The attack on our nation s Capitol on January 6th, 2011, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. It was fueled by lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government.
00:01:37.840The attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.
00:01:47.760As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies.
00:01:52.440Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government.
00:01:57.740More than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from in and around the Capitol have been withheld from the public.
00:02:04.340And that video tells a very different story about what happened on January 6th.
00:02:08.400The video record does not support the claim that January 6th was an insurrection.
00:02:13.240Monday marks four years since the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
00:02:16.820More than 1,500 people involved in the insurrection have been arrested.
00:02:20.020But federal investigators have yet to identify the person who planted a pipe bomb outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington the night before the Capitol riot.
00:02:29.420Will you pardon the January 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses?
00:02:38.800Those people have suffered long and hard.
00:02:41.420Breaking news at 531 here in the East.
00:02:44.300Former President Donald Trump, ABC News, now projecting will be the next president of the United States.
00:02:49.680Today at the United States Capitol, I will perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the results of the 2024 election.
00:03:00.780Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:07.500Today is January 6th, 2025, in the year of our Lord, Anno Domini.
00:03:18.360I want to play a little clip right now.
00:03:22.380Something just happened a few moments ago on Capitol Hill.
00:03:29.960This announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States.
00:03:42.920Each for a term beginning on the 20th day of January, 2025, and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the House and the Senate.
00:04:31.480Remember when they were locking up your friends.
00:04:36.040Remember, I would venture to say that every single person in this audience has had someone who was locked up or someone who lost a job or somebody who was canceled in one way, shape, or form, faced persecution, either personal or professional.
00:04:52.660For their support of President Trump or their refusal to take a vaccine or their refusal to participate in the Jan 6th committee like Stephen K. Bannon.
00:05:02.700Even though collaborators like Nancy Mace voted to send Steve K. Bannon to prison, Peter Navarro, Dr. Navarro.
00:05:33.060They need to be made whole completely for all the time and the finances that they lost from this period.
00:05:39.940The United States of America needs to be made whole.
00:05:43.540And I don't care how much money we've got to claw back from Ukraine or the Middle East or from Liz Cheney's deep pockets, which are dripping red with the blood of American servicemen.
00:13:58.920And so the situation before us, folks, is do you think it's enough?
00:14:05.340Do you think it's enough to just say that Trump won and we all went through what we went through for the last four years and we should let bygones be bygones?
00:14:28.560Well, we're working on getting Mike up.
00:14:31.140I thought we had him there for a second, but it might just be a might be a frozen avatar of Mike.
00:14:36.940But at the end of the day, folks, it's not enough for the pro-lifers, too, by the way, for the Jan Sixers and all the people that have been affected by the crimes of this administration.
00:14:52.960We've been here, first and foremost, on this program telling you that it was Jill Biden and Kamala Harris and so many others that were calling the shots.
00:15:00.840And now suddenly the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail and everybody else wants to get up on this and say, oh, oh, you know, he actually was catatonic for half the time.
00:15:12.680Anyway, the bottom line is there are victims, victims of should call it like the what the victims of 46 fund, the victims of 46, the victims of 46 fund, the victims of 46 foundation.
00:15:39.540Now, guys, looks like we can see him, but we cannot hear him currently.
00:15:46.260So the victims of 46 foundation will be set up and initiated to basically exist as a way to help the funding and also help to run the lawsuits that go on class action lawsuits.
00:16:00.520It will have a number of a number of functions, but also also it will commemorate January 6th and we'll have documentaries and we'll have explanations of what went down.
00:16:24.380Hey, I was just saying that we should we should create something called the victims of 46 foundation.
00:16:29.380And the victims of 46 foundation can exist for the Jan Sixers and the pro-lifers and people who are kicked out of the military over the vaccine and all the other types of victims of the 46 administration and exist as a foundation to, number one, raise funds for them, but also to run the lawsuits.
00:16:50.800And I also think that these victims need to start bringing civil lawsuits against these bad actors for violating their civil rights.
00:16:59.720And also when the Trump 47 Justice Department gets put in place starting on January 20th at noon, there's actually a fund at the Justice Department that the that the Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche and the other Trump appointees can use to compensate these victims of this Biden lawfare.
00:17:19.800This unprecedented lawfare, this political persecution by the Biden Justice Department.
00:17:29.140We're going to open to a quick break here, but I want to give Mike Davis his due because, Mike, look, you know, we can come up with the ideas.
00:17:35.560We understand what the direction is, but that's why we have Mike Davis.
00:17:38.020That's why we have the Article 3 project that's going to be on the outside, but to maintain that voice, to maintain that professional, but also knowledgeable voice about what direction that we should be taking things in.
00:18:58.540It's basically like that every day, especially on a January 6th where Kamala Harris has to certify the votes of her successors, J.D. Vance and Donald J. Trump.
00:19:11.460But, Davis, look, we could sit here and we could celebrate and we could pop the champagne, but I don't really feel that way.
00:19:16.900I feel like, and people keep asking this question about retribution, retribution.
00:19:24.020But I have a word that I'd like to talk about, and it's called restitution.
00:19:27.820What can you tell us about restitution, Mike?
00:19:31.120Yeah, restitution is where you make the victims whole.
00:19:34.160And we have a lot of victims of this Biden, lawfare, and election interference, including President Trump, his top aide, Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro, who went to prison after asserting constitutional executive privilege going back 250 years to George Washington.
00:19:53.1201,000 people who Matthew Graves and the rest of the Biden Justice Department prosecuted for January 6th, four years ago.
00:20:05.400Parents who were targeted by the Biden FBI for raising concerns about gender chaos in schools and the resulting rapes in their kids' bathrooms.
00:20:15.500Christians being charged under the Federal Face Act and thrown in prison, including a 75-year-old Christian who was praying at an abortion clinic, while the Biden Justice Department gives amnesty to BLM and Antifa and Hamas and Planned Parenthood activists and trans terrorists who are targeting crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches.
00:20:38.500There has to be accountability for what has happened over the last four years.
00:20:43.780That accountability is going to start January 20th at noon.
00:20:48.760And I would say to these Biden operatives who wage this Republican lawfare and election interference, lawyer up because justice is coming and nobody is above the law.
00:21:00.380That's what you told us for the last four years.
00:21:03.120And you're about to get a big dose of restitution.
00:21:08.260Look, and this is, folks, this is biblical.
00:21:28.960And now I give half my possessions to the poor.
00:21:31.600And if I have cheated anyone out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.
00:21:38.620That's what we're talking about, folks.
00:21:40.300And then Jesus says to him, today salvation has come to this house because this man, too, is a son of Abraham for the son of man came to seek and save the lost.
00:22:18.040Yeah, I mean, look what Liz Cheney did.
00:22:20.380There's pretty strong evidence that she obstructed justice through her witness tampering of Cassidy Hutchinson.
00:22:28.980They're a key January 6th witness for their bogus January 6th committee.
00:22:36.820And I would say to Liz Cheney, your daddy's not going to be able to save you this time.
00:22:40.280Your daddy has gotten you every job you've had in your life going back to your days as a lifeguard.
00:22:47.000Your daddy couldn't save you when the voters of Wyoming threw you out of office.
00:22:52.780And your daddy's not going to be able to save you from the Trump 47 Justice Department for obstruction of justice, conspiracy, witness tampering, subvernation of perjury, perjury, so many possible charges.
00:23:10.880You know, it's actually funny because I remember, man, when the Hutch first came out, Cassidy Hutchinson, I said something there's something up with this Hutch.
00:23:18.760We made her kind of a star here on the program.
00:23:21.340And of all the people who came up in the entire Jan 6th committee, the menagerie, the fiasco with a circus, I said, Cassidy Hutchinson, this is the weak link.
00:23:34.980This is the one who will not hold up under questioning.
00:23:38.460And it turns out that not only did she not hold up, she did so badly that even Liz Cheney, with her friend Alyssa Farah, by the way, of The View, had to come in and manipulate her testimony.
00:23:51.520So, Davis, just walk me through that very basic one a little bit here, the manipulation of testimony.
00:23:59.980Yeah, I mean, you have Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a sworn witness before Congress, before the January 6th committee, and you have evidence in the form of these text messages where Liz Cheney, as a member of that committee, is trying to conspire with Cassidy for her to provide false testimony.
00:24:23.960That is witness tampering, that is obstruction of justice, that is conspiracy, that is perjury, that is subornation of perjury.
00:24:33.020So, Liz Cheney, lawyer up, honey, your dad's not going to be able to save you.
00:24:39.460Davis, let's talk going forward from there, when we look at retribution, we look at all of these various things, what is the role of Mike Davis over the next couple of years going to be?
00:24:48.900I'm going to continue to run the Article 3 project.
00:24:54.520The reason I started the Article 3 project is because I saw during President Trump's first term, there was a massive void on the right for an outside group that has the insider experience, but the outsider mindset and my fighting abilities.
00:25:12.240And so I started it after the Kavanaugh fight. We've been up and running for five years.
00:25:17.420We've been key on these judicial nominations, on lawfare, on election integrity, and now cabinet picks.
00:25:24.940And we're going to be with President Trump every step of the way, along with his team.
00:25:29.800We're going to help him pick judges in his second term.
00:25:33.460We're going to help him confirm those judges.
00:25:34.900We're going to work with Pam Bondi, his attorney general, and the rest of his legal team.
00:25:40.680President Trump came into office the first time.
00:26:09.060Look, we all remember that very early on in the Trump administration, the first one, right, the first administration, the 45 administration,
00:26:18.980it was even within the first week when General Flynn started getting jammed up by Strzok and these other individuals who came over to Joe Penka,
00:26:30.300who conducted this, they called it a defensive briefing, but it was actually a setup to try to get him to lie.
00:26:38.880He actually, the FD 302 didn't actually support that.
00:26:41.520So just like the subordinate perjury, by the way, they had to rewrite the 302, which is the summary report given by the FBI agents because Flynn didn't lie.
00:26:51.860But then, of course, it was Mike Pence who threw Flynn under the bus.
00:26:54.840Again, this all happened the very first week, the very first week of the first Trump administration.
00:27:00.740So this is why I explain to people the first hundred days cannot be slow rolled.
00:27:05.620It needs to be shock and awe every single day.
00:27:10.420Use violence of action to achieve full spectrum, total dominance.
00:28:36.320All of these names who were holdovers from the previous administration.
00:28:40.920And we thought, oh, well, you know, we're going to be reconciling and we're going to have a soft touch and we're going to have a light touch.
00:29:01.000If I have one message, it is that all the department heads, the entire NSC staff, the quote-unquote career officials, the DOJ, the U.S. attorneys, they've all got to go because those are the people that were brought up during the Biden administration or many cases prior to that in the Obama administration.
00:29:37.180We need to clean out the top, at least the top three layers of the Justice Department, at least the top of the litigating division.
00:29:46.320So the career deputy assistant attorneys general, the career section chiefs, the career assistant chiefs at the FBI, you need to clean out the deputy director, the associate director, the assistant directors, including the assistant directors of the key field offices like the Washington field office.
00:31:41.520And I guess as a reporter, I'm also gratified that all of the work that I've done that you have helped me bring to your viewers and your followers.
00:31:53.780Most importantly, Jackie, were so supportive of me early on.
00:31:57.540And, you know, other reporters like Darren Beatty just keep plugging along and exposing the truth about January 6, the cover up, the lies and what we now know appears to be an inside job.
00:32:13.140In my wildest dreams, I did, you know, walking out of courtrooms in Washington, D.C. and feeling just infuriated and heartbroken what was happening to these J6ers, how vicious these prosecutors are.
00:32:26.420So this turn of events, turn of fate is something I'd hoped for, but never really thought would happen.
00:32:32.820And so it's today is a pretty gratifying day.
00:32:39.620And I just want to point out that the work, your work, Julie Kelly, and you mentioned, of course, also Darren Beatty, Tucker Carlson and others who in those very dark days, going all the way back to January 7th and January 8th, when people were trying to make MAGA a dirty word, where they were saying if you wear a red hat, that you had done something wrong.
00:33:00.680I don't think that this movement really would have succeeded without your work, without what you did day after day after day to not only expose the lies, the abject lies that went on through these proceedings, many of the court proceedings.
00:33:18.240And so many of the times judges or graves or these attorneys just throwing facts completely out the window, but also the work to construct or really peer through all the lies, I would say, not construct, but actually uncover the true narrative of what took place that day.
00:33:37.500And then for all of the slings and the arrows and all of the incoming that came down on your head, Julie, and all of the people that came after you, including people who, you know, I think they say in those moments, you find out who your friends really are.
00:33:54.560And you certainly did. And you find out who aren't. And this movement would not have survived if it wasn't for Julie Kelly and a few others like her.
00:34:07.700And I just want to say we need to take a moment to kind of love on Julie a little bit because all of this was given a fresh breath of air.
00:34:15.640And all of this was given a light at the tunnel by what she was able to uncover by doing the work, digging day in, day out under immense pressure and taking immense incoming from the other side.
00:34:29.520God bless you, Julie. Make sure everybody go and give her a follow right now.
00:34:32.740Well, Jack, thank you. And you've always had my back, including especially the times people who we thought were our friends and allies tried to destroy me and my reputation and discredit my work.
00:34:45.920So you've always had my back. And I want to thank you for that, because if it weren't for, you know, big platforms and friends like you who stuck with me and stuck with Darren and a couple others who helped unpack all of this, we would have been finished.
00:35:01.260And look, that's what a lot of even Republicans wanted. That's why there were so few Republican members of the House or Senate, none who were willing to take on the cause of the political prisoners or ask tough questions about the unanswered questions like the pipe bomber, how many FBI assets, et cetera.
00:35:21.200There were only a handful of Republican House members who did that, too. So it was a small group, but it can demonstrate what what you what can get done, what can be accomplished if you pursue the truth and you do what's right, not just for yourself, for others, but for your country in general.
00:35:41.860Look, and there's so many people who want to sit there and say, oh, well, what can I do? What can I do as a single person? What can I do as a single individual?
00:35:53.300Julie Kelly's one person. She didn't have some team working behind her. Julie, how much staff do you have, Julie?
00:35:58.200How many staff do I have? I have one researcher who does tremendous work for me, but that's really and I do, you know, American Greatness, where I published my first two years of my work.
00:36:12.360They were very supportive of my work. So I left there in 2023 to kind of start my own thing and start my sub stack.
00:36:19.600But that team there was also very supportive because there just were not media outlets who were going to publish anything that contradicted the J6 narrative.
00:36:29.460And of course, I have to give a shout out to Tucker Carlson, because if he didn't have me on, if he didn't have Darren Beatty on and really zone in.
00:36:37.940And then, of course, his documentary Patriot Purge that he produced at the end of 2021.
00:36:44.320I think without him, none of this would have happened either, regardless of how hard I worked.
00:36:49.600So we have to give a shout out to him as well.
00:36:51.860Of course, of course, of course, and God bless Tucker for all that he did and lost his job essentially over this.
00:36:58.980But I think he's come out on the upper end, on that one, on the upper side.
00:37:04.760The point I'm making, though, is what can one person do?
00:37:07.800Well, look what Julie Kelly did, right?
00:37:12.140She started connecting dots and saying, wait a minute, this does not make any sense.
00:37:17.360And MSNBC and CNN, we remember how they were crowing and they were applauding, they're ripping their vestments and screaming about how excited they were that MAGA was over and Trump was over.
00:37:29.340And anyone who's a Trump supporter from this day on is going to be akin to a domestic terrorist.
00:37:33.940And here we are just four days later on the next January 6th of a presidential cycle that it's the exact opposite.
00:37:43.240And if you think that all happened by accident, if you think that all happened without the sweat and tears and, yeah, the blood of so many patriots that went into this.
00:37:53.100And it's not because, by the way, Julie, the other piece of this that I think that a lot of folks have missed, and I know you wouldn't be remiss to say, and as you always do when we have you on, that what you did was you told the stories of the J6ers.
00:38:09.720So I did, and I think in 2021, one thing that I was able to do was just call in and listen to the court proceedings in Washington, what was happening, how these prosecutors and judges were working together to keep men in pretrial detention, deny their release, even on nonviolent offenses.
00:38:28.800And so that just shocked me now I'm not an attorney, I'm not familiar with the court system, but even I knew something was wrong.
00:38:36.920So I was able to call into the courts and listen, look at the docket and see who was being arraigned and who was taking a plea deal and who was being sentenced.
00:38:46.220And then after that, they shut down the audio line as soon as they started the jury trials in Washington.
00:38:51.200So I would have to go to the courthouse and I covered parts of the biggest high profile trials, Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers.
00:38:57.940But then, you know, defendants no one had heard of, you know, people whose lives are being destroyed over misdemeanors.
00:39:04.700And I would go into this courtroom, I'd be the only reporter there.
00:39:08.620The defendant would be up there with the full weight of the Department of Justice and government on one side and a judge who hated their guts up on the stand.
00:39:19.200And no one was there for that person because in a lot of cases, Jack, their family members abandoned them, their friends abandoned them, they lost their jobs, they went bankrupt, they got divorced.
00:39:27.940I mean, it was the human wreckage left behind from Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco and D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves cannot be forgotten.
00:39:37.400And they must be held accountable for what they did to innocent Americans who did nothing more than exercise their First Amendment rights to protest the 2020 election at a government building, government property, publicly owned property on a Wednesday afternoon.
00:39:52.640Nonetheless, turning them into what you said, domestic terrorists.
00:39:56.840So there has to be accountability from this point forward.
00:39:59.680And, you know, I'm hoping that my work will help, you know, either the DOJ or congressional investigators, Senate investigators, committees who want to dive into what these prosecutors and these judges have done over the past four years, systematically denying the constitutional rights of Americans because they wanted them punished for supporting Donald Trump.
00:40:24.180So, Julie, what's next for you, are you going to attend the inauguration here on the 20th?
00:40:32.980I have some things at home that week before and, you know, you know, this, Jack, it's kind of a crazy time.
00:40:38.540So I think I'm better just at home waiting to hear what the pardon announcement will be on that day and then get to work after that because we've got a lot, lot more to do in 2025.
00:41:39.460And so there is one piece that I think we need to go through with Julie Kelly before we leave.
00:41:44.240And that is, before we let her leave, by the way, and she's gracious enough to be here with us on the suspicious occasion.
00:41:49.500But, Julie, the question becomes the pardons.
00:41:52.380Now, there was some breaking over the weekend that it sounds like President Trump is intending to pardon as many as over 1,000 January 6ers.
00:42:03.000That sounds to me like he's looking to pardon all of them.
00:42:05.960Jack, last night, and it wasn't really sourced to anyone, but not saying that it's not the case that he will pardon 1,000 J6ers on day one.
00:42:20.160Because the total caseload right now is reaching 1,600 defendants.
00:42:26.080And appallingly, Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. attorney who's handling the J6 prosecution, issued a statement today saying that he could still arrest and charge up to 200 more J6ers by January 20th.
00:42:40.900So, if President Trump is planning to pardon 1,000 or so, that would represent really the bulk of defendants who were convicted or charged with four or five common misdemeanors.
00:42:54.840So, that would be like the easiest pardon for him to issue on day one.
00:43:00.980The stickier ones, of course, will be those charged or convicted of assaulting or interfering with police, the civil disorder counts,
00:43:09.620and certainly seditious conspiracy convictions of roughly two dozen members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
00:43:17.100So, my guess is that is how this is going to flesh out.
00:43:21.240That on day one, it'll be the misdemeanants, 900 or so, maybe civil disorder.
00:43:28.020Certainly, he should immediately pardon all of the 1512 C2 obstruction of an official proceeding convictions because the Supreme Court overturned how the DOJ was applying that.
00:43:41.600And also, Jack, let's remember posthumous pardons for the at least four January 6th defendants who committed suicide under the relentless torment of the DOJ, including, of course, Matthew Perna.
00:44:16.980He mentioned this at almost every single rally of 2024.
00:44:22.340This was not something like the mass deportations, like trade.
00:44:26.100This was something that was front and center.
00:44:29.280It was mentioned – you could go back and, I don't know, maybe AI could check.
00:44:33.260But I want to say it was probably mentioned at almost every single rally and if not likely a large majority of them.
00:44:40.140And by the way, Julie, did you ever think, by the way, that when you first started doing this work, that that would even become something that you would hear President Trump saying and campaigning on as a policy platform when he was running for re-election, this idea of the pardons.
00:44:57.320Like, this wasn't something he shied away from.
00:45:00.900He did, and I really applaud him and commend him for that because I think that the J6 cause became such an issue, motivating issue for the base.
00:45:14.680And I can tell you, in 2021, again, a few House members – Louie Gohmert was the first Republican I spoke to on this.
00:45:23.400He called and wanted to hear what was going on.
00:45:25.280And, of course, Marjorie Taylor Greene, you had Paul Gosar, you had Andy Biggs, you know, the small group who really wanted to find out – Matt Gaetz, who really wanted to find out what was going on.
00:45:38.500Then, end of 2021, early 2022, when Congress went home and they started getting an earful from their constituents and their donors wanting to know what they were doing to help the J6ers.
00:45:50.100All of a sudden, I started getting outreach from other House members and even a few senators who wanted to know what was going on, but there still was not a lot of help forthcoming.
00:46:01.920So I think, you know, President Trump feels strongly about this.
00:46:05.600He knows how badly these defendants have been treated by the legal and judicial system in Washington, D.C.
00:46:12.660I'm sure he feels somewhat responsible, even though he did not incite the events of January 6th.
00:46:17.700The government did, but still wants to make whole his supporters who went there that day to express their support for him.
00:46:27.080And so did I ever believe it would become a defining, animating political issue in the 2024 presidential election?
00:46:34.400No, but I do think it speaks to the power of our base, the intelligence of our base, especially your audience, who is such a big part of that.
00:46:45.380So, no, I didn't see it as a campaign issue, but you are right.
00:46:51.020The president made this a chief issue promising to pardon J6ers.
00:46:57.920He's going to get resistance from Republicans in Washington, especially on those 111 assaulter interfering with police.
00:47:06.060But I think he's got enough good people around him.
00:47:08.640And I will tell you the announcement that Stanley Woodward, who was a J6 criminal defense attorney, he represented Walt Nauta in the classified documents case, the Mar-a-Lago employee who was also charged there.
00:47:22.840Stanley Woodward knows how corrupt this DOJ.
00:47:25.480And he saw what happened in that Washington courthouse.
00:47:28.680And he also saw what happened in Florida.
00:47:31.120So he will be, and he was just appointed special legal advisor to the president, to the White House, he will be probably the most valuable resource in the White House to guide them on what they should do with pardons and commutations.
00:47:46.800Well, I certainly couldn't agree more with that.
00:47:51.660And what's interesting about this, by the way, is that so typically pardons and commutations happen at the end of a presidency.
00:48:00.060However, we know that for President Trump, this, in a sense, is already a, I'm not going to say lame duck, but it's already a presidency that we know he can't run again.