:40:00.040 your perception of the threat has to both be genuinely believed and objectively reasonable.

00:40:05.120 So you're not imagining it. It's not something that's something speculative. And that's clearly

00:40:11.980 the case here. The officer's perception of the deadly force right here was objectively reasonable.

00:40:16.680 all the elements he would require for a claim of self-defense are present substantial and the

00:40:22.940 prosecution any prosecution would have to disprove them beyond any reasonable doubt that's simply not

00:40:29.100 credible here and we can see these videos and and and in fact there are some uh there's some people

00:40:34.280 that i've seen and and of course just people analyzing the video saying that perhaps it was

00:40:38.200 snow or ice on the ground that created this loss of traction when she was spinning the wheels in

00:40:45.160 the first place so it may have been that she was attempting to drive into the the officer directly

00:40:51.180 then she had to chalk the wheels to be able to get that traction and that's why she only side

00:40:56.360 swipes him she may have been able uh or have been attempting to actually hit him head on which of 1.00

00:41:01.140 course is where he was standing or she may have been trying to just safely drive away i mean who

00:41:06.580 knows we can't read her mind but it doesn't matter from a legal perspective what she was intending to

00:41:11.880 do is completely irrelevant. All that matters is the officer's reasonable perception of what

00:41:16.980 was happening. Her intent is irrelevant to the legal analysis. Well, that's exactly right. And

00:41:21.900 to be sure, we've seen a number of these incidents involving ICE agents, including the very same

00:41:28.980 ICE agent. Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, said there were four just yesterday in

00:41:34.900 Minneapolis. Yeah. So this is obviously, this is all orchestrated, of course. Completely staged.

00:41:40.660 This is an industrial-level type of protest happening.

00:41:46.620 And these officers are well aware.

00:41:48.460 They're informed every time there's a vehicle ramming or an attempt to do a vehicle ramming.

00:41:52.800 And it's not unlawful for them to be able to recognize a pattern.

00:41:57.480 So they're not dealing with some isolated individual criminal suspect.

00:42:01.940 They're dealing with an organized, seditious conspiracy against the federal authority of the United States, which they are tasked with enforcing.

00:42:09.220 And they're well aware of this.

00:42:12.100 So now, one of the things that I have also heard and I suppose could come up,

00:42:17.220 you mentioned Minnesota, of course.

00:42:19.580 Minnesota is the state that prosecuted and currently has in prison Derek Chauvin.

00:42:26.120 So we certainly know that Keith Ellison and the legal infrastructure there is decidedly,

00:42:31.800 just for lack of a better term, they're anti-cop, they're anti-police.

00:42:35.240 As Tim Waltz, the governor, mentioned, he said,

00:42:38.300 we are looking at potential charges for the officer, what kind of levels of perhaps

00:42:45.680 issues of, you know, your federal government versus state government rules of federalism,

00:42:52.360 would any of that come into play there? Can the state of Minneapolis charge a federal officer

00:42:56.900 here? No, they can't. So, I mean, I guess technically they could bring a charge if

00:43:02.220 they wanted to, but it would be immediately removed to federal court and the charge would

00:43:05.380 be dismissed. The states are not having authority over federal officers in the course of their

00:43:12.680 duties as a federal officer. Now, if a federal cop is driving drunk or he's committing some

00:43:19.380 drug offense, obviously that's not within his legal duties. He could be prosecuted at the state

00:43:23.760 level for that. But if the challenged conduct is conduct he's engaging in within the duties

00:43:29.680 of being a federal law enforcement officer,

00:43:32.440 he is not subordinate to any state governor

00:43:35.020 or any state prosecutor.

00:43:36.460 He is answerable to the federal government, period.

00:43:39.180 And that's it.

00:43:40.700 Right, and so you do have an issue of,

00:43:43.860 you have an issue of separation of powers,

00:43:45.480 you have an issue of levels of government, of federalism,

00:43:48.240 and this is, of course, the supremacy clause.

00:43:50.800 I was just gonna say, the lawyer got there before me.

00:43:53.200 I'm the Twitter lawyer here.

00:43:54.280 So yes, this is, what is the supremacy clause

00:43:57.160 for the constitutional scholars

00:43:58.420 any other Twitter lawyers like myself? Really, it simply says that the federal government has

00:44:03.780 law in some area. Their federal law is supreme over any conflicting state law. That's why,

00:44:09.540 for example, federal officers, FBI agents, they can carry concealed weapons in states where it

00:44:14.160 might not be legal for me to do as a civilian because the state might have a law against

00:44:18.180 concealed carry. That state law has no effect on the federal officer in the conduct of his

00:44:23.840 official duties as a federal officer. He doesn't need to get a concealed carry permit from New

00:44:28.020 Jersey, to carry a gun concealed in New Jersey as a federal officer. So when we hear these things

00:44:34.020 like the mayor of Minneapolis say, ICE, get the F out of our city, or Tim Wald saying,

00:44:42.460 you're not welcome in our state, does that even make sense from a legal standpoint? Because the

00:44:48.120 last I checked, both the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota are U.S. territory.

00:44:53.820 Yeah, no, it's utterly meaningless from a legal perspective. They say these things for purposes

00:44:57.940 of political capital, right?

00:44:59.320 They're on the same team as the protesters,

00:45:01.780 so they're saying these things

00:45:03.300 so their team will like them.

00:45:04.660 But it has zero legal effect.

00:45:06.660 Right, it has zero legal effect.

00:45:08.380 Andrew, I could go through with this

00:45:10.220 so much more on you, with you,

00:45:11.980 because, you know, these cases,

00:45:13.840 and you hear people will argue these things

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00:45:17.040 without even understanding

00:45:18.120 the basic elements of the law.

00:45:19.560 If people do want to learn more

00:45:21.840 about the law of self-defense,

00:45:24.020 where can they go to follow you

00:45:25.940 to get your book,

00:45:26.780 which I read cover to cover. It's such an easy read. And every time one of these things comes up,

00:45:31.500 it will just give you a basic primer to understand what it is that you're looking at.

00:45:36.320 The best place to find me is on X or YouTube at The Branca Show, B-R-A-N-C-A, The Branca Show.

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00:45:49.620 he has to say. He's got some hot, spicy takes on other things as well. But when it comes to

00:45:54.840 law of self-defense. There's no one better than Andrew Branca. Thanks so much for joining us,

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00:47:07.780 Alright, in our final couple of minutes

00:47:09.340 here, I wanted to go down live because

00:47:11.440 as promised, we've got

00:47:13.040 the great Nick Sorter is on the ground

00:47:15.360 in Minneapolis. Nick, what do you have for us?

00:47:18.760 Yeah, well, 0.94

00:47:19.200 We have a bunch of people with waving foreign flags out here.

00:47:22.200 Plenty of Border Patrol agents right behind the fence line here on the on my right.

00:47:27.440 It's you've got seems like a growing crowd.

00:47:31.200 The road is now blocked out here.

00:47:33.560 No chance of being able to just get.

00:47:38.580 Let me say there's probably 30 Border Patrol agents right here right now.

00:47:43.560 But I mean, keep in mind, there are thousands of these guys out here.

00:47:46.840 And Christy Noem actually said that she's considering sending more to the area because Tim Walts won't enforce any of the laws out here, won't assist these guys if they call for help because somebody is chasing them erratically down the road, sort of like that woman yesterday from Missouri that was that ended up, I guess, effing around and finding out driving around.

00:48:11.000 If the local police would have intervened in that and because she was going the wrong way down one way streets doing 60 and a 25 and that's a local police issue.

00:48:22.480 If they would have intervened and pulled her over, she'd still be alive today.

00:48:26.120 I'm just saying.

00:48:27.100 Well, so when when you're you're digging into this, you were out there yesterday.

00:48:30.880 You're out there again today.

00:48:32.380 What more have you learned about the woman, about this group that was out there?

00:48:37.680 because we're hearing that the same agent was drugged before.

00:48:41.220 We're hearing there were four incidents throughout the day.

00:48:44.920 This seems to be, from my mind, staged, coordinated, orchestrated.

00:48:52.760 Yeah, there was also the other part that came out about her wife being there on the scene

00:48:58.920 just happened to be standing there outside of the vehicle filming when the entire thing happened.

00:49:04.060 How did she get to that? Why was she outside of the vehicle filming?

00:49:07.680 You're like, so what's the story behind that? How did she get out of the car that quickly?

00:49:13.620 And it's almost like this was a coordinated effort.

00:49:17.360 They were trying to create some sort of content with a confrontation with ICE. 1.00

00:49:23.660 However, I don't think they believed that that wife would have been stupid enough to run over an ICE agent or attempt to run over an ICE agent and end up with a bullet in her head. 0.99

00:49:35.040 But they were definitely, definitely attempting to stage some sort of confrontation and a confrontation they got. 0.98

00:49:41.680 Well, and there's so much, you know, you can comment on this.

00:49:45.360 I certainly have been talking about this, that, you know, I saw a TikTok video that my friend Cassandra Fairbanks posted up where a woman was saying, oh, I was driving around Charlotte recently, also looking to you do the same type of behavior.

00:49:58.760 And so they're using you see these women who are using Instagram, who are using Facebook to reach out to one another, saying, hey, go, go and block ice, go and impede an ice operations.

00:50:11.140 And if you take someone who's never actually faced consequences for anything in your life or had to be held to account for anything and tell them that, oh, this is just another thing you can do for, I don't know, social media clout or something, they may not even realize the severity of their highly illegal and violent actions.

00:50:33.140 actions absolutely and you think a lot of these things have been going on and they've made

00:50:39.380 martyrs out of the the people that have rammed ice vehicles and stuff and and touted them as

00:50:45.720 heroes uh you saw that happening a lot in chicago right and uh and a lot of these people were able

00:50:51.920 to get off on these charges as well because they weren't there was no no chicago jury that would

00:50:58.500 even indict them because, you know, attacks on ICE agents are encouraged. And one of the things

00:51:03.460 that they do is they've tainted the jury pools at this point where they coach them through this

00:51:09.700 and tell them that even if the person you know is guilty, you can still nullify it. You can still

00:51:16.040 refuse to indict them. Just stand your ground and do so. You're doing the right thing for the world.

00:51:20.460 It's all these usually liberal white women, for whatever reason, are the easiest to brainwash. 1.00

00:51:25.600 You know, before I even knew, and I knew pretty quickly, I'm actually the one that broke the story about her being a white U.S. citizen, female and a lesbian. 0.84

00:51:38.160 And so we got that out quickly. None of that was surprising. Right.

00:51:41.660 I don't know what's going on in the white women world, Jack, but somebody needs to do some research into that. 0.98

00:51:47.240 Yeah, no, I'll hit you up offline about that because I've been, let's just say that I know someone who is conducting some very, very close research on that right now. 1.00

00:52:00.380 But again, at the same time, this is an act of violence against federal law enforcement. 0.80

00:52:06.840 This is Bolshevism. 0.91

00:52:07.940 And we see the Bolsheviks do this every single time. 0.91

00:52:10.760 They want martyrs. 0.91

00:52:12.740 They want these false martyrs.

00:52:15.280 They want these false heroes to be able to prop up and say, oh, look, look what is done, because what do they do?

00:52:21.440 So the basic technique is called DARVO, and I talk about it all the time.

00:52:26.080 So deny attack and then reverse victim and offender.

00:52:29.320 Deny what was done, attack the person who defended themselves, and then you reverse victim and offender.

00:52:37.300 So you always must reverse victim and offender.

00:52:39.640 This is key to a DARVO attack, and that's exactly what we're seeing here every single time. 0.88

00:52:44.700 And once you know what the key elements of a Darvo attack are, you will begin to spot them over and over and over, because the media constantly does it, the left constantly does it, and the Bolsheviks have been doing it for over 100 years. 0.63

00:52:58.740 Yeah, and Tim Walz and Fry are using that to their full advantage, because unfortunately there's only so much time in the day to talk about a story, and they have now made this the largest story. 0.72

00:53:10.300 The only thing that they're hoping is going to happen more that hasn't happened yet is maybe we have to sacrifice a few innocent people's homes, maybe a couple dozen of them, a few businesses.

00:53:20.800 Jack, you go out to George Floyd Plaza, which is less than a mile away from where the shooting occurred yesterday.

00:53:28.920 And it's still charred to a crisp.

00:53:31.120 It's still pretty much a no-go zone for police officers, like half of the city is at this point.

00:53:36.600 And it'll never be rebuilt.

00:53:38.240 Why would you build your business in that area?

00:53:40.120 Nobody's going to insure you in that area, especially when cops don't respond.

00:53:44.680 And I figured that that's going to happen to more or less than people this weekend because it only takes like one Antifa activist, agitator, really, to go and start setting things on fire.

00:53:56.520 And then the rest of them join in.

00:53:58.060 They're like sheep.

00:53:59.560 And they've always been that way.

00:54:01.600 It's very easy to get this crowd.

00:54:04.160 Nick, what can you tell us about violence, chaos?

00:54:07.640 Are you seeing anything happening?

00:54:09.260 How did last night go? Are we seeing anything kick off tonight or today?

00:54:13.420 And do you think things will get hot again tonight?

00:54:17.080 Yeah, I definitely think things will get hot again tonight.

00:54:19.200 I think they spent a lot of the morning building barriers out of stolen goods

00:54:25.060 that they were taking off of front porches and people's trash cans were being used to create barriers

00:54:29.840 because they think, I guess, that ICE can't, you know, just knock over their pallets or whatever

00:54:35.220 and keep driving through.

00:54:36.400 I mean, they have this false sense of power, these leftists out there that really have nothing to lose.

00:54:43.280 And last night I went out there.

00:54:44.880 I think I made it about two minutes before I got spotted, and we very quickly got overwhelmed and started walking down the road.

00:54:54.660 I didn't want to walk straight to the car, right, because I didn't want them knowing what vehicle I was in and being able to follow us

00:55:01.260 because I had a feeling that Minneapolis police wasn't going to help us.

00:55:04.020 I had two security guards at the time, and they, like, told me to pull out almost immediately because they just could not cover me.

00:55:10.040 And so we called 911.

00:55:11.920 For 20 minutes, they were telling me they were responding to a place that's not very far from downtown Minneapolis.

00:55:18.180 There are cops everywhere.

00:55:20.720 And then 20 minutes later, they call me back and tell me they're not coming.

00:55:24.320 And good luck.

00:55:25.320 You've got to try to get to a different location.

00:55:27.760 So that is now a no-go zone for police officers.

00:55:30.600 That's exactly what you saw at the start of CHAZ and CHOP out there in Seattle.

00:55:34.200 Yeah, I was just going to say, it seems like when you look at the barriers, you look at the drop in police, George Floyd Square, the exact same thing happened.

00:55:42.000 What we're seeing is another type of CHAZ zone, another autonomous zone, where you're going to see them try to set this up and try to essentially take this territory away from the confines of U.S. government and the ability to actually enforce the law there.

00:55:59.020 It's really as simple as that. So you're saying that they're they're starting to set up these barricades. 0.95

00:56:04.220 Have you seen or do you have any indications at this point?

00:56:07.060 Certainly, you know, I would be I would be cautious of this.

00:56:09.980 But do you have any indication that any of these protesters are out there, these agitators are armed?

00:56:17.820 I would imagine they probably it's a pretty dicey area to begin with.

00:56:23.660 Right. And so, you know, they've had a problem with murders out there for quite a while, especially among the illegal community.

00:56:33.020 And so do they have guns? I'm sure they I'm sure they do. 0.99

00:56:37.000 And and they're just a lot of these people don't have anything to lose, Jack.

00:56:40.860 And I think they're heroes by going out and taking one of us out.

00:56:44.060 They would love to be able to take that trophy. And that's why it's so freaking dangerous for us to go down there.

00:56:49.900 You know, you try to be as secure and safe as you can,

00:56:53.860 but there is a huge risk that you're running every time.

00:56:56.120 And a lot of security companies won't even touch it for that reason

00:56:59.020 because it is so hot down there, especially the ones that were here in 2020.

00:57:03.120 They know what's possibly coming, and that's why they're bringing in a lot of DHS.

00:57:09.580 At least my sources within DHS are worried about what's going to happen this weekend in particular,

00:57:13.780 people coming in from out of town.

00:57:15.240 The weather is not warm, but it's not nearly as cold as it usually is this time of year.

00:57:21.860 It's like 40 degrees right now.

00:57:23.900 When I first got here, it was negative one, if that gives you any idea.

00:57:27.080 Much nicer.

00:57:28.180 Winds are low.

00:57:30.120 And that temperature is going to drop in the evening.

00:57:32.880 Well, Nick, I remember you mentioned yesterday that you were asking for some security.

00:57:37.960 You were asking for some backup.

00:57:39.860 Well, I just want to let you know that we here at Human Events heard what you had to say.

00:57:44.020 and we have reinforcements on route to you right now.

00:57:49.500 We've got some backup for you.

00:57:50.680 Let's not say exactly what the plan is, but reinforcements are in route.

00:57:55.820 Nick Sorter, where do people go to follow you?

00:57:58.600 Follow me on X, at Nick Sorter, N-I-C-K-S-O-R-T-O-R. 0.73

00:58:02.120 Appreciate you having me, Jack.

00:58:03.360 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

00:58:14.020 Thank you.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - January 08, 2026

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