00:01:55.940We are learning brand new details this morning on that holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial who sparked a mistrial after a week of deliberations.
00:02:04.940He is now breaking his silence, defending his belief that the Massachusetts mom is guilty of murdering her three young children.
00:02:11.620His name is Michael P. Desronville, and that juror is now issuing a statement that reads this, quote,
00:02:17.060I didn't have any doubts as I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation.
00:02:22.080I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.
00:02:25.940Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned.
00:02:36.660Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
00:03:01.660Today is September 18th, 2026, Anno Domini.
00:03:05.280Well, folks, last night, Tanya Tay and I, courtesy of the American Principles Project and the great Terry Schilling over there, got to do something a little bit special.
00:03:16.760I wanted to share that with you, is they had an incredible event last night at the National Archives.
00:03:24.700And it was a fundraiser, of course, for the American Principles Project.
00:03:29.660And we got invited to a special guest.
00:03:31.520So, of course, we went, and what we didn't realize was that on display, so yesterday was Constitution Day, and on display, this week and this week only for the first time ever, is a secret printing of the U.S. Constitution, a version, a draft that you've never seen.
00:03:54.460this is the draft of the u.s constitution the personal draft of george washington president
00:04:05.840of the continental congress general of the continental army and of course our first
00:04:11.900president and what's so amazing about this it's annotated he wrote on it george washington's own
00:04:20.240printing. And it was a secret printing because they couldn't allow, as the Continental Congress
00:04:25.000was going on, they wouldn't allow anyone to put it out publicly. This was a very, very confidential
00:04:30.500document. They didn't want the public knowing, you know, leaks about it yet while it was still
00:04:36.860in draft form because they wanted the delegates to be able to debate things in private before it
00:04:44.340came out to the public for its approval. And of course, it had to go to all the different states.
00:04:49.800So there are certain things they want to hash out. And you see Washington going through there's he went line by line on this thing and marked out sections, struck sections and has his own, of course, his handwriting, which is, of course, impeccable.
00:05:05.220I don't think anyone is going to be surprised by that the caliber of the men who founded this country and went through and had that.
00:05:15.000So this is the very first time that it's ever been on display.
00:05:17.900It is the, again, the secret copy of it, the secret copy that he had printed during the
00:05:24.860Continental Congress comes out and just, just an unbelievable opportunity and unbelievable
00:10:21.640It's all about Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and it's called Bucks County, USA.
00:10:27.200and it focuses this really surprised by the way it's barry levinson same guy did rain man who did
00:10:32.000bugsy but so many absolutely uh good morning vietnam incredible incredible list of films
00:10:38.940wag the dog that he's done young sherlock it's all about the political divide in bucks county
00:10:46.820which is one of the most swing counties of the entire country and of course i'm from right next
00:10:52.680sort of there in Monaco, right outside Philadelphia. And we actually have on now
00:10:58.000one of the subjects of the documentary who is in it as well as I believe his daughter is in it as
00:11:04.660well. It's Paul Martino. Paul, how are you? Great. It is pretty exciting to talk to a fellow
00:11:10.900Monaco guy, even though the thing is Bucks County, USA. I was born in Lansdale, not far from you.
00:11:17.040yeah no exactly um go birds and so when we look at when we look at this you have you have you
00:11:25.800seen the documentary you seen that have you seen the whole thing or just parts of it i have seen
00:11:31.620all five episodes now so i know how it starts and ends yes so so when it comes into it what is the
00:11:39.260importance of doing a documentary like this we live at a time of political polarization
00:11:43.360does this come in and leavenson i mean he's obviously he's been around forever
00:11:47.840huge name in filmmaking is this a smear job of the right like we you know we're used to seeing
00:11:56.140when hollywood comes to town or is it something that's actually trying to present both sides
00:12:01.080through an objective lens absolutely trying to do the latter it doesn't always succeed
00:12:07.700In fairness, there is still, I would say, a somewhat left slant to the film, but I will give a lot of credit to filmmakers Barry Levinson and Robert May.
00:12:17.720I let Robert May in my house with my family for four years, Jack.
00:12:21.420So you've got to understand, you have to develop a very special relationship with a person like that.
00:12:26.040Robert did the great documentary Fog of War about McNamara and the Vietnam War.
00:12:31.300And yes, he's a lefty, but he did something extraordinary here.
00:12:35.840He's created a film that really explains who all of the people on the divide are and encourages all of us to speak to each other.
00:12:44.140And I'm very proud of my daughter because the key theme of the movie is that one of my largest political rivals, her daughter, is my daughter's best friend and they're best friends.
00:12:54.000And it's a lesson everybody should be listening to because the kids show us exactly how it should be.
00:16:20.700Listen, I don't know that we need to talk all about the political leaders that we have, but I remember Obama sometimes where he'd look around like, well, how'd that happen?
00:17:37.620Well, it's one of these things. It was a very difficult decision, Jack, and it was a decision the whole family had to make. They paint me in some ways as the boogeyman, and I accept that, right? I'm the venture capitalist and blah, blah, blah. I'll take on a little bit of that villain role with some grace.
00:17:53.300But it wasn't like I said to the family, you're doing this.
00:20:12.820Well, there's the illustrious Governor Josh Shapiro at PA Pride with the drag queens and drag performers, the trans performers.
00:20:25.480And that's all part of his video, by the way. We didn't edit that. That's from his official governor account. Paul, what is going on with the way that our government, our governor, and even our schools in Pennsylvania have been pushing this agenda on children?
00:20:45.240look i'll say this first the bigger enemy in our state was a a woman named rachel levine if you
00:20:53.260remember our health director who got promoted up i try not to but yes i do she was dead wrong on
00:21:00.300everything and i keep reminding people this jack we were right we were not right we were right the0.79
00:21:07.020whole time and look at the scorecard we got the schools opened for the gay kids the straight kids0.70
00:21:14.000the black kids and the white kids and you look at the learning loss that has happened since0.81
00:21:19.220for those kids that we screwed by these policies and you can see what the effect was and the irony
00:21:26.100is things like the public sector unions they sit there and go okay we can go fix the problem
00:21:30.960well you created the problem that you now want to nominate yourself to go fix that's where i have a
00:21:35.840real problem. No, a hundred percent. And it's, it's, you look at a situation like that where
00:21:44.340it's, it's, they put the ideology first and that's the real problem. They don't put the
00:21:51.440education first. They don't put, they don't put the wellbeing of the kids first. They're putting
00:21:57.200the ideology first. They're saying this has to happen. And then let's not forget what Rachel
00:22:01.340Levine did with getting his, her, the mom, right? They got the mom out of the nursing home, put up
00:22:09.560in a private hotel before the lockdowns came in, before all the rules came in for the nursing homes
00:22:16.640and because they know those nursing homes are going to be turned into death traps, which they
00:22:22.020were. But Levine did not do that. She made sure that her own, you know, her own mother was able
00:22:30.120to get out it's a joke it was a joke at the time and it's it's honestly disgraceful and it shows
00:22:34.840by the way i would call it malice aforethought that that one policy for us but one policy for
00:22:41.720everybody else and that's always been the biggest problem whether it's the lockdowns whether it's
00:22:45.920the books they push in these schools whether it's the rest let me ask you though so so it so that
00:22:51.640the documentary covers you know it goes through goes through covid we come out of covid how does
00:22:57.400it play with some of those cultural issues when it really comes down to how this can go school
00:23:03.380by school, block by block in Bucks County? What happened is once our candidates were now the
00:23:10.280incumbents, because we won on COVID policy, we were right, we won those elections in 21.
00:23:15.140When the 23 elections came around, we do our school board elections in odd years,
00:23:19.520they had to literally, in my opinion, manufacture an issue by which to discredit the majority.
00:23:26.360and they went after trans issues, gay issues, et cetera, as the wedge. And we hired a third
00:23:34.380party consultant in the Bucks County schools. There was not a higher incidence of bullying at
00:23:39.340our school versus any other, even though it was the third largest in the district. You can go
00:23:43.120read the report that Dwayne Morris did, but they needed an issue. They needed a way to discredit
00:23:48.440the majority. And this is what they stuck their teeth into. And they got ruthless about it. Let
00:23:53.740me tell you a little funny story we ran a guy in allentown even though that's not bucks county
00:23:57.820his name's mike milo mike's a gay guy married with two kids he would knock on doors in allentown0.97
00:24:05.800and they would say you're not welcome in my house because you're the anti-gay bigot on the ticket0.93
00:24:10.580that is how effective they were in demonizing our candidates when clearly it was false on its face0.99
00:24:17.620this is a gay guy who's married to a dude and you say you're not welcome in my house because you're0.99
00:24:23.320the anti-gay bigot that's ridiculous no it is and then by the way i do want to let folks know0.99
00:24:29.440um just getting a message here that president trump is slated to speak soon an announcement0.98
00:24:34.580from the oval office on health care and i believe uh we might we might want to take that if he if
00:24:40.720he does pop in there uh the network does want to get that but paul just a couple of minutes before
00:24:45.320the president goes live and of course uh of course he'll uh he'll always trump us as it is uh where
00:24:51.400can people go when we tell us walk us through the timing of how this documentary is coming out
00:24:56.100does it i believe it drops sunday uh tell folks where they can go to get access to it to watch it
00:25:01.340it's on pbs streaming service starting on sunday the 20th there are five episodes that will drop
00:25:08.600on five sets of sundays each of the local pbs affiliates gets to opt into when they do the
00:25:14.720live so for example why here in philly they're going to show it on monday nights at nine o'clock
00:25:21.100even though it'll be available, I think, starting midnight, Saturday nights on the streaming service.
00:25:27.020But check your local PBS affiliate for the live broadcast or go to PBS's streaming service
00:25:32.120and you'll watch it anytime starting Sunday night.
00:25:35.220Amazing. Paul, thank you so much once again for doing what you did,
00:25:38.940for representing Republicans, just being up there representing conservatives.
00:26:05.460We do we do want to have the question of the day.
00:26:08.700So the question of the day, of course, will come up and it will occur because we're getting back on schedule around here.
00:26:15.080So I want to do a fun one today, kind of just talk about people's families, get into your background, maybe a little audience research for us.
00:29:56.620All right, folks, we were doing question of the day because the president has not yet emerged like it's like Punxsutawney president over here.
00:30:04.380Another P.A. reference for you, by the way.
00:30:06.600So the question of the day, of course, 1776 at human events dot com, 1776 at human events dot com.
00:30:13.840I want to thank producer Foss for collecting all these for us.
00:30:16.600And I'm just going to go through as fast I can.
00:30:18.180When did your family first arrive in America?
00:30:20.540I said before, my family and my mom's side, 1837, my dad's side, Ellis Island, and we're a bit of a mixed bag because, of course, everyone knows my wife just walked right off the plane.
00:30:50.540something i noticed is that immigration lines get a ton of attention but not a lot of heritage
00:30:56.680american lines i assume this is just because a lot of parents grew up in the era where this was
00:31:00.720the emphasis i wonder how widespread that mindset is my theory is that their actual family tree if
00:31:07.100they knew about it more they would be more uh they would be more more focused on as i said i know my
00:31:13.120irish answers arrived around 1840 tracing back is pretty tough due to the famine about three
00:31:19.060But he says the rest of his family was traced to founding of the settlements in New England, Virginia, and Quebec.
00:31:24.100About three-fourths of my bloodline was on this continent since the 1620s.
00:31:27.640And I didn't even know or think to look into this because my whole life, all we ever heard were immigrant stories.
00:31:32.740The founding stock colonists were often landed gentry back in England and have blood ties to known families and known histories back to the Norman Conquest and earlier.0.93
00:31:40.620It's not hard to think that this is part of some insidious effort to make us forget our heritage.0.97
00:32:46.440identity demands no abandonment of historical roots. And that's just an incredible story. So
00:32:53.440deepest gratitude and extended for your childless endeavors. May the Almighty bestow blessings of
00:32:57.280robust health and absolute safety upon you and your kindred. May God bless you as well.
00:33:02.620Let's go on in from Jane Weiss. It says, Gregory Priest died January the first winter. Her family
00:33:09.920was here on the Mayflower. Wife and two daughters stayed behind in Holland. They came the next year
00:33:14.320and she remarried this one matthew um father's side escaped 1917 escaping the bolshevik
00:33:21.920revolution mother's side unclear but pre-1900 from german austrian heritage this one in from
00:33:27.880barbara my mother's family came to america 1918 from slovakia my father's family from ireland in
00:33:33.520the 1800s uh this one's in from dominic he says my family first arrived in america wow
00:33:40.760Wow. First arrived in America in the early 1790s as French colonial refugees from the Haitian
00:33:48.020Revolution. And folks, I've talked before how the Haitian Revolution was very much a white genocide.
00:33:54.320I'm going to butcher this. The Diakine family fled St. Dominique, where they had lived for1.00
00:34:03.180generations, first spending time in places like Jamaica before eventually settling in New Orleans.
00:34:07.260By the early 1800s, they were firmly rooted in Louisiana, particularly New Orleans, where later generations became merchants, bakers, soldiers, and eventually part of the Gulf Coast community my family comes from today.
00:34:18.480So, roughly speaking, my family has been in what is now the United States for a little over 230 years.
00:36:21.080Well, the Puritans were the government of England after they overthrew the king for a brief period, and they were so crazy that they decided to bring the king back and kick out the Puritans.
00:36:31.340So this went in from, oh, also from Jack, from someone written, named by Jack, my grandmother's on my father's side, goes back to Sir Francis Drake, who had a child born in pre-Mayflower.
00:36:43.300We got a pre-Mayflower so far as I think that one's the oldest pre-Mayflower.
00:36:48.080Return to England, return to the United States in the late 1800s in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
00:36:54.000Grandmother's family on my mother's side.
00:42:06.760a bunch of people have Mayflower ancestors. That's amazing. I got to meet a Mayflower
00:42:11.180ancestor last night at the event that I was at, at the National Archives. That was, excuse me,
00:42:16.060I didn't meet a Mayflower ancestor. A descendant of a Mayflower ancestor, a Mayflower descendant
00:42:21.320that I met would be pretty crazy if I had met someone who was a Mayflower passenger while I
00:42:25.860was at the event last night, just saying, maybe in my dreams. I don't know. Going through a great,
00:42:32.360You know, Sicily, a lot of Ellis Islanders, but not, you know, most people, I got to say, most people, early 1700s, here's one, 1609, Jamestown, another one, 1609, Jamestown, 1632 from Switzerland, a lot of pre-founding.
00:42:53.260This one's got a, someone sent me a table of their great-grandparents.
00:42:56.700I love that you guys are so into this, by the way.