Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Taking Back American Cities and the Historic Alaskan Peace Summit Between Trump and Putin

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:39.400 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:45.980 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.

00:00:49.740 We're here for a very serious purpose.

00:00:52.620 Very serious purpose.

00:00:53.920 Something's out of control, but we're going to put it in control very quickly like we did on the southern border.

00:00:58.520 I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor.

00:01:07.880 And worse, this is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back.

00:01:15.380 Trump posting, the homeless have to move out immediately.

00:01:18.420 We will give you places to stay, but far from the capital.

00:01:21.040 Trump has suggested in the past that the federal government should take over the city and threaten to have the feds step in after a former worker for Elon Musk's Doge Group was assaulted during an attempted carjacking last week.

00:01:32.440 We have a capital that's very unsafe.

00:01:35.740 We're going to do something about it.

00:01:37.360 Over the weekend, more than 100 federal agents were deployed across D.C. in a massive anti-carjacking operation.

00:01:43.900 Trump also suggesting trying young teenagers as young as 14 as adults.

00:01:48.680 I thought it was very respectful that the president of Russia is coming to our country as opposed to us going to his country or even a third party place.

00:02:01.100 But I think we'll have constructive conversations.

00:02:05.460 Then after that, the next meeting will be with Zelensky and Putin or Zelensky and Putin and me.

00:02:11.180 I'll be there if they need.

00:02:12.740 President Trump preparing for a historic and high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin, inviting the Russian president to U.S. soil for the first time in nearly 10 years.

00:02:24.000 I think my instinct really tells me that we have a shot at it.

00:02:27.840 We have a shot at it.

00:02:28.920 Look, it's got to be solved.

00:02:31.440 The president has already suggested any deal would involve, quote, swapping of territories, something Vladimir Zelensky has made clear he will not do,

00:02:41.220 saying Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier.

00:02:47.140 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, D.C.

00:02:53.800 Today is August 11th, 2025.

00:02:56.620 Anno Domini.

00:02:58.200 Human Events Daily is back.

00:03:00.220 Incredible trip to Poland.

00:03:02.720 Had the opportunity to attend the inauguration of the great new populist nationalist president, Karol Nowrowski.

00:03:11.220 And of course, we also got to see the news that Karol Nowrowski, the president of Poland, will soon be visiting the U.S. president here coming up in September.

00:03:22.720 But here's something that's interesting that was breaking while we were over in Poland.

00:03:28.180 President Trump made a series of statements gearing up towards and really building towards what we saw today in the White House.

00:03:35.860 The liberation of Washington, D.C., and what President Trump announced this morning, the federalization of the Washington, D.C.

00:03:44.700 Metropolitan Police Department.

00:03:46.560 This is being done under evoking, invoking the Home Rule Act of Washington, D.C.

00:03:52.540 And of course, he has all and full constitutional authority to do this.

00:03:57.960 It's certainly something that is within his legal remit.

00:04:00.680 And more to the point, it's something that needs to be done because of the outrageous street violence in Washington, D.C.

00:04:08.080 Look, I don't need to go to these statistics, although I would point out that one of the commanders of the D.C. police force was just fired for cooking the books or juking the stats.

00:04:21.800 That's what they were doing.

00:04:23.340 Crime in Washington, D.C. is out of control.

00:04:26.540 And I don't have to go to some, you know, random source of statistics.

00:04:32.120 I know this because I take my kids here, all right, because I've been here for all this time.

00:04:37.740 Tanya and I, when we go down to Washington, D.C., we know you stay within a very strict corridor.

00:04:44.260 You don't step out of that, and you certainly don't go out for too long after night with little kids.

00:04:49.540 Because after that falls, absolute chaos.

00:04:53.360 And you see the stories again and again.

00:04:56.120 A guy being shot and killed while defending his girlfriend.

00:05:02.180 Car jacking is all over the place.

00:05:04.180 Many, in many cases, fatal.

00:05:06.780 All right?

00:05:07.300 This is nuts.

00:05:08.420 It's completely insane.

00:05:09.540 And so, thank God, President Trump is now coming in.

00:05:14.340 And he's also, by the way, going to be bringing in the National Guard to be able to go in and clean up the streets.

00:05:22.700 Bravo, President Trump.

00:05:24.520 Thank God.

00:05:25.920 Clean it up, not only in terms of the crime, but you've got to get the drugs off the street, too.

00:05:30.300 The drug dealers, the people who are walking around.

00:05:32.820 The whole city smells like drugs all the time.

00:05:34.880 Even in the tourist areas, you can't take children anywhere, right? 0.90

00:05:40.080 It smells disgusting.

00:05:41.280 It smells awful.

00:05:42.900 It's clearly something that's not, as they say, it's just not reflective of what our national capital should be.

00:05:52.500 And I was in Poland last week.

00:05:53.940 I was in the Polish national capital.

00:05:56.940 Guess what?

00:05:57.300 Their murder rate, less than one per 100,000.

00:06:02.360 Less than one.

00:06:03.360 In Washington, D.C., it's 41.

00:06:06.000 So, murder rate is 60 times lower in Warsaw, which is a city that has a larger, I believe, has a larger population than Washington, D.C.

00:06:15.680 It's certainly much bigger geographically.

00:06:18.880 And so, why is this?

00:06:20.600 It's very simple.

00:06:21.580 Because they take the laws seriously.

00:06:24.280 And because, you know, if you break the law in Poland, if you break the law in Warsaw, you're going to go away.

00:06:31.260 They're not going to let you right back out on the street.

00:06:33.180 No.

00:06:33.720 Washington, D.C. has lost its ability and lost its privilege of self-rule.

00:06:40.140 And honestly, when I hear President Trump say, we want to take a look at New York and Baltimore and Detroit and Chicago and Philadelphia and Los Angeles, I say, thank God.

00:06:51.420 Thank God we have a president who actually wants to fix the problems of the public lawlessness in this country.

00:06:58.940 We need law and order all across the United States of America.

00:07:03.040 And we need it now.

00:07:04.200 The citizens of the United States are in your debt for this, President Trump.

00:07:09.920 God bless you.

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00:07:49.540 It's been a while.

00:07:50.160 It's gone for 10 days.

00:07:52.140 My gosh, it felt great to be out of here.

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00:09:28.060 All right, I want to go now because President Trump, in addition to all of his incredible announcements about Washington, D.C.,

00:09:34.860 he also said something that's really going to set up and preview what's going to happen this Friday in Alaska.

00:09:42.680 Let's play that.

00:09:43.180 Russia's tough because they just keep on fighting.

00:09:48.240 They beat Hitler, so did we, and they beat Napoleon.

00:09:52.180 You know, they've been doing this for a long time.

00:09:54.740 I asked a question to a very, very smart man that some people like and some people don't like.

00:10:01.760 Viktor Orban, right, from Hungary, the head of Hungary.

00:10:06.480 And he's in that same area and knows the two countries very well, I said.

00:10:12.560 This was before Biden didn't do anything to get us out of it.

00:10:17.740 He could have gotten us out of that.

00:10:19.080 It would have never happened.

00:10:20.840 I said, so can Russia be beaten by Ukraine? 1.00

00:10:26.940 He looked at me like, what a stupid question. 1.00

00:10:30.520 He said, Russia's a massive country. 1.00

00:10:32.360 And they win their country and they win their life through wars.

00:10:39.040 They fight wars.

00:10:39.800 That's what they do.

00:10:41.220 He said, China beats you with trade.

00:10:45.060 Russia beats you with war. 0.56

00:10:50.520 All right, Jack Posobiec.

00:10:51.800 Now, of course, you know that we had an interview with Prime Minister Orban asking about this,

00:10:57.080 as well as other things.

00:10:58.380 Just a couple of months ago, President Trump also talking about meeting with Viktor Orban,

00:11:03.600 discussing these questions.

00:11:05.940 Now, the bilateral meeting.

00:11:08.060 It all comes to a head this Friday on U.S. soil, but far, far, far up in the snowy north.

00:11:15.900 Though it's not that snowy right now.

00:11:17.040 It's summertime.

00:11:19.460 Alaska.

00:11:20.540 Vladimir Putin.

00:11:21.860 Donald Trump.

00:11:22.940 Mike Benz joins us now to break down this historic summit.

00:11:27.100 And by the way, I've checked, folks, this will be the very first time a Russian leader,

00:11:33.040 even going back to imperial times, has ever set foot in Alaska.

00:11:37.900 And the first time that Putin has been to the United States since 2015.

00:11:43.360 Let's bring him in.

00:11:44.160 What's up, Mike?

00:11:44.540 I lost the audio.

00:11:44.900 Oh, you're not hearing me?

00:11:50.160 Sorry, I just lost the audio.

00:11:52.840 All right, guys, let's stand by on Mike for a minute.

00:11:55.620 I'll just have the producers double-check with him, run that audio test.

00:11:58.840 We did a test during the break, and it seemed like it was okay, but we'll double-check that right now.

00:12:04.580 Folks, what we're seeing is that President Trump has run an end around on all of this.

00:12:10.900 President Trump is bypassing the globalists.

00:12:13.920 He's bypassing the Europeans. 0.99

00:12:16.400 He's bypassing all of the neoliberals.

00:12:19.300 He's bypassing the entire establishment.

00:12:21.520 In fact, he's even bypassing BRICS. 0.84

00:12:23.540 He's saying, you know what?

00:12:24.960 This is going to come down.

00:12:26.420 What have we said here on Human Events Daily since day one?

00:12:28.700 Since day one, I have told you on this program that the only way that this will end is when we see direct talks between the leaders of the United States and the leaders of Russia.

00:12:41.460 None of this other stuff, you know, we're going to say, oh, send this over and this package, and this is going to get done, and that's going to get done.

00:12:48.200 I said, no, you've got to cut out the entire rest and go for the one-on-one summit.

00:12:54.040 Now it's happening in absolutely stunning fashion.

00:12:58.040 President Trump set to sit down with Vladimir Putin this Friday in Alaska, and then the Russians are putting out some information saying that Trump himself might be traveling to Russia for the next in a series of meetings.

00:13:11.320 All right, I think we have Mike Benz back.

00:13:14.460 Yeah, hey.

00:13:15.520 How you doing, Jack?

00:13:16.420 Hey, there we go.

00:13:17.360 So, Benz, walk us through this move, and it's such a brilliant masterstroke here because President Trump is skipping all over, I think, the steps that were actually obstacles to the peace process and saying, you know what, I'm going to deal with this one myself.

00:13:34.000 All the biggest obstacles to the peace process are right here in Washington, D.C., which is why I think it's fitting to have this in the most remote part of the United States as well as quite adjacent to Kamchatka in Russia.

00:13:51.440 This is famously the place that Sarah Palin said she could look out her back door and see Russia.

00:13:59.060 So it's almost like a common meeting round.

00:14:00.140 Sarah Palin totally vindicated, by the way.

00:14:02.420 Sarah Palin has been totally vindicated.

00:14:07.020 But Trump's great opponents in trying to strike peace have not been Putin, or I would argue even Zelensky, but rather the phalanx of blob corps, blob corps, sort of army corps from the blob who are on both sides of the Atlantic.

00:14:26.020 From the legacy D.C.

00:14:28.020 From the legacy D.C. internationalist mafia together with the transatlantic side of the NATO cabal who have tried to sabotage the peace process at every turn.

00:14:39.620 Folks, remember, right before the previous round of peace talks with Russia and Ukraine, Mike Pompeo traveled over to Ukraine, gave a speech about the need to unsettle the peace process by attacking Putin.

00:14:57.180 And the very next day, the largest attack on Russia's territory was set off by Ukraine, which scuttled the peace process.

00:15:07.120 So you have this, you know, this core of folks who make their living off of war with Russia, off of seizing assets from Eurasia, who do not want peace, certainly do not want peace under the terms that Trump, I think, would be willing, which include giving up land in Ukraine.

00:15:27.380 The fact is, is that land in Ukraine that Russia has seized has been under a coup government for 11 years.

00:15:36.740 It was the Obama administration's toppling, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 that caused eastern Ukraine, which is majority Russian ethnic, to break away.

00:15:48.060 What would we do in the United States in that situation if a foreign government toppled our own and then one side of our country broke away and did not respect the new coup government?

00:16:01.060 I mean, that was that was what happened here.

00:16:04.220 And so Ukraine sort of ceased to become Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan coup.

00:16:10.420 It became a NATO owned western half and a Russia affinity eastern half.

00:16:19.260 So the the seizing of this this land, which frankly is not even all that great a territorial dominion, is something that I think Putin is is bent on.

00:16:31.660 He does not want to give up land for peace now that he controls that land.

00:16:36.060 And what good is giving that back anyway, as soon as a Democrat gets in power or as soon as a Nikki Haley Republican gets in power, they're going to try to seize that land. 0.93

00:16:46.580 They're going to use that land to build NATO missiles on.

00:16:50.760 We know that Ukraine is still ostensibly on a path to NATO accession.

00:16:56.000 NATO has made no promises that it would not fold Ukraine into NATO.

00:17:00.580 In fact, they're moving ahead with it.

00:17:02.080 And even if they did promise it, who in the right mind would believe it?

00:17:05.200 After all the lies that NATO is told about stopping expansion.

00:17:10.140 So with that all said, I think that the only path to peace is through Ukraine giving up land, land that it frankly should not have, you know, should not have taken through a 2014 coup and left the entire eastern state helpless.

00:17:26.160 I mean, the eastern Ukrainians were being murdered by American military muscle that was being thrown for from 2014 to 2022 at the Ukrainian military in order to seize that back.

00:17:39.580 So Trump needs to conduct these negotiations in in peace, in tranquility and in Alaska.

00:17:48.600 And it's so symbolic.

00:17:52.960 Alaska, of course, originally discovered by the Russians, as a matter of fact, all the way back in the 1700s.

00:18:00.160 And I've always said that America is a country that was founded amongst empires.

00:18:05.760 So the Russian Empire was on the continent of North America, as well as the Spanish.

00:18:10.980 Everyone knows the British.

00:18:12.460 The French were here all the way up through the French, what eventually became the Louisiana Purchase.

00:18:18.720 And so you just see empire after empire.

00:18:22.080 The Dutch, you know, even had, you know, many holdings in New York City.

00:18:25.180 And so the fact that you're you're having it in this place where and of course, by the way, the Russian Orthodox Church, most of the natives up in Alaska are, in fact, Russian Orthodox.

00:18:36.060 And so this is something where a lot of people will be asking, why are they doing it up there?

00:18:41.880 But it makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons, also, which we're coming up on a break here real quick, also, which because there is that ICC warrant out for Putin regarding the Ukraine war.

00:18:52.520 But the United States, of course, famously does not uphold ICC warrants, does not enforce them.

00:18:59.480 And so, of course, this is a country that he actually can travel to without having to worry about any of the legal framework that the ICC would run into.

00:19:08.620 That, of course, prevented him from attending some of the BRIC summits like the one in Brazil recently.

00:19:13.680 Jack Posobiec, Mike Benz, right back.

00:19:15.300 Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.

00:19:22.520 You talk about influences, these are influences, and they're friends of mine, Jack Posobiec.

00:19:30.940 Where's Jack?

00:19:31.920 Jack, he's done a great job.

00:19:34.340 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back.

00:19:39.900 Human Events Daily, on with Mike Benz.

00:19:41.940 We're talking about the significance of the Trump-Putin meeting that is widely expected to take place on Friday.

00:19:49.080 It's been announced that it'll take place on Friday.

00:19:51.240 I think likely that it will take place in Anchorage, though, of course, and of course, it could take place as well on a military base.

00:19:58.440 There certainly are plenty up there in the Anchorage region or others.

00:20:01.460 You're just going to need that much infrastructure for media and two heads of state, the two largest nuclear powers in the world, to hold a meeting like this.

00:20:08.960 It certainly, by the way, puts Alaska on, you know, on the map once again, the history of the U.S. and Russia in Alaska.

00:20:16.720 You talk about the U.S. and Russia having a strong competition, by the way, in the North, in the Northern Sea, going across the Arctic, which is going to be one of the seminal competitive flashpoints coming up over the next century.

00:20:30.000 And, in fact, it's something that puts natural resources, I would even say, on the map as well, looking at things like Pebble Mine, that Russia, of course, exploits the resources of Siberia directly across the strait.

00:20:42.540 But, of course, America does not and largely leaves many of those natural resources behind and because of regulations.

00:20:51.520 Mike Benz, walk us through some of the ideas that we've been hearing for, you know, we haven't gotten quite a full readout of what, you know, what the offers are going to be when it comes to the negotiations here.

00:21:04.080 Russia, I think, of course, pushing for all four of the contested oblasts.

00:21:08.720 J.D. Vance saying yesterday that, you know, they'd be looking for basically a ceasefire along the line of contact, which would not include the entirety of all four of the oblasts.

00:21:20.700 And I think there's a new phrase that's been going around talking this idea of de facto de facto recognition of Russian control of these areas, which is not quite the same thing as complete acceptance of this.

00:21:34.340 And it's similar in many ways to Kosovo as well.

00:21:38.280 Mike, the floor is yours.

00:21:40.780 Well, what they want to do is is they want to freeze the losses so that what NATO wants is to freeze the losses,

00:21:47.700 to stop losing territory, to stop losing men and and young people, old people, imported people, 0.96

00:21:57.160 so that after a fair amount of time and rebuilding of Ukraine and rearming of Ukraine,

00:22:05.800 they can seize those oblasts and seize Crimea at a time when the growth rate of Ukraine and and Europe and a favorable administration in the US would be able to win this war in a way that they cannot presently.

00:22:23.220 This is why I always refer to this as a kind of what NATO is offering is a peace fire.

00:22:28.880 It's it's a peace deal, ceasefire.

00:22:32.340 But the emphasis is on fire.

00:22:34.060 They if you listen to Mike Pompeo's speech, for example, before or right before Ukraine launched its latest, deadliest attack on Russian territory.

00:22:44.220 And he and Pompeo was asked, when do you think, you know, this this war could end?

00:22:50.380 And Pompeo made the argument that it'll never end, that that that even in a scenario of peace, Russia will still be the devil.

00:22:59.280 Russia will still be the great menace to European security. 0.99

00:23:02.880 And so even with a peace deal, we have to keep fighting the war.

00:23:06.900 And of course, this is because what NATO wants is to keep seizing the assets.

00:23:11.460 They want to seize the seventy five trillion dollars worth of natural resources in Russia.

00:23:16.740 And Ukraine is a stop along that journey.

00:23:20.280 But it's a very pivotal stop because of its geostrategic location.

00:23:25.160 But I think what Russia wants is is an agreement that Ukraine will not join NATO.

00:23:33.060 What Russia wants is is keeping at least large swaths of the territory that it has acquired militarily.

00:23:40.600 Certainly, that will include include Crimea.

00:23:43.500 The idea that Russia could lose its only warm water port, I think, would be disastrous for Russia to give up.

00:23:52.260 And I think they feel they have no need to give it up.

00:23:55.600 Of course, the the counterweight to this is NATO is building its biggest ever NATO base right on the Black Sea in Romania after what appeared to be a total coup of the Romanian government annulling the first round election,

00:24:10.740 and indicting the populist candidate, Kaelin Georgescu, who won that election and then appearing to sabotage that entire election process through the courts the same way the Brazil courts have been co-opted in that in that manner.

00:24:28.140 But I think that NATO hopes that it can build up that military base in Romania and it can fund this new European army that Germany and France are spearheading.

00:24:40.420 I think they've already allocated billions of dollars to this new kind of European army concept together with a renewed.

00:24:49.120 Just just we I'm looking at the clock and I realize I only have you for two more minutes.

00:24:55.280 What could just zoom out that we zoom out for a little bit here and say the U.S. and Russia meeting meeting a larger strategic agreement between the two of them,

00:25:05.360 this hope that President Trump has spoken of, of pivoting Russia, perhaps against China, breaking up the BRICS block.

00:25:12.980 Now, how much of a threat is this to the transatlantic access?

00:25:18.540 Well, it's an enormous one.

00:25:20.520 The much of that transatlantic access is now allied with China.

00:25:24.840 They don't want, I think, a Russia-China conflict.

00:25:29.920 There's obviously Russia has been driven into China's arms because of all this.

00:25:35.320 The sanctions policy that the Obama administration led against Russian oil and gas

00:25:40.420 in any trade between Europe and Russia since 2014, when the Obama State Department threw a hissy fit that Russia simply backed the faction of a of of Ukraine that Obama isolated in a coup.

00:25:58.620 But effectively, the we blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.

00:26:02.200 So Russia is now reconnecting all of its gas through the power of Siberia to pipeline to China.

00:26:07.600 So China is getting bargain basement discount prices on Russian gas that could have been cheap gas for Europeans.

00:26:16.540 But but the fact is, is there is a significant amount of benefit to an American-Russian partnership.

00:26:22.960 In fact, even the Obama, Hillary Clinton folks knew this coming into 2014 when Obama campaigned in 2012 on on saying that the 1980s called they want their foreign policy back.

00:26:36.020 When Mitt Romney accused Russia, Obama being soft on Russia, you had Hillary Clinton doing business with Russia through Uranium One.

00:26:45.020 So it's going to be absolutely historic.

00:26:48.200 Mike Benz, where can people follow you, brother?

00:26:50.840 Follow me on X at Mike Benz Cyber, also on YouTube and Rumble.

00:26:55.120 Make sure you're following him, folks.

00:26:57.060 All eyes are on Russia.

00:27:00.180 All eyes on Alaska.

00:27:01.960 The Northern Summit approaches.

00:27:04.800 And folks, the North remembers.

00:27:07.160 It's all about ending the killing.

00:27:09.060 That's how you connect the line between Russia, Ukraine, Alaska, and this new announcement for American cities.

00:27:16.200 Right back.

00:27:16.620 Jack Posobiec, Human Events, Real America's Voice.

00:27:21.880 Where is Jack?

00:27:24.300 Where is Jack?

00:27:26.620 Where is he?

00:27:27.920 Jack, I want to see you.

00:27:31.560 Great job, Jack.

00:27:33.100 Thank you.

00:27:33.840 What a job you do.

00:27:35.260 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:27:36.460 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.

00:27:44.600 All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.

00:27:49.080 Folks, it's very simple.

00:27:51.460 It's time to make cities great again.

00:27:56.920 We talk about society, and we talk about civilization.

00:27:59.640 We talk about Western civilization.

00:28:01.500 And there's an incredible amount of rural areas in the United States.

00:28:07.760 I love them.

00:28:09.000 I love small-town America.

00:28:10.580 But there's something about cities.

00:28:12.480 The purpose of civilization is to create cities.

00:28:18.000 Cities are an expression of your civilization.

00:28:21.640 And I'm not talking about our cities as the way they are.

00:28:24.480 I'm talking about our cities as the way they were.

00:28:28.900 What is history, if not the history of cities?

00:28:32.220 Moscow, Rome, London, Washington, D.C.

00:28:36.580 Today, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, if you want the actual city name.

00:28:42.660 Cities are the backbone of your economic powerhouses and your power bases for every country.

00:28:50.740 New York City.

00:28:52.400 Everyone knows this.

00:28:53.420 This is how it works.

00:28:56.720 And you need, of course, all of the other areas as well for your country to be able to run.

00:29:04.080 But if your cities are in a state of collapse, if your cities are in a state of disarray, then your country is in disarray.

00:29:13.780 And so I talked about a tactical retreat physically.

00:29:16.860 When I say it, we used to say get out of cities, I meant that in terms of, the context was 2020.

00:29:23.600 And the context was cities where George Soros DAs were running rampant, crime all over the streets, violence kicking off everywhere.

00:29:34.080 And so I said, yeah, get out of the cities.

00:29:36.740 However, it's now time for phase two.

00:29:41.680 And phase two is we take back our cities.

00:29:45.880 Make cities great again.

00:29:48.380 I want to bring on now Kenny Cody, because Kenny wrote an op-ed this weekend all about this.

00:29:55.060 And in fact, it presaged the announcement from President Trump this morning.

00:30:01.400 Kenny, how are you?

00:30:02.840 I'm great, Jack.

00:30:03.720 How are you doing, brother?

00:30:04.220 So tell us about this op-ed.

00:30:08.460 Obviously, you were focusing on D.C. itself.

00:30:11.400 But walk us through the mechanisms and the, really, the circumstances that led to this announcement earlier today.

00:30:19.680 Well, you know, of course, the assaults of a federal official, Big Balls, as people know him as, on social media and through mainstream media, getting assaulted.

00:30:28.040 I think that's kind of what preempted this maneuver today and the announcement today of federal law enforcement taking over the D.C. police departments.

00:30:36.060 But this is something that's been a long time coming.

00:30:38.240 With the increasing violence that's been going on in our nation's capital.

00:30:40.960 And remember, this is where all great American monuments, the example of American excellence is existing in Washington, D.C.

00:30:48.080 When foreign diplomats come here, when big businesses want to come here and invest within our states, in our cities, and throughout the rest of the country,

00:30:55.540 they come to D.C. and they want to see American excellence.

00:30:59.740 They want to see American tradition.

00:31:01.620 And the erosion of the last 20 to 25 years from D.C. being a symbol of American greatness to now it being a city of lawlessness and crime and murder and assault.

00:31:12.320 I mean, we've seen more federal officials, federal staffers that have been assaulted and killed within the last few months more than about any other time throughout American history because of the lawlessness.

00:31:23.300 It isn't an associated targeted attack oftentimes.

00:31:26.420 It's just the amount of crime per square mile that D.C. deals with on a regular basis.

00:31:33.320 And it's been existed more the last six months than probably any other time over the last four years besides 2020.

00:31:38.500 Trump saw this going on.

00:31:40.080 Trump continues to see the lawlessness not only in D.C., but in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, and other cities where violence is skyrocketing.

00:31:49.780 And a precedent has to be set.

00:31:51.980 This is how lawlessness is going to be eradicated.

00:31:54.640 This is how lawlessness needs to be treated.

00:31:56.820 And we need to make an example of Washington, D.C., make it a symbol of American greatness again.

00:32:03.560 And if that's not going to happen, then these kind of maneuvers need to be done throughout America.

00:32:07.700 There needs to be federal law enforcement, the National Guard, and other avenues used to establish law, safety, and sanity within our cities because if Democratic leadership in these cities and progressive leadership in these cities continue to advocate for defunding the police and a lack of a priority of social justice over human life continues to happen, the same thing that's happening in D.C. today needs to be happening in other cities tomorrow.

00:32:32.160 And look, you know, you talk about Washington, D.C., and by the way, so President Trump has the ability to invoke the Home Rule Act for Washington, D.C.

00:32:43.460 So, of course, he can go and directly federalize the Metropolitan Police Force, which is completely legal, completely, he's been on the works for 50 years.

00:32:52.080 And then you go back even to the Constitution itself.

00:32:54.880 Washington, D.C. has always been a federal district.

00:32:58.240 However, when you talk about the federal government's ability to fight crime in other big cities, people say, oh, you can't do this.

00:33:07.880 Excuse me, excuse me.

00:33:09.200 Presidents from Lincoln to Eisenhower to Nixon to Johnson all understood that the federal government has a role when crime gets out of control.

00:33:21.340 That should be your bumper sticker.

00:33:22.860 When crime gets out of control, the federal government has a role.

00:33:25.760 We have laws from the Insurrection Act to the Organized Crime Control Act, law after law after law that are currently on the books, national emergency laws that the president has at his disposal, as well, by the way, as his ability to come in and say, if a city does not comply with these requirements, a series of new requirements, for example, then you can cut off all federal funding to that city.

00:33:53.660 So there's so many ways that the president can do this.

00:33:57.140 And I say this as someone who, you know, grew up in the Philadelphia area, not far from Baltimore, not far from New York.

00:34:02.960 And I've seen how these once great cities have descended into absolute abject chaos.

00:34:11.280 Washington, D.C. as well.

00:34:14.100 This entire and you can name the city and they're all in the same situation.

00:34:18.440 St. Louis, Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit, et cetera.

00:34:22.820 It's a joke.

00:34:23.880 It's a national crisis.

00:34:25.000 And it absolutely has to be dealt with.

00:34:27.440 Well, 100 percent.

00:34:29.580 I mean, look at look at New York City, the new mayor.

00:34:32.220 Well, not the new mayor yet, unfortunately, but Zora Mamdani is literally advocating on defunding the police. 0.98

00:34:37.440 He can go back and say, well, I didn't mean that this way.

00:34:39.500 I've changed since then, whatever.

00:34:40.920 But the current progressive leadership in these cities is exactly what's eroding American society.

00:34:46.040 It's what it's eroding America's once great city basis.

00:34:49.380 We have got to set a precedent and hopefully the success from this, because I know for a fact, whenever the D.C.

00:34:56.320 police union came out today and said, I'm glad this is happening because of the lack of leadership that this city has within its own boundaries.

00:35:04.440 And when you have police unions coming out and saying that, I don't want to hear anything about fascism or anything else about the federal takeover.

00:35:09.920 When the D.C.

00:35:10.660 police union is literally saying, please come help us.

00:35:12.480 Our own leadership cannot.

00:35:13.640 And that's the same thing that needs to happen in other cities.

00:35:15.680 There is a lack of leadership because of that priority of social justice over human life.

00:35:20.900 Now they're advocating.

00:35:22.840 I'm sorry.

00:35:23.560 Oh, no, I was going to say, and to that point, Kenny, I want to play SOT 1 right now, guys.

00:35:30.740 Fight back until you knock the hell out of them, because it's the only language they understand. 0.99

00:35:36.400 But they fought back against law enforcement last night.

00:35:39.960 And they're not going to be fighting back long because I've instructed them and told them, whatever happens, you know, they love to spit in the face of the police.

00:35:53.280 As the police are standing up there in uniform, they're standing and they're screaming at them an inch away from their face.

00:36:00.960 And then they start spitting in their face.

00:36:04.180 And I said, you tell them, you spit and we hit. 0.91

00:36:08.200 And they can hit real hard. 0.98

00:36:12.040 It's a disgusting thing.

00:36:13.580 I've watched that for years.

00:36:15.260 For three or four years, I've watched them.

00:36:18.580 The police are standing and they're told, don't do anything under any search.

00:36:22.560 So this and you can see they want to get at it.

00:36:24.960 And they're standing there and people are spitting in their face and they're not allowed to do anything.

00:36:31.240 But now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.

00:36:35.320 I love it. 0.90

00:36:36.580 You spit, we hit.

00:36:38.380 When the looting starts, the shooting starts.

00:36:41.760 That's how crime gets out of control.

00:36:44.180 So the police have to get in.

00:36:47.340 The police have to get in before that takes place.

00:36:50.860 Because, Kenny, this is something, man, and I remember, you know, looking back in history, Frank Rizzo, the great Frank Rizzo of Washington, or excuse me, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

00:37:02.980 He, his spirit is now looking down on Washington, D.C.

00:37:07.820 You got to crack down on these thugs.

00:37:10.180 Well, out of doubt.

00:37:11.340 And that's the entire point.

00:37:13.000 It's like what you just said, like Trump says that the police have been disenfranchised for so long and they have been.

00:37:18.680 I mean, these progressive cities literally put police departments on the lowest spectrum of priority, the lowest spectrum of respect as they can establish.

00:37:28.600 And when that happens, citizens don't respect their police departments anymore.

00:37:32.140 Like in Los Angeles, when petty crimes are being allowed to walk freely, like you're allowed to go and rob a convenience store without any sort of penalty because it's the same as a traffic violation.

00:37:41.420 I mean, those are the kinds of policies that are the progressive cities and progressive governance is making police departments not be respected at all.

00:37:50.760 Like they are thought of so low on the totem pole, like they're from England with just, you know, such a low priority.

00:37:58.560 They're not respected.

00:37:59.860 They're such on the low end term, like they're traffic cops or something.

00:38:03.040 And they need to be respected.

00:38:05.760 The spit and get hit priority and the spit and get hit statement is so important there because that's exactly the kind of backlash.

00:38:12.320 There's a new sheriff in town, folks, and his name is President Donald John Trump.

00:38:17.060 Right back, Jack Possoba, Kenny Cody, Human Events, Real Markers Daily.

00:38:23.960 Jack is a great guy.

00:38:25.580 He's written that fantastic book.

00:38:27.200 Everybody's talking about it.

00:38:28.460 Go get it.

00:38:29.000 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.

00:38:33.540 And we're going to turn it around and make our country cry to get to him.

00:38:36.840 Amen.

00:38:38.480 We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on.

00:38:48.040 They've been very, very dirty, very, got a lot of problems.

00:38:53.380 But we've already started that.

00:38:55.640 We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people.

00:39:00.780 Some of those people, we don't know how they even got there.

00:39:05.000 Some of those people are from different countries, different parts of the world.

00:39:08.080 Nobody knows who they are.

00:39:09.260 They have no idea.

00:39:10.180 But they're there getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city.

00:39:16.700 There are many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help.

00:39:22.180 But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see.

00:39:28.140 The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth.

00:39:40.460 Much higher.

00:39:41.280 This is much higher.

00:39:42.200 The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled.

00:39:51.440 Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.

00:40:01.000 And we're not going to let it happen anymore.

00:40:03.480 We're not going to take it.

00:40:07.340 Oh, man.

00:40:08.820 I just, I almost want, I almost want, guys, guys, I never do this.

00:40:16.340 I never do this.

00:40:17.320 We have to do it.

00:40:18.620 I'm sorry, guys.

00:40:19.680 We have to do it.

00:40:21.780 Play that last side of Trump again.

00:40:24.460 You got to play that last clip again.

00:40:26.080 It was just so good.

00:40:27.360 The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth.

00:40:44.460 Much higher.

00:40:45.280 This is much higher.

00:40:47.000 The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled.

00:40:54.640 Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.

00:41:05.000 And we're not going to let it happen anymore.

00:41:07.480 We're not going to take it.

00:41:08.400 You can hear it in his voice there, the drugged-out maniacs, the homeless people.

00:41:16.200 That's President Trump focusing on the main quest.

00:41:20.500 The main quest is very simple.

00:41:22.440 It's really simple.

00:41:23.820 It's four little words.

00:41:25.140 Make America great again.

00:41:27.200 We are positively taking steps to make America great again by removing the illegals from this country and cleaning up our cities. 1.00

00:41:34.660 We are going to fix the home front.

00:41:36.940 Cities are the beating part of our culture.

00:41:40.820 Cities are where ideas collide.

00:41:43.840 Cities are where commerce and community and innovation and societies write their legacies.

00:41:51.860 That is the point of cities.

00:41:53.520 What do we have now?

00:41:55.360 We have decadence, degradation.

00:41:57.500 You look like the Weimar Republic out there.

00:41:59.800 Why America?

00:42:00.980 No.

00:42:01.680 No.

00:42:02.900 America deserves better.

00:42:04.540 Our kids deserve better.

00:42:05.980 I don't want to have to be smelling weed anytime I take my kids anywhere in a city or a national park.

00:42:12.160 It's all got to be done.

00:42:13.300 Kenny Cody, I want to get Kenny back in here because, Kenny, the MAGA movement was born on a golden escalator on Fifth Avenue 10 years ago.

00:42:23.580 President Trump, of course, he is Mr. New York.

00:42:26.040 He worked with Rudy Giuliani to clean up New York City.

00:42:29.140 And you can tell this, and that's why I played the clip twice.

00:42:33.520 This one is personal to him.

00:42:35.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it is.

00:42:37.640 I think when somebody has worked in real estate and worked in cleaning up New York City for most of his life, I think he has lived in D.C. long enough now in his second term to see something has to change.

00:42:49.320 And he's taken over control of a federal district and its police force to clean up our streets.

00:42:53.980 He's cleaning up America by deporting illegal immigrants and giving jobs back to Americans. 0.99

00:42:58.540 And when companies, when foreign diplomats, when a lot of other people come into this country and go to D.C.

00:43:03.920 and they look and see the homeless, they look and see crime, they have to be scared for their lives, and they travel in Ubers and taxis throughout the city.

00:43:10.660 If they want to go and see a monument, they have to go at a specific hour.

00:43:13.740 That shouldn't be how things work anymore, and it shouldn't be how things work in any single metropolitan city in the United States.

00:43:20.060 In Chicago, L.A., Memphis, or any other city that has history, that should be an example of American greatness.

00:43:27.500 We should not have to look over our shoulder to make sure we're going to get mugged.

00:43:30.780 Don't bury the lead, brother.

00:43:32.260 Don't bury the lead.

00:43:33.600 Memphis, Tennessee.

00:43:34.700 Tell me a little bit about Memphis, Tennessee, about what sort of the public view of Memphis is and how it actually is right now.

00:43:44.220 I mean, I think the public view of Memphis is it was once the city of Elvis Presley.

00:43:47.940 It was once the city of Graceland.

00:43:49.700 It was once the city where country music and jazz musicians went to thrive and where it was born.

00:43:54.560 But now it is a city full of gun crime, progressive leadership that has a higher murder rate than about any other city in America.

00:44:02.060 And that's exactly what has happened in the city of Memphis is exactly what's happened in so many other metropolitan areas in the United States.

00:44:07.700 And I think if you took Memphis out of Tennessee and you took Memphis, we would be one of the highest ranked states in terms of gun death, in terms of violent crime.

00:44:17.900 We'd be one of the safest states in the country because of its leadership and the gun violence that happens there solely because of the progressive leadership.

00:44:26.500 They have some of the highest gun restrictions city-wise that there is in the country.

00:44:30.820 But because Tennessee has cities that succeed like Nashville, like Knoxville, like Chattanooga that doesn't have high crime rates at all.

00:44:38.040 But because we have Memphis, we're ranked among the highest in terms of crime statistics because of one city.

00:44:44.500 But that's exactly what has happened in every city of America.

00:44:47.820 American greatness, Tennessee greatness, state-by-state greatness is being cast to the side because of progressive leadership and Marxist priority of social justice over actually protecting human life and American greatness on the home front, like you just said.

00:45:00.460 And if things like this are polarized, they can clean up their protest.

00:45:03.100 I feel the same way coming from the Philadelphia area.

00:45:06.200 You know, every 4th of July, people will play, you know, videos or, you know, old John Adams miniseries clips from, you know, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

00:45:16.000 And that's sort of like the Philadelphia, or even if you watch Rocky, you kind of have this vision of Philadelphia.

00:45:22.060 But then you go and look at Philly on any, on like the actual 4th of July weekend and it's shootings, it's drive-bys.

00:45:30.900 It's a dump. 0.99

00:45:31.440 Philadelphia has become an absolute dump. 0.98

00:45:34.840 It's a place where I certainly don't spend a lot of time with my kids. 0.54

00:45:38.700 I've taken them in and I'm taking them out right away because that's how it's become.

00:45:44.200 And I don't want it to be like that.

00:45:45.900 And I'm telling you, man, I just got back from Poland.

00:45:48.400 I just got back from Warsaw, which is a huge city.

00:45:53.140 And you know what's great about that is they don't, they don't take it at 1.8 million.

00:45:59.220 All right, about 2 million people who live in Warsaw, that is a world city by any standard, certainly by Western standards, by Chinese standards, it's nowhere near that large.

00:46:11.240 I think Shanghai is like 25 million.

00:46:13.240 It's completely insane.

00:46:13.920 But by the way, by the way, even Shanghai, as big as it is, and even Tokyo, it's like 30 million, as big as they are, guess what?

00:46:23.160 They don't have the crime problems.

00:46:24.880 And why don't they have the crime problems?

00:46:26.540 It's because they enforce the law.

00:46:29.180 Last minute to you, Kenny Cody.

00:46:30.280 Man, that's something that needs to be prioritized.

00:46:33.380 In making America great again, it's about image.

00:46:35.840 It's about saving the American people, giving them those opportunities that were not there before.

00:46:40.340 And the first thing comes in deporting illegal immigrants and imprisoning criminals that are trashing our cities, that are killing our people, that are taking opportunity away from hardworking Americans. 0.99

00:46:52.580 And President Trump is doing that and setting that precedent today by federalizing D.C., and it needs to happen to set the precedent for the rest of the country.

00:47:01.860 Yeah, by the way, I just pulled it up.

00:47:04.180 So Warsaw is bigger than Philadelphia, bigger than Phoenix.

00:47:06.720 It would be the fifth largest city in the United States if it was over here.

00:47:10.800 And yet less than one murder, one homicide per 100,000, that's the murder rate in Warsaw, 60 times lower than that of Washington, D.C.

00:47:22.180 Kenny Cody, where can people go to follow you and track this new op-ed that you just put out?

00:47:27.460 It's pinned on my Twitter profile, at katiecodytn.

00:47:30.580 You can follow me on True Social at the same username and find all my articles archived at humanevents.com.

00:47:36.100 Folks, President Trump, and you can hear it from his voice up there at the podium today in the White House.

00:47:42.820 Main quest.

00:47:43.880 Stay main quest.

00:47:45.640 We are fixing the homeland.

00:47:47.620 You fix the cities.

00:47:48.960 You fix the homeland.

00:47:50.260 You get the illegals out. 1.00

00:47:51.640 You get the criminals out.

00:47:53.400 You get the drugs out.

00:47:54.940 And you clean the place up.

00:47:57.400 You make Fortress America to literally be that shining city on the hill.

00:48:03.820 And you know something?

00:48:04.980 The city needs a little bit of work.

00:48:07.160 So, President Trump, thank you for your work to make cities great again.

00:48:13.000 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

00:48:16.100 Thank you for your takeout.

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Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - August 11, 2025

Taking Back American Cities and the Historic Alaskan Peace Summit Between Trump and Putin

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