Elon Musk's visit to the Pentagon raises concerns about his access to top-secret U.S. military secrets. President Trump responds to reports that Musk got a classified briefing on a potential war with China. Russia accuses the United States of launching a drone attack on a key airbase in Ukraine.
00:01:30.060They are effectively holding Yemen hostage.
00:01:32.820And that's what they've been doing with the waterway there, is attacking shipping, attacking our ships over 100 times.
00:01:40.580Russia is claiming Ukraine targeted a key airbase in a massive drone attack overnight.
00:01:44.540Russia's defense ministry says it shot down 54 drones over the area, while Ukraine says one person is dead and dozens injured after Russia launched missile and drone strikes across Ukraine.
00:01:56.020It comes after both Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire following talks with President Trump.
00:02:03.940Russia's military is still here in force, still fighting just miles away.
00:02:08.780And we find U.S. military hardware incinerated.
00:02:12.280For seven months, they held hundreds of miles of territory in that direction.
00:02:50.660He said Elon Musk is getting classified briefings on the war plans with China.
00:02:54.680Elon Musk is getting classified briefings on the war plans with China.
00:02:59.080Now, there's a couple issues with this, right?
00:03:01.100So, first of all, one of the issues could be, for example, oh, I don't know who is leaking at the Pentagon to the Wall Street Journal, to the New York Times, to everybody else out there.
00:03:13.280Leakers need to be found, caught, arrested, and prosecuted.
00:03:17.320And there was already one FBI agent who was caught and arrested for classified information, but there needs to be more.
00:03:27.340This is the type of thing that hamstrung the first Trump administration, the 45 administration, this type of leaking of classified information to the New York Times.
00:03:36.420Why is anyone at the Pentagon going to the New York Times, picking up that phone or texting or whatever it is, and calling to them and saying that this is what's going to be going on?
00:03:45.780And, oh, by the way, this is the classified briefing that Elon is receiving or any others.
00:03:50.520First of all, Elon has security clearance already.
00:03:54.680So, and by the way, if people are worried about Elon, oh, I don't know, doing something to harm the United States, well, he already could.
00:07:20.660And then a group of Chinese tourists came up, and I started saying Trump won the election in 2020 in Mandarin.
00:07:28.640And they got so upset with me for saying this.
00:07:31.820And then they also started claiming that I didn't really speak Mandarin.
00:07:34.400I'm like, well, it's right there on video.
00:07:35.940So, this is the level the left will go.
00:07:37.960And they were also very, very upset about a book I wrote last year.
00:07:41.160And that book was called Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them, which you can purchase at unhumansbook.com or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you want to go.
00:07:51.140Let me tell you why this is important.
00:07:53.360You heard about the Tesla terrorists who have been going around attacking anyone who owns a Tesla.
00:07:59.500Now, the reason they're so upset with Teslas is because, remember, Teslas being an electric car, this was the climate-friendly car.
00:08:09.920So, who bought all the initial Teslas were the lefties.
00:08:13.660But then Elon Musk went, AOC even had one.
00:08:16.540Remember, AOC was all excited about her Tesla.
00:08:18.400La, la, la, look at me, look at my Tesla.
00:08:20.560But then Elon Musk went and joined the dark side.
00:08:25.200Again, you have to understand leftism from their perspective.
00:08:28.160And if you understand leftism from their perspective, this all makes sense.
00:08:30.640So, him making the move, him making the switch to the dark side, choosing evil means they must lash out because they view themselves as the heroes.
00:08:42.360They view themselves as the great leaders of society that's going to save society from the evildoers.
00:08:49.280But here's what's going on deep down inside of leftism.
00:08:52.780And this is what the book on humans teaches you.
00:08:55.060Deep down inside, they are animated by resentment.
00:09:15.900And so, because they fall into designated enemy categories, and we discovered a playbook that's actually been used for hundreds of years, going back to the French Revolution, that if you fall into that playbook, if you fall into that designated enemy category, well, guess what?
00:10:35.180So, Benz, we've been going through our theory of the case for a couple of weeks here regarding the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, all the rest of it.
00:10:46.040And I wanted to get you on today to do a deep dive on all of this.
00:10:49.120We call it Trump's geopolitical grand strategy.
00:10:52.920And the Trump's geopolitical grand strategy is something that I don't think a lot of people get because they want to look at this in terms of just Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, Russia.
00:11:02.080Russia started the war in 2022, so Russia has to be punished.
00:11:06.900They can't actually see the bigger picture and look at the chess pieces on the board.
00:11:11.900So, Benz, I was hoping today that we could sort of do a deep dive on all of this because people don't understand the factional warfare that's going on now at the elite level and what President Trump is doing.
00:11:24.060And by the way, the Department of Education push, well, that is cutting off the supply lines to the liberal elites of the United States.
00:11:31.000That's cutting off their resources and their access to an unlimited supply of capital and an unlimited supply of money towards the enemies of the republic.
00:11:40.160So it's very it's very obvious to me what he's doing.
00:11:43.200But I think we need to lay it out for people.
00:11:49.000One quick thing on the Department of Education.
00:11:52.320It's not just the elites in the U.S. educational sphere.
00:11:55.500I was reading the JFK files last night and there's a passage where the CIA admits that they had been funding a group called the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession and that they had also been funding the National Education Association.
00:12:17.500And those are respectively some of the largest teachers unions in the United States.
00:12:24.260They're both alive and well today and they both have hundreds and hundreds of international branches in foreign countries who receive money through the Department of Education's International Affairs branch, just as the AFL-CIO's international unions get money through the Department of Labor's International Affairs branch.
00:12:47.500And I was going on their contemporary website and I noticed that the international branches were all complaining.
00:12:56.820They have a democracy section in their website, this historically CIA, these historically CIA funded teachers union groups.
00:13:04.080And the international branches were all complaining about Trump trying to shut down the U.S. Department of Education.
00:13:13.220And I think that, you know, this is what's happening also in Ukraine.
00:13:17.540Why did Randy Weingarten, since we're going to be talking about Ukraine so much, why did Randy Weingarten spend, you know, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, spend so many trips abroad in Ukraine?
00:13:30.180You put her bio as a Ukraine flag and then you look and lo and behold, the group that was CIA funded from during the 1960s, the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teacher's Profession changed its name after the CIA funding event happened.
00:13:49.380It's now called Education International and it's now called Education International and it's very active in Ukraine.
00:13:54.720In fact, they just gave their sort of man of the year award to one of the teachers in Ukraine.
00:14:04.200And just, yeah, just a minute before the break, but I want people to understand that what Benz is explaining here is this is network creation and elite formation.
00:14:14.320So how do you form the elites of countries that you want to control or governments that you want to control?
00:14:31.760You then keep building that out and building that out so that no actual dissent, no actual patriotism or any any other individual can become successful because you are funding literally the opposition in every single one of these countries that then becomes the government of those countries.
00:15:05.940And who better to break it down than Mike Benz, who's joining us here on Human Events Daily with Bill Marker's Voice and the Salem Radio Network.
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00:16:39.520I want to bring Mike Benz back in here to kind of, we're going through, we're connecting a lot of dots here,
00:16:45.720and that's what we do when we bring Benz on because he's a great dot connector because it's, and Benz, it's amazing, right?
00:16:52.600People don't understand that cutting the DOE is actually about cutting the free flow of resources to not just the elite here in the United States,
00:17:03.440the liberal elite, but also the global Atlanticist elite that exists throughout Europe and particularly in Western Europe
00:17:11.280that is now trying to dominate Eastern Europe.
00:17:14.460Benz, does President Trump, he clearly understands this strategy.
00:17:19.380He clearly understands what he's doing here in terms of network disruption.
00:17:23.580Do you think, do you think that's the reason that he doesn't quite sit there and walk people through it the way that it is?
00:17:29.080Or, or is it just that he's operating so quickly that he doesn't want to waste time?
00:17:34.000I think he's operating so quickly that he doesn't want to waste time.
00:17:36.940But the, the fact is, is this sort of sneaky tentacles of the blob in so many of the different agencies
00:17:45.540really has to have a full review because, you know, we were just talking about the role of the teachers' unions.
00:17:51.740You know, the, the, the American Federation of Teachers, which is, you know, Randy Weingarten's outfit,
00:17:58.160has been partnered with NewsGuard and has been censoring conservative news in the schools.
00:18:05.580They participate in street protests to shut down cities.
00:18:10.500They try to hamper the administration from every angle.
00:18:14.740And the, you know, the Department of Education is on the teachers' front,
00:18:18.320but, but there's also the Department of Labor on the union front.
00:18:22.200And, you know, before I came on, I heard you talking about the Tesla takedown activity,
00:18:26.600which is being organized at the union level in significant degree.
00:18:30.600Unions play a huge role in the, in the rent-a-riot affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:18:38.320For example, the JFK files are absolutely littered with AFL-CIO references.
00:18:44.160That the AFL-CIO is the single largest confederation of unions in the entire United States.
00:18:50.200And it has been CIA penetrated for 60 years.
00:18:54.380And then it's got these international affairs branches,
00:18:57.280which were behind the push to oust Bolsonaro in Brazil and to back Lula.
00:19:02.620AFL-CIO effectively did a jailbreak of Lula and were one of the,
00:19:07.600the closest partners of the CUT union in, in Brazil,
00:19:12.340which is the main union backing Lula that Lula basically was, was birthed from.
00:19:18.060And time and time again, you see these street protests.
00:19:22.120The AFL-CIO, we now know because of the Molly Ball article after the 2020 election,
00:19:27.940had a, a signed agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to unleash itself,
00:19:35.300to shut down DC if Trump had won the electoral college in 2020.
00:19:39.620And yet the, the AFL-CIO's spindle branches get tens of millions of dollars every year
00:19:46.220from the Department of Labor's international affairs branch.
00:19:49.260And what we see is beyond USAID, which unfortunately now the fight is still ongoing
00:19:54.940because a federal court has reinstated USAID just this week.
00:19:59.980And then beyond that, just yesterday, a federal judge has now prohibited the Trump administration's pick
00:20:07.880to be the technical administrator at USAID because he previously worked at Doge.
00:20:15.640They wanted to move a Doge person to, to effectively be the technical head of USAID.
00:20:20.800And the federal judge said, I won't let you do that.
00:20:23.080So, but beyond just USAID, virtually every, virtually every federal government agency branch
00:20:34.540has an international affairs bureau, which works with the state department,
00:20:40.260which works with USAID, which works with the intelligence services.
00:20:44.880And it is the international affairs branches that will snake you every single time.
00:20:49.420I mean, every government agency's international affairs branch needs an independent audit right now.
00:23:50.820But, you know, as a DAS, you get traffic that's not classified,
00:23:56.800but just to give you peripheral awareness of what other bureaus are doing
00:24:01.440and what issues are sensitive at the time.
00:24:04.080And at the time, I can tell you, the State Department was concerned that Ukraine was going to try to
00:24:11.800become sovereign again in its education system.
00:24:15.600See, after we toppled the government in early 2014,
00:24:19.880we, you know, and Senator Chris Murphy bragged about this, the main senator from, Democrat from Connecticut,
00:24:27.480who has been leading the charge to kill Doge and to stop the shutdown of USAID
00:24:35.300and to stop the reforms of the intelligence services, he's on tape on live television bragging that the 2014 coup of the Yanukovych government in Ukraine,
00:24:48.760which was a democratically elected government, would not have happened without U.S. intervention.
00:24:52.960He said it only happened because of our sanctions and our pressure on the organization and our support for the people on the ground.
00:25:00.760I mean, that's a signed, sealed confession.
00:25:05.720I'm yours, so to speak, that this was a U.S. coup.
00:25:10.060And it's from the guy who's leading the effort seven years, 10 years later to save USAID.
00:26:06.800We typically control the unions through a combination of USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy Solidarity Center,
00:26:14.860and the Department of Labor's international affairs branch.
00:26:17.660But the Atlantic Council, I remember very vividly when this happened,
00:26:23.500the Ukrainians were forced after 2014 to transfer effective control over their own ministry of education to an EU governing body
00:26:34.420so that it would be free and clear of any sort of Russian influence.
00:26:38.700Now, mind you, this is eight years before there was actually a war in Ukraine, but it was immediately post-coup.
00:26:45.880Folks remember, the New York Times reported immediately post-coup.
00:26:49.200I think one day after the 2014 government was deposed, the Central Intelligence Agency took effective control over the Ukrainian intelligence services.
00:26:58.340This was publicly reported by the New York Times, but the Atlantic Council's paper here from December 2020,
00:27:07.900and I remember getting recommendations about what to do, and one of the things that was recommended,
00:27:13.160and this was not recommended in-house at the State Department, I should say.
00:27:16.060It was an outside think tank, which proposed that if Ukraine's parliament went through and voted to take back sovereign control of their education system,
00:27:26.880that we could freeze their assets that were held in one of the Federal Reserve banks.
00:27:33.040I forget if it was the New York Federal Reserve Bank or the one in Atlanta.
00:27:36.520But the fact is, the State Department is getting outside recommendations that we might want to threaten to seize the assets that they keep in U.S. banks
00:27:47.800if they simply get control over their own curriculum again.
00:27:52.100At the time, the State Department was fearful that Ukrainians were only motivated to take back control of their education system
00:28:02.020because they were unhappy with Western-style education because they were unhappy with the mandatory curriculum teachings on civic literacy that effectively purged their own history,
00:28:13.500that put a ban on the use of the Russian language while half of the country spoke Russian,
00:28:21.800that implemented all these reforms that the Ukrainians didn't like,
00:28:25.020and we have effectively strong-armed them in order to keep control over what's inside the minds of their little baby boys and girls.
00:28:33.160And, you know, I was actually having a conversation with Joshua Lysak earlier today,
00:28:38.000the co-author of Unhumans, about all this.
00:28:40.380And we were talking about fourth-generation warfare,
00:28:42.940and these are all fourth-generation warfare tactics that were used against all the target populations that you're talking about.
00:28:48.900And I said something about, I said, well, you know, fourth-generation warfare is so incredibly powerful,
00:28:55.420that's why it's so useful even here in the United States, like for elections and various things.
00:28:59.940And he said, yeah, fourth-generation works right up until the point where someone decides to use third-generation warfare back.
00:29:07.120And that's basically the start of the Ukraine war,
00:29:11.940where the Russians finally got to the point where they said, look, we believe we've been provoked enough,
00:29:17.160we believe that you are preparing to bring NATO into the country.
00:29:21.480Of course, they're talking about that right now with Keir Stahmer.
00:29:24.940Apparently, King Charles sent some letter to President Trump about this,
00:29:28.600asking for British troops, and Macron is talking about bringing French troops into Ukraine.
00:29:34.540And this is exactly why the war started.
00:29:36.880So it stayed fourth-generation warfare right up until the point where it went back to third.
00:29:44.500And the fact is, I made a tweet about it a year ago, which said something like, you know,
00:29:54.880this whole war could come to an end if the U.S. simply apologized for overthrowing the 2014 government,
00:30:02.420because that is what set the stage for this whole Ukraine affair.
00:30:07.260The fact is, the U.S. was very much treating Ukraine as a war state eight years before the war.
00:30:14.200Trump was impeached in 2019 over even potentially vaguely threatening to withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
00:30:22.800Why do we need U.S. military aid to Ukraine if there was no war in Ukraine?
00:30:27.200The fact is, is they were seizing back the territories in eastern Ukraine that had broken away from the Kiev government after the coup.
00:30:35.680That virtually the entirety of western Ukraine spoke Russian and the U.S. State Department imposed through things like the Red Line's memo and direct pressure from the U.S. Embassy,
00:30:46.800as well as we're seeing in the educational reforms that were implemented, that they weren't even allowed to speak their own mother tongue.
00:30:54.080Half of the country was banned from speaking their native language.
00:30:58.580I mean, imagine the outrage, for example, if the government of Mexico organized a coup against Donald Trump, half the country's Donald Trump supporters,
00:31:10.740and then the new installed president of the United States banned the English language and mandated everyone, you know, everyone speak Spanish.
00:31:21.720You're almost forced to take to the streets and protest.
00:31:25.500You're almost forced if you're living in a state like Ohio or Pennsylvania to defect from the union because you're not even able to speak the new national language
00:31:37.540while you're already massively enraged at the coup you just watched take place.
00:31:44.180You know, it's amazing because the things that you're talking about, borders, but also language, culture, history.
00:31:53.180See, the elites, by the way, that we've been talking about in the Department of Education, they don't understand any of that stuff, right?
00:32:01.060They don't ever go to the level of saying, oh, well, this is important to this group of people and this is why, and these are the social mores,
00:32:07.180these are the connections, the ties, the tissues, they just view the lines on the map and they have almost a, like a comic book, Marvel movie,
00:32:15.680you know, kindergarten kind of view of the world where, well, this is one country and this is another country
00:32:20.720and this is where this country stops and this is where this country starts.
00:32:23.740And yet, obviously, things like language are a great indicator of this, right?
00:32:27.480So you see this with French Canadians, by the way.
00:32:30.480That's one of the reasons, one of the big reasons that Quebec or Quebec has talked about breaking away from Canada over the years
00:32:37.500is because they have a cultural and historical affinity to France.
00:32:42.260When you go there, you will hear them speaking French, even to this day in Canadian politics.
00:32:47.260If you want to hold office, you have to speak both, even though it's really only one province that speaks to this.
00:32:52.340But again, these are the things that, these are the ties that bind.
00:33:10.580The elites don't care, as you mentioned, and they haven't been forced to care because they've always presupposed they can just run them over.
00:33:18.620It doesn't matter, you know, how much of a burden it's going to be on them.
00:33:22.700They have no institutional power, so we can pull them over.
00:33:25.340And they know that they've got the backing in the highest of places.
00:33:29.260For example, I mentioned the Atlantic Council and its role here in the education space in Ukraine.
00:33:33.360Well, the Atlantic Council has seven CIA directors on its board.
00:33:36.760It gets annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department, USAID, and the National Bank for Democracy.
00:33:41.060They think, what are these little old Ukrainians going to do?
00:33:43.680And then they found to their surprise in late 2014 that they decided to break away from the entire government and get backstopped by the Russian military.
00:33:53.320And their response was the new Cold War that we live in now.