00:01:55.660The depositions are part of a lawsuit filed by humanities groups that say Doge violated the First Amendment by canceling more than 1,400 grants.
00:02:04.900Violence is erupting in Cuba as protesters torch Communist Party offices, throw rocks and chant against the regime in a rare show of defiance.
00:02:13.980Havana is opening talks with the Trump administration while a deepening energy and economic crisis grips the island.
00:02:19.920The CEOs of 10 major U.S. airlines are demanding Congress end a funding standoff
00:02:26.200and pay its TSA workers. In a letter, they claim 93 percent of Americans support paying
00:02:32.020aviation workers during government shutdowns. A letter brief that is online dated October 28,
00:02:42.1202025 from a group called Human Events. And it's addressed to your honor.
00:02:52.460And it's in the nature of a brief on the closure issues we've been discussing today.
00:03:00.260Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're
00:03:04.980here live, Real America's Voice. Today is March 16th, 2026. Anno Domine. And folks, I got to tell
00:03:15.660you, you know, a lot of auspicious anniversaries today. Today is, of course, Stone Cold Steve
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00:03:31.300And Gary Plouchet, yes, Gary Plouchet became the greatest father in the past century.
00:03:39.980God bless you, Gary Plouchet, and God bless you for what you did as a role model to fathers everywhere 42 years ago today.
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00:03:59.820Now, speaking of other criminal cases, Tyler Robinson had his day in court or one of his days in court on Friday, and we here at Human Events found ourselves being the ones who were targeted by Tyler Robinson's lawyers.
00:04:20.440And by the way, I found this photo of Robinson.
00:04:24.880This is actually from the February hearing, but I want to show you guys this photo because I've never seen it before, and I sent it around last night.
00:04:33.440This is a photo of Tyler Robinson sitting in court while he's looking at a picture of Charlie, and this is a picture of Charlie from, obviously, from a high angle, looking down moments before Charlie was shot and killed.
00:04:51.260And that's Tyler Robinson looking at that picture in the courtroom.
00:04:55.860So you're seeing the photo from behind Tyler's over the shoulder, you know, behind his back, and then looking down to see what's on his computer screen.
00:05:05.180The reason that, you know, this one isn't from Friday is because Tyler Robinson was not even put on camera on Friday.
00:05:13.580And so we were not if you were not in the courtroom, you couldn't see him at all.
00:05:17.540And this has become a huge issue. And it's become such an issue that his own lawyers, Tyler Robinson's lawyers, are attacking human events for putting an open letter into the court saying that we demand full public access under the First Amendment to these hearings.
00:05:34.580And we continue to do so. The courtroom must have live video throughout the course of the trial.
00:05:42.380The right of the public to have access to this case, the murder of Charlie Kirk, the trial of Tyler Robinson is paramount.
00:05:50.360It must continue and it must be allowed. There are already too many questions out there.
00:05:54.640There are too many people who have concerns about what is going on.
00:05:59.680We absolutely need this. And so we responded. We say we stand by our call for transparency.
00:06:04.580in this case, and we condemn the misrepresentation of it in court to try to undermine us, to try to
00:06:10.260intimidate us, we won't allow it. And if they so choose, we are more than willing. I am personally
00:06:16.740willing to go to court and argue before the judge with Tyler Robinson sitting right there. If he
00:06:23.960wants to, he can look whatever picture he'd like while he's in court. And we will argue for this
00:06:29.140right. And we will argue that these proceedings need to be public. Charlie's murder was public.
00:06:37.200His execution was on live stream. The murderer made that decision, not Charlie. Charlie didn't
00:06:43.960have a say in his murder, but the murderer did. And as such, since it was public, so too should
00:06:52.760be the trial. Full public, full live stream for the entire world to see. So let's go. And if you
00:07:02.140have a problem with that, I'm more than happy to take you to court. Be right back. Jack Posovic,
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00:10:14.620You know, we're talking about these legal issues.
00:10:16.620And of course, we know that in order to go through those and work on those, you got to go to the experts.
00:10:21.840And that's why, of course, we needed to get the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from the Department of Justice here once again on the program, Harmeet Dillon.
00:12:13.980You know, there's this storm that's hitting D.C.
00:12:16.280It's actually, funny enough, it's been a bunch of people have been saying they're getting technical difficulties with all sorts of systems today.
00:12:23.140So I don't, and yep, our live camera is getting, you can start to see it now.
00:12:30.400I know there's some issues with with weather in D.C. today. Yeah, actually, our building is shut down now.
00:12:35.520So this is my last thing before I head home for safety. And this is very important.
00:12:39.620So happy to discuss it with your audience. Well, I appreciate that so much.
00:12:43.720And I was wondering, though, if I could, if you would indulge me, just given your legal background as well,
00:12:49.060this question that, you know, we find ourselves in this fight for transparency in the Tyler Robinson criminal case,
00:12:55.640this issue over cameras in the courtroom. And now this is a state level case, not a federal case.
00:13:00.820But I was I was wondering if you could sort of put in perspective this, you know, this issue,
00:13:05.700because we're here at Human Events standing for full transparency. Yes, obviously, we have a
00:13:10.460direct tie to the case as well. But I certainly didn't think that this would be anything that
00:13:16.080would be brought up by his lawyers. But they decided to name us in court on Friday.
00:13:20.620Well, look, I mean, I wasn't really prepared to discuss this particular issue and the DOJ, I don't know, has a particular position on it or not.
00:13:28.960Not from an official standpoint, of course, just a high level.
00:13:33.320I think there are arguments on both sides. One of the arguments for is, of course, I've represented numerous media organizations and certainly I think the media should have the right to comment on things, whether that includes up to the extent of cameras in the courtroom, I think is a separate issue.
00:13:47.360But definitely I've gone to court to fight for the right of the media to be able to report on cases.
00:13:52.300And, you know, I've followed amicus briefs and even gone and represented journalists in that regard.
00:13:56.360On the flip side, there's a concern that when you have cameras in the courtroom, it distorts how the judge rules on things and it distorts how the lawyers play to the cameras as opposed to to the jury.
00:14:09.180And frankly, it intimidates some jurors.
00:14:11.480And so I would say the main purpose of the criminal justice system is to obtain justice, and it then relies on both legislators as well as in some cases on a case-by-case basis judges to determine whether the prejudicial factor of a blow-by-blow of media reporting, a media circus, if you will, on a high-profile case may be inimical to that goal of justice.
00:14:35.280And then you look at the OJ case and you look at some other cases where there have been cameras in the courtroom.
00:14:40.560And, you know, I think it is a bit of a mixed bag. So I'll just leave it at that.
00:14:45.380No, I certainly get what you're saying from that perspective.
00:14:47.300I think I think in terms of this case, it's it's there's there's I'm not sure if there's any way to get it out from being so high profile.
00:14:54.100It just it already is as it comes down. I did want to ask you, though, about the because we were talking here about the Save America Act.
00:15:00.960We've been talking about it here on the show for months.
00:15:03.300it feels like now. You're focused as well on the voter rolls. And ultimately, yes, I know there's
00:15:08.220other provisions of it. This is all about trying to get bites on the same apple. Would the Save
00:15:14.960America Act empower you at the Department of Justice to focus on these voter rolls? And can
00:15:20.340you tell us what are some of the issues that we are looking at in terms of the voter rolls?
00:15:24.660Well, Jack, as you know, for many years before I joined the department, I've been focused on
00:15:29.000cleaning up our elections and increasing voter confidence as well as doing that from a partisan
00:15:34.320perspective. And of course, now that I'm at the DOJ, we aren't partisan and I don't even
00:15:39.380particularly take a position on pending legislation. That said, we already have tools
00:15:45.360on the books that we're using here at the DOJ, some for the first time regarding our attorney
00:15:52.500general's right under the 1960 Civil Rights Act to access and review these voter rolls and then
00:15:58.400help states comply with their Help America Vote Act federal law requirements. We're doing that
00:16:04.180in multiple ways. We're helping clean up the voter rolls, comparing them with some federal
00:16:08.060databases, returning returns back to the states to help them do their jobs. Some of the states
00:16:14.160are doing that voluntarily. Some of them are resisting doing their jobs and they're, I think,
00:16:19.400obvious reasons for why they're resisting. But there's other aspects of the Help America Vote
00:16:23.800Act. We're reminding states preemptively that if they don't do certain things, they could be in
00:16:29.280violation. Some states have some funky record-keeping loopholes, if you will, like Minnesota's
00:16:38.060vouching standard that allows one voter to vouch for up to state eight other voters regarding their
00:16:44.860address, which is dilulu and inconsistent with federal law. And so we're in pre-litigation
00:16:55.000discussions with them to try to get them to drop that. Some other states have been back and forth
00:17:00.580with us, including North Carolina, which has a consent decree, and Arizona, who we're talking to
00:17:04.960regarding some irregularities in their voter registration procedures that have led to people
00:17:10.060being put on the voter rolls without any form of verification that they're citizens. And that's a
00:17:15.760violation of federal law for federal elections. And so it's just a lot of record keeping and
00:17:22.040admin type work that simply prior administrations haven't wanted to do. To the contrary, prior
00:17:27.640administrations, particularly Democrat administrations, have actually sued states
00:17:32.420that have tried to clean up their voter rolls voluntarily. I mean, Georgia had a, I think,
00:17:37.860shambolic election in 2020. And as a result of that, they passed some legislation to clean up
00:17:44.780their act. And then, of course, what did Merrick Garland do? He went and sued them over that to
00:17:49.860punish them for cleaning it up. And so states get it on both sides. And I get why some of them feel
00:17:55.900whiplash, because in the past, if they tried to take people off the voter rolls because they were
00:17:59.680dead or hadn't voted for a number of years or maybe had moved, they got punished by the DOJ.
00:18:05.080And now the DOJ is simply trying to follow the letter of the law and help states do that and make sure that particularly in this age of ballots being sent en masse through the mails in many jurisdictions, some states vote entirely by mail today, which, you know, maybe they're rural or what have you.
00:18:20.180I think that's problematic. And it's especially problematic when you don't have perfect or near
00:18:26.180perfect voter rolls. And so every citizen is entitled to know that the vote they cast is
00:18:30.840going to count only with other American citizens and only once and only in that one state. Yet,
00:18:35.520that is not the standard that we've been applying in this country. And so I'm really proud
00:18:38.800to be the leader of this effort here at the DOJ and have the attorney general and the White House
00:18:44.240is backing on it. Well, there's no question. And you've absolutely been a leader on it.
00:18:49.700Thank you so much, Harmeet, and we'll have you right back over the break here.
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00:20:24.320stand with us fighting for america i want to get on very excited to have the external director
00:20:31.420of early vote action as well as the senior fellow for app paula scanlon joins us here
00:20:38.720human events daily paula how are you i'm good it's good to be back with you jack
00:20:42.840Well, it's great to have you on. By the way, I've got to commend the fact, you know, you guys over at Early Vote Action with Scott Pressler, you're working so hard and have had so much success on the SAVE Act. I'm sure you're working hard behind the scenes. Do you have any information for us update wise on the SAVE Act as it stands right now? I know Scott's been putting a lot out.
00:21:06.220I don't have any updates, but all I will say is it's something that needs to be passed. And so I urge the Senate to get that done. I really don't understand what the delay is. I think it's disappointing for us as American citizens that have voted for things like this. But I guess we'll see if it passes, but it's needed and it's necessary. And I urge, again, all of the people in the Senate to get this done.
00:21:26.920it's it's 100 correct and and i i love what scott had put out before saying that um you know it's
00:21:35.900possible that there's a consortium of house members that are joining together saying that
00:21:40.920they're not i saw congressman gill uh tweeting about this and i i quoted him and spoke with him
00:21:45.440a little bit over the weekend saying that he's not going to vote for any legislation that comes
00:21:48.620from the senate that doesn't include the save america act and we just had harmy dylan on she
00:21:54.240was talking about how how bad our voter roles are in this country and the fact that you guys have
00:22:00.360looked at this we know scott has looked at it it's something where it's really simple do we want
00:22:04.640secure elections or not we're going into midterms we've got a lot coming up in the midterms a lot
00:22:08.940riding on this we need to be in a situation where only american voters are voting it's really simple
00:22:13.940you would think yeah exactly that i mean this is something that i don't understand why people are
00:22:19.820against it of course the democrats every time there's an issue that i'm looking at something
00:22:23.280thinking it's bipartisan, whether it's what I went through with women's sports or call it anything
00:22:27.920else. I'm looking at it saying this is a common sense thing. Of course, only Americans should
00:22:32.320vote in American elections. It's the case in pretty much every other democratic country
00:22:35.800in the entire world. Yet Democrats are suggesting that it's misogynistic somehow to say that we need
00:22:41.100voter ID to be able to vote in elections. There's so many things you need an ID to do in this
00:22:46.260country. Voting should absolutely be one of them. And for whatever reason, if you can't figure it
00:22:50.120out and can't find the paperwork. I don't know. Maybe it's deserved that you can't vote. It's
00:22:54.840really not that difficult. Everyone's able to have one. It's not racist. It's not misogynistic
00:22:58.860yet. Here we are having no idea why the Democrats keep pushing it. It's because they want to cheat.
00:23:06.060It's exactly because they want to cheat. There's no, there's no question about that.
00:23:10.560And the fact that the Senate Republicans, look, I get that the Democrats are going to do that,
00:23:14.420but what's the deal with the Senate Republicans though, Paula? Why won't the Senate Republicans
00:23:18.660give this the interest, give this the level that it's due. And it's taking so many people
00:23:24.880to have to push and put pressure on the Senate Republicans, and not all of them, to be fair.
00:23:29.580There's some great senators like Senator Mike Lee and others that have been fighting tooth
00:23:33.020and nail for this. But we shouldn't have to go to that level to get something that's so common
00:23:36.860sense as this past. You know, exactly that. I mean, as a voter that voted for and helped
00:23:42.780campaign for a lot of these people, unfortunately, in my home state, there's no Republican senators.
00:23:48.320so I can't say that it was my state that did this, but it's really upsetting to see what's
00:23:52.700going on here. And I think a lot of voters are very upset with this. They're feeling like what
00:23:57.500they voted for to elect these officials is not getting done. And so the only thing I can say is
00:24:02.200I just urge them to listen to the American people and to do their job. I mean, they're there to
00:24:06.000represent the people that voted them in. And the lack of effort on this really makes us feel like
00:24:11.240that's not the case. No, and this movement, whether you want to call it the MAGA movement,
00:24:20.360the America First movement, whatever, if it's going to mean anything, just conservatism in
00:24:24.740general, it's got to mean that American elections are secured by having only American people voting
00:24:31.240in them. And you got Chuck Schumer up there saying, well, he says that tens of millions of
00:24:35.120people are going to lose access to voting if we pass the Save America Act. But Chuck, I thought
00:24:40.160you told me that there were no illegals voting. So which is it? Exactly that. I mean, the story
00:24:46.160keeps changing. I really don't understand, again, what the drawbacks are here for them. But I think
00:24:51.220it just shows really how corrupt the voting is. I mean, when I voted in Pennsylvania when I was
00:24:55.620in college, I saw firsthand what was going on here. I saw people able to mail in a ballot and
00:25:00.820vote in person. I mean, voter fraud is happening across this country. During the election, I
00:25:05.000I remember back in 2024, we were sitting there all on standby hearing stories of suppression,
00:25:10.500voter suppression, voter fraud in this country.
00:25:12.320And it's something that's really upsetting that we have to look at.
00:25:14.900And if we can't trust the outcomes of these votes, how can we trust anything that's going
00:25:24.960But yet here we are listening to Democrats calling it names, saying it's somehow, again,
00:25:29.440racist and misogynist is all I keep hearing about this.
00:25:32.060I do not understand how that is their answer to everything. Let's just have secure elections and figure the rest out afterwards. I don't understand why they're holding back here. But again, they lack common sense. And I think that we've seen that over the years. And I can't say that I'm surprised.
00:25:47.280Well, look, this is the time for all the people who are in the grassroots, whether you are someone who is a full on Trump supporter, whether you're an independent, even if you're a Democrat, doesn't matter.
00:25:58.600We will accept you. This is something that's about being an American.
00:26:03.140And you've seen the polls on this thing. It is an 85-15 issue. It's a 90-10 issue.
00:26:08.360This is something that polls unbelievably. It's across every demographic. People want the Save America Act.
00:26:15.200and and paula even you look at yourself even as a woman you have found a way to be able to register
00:26:20.900to vote i have i know it's shocking and surprising and also as a so-called minority i've also found
00:26:27.820a way to vote and i've registered in multiple states because i moved to a different state
00:26:31.760and was able to re-register and vote wow you were able to move and vote again paula scannon hold on
00:26:37.360a second i want to hold you over for we'll have libby edmonds joining us here in the next segment
00:26:41.700human events continues somehow these women just keep registering to revolt i don't know
00:26:46.860how it is and wow look at that shot from the white house you can see the storm is
00:26:50.820rolling in wow this is getting serious
00:26:52.540jack where's jack where is he jack i want to see you
00:27:03.080great job jack thank you what a job you do you know we have an incredible thing we're always
00:27:10.520talking about the fake news and the bad. But we have guys and these are the guys should be getting
00:27:15.480policies. All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back. Human events daily. You see there the live shot
00:27:22.760of the White House, this storm rolling in. You can see the droplets there on on our live screen,
00:27:30.640the tornado watch in effect for the nation's capital. President Trump still at work. You also
00:27:38.320just noticed something. I can't believe I didn't see this before. The flags are down. So you see
00:27:42.820the large flags. Wow, look at that. The large flags that President Trump added to the north
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00:30:01.660right really excited now we're going to do a little bit of a panel here human events three up panel
00:30:05.560we've got paula scanlan that we held over and we're now bringing in libby emmons from the
00:30:10.280postmillennial and human events libby how are you i'm good jack thanks so libby actually let me let
00:30:17.160me ask you this um kind of a non sequitur from what we'd planned but the fact that and i'd have
00:30:23.120to get your take on this. The fact that Tyler Robinson and his lawyers were openly attacking
00:30:30.600the letter that you and I wrote to the court, which set off in motion, this entire chain of
00:30:35.960events about having cameras in the courtroom. Erica came out and in an interview and said that
00:30:41.060she wants cameras in the courtroom. You then saw multiple media organizations filing motions
00:30:46.760regarding this. Why is Tyler Robinson's legal team going after human events by name over this issue?
00:30:54.640Because they don't want cameras in the courtroom and they know that we made really good arguments
00:30:58.860and they don't want anyone to hear those arguments. And that's why they are really
00:31:02.140interested in obfuscating this trial as much as possible in making sure that the American people
00:31:07.600do not see what goes on in the courtroom. They have been obsessed with preventing press from
00:31:13.580having any information about the trial. They really don't like how it's been portrayed on
00:31:18.720social media and they don't like how it's been portrayed in the press. And those are things
00:31:23.360that they can't control. They can't control the press, first amendment rights. And so they're
00:31:27.780trying to control what goes on in the courtroom and making sure that people can't see it.
00:31:33.360And that's right. I think that's right. And, and, and again, we saw that picture of him smirking
00:31:38.980in the courtroom and they can't control their client. And that's why they want to ban him and
00:31:44.520block him from the cameras. This smirk that he has on his face, they can't control it. It's as
00:31:50.280simple as that. So we'll do a little bit of a round round. Paula Scanlon, I want to ask you
00:31:54.180now, one of the headlines that we keep getting in over and over, Gen Z and the war, Gen Z and the
00:32:01.340war, the reaction of Gen Z to the Iran strikes, to the situation in Iran, everything that's going
00:32:08.060on over there. I wanted to kind of get your take on that. You run in these circles yourself. What
00:32:13.260are you hearing? You know, yeah, there's a lot of people who are very against it. And I understand
00:32:18.300that. I think in general, right, when we look at wars, young people are generally less likely to
00:32:22.620be pro-war because first, if there's some type of draft, right, those would be the people going in.
00:32:26.880They're more concerned about things going on at home because they're young in their careers or
00:32:30.520they can't afford homes. And it makes sense why young people generally speaking are against wars.
00:32:34.000What I will say on this particular issue is I, as a 26-year-old, will never once imagine to know the level of intel and information that President Trump has as his administration, okay?
00:32:44.180There's plenty I do not know about Iran, and I don't think I know enough to have a strong opinion to say, you know, this is what Trump should be doing.
00:32:51.960I'm in no position to know more than the President of the United States of America.
00:32:55.620And so I will say about Gen Z, is that something a lot of people don't consider?
00:32:58.820There's a lot of people who are voicing these opinions do not know in specific and are still able to freely say, which they should be allowed to.
00:33:06.320But I do understand also that Gen Z people in general, again, are not seeing the full picture here.
00:33:11.440They're not the president. They don't have the same information he does.
00:33:14.480And so that can kind of explain this mismatch going on here.
00:33:17.620And it's not surprising. Again, young people are always sort of in this position.
00:33:21.600And this does not shock me in the slightest.
00:33:23.100and no it doesn't libby emmons you're someone who participated in the anti-war movement
00:33:30.540in 2003 for iraq what is your take here yeah i'm not a big fan of foreign wars and i'm not a big
00:33:38.140fan of this one i wasn't a big fan of iraq either i will say that now that we are involved in this
00:33:44.460my primary interest in me is making sure that the u.s comes out on top and that our troops come
00:33:49.900home safely. And that is really my entire concern here. And I think that there will be plenty of
00:33:55.320time after this is over. Hopefully it's over in a short period of time. President Trump had said
00:34:00.300at the outset, four to five weeks. We're coming up on that. We're, I think, in the third week now.
00:34:05.580So we'll see how that goes. He's also said that it's open-ended. And we've seen from CENTCOM that
00:34:10.960they are preparing for this to go through September. I don't know that the American
00:34:15.060people have the stomach for a long, drawn-out conflict in the Middle East. I'm not sure that
00:34:20.060that's going to be what people are interested in voting for when it comes to the 2026 midterms,
00:34:26.700but I do know that the American people are heartful enough and smart enough to know that
00:34:31.740an escalation like this is best when America wins, and that what's best for our troops is
00:34:37.500what's best for the country. It certainly is. Now, I want to jump topics again here on our
00:34:42.920round robin panel to the oscars and i wanted to play this clip from the oscars last night let's
00:34:50.080throw it up guys i should warn you tonight could get political okay and if that makes you
00:34:57.440uncomfortable there's an alternate oscars being hosted by kid rock yeah it's at the david busters
00:35:04.040down the street a lot of tickets for that all right so uh libby emmons you know we just uh
00:35:10.880what's up producer fuzz good to see you on uh uh hanging out there and libby emmons wanted to ask
00:35:16.220you what's going on why is it that conan o'brien just if you were just going after the turning
00:35:21.800point halftime show i yeah i thought it was actually a win for turning point that we went
00:35:26.780after the halftime show and if there was a kid rock hosted dave and buster's award ceremony down
00:35:32.740the street i would totally go to that and i would get in some skeeball while i was there um yeah
00:35:37.880Conan O'Brien had a laugh at Turning Point's expense and it wasn't really at their expense
00:35:42.980because Turning Point did such a kick-ass job on their halftime show. And also it speaks to the
00:35:48.020fact that most Americans are not particularly interested in watching these lavish awards
00:35:52.400ceremonies. We all know that they're getting like thousands and thousands of dollars in little gift
00:35:56.800bags backstage and that they love awarding themselves these special prizes, you know,
00:36:03.240and I think most of us are not that interested in watching them do it anymore.
00:36:08.560Paula Scanlon, when it comes to Gen Z, when it comes to you, do the Oscars still rate the way
00:36:14.460they used to? You know, I didn't even know the Oscars were happening, guys, off screen before
00:36:19.680we started this segment. I actually asked, what are the Oscars for? Is this acting or music?
00:36:24.160Because I had no idea. I might be the exception. I've never once followed these Hollywood events.
00:36:29.440Do you know what I spent my night doing last night? Watching Selection Sunday and thinking
00:36:32.980about what I'm going to be doing in my March Madness bracket. So maybe this is just telling
00:36:36.360for me but i think that these out of touch hollywood celebrities doing much of anything
00:36:40.380is not something i'm interested in i looked through the list of winners for this oscars and
00:36:45.380i'm going to be honest i have never seen one of the movies that were involved and i haven't even
00:36:49.040heard of most of the actors who have won these awards and so maybe that's just me but it's not
00:36:54.600something that really piqued my interest and again them making jokes like that i wouldn't even have
00:36:59.320known that if you hadn't showed me that clip no exactly and they're just jealous because at the
00:37:03.800end of the day we had double i'm looking at this we had double the ratings of the oscars we had
00:37:08.16040 million in the first 24 hours uh that's households by the way they're they're lucky
00:37:12.720if they broke 19 the oscars and by the way i'm just gonna say it they've become the award show
00:37:17.560for the most anti-white woke film that people can make paula scanlon libby edmonds thank you so much
00:37:22.960for joining us here today human events right back guys that storm continues wow look at it look at
00:37:28.300down there at the white house this storm is really serious
00:37:35.020the jack basobic appreciation hour i can say confidently i believe i think josh
00:37:39.500shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for jack basobic and that that is
00:37:51.980all right folks jack so big back live human events daily real america's voice and folks
00:37:56.300Guys, leave that shot up. Look at this. This is the White House right now. The flags are down.
00:38:02.500Now, we don't have control over this shot, but I want to I want to look at the trees a little bit to see whether or not the trees are starting to whip back and forth.
00:38:09.940We know the storm is expected to be hitting the White House with full force here just in the next couple of minutes.
00:38:18.700And so you look at what's going on. That's why the flags are down, of course.
00:38:21.580But the president is still at work. The president could have stayed down in Florida.
00:38:24.540The president could have, you know, obviously worked in the Southern White House, the Winter White House.
00:38:28.800Still a little bit of winter, I suppose, but it's, you know, we're getting very, very closely.
00:38:32.440The first day of spring is Saturday. So the president is hard at work while the storm commences there at the White House.
00:38:40.480But yes, those large flags, those large flags removed there at the White House.
00:38:46.120I wanted to get into something that I discussed while making my media rounds this morning,
00:38:51.440that one of the things that people have been saying, and I keep hearing this back and forth
00:38:56.240regarding the Iran situation, has to do with boots on the ground. Where are the boots on the ground?
00:39:04.320What's going on? Is this Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is headed? So what's currently
00:39:09.340happening is the Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is the 31st, they're based out of Japan,
00:39:14.260they were conducting operations in Asia, they are now speeding and steaming at full speed,
00:39:20.400You know, not quite flying speed, but certainly very quickly through the Strait of Malacca, down through Malaysia, and then up to the Persian Gulf, where they will arrive in about a week's time or so, maybe about a week, week and a half at that speed.
00:39:35.300They're going to pick up a couple littoral combat craft and some others to bring them
00:39:40.340on board, and then they will be on station to be able to provide what the president would
00:39:45.700refer to in the military community as optionality.
00:39:49.440Optionality will be given to the president regarding boots on the ground.
00:39:53.760And the biggest piece that everyone's talked about over and over, they keep saying, well,
00:39:57.800we need boots on the ground potentially for Karg Island, that Karg Island is necessary
00:40:03.760to be taken so that the Iranian economy will then be severed from the Iranian leadership.
00:40:12.480And Kargah Island, why is this important? Because 90% of Iran's oil flows through this island. It's
00:40:18.120an island processing center just up the coast of Iran, where they then have the ability to load and
00:40:24.200offload their ships. And those ships then are sent out through the Strait of Hormuz, down through the
00:40:28.900Gulf, out through the strait, and then on predominantly towards China. So this is a key
00:40:33.460node in China's energy resources. And why does this matter? Their Belt and Road Initiative.
00:40:40.280Because this entire thing, if you look at Ukraine, you look at Iran, what's it really all about?
00:40:44.420China and Russia. And President Trump has always said that everything is about China and Russia
00:40:48.460and getting them on sides. It's also why early this morning you heard what? Caroline Levitt,
00:40:53.700Press Secretary, and then Secretary Besant both sort of came out and said,
00:40:57.280looks like that meeting that was planned for later this month or in April is going to be
00:41:03.400postponed. The meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping, which was meant to take place,
00:41:08.540by the way, in Beijing, in China. So the president was going to fly to China. It looks like that
00:41:12.960at the moment has been taken off the cards. But it was not in the cards. But I want to talk about
00:41:19.760the Kargisland situation and as pertains to the Persian Gulf so that everyone can get
00:41:25.880some understanding on this. This is this is key, because it's being presented in the media as some
00:41:33.160sort of binary situation that either President Trump has to put boots on the ground, or he has
00:41:39.380to destroy all of the oil infrastructure of Karg Island, which is located in the Persian Gulf. We've
00:41:45.800got numerous maps on this. And what we can do then is to say, well, Mr. President, you've got
00:41:52.120to choose one or the other, either destroy all the infrastructure, put boots on the ground,
00:41:55.220destroy all the oil infrastructure, put boots on the ground. Those are the only two options.
00:41:59.420And obviously, the reason being is that they want boots on the ground. There's a lot of people like
00:42:03.760Lindsey Graham, who's been jestergooning for a wider war, who wants the mission creep, who wants
00:42:07.800boots on the ground, who wants to see the U.S. engulfed and entrenched in a much wider war in
00:42:12.420Iran with those boots on the ground, which, of course, would certainly come under fire because
00:42:16.320Karga Island is under, could potentially be under direct artillery fire because it's within range
00:42:22.520of Iranian conventional artillery, not to mention drones, not to mention missiles, et cetera,
00:42:27.580et cetera. But are those really the only two options? I don't think so. And this is something
00:42:33.460where the tactical and the strategic picture are actually connected. So let's talk tactics for a
00:42:38.860second here. What is the goal? What's the operational goal? Well, if the operational
00:42:43.260goal here is to sever the oil flow, there's a couple options that you could be given that the
00:42:48.860United States has on his desk today if he wants them. Number one, the pier itself. You don't have
00:42:55.700to be a Navy intelligence officer to know that the US Navy can take out a pier. We've been doing it
00:43:02.340for 200 years. You can take out the pier and then guess what? The boat can't park. If the boat can't
00:43:09.240park, it's called mooring. So if you take out its ability to moor, then the boat cannot be loaded
00:43:15.700with its cargo, in this case, oil. So there are many ways to neutralize the island without having
00:43:23.600to take out these wider facilities. This, of course, could apply to numerous other implements
00:43:29.560there. And by the way, then if they tried to repair the piers, well, all you have to do is
00:43:33.780go take out the repair ship too. I mean, it's really not that hard. This actually can be done
00:43:38.140from the air. There's no real necessity for this whatsoever to be done by boots on the ground or
00:43:44.960for the from like a carpet bombing situation. So I don't really get why people are trying to say
00:43:49.700that. From a technical perspective, I know why they're saying it from a strategic perspective,
00:43:54.420because they want something else. And that's one of the problems that you have in any of
00:43:58.000these situations that people don't actually say what they mean. They say something else,
00:44:02.740because they don't want to say what their truth is. So you don't need boots on the ground to take
00:44:07.440Carter Island to neutralize them and take them out of the fight. That's number one.
00:44:10.980Also, by the way, cyber, cyber offensive capabilities could be used here very quickly.
00:44:16.020So anything that has a computer in it that has to do with the loading and unloading of
00:44:20.180oil on any of the ships out of Iran, you could fry it in a second.
00:44:24.260Israel themselves did this all the way back in 2010 when they used the Stuxnet virus.
00:44:28.240It was sort of a worm to shut down Iran's oil infrastructure and oil, or excuse me,
00:44:32.320their nuclear research program was easily done and done so overnight by getting this