Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - Trump Announces 2 Week Delay on US Involvement in the Iran Conflict - Blessed Are the Peacemakers

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00:00:51.220 Overnight, a routine pre-flight test of SpaceX Ship 36 ending in disaster.

00:00:56.980 Ship 36 just blew up.

00:00:58.480 I mean, even the other day when they, whoa!

00:01:00.800 The U.S. Supreme Court setting a precedent in a brand new ruling.

00:01:05.060 Justices upheld a Tennessee law and banned children under 18 from getting any kind of transgender care.

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00:01:20.620 At least 85 people were hurt in the latest Iranian ballistic missile attack.

00:01:24.800 This in Tel Aviv and beyond, including a direct hit on a hospital in southern Israel.

00:01:30.940 Overnight, Israel attacking dozens of military targets around the country, including an Iranian nuclear facility south of Tehran.

00:01:38.120 Right now, the president is getting an intel briefing inside the White House.

00:01:42.440 And he and his team are weighing their options on whether the United States should join Israel's attacks on Iran.

00:01:48.700 One U.S. official has already told Fox the president has been asking questions to his aides about bunker-busting bombs.

00:01:56.120 I don't want to get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:02:02.680 I've been saying it for a long time.

00:02:04.520 And I think they were a few weeks away from having one.

00:02:07.840 And they had to sign a document.

00:02:09.840 I think they wish they signed it now.

00:02:11.520 It was a fair deal.

00:02:13.160 And now it's a harder thing to sign.

00:02:14.940 Now, regarding the ongoing situation in Iran,

00:02:18.080 I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media

00:02:21.200 regarding the president's decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved.

00:02:26.760 In light of that news, I have a message directly from the president.

00:02:30.240 And I quote,

00:02:31.520 Based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future,

00:02:38.800 I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.

00:02:43.520 That's a quote directly from the president for all of you today.

00:02:47.360 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition, Human Events Daily.

00:02:51.500 Washington, D.C.

00:02:52.900 Today is June 19th, 2025.

00:02:58.000 Anno, Dominique.

00:02:59.500 Guys, if we can get that shot back up with that beautiful White House with those huge American flags next to it,

00:03:06.520 folks, take a good, beautiful look at those huge flags that you can see flying right there from the White House.

00:03:13.860 That is the two flags atop the brand new.

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00:03:19.160 I mean, that is just absolutely gorgeous.

00:03:21.480 I'm seeing this now for myself the very first time.

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00:03:28.840 Folks, the news is breaking and it is stunning.

00:03:33.360 President Trump has just announced a two-week delay in his decision on Iran.

00:03:44.460 What can I say other than blessed are the peacemakers and, in fact, blessed are the dealmakers.

00:03:53.240 President Trump has announced also that Iran is, I believe he said, likely or unlikely to have negotiations and discuss these negotiations in a statement through Press Secretary Caroline Levitt,

00:04:09.700 which you just heard moments ago, that's a message to our American troops that are there stationed throughout the Middle East,

00:04:18.700 to our aircraft carriers and the thousands upon thousands of sailors on them, to the pilots, the crews, everyone.

00:04:27.660 Two weeks.

00:04:28.520 There's not going to be a strike right now.

00:04:31.120 There's not going to be a strike tonight.

00:04:33.020 There will be a two-week delay in order for Iran to have these conversations and potentially continue these conversations with President Trump through, of course, his envoy, special envoy, Steve Whitcoff.

00:04:48.960 Folks, when President Trump ran in 2024, when he ran in 2020, and when he ran in 2016, he ran on peace.

00:05:00.580 He ran on being an anti-war president.

00:05:03.920 He ran to be the dealmaker-in-chief.

00:05:07.240 And if there's anyone who can put together a grand deal on Iran, Russia, and China, it's Donald J. Trump.

00:05:18.220 We'll be right back.

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00:07:20.940 Folks, as we're looking, as we're looking now at this decision coming out from President Trump,

00:07:29.260 there's quite a lot of breaking news, as you can see, the back and forth from what's come out in the latest.

00:07:39.840 And the strikes continue.

00:07:40.980 We talked about this war of air attrition, and the war of air attrition continues.

00:07:45.680 IDF now releasing footage of the destruction of containment doned at the Iraq nuclear reactor by a cruise missile.

00:07:54.940 A huge strike by Israel on Iran that took place last night.

00:07:59.460 Also hearing that Iran coming out saying, and Israel even come out saying, I should say,

00:08:07.160 that Iran still has advanced missiles, and that only 65% of the missiles launched by Iran in the last 24 hours

00:08:15.340 were intercepted by the country's Iron Dome system, versus almost 90 the day before.

00:08:20.520 So that's what an Israeli official told NBC News earlier today.

00:08:26.320 What does that mean?

00:08:27.100 Well, exactly what we told you yesterday here on the program, when we said, with General Flynn,

00:08:31.780 and we walked through the stockpiles of these air interceptor missiles that are going,

00:08:36.880 that are being shot by Israel every night on the Iranian onslaught of the ballistics.

00:08:42.440 So they come in.

00:08:43.320 First of all, one key piece of this to keep in mind, those air interceptors are incredibly expensive.

00:08:49.320 The cost of them far exceeds the cost of any one of these dumbfired missiles from Iran. 0.97

00:08:57.420 And so, as General Flynn was saying, the precision targeting isn't necessarily there,

00:09:02.100 but it doesn't need to be, because the goal is an attrition to attrite,

00:09:06.940 to degrade Israel's ability to defend themselves.

00:09:10.460 And you do that through waves upon waves of missile strikes.

00:09:14.420 And in fact, people are saying, well, why is Iran only shooting one or two or three missiles at a time?

00:09:19.220 Well, possibly the reason is because they want Israel to fire off their expensive interceptor missiles

00:09:27.680 and keep this going on and on to the point where they're trying,

00:09:32.800 they know they can't defeat the Iron Dome directly.

00:09:35.440 So what are they doing?

00:09:36.580 They're degrading Iron Dome.

00:09:38.260 They're draining them of ammo, draining them of resources.

00:09:41.920 This is a strategy, and we're seeing that strategy play out, as Israel has gone from a 90% interception rate

00:09:47.840 down to a 65% interception rate.

00:09:52.900 We've got now, I want to bring on Kenny Cody from humanevents.com, the opinion editor there.

00:10:00.700 Kenny, this breaking news just, I think, takes everyone, of course,

00:10:06.320 by surprise that President Trump has made this decision to call for a delay two weeks

00:10:12.620 to allow for negotiations, discussion, dialogue, perhaps even a White House meeting.

00:10:17.640 A White House meeting, by the way, that Mark Levin said should not happen,

00:10:21.660 that Mark Levin came in and said that President Trump should not have any more meetings.

00:10:26.480 And Mark Levin decided that it was his call that President Trump should not have any more meetings,

00:10:32.660 as opposed to the actual commander-in-chief that we all voted for, because I remember who we voted for.

00:10:37.640 His name was Donald Trump.

00:10:39.340 It wasn't anyone else or any of these other figures.

00:10:42.020 President Trump making his response to that pressure by saying,

00:10:46.820 I want to wait another two weeks.

00:10:48.960 Kenny, walk us through some of the initial reaction here

00:10:55.000 and the tea leaves on why the president came out this way.

00:11:00.180 I mean, I think it's pretty obvious.

00:11:01.500 We've always had a foreign policy in MAGA, and President Trump has always held it,

00:11:05.920 of having peace through strength and prioritizing diplomacy,

00:11:10.760 prioritizing having negotiations before we actually make a militaristic strike

00:11:14.520 that's going to launch our relations into being violent, using bombs, using weapons.

00:11:20.340 And people are not used to that.

00:11:21.760 I don't know when the panicans are going to learn that this is a process.

00:11:25.620 They did the same thing with tariffs.

00:11:26.660 As soon as we have anything pointed, as soon as we have any kind of negotiations,

00:11:31.420 everybody panics and say, well, we're going to go into a nuclear war.

00:11:33.760 We're going to go into a war, and we want it. 1.00

00:11:36.040 We want war. 0.98

00:11:37.180 But you have to get President Trump time.

00:11:39.620 Foreign relations and American first foreign policy is not about just coming to the table

00:11:43.660 and negotiating from the outstart.

00:11:45.420 We are now having some sort of rhetoric that is aggressive, that has strength to it,

00:11:50.840 is a strong sort of rhetoric to bring Iran to the table, saying,

00:11:54.680 if they think bad things from America are going to happen if you do not come to the table,

00:11:59.460 agree to denuclearize, and assure that we're going to have a conversation

00:12:03.460 that is going to be best not only for America, but for the rest of the world.

00:12:06.600 And that's what Mark Levin and others, neocons, Lindsey Graham, do not want us to come to hell.

00:12:12.760 Tom Tillis that wants regime war and wants a regime-changed war in foreign policy.

00:12:17.640 Do not want it.

00:12:18.560 They want us to bomb Iran. 0.98

00:12:19.700 They want us to send our men and women in the military over there to fight on behalf of other countries.

00:12:24.660 That's not what America wants.

00:12:26.000 That's not what MAGA wants.

00:12:27.320 We want Iran to come to the table, come to the White House, 0.99

00:12:30.620 meet with President Trump, and meet with the National Security Council

00:12:32.840 to ensure that the most efficient America-first foreign policy is going to happen,

00:12:38.100 and that is not through nuclear war, that is not through World War III,

00:12:41.320 and that is not the neoconservative foreign policy that Mark Levin and others want.

00:12:46.060 We want an America-first foreign policy,

00:12:48.040 and that's exactly what President Trump has decided to do today

00:12:50.040 in allowing Iran to have time to come to the negotiating table

00:12:53.340 and come to an agreement that will be America-first

00:12:56.740 and be a safe foreign policy for America and the rest of the world.

00:13:02.840 Well, and, Kenny, I think you just encapsulated it there perfectly

00:13:06.000 that President Trump understands the threat of a nuclear Iran.

00:13:10.680 He has clearly spoken out about this for years,

00:13:13.420 but he also understands the threat of getting America into yet another prolonged war

00:13:19.980 that these neocons, who can't even tell you the population of Iran

00:13:23.420 or what the ethnic groups are, would do for Americans,

00:13:27.980 American troops or others that got in,

00:13:30.320 plus, of course, this serious question about whether or not a strike on Iran

00:13:36.200 would be the opening salvo into a greater war.

00:13:40.160 I mean, certainly we can sit there all day long

00:13:43.420 and talking heads can say,

00:13:45.180 oh, it's just a strike on one facility.

00:13:47.780 Well, the enemy always gets a vote,

00:13:50.040 and so the enemy could perhaps decide

00:13:52.020 that they don't want to see it like that,

00:13:53.760 and they would look at it as a strike into a wider war.

00:13:56.580 So President Trump here pumping the brakes in a really big way,

00:14:01.380 an absolutely stunning way for I think a lot of people,

00:14:04.760 certainly in the D.C. Beltway,

00:14:05.980 because we have a minute until the break.

00:14:08.740 Washington, D.C. is a one-industry town,

00:14:12.420 and that industry is government.

00:14:15.180 And a huge portion of the people who work here in this town

00:14:19.420 are funded through war,

00:14:22.160 are funded through the military-industrial complex.

00:14:24.580 There's so many, and I'm not just talking DOD.

00:14:27.720 I mean the contractors and all the money

00:14:30.020 that gets spread around Washington.

00:14:31.860 So much of this comes through that business of war.

00:14:37.000 War is a racket.

00:14:38.820 And along comes President Trump and says,

00:14:40.640 wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:14:42.400 I want to do less of that.

00:14:43.960 I don't know if these things are always good

00:14:45.340 for the American people.

00:14:46.360 I mean, that's like going into Los Angeles

00:14:48.140 or going directly into Hollywood

00:14:49.900 and saying you don't want to do movies anymore.

00:14:51.780 That's why the town of D.C. and the Beltway

00:14:54.360 hates Trump so much and hates MAGA so much.

00:14:57.200 MAGA wants to be secure.

00:14:58.700 MAGA has no problem using the military

00:15:00.380 on the borders and on the cartels

00:15:02.860 because that's a direct threat to America.

00:15:05.480 What MAGA has an issue with

00:15:06.660 is getting dragged into another sand trap

00:15:09.900 the same way we did twice

00:15:11.540 under George Bush and his successors.

00:15:14.060 Right back, Real America's Voice.

00:15:16.260 Today, you know, they talk about influences.

00:15:28.200 These are influences.

00:15:30.120 And they're friends of mine.

00:15:32.460 Jack Posobiec.

00:15:33.960 Where's Jack?

00:15:34.920 Jack.

00:15:35.900 He's done a great job.

00:15:37.340 All right, Jack Posobiec.

00:15:41.740 Here we are back live.

00:15:43.160 Human Events Daily here in Washington, D.C.

00:15:46.540 on Real America's Voice.

00:15:48.500 And gosh, I love looking at those giant American flags.

00:15:52.180 Don't they look so good?

00:15:53.040 It's a little bit of a nicer day here in Washington.

00:15:55.300 Yesterday was a bit rough in terms of the weather.

00:15:58.440 But man, do they look good.

00:15:59.880 It just looks right.

00:16:01.460 I'm just saying it just looks right.

00:16:04.160 Kenny Cody.

00:16:04.960 Another thing that looks right is President Trump.

00:16:07.300 President Trump, yet again, looking all of this down the barrel of a gun, potentially

00:16:15.080 a nuclear barrel, and saying, you know what?

00:16:19.320 I've got strength on my side.

00:16:21.840 I'm going to take the meeting.

00:16:24.080 Potentially, he's now signaled that the United States will continue negotiations.

00:16:28.780 We know that the NATO meeting is coming up next week.

00:16:31.460 We know that the EU foreign ministers are going to be meeting with Iranian diplomats and potentially

00:16:38.560 their foreign minister in Geneva next week.

00:16:41.860 And Whitcoff, of course, also speaking directly with President Trump's special envoy, meeting

00:16:47.360 directly with and speaking directly with the foreign minister of Iran.

00:16:51.300 And the White House also saying that Iran could come to Washington, D.C.

00:16:58.140 I mean, Kenny, could you imagine any other president actually sitting down and meeting

00:17:04.580 with Iranian officials at the White House?

00:17:08.700 Absolutely not.

00:17:10.260 Trump has his finger on the button.

00:17:13.080 And most presidents would just press it and say, this is the decision that we're making.

00:17:18.460 We're going to bomb Iran. 1.00

00:17:19.580 We're going to end all negotiations. 0.89

00:17:21.400 We're not even going to have people come to the table.

00:17:23.260 But President Trump is different.

00:17:25.000 He knows the threat and the amount of firepower that the United States military has at its access.

00:17:30.300 We could help Iran out.

00:17:31.460 We could bomb. 0.65

00:17:32.800 We could make Iran all glass if we wanted to.

00:17:36.260 But that's not what President Trump wants to do.

00:17:37.840 He knows the risk that there is in embassies, on American bases.

00:17:41.080 He knows that if we struck right now, we would be stuck in Iran for a very long time.

00:17:45.740 Our men and women would be put in danger, in harm's way, by the Iranian military and by China, 0.99

00:17:51.980 by so many countries that back Iran.

00:17:54.260 We know this.

00:17:55.240 We know that.

00:17:55.840 It's exactly what would happen.

00:17:57.300 President Trump knows that's what would happen.

00:17:59.400 So he has his finger on the button to bring people to the table.

00:18:02.900 And that's exactly what his foreign policy has been over the last 10 years,

00:18:06.540 is to use that strength negotiating power.

00:18:08.620 Know that the cards are in our favor.

00:18:11.360 Know that we have the power.

00:18:12.820 Or Iran doesn't. 0.74

00:18:14.580 We know that we're not a third world country.

00:18:17.720 Iran is a third world country. 1.00

00:18:19.560 If we look at these negotiations, we know that we have the power.

00:18:24.280 We know that we control the conversation.

00:18:27.200 It is no longer that any other country in the world controls the narrative,

00:18:30.600 controls the conversation, where the power should go, what strikes should there be,

00:18:34.860 who should be negotiating, who should come to the table.

00:18:37.680 The United States has that.

00:18:40.180 America has that.

00:18:41.580 And that's what President Trump's main focus is.

00:18:44.620 I trust that regardless of what happens over the next two weeks,

00:18:47.940 that President Trump is going to make the right move.

00:18:50.120 And this shows that hesitation, knowing that if we can negotiate our way

00:18:54.520 into bringing Iran to the table and denuclearizing Iran, 0.60

00:18:59.020 that we need to take the opportunity instead of just going into firepower,

00:19:02.700 starting another knit forever war.

00:19:04.540 And that's exactly what Trump is going to do.

00:19:06.520 He is going to ensure that we stay away from those things

00:19:08.480 and keep our men and women in the military out of the way

00:19:10.760 and future generations for being in a forever war.

00:19:14.960 Now, Kenny, by the way, you've got this incredible article up

00:19:18.480 about how the No Kings protests seem to have just kind of completely dissipated

00:19:24.920 from the news cycle.

00:19:26.500 It's up at humanefence.com.

00:19:28.080 Walk us through a little bit of that.

00:19:29.220 Yeah, I mean, I've already seen the comments on this article.

00:19:33.180 I've already seen the mainstream media try to argue that the No Kings protests

00:19:36.360 were some of the most successful protests of American president history.

00:19:39.580 But let's look at the cities that actually have participation.

00:19:42.200 If you look at Chicago, Los Angeles, Sacramento, New York City,

00:19:46.180 you're looking at all these cities that are inherently liberal

00:19:49.140 and inherently leftist in terms of their population

00:19:51.780 that, of course, are going to be anti-Trump

00:19:54.280 because they've always been against Trump.

00:19:55.560 They've always been against any Republican, any conservative,

00:19:57.280 let alone the most significant, impactful conservative

00:20:00.540 of the last 150 years of our country.

00:20:03.400 Of course, you're going to see these outpours and these participations.

00:20:07.120 But where it really mattered and where this dissipated

00:20:09.540 was in these rural districts, in these swing districts,

00:20:13.240 in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and Arizona,

00:20:17.520 you didn't see this massing or this huge participation

00:20:22.160 in these protests from cities and states that it actually mattered.

00:20:26.620 Yeah, I'm sure that these violent fires that they're throwing out there,

00:20:30.920 these businesses that are getting broken into,

00:20:32.960 it's a continuation of the L.A. riots,

00:20:34.620 only it has President Trump's face on them.

00:20:36.760 But this was already happening in these liberal leftist cities

00:20:40.720 and protesting mass deportations.

00:20:42.980 This was already happening.

00:20:44.640 This is exactly what the American people think of the Democratic Party.

00:20:48.120 They want to burn down our streets the same way they did in 2020 in BLM. 0.99

00:20:51.720 There is this argument that this is some nuanced, unique protest,

00:20:57.500 and it's not.

00:20:58.340 It's the same continuation of leftism the last 10 years.

00:21:02.540 Kenny Cody going to be making a special trip to Washington, D.C.

00:21:07.780 He's got some secret meetings.

00:21:09.160 They're so top secret.

00:21:10.140 Kenny won't even tell me what they are,

00:21:12.160 but I hope to get to see you next week there, Kenny.

00:21:15.140 Appreciate you guys.

00:21:16.120 God bless you, brother.

00:21:16.640 Good looking forward to seeing you.

00:21:18.500 All right, take care.

00:21:19.160 Make sure you follow him, KennyCodyHumanEvents.com.

00:21:21.660 We'll be right back.

00:21:22.240 Real America's Voice.

00:21:29.680 And Jack, where is Jack?

00:21:32.660 Where is Jack?

00:21:34.980 Where is he?

00:21:36.260 Jack, I want to see you.

00:21:39.900 Great job, Jack.

00:21:41.300 Thank you.

00:21:42.080 What a job you do.

00:21:43.500 You know, we have an incredible thing.

00:21:44.860 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad,

00:21:46.960 but we have guys and these are the guys

00:21:49.600 that should be getting Pulisic.

00:21:52.880 All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back.

00:21:55.160 Live Human Events daily.

00:21:57.220 Beautiful live shot of the White House there.

00:21:59.780 You can see those enormous American flags.

00:22:03.540 Gosh, they look so good.

00:22:04.660 I just love, I love seeing them there.

00:22:06.320 I love seeing them flapping in the breeze

00:22:07.860 right outside the White House

00:22:10.000 where we know President Trump is hard at work.

00:22:12.560 Right now, we're told that he was having another National Security Council meeting

00:22:18.920 and, of course, signaling that he wants to continue the negotiation process with Iran

00:22:25.440 rather than jump for this immediate strike that so many people have been calling for

00:22:32.680 and certainly that people on cable news, both on the left and right,

00:22:38.880 seem to be uniting behind this immediate strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

00:22:46.440 I want to bring in now Evita Duffy. 0.74

00:22:49.720 She's the host of the early morning edition, early edition of the Bongino Report.

00:22:54.980 She joins us now.

00:22:55.880 Evita, how are you?

00:22:57.580 Thanks for having me, Jack.

00:22:58.660 Thank you.

00:23:00.500 So, Evita, I've got to get your reaction.

00:23:02.820 And initially, I'd like to hear your immediate reaction to President Trump's announcement

00:23:08.200 of this two weeks for the negotiation period that he would like to hold,

00:23:13.560 but also sort of get your sense on where Gen Z is more broadly on all of this.

00:23:19.520 Well, I think, Jack, it's obvious that the president is thinking about the future of this country,

00:23:23.880 of what is best for America right now.

00:23:26.280 We have an open border.

00:23:27.480 We have people dying of fentanyl on our streets.

00:23:30.160 We have veterans homeless on the streets.

00:23:32.200 I mean, we are facing really an invasion.

00:23:34.560 This is what President Trump is like to do, to address the invasion at our border.

00:23:38.480 And he's saying, I think we want to avoid war with Iran at all costs. 0.57

00:23:42.260 That's what MAGA has always been.

00:23:44.280 It has been anti-war, especially anti-forever wars.

00:23:47.220 And so if there is a path for peace, President Trump is going to seek out that path.

00:23:51.880 That is going to be the priority.

00:23:53.180 It always has been for this president.

00:23:55.280 And I think this is why he was elected in the first place.

00:23:58.240 Now, what does Gen Z think about all this?

00:24:00.020 I'll tell you what, Jack.

00:24:02.000 Gen Z is not interested in a war with Iran at all.

00:24:07.000 But I think it makes a lot of sense because this is a generation that grew up with forever wars in the Middle East.

00:24:13.660 I was born in 1999, my entire childhood, we were engaged in conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:24:21.400 And so I think this is a generation that looks at what's happened to our country, sees all of the problems here at home, and wants to avoid another foreign conflict at all costs.

00:24:31.720 And I feel that this is actually where President Trump has always been and the MAGA movement has always been.

00:24:36.140 So the idea is, I think, that Gen Z is, when they say America first, what they're really talking about is this idea that, look, and I sympathize, too, because you see people, and I think about it, it's like, oh my gosh.

00:24:54.340 You know, earliest memories are 9-11, and then suddenly America has this huge rush to war in a country that wasn't involved.

00:25:03.060 In 9-11, so many people die, so many people are killed, so many wounded warriors coming back, their faces scarred, their limbs blown off, fathers and mothers who are never coming home to their children, and, in fact, so many children who are never coming home to their mothers and fathers.

00:25:24.340 Then you've got the global financial crisis, you've got everything with China, you've got COVID on top of that, all the rest, and suddenly it's like, wait a minute, when is my government going to do something for me?

00:25:38.300 And it's sort of like, as a quote-unquote Gen Y or whatever, it's like, I can remember a time when the institution sort of made sense and the system sort of worked, and I can remember the collapse.

00:25:49.620 I saw the collapse, I lived through it.

00:25:51.960 But Gen Z doesn't really have that memory, do they? 1.00

00:25:55.200 No, not at all, Jack.

00:25:56.260 And I think it's millennials that are the first generation to inherit an economic future worse off than their parents.

00:26:02.880 Certainly Gen Z has that as well.

00:26:04.700 We look out into the future, and you're never going to own a home if you do.

00:26:08.760 We'll own one maybe in our 50s or our 60s.

00:26:11.880 Rent is skyrocketing.

00:26:13.520 It's not keeping up with wages.

00:26:15.300 You have massive amounts of student debt that people are taking on.

00:26:20.000 Again, there's an invasion at our border, and this means that the value of labor has dramatically gone down in this country over the years.

00:26:27.460 I mean, there are so many problems facing this next generation, and we have been lied to, you're right, by our institutions over and over again, by the media, by our academic institutions, by our own government.

00:26:38.880 And so this is actually a bipartisan issue, I think.

00:26:42.500 I think left and right, young people in this country do not have faith in the system.

00:26:48.280 And if we can't get our own house in order, if we look out into the future and say, what do we have to look forward to?

00:26:55.740 How can we think about making some place on the other side of the world better?

00:26:59.740 I think this is a generation that says, let's focus on what's here at home.

00:27:03.760 Let's make our lives better, the American people's lives better.

00:27:07.300 And then we can worry about what's happening across the country or overseas.

00:27:12.640 I mean, this is about priorities.

00:27:14.680 This is actually biblical, right?

00:27:15.940 Take the log out of your own eye before the splinter out of your neighbors. 1.00

00:27:19.860 And that is exactly where this generation's at.

00:27:23.480 Well, no, I think that's exactly right.

00:27:26.000 And, you know, when it comes to Gen Z, then when they hear President Trump has stood up to the war lobby that was calling for these immediate strikes and was saying that we need to go in right, right now, rush, rush, rush, get into another conflict, don't negotiate, don't.

00:27:42.160 And I'm just going to say it.

00:27:43.560 I was going to say it.

00:27:44.180 And media wrote me up for saying this on Twitter last night.

00:27:47.160 Mark Levin was demanding that the president of the United States not take any more meeting.

00:27:52.160 He said, no more meetings.

00:27:53.800 No more meetings, Mr. President.

00:27:55.220 You're not allowed to have them.

00:27:56.420 And he's got that, you know, very shrill voice.

00:27:59.920 And it's interesting because, you know, it's like, Mark, I'm from like 15 minutes from where you're from.

00:28:05.560 Like, you know, like you don't have to do that.

00:28:09.680 Just, you know, have some like hot tea or something.

00:28:12.080 I don't know.

00:28:12.900 And it's you're not the president.

00:28:16.580 Donald Trump is the president.

00:28:17.980 Do you think then that Gen Z is going to look favorably on President Trump's decision to pump the brakes and say, hey, let's explore all the options here?

00:28:26.600 Well, Jack, absolutely.

00:28:28.660 And it's not just it's not just right wing Gen Z, although that's certainly true. 0.99

00:28:32.360 If you look at the new right, the young energy of this party.

00:28:35.340 But it's also people on the political left, young people on the political left that are looking at the situation abroad and saying we just don't want any part of this.

00:28:43.460 And there's an opportunity, I think, a golden ticket opportunity for Trump to create.

00:28:47.680 And I think he already has, but to truly, really cultivate it in the face of this crisis to say we are that we are a new populist movement that is bringing in people who might not necessarily be traditional neocon Republicans, might not have even been voting for Republicans in the past.

00:29:03.600 And this is what he's he's been able to do.

00:29:05.280 And this is what he has an opportunity to continue doing, bringing this coalition of people that is extremely unique, especially among young people when they see the bravery.

00:29:14.800 I think I think there was a soundbite where he said, you know, I don't think we want a war with Iran.

00:29:17.900 And it was circulating around left wing, left wing TikTok.

00:29:21.300 I mean, there are people who are watching him on the political left, especially among young people saying this is an opportunity really for us to stand up for peace.

00:29:30.420 And that being said, you know, President Trump also has signaled that, you know, what else can be done with those two weeks?

00:29:39.420 Hey, wait a minute. There's this there's this bill that's out there.

00:29:42.420 And I get that people have questions about the spending, and I certainly sympathize with that.

00:29:47.060 But this goes to funding deportations.

00:29:49.540 And we know that this administration and Kayleigh McEnany was out last night talking about this, that that's the number one priority for President Trump.

00:29:57.360 And it has been his number one issue for the American people when they look at their list of priorities that are facing them.

00:30:04.640 So, Evita, we're doing your, you know, your Gen Z whisperer, you know, analysis for us here on the program.

00:30:11.420 But, you know, how does Gen Z view the deportations?

00:30:15.140 Obviously, there's a split, I would imagine, between left and right.

00:30:18.760 But in terms of prioritizations, deporting the, you know, 20 to 50 million illegal aliens that are here, how does Gen Z view that?

00:30:28.980 Well, I think it's a good question, Jack, because I think there is there's still a political divide on this issue.

00:30:34.360 But I think once you articulate to Gen Z that it's devaluing labor in this country to have massive legal and illegal immigration, 0.93

00:30:40.340 they come around because they see that they don't have an economic future.

00:30:43.220 I think what President Trump has been able to do since 2015 is be he is he is very culturally savvy.

00:30:51.760 He is somebody who, even though he's an older guy, is able to articulate the the feelings of really of the people of this.

00:31:00.740 He's able to have a pulse on the zeitgeist.

00:31:03.400 And this is why what he said in in on the debate stage about ending the forever wars was so radical, but also so so resonant because it was what everybody was feeling.

00:31:14.560 And I think this is a president that cares about what young people think and want.

00:31:18.620 And I think if he is able to to to create a deal to make some peace in this this critical time, he is going to be deeply respected by young people.

00:31:27.020 And I think he is somebody who really cares about that more than any other president, I think, ever has cared about where young people are at.

00:31:35.320 This is what this president has had been able to do.

00:31:39.140 And you know what it is, it's it's the president.

00:31:41.660 And and I've seen it a million times and I've heard it a million times.

00:31:45.440 I've seen it myself on a few brief occasions.

00:31:48.100 He really listens to everyone.

00:31:49.880 He is a superpower that he has that so many people in Washington just don't do.

00:31:54.540 They don't listen. They don't listen. They don't care.

00:31:57.740 They are authoritarian.

00:31:59.380 There's a huge there's there's almost a philosophical conversation we could have.

00:32:02.960 We don't have the time for it here, but there's a difference between being authoritarian and authoritative.

00:32:08.420 So the left is authoritarian, you know, get your get your jab or you're going to you know, you're going to lose your job or get kicked out of the military or put your mask on.

00:32:18.540 Remember, don't don't pull it down in between every every bite.

00:32:22.220 You know, you go pull that massive. That's authoritarian.

00:32:23.640 Authoritative means you're going to make a decision.

00:32:28.240 And when you make your decision, your decision's final.

00:32:30.920 But you listen, you listen, you take feedback.

00:32:35.020 You understand where people's where people's feelings are, where their interests are,

00:32:39.700 why they care about certain issues a certain way, why what matters to them matters high matters low.

00:32:46.940 And then he makes that decision based on listening to all sources and not just one or the other.

00:32:54.000 And I really think that that's why so many people across age groups and you see this with I think the exception of super seniors was the only group in some of the last polling that was anti Trump.

00:33:06.660 That with every other age group, he in the last polls that I saw, he was winning in every single one of them.

00:33:13.940 And earlier today, some of the polls came out and he's still riding very high at 50 percent or even over 50 percent.

00:33:21.300 Last minute until the break to you, Avita Duffy.

00:33:23.520 Well, I think diversity of thought is really important.

00:33:26.440 It's definitely something that this president values, Jack.

00:33:29.500 Something else I want to just add.

00:33:31.520 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:33:32.940 And taking a second to step back and say, how can we get to peace?

00:33:36.400 How can we get to a solution here?

00:33:37.960 This is what we're called to do as Christians, to look at a situation and see with eyes unclouded by hate.

00:33:44.560 It can be really emotional.

00:33:46.380 And to have a president say, you know what, we're going to take two weeks.

00:33:49.440 We're going to think about this.

00:33:50.640 I'm going to weigh all the options.

00:33:51.860 That's not only a rational thing that a leader does.

00:33:54.940 It's what a Christian is called to do in a situation like that as a third party to defuse and to have the least amount of loss of life. 0.71

00:34:05.620 And this is this is something that I think a lot of people are going to say, you know what?

00:34:10.520 Look, we want peace in the world.

00:34:12.640 We don't want threats and nuclear threats and we don't want rogue regimes and all of these things.

00:34:18.180 But at the same time, the American people also want to know that our interests are the ones that come first, as they should.

00:34:28.440 Jack Posobiec, right back.

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00:35:59.520 We're on with Evita Duffy and just an incredible independent voice out there on Gen Z and really on conservatism as we move into the new age and the new Trump era.

00:36:11.960 Evita, I've got to ask you about this, that one of the biggest things that I've noticed looking at this Iran conflict is the massive generational split that you do seem to see on this issue.

00:36:24.900 And one of the things that I noticed in the crosstabs of a poll that I was looking at the other day was it also showed a split in terms of where people get their news from.

00:36:36.260 Do you think that that's something that's driving a lot of the difference of opinion on this issue?

00:36:42.180 Well, I think that's definitely something that's happening, Jack.

00:36:45.640 I mean, if you look at what the mainstream media is, I mean, you're an alt media, it's a monolith.

00:36:49.500 I mean, there's really not a lot of diversity of thought that's happening.

00:36:53.240 The Internet has democratized information and suddenly people who don't have the backing of a major media corporation are able to garner a massive following and create an audience of people who trust them as an individual, as a voice.

00:37:06.920 And this is where Gen Z is getting their news, and it's radically different from where the boomer generation are getting their news.

00:37:13.580 And I'll say, Jack, I think there's a lot of animosity between the generations.

00:37:18.220 A lot of young people will say, oh, those boomers or they're called older women Karens, and a lot of older people get offended by that.

00:37:25.720 I tend to view boomers, frankly, as victims of a system. 0.72

00:37:30.180 I don't necessarily blame them, as a lot of young people do.

00:37:33.060 I think the reason that they have these opinions about foreign wars or their trust in media that is not very trustworthy is it's been a long time, generations, decades of psyoping that I think is deeply unfair for the boomer generation.

00:37:51.100 And this newer generation that's waking up and realizing, this isn't the America of my parents and grandparents.

00:37:58.000 And it's going to take some time, I think, for a lot of them to come over.

00:38:01.100 But I think President Trump, actually, in 2016, articulating things like, hey, there were no weapons of mass destruction, has been an amazing place to start.

00:38:10.360 Well, you know, and I had Raheem Kassam on here the other day, and we had a conversation about that, where we were speaking sort of to Gen Z as, you know, a couple of Gen Y guys saying, look, we remember what it was like in those early days.

00:38:25.140 I was 17, going on 18 that year, and Raheem was, I think, 16, going on 17, and something like that.

00:38:33.640 And I just remember this war fervor of, you know, we've got to stop Saddam. 0.78

00:38:39.300 He's got the WMDs.

00:38:41.040 We're going to be greeted as liberators. 0.90

00:38:42.960 He's so evil. 0.98

00:38:43.780 He's so bad.

00:38:44.660 And we look at so much that was lost.

00:38:48.620 We look at so much in terms of the finances, the money, the blood, the treasure, the people that never came back, the people that were broken, and our politics that was completely devastated in this country.

00:39:05.160 Because there was this horrific event like 9-11, that the neocons came in and then essentially emotionally manipulated using emotional blackmail to win public opinion to their side.

00:39:20.100 And I'm not saying that's what's going on now, but I am saying that a lot of us view the current world through that lens.

00:39:28.580 This is, maybe I shouldn't share the story, but I'm going to share it with you guys anyways.

00:39:32.500 I was in D.C. a few days ago, and I was talking to somebody in the Trump admin who's pretty high up, and my husband made a joke, and he said, I don't want to spend my summer in Tehran.

00:39:44.560 It was a joke.

00:39:45.420 And this individual said, well, don't you want to die for your country?

00:39:50.480 And I think that there's a lot of older individuals, even many in the Trump admin, who think that this generation just isn't patriotic, and they don't love America.

00:39:59.840 And that's why they don't want to go overseas and fight for this country.

00:40:04.280 And really what it is, is a disconnect between what's happened in the last few decades and what the perception is among older people.

00:40:12.760 Because there was really nothing accomplished in the Middle Eastern wars that we've had over the last few years.

00:40:17.580 We left our equipment there.

00:40:19.820 Numerous people died on both sides.

00:40:22.240 It was horrific.

00:40:23.200 Christian communities decimated. 0.79

00:40:25.020 Not a lot of people know that.

00:40:26.140 Younger Americans are awake to this, and it's not that they're unpatriotic.

00:40:30.900 If there was a real imminent threat coming to this country, I know that the young boys in America who are in their early 20s, 18, 19, they would go and fight.

00:40:39.800 These are patriotic men.

00:40:41.000 And that's how they look at the cartels.

00:40:42.580 That's exactly how they look at the cartels and the illegals.

00:40:45.440 Evita, we are just out of time.

00:40:46.880 I'd love to get into that for a much longer conversation.

00:40:49.340 Where can people go to follow you?

00:40:50.820 Where are you posting all of these white hot takes? 0.53

00:40:54.120 Awesome.

00:40:54.440 Thanks so much for having me, Jack.

00:40:55.540 You can go to evitaduffy1 on Instagram and on X.

00:40:59.460 Make sure you're going and following her, Evita Duffy, an incredible voice.

00:41:03.880 My favorite anti-communist, by the way, folks, I just got to say it again.

00:41:08.600 President Trump, at the end of all of this, will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:41:13.740 For blessed are the peacemakers.

00:41:15.500 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, have my permission to lay a short.

00:41:17.320 We can hear them.

00:41:24.500 Amen.

00:41:24.800 Amen.

00:41:25.420 Amen.

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00:41:25.860 Amen.

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Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - June 19, 2025

Trump Announces 2 Week Delay on US Involvement in the Iran Conflict - Blessed Are the Peacemakers

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