Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - The Texas RINO Purge, George Floyd, & The Viral Pro-Life Super Bowl A

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00:02:09.320 The Associated Press has now projected, right now,

00:02:12.860 that, in fact, Ken Paxton has, in fact, won this runoff primary against John Cornyn.

00:02:20.800 We just made history.

00:02:27.920 I want to thank my family, my kids, my grandchildren, the Paxton Patriots,

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00:02:54.100 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board to today's edition of Human Events Daily.

00:02:57.020 We're here live on Real America's Voice.

00:02:59.660 Today is May 27th, 2026.

00:03:02.160 anno domini we go now to texas where we're very honored to have once again on the program a good

00:03:09.800 friend of ours incredible patriot a historic candidate who just won a historic upset and yes

00:03:16.240 it is a patriot upset in texas his name is beau french and he just won the primary for texas

00:03:24.860 railroad commissioner mr french how are you jack i'm thrilled to be here thank you for having me on

00:03:30.820 today. So, Bo, talk to us a little bit about the race here, because you ran an extremely

00:03:38.900 unconventional campaign. You talked about some of the issues about the Railroad Commission

00:03:44.180 directly, but you spent a lot of time talking about immigration. You talked about cultural

00:03:49.480 issues. You talked about how Texas is being changed seemingly from the inside out. And you

00:03:55.260 were able to find a way to connect with voters in a race that, quite frankly, just isn't one

00:04:00.700 that typically gets the level of national attention as, you know, as, of course, Senator

00:04:06.700 Paxton or Senate, soon to be Senator Paxton's race over there on his side. How did you do it?

00:04:13.760 Well, first of all, it's a confusing office called the Railroad Commission, but really it is the

00:04:18.000 regulating agency over the Texas energy sector, our oil and gas industry, pipelines, mining.

00:04:24.300 So it's a hugely powerful position. You know, Texas produces, you know, almost half the oil

00:04:29.580 and gas in the United States. So, you know, very, very clear economic and even national

00:04:35.180 security interest there. But look, I ran a campaign because I had to win in a Republican

00:04:42.120 primary. And so I talked about traveling the entire state, meeting with patriots all around

00:04:47.660 the state, the issues that they actually cared about, talking about the Islamification of Texas,

00:04:52.700 talking about DEI, talking about LGBTQ issues, you know, talking about the change in our culture.

00:05:00.160 I'm 56 years old. I've watched our culture change dramatically over my lifetime. You know,

00:05:05.160 the H-1B fraud we've seen in entire communities changing. So those are the kind of issues that

00:05:12.040 our voters demand that elected officials address. And for far too long, many of our elected officials

00:05:18.840 haven't discussed those things or even confronted them. I think two years ago when I was talking

00:05:22.840 about the Islamification of Texas, I mean, I got roundly criticized. People tried to call me racist,

00:05:28.480 you know, told me to resign. CARE came after me. So I was early on this issue in Texas. But of

00:05:35.520 course, now everyone's talking about it. The Overton window has shifted. And I think my victory

00:05:39.980 is just a testament to the grassroots folks in Texas who are tired of electing people who aren't

00:05:45.580 fighting for them on any of these issues. And so by talking about them as much as I did,

00:05:50.060 of course, outside of the context of the purview of the agency that I'm running for,

00:05:56.620 but that's what mattered to the voters. They want people like me elected to go to Austin

00:06:01.680 to fix these issues. And so, look, I will work with our elected leaders in Texas to advance

00:06:08.280 issues and policies that help Texas and help this industry specifically, but they want people to

00:06:14.760 also talk about the issues that matter most to them. And that's what this victory is for.

00:06:19.380 Well, no, I couldn't agree more. And by the way, you know, aside from as important as it is and

00:06:24.760 the fact that it shows, by the way, that there is one issue above all others that that connects

00:06:31.080 with the grassroots voters. And that's the issue of what's going on in America on the ground today.

00:06:36.520 That issue, the issue you talk about deportations a lot, of course, the president's talked about it,

00:06:41.120 but you have made it a central point.

00:06:43.520 This is an issue that matters so much to Americans

00:06:45.440 because it takes that issue and makes it active.

00:06:47.800 But I would also add that obviously the issue of gas prices

00:06:51.360 is an incredibly huge issue right now,

00:06:53.720 and a lot of your policies would actually help Americans,

00:06:56.720 not just Texans, but Americans all around the country

00:07:00.260 because you've talked about making some specific changes

00:07:03.920 to the way the regulations work down there

00:07:05.760 that would really help Americans in the industry.

00:07:08.580 Yeah, I mean, the problem with regulators in general

00:07:11.000 is they listen to all of these radical leftists. And so they want to implement all of these

00:07:16.560 Obama, Biden era, EPA type regulations on our industry. And of course, that's harmful to the

00:07:23.220 industry that does have national security implications. So rolling back some of these

00:07:29.760 new regulations that literally just went into effect last July, we really haven't even felt

00:07:34.620 the full effect of them, but they are driving up costs and red tape for our industry. And of

00:07:40.880 course, that's at this time when global oil prices are much higher and gas prices at the pump are

00:07:46.320 much higher. People are feeling the effects of that even more. And so I think it actually helped

00:07:51.400 my campaign in a way because we need to get back to some lower oil prices, which the industry

00:07:58.340 doesn't love as much, but consumers need. There really is a sweet spot for oil prices where

00:08:03.300 the oil companies can still make money, keep people employed. The oil companies in Texas

00:08:07.860 through the energy sector employs over half a million people, but there's another 1.5 million

00:08:13.000 people indirectly affected by it. So we're talking roughly 2 million jobs in Texas that are dependent

00:08:18.000 on this industry. So it's hugely important to protect the industry, keep it profitable, keep

00:08:22.860 people employed, lowering those regulations. You know, I love how Donald Trump said, for every new

00:08:27.160 regulation they bring to me, I'm going to eliminate 10 regulations. That's kind of the way I view this.

00:08:31.680 We need to reduce some of these regulations and red tape and delays, which reduce cost for the

00:08:36.760 industry, which lowers the break-even point for the oil companies and keeps people employed and

00:08:42.980 helps consumers at the pump. Beau French, you're connecting with grassroots all across Texas. People

00:08:50.760 all around the country are now starting to tune in to the race, see what you're looking at. Also,

00:08:56.320 I love that, that pledge to work to bring down gas prices and the cost of oil. Where can people go

00:09:02.120 to follow you and get more involved with your campaign.

00:09:06.160 Yeah, go to beaufrench.com

00:09:08.040 and then follow me on Twitter at Beau French.

00:09:11.600 All right, Beau, please, as a favor to all of us,

00:09:14.460 do not stop posting.

00:09:16.980 Jack Posobiec, right back, Human Events Daily.

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00:09:41.220 It charges former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin 0.62

00:09:44.120 with murder in the second degree for the death of George Floyd.

00:09:47.340 In terms of the placement of Mr. Chauvin's knee,

00:09:52.100 would that anatomically cut off Mr. Floyd's area?

00:09:54.660 In my opinion, it would not.

00:09:55.800 Had you found Mr. Floyd under different circumstances, you would have determined this to be a fentanyl overdose.

00:10:07.900 Saban is in the courtroom, but America's on trial.

00:10:20.280 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec back live, Human Events Daily.

00:10:23.540 This next guest is someone who wrote a book that I have been waiting for for quite some time.

00:10:30.440 It builds off of the incredible work that was done by Liz Collin over at Alpha News,

00:10:35.860 who's written and discussed and broken so many incredible stories on a case that we were told that no one was allowed to touch,

00:10:43.800 that no one was allowed to look at, that no one was allowed to criticize.

00:10:45.780 and you put all of it together and really the worm is turning, as they say, on this case in

00:10:55.760 specific detail. The book's called American Scapegoat, How a Corrupt Justice System Sacrificed

00:11:02.720 Derek Chauvin to the Mob. The author is T.J. Harker. He is a former federal prosecutor. He

00:11:10.000 joins us now tj how are you great thanks jack thanks for having me on well i i i have to say

00:11:17.020 you know as i was chatting with you in the in the in the break just there i said you know this is a

00:11:20.900 book that so many times i've been telling myself gosh i i would love to write something like this

00:11:26.080 because the amount of misinformation and lies out there about the derek chauvin case is just

00:11:32.280 absolutely staggering not not to mention the uh the the act itself of what happened that day and

00:11:38.940 I've been to that square, you know, George Floyd Square, as it's called today, but also in the trial itself, as pertains to the makeup of the jury and people who essentially presented themselves under false pretenses to be on the jury.

00:11:53.360 But but at the same time, there's a tremendous social cost, or at least there was in breaching any of these issues.

00:12:00.280 What made you want to write this book?

00:12:02.760 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:12:03.960 I think, you know, when the events first happened, I sort of was watching them out of the corner of

00:12:08.440 my eye from the vantage point of a federal prosecutor, which I was at the time. And I

00:12:12.860 thought, you know, this looks more or less like an ordinary arrest, which I think to regular people

00:12:17.020 who are not familiar with explosive violence and the potential for an ordinary arrest to go south

00:12:22.560 very quickly, it looked unusual, looked harsh, but really it just looked like an ordinary arrest.

00:12:29.080 Long story short, about a year later, I had finished some large trials. I had left the

00:12:32.980 Department of Justice. I started writing for some outlets, which you've heard of. I've written

00:12:37.340 several articles for many of these outlets, including a few about Derek Chauvin.

00:12:41.300 And I started to look in detail at the case. And what I found was far, far worse than what I

00:12:48.100 expected to find. This was not just a question of whether or not the evidence rose to the level of

00:12:53.400 beyond a reasonable doubt. But the further I dug across months and then years, what I discovered

00:12:59.660 was not only as Derek Chauvin, not guilty, he is affirmatively innocent. He was not the cause

00:13:05.080 of George Floyd's death. Well, and, and let's dig into that right there because look for many

00:13:12.960 people, the last thing that, you know, that didn't watch the trial, the last thing they remember

00:13:16.880 was they see this, this video it's presented, you know, without any context of a, what appears to be

00:13:25.460 police officer appears to be detaining a a subject and police officer is white the suspect is black

00:13:32.660 they see him you know on the back they see the man on the ground and they're you know they hear

00:13:38.820 people screaming that he's being choked that he's being murdered are you telling me that's not what

00:13:42.820 happened yeah that's not what happened and if you think about it what most americans saw was the

00:13:48.340 very tail end of that arrest and what they saw was uh something a factual pattern you know the

00:13:53.940 white officer's knee on approximately the neck area of a black man, that lined up with a media

00:13:59.860 narrative that had been woven to sort of explain what seemed plausible, namely that a white officer

00:14:05.460 was restricting the ability to breathe of a black suspect. And that was consistent with another

00:14:10.780 fact, namely that George Floyd on the ground was saying, I can't breathe. And if you're the type

00:14:16.660 of person who spent three or four or five minutes watching that, well, you've got some facts and

00:14:20.940 you've got a plausible sounding narrative, and that's probably enough. And then six years later,

00:14:26.940 we've suffered the consequences of that view. But the short answer to your question is yes,

00:14:31.920 that is completely incorrect. George Floyd was not killed by Derek Chauvin's knee. He was not

00:14:38.320 killed by positional asphyxia. He was not killed by a blood choke. And this exact issue is critically

00:14:43.960 important to understanding what went right and what went wrong in this case. And to be clear,

00:14:50.000 the prosecutors didn't actually understand how George Floyd died. They never asked that question

00:14:55.660 carefully until after the trial had started, which is stunning to witness as a former prosecutor,

00:15:01.500 the discovery of a fact that exploded the prosecution's theory of the cause of George

00:15:06.120 Floyd's death. So yeah, your question is a good one. And it is correct that Derek Chauvin was not

00:15:11.440 the cause of George Floyd's death, even though it might've seemed that way when you watch that video.

00:15:15.540 So there's two pieces that I always bring up when we talk about this.

00:15:20.300 The first one, having been a Navy officer myself, is always, you know, was this approved?

00:15:26.740 Was this an approved takedown procedure, an approved hold procedure by the Minneapolis Police Department?

00:15:34.320 And, of course, the first thing that comes up when you dig into it is this slide from the training, which I believe we have,

00:15:40.000 the training arm of the Minneapolis Police Department, which shows an officer that actually

00:15:45.840 kind of looks like Derek Chauvin. I don't believe it's him, but it actually kind of looks like him

00:15:49.080 in the training materials, along with another officer who's performing pretty much the same

00:15:54.240 exact literal textbook hold that Chauvin was performing. So we see the approved move right

00:16:01.440 there. Now, here's the second part of the question, though. You just said that it was not a blood

00:16:06.680 choke and of course we we got into that in the trial i remember there was this uh sort of you

00:16:11.540 know uh shall we say uh aspiring mma fighter who was there who described a blood choke and said

00:16:17.760 that that's what he saw and and this is what happened but then upon further questioning

00:16:21.460 it came out that a blood choke actually requires uh pressure on both sides of the neck whereas in

00:16:27.660 this case that wasn't what happened so what did actually happen yeah and so you raised the two

00:16:34.020 issues that were of critical importance in the trial were one, was the use of force authorized

00:16:38.960 and separate and apart from that, what was the cause of death? So put yourself in the prosecutor's

00:16:44.700 position. It's late May, 2020. The ordinary American says, oh, a knee on the neck, a man

00:16:50.320 saying I can't breathe. I think I understand. That is not remotely detailed enough for a prosecutor's 1.00

00:16:57.040 purposes. You have to be able to explain the causal mechanism. And in this case, prosecutors

00:17:02.640 had to be able to explain the cause of George Floyd's death in a way that connected to Derek

00:17:07.640 Chauvin's knee. They couldn't say the man died of a heart attack. They couldn't say the man died of

00:17:11.920 a drug overdose. They couldn't say he died of excited delirium because those things had nothing

00:17:16.020 to do with Derek Chauvin. So knowing that they were limited to Derek Chauvin's knee and George

00:17:21.140 Floyd's neck, they had two choices. Either you could argue that George Floyd died because his

00:17:27.060 airway, his windpipe was compressed and oxygen could not flow in through his mouth, down his

00:17:32.300 throat into his lungs where it could be absorbed by the aldeolar sacs. Or you could argue that his

00:17:37.980 carotid arteries were compressed so that even though he could breathe in air through his mouth,

00:17:42.920 the heart could not pump oxygenated blood to George Floyd's brain. Prosecutors quickly did

00:17:48.960 away with the idea that mechanical asphyxia, that is the compression of the windpipe, was the cause.

00:17:54.120 And the reason they did away with that as an explanation back in May of 2020 was because

00:17:58.080 the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy, Dr. Andrew Baker, told them George Floyd did not

00:18:03.840 die from mechanical asphyxia. There's no bruising. There's no petechiae. There's no damage to the

00:18:09.000 laryngeal structures. So prosecutors stuck with the only option they had, carotid compression,

00:18:14.540 also called a vascular restraint or a blood choke. And the four lead prosecutors, there were over 25

00:18:20.060 prosecutors for the government in this case, but the four lead prosecutors appear never to have

00:18:24.560 thought about the fact that this was not actually physiologically possible until they realized it on

00:18:30.320 the fourth day of trial. I, as a prosecutor, have never seen anything like that in my life.

00:18:36.100 They went into the trial believing that it was possible to obstruct the flow of blood to Floyd's

00:18:40.960 brain by compressing one carotid artery. And both the defense counsel and the prosecutors realized

00:18:46.580 simultaneously that the prosecutors were relying on a flawed theory because obviously Derek

00:18:52.100 show and had only one knee on george floyd's neck and couldn't compress it could not compress both

00:18:57.940 tj give me one second we've got we've got a break here i want to hold you over because this is key

00:19:03.220 and people need to understand the the facts here because we need to get to the truth of what

00:19:08.900 actually happened that day right back human events daily today you talk about influences these are

00:19:14.500 influences. And they're friends of mine, Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack? He's done a great job.

00:19:27.060 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec. We are back live. Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.

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00:20:32.840 with the author of the new book american scapegoat tj harker this is just something that i thought

00:20:39.980 about. I battled a lot of the misinformation online. I'm so glad that you put this all together

00:20:45.480 because it's, it's just so true. And it's, it's a lie, not only that ripped our country apart,

00:20:50.400 but it's a lie that put a man in jail where he resides today behind bars, by the way, and

00:20:57.460 over this, this national lie. And, and I love your title, by the way, of the American scapegoat,

00:21:03.200 because that's exactly what they did. They, they said our nation is full of ills and we're going

00:21:07.720 turned this police officer into a scapegoat and nobody really wanted to speak out on his behalf.

00:21:19.320 And so with this, when we dig into it some more, you know, the question then that a lot of people

00:21:25.740 always get, and I went and pulled up his autopsy, what was the real situation going on with the

00:21:30.840 amount of drugs found in his system? Yeah, so his death was a really a multifactorial

00:21:35.800 explanation. But one of the key roles was the fentanyl and the methamphetamine. And a lot of

00:21:41.720 people who sort of analyze this case, if they're coming at it without considering all the facts,

00:21:45.540 what they say is he did not die of a fentanyl overdose because he had a tolerance. He did not

00:21:49.880 die of a fentanyl overdose because you don't act the way George Floyd acts if you have fentanyl

00:21:54.660 in your system. He did not die of a fentanyl overdose because respiratory depression occurs

00:21:58.920 five minutes after consumption. And if you research the facts, the maximum respiratory

00:22:03.780 depression occurs five minutes after consumption. If you research the facts closely, which I have,

00:22:08.520 all of these are actually explained by the available physical evidence. The fact is that

00:22:12.960 George Floyd ingested a huge amount of fentanyl, but he did so not once, but twice on two separate

00:22:18.700 occasions on May 25th. The first time occurred before the officers arrived. The second time

00:22:23.780 occurred most likely as Officer Lane and Officer Kung approached the vehicle. George Floyd likely,

00:22:29.440 it seems, shoved speed balls into his mouth as they approached. Now, we know that the speed 0.88

00:22:35.240 balls were in his mouth because we found them later in the squad vehicle. He ingested those

00:22:41.180 speed balls. Speed balls contain both methamphetamine and fentanyl. And so as he was

00:22:46.160 being walked over from his own vehicle to the squad car, his heart rate was accelerating from

00:22:51.120 the methamphetamine, which was offsetting the fentanyl. He then engaged in a massive struggle

00:22:55.660 with the police. That struggle ended with him on the ground because the officers, three grown men

00:23:00.960 could not control him, even though he was handcuffed. And they waited for the ambulance to

00:23:05.080 come. As they waited, the methamphetamine began to wear off. The increased heart rate from his

00:23:10.900 incredible struggle with the police began to slow down and the fentanyl kicked in and respiratory

00:23:16.040 depression began. When they conducted the autopsy in the toxicology report, they found 11 nanograms

00:23:22.800 per milliliter of fentanyl in his blood. This is by all accounts an extremely high dose. It is a

00:23:28.180 lethal dose for most people. One counter argument to this that many have made is that George Floyd

00:23:33.060 was a user. He was an addict and therefore 11 nanograms per milliliter was not fatal for him.

00:23:38.040 That is incorrect. George Floyd had overdosed one month earlier in April of 2020. He spent six or

00:23:43.820 seven days in the intensive care unit. He almost died. He then got clean according to the testimony

00:23:48.620 of his girlfriend, Courtney Turnall. He was clean for many weeks and started using again shortly

00:23:53.360 before he was arrested on May 25th, 2020. The testimony at trial and the scientific evidence

00:23:58.500 show clearly that if you stop using and get clean, you then no longer have the benefits of some level

00:24:05.140 of tolerance for a high drug concentration. George Floyd had the tolerance of a neophyte.

00:24:10.200 He was a new user. 11 nanograms per milliliter was a fatal dose for him and it contributed to his death.

00:24:16.260 And in fact, I've actually had some people who are familiar with this tell me that this is actually a common dynamic that they see in overdose cases where someone had been a long term user, but then had recently gotten clean, but then had a relapse.

00:24:31.940 And during the relapse, try to come in at that same higher amount that they were used to, but didn't realize that they had lost their tolerance and ended up taking the same amount.

00:24:41.980 I know I can take this much, I can handle this much is what I usually take, but actually it's

00:24:46.980 that getting clean that takes away the tolerance and it leads to overdose like this. Yeah. And

00:24:53.040 there's another fact to add to that, which is that the testimony at trial showed clearly that

00:24:57.320 George Floyd had a preference for fentanyl. He did not like speed balls, which were the combination

00:25:02.380 of fentanyl and methamphetamine. As far as the evidence shows, as far as I'm aware from my

00:25:06.740 research. There are only two times when George Floyd ingested speed balls. The first time was

00:25:12.120 back in April of 2020, when he and his girlfriend could not get access to fentanyl alone. He ingested

00:25:17.560 the speed balls, which he had obtained from a man named Maurice Hall. And he ended up in the

00:25:22.360 intensive care unit where he overdosed and almost died. The second time we made 25th, 2020.

00:25:29.600 If I was just going to say, and just in the last minute that we have, if I remember correctly,

00:25:32.920 Didn't Maurice Hall take the fifth when he was asked about whether or not he had sold the drugs to George Floyd that day?

00:25:40.820 Yes, this is an incredible story.

00:25:42.740 He was subpoenaed by the defense of Maurice Hall.

00:25:45.200 He pleaded the fifth because he was worried that he would be prosecuted for the murder of George Floyd.

00:25:49.600 There were multiple hearings on this.

00:25:51.380 The prosecution could have let him take the stand by granting immunity.

00:25:54.800 They refused, and the court could not overrule them.

00:25:57.460 The prosecutors, because they knew that if he that if they had to give him immunity or if he took the fifth, then that would completely undercut their theory of the case that Chauvin was the cause of the murder, because he was worried about the same law that a lot of states have.

00:26:12.480 And there's also federal law that if you sell someone drugs that kill them, you can be liable for homicide.

00:26:18.080 I wish we could get into this much longer.

00:26:19.980 Perhaps we'll have to get you on for a full hour on this because it's a fascinating story.

00:26:23.940 Fascinating book. Tell people again the name of the book and where they can get it.

00:26:27.460 Yeah, American scapegoat from Passage Publishing, and kudos to those guys.

00:26:31.000 They've had the courage to stick by this difficult subject, and I'm grateful for that.

00:26:35.900 No, they've done a great job, and kudos to you as well for finally putting it all together.

00:26:40.100 There's so many twists and turns.

00:26:41.580 The jury, the fact that activists lied to get on the jury, BLM activists who said they had no connection,

00:26:47.240 and then there's pictures of him with George Floyd's family is up there.

00:26:49.940 The entire thing is a travesty, and they turned Derek Chauvin truly into an American scapegoat.

00:26:57.460 Bad situation, but we need to tell the truth about it.

00:27:01.200 Right back, Human Events Daily.

00:27:12.140 Where is Jack?

00:27:14.600 Where's Jack?

00:27:16.700 Where is he?

00:27:17.980 Jack, I want to see you.

00:27:21.640 Great job, Jack.

00:27:23.140 Thank you.

00:27:23.900 What a job you do.

00:27:25.320 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:27:26.500 we're always talking about the fake news and the bad but we have guys

00:27:30.420 and these are the guys should be getting polices

00:27:41.380 i know you never expected this

00:27:46.500 the voices in the anger are so loud

00:27:48.900 I know you envisioned things differently.

00:28:03.620 They're telling you that you've only got two choices.

00:28:08.360 But the truth is, there's three.

00:28:13.940 Are these options difficult?

00:28:16.680 Of course they are.

00:28:18.900 but you deserve to know

00:28:23.580 adoption is an option

00:28:29.940 folks are back Jack Posobiec here live human events daily and we've got an action-packed show

00:28:40.860 for you today just incredible guests from Texas to Minneapolis and now to the

00:28:48.540 life community and for folks who remember the super bowl a couple of months back um you know

00:28:56.300 of course you remember our turning point usa halftime show which was uh incredibly amazing but

00:29:01.480 for my money there's only one ad that i actually remember from that night and i was you know busy

00:29:08.000 running around behind the scenes and and doing a lot of things but there's only i did try to go

00:29:12.520 back and watch most of the ads and just just see what was going on was out there and the one that

00:29:16.620 people kept sending me, the one over and over, and even from the very first time I saw it,

00:29:20.960 that had such an incredible impact, was an ad for Adoption. Adoption is an option. And in fact,

00:29:29.140 we have the founder of Adoption is an Option, and the creator, the driving force behind that ad

00:29:38.060 and this campaign now joins. His name is John Knox. He's here on Human Events Daily. John,

00:29:42.720 How are you? Great, Jack. Thanks for having me. So talk to us about the organization and the ad.

00:29:51.560 How did this all come to be? It all came about about five years ago after I had sold my last

00:29:59.460 surety bond company. I'd built and sold companies over 40 years that specialize in the surety bond

00:30:05.040 business. And when I sold my last company, I knew I wasn't going to start another one.

00:30:10.140 and somebody told me you have to be empty to let God fill you up and so I took that seriously and

00:30:16.700 I went on a journey during COVID and was gone for adoption as an option and I don't I didn't

00:30:27.500 know what that meant but I knew I needed to put my time talent and treasure into the world of

00:30:32.240 adoption I was adopted and so we formed that and we started developing different programs we

00:30:39.060 developed I Am That Kid, which is with pro athletes, entertainers, and people who had been

00:30:44.000 adopted all telling their stories. And then we developed the Opt Institute, where we did research

00:30:49.460 became a think tank research organization around private infant adoption, and started learning a

00:30:55.500 lot about that and realizing how much people didn't know about adoption today, they still

00:31:01.560 thought it was secretive and closed the way it was back when I was adopted in the 50s. And

00:31:08.100 and realize that it had just kind of died in our society.

00:31:15.220 Most of the adoptions that take place today are out of the foster care system,

00:31:19.440 and that's what people are familiar with.

00:31:21.220 Private infant adoption, where a birth mother makes the choice.

00:31:25.460 She gets to pick the family, which she doesn't know.

00:31:29.040 She can have open relationship.

00:31:33.300 Over 90% of the adoptions today are an open relationship that she chooses, but that it's her choice.

00:31:40.580 And so we decided to make this commercial.

00:31:42.780 We decided there needed to be a campaign to let people know about adoption and talk about modern adoption today.

00:31:51.100 And so that's where we ended up making a Super Bowl commercial.

00:31:54.500 And that's where it came about.

00:31:56.780 Well, I think it's incredible, Ed, and as a Christian, as someone who's been pro-life my entire life,

00:32:02.240 this is something where it's you're right there's a stigma that's arisen around it there's an idea

00:32:08.880 that it's you know it's it's it's like admitting failure or admitting fault in some way and it's

00:32:14.500 it's not it's just not it's about celebrating life it's about giving these children an option

00:32:21.560 to have that life and here you are someone who has gone on and and other you know others steve

00:32:29.120 Jobs is another example of someone who's going on to be incredibly successful that we all know.

00:32:34.740 And had their mother not chosen that option, who knows what would have happened?

00:32:39.340 And, you know, when you when you talk to people about it, what do you think are some of the biggest, you know, the biggest pieces of misconceptions around it?

00:32:49.640 I, by the way, what you just mentioned, though, 90 percent of adoptions involve an open relationship.

00:32:54.840 I don't think most people know that.

00:32:56.280 I don't think they do. And they don't think about it. That's the biggest surprise that came from the Super Bowl commercial is about 90% of the people watching it didn't know what the third option was.

00:33:11.460 you would think if you end up with an unwanted or unexpected pregnancy, you have three very hard

00:33:18.980 choices. Adoption is not easy, but neither is abortion and neither is raising a child if you're

00:33:25.200 not in a relationship and set and ready to do that in your life. So you have three very hard

00:33:31.500 options. One of the biggest surprises that came out of the research is so many of the women 1.00

00:33:37.480 giving an answer about placing their child for adoption. They said, I couldn't possibly put my 0.99

00:33:43.680 child in that system. Well, nobody in their right mind would put their child in that system

00:33:49.440 in terms of how they're thinking about it. They're thinking about the foster care system and putting

00:33:54.860 it somewhere where somebody else is going to take care of them. They're not thinking about it in

00:33:59.680 terms of private adoption, where they're picking the family and where they're doing that. I think

00:34:04.720 that's one of the biggest misconceptions that's there and that it's her choice and that she gets

00:34:09.740 to choose that yeah I actually have uh I don't want to go into too much because it's a personal

00:34:16.400 story but just a personal friend who I grew up with who um they had been adopted then uh their

00:34:24.620 parents went on to have other children that they that when they were a little bit older decided

00:34:31.600 to keep, then went on and met later in life. And they have a great relationship now. It was

00:34:37.900 something where, you know, they had always sort of been, you know, one, two towns over and had

00:34:43.080 checked in here and there. But when they made the connection, when they believed the time was right,

00:34:47.940 they did so. And they were able to completely integrate into that family in an incredible way.

00:34:54.620 And, you know, I just think for me, someone I grew up with, what would have happened again if

00:34:59.400 if i hadn't had my friend and if you know i all those stories and moments and memories that we

00:35:04.060 had had together uh you know as a high school friend and uh that wouldn't have existed and

00:35:09.540 it's such an incredible and and and look we all understand that life isn't always easy

00:35:14.620 that things don't always go according to plan sure got it but that doesn't mean that the only

00:35:21.020 option out there is abortion

00:35:23.060 it's not even if you don't have a relationship like back when i was adopted in the 50s everything

00:35:31.880 was secreted and separate i didn't meet my birth parents until i was almost 40 years old

00:35:37.420 and uh but i ended up with a great relationship with them for the rest of their lives and i've

00:35:44.140 got great relationships with their children my half siblings uh that i've had had tremendous

00:35:49.800 relationships. There's something kind of unique about that relationship. And it's a wonderful

00:35:56.300 thing. People talk about that it's difficult for a child that's placed for adoption. It's not. I

00:36:03.700 mean, you're getting placed normally into, or I was, into a family that is a loving, caring family

00:36:10.860 that's raising you. I mean, people talk about, is there feelings of abandonment or so forth?

00:36:19.540 There probably is, particularly when you don't know what the circumstances were, but with open adoption today, you get to know those circumstances.

00:36:30.360 You get to know the reasons why.

00:36:32.560 I've known a lot of people have done like your friend did, that they went on, they weren't ready at the time.

00:36:37.480 They placed a child for adoption and went on to later get married and have kids.

00:36:43.580 And that's not that that is is uncommon.

00:36:47.080 that child that was placed for adoption i don't think feels less loved or or abandoned by that

00:36:53.880 i think they've probably grown up to have great lives that's exactly right just about a minute

00:37:00.760 left tell us oh tell us the tell us where people can go to get access to this or perhaps if they

00:37:07.480 find someone uh or know someone who's in a situation where they're considering options

00:37:12.920 where they can direct them to get more resources and connect there's a lot of agencies and people

00:37:20.040 that specialize in that we developed a very unique site it's called adoption.is adoption is

00:37:28.600 is is a place for birth moms they can they can go to that has that has what we believe to be the

00:37:35.640 best factual information it doesn't ask you for um donations there's no way to there's no way to give

00:37:42.360 it money it doesn't ask for a name and an email address it doesn't direct you somewhere it's just

00:37:48.520 information that you can get unbiased true real information just adoption dot is

00:37:57.240 adoption dot s god bless you john and god bless your work right back human events daily

00:38:10.360 Call this the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour.

00:38:13.860 I can say confidently, I believe, I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec.

00:38:19.960 And that is, I'll be honest.

00:38:26.880 All right, folks, Jack Posobiec, we're here live, Human Events Daily.

00:38:30.780 And, you know, we're in the season of where Human Events guests are getting elected to railroad commissions.

00:38:37.360 and we've got, you know, Senate candidates.

00:38:40.420 So I figured that since we're in this season of people going from guests on this show

00:38:46.400 and contributors at Human Events to opinion editors at Human Events

00:38:50.260 to a point where, I just say, they're getting endorsed by the president of the United States of America.

00:38:56.840 Ladies and gentlemen, Kenny Cody, who's been absent, notably absent from Human Events for quite some time,

00:39:03.380 joins Human Events.

00:39:04.320 Kenny, what's going on, man? Where have you been?

00:39:06.660 Hey, man, I've just been out knocking doors.

00:39:08.380 We've been out putting up signs, been out visiting the great House District 11 of Cox, Jefferson, and Hamlin County.

00:39:15.360 I was actually out today knocking doors and meeting constituents and have made it back home.

00:39:21.000 This is a little bit different area than I'm usually in when I'm doing interviews with you and getting here on Human Events Daily.

00:39:27.700 Good to be with you.

00:39:28.480 I'm live from my bedroom here in Cosby, Tennessee, and it's great to be with you.

00:39:33.100 well it's amazing and i i just have to say congratulations on your uh i saw it a couple

00:39:40.120 i guess it was over the weekend where you know we get in this post and suddenly i'm going i'm

00:39:44.660 on true social i got my notifications on for it as usual and i see the president posting i said

00:39:49.240 what president posted he said wait a minute he's posted about kenny cody what happened there tell

00:39:53.020 us the story man me and my dad were out knocking doors and like i said putting up signs and i get

00:39:58.780 I got a call and said I should get ready for a post on Truth Social within the hour.

00:40:07.240 And lo and behold, about an hour later, President Trump endorsed our campaign for House District 11 here in the great state of Tennessee and talked a few things about me being a civic leader and me being a teacher, me being a conservative columnist and an editor here for Human Events and just got his endorsement.

00:40:26.080 And he believes in our campaign. And I hope, along with President Trump, we can earn some endorsements and support from across the district.

00:40:32.020 But so honored to have his support. It is, of course, the biggest stamp in Republican politics and in elected office to have the stamp of approval from the president of the United States and the founder of the MAGA movement, the MAGA movement that is Donald Trump.

00:40:43.980 And glad to have his support and so honored to have his backing as the Republican nominee for this district.

00:40:49.400 when when you saw that happen you know this is something where you know the president doesn't

00:40:56.500 always get involved in uh state races like that he does from time to time but it's it's you know

00:41:02.320 he's built usually more uh federal races or you know governor's races that sort of thing

00:41:07.420 what was it you think about your work for championing the just the regular folks out there

00:41:16.160 championing populism out there that really made that connection with the president?

00:41:21.440 Well, I think President Trump, as he said before, and when he's posted my articles,

00:41:26.260 I think he's seen the passion that I have for House District 11, the passion I have for

00:41:30.580 the MAGA movement. I think that he knows that I'm going to carry those America first,

00:41:35.860 that Trump conservatism to the halls of the Tennessee State Legislature in Nashville

00:41:40.720 and embody those values. Look, he talks about how we're going to bring American energy back

00:41:45.060 to this district we're going to bring the economy back here we're going to create jobs for house

00:41:48.900 district 11 we're going to create jobs for the great state of tennessee and i think over the

00:41:52.920 last about the last 10 years when i've been able to champion these values and championing my home

00:41:58.560 and embody my home i mean jack you know right after hurricane helene i came on with you and

00:42:03.260 we were talking about the need for this area the many different issues that are facing appalachia

00:42:08.680 the many different issues that are facing house district 11 and i think president trump has seen

00:42:12.680 my passion, and he's seen me embody the Trump conservatism that he's brought to the Republican

00:42:17.560 Party. And I think that, you know, throughout that connection, through my work in conservative

00:42:22.180 politics, I've been lucky enough to have his stamp of approval on my articles. I've been

00:42:27.940 lucky enough to meet the president and him shout me out on Truth Social and on social media for my

00:42:34.480 work, for human events, and for the conservative movement. And I think he has just seen that House

00:42:40.080 District 11 is deserving of a native. They're deserving of somebody who has been involved

00:42:43.920 in the Republican Party, has delivered victories for Republicans across our district and across

00:42:48.280 our state. And I think he saw that. I think he saw the passion that I have and the great people

00:42:54.900 of House District 11, as he says here, that have delivered 85 to 15 victories for him in 2016,

00:43:01.220 2020, and 2024. They deserve a Trump conservative sent to the halls of Nashville and the Tennessee

00:43:08.380 State Legislature at Cordell Hall. And I think that with his endorsement, we're going to have

00:43:12.480 a very good chance to do that. Well, I mean, it's just incredible. Now, you know, when you're out

00:43:19.580 there, though, tell us a little bit about the district. I mean, obviously, look, we remember

00:43:23.560 you coming on here when so much was happening with the hurricane, when so much is happening,

00:43:28.700 with the disaster that occurred. But tell us when you're out there now talking to people,

00:43:34.040 you're knocking on doors, you're going street by street. What is it that you're hearing from the

00:43:40.280 locals when they're talking politics? Well, the first thing is, and it's made the main three

00:43:45.640 things that I've based my campaign around is for number one, strengthening public safety. You know,

00:43:49.900 after Hurricane Helene, as I've been on the show to talk about before, we have to make sure our

00:43:53.940 law enforcement, our volunteer fire departments, and all the great men and women who risk their

00:43:57.860 lives every day for the people of House District 11, how they're fully funded. And they have the

00:44:01.980 backing from the local, state and federal government. Number two, you're going to be

00:44:05.060 able to safeguard families. You know, every day, you know, President Trump mentions in the endorsement

00:44:09.020 that the always under siege Second Amendment is under attack. And I think that that's one thing

00:44:14.220 that I've heard from the hunters, the outdoorsmen here in our district. That is something that is

00:44:18.800 continually under attack by rhinos, by Republicans in name only, and they're under attack by the

00:44:23.900 leftist Democrats and the progressives in this country. We have to make sure our Second Amendment

00:44:27.140 is protected. We have to make sure that we're carrying the pro-life message, fighting against 0.94

00:44:31.480 And, you know, trying to get the anti-baby, the people who are trying to kill the unborn and to make sure that we're protecting the unborn and carrying cultural family values to the halls of the Tennessee state legislature.

00:44:43.380 So we're going to safeguard our families. Number three, cutting red tape regulation.

00:44:47.320 You know, House District 11 relies on small businesses. We rely on everyday people who helped prop up our economy. 0.95

00:44:53.820 And I think there are far too many, there's far too much red tape that needs to be cut.

00:44:58.600 But, you know, like right on in November, there's going to be a constitutional amendment, number two, that's going to prohibit the state legislature, prohibit the state government from ever enacting a property tax on the state of Tennessee.

00:45:11.040 Now, we currently don't have a property tax in the state of Tennessee, but what that constitutional amendment is going to do is actually ban the state legislature from ever being able to enact that.

00:45:19.940 So things like capping property taxes, eliminating needless taxes, perhaps on the grocery tax, are all policies that I'm running on.

00:45:27.340 And I'm going to make sure that we have low taxes, we're going to safeguard our families, and we're going to strengthen the public safety for our law enforcement and our men and women in uniform here back home.

00:45:36.420 And that's the things that I'm hearing every day when I go and doorknock, when I go to events, and I'm going out and meeting the people where they're at in House District 11.

00:45:44.580 Well, it's something that's so obvious, it seems, though.

00:45:48.820 You know, it comes down to the economy.

00:45:51.200 It comes down to cost of living.

00:45:52.600 It comes down to these types of things that people want.

00:45:55.140 And that's why I think, and I know you know this, but that's why the president won.

00:46:00.260 It's because he was able to connect with people that the rest of the world had just forgotten about.

00:46:06.240 Absolutely. Well, my district embodies the everyday American, our factory workers, our teachers, our law enforcement,

00:46:13.400 the people who pick up their shoes every single day and they go out into the public and they serve their community.

00:46:18.820 And I think that that's why I can relate so much to these people.

00:46:21.800 You know, I've been here all of my life. The only time that I ever even was out of this county was to attend college, and I came back here as soon as I graduated to come back here and serve my community, whether that's been as a coach, whether that's been as the Republican Party chairman over the last seven years to deliver for our civic servants here, or that's just been as a teacher and teaching our youth.

00:46:39.920 I have dedicated my life to being here in House District 11 and giving back to our region.

00:46:46.280 And I think that the people here can see that.

00:46:48.720 I think President Trump has seen that.

00:46:50.380 I think Mayor Glenn, people like Mayor Glenn Jacobs and others have seen that.

00:46:54.240 And I think that I'm going to be able to take those values to Nashville.

00:46:57.020 I'm going to be able to not stand up for the lobbyists, not stand up for the PACs, not stand up for the corporations,

00:47:02.460 but actually stand up for the people of House District 11 and carry the values, the faith that they have, the passion that they have for their home.

00:47:12.220 I've been able to see that through so many different avenues here, where that's been in Republican politics, where that's been in school, where that's been coaching.

00:47:20.300 I have been able to experience the best values, the best things about my region.

00:47:25.680 And I feel like I can embody those values. I can take that energy and that passion and that effort to the halls of the Tennessee State Legislature.

00:47:34.280 And that's exactly what I'm trying to do.

00:47:37.100 Kenny Cody, God bless you, man. Godspeed out there. Let us know anything we can do to help you in your efforts.

00:47:44.140 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

00:47:55.680 We'll be right back.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - May 27, 2026

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