In this episode, Jack Posobiec is joined by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-Massachusetts) as they discuss the latest in the latest news involving the Trump administration and Congress.
00:12:52.020And so one of the things that we're really digging into here, Ben, one of the things that we're really trying to understand with USAID
00:13:07.480and really writ large around these programs is that the U.S. government has been using this to fund basically their dirty operations, their black operations.
00:13:19.560And it's not just USAID, but it's other programs as well.
00:13:23.840Yeah, well, USAID occupies a sort of senior spot in a whole umbrella and consortium, a labyrinth of supporting organizations and adjacent organizations.
00:13:37.940For example, the National Democratic Democracy has come under a tremendous amount of fire in recent months and years for doing the exact same thing that USAID does.
00:13:48.180And the National Democratic Democracy is, of course, a very famous, notorious CIA cutout, first received by CIA Director William Casey under Ronald Reagan in order to get CIA's old powers back,
00:14:01.620but simply move it outside the CIA to a CIA-liased nonprofit.
00:14:07.880That nonprofit receives 100 percent funding from the U.S. government directly accountable to the U.S. Congress.
00:14:14.860And what it does is it does the sort of operations arm of the organizations that USAID fund.
00:14:23.720So USAID, as it draws this fire, all the adjacent organizations like National Democratic Democracy, U.S. Institute for Peace, Freedom House,
00:14:34.040the whole spindle work of both direct government grantees and then the subgrantees,
00:14:40.200the thousands, tens of thousands of subgrantees that they themselves fund are all.
00:14:46.300And what we're doing here, what Elon is doing with those is he's going directly to the head of the snake.
00:15:19.380Want to thank Charlie Kirk as well and welcome his listeners on the Salem News Radio Network for allowing us this opportunity to broadcast live to you.
00:15:30.140By the way, breaking news over the during the break there, I should say, that RFK is being moving forward, being moved forward through the committee.
00:15:39.440Kash Patel's committee hearing has been scheduled for Thursday at 10 a.m.
00:15:44.920Senator Mike Rounds, he of South Dakota, just came out and announced one minute ago that he will be voting for Tulsi Gabbard as DNI.
00:15:55.780Again, that vote taking place behind closed doors.
00:15:58.960So we're not exactly sure what's going on within the committee just yet, waiting to get a readout of it from sources that I've got there in the well of the Senate and all through the various Senate office buildings.
00:16:11.880We've still got a couple of minutes left with our great guest, Mike Benz.
00:16:16.340So, Benz, when it comes to USAID and this head of the snake that has been lopped off, I mean, you pointed to it.
00:16:25.060President Trump and Elon Musk and their team swung the sword.
00:16:29.840But that said, the nature of government is different than that.
00:16:33.700You can't just take out one thing and the programs all go away.
00:16:37.540It's a little more complicated, isn't it?
00:16:43.500And my concern is that this has been a – make no mistake, what's happening right now is absolutely historic.
00:16:51.000And it is really the first time that the foreign policy establishment has had to respond in a serious way to the concerns of the American people that fund it.
00:17:02.820And, you know, there were attempts, actually, in the 1990s to do this.
00:17:08.260There were attempts to do this with the intelligence community in the 1970s.
00:17:12.080But this is – looks to be the most serious one in American history.
00:17:15.300At the same time, we should not – we should be rejoicing and cheering it on.
00:17:21.240But we cannot make the mistake that the Brexit movement did in June 2016 when everyone popped the champagne at the moment of that referendum.
00:17:29.960But Brexit, in fact, was thwarted in terms of Brexit in practice by all the layers of subsequent pushback and resistance that effectively 180'd the whole reason for Brexiting in the first place.
00:17:48.640And today, the UK is run by the UK Labour Party, which is the most tyrannical government perhaps in the entire world right now.
00:17:57.220It's arresting people for clicking the retweet button.
00:18:00.900And the same thing could very well happen with this current reform of U.S. aid if stewardship of it is not aggressive to the hilt to the very, very end of this.
00:18:12.920And in particular, it's worth noting that while there is a so-called funding pause on U.S. aid, U.S. aid is fully funded through Q1, which means that the overwhelming lion's share of U.S. aid activities will continue to be financed until the end of March.
00:18:35.920You know, and I've been saying this, but I'll keep repeating it.
00:18:40.140Killing U.S. aid does not end U.S. aid.
00:18:42.960It's moving over to state, and state is going to be inheriting a U.S. aid herpes infection.
00:18:49.260It is very easy to take those same grants and those same operations and move it from U.S. aid's Democracy Rights and Governance Division into state's Democracy Rights and Labor Division.
00:19:00.700There's parallel offices for state and U.S. aid in almost all respects.
00:19:07.240This is the same reason that it wouldn't make that much of a difference to shut down the CIA and simply park the CIA out of the State Department, which was the initial plan in 1948.
00:19:17.420And so, and you heard Marco Rubio acknowledge this himself, that much of this will be carried over, but the trench warfare is going to be on what to keep and what to cut.
00:19:27.760And every step of the way, you are going to have a solid block of congressional Democrats, plus a critical component of defecting blob Republicans who are going to want to keep that rift going.
00:19:40.600But many of the key Republicans, their donors and constituents are on U.S. aid payroll, and they will fight for their political lives in order to save U.S. aid in function.
00:19:55.240Even if it's in fact, which means we need pressure, pressure, pressure.
00:19:59.040I say monitor the Republicans on this even more than the Democrats, because all it takes is a handful of congressional and Senate Republicans to team up with the Democrats to kill this whole thing, whether now or in the months and years ahead.
00:21:11.960And these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:21:13.980All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back here, Washington, D.C.
00:21:19.720Want to thank Charlie Kirk as well and welcome in his audience on the Salem Radio Network here for his third hour and us on Human Events.
00:21:29.920By the way, just getting a word here from the United States Senate that the vote is not yet done for Tulsi Gabbard, but also, oh, wait, wait, wait.
00:21:45.760I just got word, I just got word that the vote was 9-8.
00:21:50.580Tulsi Gabbard has the votes 9-8 in the United States Senate Intelligence Committee.
00:22:20.240Of course, I am obligated to work with our partners because we could not do this work.
00:22:27.480We could not do this work without the help of our partners.
00:22:31.280And that's why I implore you to go and support them as well.
00:22:35.080Folks, AI is in the news practically every day, and it's not always good news when it comes to your privacy.
00:22:41.820This past summer, Elon Musk openly stated that if Apple integrates OpenAI in its operating system, his companies will ban Apple devices.
00:22:50.620As a matter of fact, if you walked into the X office or a Tesla factory, you'd have to check your phone or tablet in a Faraday cage.
00:22:57.640Silence Faraday products block all incoming and outgoing signals so that your devices are invisible and safe from the outside world.
00:23:05.980From the backpacks, phone sleeves, and even pants, patented signal blocking technology blocks wireless signals, giving you the peace of mind that your data doesn't end up in your wrong hands.
00:23:17.040Just place your device inside, close it, and that's it.
00:23:19.500You're safeguarded from unauthorized access.
00:23:22.140Between the government, big tech, corporate America, and its criminals, your privacy is compromised 24-7.
00:26:24.960It is huge for the Trump administration.
00:26:27.040We are getting the change agents that the MAGA mandate asked us to implement.
00:26:31.620And that took pressure from the MAGA movement.
00:26:34.580Listen, Todd Young, Bill Cassidy, and all these others, Susan Collins would not have voted for it,
00:26:39.740had people like Jack Posobiec, Human Events, and other MAGA change agents been advocating for the change that the Trump administration actually wants.
00:27:43.540I am so excited for the people who have made these things happen.
00:27:46.580And Jack, you, I, and so many others have been calling for these kinds of appointments and these kinds of needed agents of change for years.
00:27:55.120We are past the 2017-2021 term of Donald Trump when he had to work with the establishment in order to get things done.
00:28:02.480And this lame duck term is going to be the most consequential administration in American history.
00:28:08.500And passing Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, Kennedy, and Kash Patel are the first steps to make the change that the U.S. government and Washington, D.C. needs.
00:28:17.120And I cannot wait to see it this week and next.
00:28:19.440By the way, Kenny, I completely agree.
00:28:24.200And go read Kenny's piece up at humanevents.com.
00:28:27.020And by the way, I'm going to be making sure to find out exactly who those nine senators were and who the eight senators were as well.
00:28:35.380Because we don't do closed-door meetings around here.
00:28:42.160That's not how the American people deserve to be treated, these closed-door, behind-the-scenes nonsense.
00:28:47.440No, we're not going to be doing any of that.
00:28:49.780We're going to be doing full accountability, full transparency.
00:28:52.800That's what President Trump called for.
00:28:54.260And so we are going to deliver on that, the change agents.
00:28:59.000And, Kenny, I really wanted to ask you about something.
00:29:02.520This came up a couple of weeks ago when you and I were on the program together.
00:29:07.460And we were talking, interestingly enough, about the H-1B program.
00:29:11.120And we were talking about this narrative that was out there where they said, oh, there's no talent in America.
00:29:17.520There's just no, you know, we've got to bring in foreign programmers for AI.
00:29:23.100We're going to lose the AI space race if we don't bring in these imported programmers because the talent just isn't there.
00:29:30.540And then I see that Doge has this kid named Luke Farator out of Nebraska who comes in and is able to reprogram the entire U.S. government using AI, using Python scripts that he's able to come up with.
00:29:48.160That he got his sort of claim to fame from, oh, by the way, decoding Roman scrolls that were burned up in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii.
00:30:02.180And he's actually found a way to read the charred scrolls for the first time in thousands of years.
00:30:08.580Kenny, I'm confused because I was told there was no talent in America.
00:30:14.560I think the establishment is losing his control of the narrative.
00:30:17.860They've been telling us for years how they want to squash the middle class.
00:30:21.420There's no talent in the middle class.
00:30:22.960There's no talent in these flyover states, such as the one that I'm from, from Tennessee or a state like Nebraska.
00:30:28.820We've been told for so long that there is no American talent, that we need to import college students.
00:30:33.920We need to import, you know, university graduate students to take jobs for real Americans.
00:30:38.220But then you see a kid like Luke from Nebraska who is breaking down things that the American public very has any idea how to do
00:30:45.840or any information about what those scrolls contain.
00:30:48.560Listen, we have to be able to change the narrative.
00:30:51.360This is the same narrative that we had to combat and that Gabbard, Kennedy, Patel, and Hexsef were not possible to leave federal departments.
00:30:58.400We also have to combat the narrative that they want to just keep the middle class down.
00:31:02.680The middle class is what won Donald Trump this election.
00:35:34.100Kenny, walk us through this idea that America's talent can, that America can actually develop talent within our country rather than bringing people in from foreign cultures that are not compatible with ours.
00:35:49.840We need to bring people in to benefit our own American families.
00:35:55.020You know, Jack, it's like this difference between thinking that America is a nation or America is an idea.
00:36:01.060The people who believe America is a nation believes in benefiting American families and American workers.
00:36:06.500Benefiting the American universities, the people who want to work in America.
00:36:09.580I know I said America plenty of times there, but that's what we need to prioritize.
00:36:13.060This idea that we had to bring in foreign talent, that we had to bring in overseas talents in order to fill American jobs.
00:36:20.580These aren't jobs that are overseas that we're sending Americans to do.
00:36:25.120These are American jobs made by American corporations and American governments that were bringing in foreign nationals to come and accomplish.
00:36:32.240We could hire somebody from these universities, as long as these universities are supplying majors, supplying degrees that actually make a difference.
00:36:39.840They're not just liberal arts majors, you know, studying gender or something like that.
00:36:44.160We can hire the great minds from America.
00:36:48.520We can promote people who know what they're talking about, promote people who are young as the kid from Nebraska, Luke, that you were talking about earlier,
00:36:57.120the 20-year-old who had a vested interest in a particular topic and expanded his knowledge to the point where he got hired by Doge to do things that hardly any other foreign national could 100% do on an H-1B visa.
00:37:12.720We have to be able to find this talent.
00:37:14.900Instead of just going and being lazy and hiring foreign nationals, we have to find the talent in America.
00:37:20.940Okay, in these flyover states, in these universities that the conservatives are slowly taking back over, both ideologically and in academia, we can find these talent.
00:37:31.440I promise they're in these flyover states.
00:37:43.380There are intelligent minds within our country that we can use to fill positions to help our country prosper and to help American corporations prosper, to help American families prosper.
00:37:54.820This idea that we have to bring in people from other countries, especially countries that hate us like China, is insane.
00:38:02.280And don't let people tell you that America isn't the shining city on the hill.
00:38:09.380We are a nation that needs to give the benefit to Americans first, to American families first, and to grow American families first, and not prioritize illegal or legal migrants to come in here and take away American jobs and the American family prosperity.
00:38:25.420And by the way, not only do I completely agree, but by the way, I'd be remiss if I did not say that during the show, Doug Collins was also confirmed as our VA secretary.
00:38:40.100So over there, Veterans Affairs, the great Congressman Doug Collins, who is just someone who's absolutely fantastic out of Georgia, going in and is sitting up there at the Veterans Affairs.
00:38:51.880I mean, talk about an organization that's in need of work.
00:38:56.940By the way, I expect that he's going to be working very closely with Pete Hegseth because Pete has really made his focus, his entire mantra, is the Department of Defense needs to serve the needs of the warfighter.
00:39:09.160And the needs of the warfighter obviously extend to not just when you're in uniform, but also when you get out.
00:39:15.380Also, when you leave the military, how do you make that transition from military service to being in the private sector?
00:39:23.220How do you deal with some of the PTSD issues that we've been having, the horrendous PTSD issues that we've been having in the United States, especially with our combat forces, when they come back from these forever wars, these engagements that go on, people who don't come back.
00:39:37.100And then also those who have to deal with their friends not coming home with them.