Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 05, 2026


Pres. Trump Appoints MarkWayne Mullin New Secretary of Homeland Security, Iran Operation Continues


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The U.S. State Department says 20 Iranian naval vessels have now been sunk in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's threat to set ships ablaze in one of the world's busiest trade routes is raising some concerns about the implications for the global economy. Senate Republicans reject a bill to block further military action in Iran unless the president gets congressional approval first. Ukraine says it is prepared to share what it has learned about stopping Iranian drones. President Trump nominates Mark Wayne Mullen to be the new Secretary of Homeland Security.

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00:00:59.300 The U.S. says 20 Iranian naval vessels have now been sunk. 0.92
00:01:03.440 Iran's threat to set ships ablaze in one of the world's busiest trade routes
00:01:07.840 is raising some concerns about the implications for the global economy.
00:01:12.640 The Strait of Hormuz is a critical oil shipping route
00:01:16.400 that links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and eventually the Arabian Sea.
00:01:21.700 Overnight, the first charter flight leaving the Middle East,
00:01:24.520 carrying Americans back home to safety.
00:01:26.380 as the race to get out of the region intensifies.
00:01:30.260 The State Department says its round-the-clock task force
00:01:32.480 has been able to help evacuate 6,500 U.S. citizens.
00:01:35.920 In Beirut, some airlines are getting more used to the risk,
00:01:38.760 this plane ticking off through the smoke of an Israeli airstrike.
00:01:42.020 The discharge is not approved.
00:01:44.380 Overnight, Senate Republicans rejecting a bill
00:01:46.740 to block further military action in Iran
00:01:48.960 unless the president gets congressional approval first.
00:01:52.240 The Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war.
00:01:56.380 The power to declare war is ours. If we give it up, then we are turning our back on the Constitution and our responsibility to the American people.
00:02:05.680 Only one Republican, Senator Rand Paul, joining the majority of Democrats to back the resolution.
00:02:11.120 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he's willing to help the U.S., Israel, and their Middle East allies defend against Iranian Shahid drones for a price.
00:02:21.900 Russia has used those drones extensively against Ukraine since the start of the war.
00:02:27.200 Zelensky says Ukraine is prepared to share what it has learned about stopping them
00:02:31.600 if Russia agrees to a month-long ceasefire.
00:02:35.300 So far, Moscow has rejected any ceasefire proposals.
00:02:38.740 We'll do our best, including with other countries of the international community,
00:02:43.560 in the United Nations Security Council, in the United Nations General Assembly.
00:02:47.280 will do everything to create an atmosphere that will make this operation impossible.
00:02:54.280 Are you afraid of a U.S. invasion in your country?
00:02:58.260 No, we are waiting for them.
00:03:01.060 You are waiting for the U.S. military to invade the ground troops?
00:03:05.600 Yes, because we are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster
00:03:11.480 for them.
00:03:13.960 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:17.100 We're here live, Real America's Voice.
00:03:20.840 Today is March 5th, 2026, Anno Domini.
00:03:24.200 President Trump anointing and appointing, I should say, Mark Wayne Mullen to be the
00:03:29.400 new Secretary of Homeland Security, currently the senator from Oklahoma.
00:03:35.560 This, of course, will potentially set up an appointment and or special election there
00:03:39.920 from Governor Stitt.
00:03:42.080 Mark Wayne Mullen, having served President Trump, of course, putting a tweet up now.
00:03:46.080 Truth Social up, saying that he is highly respected, that Christy Noem has served us
00:03:53.920 well and has had numerous spectacular results, including on the border, and will be moving to
00:03:58.160 be special envoy for the Shield of the Americas. Our new security initiative in the Western
00:04:02.760 Hemisphere we're announcing on Saturday tomorrow in Doral, Florida. I thank Christy for her service
00:04:08.220 at Homeland. And of course, Marco Rubio, more than excited that he has not been given yet
00:04:16.460 another position, not sure if he can be both, mentions how Mark Wayne Mullen has been serving
00:04:22.020 for 10 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, three in the Senate. Mark Wayne has done a
00:04:26.760 tremendous job representing the people of Oklahoma and says that he's an America first. He's the only
00:04:34.020 Native American in the Senate. Mark Wayne Mullen is a fantastic advocate for our incredible tribal
00:04:38.380 communities. Mark Wayne will work tirelessly to keep our borders secure, stop migrant crime 1.00
00:04:42.680 murderers and other criminals from illegally entering our country and the scourge of illegal
00:04:47.220 drugs and make America safe again. Mark Wayne will make a spectacular secretary of Homeland
00:04:51.620 Security. Thank you for attention to this matter. Of course, appointing a senator. President Trump
00:04:56.380 knows from past experience that, of course, appointing a senator is more likely to be
00:05:02.380 confirmed by the United States Senate. Remember, you need 50 plus one votes there. And of course,
00:05:07.840 appointing a member from their own body is always going to be more helpful. Secretary Rubio,
00:05:13.120 for example, received 99 votes during his confirmation process. So President Trump
00:05:18.560 obviously looking to do that in Doral. It's that summit of the Americas going on this weekend,
00:05:23.860 security summit with today focusing on counter counter cartel operations. Speaking of military
00:05:30.480 operations. Iran continues their operations in, excuse me, the United States continues their
00:05:39.060 operations in Iran. The war continues, the special military operation continues, and Iran continues
00:05:45.800 their strikes on the Gulf countries and Israel. When you look at UAE has faced the brunt of their
00:05:52.400 attacks, and I believe we do have a chart from the Institute of the Study of War that's walking
00:05:58.020 through this. So over a thousand strikes on UAE, just over 500 on Kuwait, then Israel, Bahrain,
00:06:07.300 Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Oman really shows the amount of strikes on the UAE talk showing the
00:06:14.820 if we could put a chart, put the map up here and actually show the retaliatory strikes here. We can
00:06:19.180 walk through this a little bit that they've really focused very heavily on Gulf nations rather than
00:06:27.620 Israel. Most of Iran's retaliatory strikes as of now have targeted the United Arab Emirates,
00:06:34.040 an American ally. And one of the reasons for this that I've been talking about is that Iran is 0.94
00:06:39.760 focused on this asymmetric warfare because they know the UAE doesn't have the level of air defense,
00:06:45.960 air support that Israel does with the Iron Dome. And then, of course, the forward carrier strike
00:06:51.080 group there sitting off the coast of Haifa. So an opportunity for them to inflict economic pain
00:06:57.480 asymmetric warfare in the asymmetric space on America's allies in the Gulf, but also
00:07:03.380 potentially drawing them into the conflict. More on this next as Human Events Daily continues here
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00:08:40.000 I want to bring in here Richard Barris, the people's pundit on all this.
00:08:44.340 Rich, you know, I want to do, if I can, get your immediate reaction to this news regarding the Secretary of Homeland Security moving over to this new position, the special envoy to America's shield, sort of the Don Roe doctrine of the southern southern Americas and Mark Wayne Mullen coming in.
00:09:04.860 this is the first this this is big right this is the first time that we've seen in the second trump
00:09:09.100 term that a cabinet level official has made a transfer like this has made a move like this
00:09:14.560 what do you think is going on what do you think is precipitating this
00:09:17.480 this was inevitable so i mean there were really two choices here uh she's been plagued by a lot
00:09:25.140 of stuff uh not only what was happening with ice but you know questions about uh contracts jack and
00:09:31.620 and bidding and recruitment. So there was really two choices. Find other utilization for her
00:09:38.160 and get her out from underneath the line of fire or wait for Democrats to take aim and do their 1.00
00:09:45.200 thing. It was better and smarter to move her now and get her out of there now. I don't know if 1.00
00:09:51.220 everybody saw it, but the other day with the line of questioning with Kennedy, Tom Tillis is a
00:09:55.860 blowhard who's not going to face the voters because he went against Trump too much. So he's
00:10:00.140 going to tuck tail and run but somebody like kennedy uh having that exchange that he did with
00:10:05.660 her really was a sign that look if democrats take that the house and or the senate coming in november 0.99
00:10:11.840 uh you just can't have baggage like that laying around it was smart it had to move her over had
00:10:17.280 to had to she had to go and i understand she's speaking right now although i don't believe she's
00:10:27.220 actually discussing it. So we may cut to that on Ruben Arca's voice, but I think we'll continue
00:10:33.040 the interview on the stream here. I don't know if she's taking questions at all. Actually, guys,
00:10:38.560 let's tell you what, let's let's dip into it for a second. Let's see if she's let's see if she's 0.99
00:10:42.780 discussing the situation. Can we do that, guys?
00:10:44.540 We've also taken 1.7 billion lethal doses of drugs off our streets
00:10:59.220 and stopped them from coming into the United States.
00:11:01.420 That means 1.7 billion people will still be with us
00:11:05.640 because of the work that our agencies and our work has done.
00:11:08.820 Our Coast Guard is an important asset in the Department of Homeland Security,
00:11:12.280 and they've worked with us, and maybe I've worked with some of you in the room as well
00:11:15.280 to help interdict those drugs and stop them from coming into our country.
00:11:19.520 You know, President Trump has been working hard to make sure that he's delivering
00:11:24.080 on what he promised the American people, and that's to make America safe again.
00:11:27.900 In doing so, we have gone out and found over 1,500 known and suspected terrorists
00:11:34.480 that were let into this country over the open border invasion that we saw during the last administration.
00:11:40.040 Those 1,500 individuals who are already on our known and suspected terrorist watch list have been brought to justice and removed.
00:11:46.420 We know there's many more, but we're going to still continue to look for them, to find them, and to do all that we can to make sure that this country is safe.
00:11:54.740 Beyond that, we've also arrested and removed over 7,700 gang members, TDA members, MS-13, Sinaloa cartel.
00:12:03.080 The president is extremely focused on fighting cartels and recognize them as a foreign terrorist organization
00:12:09.480 so that we can have new authorities to go after them.
00:12:11.860 And we'll be working throughout the Western Hemisphere with all the countries to make sure that we're biting the snake off,
00:12:18.500 cutting its head off with fighting the cartels before they ever reach the United States,
00:12:23.900 stopping the drug flow, stopping the guns and ammunition from getting here and hurting our families and the homeland.
00:12:30.100 And we'll continue to work together to make sure that we have the opportunity to do that.
00:12:34.460 To everybody in the room that puts on a uniform, that wears a badge, that steps out every single day and does something that so few others do,
00:12:44.440 put your life on the line for your brothers and your sisters and your families, and you do it in your home community.
00:12:50.640 I want to say thank you.
00:12:51.720 I also want to let you.
00:12:54.200 All right.
00:12:54.920 Well, that was Kristi Noem.
00:12:55.840 She's speaking there at the summit of the Americas down at Trump Doral.
00:13:00.580 Rich Barris, I'm bringing back in here. So, you know, she's she's speaking this.
00:13:05.480 What do you think this looks like? Does this look like turmoil within the White House?
00:13:09.500 I'm sure that's how the mainstream media is going to to highlight it.
00:13:14.200 What would you say? I think this was smart by the president.
00:13:18.400 This was a smart move. He had to do it.
00:13:21.400 She was rattling off a lot of accomplishments right there.
00:13:24.060 Let me just say this, Jack, without saying too much. There was a lot of good work done at the Department of Homeland Security. There was. Let's not forget what the border looked like when Donald Trump came into office. We were being invaded. We were being invaded. And God knows who's in this country right now as the country engages in a conflict with Iran. God knows who came across the border when Joe Biden was president.
00:13:47.880 So there was a lot of and look, she has the right to rattle off those accomplishments and the president has a right to tout those accomplishments.
00:13:55.320 But just let it be, you know, let it serve as a bit of a warning going forward to other people.
00:14:01.240 Put the movement first. Don't let problems that you have overshadow the great accomplishments that this president has made.
00:14:08.140 Put the movement first. The media will spin it that way. And the president did did the right thing here.
00:14:13.660 The smart thing by doing it now, getting out in front of it and let's move on.
00:14:20.140 Well, I think that's that's what the president is certainly doing here.
00:14:23.820 The president getting ahead of anything. No, I'm still going to be in the administration, though.
00:14:28.440 So it's not, you know, the soft landing over as the special envoy or someone that he's not putting out, of course, with Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:14:35.820 That will set up either, you know, that's a safe seat.
00:14:38.940 So I don't think there's going to be any question over whether or not that would really challenge or threaten the balance in the Senate.
00:14:45.860 Although a quote, of course, lead to a special election or a I have to look at where he's at in terms of his in terms of which class he's in in the Senate as whether or not he's up again.
00:14:55.560 And then or potentially just a just an appointment by Governor Stitt.
00:15:00.980 Yeah, I mean, it is an opportunity.
00:15:02.920 i know sometimes he's coming to the conflict with you know the the core of maga but for the most
00:15:09.960 part mark wayne mullen is solid right um and the only question is whether or not there are look
00:15:15.740 even in some of the red estates out there guys there are a lot of rhinos so it's just something
00:15:20.160 to keep an eye on when when the time comes uh but this this is a good move he's the right guy i think
00:15:26.180 on this issue i don't think maga will have any problem with him whatsoever not yet i don't
00:15:31.420 anticipate that anyway no i i don't think so certainly not in this capacity i think that's
00:15:36.880 actually a that's actually a great appointment for him um really really something that i would
00:15:41.700 be supportive of i'm not you know i'm not someone who had any issues with christy noem either as
00:15:46.920 secretary of homeland security i think she's done an admirable job i think she's always and and what
00:15:50.960 i'll say about this is what i always appreciated from secretary noem is that she's she's always
00:15:57.320 stood up from ICE. Actually, for ICE. Actually, she is taking questions. So let's dip into that.
00:16:02.700 Let's dip into that again. My name is Chris Galligan. I'm the vice president of San Francisco
00:16:07.220 Police Officers Association. First of all, I just want to say thank you for recognizing major cities
00:16:12.300 and all of our police unions here across the nation. It means a great deal for you to be here
00:16:16.340 today. So thank you for that. My question, local officers have increasingly been on the front lines
00:16:21.940 of Homeland Security, yet we are still funded and staffed like a city responsibility, not a
00:16:27.020 national one how will DHS ensure local agencies aren't carrying federal
00:16:32.120 priorities on local budgets and with local staffing so you maybe have some
00:16:37.880 challenges in San Francisco just because of your state laws and local
00:16:41.260 laws that mean although you've got a mayor that works with us very well he
00:16:45.020 probably doesn't want me to talk about it a lot actually but but he has been
00:16:48.720 cooperative and we have great conversations and talk quite often in
00:16:52.100 many times in doing law enforcement in your city, if the federal task force is coming in,
00:16:59.200 you know, it's more preferable for the FBI to lead and the Department of Homeland Security to
00:17:03.800 come in and supportive rules, which is what we've done. And that works very well in your city.
00:17:07.500 Thank you for your focus there, too. I think the city is seeing some dramatic improvements
00:17:12.420 under this leadership. When you talk about funding, we have tied a lot of our funding
00:17:17.120 that we have for enforcement this year and prioritized over 1.5 billion.
00:17:22.600 All right. So we're back. So she, the Kristi Noem there taking questions regarding DHS,
00:17:27.800 not necessarily about any of the changes from DHS, just current operations. I'll go back to
00:17:33.780 Rich, you know, just a minute and a half before we leave, because I do want to get into sort of
00:17:37.460 some of the talk about Iran and how that's coming down. But Rich, as the president is going into
00:17:42.600 this midterm year look this is the time of year where we would expect to see some staff turnover
00:17:47.460 isn't it the time in a term i should say it is actually i mean we're gonna we're gonna be coming
00:17:52.940 up very soon on some jobs i know there's a lot of talk about dan bongino right i mean dan bongino's
00:17:58.760 uh role as well they don't last that long in those roles this is not just unique to a trump
00:18:03.760 administration we're at that point um even after the midterms particularly a lot of people will be
00:18:10.420 discussing changes turnovers leaving uh now you won't hear a lot of that talk out in the open
00:18:17.800 but after the midterms there will be changes made i mean this is the nature of things i mean the
00:18:23.720 media makes a big deal about it when it's a republican president they love to do it to
00:18:27.240 donald trump but if you go back and look at the obama years same thing the biden years same thing
00:18:33.140 this i mean guys some of these jobs will burn somebody out they are not easy you don't get
00:18:38.720 paid very much for them you uh they're thankless you're constantly being criticized and they're
00:18:44.760 very long days very long hours so uh this it's normal we're at we're getting to that point you're
00:18:50.780 exactly right yeah i think we're getting to that point you know this isn't um this isn't something
00:18:56.240 really that again as you say if this were the biden administration nobody would be talking
00:19:00.460 about it jack was so big rich barris back human events daily
00:19:03.120 today you know they talk about influences these are influences
00:19:10.640 and uh they're friends of mine jack so like where's jack jack he's got a great job
00:19:18.900 all right jack was over we're back live human events daily real america's voice
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00:20:45.140 We'll go back to Richard Barris.
00:20:47.060 Richard, I wanted to get in a little bit more on the Iran situation,
00:20:51.180 this operation, special military operation that the president is conducting.
00:20:55.400 alongside the secretary of war.
00:20:59.900 Oh, we lost Rich there for a second.
00:21:01.500 So president conducting this operation.
00:21:04.800 And one of the things that I've seen
00:21:06.840 in just the emails that we've been getting
00:21:09.480 at 1776 at humanevents.com,
00:21:11.860 1776 at humanevents.com
00:21:14.080 and continue to send those in as best you can
00:21:16.960 and indicate your age if you can,
00:21:18.920 because one of the things that I've been noticing
00:21:21.280 just on my own looking at this
00:21:23.600 is that there seems to be a generational divide when it comes to not just Iran, but also Israel
00:21:30.920 military intervention in general. This is something where you do see MAGA, America First
00:21:36.940 tend to have this divide. And a lot of that includes, by the way, the low prop voters
00:21:43.440 that President Trump won in 2024, the independents, the younger voters, the people who hadn't come
00:21:49.780 online before. Those were the ones who really came out in 2024. And of course, Charlie Kirk
00:21:54.880 and Turning Point were such a massive, massive role in terms of that. For them, anti-war and
00:22:02.180 domestic policy were some of their most important reasons for voting for President Trump and J.D.
00:22:08.500 Vance, who they viewed as the peace ticket. Now, when you get to that 40, 45 mark on the plus side
00:22:15.780 of that, maybe even the 50 plus mark on the plus side of that, that's where you see the needle
00:22:19.540 start moving towards more support for interventions, more support for war in Iran, more support for
00:22:27.260 Israel, et cetera, et cetera. It's really that generational divide where we see the issue.
00:22:33.680 Rich Barris, do we have him back? You do, buddy. I'm here. Do we have you?
00:22:38.520 Okay, great. I was just talking about how. Yeah, I hope you're not driving off the interstate there.
00:22:44.120 I was talking about how we have this generational divide that we're seeing when it comes to a lot of these issues, and particularly when it comes to the operation in Iran, but really just foreign policy in general, where the younger voters, the low-prop voters, tend to want to see more of that focus on domestic policy.
00:23:05.500 You've been out in the field.
00:23:06.540 You're working on a poll.
00:23:07.400 Tell us what you're seeing out there. 0.72
00:23:08.360 yeah this is something you know before the war you know for six months and we have the white
00:23:14.360 house focus tracker on big data poll people should go and check it out and you'll see that
00:23:18.800 young people driving this predominantly under 50 millennials generation z right they they want
00:23:24.460 a government that focuses on them and focuses on their needs at home they have no appetite for war
00:23:30.680 even millennials jack of which uh you know i'm on the line of generation x millennial uh you know
00:23:36.320 we're the 9-11 generation. They don't want it. I mean, they've been,
00:23:39.780 they lived through this already and they're over it.
00:23:42.240 So this idea that there's going to be more appetite as time goes on is just
00:23:45.840 incorrect because they had been kind of seeing this happen in, you know,
00:23:50.340 over the last six months or so, they, they kind of expected it.
00:23:53.460 And they were doing everything in their power to tell their,
00:23:56.200 their leaders that this is not what they wanted. And it happened anyway.
00:23:59.920 We're in the field right now. And this is something I want to throw out.
00:24:03.900 I've been warning people who really do support Israel. You have a huge age signal on this. And there's not a lot of sympathy for Israel out there right now. And they're going to be fair or unfair. I'm not arguing either way. Fair or unfair, they are going to be blamed by these younger voters for their government not focusing on their needs. 0.68
00:24:26.000 We ask people whether or not they think Israel has too much focus or too much influence on U.S. foreign policy.
00:24:34.140 And Jack, it's 60 percent. It's 60 percent. And it's driven largely by people who are under 50. 0.60
00:24:41.740 You know, if you're older, if you're the boomer, baby boomer generation, you know, you see the world dramatically different than how younger voters see the world.
00:24:51.740 people who are younger than baby boomers see the world they simply can't afford you know while
00:24:56.660 boomers may think it's not that big of a deal younger voters think i simply can't afford
00:25:02.240 a government that isn't focused on the domestic agenda anymore it's a very different world view
00:25:08.560 and it's a very it's just about priority jack it's about priorities
00:25:11.660 and this is something that we've seen on and on again i know that the guys over on the charlie
00:25:20.200 The Kirk show earlier today had a couple of turning point students on who came up from different universities.
00:25:25.500 And that's exactly what they were saying. That's you know, this isn't something that we're sort of just, you know, just spitballing here.
00:25:31.660 I hear it when I go and talk to college students, the turning point students.
00:25:35.900 I know you see it when you're talking to people. I get it when I see the emails coming in, especially the under 30 crowd, man.
00:25:41.820 It's especially under 30 crowd. I mean, look, Jack, it's we live in different economic realities, right?
00:25:48.740 They have a different inheritance than prior generations before.
00:25:57.080 They're inheriting a huge debt.
00:25:59.620 They're inheriting much, much more difficulty in doing something like buying your first home.
00:26:05.080 Even myself, Jack, I mean, I have no problem sharing this.
00:26:08.320 It took me until I was 38 years old to build my own house, you know?
00:26:12.120 So why?
00:26:13.860 That's just the world we lived in.
00:26:15.260 We had one crisis after the other, one war after the other.
00:26:18.740 the economy is just not the same as it was for older generations. Right. And then those students, 0.97
00:26:25.140 what did they, what did they talk about in that interview? I mean, what did she say?
00:26:29.760 Affordability overall, but housing, right. Gas prices. I can't buy a vehicle. This is not
00:26:35.780 something you want to hear from people. And, or I would say, this is not what you have,
00:26:41.700 the environment you want to have at home. If you're trying to build support for a foreign 1.00
00:26:45.920 entanglement or foreign conflict it's about priority they don't have the luxury of caring
00:26:51.580 about freedom for the iranians when they're worried about the future of their freedom at home it's
00:26:57.140 that simple and you're never going to convince them with any amount of you know what we normally
00:27:01.660 hear from the war drum beaters quick break right back getting some emails in
00:27:06.740 and jack where is jack where is jack where is he jack i want to see you
00:27:16.340 great job jack thank you what a job you do you know we have an incredible thing we're
00:27:23.640 always talking about the fake news and the bad but we have guys and these are the guys
00:27:28.220 should be getting politicians all right jack so we're back live human events daily we're on
00:27:34.940 with Rich Barris. So, Rich, I want to go into some of the data that you're pulling together
00:27:39.060 regarding the Iran operation. We've heard from the president and our own reporting
00:27:44.600 that four weeks was the time frame initially that was being looked at. We're now also hearing some
00:27:51.880 reports from Politico, again, not official, but potentially looking at 100 days of operation,
00:27:57.140 some other data points that are coming out out there. Do you think that this is something
00:28:02.320 that extends further if we're talking this goes beyond one the one month mark through the summer
00:28:09.300 all right i mean are you asking whether or not that you know uh increases the political risks
00:28:15.740 of it i mean again one of the questions we're asking yeah one of the questions we're asking
00:28:20.900 jack and this is a problem the administration's going to have they have to address which is
00:28:24.900 do you think that the administration the president laid out clearly what the goals were and what the
00:28:31.780 what does success look like in these operations? And a little over 60% as well say no. They really
00:28:39.560 don't know what our objectives are here, which leaves a lot of confusion. And the longer this
00:28:45.580 goes on, the more political risk there is. And we ask a question, which is interesting because
00:28:51.560 it tells us where people, again, their priorities are. How important do you think it is that the
00:28:56.700 U.S. stay out of foreign wars and these conflicts. And particularly when it comes to Iran, it's over
00:29:03.660 80 percent now. When we first started asking and it looked like we were probably going to launch
00:29:08.800 strikes against Iran in some capacity, it was about 70 percent. And it was the same as what 0.92
00:29:14.140 we got as far as opposition to the conflict. It's now above 80 with people who say that it's very
00:29:20.660 important that we stay out of this thing like that. And a long term conflict is what they that's
00:29:25.260 what they're talking about. With very important, surpassing somewhat important, which tells you
00:29:31.440 that the intensity is against long-term operations. So, I mean, without a doubt,
00:29:37.320 the smartest political move here would be to just declare victory, Jack, and walk away.
00:29:44.280 This is a narrative that's starting to take root that I worry about for the president,
00:29:49.880 which is, there really is no U.S. interest here. You're not going to convince the American public
00:29:55.000 that there is and i don't want to see him as viewed as being dog walked into this thing by
00:30:00.380 uh you know by israel by the the prime minister of israel and i really would and honestly i'd
00:30:06.840 like to see the president the president assert um you know basically make a public showing uh that
00:30:12.800 he is in fact the one in control here because this is something the american public they just
00:30:18.060 don't jack they just don't see the vital interest here they don't they're not going to be duped
00:30:24.280 into claims that they had icbms that are going to hit us it's just it's ludicrous to them and
00:30:30.100 it's just too tall of an order to get them to believe this well and rich here's here's something
00:30:35.120 that i've i've said from the start is that the american people want to hear from their president
00:30:39.840 the american people i think want to see that behind the desk of the oval office prime time
00:30:47.680 address from the president this is what we're doing this is what's going on this is why it's
00:30:53.920 happening, my fellow Americans moment. And President Trump is always his best spokesman.
00:31:00.420 This is what we saw at the State of the Union, which was a tour de force just last week,
00:31:04.700 where you notice, by the way, the primary focus was on those domestic issues,
00:31:09.200 with the exception, by the way, of the Venezuela raid. And the Venezuela raid in that model
00:31:13.900 was seen as largely successful. The president took a victory lap on that. He had the Medal
00:31:18.800 of honor ceremony related to it. So again, this was something that was very and highly successful,
00:31:24.460 the Venezuela model. That's something that I think the people of the United States are waiting for.
00:31:29.780 Now, what I would say, though, Rich, is that, look, we're receiving some emails right now. And
00:31:33.720 I've got people, you know, that are on both sides of this, people who say, I'm behind this. I think
00:31:38.700 we need to be on this. This is important to do now. So you do see support from, and we've seen
00:31:45.720 in the polling support from core Republicans on this and core conservatives. So what would
00:31:52.700 you say to those folks who say, look, I'm a core conservative. I'm a three time Trump
00:31:56.600 voter. I'm for this. What's the problem? I would say you're in the minority. You're
00:32:02.640 in the gross minority and you have to you have to care about that. The fact of the matter 1.00
00:32:08.240 is MAGA is shrinking. We're seeing a little bit of what I'm calling down house to call
00:32:12.640 it, purification through subtraction. So it's great that you have 98, 95% of support from that
00:32:20.300 30%, but it was 45% 13 months ago. And you had 93% support among 45, 93 among 45 is greater than
00:32:32.100 98 among 30. So, I mean, it does matter, you know, whether something's popular or not does matter.
00:32:38.680 The Maduro thing, totally different scenario. I mean, honestly, Jack, Americans are looking for wins, you know, and they may not even know how to articulate that. But, you know, we killed the Ayatollah and we're out, you know, mission accomplished. Let them figure it out.
00:32:53.980 would be a win to the american public and that would be okay what wouldn't is giving the opposition
00:33:01.540 the ammunition that you ran as the no new wars president especially in the middle east for
00:33:09.360 regime change and yet that increasingly is the suspicion that that is the objective in which is
00:33:16.820 regime change and you said something before i think is really important that the president is
00:33:21.580 his best spokesman without a doubt that is true I mean look what happened when they tried to
00:33:26.660 you know give an interview to New York Post I mean the New York Times and the Washington Post
00:33:30.920 that had to be cleaned up Rubio comes out attempting to clean it up he steps on you know
00:33:36.060 steps on himself and chokes down his own tongue then Mike Johnson comes out 30 minutes later after
00:33:41.080 they try to clean up Rubio then he makes the same mistake both of them with including the news
00:33:46.440 reports, you know, on top of the news reports, giving the people the impression that they were
00:33:51.820 goaded into doing this by Israel, like forced into doing this by Israel. The president has
00:33:56.480 got to come out and don't tell anybody any tales about ICBMs that can hit Los Angeles and just
00:34:02.100 tell them, look, he was a bad guy. I got rid of him. End of story. We're coming back after that.
00:34:08.020 If he did that, he could, you know, we could really turn this thing around here. But the longer
00:34:13.200 it goes on, Jack, without a doubt, it's not really even debatable. The longer it goes on,
00:34:18.060 I would tell this to that 30%, the longer it goes on, the more in the wilderness you're going to 0.98
00:34:22.700 find yourself. And we're getting way too close to a midterm election. You know, I'd remind everybody
00:34:28.020 that the real threat is at home, you know, as far as winning elections. And I mean, it wasn't that
00:34:33.480 long ago that they were rounding people up and putting people in jail, including the president
00:34:38.200 that really needs to start you know people get all hyped with war and you know we all start you
00:34:45.380 know having that war high but once that high comes down and you crash you've got it you better make
00:34:50.420 sure you don't find yourself in a really bad spot which is exactly that's right exactly where you
00:34:58.340 know we see the situation with the um with gas prices going up the price of oil you know with
00:35:06.020 going up the price of a barrel of oil going up, hitting gas prices, that's going up around the
00:35:11.980 nation. There's no question we've seen that spike just in the last couple of days. That's something
00:35:16.480 the administration is going to want to wrap their hands around before anybody starts early voting
00:35:20.860 in any of these key states, any of the states that have a Senate race on them. But at the same time,
00:35:25.940 Rich, you know, let's say that we do actually, just devil's advocate, let's say that things go
00:35:31.320 well and he gets does actually achieve a real positive outcome could that have a better uh
00:35:38.420 outlook when it comes to midterms because of the the spoils of war yeah i think that at the very
00:35:45.240 least it'll limit what i you know what what people are are estimating to be the damage you're always
00:35:50.460 gonna have those people who are going to complain that he said no new wars and yet here we are i
00:35:56.100 mean you're gonna have those people you and i had a conversation right a lot of those people are
00:36:00.700 right. They're already kind of gone. Right. So a midterm is a turnout. It's a turnout operation.
00:36:06.440 I mean, the right is probably not going to win the middle, but they can take heart in the fact
00:36:12.020 that they still are much bigger than the left. That is true. They are. I'm not talking about
00:36:17.420 party identification. I'm talking about the number of people in the United States who agree with the
00:36:22.960 right wing platform is larger than the number of people who agree with the left wing. And if you
00:36:27.420 can motivate them by winning winning you know getting them excited um that's that's what you
00:36:33.400 have to do this is what democrats did when they engaged in some rather unpopular agenda items
00:36:38.720 under obama they didn't even bother to win the middle jack they just juiced their base with what
00:36:43.780 they viewed to be wins and that saved them time and time again especially barack obama himself
00:36:49.300 So that has got to be the strategy here going into 26, because it would be unwise to try to rely on persuading the middle back.
00:37:00.660 Just get the president's base fired up, make sure they understand what is at stake, which is that the more seats Democrats win, the more likely it is that he could be removed.
00:37:13.340 I mean, this is a reality.
00:37:15.000 They're not going to stop.
00:37:16.020 it's only been guys it wasn't that long when they were breaking every law in the book to try to
00:37:21.980 remove them from the ballot right to prevent them from running uh from president if our president
00:37:27.680 if you think that democratic party just changed or disappeared overnight no we remember all of it
00:37:34.080 rich barris yeah i want to thank you for coming on giving us this briefing giving us this update
00:37:38.460 tell people where they can go to get your info and get that reporting when you put it out
00:37:41.860 we're everywhere don't forget you know what i'm gonna push the gram jack don't forget to follow
00:37:47.080 us on instagram people's pundit on instagram it's new i just started it i gotta push it more brother
00:37:51.780 it's pathetic about the best place coming in hot on the gram hot on the gram rich barris
00:37:57.500 people's pundit coming in hot on the gram right back human events daily 0.91
00:38:01.100 call this the jack basobic appreciation hour i can say confidently i believe i think josh
00:38:12.340 shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for jack basobic and that that is
00:38:16.180 i'll be honest
00:38:17.780 all right folks jack so we're back live excited to bring on now to human rights little crossover
00:38:26.740 action we've got john bachman the host of john bachman now and the author of a new book joining
00:38:32.840 us here on human events john how are you it's great to see you jack thanks for having me
00:38:37.440 so tell us about the new book turning point you know a name that i i certainly uh i'm familiar
00:38:44.320 with and certainly enjoy tell us why why write a new book about reagan grenada the cold war which
00:38:51.880 is interesting because that's that's a piece of the cold war that doesn't really get talked about
00:38:56.300 that much. No, it doesn't get talked about because it happened within days of the US Marine barracks
00:39:01.800 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, which dominated the news cycle back then. And, you know, it's it's
00:39:07.060 fascinating for me now. I started this book four years ago and it just came out a couple of weeks
00:39:11.320 ago. And we have Operation Urgent Fury back then. That was the liberation of Grenada. And we have
00:39:16.000 Operation Epic Fury right now. But I think, Jack, what the one of the reasons why I wanted to write
00:39:21.400 this book is really to kind of reintroduce Ronald Reagan to a new generation of people,
00:39:26.320 particularly with this story, because I think the lesson that we're often taught is that there are
00:39:31.900 only one of two options when it comes to military conflicts. There's the isolationist wing of the
00:39:37.700 Republican Party who doesn't think we should be getting involved in these types of things. And
00:39:41.220 then there's the other rhino neocon aspect of the Republican Party that has no problem with 0.63
00:39:47.840 forever wars. But what we learned from Reagan's action in Grenada is there is a third way. 0.50
00:39:52.460 We sent in the military, we liberated a country from a brutal Marxist regime,
00:39:56.400 and we didn't stick around for the same type of regime change, nation building exercises that we
00:40:02.060 saw during both Gulf Wars. So Ronald Reagan knew the consequences. There were 600 American medical
00:40:09.520 students on the island. There was a communist coup that took place. I use moderate dictator,
00:40:15.920 Maurice Bishop was assassinated by a more radical, militant Marxist named Bernard Coward,
00:40:20.900 and that's what put these Americans in danger. Ronald Reagan also saw the opportunity that this
00:40:25.620 represented. You could liberate this place, you could save Americans, you could send a message
00:40:30.420 as well to our adversaries that we were not going to tolerate communism in the Western Hemisphere.
00:40:36.120 The other parallel between this and what we're seeing today is the Monroe Doctrine. Ronald Reagan
00:40:40.960 believed in it, and we see that with Donald Trump as well. You see that there. So, you know,
00:40:45.700 this is a great example of something that I've gone around talking about, Chinese influence,
00:40:50.460 which is the new influence in the Caribbean. And that's exactly what Ronald Reagan understood
00:40:55.700 with Grenada back in 1983, the idea that we can't have these great powers, we can't have,
00:41:02.220 in the time it was the Soviet Union, you know, a Soviet-aligned actor getting in there, that we
00:41:06.300 can't have them in our backyard, that we can't allow them this toehold, and why it makes sense 0.71
00:41:10.840 from America's strategic interest to actually emphasize more influence in our own Caribbean.
00:41:17.540 I mean, that should be like an American pond, basically.
00:41:20.960 It's so true, and it's been so overlooked throughout our entire lifetimes, and it's
00:41:25.600 so refreshing now to see someone like Marco Rubio as a Secretary of State who understands
00:41:30.460 this.
00:41:31.240 Obviously, Pete Hegseth understands it now as well, much like Ronald Reagan's administration
00:41:35.720 understood the importance of it back then.
00:41:37.400 And you're right, Jack. 0.62
00:41:38.040 Back then, it was the Soviets. 1.00
00:41:38.980 Today, it is the Chinese. And they are investing millions of dollars in Grenada in particular. They're building a new cricket stadium there funded by the Chinese. It's something we've got to continue to pay attention to. My favorite Ronald Reagan quote of all time is when he says, you know, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. And we've got to constantly fight these fights to remind people of what the real danger is.
00:42:05.160 That's exactly right.
00:42:06.220 One of my favorite stories, by the way, the operation of Grenada, a young second lieutenant
00:42:10.480 in the United States Army who was a platoon leader serving with the 82nd Airborne was
00:42:16.640 actually Second Lieutenant Michael Flynn, who who later became General Flynn, who actually
00:42:24.260 not only did he deploy to Grenada as a platoon leader, but also performed a notable rescue,
00:42:29.840 jumped off a cliff, saved two stranded U.S.
00:42:32.480 soldiers in rough waters.
00:42:33.680 I mean, this it's there's so many origin stories of the people that we talk about, you know, every single day here that go all the way back to things like this.
00:42:43.060 Yeah. The heroic efforts of the 82nd Airborne. I didn't get a chance to interview General Flynn.
00:42:47.700 I would have loved to talk to him about this and hopefully we'll get to some day.
00:42:51.320 I do tell the story of a young captain named Michael Ritz, who was who was shot and killed.
00:42:55.580 I mean, we lost 19 service members over the course of four days, including four Navy SEALs.
00:42:59.760 The combat was very real. And it's important to remind people of the sacrifices that were made in Grenada as well. And to this day, Jack, the Grenadian people celebrate October 25th as their Thanksgiving Day, which is their Thanksgiving to the United States for liberating them from a Marxist dictatorship.
00:43:15.920 I see that's actually amazing. This idea that people went because whenever you talk to someone who served or excuse me, I should say, who suffered under a communist dictatorship, whether it's in Grenada, whether it's Soviet Union, wherever it is, they'll tell you immediately how terrible it was.
00:43:33.580 They'll tell you how awful it was. And then you go to some, you know, Columbia College campus in the Ivy League and they'll sit there and say, oh, well, that wasn't real communism or that person doesn't know what they're talking about.
00:43:43.760 this is going to work in theory. You know, when the Berlin Wall went up pretty, as people always
00:43:48.260 say, I know it's cliched, but people were only crossing that thing one way. Nobody's trying to
00:43:52.200 break into the East. Right, right. They don't put the walls to keep people, you know, from
00:43:57.820 pouring into the communist parts. You know, think about the Berlin Wall as well. And that was really 0.72
00:44:02.300 the final straw for Ronald Reagan, because the communists, the Marxists on Grenada had threatened
00:44:06.840 to shoot the American students if they disobeyed a curfew that they put in place. And I also tell
00:44:13.380 the story of the communist revolution in Nicaragua as a precursor to this one, because I think we
00:44:17.660 lost, it was a total of 12 countries fell to either socialist or Marxist regimes during Jimmy
00:44:23.440 Carter. And that didn't stop until Ronald Reagan was elected. And it really started with Grenada.
00:44:28.040 And then we started to see the dominoes fall in these Eastern Bloc countries. They then, 0.53
00:44:32.680 then they started to reform. And then we saw ultimately the Berlin Wall come down in the end
00:44:37.820 of the Cold War, right at the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency in the beginning of George
00:44:43.040 H.W. Bush's presidency. Well, that's incredible. So what you're doing,
00:44:46.780 so you're going through the Sandinistas, you go through all of the history of communism in the
00:44:52.240 Caribbean, and that gives people, what I think is great about this book, actually, is it gives
00:44:55.940 people a primer into the Don Roe Doctrine. So yes, it's the 1980s, but it actually can help
00:45:01.580 you understand current events, because you're going around the horn, you're saying this is
00:45:05.580 what happened in Nicaragua, this is what happened in Grenada, then boom, just what, 20 or so years
00:45:11.120 after that, we got what? The communist revolution, or I should say the Chavez takeover in Venezuela.
00:45:18.020 So that's where communism, of course, emanating from Cuba, that's where that came out. So this
00:45:24.920 has been the push and pull of the United States, Western influence and communist influence that's
00:45:30.080 going on South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean really since the dawn of the Cold War
00:45:35.600 back in the 1950s so it gives you an understanding of how we got here and what the past is what the
00:45:42.700 prologue is for a lot of people as you say who didn't understand exactly what reagan was up to 0.81
00:45:47.680 down in south america or they get these you know really ridiculous i've seen some of these tiktok
00:45:52.840 videos where zoomers talk about reagan like he was just some imperialist that's not what he was
00:45:57.900 about at all no he was not he knew exactly what he wanted to do his main goal was really a nuclear
00:46:04.300 nonproliferation. That's what he ultimately wanted to accomplish. But in order to do that,
00:46:08.500 he had to end the Cold War and really put the Soviets in a position where they had to play ball. 0.53
00:46:13.180 And Grenada was just part of that. And Jack, you make a great point. And something I hope the 0.62
00:46:17.400 readers get across in this book is every time we see a communist country or a communist revolution,
00:46:22.300 it is the same playbook. They divide their people internally. And then the foreign influence comes
00:46:27.900 in from the dominant communist power in the world to, quote unquote, reform these countries
00:46:34.600 into a Marxist or socialist or communist government. And it works out the same way every
00:46:41.120 time. The people are starving. The government is oppressive. And like they say, Jack, you can vote
00:46:47.320 your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out of it. That's exactly true. Last
00:46:52.280 question, John. President Trump earlier today talked about Cuba. He said that we could see
00:46:57.480 the fall of the communist regime in Cuba. You just wrote the book, Focus on Grenada. What do you
00:47:02.560 think? I think it's entirely possible. I think the challenge there versus Venezuela is that you've
00:47:08.400 had communism so deeply entrenched into Cuba. It was interesting to see the Cuban president,
00:47:14.020 Miguel Diaz-Canal, this week say they need to drastically reform their economic system. It
00:47:19.140 might be a little bit too late for that. But the Cuban people, Jack, I live in South Florida,
00:47:23.360 And as you know, the Cuban people are begging President Trump to get involved.
00:47:27.160 They've seen what's happened in Venezuela.
00:47:29.020 They see what's happening in Iran right now.
00:47:30.520 And they desperately want Cuba to be next. 0.89
00:47:32.700 Many of them want to return to their homeland.
00:47:34.340 And the only way to do that is to make sure there's a democratic republic or some sort of free actual government in Cuba, something they haven't experienced since the early 1960s.
00:47:45.060 Amen to that.
00:47:46.580 He's John Bachman.
00:47:47.880 The book is Turning Point, How Reagan Liberated Grenada.
00:47:52.380 John, thanks so much for joining us here at Human Events. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.