Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THE CARTEL WARS HAVE BEGUN

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

00:00:39.540 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:46.160 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:49.160 Christ is king.

00:00:50.880 President Trump says he is cutting off trade talks between the U.S. and Canada.

00:00:54.420 Trump is blaming an anti-tariff commercial issued by the Canadian Provincial Government of Ontario.

00:01:00.880 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation says the ad misrepresents a radio address given by the late former president.

00:01:07.640 Well, the aftermath of those protests that we saw out at Coast Guard Island in Alameda.

00:01:12.720 Now, the Coast Guard says they actually had to open fire on the driver of a U-Haul truck who apparently tried to ram into the Alameda base gate.

00:01:21.320 The Capitol senators in both parties put out competing bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown.

00:01:29.300 And you know what they did?

00:01:31.020 Failed to pass either one of them.

00:01:33.520 Yep, Republicans say their bill would have ensured essential employees still working during the shutdown.

00:01:39.860 Would not have to wait until it's over to get paid.

00:01:43.360 Well, the Democrats' bill was a temporary solution to pay all federal staffers, including those on furlough.

00:01:51.120 Many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck this week.

00:01:55.280 Let's get right to breaking news.

00:01:56.620 The Secretary of War is announcing a new deadly strike on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.

00:02:01.880 Secretary Hegseth says the strike in international waters killed six narco-terrorists.

00:02:06.480 That's the 10th known strike in the Trump administration's military campaign against the cartels.

00:02:10.360 Under the Trump administration, we're finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are.

00:02:18.580 The cartels are waging war on America.

00:02:21.200 And just as I promised in the campaign, we're waging war on them like they've never seen before.

00:02:26.800 All you have to do is turn on your television and you'll see what's happening to them.

00:02:30.120 And, Mr. President, if you are declaring war against these cartels and Congress is likely to approve of that process,

00:02:37.560 why not just ask for a declaration of war?

00:02:40.600 Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. 0.98

00:02:44.700 I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. 0.99

00:02:49.200 Okay? 1.00

00:02:49.660 We're going to kill them. 1.00

00:02:50.860 You know? 1.00

00:02:51.260 They're going to be, like, dead.

00:02:52.380 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. 0.96

00:03:04.820 We are here live on Real America's Voice.

00:03:07.840 Today is October 24th, 2025.

00:03:10.980 Anno Domini.

00:03:12.940 Well, folks, what did we see last night over in Oakland?

00:03:18.240 I'll tell you what we saw in Oakland.

00:03:19.500 We saw a situation where Antifa or elements of Antifa and affiliated with Antifa tried to use a U-Haul truck to murder.

00:03:30.800 I'm going to say that again, to murder law enforcement agents, security personnel, as well as perhaps Coast Guard members or Coast Guard security.

00:03:39.520 It's not exactly clear from these videos, but I want you to see these horrifying videos of a U-Haul truck driven by what seems to be a member of an Antifa protest attempting to destroy and kill, right, destroy a security checkpoint and kill these agents.

00:04:00.320 And the shots, and guys, if we can play the audio, play the audio, because you're hearing shot after shot being fired.

00:04:07.040 They're telling him, stop backing up.

00:04:08.680 Stop backing up.

00:04:10.000 And yet, he doesn't stop.

00:04:12.420 He doesn't stop.

00:04:13.480 And then he puts, and he reverses, puts the pedal to the metal.

00:04:18.460 I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

00:04:22.540 They are getting more and more violent.

00:04:26.380 The violence is increasing.

00:04:28.980 They are attempting to do anything they can to kill our ICE agents, to kill Coast Guard, to kill federal law enforcement, anyone in uniform, basically anyone in a uniform now has a target on their back.

00:04:41.960 And certainly anyone who's a public individual.

00:04:44.280 And I'll tell you what this is, by the way.

00:04:45.420 This was a test.

00:04:46.140 This was a test of what would happen.

00:04:50.900 The next time something like this goes on, who knows?

00:04:55.220 Vehicle-borne IED.

00:04:57.200 That was the very first thing I thought.

00:04:59.260 An Oklahoma City situation with a truck bomb kills everyone on site.

00:05:05.580 This is serious business.

00:05:07.960 And those officers, God bless them and their quick thinking, standing their ground, standing their duty, standing up for everything.

00:05:16.140 That they put themselves into harm's way about, because this is not going to go away on its own.

00:05:22.180 No.

00:05:22.580 And then you see the simps over at MSNBC.

00:05:28.980 And what are they up to?

00:05:30.440 Chris Hayes.

00:05:31.080 I saw him earlier today.

00:05:32.840 Oh, I can't believe that some of the blackened, charred bodies of cartel members have washed up on the shores of Trinidad over in Venezuela, off the coast of Venezuela.

00:05:43.900 Oh, no.

00:05:45.640 Oh, gosh.

00:05:47.640 Let me tell you something, Chris.

00:05:49.620 Do you know what the cartel members do?

00:05:53.640 Have you seen any of those cartel member videos?

00:05:56.500 Let me tell you something.

00:05:57.440 I grew up with Rotten.com.

00:05:58.980 I grew up with LiveLeak, 240p.

00:06:03.520 You want to see some of the stuff I've seen?

00:06:05.520 And there's no question.

00:06:06.940 There's videos that I couldn't even show publicly.

00:06:10.900 I'll tell you right now.

00:06:12.420 The most horrifying videos I've seen from anywhere in the world.

00:06:16.980 It's not Ukraine, Russia, China.

00:06:19.960 No.

00:06:20.780 No.

00:06:21.580 It's the cartel videos.

00:06:22.820 Videos where they take a chainsaw and use the chainsaw to behead and torture live individuals, women, children.

00:06:45.040 That's who the cartel members are.

00:06:47.520 And so anyone who's working for them, anyone who's in league with them, got no problem at all with the president.

00:06:53.040 What did he say? 1.00

00:06:54.440 We're just going to kill them. 1.00

00:06:56.320 Yeah. 0.99

00:06:57.220 I'm thinking about my favorite Metallica album right now.

00:07:02.080 It's the first one.

00:07:03.840 The one that's entitled Kill Em All. 0.96

00:07:07.020 Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back. 0.79

00:07:09.080 Jack Posobiec here.

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00:07:38.300 All right, folks.

00:07:41.860 Jack Posobiec.

00:07:42.520 We are back live here.

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00:07:45.620 You're looking at a live shot of the White House right now.

00:07:48.520 And of course, the Democrats are melting down because Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar just released possibly the most cringe inducing video I've ever seen talking about the East Wing saying, I can't believe they're doing that to the people's house.

00:08:04.960 I can't believe that he's just he's just doing whatever he wants.

00:08:08.220 And guys, it's it's really simple.

00:08:10.880 I'll give you I'll give you a way to, you know, to be able to work through this logically and emotionally.

00:08:17.040 Winning elections is an option.

00:08:18.900 Like you could have tried harder to win the election and actually done so and put up, I don't know, a candidate who had some kind of serious connection with the American people and the interests of the American people.

00:08:30.880 And then maybe you would have won the election and maybe you would be able then to decide what happens with the White House.

00:08:37.280 But you didn't do that, did you?

00:08:39.120 No, you lost.

00:08:40.700 And since you lost the election, President Trump is the one who gets to make decisions about the White House.

00:08:46.460 And guess what?

00:08:47.320 The White House is getting a big, beautiful ballroom.

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00:10:31.000 Well, speaking of fueling freedom, I want to get into some of these cartel wars.

00:10:36.880 The cartel wars have begun.

00:10:39.720 And don't let anyone tell you they haven't.

00:10:41.120 Dan Caldwell, a former official with the Department of Defense, back when it still was the DOD.

00:10:47.500 I don't know how that works.

00:10:49.280 He joins us now.

00:10:50.280 Dan, so do I call you former DOD official or is it former DOW official?

00:10:54.560 That is a good question.

00:10:57.900 I think former Department of War.

00:11:00.000 Is it retroactive?

00:11:00.900 That's what everybody's calling it.

00:11:02.080 It is retroactive.

00:11:03.260 And as I'm sure your listeners know, that was the name of at least the Department of Army for many years until the post-World War II era.

00:11:11.800 So it is a return to our history.

00:11:14.660 It's an absolute return to history.

00:11:16.240 And by the way, another return to history, and I made this point on Piers Morgan, is that the United States Navy has been interdicting small boats in the Caribbean Sea since the United States Navy has existed.

00:11:27.980 This is not a new mission for the United States Navy at all.

00:11:31.300 We've been doing it literally for hundreds of years.

00:11:33.900 Gun runners, slavers, pirates, mercenaries, rum runners during Prohibition, all the rest of it, blockade runners during the Civil War.

00:11:43.600 This is nothing new for the U.S. Navy whatsoever.

00:11:47.440 Yet for some reason, the media is completely losing their minds about it.

00:11:52.760 They are.

00:11:53.540 And actually, you know, Jack, while we were on the break, I was reminded of this.

00:11:57.500 In the 1990s, the Clinton administration launched something called the Air Bridge Denial Program, where the CIA, working with the Peruvian Air Force, was actually shooting down drug cartel aircraft.

00:12:12.240 And they shot down dozens of these aircraft.

00:12:15.340 The program ended because, unfortunately, they shot down a plane load of American missionaries.

00:12:21.260 And the CIA was found to have lied about what they knew and didn't know, and it would have turned into a bigger scandal how 9-11 not happened.

00:12:30.780 But again, this type of activity, whether you agree with it or not, is not something new in our hemisphere.

00:12:38.680 And I would also argue, again, I saw something else that, before we went on, that some people were complaining that we had more assets, military assets here in our Western Hemisphere than we had in the Middle East right now, specifically ships.

00:12:54.500 Well, I'm sorry, what happens in the Western Hemisphere is more important to our physical safety and the conditions of our economic prosperity than what happens in the Red Sea or in the Persian Gulf.

00:13:05.780 So, you know, this is, again, a return to where our founders were, where most American presidents were for most of our history, that what matters in our backyard is more important than, say, who controls the Donbass or what's going on in the Red Sea.

00:13:23.780 So I think, again, whether you agree or disagree with what's going on right now, that's important to remember.

00:13:29.240 No, these are the specific ideals and policies that President Trump campaigned on.

00:13:34.260 This is what the strategy of hemispheric defense is all about.

00:13:38.960 Now, we did see this news out of the Pentagon this morning regarding the USS Ford carrier strike group is now going to be moving south beyond the Gulf of America down to the Caribbean,

00:13:51.220 potentially to increase optionality should the president call for these so-called,

00:13:58.120 and we're certainly hearing this over and over, potential land strikes in Venezuela itself.

00:14:05.020 What's really going on here?

00:14:06.620 There's some people who say, look, this is a backdoor regime change project.

00:14:10.180 There are other people who say, you know, this is threats for Maduro.

00:14:14.020 It's a leveraging technique.

00:14:15.620 Walk us through how you view the situation that really is unfolding in the Caribbean right now.

00:14:20.640 Well, first and foremost, you said it, is what the Department of War is doing, is giving the president options.

00:14:27.420 By deploying this carrier battle group to the region, they are significantly increasing the capabilities of Southern Command,

00:14:34.540 which is the overall combatant command responsible for that region and these operations against the drug cartels.

00:14:41.860 This is going to quadruple, I believe, more than quadruple the number of fixed-wing aircraft available to Southcom.

00:14:48.720 It's going to introduce more supporting ships and more destroyers, and I believe another cruiser as well, too.

00:14:56.680 So you're going to have not just more firepower, but more capability.

00:15:00.300 So, you know, for example, you're going to have more capability to conduct a suppression of enemy air defense mission,

00:15:06.660 which is, you know, degrading enemy air defenses, and we have to remember that Venezuela actually has a modern Russian-built air defense system.

00:15:15.540 You're going to have more intelligence capabilities.

00:15:18.240 You're going to have more surveillance capabilities.

00:15:20.920 So this is a significant increase in the capabilities of Southcom.

00:15:25.360 Now, what does this ultimately mean?

00:15:27.440 You know, there's a lot of leaks in the media about, you know, who wants what in the administration and what President Trump is supposedly thinking.

00:15:37.280 I just would caution people to be wary of that.

00:15:40.700 But what we can't deny is that this gives the president more ability to put military pressure, not just on the cartels, but also on the Maduro regime.

00:15:52.080 Now, to your question about the regime change, I don't know if a decision has been made to go all the way that direction.

00:16:00.960 But regardless of what you think about the cartel mission, we should definitely be wary of that possibility.

00:16:08.980 Well, and I think that's right.

00:16:10.580 So, I mean, you're talking about the USS Ford, and that's the entire strike group.

00:16:14.300 So they're going to have at least four or five destroyers that will head down with it to provide that air defense screen for the destroyer or for the carrier itself, I should say.

00:16:24.380 Probably, you know, usually there's a couple of subs that are in tow whenever, you know, whenever those operations go out.

00:16:29.740 And by the way, so the land strikes, and this is something that's key, by the way, the land strikes wouldn't necessarily be conducted from the Ford itself.

00:16:38.340 We've got plenty of bombers that could do that, but the Ford would actually be there for the, you know, the basic, you know, the secondary or even, you know, early, you know, early preparation of the operational environment should those strikes occur.

00:16:54.360 Right.

00:16:54.880 And it also brings combat search and rescue capabilities.

00:16:58.120 If, God forbid, a manned aircraft is shot down.

00:17:00.980 But most of the strikes have been done by a drone up to this point, right, for the most part, as far as we know?

00:17:09.440 As far as we know, it has been unmanned aerial systems, drones, probably Reaper drones, but the Department of War hasn't disclosed every system they've used in these strikes.

00:17:20.460 But it would appear that it is mostly unmanned systems they've been using so far.

00:17:27.060 That's exactly right.

00:17:28.060 And so, and I wouldn't be surprised if some Helos were evolved as well, but it just makes sense.

00:17:33.220 They have the optionality.

00:17:34.400 They've got, you know, they've got the Reapers down there.

00:17:37.200 And simply put, this is exactly what they were designed to do.

00:17:41.280 You know, people are used, of course, to seeing them in the Middle East going after trucks or going after convoys or ISIS or something like that.

00:17:49.820 And, of course, they were fantastic at doing so.

00:17:53.100 And going after a fast boat in the Caribbean really isn't much difference at all.

00:17:57.420 Correct.

00:17:57.820 And this is something important, too, to remember about the Reapers, is that they can loiter for an incredibly long time.

00:18:04.160 They can loiter for up to a day, whereas a Helo or a fighter jet, they burn a lot of fuel very quickly.

00:18:10.600 And even if they're just flying a short range, they can maybe at most get a few hours where they're over a target area.

00:18:16.280 With a Reaper, they can stay up for almost a whole day.

00:18:19.140 And so that gives a lot of a lot of coverage.

00:18:22.000 And then, of course, it's unmanned.

00:18:23.700 So you're not risking a pilot and crew in those operations.

00:18:26.900 Well, and there's even we've even seen speaking of which of the loiter time, that's exactly what we're starting to see out of Ukraine, Russia, even Iran.

00:18:36.360 And they're making loiter munitions, basically, that are able to hang in the sky and wait for a specific target package to come by.

00:18:45.920 They're AI controlled or, in some cases, remote controlled.

00:18:50.280 I mean, these, the skies are getting very complicated, very, very complicated.

00:18:56.580 Dan Caldwell, we're up on a quick break here.

00:18:58.560 This is fantastic.

00:18:59.660 We'll be right back here.

00:19:00.760 Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.

00:19:03.440 The cartel wars have begun.

00:19:10.920 You talk about influencers.

00:19:12.820 These are influencers.

00:19:14.740 And they're friends of mine.

00:19:17.080 Jack Prasovic.

00:19:18.580 Where's Jack?

00:19:19.220 Jack.

00:19:20.280 He's got a great job.

00:19:22.740 All right, Jack Prasovic.

00:19:25.820 We're back here.

00:19:26.520 Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.

00:19:30.040 We're on with Dan Caldwell.

00:19:31.440 He is a former department of, former War Department.

00:19:34.440 I like saying that.

00:19:35.460 Former War Department official from the War Department.

00:19:38.360 It just sounds so good.

00:19:39.240 It rolls off the tongue.

00:19:41.260 Over at the Pentagon.

00:19:42.100 And we're walking through this new optionality that the USS Ford Carrier Strike Group gives to the president

00:19:49.100 when dealing with these terrorist organizations down south that the interdiction operation that we're seeing out in really trendy Aragua and so many others of the cartels that are coming up out of Venezuela.

00:20:01.060 Now, that being said, there have been some questions and I think legitimate concerns as well.

00:20:06.600 That if land strikes do occur, does the Maduro regime view that as an attack on them?

00:20:13.560 And if so, do they escalate?

00:20:15.920 Because we know that there have definitely been some demonstrated overlap and demonstrated ties between certain members of the Maduro regime and Trendyragua.

00:20:25.220 So, that being said, if these land strikes do occur, what are some of the ways that Maduro could respond to this?

00:20:33.740 Well, this is probably the most important question.

00:20:37.160 And, you know, going back to what you were discussing in the previous segment, to conduct those land strikes,

00:20:43.400 I think that you are going to have to conduct some type of suppression of enemy air defense mission.

00:20:49.580 Because, again, Venezuela does have a modern Russian-built air defense system.

00:20:54.900 And that's, I think, one of the reasons the Ford is being moved in.

00:20:58.820 Not because anybody's made a firm decision, but, again, to give the president options.

00:21:03.800 And I think considering the whole ideology behind the Maduro regime, which it is a Marxist regime,

00:21:10.320 but it's also rooted in this Bolivarian nationalism, this whole idea that they threw off imperialism from the Europeans,

00:21:19.120 and now the threat from imperialism is from the Yankees.

00:21:22.820 But I think that there is always a risk that Maduro or his cartel allies would have to retaliate in some way.

00:21:30.360 That could be retaliation against military assets the United States has in the Caribbean.

00:21:38.440 Or it could, God forbid, include retaliation against our homeland.

00:21:42.020 Again, nothing is guaranteed.

00:21:44.000 Nothing is set in stone.

00:21:46.380 But those are the range of different things that could occur.

00:21:50.180 And I know there's a lot of smart people at DOD and DHS thinking through that and hopefully preparing for that.

00:21:56.620 But it is important to know that that type of escalation could be met with blowback in that regard.

00:22:05.560 Right.

00:22:06.100 And by the way, so that's, I mean, you're talking about blowback not just from, so the merger regime, again, serious military, Russian-backed, Chinese-backed, serious air defense.

00:22:17.080 And so, you know, good chance that, you know, we're not going to.

00:22:20.260 Now, and by the way, this is why when we flew those B-2 bombers over when the president ordered that Operation Midnight Hammer over Iran, that's why he did it after Israel and the Israeli Air Force had already conducted those operations to destroy the air defense.

00:22:37.620 They were so degraded that it provided the president with an opportunity to do so.

00:22:42.100 We don't have that situation here, so it would have to be American aircraft of some sort flying that operation.

00:22:50.360 That is correct.

00:22:51.380 And also remember during Operation Midnight Hammer is that there was over 100 aircraft, including fourth and fifth gen fighters going into Iran, a lot of supporting aircraft in the Persian Gulf, you know, AWACS aircraft, intelligence aircraft, probably electronic warfare aircraft, in support of those 14 B-2 bombers going in.

00:23:11.000 And so while the Venezuelan air defense network, it probably isn't overall more robust as the Iranians, to your point, it has not been degraded.

00:23:21.540 So to do that would require a major operation in and of itself before you would have any type of significant land campaign.

00:23:29.320 And I think that's exactly right, and I think people have to understand that this isn't, you know, it's not video game logic, right?

00:23:39.360 You can't just, oh, I'm going to, or call in a bombing.

00:23:41.520 No, that's not how that works.

00:23:43.120 All of this requires serious planning.

00:23:45.400 All of this requires serious effort.

00:23:47.100 And we certainly have a serious military.

00:23:49.380 And so the questions, of course, come down to, you know, do we want to, do we want to bite that off?

00:23:54.860 Do we want to go in that far?

00:23:56.700 Is this really what the American people are going to want?

00:23:59.720 And by the way, when you mentioned blowback, I wanted to step on that for a second because the cartels themselves, not just the Venezuelan Trendyragua, but also the cartels out of El Salvador, MS-13, the cartels out of Mexico, Jalisco New Cartel, and others.

00:24:15.060 These are serious players.

00:24:20.420 I was saying earlier in the opening that some of the worst videos I've ever seen online are the cartel videos, the violence, the just insane levels of depravity.

00:24:31.740 It's far worse than anything.

00:24:33.280 You can, you know, I'll pay to show Chris Hayes or anyone who wants the Telegram pages where you can go find this stuff.

00:24:39.760 And I will, I definitely get fined if I'm playing those videos right now.

00:24:43.860 But they are going to bring that north of the border.

00:24:47.960 They really are.

00:24:49.180 I mean, is the United States prepared to deal with that kind of blowback?

00:24:54.620 No, I hope so.

00:24:56.380 Again, credit to this administration.

00:24:59.120 We've really locked down the border.

00:25:01.380 Again, the Department of War is playing a key part in that.

00:25:03.480 I think that's appropriate use of the Department of War.

00:25:05.680 They are definitely more aware and awake to this threat than the previous administration was, for sure.

00:25:14.780 But, again, these are organizations that are embedded and have tentacles throughout our country, not just in the southern states, not just in Arizona where I grew up, but across the country.

00:25:24.880 And they are a much bigger threat than the remnants of ISIS and al-Qaeda and have more capability than those threats.

00:25:36.100 Unfortunately, for a long time, for over 20 years, we devoted far more resources to, really, after 2011, after we killed bin Laden and after President Trump destroyed the ISIS caliphate, we devoted, even then, far more resources to those threats than the ones in our backyard.

00:25:57.420 And, Jack, I just got to say, that makes this situation much more complicated. 0.98

00:26:03.060 It is not as black and white to say, okay, you know, this is us getting into yet another stupid war in the Middle East. 0.99

00:26:10.340 This is our backyard. 0.99

00:26:12.140 And there are real threats and interests at stake.

00:26:15.380 So it's not as clear. 1.00

00:26:17.040 It's not as like, okay, this is another stupid war. 0.99

00:26:20.700 There are things we have to do here to keep ourselves safe. 0.95

00:26:24.160 But at the same time, we have to acknowledge that there are real risks because escalation, and we could do something that, in the long term, actually makes certain things worse in our own hemisphere.

00:26:35.580 Right.

00:26:36.140 No, it's got to be done.

00:26:37.260 It's got to be done the right way.

00:26:38.420 Dan Caldwell, where can people go to follow you and get access to your work?

00:26:42.540 The best place, again, is at Dan D. Caldwell on X.

00:26:48.720 That's the best platform.

00:26:50.200 You can see me talking about stuff like this and maybe posting something about how I struggle, whether or not Kill Em All is the best album or Ride the Lightning.

00:26:57.480 That's a continued debate I have within myself.

00:26:58.560 I mean, it is Ride the Lightning, but I was kind of going for an effect there.

00:27:01.920 But, you know, we can get into that.

00:27:04.160 We can get into that the next time.

00:27:05.760 Dan Caldwell, give him a shot, folks.

00:27:07.800 Special guest coming up next here at Real Love News.

00:27:12.060 Where's Jack?

00:27:14.140 Where is he?

00:27:15.440 Jack, I want to see you.

00:27:16.780 Great job, Jack.

00:27:20.440 Thank you.

00:27:21.240 What a job you do.

00:27:22.640 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:27:24.040 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.

00:27:31.800 All right, Jack Vazovic.

00:27:33.020 We're back live here.

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00:28:56.920 All right, we've got someone joining us in a minute here with a very special announcement.

00:29:04.920 I believe we have a video of this announcement.

00:29:07.540 We're going to play it right now.

00:29:09.520 In the current political landscape, history repeats itself pretty much on a daily basis.

00:29:14.300 And so much of what we see today could be better understood if we just had a little more context.

00:29:20.300 We live in a lost culture that pushes us to search for meaning and fulfillment in all of the wrong places.

00:29:26.660 And so much of what we see in the news today is a reflection of this.

00:29:30.080 In this show, we will dive deeper into topics seeking to truly understand them from a Christian conservative perspective.

00:29:36.560 Check out Restoring America with Grace Riley on all platforms.

00:29:41.340 Ladies and gentlemen, Grace Riley joins us here on Human Events Daily.

00:29:45.720 What's up, Grace?

00:29:46.920 It is so great to be with you, Jack.

00:29:48.900 Thank you so much for having me.

00:29:51.400 Well, congratulations on the new show.

00:29:54.220 Well, thank you so much.

00:29:55.640 And it's amazing to be joining your great show.

00:29:59.600 And I hope that anything I can provide in the new show will be a great addition to all of the information that you do so well covering every day here.

00:30:08.200 Well, there's no question about that.

00:30:10.380 And I'm more than happy to support, Grace.

00:30:12.680 I wanted to, you know, people know you.

00:30:15.320 They've seen you doing, you know, all sorts of media.

00:30:18.260 You've been blowing up on social media.

00:30:20.180 I've seen you've got millions of views all across these reels that you do.

00:30:24.700 But I don't know that everybody knows the background that you and I met many moons ago through Turning Point USA and that you were, in fact, a Turning Point USA alumni.

00:30:37.420 Tell us a little bit about that story and how it really was, you know, Charlie and his work that got you started.

00:30:45.040 Yeah, this truly is just another example of Charlie's impact.

00:30:48.900 First of all, that I would even be talking to all of you today, but just that Jack's been able to have an impact on my life as well.

00:30:55.080 I started with Turning Point as a high school student and I basically met Charlie Kirk, was inspired to decide to fully commit to standing for Christian conservative values, which at the time as a high schooler wasn't the easiest thing to do.

00:31:10.360 It wasn't a popular thing, that's for sure.

00:31:12.960 But I decided, you know what, this is worth it.

00:31:15.460 The truth is on my side and I want my generation to actually hear these ideas, which they weren't hearing.

00:31:21.400 That's something that I had noticed. So I started a chapter, got involved in Turning Point and the rest is history.

00:31:27.280 But because of that and all of the things that have happened years since with Turning Point, with people like Charlie believing in me, people like Jack believing in me, that's why my work now is an outgrowth of Turning Point and that impact.

00:31:41.860 And that's that's so amazing.

00:31:43.500 And by the way, you know, you came out to the memorial.

00:31:46.400 You were there in Arizona. You did a lot of coverage of that.

00:31:49.600 You did a lot of appearances and you have been.

00:31:52.640 I just wanted to say thank you for, you know, having the really just the bravery to be able to take that spark that Charlie, I think, and motivation and inspiration that Charlie gave to so many of us and to be able to use that to let that shine through.

00:32:10.320 And so much of the media and so much of the coverage that you did, because I know it couldn't have been easy.

00:32:14.260 Yeah, well, it's been an honor and an absolute privilege, one that I'm so grateful to God for just to have the opportunity to be able to honor someone who has had such an impact on our lives, but also on the country and the course of history.

00:32:30.460 Of course, the impact he's had through sharing his faith, being so dedicated to truth and really being dedicated to the why of it all and being dedicated to explaining the why to people who weren't hearing Christian conservative ideas is what has had such an impact.

00:32:48.240 That's gotten our country to this point in a lot of ways has gotten the conservative movement to this point in a lot of ways.

00:32:54.760 And I think every day it's an honor for us all to just wake up and do our very best to carry on his legacy the best we can and to just keep spreading the truth because it matters.

00:33:05.580 It matters so much. And, you know, I've seen so many people try to kind of like spin Charlie's legacy and try to put him in a different, you know, box or this and that.

00:33:18.780 But people don't realize that Charlie was really just about being there for the kids, being there on campus.

00:33:24.800 You're obviously living proof of that, that he was he was also trying to identify talent, that he would go out and he would say, you know, I've got to identify who are the some of the best student leaders.

00:33:36.880 And then some of them would get jobs with Turning Point. Some of them would go on to become field organizers with Turning Point Action.

00:33:43.520 Others would step up in different ways, student government, student leadership.

00:33:47.580 There's so many different options. But of course, it was sort of this this funnel.

00:33:51.060 And then obviously, media route was another one that clearly you have excelled at.

00:33:56.400 And that was so much of what his vision was. It wasn't just the idea of, you know, promoting.

00:34:01.660 And it was a simple message, right? Very simple message. God, family, country.

00:34:05.020 That's pretty much like that's literally it right there. God, family, country.

00:34:07.940 But you could you could boil it all down to those three.

00:34:10.680 But but it was his organizational abilities and his never ending drive to just go campus by campus to find the best talent in America.

00:34:21.040 And give it give it an opportunity to shine. And that's what was so different about Charlie.

00:34:26.200 And I think so many of these other youth directed organizations that he really did make it about the people.

00:34:33.260 Yeah. And what it really was, too, to just lean in on that is that he gave people courage.

00:34:39.380 He gave people the courage to speak out, to dive deeper into what they thought and become committed to sharing that with other people.

00:34:47.540 That's something that students on college campuses and high school campuses across the country have trouble with, because a lot of the times they're feeling alone.

00:34:56.020 They're feeling like all of their teachers or peers are more on the left and that they're going to get bullied or ostracized for being conservative.

00:35:03.520 And I think that something that Charlie's done is he's changed that.

00:35:06.740 I would say that that's not the reality anymore. And it's very clear to all young conservatives out there that you are not alone.

00:35:13.380 There are so many linking arms with you across the country and more people are bold, are bold and excited and courageous enough to be sharing their values now than they ever were.

00:35:25.320 I think even when I was in high school and Charlie is a huge part of that.

00:35:32.360 You know, I and it's it's funny because I remember like meeting you.

00:35:35.600 It was it was like ALX, you know, some of the great school.

00:35:40.900 And Anna Polina Luna was, you know, just she was, quote unquote, just an influencer.

00:35:46.220 She wasn't a congresswoman yet.

00:35:47.640 And Candace, obviously, you know, Graham Allen, you know, you go all the way back and, you know, it's it's you look at where everybody is now and the role they've taken on.

00:35:58.460 And, you know, I love the fact you're calling it American restoration because it's it's the opposite of revolution.

00:36:06.420 That's what the left wants. You're talking about restoring that which made America great in the first place.

00:36:11.860 Yeah, absolutely. And something that the left is so hyper focused on is this transformation.

00:36:18.140 Of course, that's something Obama used to talk about a lot, but they want to transform us away from the values that founded us and have allowed our country to excel all of these years to the point where we're about to hit 250 great years.

00:36:33.140 And the fact that so many on the left are so ready and willing to stand against those things, to stand against the values that have founded our country is a huge problem.

00:36:42.960 And that's why with the company that I'm with restoration of America and now this show, which is a play on that restoring America, we're focused on bringing back those values, putting shining a light on them, shining a light on the things that have made our country successful.

00:36:59.040 So great. But beyond that, shining a light on truth, because, of course, that's what it is when it comes down to it.

00:37:04.820 I mean, the values that founded our country are something that, unfortunately, people disagree on today.

00:37:11.900 America is in the midst of a very serious identity crisis for many reasons.

00:37:16.480 But one of these key reasons is that the left and the right today fundamentally disagree on their vision for the country.

00:37:23.560 And a lot of that comes down to the very basics, the foundations and the values.

00:37:28.960 So we think that if we can talk more about those, talk about the why more, that hopefully we'll be able to kind of reignite those conversations and get people thinking more about these whys.

00:37:41.620 Because another thing is, with the pace of current events, it's so easy to just be trying to keep your head above water and keeping up with the latest insane things that are happening.

00:37:51.140 So the goal of the show is to add more layers to that.

00:37:55.120 Heartbreak coming up. We'll be right back.

00:37:57.540 He's the host of the new show, Restoring America, podcast.

00:38:01.640 Check it out. Right back to your market.

00:38:03.580 Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book.

00:38:13.320 Everybody's talking about it. Go get it.

00:38:15.640 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.

00:38:19.600 And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.

00:38:22.760 Amen.

00:38:27.160 All right, Jack, we're back live here at Human Events Daily.

00:38:30.500 We are on with Grace Riley, a Turning Point USA alumnus who is now launching the new show and podcast, Restoring America.

00:38:42.180 I couldn't be more excited.

00:38:43.160 Grace, before we dig into, I wanted to hit some issues with you.

00:38:46.360 Before we do, tell us where people can go to get access to this.

00:38:50.260 Obviously, you're going to be promoting it on your social media.

00:38:52.580 But if they don't know where to get that, where do they go?

00:38:55.060 On YouTube at the Restoring America podcast and then on the rest of the platforms at Restoring America podcast.

00:39:05.280 And you can search it on Spotify, Apple.

00:39:08.280 And I look forward to having you join.

00:39:12.140 Oh, I'd be I'd be more than happy to join.

00:39:14.300 So we'll get up. It's Restoring America.

00:39:16.000 It's on every single spot that you can get things.

00:39:19.300 All of you have to have to watch the show because Jack's going to be on it in the near future.

00:39:23.520 So you can't miss that.

00:39:25.920 Wow. Just like put me in a box like that, huh?

00:39:28.540 Put me on the spot.

00:39:29.660 Like now I just have to do it.

00:39:31.020 That's called live booking, folks.

00:39:33.080 Live.

00:39:33.220 That's right.

00:39:34.340 That's right.

00:39:35.260 No, I said I would be on.

00:39:36.760 I said I'm happy to be on when you asked.

00:39:39.000 You know, you have to do that and put me on the spot, Grace.

00:39:41.300 Gosh, you know.

00:39:42.580 No, no.

00:39:42.980 I'm more than happy to be on.

00:39:45.180 And, you know, that's something Charlie always said.

00:39:46.820 I remember funny enough and not that it applies to you, but I remember there was a time where I forget.

00:39:53.700 I forget what it was.

00:39:54.800 I had this decision to make and I had a couple of different requests about interviews.

00:40:00.660 And I go to Charlie.

00:40:01.600 I said, what do you think I should do with this?

00:40:02.780 You know, I've got like a couple of interviews, but they're like the same time.

00:40:05.420 And, you know, it's just logistically kind of weird.

00:40:07.840 And I was like, I don't know if I don't want to like take off anybody, but, you know, and he goes, find a way to do them all.

00:40:14.220 Just find a way to do them all.

00:40:15.360 Do everything.

00:40:16.140 Just do everything.

00:40:17.500 And that was always his policy.

00:40:19.040 Just do everything.

00:40:20.240 Be everywhere.

00:40:22.180 Well, now you're going to be able to do that.

00:40:25.120 Yeah, and I'll be able to do that.

00:40:26.200 Exactly right.

00:40:26.820 I finally be on the Restoring America podcast.

00:40:28.660 I finally get somewhere.

00:40:29.900 Exactly.

00:40:30.820 And so, but, but Grace, what I'd love to, and, you know, and if we want to do a, you know,

00:40:35.020 and by the way, so is this going to be, are you talking like, are these going to be in-depth podcasts or is it going to be short stuff?

00:40:41.000 Like what's, what's your, what's your format?

00:40:43.800 Yeah.

00:40:44.040 So it's going to be short.

00:40:45.040 And part of the reason for that is to hopefully be able to reach all of you with your busy schedules,

00:40:49.900 because there's so much out there to consume and be watching and learning every single day.

00:40:55.580 So it will be short and digestible.

00:40:57.540 That's the goal, but it's going to have unique value where it will feel in depth.

00:41:01.540 That's the goal here.

00:41:02.760 So, so that you can be adding on your knowledge when you're looking at current events, everything,

00:41:08.140 even from history in the past that will be brought up is going to be incredibly relevant.

00:41:12.360 I've found that that's what people are the most interested in because it really brings to life all of the issues that we're facing today.

00:41:19.040 Well, the biggest one for me, and, and obviously we, you know, we started talking about Charlie,

00:41:25.640 but the biggest thing that I've been, you know, raising the alarm on, and obviously I've talked about it for years,

00:41:30.900 but, you know, predominantly in the last couple of weeks is the rise of leftist political violence.

00:41:35.320 And it's something where I just feel like it still to this point.

00:41:41.080 And that's why we have to use social media.

00:41:42.680 That's why we have to bring this information directly to people videos again, right?

00:41:47.260 If you just look at the U-Haul video, that's going viral this morning of this U-Haul out in Oakland, California, that, you know,

00:41:54.240 if you clip that video, so what Antifa is doing, they're going, they're running all over Tik TOK right now.

00:41:58.540 And they're clipping the video to make it look like these officers, these, this federal law enforcement is just randomly opening fire on a U-Haul truck.

00:42:07.520 But if you show the full video, what does it show?

00:42:10.900 It says the U-Haul shows the U-Haul truck and the Antifa driver are flooring it in reverse so that the, you know, the, the back area of the U-Haul is directed at these officers.

00:42:22.980 I mean, not obviously it could have killed them by running them over.

00:42:26.620 And who knows, there could have been an ID in there.

00:42:29.080 There could have been worse.

00:42:30.140 And unfortunately, I feel like this is getting worse.

00:42:32.400 Grace, do you feel like when you go out and you, you know, you put the stuff on social media, are people starting to become more receptive?

00:42:38.620 What, what's your sense there?

00:42:40.760 Yeah.

00:42:41.200 You know, that's my hope.

00:42:42.320 Of course, what you're saying though, is something I've been thinking a lot about that.

00:42:46.280 Is there hope to even have conversations like this and, you know, to talk about the whys? 0.61

00:42:50.820 If one side is so okay with political violence all of a sudden, obviously there are people on both sides who, who aren't, but there's a huge fringe of people and it's not a small amount anymore.

00:43:04.240 We saw that after Charlie passed away and so many people were celebrating his death.

00:43:08.560 There's a lot of people who have normalized and become okay with complete dehumanization and political violence.

00:43:15.180 And that's a serious, serious problem and something that's hard to reason with and that we need to call out at every single chance we get.

00:43:22.600 And it's been insane to watch the escalations of Antifa throughout the past few years, but even just throughout the past few months.

00:43:30.360 I mean, it's gotten worse.

00:43:31.860 It feels like it gets worse every day almost, even watching what's happening with ICE agents who are just doing their jobs.

00:43:37.320 And then also watching Democrat leadership say that it's all okay and be okay with it, right?

00:43:44.480 I mean, the fact that Democrat leadership has been justifying and defending behavior like that, encouraging behavior like that.

00:43:50.900 And I think that that's why it's so important to be calling this out, covering it, because we didn't always, you know, years ago, used to be in a place where so many people were okay with normalizing political violence and such extreme reactions to people that you don't agree with politically.

00:44:09.240 It's absolutely insane.

00:44:10.940 And something that you've pointed out on the show and is a great point is that Antifa is not new.

00:44:15.360 None of this is new.

00:44:16.240 This playbook is not new, and that's super important to understand when looking at everything going on today.

00:44:24.000 No, it's not new at all, and yet you'll hear, oh, someone's throwing this around.

00:44:29.220 Oh, the president has locked up, you know, thousands of New Yorkers.

00:44:32.420 That's what they were saying, thousands of New Yorkers.

00:44:34.280 No, these are not New Yorkers.

00:44:35.480 These are illegal invaders, right?

00:44:37.400 Exactly.

00:44:37.640 But they play these games.

00:44:39.540 Yeah, I think that's what's so crazy.

00:44:42.920 Or go ahead, Josh.

00:44:43.480 I was just going to say, when you're talking to, you know, other people, when you're trying to recruit for Turning Point, when you're going to high schools, when you're going to college campuses, you know, do people, you know, are they open to hearing perhaps a different point of view than that which they're provided by the mainstream media?

00:45:00.420 I think that they definitely are, and part of the reason that I would say that is because people have noticed this escalation in being okay with political violence, for example.

00:45:11.420 And there are a lot of decent, reasonable people who see that and say, oh, wait, I don't want to be on that side.

00:45:17.480 I don't agree with that.

00:45:18.340 So, I think the radicalization of the left has actually helped people that maybe are more in the middle but lean more towards the left understand the direction that the left is going and be more open to considering other ideas.

00:45:33.280 So, there's definitely a chance for that.

00:45:35.720 And something that we've seen through what Charlie Kirk did is the willingness of people to come and at least listen and have conversations.

00:45:43.100 Now, of course, there are people who show up to events like that and won't change their minds, have already decided that.

00:45:49.940 And that's definitely a serious problem in our country.

00:45:52.500 People who are committed to their ideas won't change their minds no matter what, always wrong but never are in doubt.

00:45:58.600 And that's something that I think we just have to not accept and fight against and just keep understanding that our ideas are right, better, and on the side of truth.

00:46:07.420 And that if we can keep bringing those ideas to more people, we do have a chance to change hearts and minds.

00:46:14.220 And I've experienced that in my own life, in my own work, people who were on the left and who have decided to consider conservative values because they've finally gotten a chance to hear them.

00:46:25.640 So, I think we've got to hold the line, keep spreading the truth because there is a chance.

00:46:30.240 And that's something, obviously, that Charlie believed with what he did every day and what we believe by nature of talking about conservative values and current events every single day, that people will be able to hear our ideas and consider them.

00:46:44.620 And hopefully that's something that people start opening up more to.

00:46:49.200 And I think that this violence is actually opening more people's eyes.

00:46:52.920 I think it's exactly right.

00:46:55.860 Grace, I couldn't be more excited to support your podcast and let everybody know about it.

00:47:01.400 I just have to say there's only one rule.

00:47:03.980 You can't live stream from two to three, okay?

00:47:06.720 Because other people are trying to encroach on my hour.

00:47:08.960 That is my hour.

00:47:10.240 That's my space, all right?

00:47:11.740 And then yesterday, Caroline Levitt was trying to get in there with the press conference. 1.00

00:47:17.400 I said, what do you guys do?

00:47:18.660 I'm, like, texting them.

00:47:19.940 So, no two to three.

00:47:21.020 Are we good on that?

00:47:21.840 No two to three.

00:47:23.440 Everyone, two to three.

00:47:24.600 Watch Human Events.

00:47:25.900 My show, don't watch it from two to three.

00:47:29.260 Yeah, start that right after.

00:47:31.460 Tell everybody once again where they can go get it.

00:47:34.240 Everyone, you can go on YouTube at The Restoring America Podcast.

00:47:39.300 You can find it on other platforms at Restoring America Podcast.

00:47:43.800 And you can look it up on Spotify and Apple to find Restoring America with Grace Riley.

00:47:49.620 And I hope you'll check it out and enjoy it.

00:47:52.160 I will bring you value.

00:47:53.880 That's my goal and promise.

00:47:56.640 All right.

00:47:57.360 Grace Riley, Restoring America is the show.

00:48:00.200 She's a great patriot and a TPUSA alumnus.

00:48:04.080 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 24, 2025

THE CARTEL WARS HAVE BEGUN

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