The first 1,500 U.S. troops are arriving at the southern border as President Trump launches his long-promised crackdown on immigration. The Trump administration has introduced a new one-flag policy requiring all State Department buildings to fly only the American flag.
00:13:43.140I don't think he wanted to believe it until it really impacted him personally.
00:13:46.520And now he's going right to the belly of the beast and taking it to him.
00:13:51.380And the fact is, it is these international aspects of the censorship industry that are going to be doubling and tripling in size over the next several years.
00:14:01.440And the U.S. censors and exiles will be attaching themselves to the EU, to the UK, to Brazil, and to dozens of others that will form a sort of shadow cabinet here in the U.S.
00:14:14.060to use other countries' censorship laws.
00:14:16.920But the fact is, is the World Economic Forum itself formed an institution called GARM, whose mission was to deprive conservative and populist websites of $2.6 billion in programmatic ad revenue.
00:14:30.400And they were successfully on their way to doing that until Jim Jordan and a parade of lawsuits effectively got that shut down.
00:14:38.560So we have the wind at our sails, we have momentum on this, and we have to keep the pressure on.
00:14:46.040Well, I think you're right, though, as well on that other topic there, because it is going to come through the EU.
00:14:50.600And I think this is one of the reasons, by the way, that Elon Musk has been so vocal regarding certain parties and certain groups that he's been, I would say, maybe not necessarily coming out and endorsing or supporting,
00:15:02.380but he's definitely giving air cover to various movements, AFD, something that has really come up in the media,
00:15:08.200because he's doing so in order to push back against the likes of Olaf Scholz, of the CDU, this is Angela Merkel's former party,
00:15:19.120Keir Stahmer in the UK, not an EU position, but also someone that he's gotten into it with, particularly with Rotherham and these other issues.
00:15:26.520It isn't necessarily that he's doing it out of a vacuum.
00:15:29.240He understands that he faces serious threats from them using censorship and using the power of their government apparatus to go after X.
00:15:38.240So it'll be this sort of backdoor censorship because, and I think you've talked about this before,
00:15:42.040that because if they enter one regulatory framework, it's not like he's going to be able to censor things in one country or in just the EU or the Schengen zone.
00:15:51.640He's got to do it for the entire company.
00:15:53.000Right. And we've already seen the EU rake the U.S. tech companies over the coals.
00:16:00.560Mark Zuckerberg talked on Rogan about the $30 billion in fines so far that collectively Microsoft, Google and Facebook have had to eat,
00:16:09.660and that the Biden administration did nothing to defend U.S. interests in Europe as that was all happening.
00:16:15.500In fact, seem to be cheerleading it on right now, as we speak, the National Endowment for Democracy is a signatory to the EU code of practice on disinformation.
00:16:25.860I'll say that again, Trump's Trump's probably most pernicious CIA cutout being funded by the federal government as we speak is still a proud signatory to a European law forcing U.S. companies to censor whatever the EU says is disinformation.
00:16:47.020That has to be ended immediately. There should be no U.S. funded NGO, no third party group, no government blessing whatsoever.
00:16:58.080We need to be declaring war on the Digital Censorship Act. Sorry, the Digital Services Act.
00:17:03.480Anyone who is endorsing that cannot get a single dollar of U.S. government grant or contractual support, and we need to route this out root and stem.
00:17:18.040So the fact that Biden had government agencies and pseudo-government agencies work with the U.S., with the EU government in order to kill U.S. companies, that dark age is over.
00:17:33.480The golden age begins. The little dark age has ended. Mike Benz, where can people go to follow you, my brother?
00:17:40.880Find me on X at Mike Benz Cyber and at Foundation for Freedom Online. We're dropping a massive report in the next 24 hours over there.
00:17:49.100Absolutely. By the way, great to see you at the Coronation Ball with Lomez and all the team. It was a triumphant, triumphant event. We'll be right back with breaking news on Pete Hegseth around the bend.
00:18:03.480Working long hours. I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:18:08.680All right, Jack Posobiec here. We are back live. That's a live shot you're looking at right now of Washington, D.C. here on Human Events Daily.
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00:19:53.200She says, I commend his service, leading troops and veterans.
00:19:57.120She says she has significant concerns, talks about his expertise, talks about his qualifications, talks about statements on women in combat, talks about some of these media allegations that have been made regarding him.
00:20:15.940I regret that I am unable to support Mr. Hegseth.
00:20:20.460We have Mark Lucas on now, the executive vice president of the Article III project, someone who also served with Pete and knows him quite well.
00:21:36.000I like to say that the trigger pullers love Pete Hegseth and the paper pushers hate him.
00:21:41.440So with this development of Senator Murkowski coming out, look, at the end of the day, this comes down to math, right?
00:21:49.840So this it's it is the Republicans have a 53 vote majority in the Senate.
00:21:54.880That's assuming that no Democrats come over and vote for the nominee.
00:21:58.440Obviously, you saw with Marco Rubio, 99.0.
00:22:02.120So he did receive that confirmation once it seemed that he was going through.
00:22:06.160He was the first cabinet nominee to be confirmed then.
00:22:09.960But let's, you know, let's just talk party line because we were looking at math here.
00:22:13.280So from 53 losing Murkowski, that takes it down to 52.
00:22:17.600I know two others that particularly seem to be on the bubble as pertains to just the media reporting here in D.C.
00:22:23.260are Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell.
00:22:26.160So how do you think the math plays out and what is the tail of the tape here?
00:22:32.940The math is still good for Pete Hegseth.
00:22:35.440I believe that Pete Hegseth will be confirmed as our next secretary of defense, either late Friday evening or early Saturday morning.
00:22:43.540Senate Democrats are playing games, which is very unfortunate because our national security is on the line.
00:22:49.460And to go back in the time when President Joe Biden was elected president, two days after his inauguration, Lloyd Austin was confirmed as his secretary of defense.
00:22:59.940And what we see is that Senate Democrats in particular, they don't believe that President Trump has a mandate.
00:23:06.740I guess they don't believe in the will of the American people because we all saw that President Trump won in a historic landslide.
00:23:47.200And Pete Hegseth will be our next secretary of defense.
00:23:50.600OK, so let me I'm just walking through some of these scenarios here.
00:23:53.920So you're looking at potentially and by the way, the 53, the 53, 47, this was the vote that was taken on those party lines when it came to one of the procedural votes, I believe, yesterday.
00:24:05.060So that's one of the things that were, you know, sort of taken is reading the tea leaves as potential for the floor vote.
00:24:10.620But of course, moving the nomination along is not the same thing as voting to confirm.
00:24:14.800So I know a lot of people or some folks out there, maybe not, maybe not in this audience, but some folks out there were saying that they thought maybe Pete had been confirmed yesterday.
00:24:42.260And let's not forget during that procedural vote, Senator Fetterman from your home state of Pennsylvania voted to advance Pete's nomination.
00:24:50.980So we have the ability of losing three Republicans.
00:24:56.540J.D. could come in for the tie-breaking vote.
00:25:00.340But as we sit today, I believe that the math still looks good, that Pete Hegseth is on track to be our next secretary of defense.
00:25:07.260And these smear campaigns as well are just acts of desperation.
00:25:12.220I've been telling people that Pete Hegseth's confirmation is Kavanaugh 2.0.
00:25:17.200We saw NBC News run a story yesterday with these fake allegations from Pete's former sister-in-law, which, by the way, Pete's ex-wife has forcefully refuted those.
00:25:48.440And, of course, I know obviously a lot of people or some of the other nominees are probably going to be looking at these votes as well.
00:25:54.940Tulsi Gabbard has now just been confirmed for a hearing.
00:25:59.080She has the date next Thursday, so that will be the 30th.
00:26:03.060We also know that Kash Patel is going up on the 29th.
00:26:06.780I believe RFK is also going to be scheduled pretty soon here.
00:26:09.820So a lot of the nominees, and these are the big ones, these are really, I think, the big three are Hegseth, RFK, and Tulsi Gabbard.
00:26:16.640The people are really looking to, as pertains to, look, this is the agenda that the American people voted for.
00:26:22.540These are the people that President Trump put up, obviously Hegseth not during the campaign, but afterwards.
00:26:27.660And, look, at the end of the day, Pete Hegseth stands for the kind of things that President Trump spoke about forcefully on the campaign trail,
00:26:34.940this idea of having an actual change agent at the Secretary of Defense, not having someone who's either part of the system
00:26:43.200or someone who wants to simply continue business as business.
00:28:22.260And a number of them have been saying simply that it looks as though the president, they don't expect President Trump's nominees to not be confirmed.
00:28:29.560Sure, there might be a couple of votes here or there.
00:28:33.340But at the end of the day, it's, look, the president won in a truly dominant and commanding fashion back in November.
00:28:40.080And doing so, and as the president mentioned last night, he said, I did it the hard way, euphemism to say the least, understatement possibly of the millennium, that the president gets his cabinet.
00:28:54.800And their success and failure at the end of the day should be up to them rather than having the senators try to push too hard on the president's picks.
00:29:05.680And we know, of course, that, you know, nothing against, nothing against Peter or Tulsi or any of the nominees.
00:29:10.920But we know that President Trump certainly is more than willing to change out his cabinet should, should, should they, any issues arise.
00:29:27.580And I respect those, like every committee has different rules of how they refer these committees to the floor.
00:29:35.040For instance, the Judiciary Committee, they have a couple days of hearings, which makes sense because some of those nominees are going to be judges in lifetime appointments.
00:29:45.020And the Senate Armed Services Committee, they had one round of questioning for Pete Hegseth.
00:29:51.400The Senate Republicans were able to expedite that.
00:29:53.960They got them to the floor, and I respect tradition, but the American people, they understand that we are in a very pivotal time in modern-day history, and we need to get these people confirmed as soon as possible.
00:30:05.240Mark Lucas, we're just about out of time here, Human Events Daily.
00:30:08.460Go give them a follow, the Article III project where Mark Lucas works over with the great Mike Davis and also Bill Chamberlain.
00:30:14.580We'll be right back with Michael Mays.
00:30:34.280You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:30:35.660We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:30:41.440All right, Jack Posobiec back, Human Events Daily, live, Washington, D.C.
00:30:47.500By the way, breaking news over just moments ago in the United States Senate, John Ratcliffe has been confirmed as the CIA director in the Trump administration.
00:30:59.540I don't have the exact numbers on the vote right now, but I'm going to get that down.
00:31:24.380President Trump's nominees working their way through the Senate.
00:31:28.300But there's something else that we need to discuss, folks, and we need to discuss a little bit more, because that Bishop S that we saw the other day at Tuesday, well, my brother and I were there, and we came here on the program immediately after having left that, I'm not even sure what you call it, because it certainly wasn't a mass, and it certainly wasn't a ceremony, but that performance, which was an interesting experience.
00:31:53.460But there was another character that you might know that we actually were sitting right next to, and it was Michael Knowles who joins us now.
00:32:05.780I've recovered from whatever it was that we witnessed at the National Cathedral, so-called, but it took a little while to process just exactly what we saw.
00:32:15.460The first time that Jack Posobiec and Michael Knowles walk into a female priest, and that's what we get.
00:32:24.840You know, it's almost like, you know, it's almost like Corinthians was, I don't know, a bit prescient in discussing these matters.
00:32:33.840You know, it's not surprising that a lady who would mistake herself for a bishop might also confuse foreign nationals for American citizens or even little boys for little girls.
00:32:43.180I guess this should have been expected.
00:32:46.540But, you know, it's worth pointing out for those who are not history buffs or deep into theology, Christianity does not have priestesses.
00:32:58.580Our Lord chooses his disciples, his apostles, and there are disciples who are the ministers of Christ who act in persona Christi, in the person of Christ.
00:33:07.780Now, there are plenty of other religions that have priestesses.
00:33:10.060Priestesses go all the way back to antiquity, but they're usually part of pagan cults.
00:33:17.000And what we are seeing increasingly with these leftist activist organizations that masquerade as Christian ecclesial communities is we're seeing effectively pagan cults.
00:33:28.520What this woman was talking about was so hideous because she was promoting a particularly egregious form of child abuse, the castration of little children.
00:33:37.520And this partakes of Gnostic heresy, the notion that our true selves have nothing to do with our bodies.
00:33:43.520That's an old ancient heresy that's been around for a long time, just like priestesses have.
00:33:47.080But you're seeing the old, old demons rear their ugly heads again.
00:33:51.640And it was quite, quite bizarre to see it all dressed up in a facade of Christianity.
00:33:57.400You know, I got to ask you, man, when we walked in there, like, I did not expect this to blow up.
00:34:04.600I did not expect this to be a newsworthy event in any way.
00:34:08.500I expected this to sort of be, I don't know, perfunctory.
00:34:11.700You know, you go in and you think it's going to be a prayer service and there's going to be some, yeah, sure, some talk of national unity.
00:36:06.540But it's an odd thing to hear a Muslim call to prayer in a cathedral.
00:36:10.600A cathedral is supposed to be a Christian house of worship.
00:36:14.080You know, I suppose we hear it in the Hagia Sophia, but it's for different reasons.
00:36:17.280So what they clearly were trying to do, they brought in some white guy who has become a Buddhist and they had all sorts of odd things there.
00:36:26.600But what they wanted to do was be totally inclusive of everything.
00:36:30.460But the problem is you can't really include everything because going back to good old Uncle Aristotle, there's a law of non-contradiction.
00:36:37.560You can't simultaneously hold opposing things to be true.
00:36:41.060And I think this is actually a big theme of the opening days of the administration.
00:37:25.100You know, I think in recent years, Christianity has tried to be absolutely everything to everyone, and we've lost our identity.
00:37:32.320Just as in politics, we've lost our national identity.
00:37:35.780You know, I just have to say the idea that the national cathedral is run by this woke junta of Episcopalians just clearly flies in the face of everything that we stand as a nation that's been constituted.
00:37:52.900By the way, you know, some of the religions you mentioned right there, or the groups that you mentioned, we're talking about like 1% of the population.
00:37:59.060And America has always been a Christian-majority nation.
00:38:03.780It remains a Christian-majority nation.
00:38:06.480That doesn't mean we can't be ecumenical.
00:38:08.480That doesn't mean that we can't be pluralistic.
00:38:10.840And I certainly understand all of those things.
00:38:12.840But going into this, we were not looking for a circus.
00:38:15.740And they absolutely turned it into the circus with the bishopess becoming the chief clown in the three-ring act, which, of course, President Trump called out as he rightfully should.
00:41:18.980What is or what should be the Christian response when people hear that you shouldn't deport criminals from your nation?
00:41:27.240I always love when atheists who have never cracked the spine of a Bible decide that they're going to tell Christians what their religion says.
00:45:23.320By the way, it's funny you mention that, too, because I've – you know my wife, of course, coming from Eastern Europe, and then I've also even spent time in China.
00:46:28.600I hope and trust that it will come to pass.
00:46:31.260There's been so much great stuff that's come out of the first days of the Trump administration.
00:46:34.900The one thing I've been waiting on is, I said, when is he going to pardon these pro-lifers?
00:46:38.480For people who are not familiar with the story, these are activists, people who all they care about is praying and peaceably demonstrating in front of these satanic abortion mills and trying to save innocent little babies.
00:46:49.360And the Biden administration tossed these people into prison because of a bogus law that was passed during the Clinton administration, the FACE Act, which is just a way to give special protection to abortion mills.
00:47:01.260I mean, elderly women rotting in prison because they care about babies and they're trying to save them.
00:47:06.280So this is probably the greatest injustice of the last four years, and I am fully confident that President Trump is going to rectify that.
00:47:15.500And the man has a knack for showmanship, so the timing with the March for Life is spot on, I think.
00:47:21.080Right, you know, I was looking at it myself, I said, well, you know, the March for Life is on Friday, and this thing is coming down.
00:47:28.600I mean, it really just kind of lines up, the March for Life becoming the forcing function for that President Trump also, by the way, being the first president to ever attend as a sitting president the March for Life.
00:47:40.140I went, I took my mother, as a matter of fact, and it was an incredible event, and I remember the Bush years when he wouldn't come down, even when he was just a couple of feet away in the White House.
00:47:52.580He would call in, and they would act like it was a big deal.
00:47:55.820Michael Knowles, everybody knows where to follow you, but shout out your coordinates anyway.
00:48:00.280Well, you can catch the show at the Daily Wire, the Michael Knowles Show.
00:48:02.760You can go catch all my links at michaeljknowles.com, and you can always smoke a nice Mayflower cigar to celebrate all this winning.
00:48:08.720Uh-oh, the Mayflower cigar sounds a little bit like colonization.