Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - USS LINCOLN RETURNS HOME

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, it's Jack. I'm excited to let you know that finally the new edition of Unhuman

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00:00:23.180 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. Literally welcome aboard. I say that every single show on 0.51

00:00:29.160 human events daily here only on real america's voice but today we are literally on board as you

00:00:34.880 can see we are on the deck of cbn 72 the uss abraham lincoln and we're we're happy to be home

00:00:44.680 anyone here happy to be going that's great that's that's proud of every every single one of you guys

00:00:54.400 and gals that are out here serving i know it's been a long deployment i know it's been lengthy

00:00:58.260 But let me tell you something, look, stay with the secretary when he's back.

00:01:03.980 Mahouya.

00:01:09.480 I don't think you guys have heard that yet.

00:01:11.300 Del Taco is now going nationwide.

00:01:13.640 I know, it is.

00:01:15.120 And, folks, so we're out here.

00:01:17.220 Look, the crew is here.

00:01:18.660 They got a little crust on them, a little bit of crust on them.

00:01:21.440 That's okay.

00:01:21.960 That happens when you're at sea.

00:01:24.160 We're doing the mission that they did.

00:01:25.720 But people here, spirits are high.

00:01:27.720 one more day until they return home to the home court of San Diego,

00:01:32.680 conduct an epic fury on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran,

00:01:36.600 these are what I'll say today.

00:01:39.240 Regardless of anyone's opinion,

00:01:40.780 there's an issue.

00:01:44.840 And temperatures are all over the place,

00:01:49.020 and opinions vary, obviously.

00:01:51.260 We should never call into question the service of the sailors.

00:01:55.920 I should never, ever call into question the service of the troops that are out here.

00:02:02.820 Being prior Navy as I am, I wanted to be out.

00:02:05.380 When I heard the opportunity to come out and welcome to the sailors, I jumped with a chance.

00:02:11.060 So we're out here.

00:02:12.060 We're off the coast of California right now.

00:02:15.540 Not too far.

00:02:16.200 Not too far.

00:02:16.800 It's a little bit left.

00:02:18.080 And these guys and gals are going to be home.

00:02:20.600 And so almost 328 days at sea, over 200 days without a port visit

00:02:28.940 over in Thailand, afterwards conducting those operations.

00:02:33.080 13,000 flights were flown right off of this deck in service of Operation 18,000 flights

00:02:41.700 and thousands upon thousands of pounds of munitions.

00:02:45.560 It's just a lot lighter than when it went out in terms of that.

00:02:48.380 and so when we see the secretary of war is set to take the stage here behind us in just a few moments

00:02:55.020 he's going to give that speech to this crowd and there's been certain narratives that have spread

00:03:01.420 we're standing by

00:03:18.380 Thank you.

00:03:48.380 Thank you.

00:04:18.380 All right, nation.

00:04:35.120 Thank you, nation, at ease.

00:04:44.520 All right, at ease.

00:04:45.660 Everyone stand by.

00:04:47.660 Everyone stand by.

00:04:49.660 I didn't.

00:04:51.660 Oh!

00:04:53.660 You got him, buddy.

00:04:55.660 Alright, folks, we're here.

00:04:59.660 You mic'd you up, right?

00:05:01.660 Alright, folks, we are here live from on the deck of the

00:05:05.660 team.

00:05:07.660 You mic'd you up, right?

00:05:09.660 Alright, folks, we are here live from on the deck of the

00:05:13.660 live from on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln their last day at last full day at sea going to

00:05:23.400 be coming home tomorrow to an incredible homecoming you're going to have families you're going to have

00:05:29.260 kids they're all going to be lined up on Pearside they're going to be ready they've been missing

00:05:33.660 their loved ones for almost a full year full year at sea a full year deployment

00:05:38.940 nothing more happier no moment more happy than when you come home after a long deployment like

00:05:47.060 this and for the men and women that you can see to my to my port and starboard here and well let's

00:05:53.000 get let's get them in the shot there the men and women in our to our port to our starboard

00:05:56.780 these are the best of the best united states navy they went out and when called upon to do the job

00:06:02.860 they went out and performed the job to the best of their ability and they're ready to do so and

00:06:07.660 always ready to do so at any time this is the april lincoln cbn 72 returning home to port

00:06:14.940 after conducting operation epic fury they're on their way home they've been missing home but they

00:06:21.820 had a job to do and they were asked to do it and they went out to do it and so of course we're

00:06:26.380 seeing the folks we got we got producer mo was up there on manning the ramparts and uh i i i told

00:06:32.940 some of the female sailors that mo was mo is single so he might be he might be hanging back he might

00:06:37.420 be hanging back just a quick programming note to parker uh to parker sig and rob sig and thank you

00:06:43.100 again for uh supporting us and allowing real america's voice to come out and do stuff just

00:06:47.100 so you know uh they might be shanghai-ing uh they might be shanghai producer mo for the last night

00:06:52.700 at sea and and you know when you look at the men and women out here again it's it's you can see

00:06:59.820 the eagerness but you see the professionalism and you see the professionalism even as they

00:07:03.580 They stand at attention when called to attention by the chief of the boat.

00:07:10.860 When they're called out to call to duty, they perform their duty admirably and with professionalism.

00:07:15.540 And when you look at the number of operations I mentioned earlier, 13,000 air flights took off from this deck.

00:07:25.880 The vast majority of those in support of Operation Epic Fury.

00:07:30.200 No mishaps.

00:07:30.880 not one mishap while they were out here off of this off the ship conducting those strike runs

00:07:36.880 in very much in hostile territory very much in indian country and they did so with grit they

00:07:43.580 did so with determination and when you look out here you don't see ivy leaguers you don't see

00:07:48.920 folks born with a silver spoon in their mouth these are folks who work hard they work for a

00:07:54.500 living they work for our country they raise their hand they raise the right hand to serve their

00:07:59.120 nation and when the nation asked them to fight so they did and they went out to fight where they

00:08:06.400 were asked to fight and again i'm just going to reiterate regardless of anyone's feelings

00:08:11.520 about the war regardless of anyone's feelings about the mission there should be no question

00:08:17.600 about the honor and the service of these service men and women these sailors these shipmates

00:08:23.200 as they come home from a job well done.

00:08:28.160 And so we are out here.

00:08:29.260 We are waiting Secretary Hegseth's arrival.

00:08:32.380 Clearly, they've been putting some work in on the way home

00:08:34.900 to make her look nice.

00:08:37.640 Pulling in a home port there in San Diego, 0.99

00:08:40.100 where she's going to get some much-needed downtime.

00:08:43.180 But, you know, we're hearing stories about these media narratives

00:08:46.840 about the status of the ship,

00:08:48.460 and I'll just tell you, standing here on the flight deck,

00:08:50.780 that's not what I see at all.

00:08:51.880 I see a ship that's ready that's ready for the fight. I see a ship that's ready for action and a ship and a crew

00:08:58.560 That absolutely means business. They are a hardened crew. They have gone through

00:09:04.440 the fire

00:09:05.840 And come back on the other side a little bit older a little bit wiser

00:09:11.560 They're ready

00:09:13.400 Ready to come home again as I said after a job well done. We're out here for real America's voice aboard the deck

00:09:21.880 CBN 72, the Abe Lincoln.

00:09:26.700 And of course, as we look at the deterrence, look, when you look left and right here, look

00:09:32.800 port and starboard here aboard this vessel, the United States Navy is not just the ships,

00:09:40.580 it's not just the aircraft, it's not just the helos, it's the men and women.

00:09:44.160 It's the men and women that are the backbone of the Navy, the chiefs, particularly your

00:09:49.000 chief corps, the goat locker, which makes up the corps. 0.96

00:09:53.140 Here we go.

00:10:19.000 Lincoln Nation, how are we doing today?

00:10:32.540 Good morning.

00:10:35.680 Oh, everybody, please stand at ease.

00:10:37.480 Thank you.

00:10:38.460 Hey, team, a little over 24 hours, we are going to be making the turn for home, coming through

00:10:46.460 the channel, and getting ready to go pierce side.

00:10:49.000 It's a day that many, many, many of you have been waiting for for a really long time, and

00:10:54.860 we're excited for what's to come.

00:10:57.760 But in the meantime, we are honored to have a couple of distinguished visitors that came

00:11:02.040 out to meet with us today.

00:11:04.280 Your Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral Webb Kaler, and our Secretary of War, the Honorable

00:11:08.540 Pete Hegseth.

00:11:09.900 It is an absolute honor to introduce Secretary Hegseth so that he can tell you a little bit

00:11:15.060 about how well you've done out here.

00:11:17.880 Without further ado.

00:11:19.000 you thank you very much how we doing sailors i realize i'm the only thing standing between you

00:11:34.000 and home i've also realized i'm the one that and i don't say this lightly actually i never say this

00:11:40.100 lightly but i'm the i'm the one who signed that orders book twice to extend you also

00:11:45.300 No, I am.

00:11:47.140 Plead guilty.

00:11:50.560 The incredible effectiveness that you showcased on the battlefield and the necessity, but also, B, the mission required it.

00:11:59.320 And C, because, you know, President Trump had full faith that you would deliver on behalf of the American people.

00:12:06.020 Here we are this morning on this beautiful morning.

00:12:08.480 we came here intentionally to recognize to honor to showcase we brought the media with us

00:12:17.780 to ensure that they got a chance to look you in the eye as well and understand the historic nation

00:12:23.680 of what you nature of what you accomplished on behalf of our nation what the uss abraham lincoln

00:12:31.000 carrier strike group did no other carrier strike group has ever done

00:12:35.260 10,000 sorties, 23,000 combat flight hours, almost 4,000 combat sorties, 1.5 million pounds

00:12:48.960 of ordnance dropped on the enemy. And you did it without an aircraft miss.

00:13:06.080 I honestly have no idea how that's possible I really don't and I and America should understand

00:13:21.180 that in fact at the beginning of epic fury you did 60 hours of constant combat flight ops

00:13:28.420 hundred excuse me I'll do two push-ups

00:13:33.220 hundred and sixty straight hours with 60 strike hours okay I stand corrected it is and to do that

00:13:51.760 without a casualty without a flight mishap and to close with and destroy the 0.67

00:13:58.420 You guys central to an arrangement we made with the Iranian Navy before this conflict. 0.59

00:14:08.120 We just shared the ocean with the Iranian Navy. 0.96

00:14:13.600 They got the bottom half. 1.00

00:14:18.100 You sunk 59 of them, 59 vessels.

00:14:30.660 They had a modern Navy before this conflict started,

00:14:34.620 and then they had to deal with the USS Abraham Lincoln

00:14:36.680 and what you're capable of doing.

00:14:39.460 And then you enforced, not just once but twice,

00:14:42.180 an impe...

00:14:44.180 Pete, it's called a...

00:14:48.100 it's not a black steel wall the president wanted me to personally thank you each and every one of

00:14:58.220 you from the Oval Office for what you have done here for what you did in Epic Fury ensuring a

00:15:04.760 never gets a nuclear weapon a historic mission that you were a part of that you will ensure

00:15:12.020 And then the follow-on blockade, which has been impenetrable since day one.

00:15:18.880 I'll say this.

00:15:19.860 I love this incredible crowd.

00:15:22.240 I thank Almighty God for such Americans, for such men, and for such women who put their life on the line.

00:15:37.040 265 continuous days without a port call.

00:15:39.980 two times extended when you thought you were going home and we asked you to do more and you

00:15:46.460 know what you did you did more and it wasn't easy and there wasn't easy resupply and there

00:15:53.400 were contested seas and you were in the west shooting down incoming it was a dangerous place

00:15:59.860 to be we landed on the most beautiful of days uh in the middle of an empty flight deck because all

00:16:05.000 the air wings are gone and you're landing in the middle of the night in a dangerous territory with

00:16:10.760 a full flight deck during combat operations and you didn't miss a beat that's why we're here

00:16:18.260 the world needs to understand that the country needs to understand that and there were a few

00:16:25.160 folks in the media who tried to turn the uss abraham lincoln into some sort of a symbol

00:16:32.280 a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale or a symbol of a failed mission and what i look

00:16:39.980 out at right here and when i talk to your leadership and i have had a chance to talk

00:16:43.120 to a number of you i know it's the exact opposite which is actually what the media does so often

00:16:49.260 they see success and they see excellence and they see difficulty and challenge that needs to be

00:16:55.360 overcome in extension a challenging environment and they want to i want to point at it as a symbol

00:17:01.200 of something that was missed or wrong instead what makes the u.s military and the u.s navy and all

00:17:07.120 these sailors different is that you adapt and that you're resilient and you overcome you finish the

00:17:14.740 mission nonetheless uh it's yes it's hard that's why you're here you do difficult and hard things

00:17:21.080 but you believe in your heart in that mission and the men and the women to the right and the left

00:17:27.160 of you who executed alongside you i mean my my heart only swells with pride just standing

00:17:33.040 the american people have no idea i don't either i i mean i i read it i see it i understand it

00:17:45.200 i'm looking at every single day what's going on in centcom and epic fury and understanding the

00:17:49.900 logistics and sustainment challenges and the threat levels and why we're moving different

00:17:53.820 carrier groups and different destroyers into different places but the totality of what it

00:17:58.940 takes to sustain that blockade to ensure that we're providing for not just the carriers but

00:18:04.280 the destroyers and the refuelers and the every air wing this is it is it's almost a miracle no

00:18:11.380 other country in the world can do it it's not even close it's an extraordinary thing

00:18:16.000 but it's done by the best team in the world the absolute best team in the world

00:18:23.700 by the way will you give it up for your leadership up here for the course of

00:18:26.940 this deployment I mean I I read it I see it I understand it I'm looking at every

00:18:33.900 single day what's going on in CENTCOM and epic fury and understanding the

00:18:37.500 logistics and sustainment challenges and the threat levels and why we're moving

00:18:40.680 different carrier groups and different destroyers into different places but the

00:18:45.320 totality of what it takes to sustain that blockade to ensure that we're

00:18:49.800 providing for not just the carriers but the destroyers and the refuelers and

00:18:53.880 that every air wing this is it is it's almost a miracle no other country in the

00:18:59.620 world can do it it's not even close it's an extraordinary thing but it's done by

00:19:05.640 the best team in the world the absolute best team in the world by the way will

00:19:12.540 you give it up for your leadership up here for the course of this deployment

00:19:19.800 Gentlemen, what I hear right there is pride.

00:19:38.740 I hear pride in their country, pride in the Lincoln, pride in the strike group, pride

00:19:43.920 in the mission.

00:19:44.920 proud of each other and rightfully so you will never stop and nor should you

00:19:50.920 Telling stories about what you achieved here

00:19:53.740 What you accomplished here?

00:19:56.680 The difficult situation you fought through to accomplish the mission. You see we talk about that all all the time

00:20:04.240 mission first

00:20:06.100 You lived it

00:20:07.940 You lived it every single day for ten and a half eleven months on the front lines on the way

00:20:14.680 there involved in epic fury in the blockades on the way back in the south china sea people don't

00:20:20.120 know that you continued operating you lived it i draw inspiration from the mission that you executed 0.63

00:20:28.280 so successfully you have changed the arc of history ensuring that crazy people theocrats

00:20:36.680 never get a nuclear weapon changes the arc of history there's only one president one commander

00:20:42.760 in chief one military capable and willing to undertake that kind of mission given the threat

00:20:49.000 that iran posed so many conventional weapons such a large arsenal when for 50 years you've

00:20:55.000 been building a terror state and digging underground and trying to accumulate enough 0.92

00:20:58.920 missiles so that no one can attack you that means you're a real threat and we called the uss abraham 0.86

00:21:05.240 Lincoln. And you responded from minute one. Constant combat operations, which Iran never 0.62

00:21:14.480 expected the kind of fire and fury that you were able to bring off this flight deck, along

00:21:19.360 with other incredible Americans. Just the intricacy of, where are my ordinance officers

00:21:24.340 here? Red shirts. I don't know all the colors. I don't. But from the fuelers and the maintainers

00:21:33.060 an ordinance every bomb assembled brought up put on went a month without a malfunction i'm told

00:21:41.220 that doesn't happen the level of excellence the level of skill the level of precision

00:21:47.780 the only reaction the american people and the american media should have is pride pride that

00:21:55.060 we raise up such men and women pride that we train up such men women pride that we have these types

00:22:00.900 of capabilities this incredible island of american power projection but it doesn't steer itself it

00:22:08.100 doesn't execute itself it's great americans at every echelon who made it happen and you did it

00:22:15.220 incredibly from day one in historic fashion so when we knew you were coming home and we knew the

00:22:21.860 timeline i knew i said once they pull up to the dock we're getting out of the way you deserve to

00:22:28.260 see your families and see them as soon as possible but can we get a moment on the route on the way

00:22:33.860 in just to say thank you thank you from the commander-in-chief the president of the united

00:22:39.460 states donald j trump who tracked your activities from day one and couldn't be more proud of what

00:22:46.180 you executed in this historic mission to ensure iran never gets a nuclear weapon which they will

00:22:52.820 never get a nuclear weapon full stop and it's because of what this strike group has done and

00:22:59.380 other great americans are still doing right now so if you would when you greet your family

00:23:05.700 smart just pass my gratitude from the president and myself let them know that their long wait

00:23:13.300 we believe was in service of a righteous and historic mission thank them for their patience

00:23:18.660 for their patriotism for their love and for their support for pitching in on the homeland which is

00:23:26.480 never easy it's actually frankly harder because you don't actually know what's going on or what

00:23:31.080 the timeline is or when you're returning or when the next phone call will come it's a very real

00:23:35.700 thing thank them from us they serve alongside you we've got a whole presidential commission now

00:23:42.160 military families wanting to take even better care of them because for far too long they haven't been

00:23:47.160 enough of a priority. We're changing that at the Department of War. So in conclusion,

00:23:54.160 you will not be, nor shall you, be going home empty-handed. You aren't already. You've got

00:23:59.600 the pride in your hearts of a mission accomplished. But it was with great pride today that I would

00:24:05.160 like to award to you the Presidential Unit Citation.

00:24:17.160 If I may, I'm going to read it, because you deserve to hear it first hand.

00:24:37.220 Attention to award!

00:24:39.380 The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Presidential Unit Citation

00:24:43.720 to USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Carrier Strike Group 3

00:24:47.960 for service as set forth in the following citation.

00:24:52.880 For extraordinary heroism against enemy forces from 28 February 2026 through 22 August 2026,

00:25:02.900 USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group planned and executed 40 days of combat operations

00:25:09.200 and an ironclad maritime blockade against Iran in support of Operation Epic Fury.

00:25:16.380 The strike group projected decisive combat power and established maritime advantage

00:25:20.640 to achieve the president's strategic objectives and strengthen the security of the United States.

00:25:26.440 The strike group executed 3,693 combat sorties, delivered 1.37 million pounds of ordnance,

00:25:35.480 launched 450 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, shot down 77 one-way attack unmanned aerial systems,

00:25:46.200 sank, excuse me, I was wrong, 64 Iranian warships, destroyed 21 anti-ship cruise missiles,

00:25:54.780 and defended against four fast attack craft and explosive carrying dows.

00:25:59.820 By their outstanding courage, aggressive fighting spirit, and untiring devotion to duty, the officers, enlisted personnel, and civilian employees of USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group reflected great credit upon themselves and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

00:26:24.300 for the president, Secretary of the Navy, Hong Kao.

00:26:28.860 At ease and congratulations.

00:26:30.140 Don't worry, we're going to get a picture with you, too, this day.

00:27:00.140 Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

00:27:07.100 I think we've got coins coming up.

00:27:08.920 We've got a couple of sailors we're going to recognize directly on the stage.

00:27:16.500 And welcome to Human Events Daily.

00:27:18.560 I'm Beau Davidson filling in for Jack Posobiec, who is out in San Diego right now traveling

00:27:23.160 with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, who, as you saw, just made remarks aboard the USS

00:27:27.820 Abraham Lincoln, which is returning to its home port tomorrow after a grueling 321 days at sea,

00:27:34.640 filled with soldiers directly involved in Operation Epic Fury. The USS Lincoln supported

00:27:40.040 combat operations in the Middle East since the start of the Iran conflict last February.

00:27:46.300 Its extended mission, it was extended twice, as Secretary Hegseth said, set a record for

00:27:50.360 consecutive days without a port call, leading to severe supply shortages, broken facilities,

00:27:55.880 and soldier fatigue. The crew numbers are approximately 5,000. So when we think of the

00:28:01.560 magnitude and the scale of this ship and its mission, it's larger than many small towns in

00:28:07.260 the United States of America. I actually remember when I watched the Russell Crowe film Master and

00:28:12.860 Commander, a great maritime movie, there's an epic line that Russell Crowe delivers as captain

00:28:19.000 when he tells his crew that for the next undetermined number of days, he says,

00:28:24.100 this ship is our home. This ship is England. For the USS Lincoln, the 5,000 aboard were a

00:28:32.200 microcosm for our country, its mission, its duties, its resolve, and its fatigue as well.

00:28:39.520 They left on November 2025. Now think about that length of time, folks. That was just before

00:28:45.100 Thanksgiving. So these soldiers did not even get to have that holiday with their families. And now,

00:28:51.140 thanks to returning home tomorrow, they won't have to miss a second consecutive Thanksgiving.

00:28:57.500 They can be home with their families.

00:28:59.400 Now, one soldier said that his biggest challenge was the uncertainty,

00:29:03.500 since this conflict has been very open-ended,

00:29:06.720 not knowing if they would go to port, if they would go home,

00:29:10.420 or if they would stay engaged in conflict.

00:29:12.640 Some soldiers missed deaths of family members and births of loved ones.

00:29:16.960 But as one soldier remarked, and I love this,

00:29:19.180 The things that get me through the day are thinking about the return home and seeing my beautiful baby boy on the shore waiting for me in the arms of my beautiful wife.

00:29:29.960 And for these 5,000, that day has come as the USS Lincoln returns to port in San Diego.

00:29:36.900 Now, I think that this ship's return is significant really on two fronts.

00:29:40.760 One, of course, is the obvious human element that these fatigued sailors no longer face uncertainty anymore.

00:29:48.000 They are finally coming home to see the loved ones that they haven't seen in almost an entire year.

00:29:54.620 And secondly, that this likely signifies a drawdown of forces that could, I say could, indicate the end of the conflict in Iran.

00:30:03.380 We've been seeing some signs of optimism as Iran's military has been totally decimated by precision battle tactics by U.S. forces. 0.99

00:30:12.440 Iran has proven to be a daunting adversary, with its seemingly limitless supply of cheap 1.00

00:30:18.000 drones that can do massive damage, plus the various sea mines that lurked in the Strait 0.97

00:30:22.920 of Hormuz.

00:30:24.460 But through tactical military genius by our military, the U.S. armed forces have been

00:30:29.120 able to clear most of those mines and get traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz

00:30:33.980 so that these big oil tankers can meet the burgeoning demands of the world.

00:30:39.160 And I think it also bears repeating that the military ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is significant because favorable relations with a brand new Venezuela could lead to a more stable oil supply and specifically refineries.

00:30:55.240 And that, of course, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the elephant in the room, which is the price of gas.

00:31:00.480 Now, some of you out there may be asking, so if we have the Strait of Hormuz and ships are moving through it and we have control over Venezuela, why am I still paying $4 for a gallon of gas?

00:31:11.000 And we feel that pain.

00:31:13.380 We hear you.

00:31:14.220 I am one of those people who is asking the same questions.

00:31:17.280 If our economy is as robust as they say, then why don't we see $2 gallons of gas?

00:31:22.400 Well, part of that answer lies in the refineries because ample supply does not mean cheap gas just yet.

00:31:29.240 it has to be refined. And we should be paying attention, folks, to the major oil and gas

00:31:34.400 companies who need to refine this gas and not gouge Americans while doing so. Because after all,

00:31:40.460 they are going to benefit. We should keep the pressure on them, as the president has said.

00:31:45.820 Because if we are all doing the hard work and everyone is feeling the pain at the pump,

00:31:50.320 the gas companies have got to do their part to relieve some of this pain.

00:31:53.980 I think this is all part of a 3D chess match that has to do, well, really a few things. 0.80

00:31:59.180 One, it has to remove Iran as a threat, which for the most part seems to have been accomplished.

00:32:04.600 Pete Hegseth said that today. 0.84

00:32:06.280 They are lunatics over in Iran, and a deal may not be in the cards. 0.80

00:32:09.160 So you know what? We will do the deal for them. How about that? 1.00

00:32:12.240 Secondly, Iran has been supplying oil to many of our adversaries and also supplying money to terrorism worldwide.

00:32:19.680 That has been largely negated.

00:32:21.880 Thirdly, we are becoming a huge energy exporter.

00:32:25.000 So this creates an economically stronger United States, which is still trying to untangle the inflationary mess created by the Biden administration.

00:32:33.780 And, you know, like a ball of tangled Christmas lights, these things take time to unravel.

00:32:38.120 But you have a brilliant economic mind in Scott Besant who will help undo some of this mess.

00:32:43.960 And then, of course, you have the signal that this sends to the world, that we will no longer punt this problem down the road for a future administration to deal with.

00:32:52.520 So this return of the USS Lincoln has the weight of significance upon it.

00:32:57.600 It's reunited families.

00:32:58.900 It's the embrace of loved ones.

00:33:00.720 It's a shared meal together over the holidays.

00:33:02.720 And it's a reminder that freedom isn't free.

00:33:05.780 There's a mortal cost, but there's also the mental cost.

00:33:08.960 We'll keep reviewing all of this for you.

00:33:11.000 Stay with us after the break.

00:33:11.960 We've got a great guest list coming up.

00:33:14.320 Stay with us more on Human Events Daily.

00:33:16.060 We'll be right back.

00:33:22.520 Welcome back to Human Events Daily.

00:33:49.580 I'm Bo Davidson filling in for Jack Posobiec,

00:33:51.480 who is out in San Diego as the USS Abraham Lincoln returns to port tomorrow.

00:33:56.800 I'm joined now by former U.S. Navy JAG officer and former Pentagon attorney, our great friend Don Brown.

00:34:02.920 Don, it's so great to be with you again, and especially on such a historic occasion.

00:34:07.400 Right out here at the outset, I would love to get your reaction to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

00:34:12.140 and some of the comments that he made today aboard the USS Lincoln.

00:34:15.960 You know, something that struck me, Don, just right off the bat was him saying,

00:34:18.980 you know, the guy that extended your mission twice, that was me. I take full ownership for

00:34:23.240 that. We're seeing a level of transparency and leadership that I think we would not have seen,

00:34:27.900 certainly in a past administration, and probably had this administration been an extended Joe

00:34:32.900 Biden or Kamala Harris administration. So I'd love to get your thoughts and reactions to that.

00:34:37.260 Happy to. First off, Bo, thanks for having me on this momentous day as a Navy veteran. It never

00:34:42.780 gets old to see our shipmates coming in from long deployments. A lot of class for Pete Hedgeset,

00:34:47.940 Secretary of War to fly out and greet our officers and sailors on board Lincoln.

00:34:52.580 Pete ordered the Presidential Unit Citation to carrier Strike Force 3, which includes not

00:34:57.940 only Abraham Lincoln, but three escort destroyers, USS Spruance, USS Michael Murphy, USS Peterson.

00:35:04.660 So you have a total of at least 6,000 sailors out there, and the Navy is very quiet on the

00:35:09.300 submarines that accompany these carriers as well. It is a monumental task. I thought Pete showed

00:35:14.500 great leadership. I've known Pete and worked with him even before he went to Fox. He is a soldier,

00:35:20.320 soldier. He's a sailor, sailor. The love and admiration for the officers and the senior

00:35:25.980 leadership of this ship was apparent when Pete asked them to recognize their commanding officer

00:35:31.380 in the background. I thought he did a brilliant job of reminding them of the successes they've

00:35:35.400 had to put the Iranian Navy to bottom of the sea. 64 ships sunk. And by the way, for the leftist 0.99

00:35:40.660 press that tries to make a big deal out of the Abraham Lincoln being out for 321 days. That is

00:35:45.660 a big deal, but I want you to know our sailors and officers and Marines expect that. USS Jerry

00:35:52.120 Ford was out 341 days, 20 to 21. USS Nimitz was out for 341 days, and Jerry Ford was out for about

00:35:59.720 330 days. This is what is expected of our Navy. Our sailors expect to do this. We do it because

00:36:06.680 We love our country, and I just want to give the Secretary of War great kudos for having

00:36:11.600 the fortitude to get out there and to raise the morale of the troops.

00:36:14.920 They look forward to seeing their families tomorrow, and it's going to be a great reunion

00:36:17.820 there at North Island in San Diego.

00:36:20.280 Well, Don, let's talk about the media aspect about this, because the Secretary of War called

00:36:24.020 that out.

00:36:24.480 He said, you know, there were people in the media who took and cherry-picked certain

00:36:28.380 things, whether it was regarding the uncertainty of the mission, sailor fatigue, facilities

00:36:33.420 like bathrooms and plumbing being out of order, because we know that this mission was extended

00:36:37.920 twice. But the media somehow sought, as they often do, especially the liberal media, to use

00:36:44.300 this as a point to undermine our success, to undermine the excellence and the exceptionalism

00:36:49.040 of the U.S. military, as if this whole operation was for naught. And Secretary of War called that

00:36:54.140 out. And I just want you to address that because you mentioned it. And I think it's important that

00:36:58.440 for transparency's sake and in the pursuit of truth, that we understand that a media

00:37:03.940 can undermine and make the overall national sentiment and national mentality on this be

00:37:10.480 negative because of things they want to point out that are not even accurate. Don?

00:37:15.600 You know, Bo, the media is downright traitors this day and age. And it isn't just their false

00:37:21.200 and deceptive reporting about Abraham Lincoln. You recall that, and not just media, but some

00:37:25.260 leftist members of the Congress, Mark Kelly and others, were trying to go after and undermine

00:37:30.020 good order and discipline back when Secretary of War was ordering strikes against drug boats.

00:37:35.020 I spent some time a few years ago with Dutch Van Kirkboe, who was the last living member

00:37:39.580 of the flight crew of the Enola Gay. And he talked about those last moments before they took off from

00:37:45.220 Tinian Island and launched that attack against Japanese. The press was there. The press covered

00:37:49.560 the event. But the press back in those days was America first. And none of that leaked. And we've

00:37:54.720 gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Lincoln is a city, a floating city, made of steel,

00:38:02.660 out crossing the ocean, defending American freedom. You're going to have stuff that goes on

00:38:06.840 like you do in any town, but they're trying to blow it out of proportion. Anybody who saw the

00:38:11.800 reaction to the Secretary of War just a few moments ago when he came out to welcome the crew home

00:38:17.180 knows the truth. These are proud sailors and marines. This has been a fantastic mission.

00:38:22.700 And the Lincoln and its carrier strike groups has executed their duty to perfection.

00:38:27.360 And we're very, very proud of them.

00:38:28.460 We're not going to let the lying media take away from there to detract from it.

00:38:32.980 Don, I know that we are awaiting the president here shortly.

00:38:35.340 So just understand if we have to stop in the middle of the interview, just know that that's what we're going to.

00:38:39.200 But I do want to continue the conversation with you since you're so generous with your time.

00:38:42.800 You know, of course, we read reports of soldiers getting fatigued in the mental aspect and everything.

00:38:46.500 But we also think about sacrifice.

00:38:48.920 I mean, that's a word that comes up constantly in the military.

00:38:50.920 Certainly the sacrifice that these soldiers made, but also the sacrifice of a nation as we feel the pain at the pump and the uncertainty even today of when this may all be over.

00:39:03.040 I've been covering the president's rallies over the past four or five days, and he seems to indicate that we're in that home stretch.

00:39:09.000 Do you see that day coming?

00:39:10.280 I mean, nobody's got the crystal ball and knows exactly when that will be over, but we know that we're all collectively feeling that pain.

00:39:16.320 So do you see the end in sight?

00:39:18.260 And what would the end look like? 0.99

00:39:19.820 Is that a fully decimated Iran? Or is that just, we have, we have hurt them so bad militarily that 0.67

00:39:25.580 they're, they're 50 years set back, that they'll never have it. As president Trump has said,

00:39:29.800 what does the end look like? And are we close to it? Do you think?

00:39:32.920 Well, I hope that we are both, but I just want to, and as far as the sacrifice goes,

00:39:37.460 it's not just the sailors and, and officers of that ship and that strike group. It's the families

00:39:42.680 as well, who don't see their spouses or fathers or mothers. But in terms of gasoline prices,

00:39:47.720 It's just clear that we are now moving more oil out of the Persian Gulf than before.

00:39:53.100 It's very, very difficult to blame gasoline prices at this point on what's going on in Iran.

00:39:59.020 You pointed out earlier that we've had too many closed fineries.

00:40:02.020 California is responsible for that.

00:40:03.520 If you go back and look at what the Biden administration did to our strategic petroleum reserve,

00:40:09.660 Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve carries a little over eight at maximum capacity, 700 million gallons of oil, and Biden sold off nearly half of that and never replenished it and left Trump almost with an empty gas tank, which we're trying to replenish now.

00:40:26.280 And then when you look at what's been happening in Ukraine, I think you can point to what's happening in Ukraine as more directly responsible for oil spikes.

00:40:33.460 You've had, of course, Zelensky and Ukrainians hitting Russian pipelines, Russian natural gas lines. 0.64

00:40:38.920 And that war, I think, is much more responsible at this point than what we've seen in Iran.

00:40:43.660 And I just want to try to make sure we get the facts straight on all that. 0.85

00:40:46.800 OK, you just, you know, kind of threw some more 3D chess here.

00:40:49.760 And it's so important to remember. So, one, Don, it seems that there is the issues of closed refineries in California.

00:40:54.540 That's a liberal policy. One, Joe Biden basically selling all of our strategic reserves away to other countries.

00:41:00.620 And so that depletes us a lot. So that's the whole number two. And then three, the more current

00:41:04.800 conflict. Okay. I think we've got to go right now to president Trump meeting on Marine one. So stick

00:41:09.180 with us, Don one second. Oh, I guess we're not going to it. So just, so just to continue done.

00:41:14.480 And then the third element, which I would like for you to touch on a little bit more,

00:41:17.160 the continued conflict in Russia and Ukraine, which, you know, seems to have taken a second,

00:41:21.140 a backseat to what's happened in Iran. But now that Iran is getting worked out,

00:41:25.220 now we've got to work about this other, worry about this other behemoth, which is Russia,

00:41:28.680 Ukraine. Does the U.S. have any ability to alleviate some of the things that are going on

00:41:36.620 with that conflict, or are they just going to continue firing on each other, which now may be

00:41:40.820 the primary culprit in addition to the two things that you just mentioned? Yeah, I think it is more

00:41:45.340 of a culprit than the Iranian situation. We can do some things with Ukraine. We've got leverage 0.99

00:41:52.700 over them, but we've got to look at short-term issues. How can we pressure Ukraine and pressure 0.98

00:41:57.880 Russia economically. But on the long term, from a long term standpoint, we've got to reopen

00:42:02.760 refineries. And we've got to make America the principal salesman, salesperson, I want to be

00:42:08.720 politically correct, of the world's oil. So that, you know, I mean, I saw that some of the

00:42:15.740 countries in Eastern Europe are now looking to buy natural gas from the United States, including

00:42:19.840 Hungary. And that's a perfect opportunity. We have to increase our supplies in order to do that.

00:42:24.900 And that means getting this Green New Deal junk and this Green New Deal philosophy out of the way so that, like Sarah Palin once famously said, drill, baby, drill. 0.85

00:42:33.100 That is really going to be the key.

00:42:34.960 We have more oil here in the United States than anywhere.

00:42:37.680 We need to be the oil supplier.

00:42:39.140 We've got, it looks like, a thousand-year supply.

00:42:41.920 So it's short-term and long-term that we're going to have to address.

00:42:45.420 But the American people have to understand that oil prices, I mean, the price of Brent crude is lower now than it was during Biden.

00:42:52.340 And yet we see we're seeing spiking oil prices, gasoline pump prices, I should say, that are that don't really match the level of rent crude.

00:43:01.260 And we need to understand that as well. But the president's working hard, the problem hard.

00:43:05.800 And and I think bringing the Iranian situation to a close sooner rather than later is going to help. 0.78

00:43:11.460 The president has said it's going to happen soon. And if he says that, I believe him. 1.00

00:43:15.240 OK, so, Don, with just about a minute left, then how do we manage the expectation?

00:43:19.320 We're in an instant gratification society.

00:43:21.740 How can even Republican candidates who are fighting these tough midterm battles

00:43:25.040 explain to the American people, this is what the future looks like

00:43:28.360 and this is why our policies are better,

00:43:30.720 specifically with respect to the Iran war and the pain that we're feeling right now?

00:43:34.520 How do we manage those expectations?

00:43:36.120 What can Republican candidates say?

00:43:38.320 Well, one thing we've got to do, we have to understand the president's working to bring

00:43:41.780 pharmaceutical prices down.

00:43:44.920 We have to understand that the price of health care is directly attributed to Obamacare

00:43:49.300 which has driven health care price off the charts. We've got to have more competition there. We've

00:43:53.780 got to draw a sharper contrast between what Republican principles stand for versus Democrat

00:43:59.540 socialism. I mean, you might have a headache, Beau, but you can cure a headache with a cyanide

00:44:05.060 appeal, but don't do it. So we've got to very clearly show the difference between capitalism

00:44:10.740 and socialism. And I think if we do that, we'll be okay. All right, Don, that's sage advice from

00:44:16.000 the great Don Brown, U.S. Navy JAG officer and former Pentagon attorney. Don, thank you so much

00:44:19.820 for being with us, sir. It's always a pleasure. We'll see you again.

00:44:24.000 Call this the Jack Posobiec Appreciation Hour. I can say confidently, I believe,

00:44:28.300 I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobiec.

00:44:32.280 And that is, I'll be honest.

00:44:38.820 Welcome back to Human Events Daily. I'm Bo Davidson. Joining me now is retired Air Force

00:44:42.880 Colonel Rob Maness, our good friend. Colonel, great to be with you. Describe the feeling that

00:44:48.240 you have today to see these 5,000-plus, actually, sailors and crew return to San Diego.

00:44:56.600 Oh, it's a great day, Bo. And I'm glad to see the reporting from our network,

00:45:02.420 your network, that shows the sailors themselves and talk about what they're fighting for. And

00:45:07.520 It's not the hating the people in front of them.

00:45:10.480 It's what's behind them back at home, you know, thinking about their babies and those kind of things.

00:45:15.260 My oldest son was a sailor on these carriers up until he retired a few years ago.

00:45:20.440 And we definitely appreciate what has gone on and what's been said.

00:45:25.700 You know, and the secretary, he famously and more than adequately took responsibility for them getting extended twice.

00:45:35.440 And that's what leadership is.

00:45:37.660 That's the kind of leadership that's been missing from the Department of War on the civilian side, especially.

00:45:44.600 And those are the kinds of things that these sailors and their families really need to hear.

00:45:49.040 He even talked about the effort that the Department of War has got going on in personnel and readiness to take better care of our military families and our Gold Star families.

00:46:00.260 because it's so important because these men and women, when they're out there fighting the enemy

00:46:06.300 and successfully winning, they need to know that their families are being taken care of 100% lock solid.

00:46:14.860 Colonel, I want to ask you about this because we could be getting to the president at any moment.

00:46:19.400 Can I ask you about, there's plans for a huge shipyard in Baltimore called Arsenal 2,

00:46:23.920 and it's supposed to build a new golden fleet is what they're calling it.

00:46:26.760 Can you talk about the importance of this announcement and what it may entail?

00:46:30.260 Oh, that announcement is huge, Bo.

00:46:33.240 You know, it's the first of many that you're going to hear about from a shipbuilding perspective.

00:46:37.240 This focuses on the Navy shipyard and Palmer Luckey's and Dural Corporation is going to be building key components of the Virginia class submarines.

00:46:46.740 So they can get those components down to Norfolk and up to the north where the other shipyards are that need those components.

00:46:54.460 So it's a very big deal.

00:46:56.220 Look for more announcements, though, going into commercial sea lift shipbuilding and shipyards, too.

00:47:03.480 That is the one that really is difficult to get into and change.

00:47:09.140 And the president's team is working very, very hard on all of those.

00:47:13.360 And I'm just pleased to see the Anduril announcement up in Baltimore.

00:47:17.640 It is perfect. It's a great company.

00:47:20.160 They have innovated in all of their other work that they've been doing for the Department of War.

00:47:26.760 They're about to field a low-cost cruise missile, LCCM, that they can make 7,000 of them a year

00:47:32.100 instead of the big companies that can only make about 900 a year.

00:47:37.020 So we are very, very lucky and fortunate that Anderil is involved in this new shipbuilding effort,

00:47:42.900 and I look forward to seeing even more involvement from companies like Cerronic

00:47:46.860 that just opened their yard down in Texas, and it started expanding that, and these new autonomous

00:47:54.400 ships that are there to do what? Provide sea lift. There are big things coming, and it's very

00:48:01.160 exciting to hear about that. All right, well, let's dive into that, because you mentioned the

00:48:05.120 word lucky, and that's actually a good segue, because the founder of Andrel is Palmer Luckey,

00:48:08.980 and my understanding is that this project is a partnership between the U.S. Navy, so the taxpayer

00:48:13.420 side, of course, and a company called Andrel, as you mentioned. Palmer Luckey is an advisor

00:48:17.780 to Project Meridian, which has designed the study of the future of warfare. Now, I understand,

00:48:24.640 Colonel, that Luckey is a big supporter of autonomous warfare. Can you talk a little bit

00:48:29.180 about what that entails in terms of the future of warfare? Well, what we're seeing, and I mentioned

00:48:34.480 Ceronic, there are another few companies that are out there that are building these small

00:48:38.900 ships that are about 200 feet long that are going to carry four to six containers.

00:48:44.800 And I mentioned sea lift being key.

00:48:46.960 Look, that aircraft carrier, it's got to get its aircraft fuel and the diesel fuel it needs.

00:48:52.820 Even though it's a nuclear powered carrier, it still needs a little bit.

00:48:56.380 It's got to get that from sea lift ships.

00:48:59.220 When bombers are flying from Diego Garcia or RAF Fairford or anywhere else in the world

00:49:05.020 for the United States. They're getting their fuel and their bombs from sea lift ships. So we need

00:49:11.480 more sea lift. And the effort of the autonomous shipbuilding effort that we're starting to see

00:49:16.880 emerge is extremely important. And I want to see men like Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk. I'm glad

00:49:23.740 they're on that Meridian Task Force because they are the types of mines that we need. Because

00:49:29.980 you know, if we can only build 30 of these autonomous ships right now, that means we need

00:49:35.340 to expand and build new shipyards that can build those. But the network across the oceans for

00:49:41.580 autonomous delivery of sea lift capability, especially the Indo-Pacific area, is key to

00:49:47.740 being able to deter a country like China, which is a peer competitor now, is building more and 0.81

00:49:53.340 more aircraft carriers and their battle groups every single day, expanding their nuclear forces 0.97

00:49:57.900 and expanding all around the world to challenge us. 0.98

00:50:01.620 So this president has a plan and is implementing it to challenge the Chinese, 0.84

00:50:06.180 both from, you mentioned Venezuela earlier, the Iranian operation, 0.88

00:50:10.360 all of the sea lift and oil tanks.

00:50:14.220 Well, I think we might have lost Colonel Manus.

00:50:15.800 Well, we're going to go back, thank you, Colonel, if you can hear me,

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00:51:20.900 And, of course, you can see the president there about to board, I believe, Marine One.

00:51:35.600 And I believe Colonel Maness had to go.

00:51:37.380 But just to kind of give you a little overview of what the colonel was talking about, there's

00:51:40.960 all these autonomous ships being built.

00:51:42.520 And this is a huge announcement.

00:51:43.940 Just to give you a couple facts and figures on it, it appears it was a six-point, or it's

00:51:48.260 going to be a $6.6 billion defense shipyard, which is actually owned by Palmer Luckey,

00:51:53.220 as we talked about, and creating kind of looking at the future of warfare and what that's going

00:51:58.040 to look like. And just to go back to Secretary of War's remarks, I do want to cover some of this

00:52:03.740 because I think as we close out the show, it's important to kind of recap some of the things

00:52:07.300 that he said. He extended this mission twice, and he took full ownership for that. But he talked

00:52:12.320 about the effectiveness that the sailors showed, and he had full faith that they would deliver

00:52:16.780 that. He said this is to recognize, honor, and showcase the exceptionalism of this military and

00:52:22.320 of this crew. And it's a historic nature of what was shown today and what this mission accomplished

00:52:28.260 by the USS Lincoln. No other carrier strike group has ever done anything like this. And that's

00:52:34.120 something to be certainly commended. 23,000 combat flight hours, 23,000, 1.5 million pounds of

00:52:42.080 ordnance dropped on the enemy. That got a big round of applause. And 160 hours of constant

00:52:47.720 combat flight ops without a casualty or mishap. I got to read that one again. That one's important.

00:52:53.040 160 hours of constant combat flight ops without a single casualty or flight mishap. That's

00:52:59.820 precision, folks. That's excellence. And he said, we shared the ocean with the Iranian Navy and they

00:53:04.380 got the bottom half of it. I thought that was a pretty good compliment as well. And they sunk 1.00

00:53:10.320 59 of those ships. We're going to go now to President Trump. I believe he's taken off.

00:53:14.400 Let's take a look and see.

00:53:40.320 You can see Marine One, the president, on board.

00:53:43.440 We know the president has a rally planned later today in San Antonio

00:53:46.440 supporting Senate candidate Ken Paxson.

00:53:49.260 That's going to be a hotly contested race.

00:53:51.280 But I think as we close out the show here today,

00:53:53.380 we had such wonderful guests,

00:53:54.820 but also hearing the remarks from the Secretary of War,

00:53:57.060 Jack Posobiec, on site there.

00:53:58.720 It is a momentous day.

00:53:59.800 It's a historic day to think about the sacrifice of our soldiers

00:54:02.780 over 320 days at sea.

00:54:04.760 And now you know what, folks?

00:54:05.840 They're going to get to come home.

00:54:07.220 They're going to share loved ones.

00:54:09.340 They're going to have the embrace of loved ones.

00:54:11.740 They're going to be able to share Thanksgiving with them.

00:54:13.860 And nothing is to be undermined or underestimated about this military, the families involved, the sacrifice involved.

00:54:21.560 And I think that's to be commended.

00:54:25.340 So as we see Marine One here with the coming in, we can see it's landing, I believe.

00:54:33.140 I don't know if it's landing or taking off, actually, if you guys can let me know where it's landing.

00:54:36.820 Okay, so we've got Marine One landing at Andrews Air Force Base.

00:54:40.780 But just to kind of get to recap, folks, just the totality of what we saw today, leadership comes to mind.

00:54:46.940 Resolve comes to mind.

00:54:48.120 As I talked with Don Brown and the colonel just about the type of leadership that we're seeing now versus the type of leadership that we saw before, or let's just say lack thereof.

00:54:57.520 But Secretary Hegseth said the following about the USS Lincoln.

00:55:00.820 You have changed the arc of history to ensure theocrats never have a nuclear weapon.

00:55:08.900 That's momentous, folks, that this ship that was out for over 300 days, and yes, they were fatigued.

00:55:14.080 Yes, there was uncertainty.

00:55:15.560 But they changed the arc of not just U.S. history, but of the world to know that Iran will never, ever, ever have a nuclear weapon, which was the point of the mission in the first place.

00:55:25.320 Because for 50 years, the secretary said Iran had been stockpiling weapons underground.

00:55:30.000 They were a modern military.

00:55:31.340 They had a modern Navy.

00:55:32.280 Well, not so much anymore.

00:55:34.000 And, of course, the secretary brought a presidential unit citation to the USS Abraham Lincoln today.

00:55:39.320 And it was for extraordinary heroism, an ironclad maritime blockade.

00:55:44.840 Think about that blockade, folks, to be able to maintain that blockade day after day, week after week.

00:55:51.980 And now, folks, those weary soldiers, those weary sailors are coming home.

00:55:56.940 And as one of them said, just to see his wife waiting with his baby boy in his arms,

00:56:01.360 that's what he's looking forward to.

00:56:02.400 And tomorrow, folks, in less than 24 hours, we will see that mission complete.

00:56:07.660 Regardless of how you feel about the war, as Jack said,

00:56:10.360 nothing should ever be used to undermine these sailors, their sacrifice,

00:56:15.280 everything that they have done for this brave country and great nation.

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 07, 2026

USS LINCOLN RETURNS HOME

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