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The Untold Story of the Real J6 Insurrection w/ Pete Hegseth

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Overseas now, far-right parties are celebrating big gains after elections for the European Parliament in EU countries, and the vote is a major setback for leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel Macron's party was trounced by candidates for Marine Le Pen's Nationalist Party.
Macron called snap elections, saying he couldn't ignore the message.
In France, Italy and Germany, a shift to the right and far-right.
In Germany, the hard-right party AFD celebrated a second-place finish in the country.
Young voters turning right and leaving the Green Party.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, DC.
Today is June 10th, 2024.
I know, Domini.
All right, folks, let's go around the horn.
Europe.
Massive populist swing that took place in the election over the past three days there.
If you want to go listen, Raheem Kassam and I have a huge, huge podcast, Monster Mash podcast that we did Snap podcast yesterday, go check that out over at the National Pulse, where we walk you through in extreme and minute detail what went down across the European parliamentary elections.
But I want to be clear, this doesn't affect national parliaments, only the local national elections will affect that.
However, what we're seeing is perhaps the beginning of a tidal wave that could crash onto American shores A butterfly effect, if you will, in November 2024.
Only 140 and change days away from today.
Folks, the job is massive, and what we need you to do is stay frosty, because we are about to take, and this movement is about to take globally, incoming like you've never seen before.
You think the trials were bad?
You think the conviction was bad?
You think all of the things that are happening— Steve Bannon, going behind bars.
Peter Navarro, currently behind bars.
Alex Jones, having to shut down operations, but he's gonna be hanging on as long as possible.
He and I have been in communication.
Folks, the tide is turning, but the fight is just starting.
The tide is turning, but the fight is just starting.
So the question is, do you have what it takes to go those 15 rounds?
Do you have what it takes to go all the way to the final bell?
147 days, ladies and gentlemen, between now and election day.
And I know the polls are good.
Look, look at that CBS poll.
That CBS poll that came out is fantastic.
CBS, YouGov, everything is trending in our direction.
Deport all undocumented immigrants.
62% favor.
Higher prices have been a hardship.
69% support Donald Trump.
Are you better off now or worse than you were four years ago?
42% say they will be better if Trump wins, and 48% say they will be worse if Biden wins.
Who is your choice for president?
Trump now polling 18% among black voters, 45% among women.
Independents split 50 to 48.
Right down the line.
Folks, You need to fight like this entire election, like every single thing we do from now until November 5th this year.
147 days.
Fight like there's only one vote that makes the entire difference.
Fight like we're 10 points down and you need to just get one more vote.
Fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp up Noah's Ark.
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And by the way, we're getting a little bit of feedback, folks, but I'm going to say it.
That's right.
I said it.
Third monkey on the ramp up to Noah's Ark and the rain is falling.
The rain is falling.
So what are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
Well, we're going to talk to fighters and we're bringing more fighters in every single day.
And our next guest and our guest for the whole show today, he's a fighter.
You guys know him, a man who needs no introduction, but perhaps even though you know who he is, you may not know his whole story.
And we're going to get into that a lot today.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pete Hegseth.
He joins us now.
Pete, how are you, man?
What's up, Jack?
How you doing?
Doing great.
Great to be on.
Appreciate what you do.
Doing really well.
People don't know this, by the way, though.
Even though we were shipped tonight, Pete and I both served at Guantanamo Bay, although on different deployments.
Yeah, what year were you, Jack?
I was 2004, 2005.
Yeah, I remember we chatted about this once.
We were backstage at some RNC or something, and I was there.
So I was there way after you.
I was 2012, 2013.
Yep.
It was still a bunch of real estate on the coastline, housing a bunch of dirt bags.
Yeah.
And it still is, except that under Obama, he let go some of the worst of the worst, by the way.
And then funny enough, we ended up having to recapture them in like Pakistan and Afghanistan and, you know, so much.
And then, oh, by the way, when they had the Bo Bergdahl, I think it was the five generals that got released in that crooked deal.
They wound up, oh, going right back to Afghanistan and walking right back into the leadership of the Taliban.
And oh, look at that.
They're now in charge of the country.
Just just an amazing policy that, you know, it's like, what exactly was the point of all this?
It's it's completely insane.
And that's why you've got to talk to people that have actually been there and done the job.
And that's who Pete Hegseth is.
But but I've got to ask you, because we have so many questions about this.
And you've got a new book that I really want to get into, that I've gotten into personally, but I want to present to everyone.
These European elections, what is your take on the news that we saw out of Europe?
And do you think that it potentially could be a butterfly effect into the United States?
It sure could be.
I mean, Jack, you talk a lot about, and rightfully so, how this has a feeling, an aura of 2016.
Well, what preceded Trump's historic election in 2016?
Was Brexit, was something everyone told us wasn't possible, that there wasn't enough of a groundswell, but the British people said, we want our sovereignty back.
And I'll never forget that morning when I woke up, I had my Union Jacksocks ready to go, just in case it went the right way, and it did.
And it was a shot in the arm that I never anticipated, almost made us feel like, hey, this is possible.
Well, now you see Marine Le Pen and what's happening in France, and Macron having to now call snap elections because of the overwhelming response Of French nationalists who say, hey, we want our borders back.
We don't want unchecked, unfettered illegal immigration in our country, which is changing our entire society.
You see the same thing in the UK.
I'm about to launch a special on Fox Nation in the fall called the Islamization of Europe.
And we spent a lot of time in London in these, you know, former churches that are now mosques that are changing towns and changing neighborhoods.
Native Brits see this.
It affects their lives.
It affects their economy.
It affects their safety.
And certainly their sovereignty.
It's a beautiful thing to see.
Of course, we know exactly what the left is going to say.
Oh, it's far right, you know, Christian nationalist.
Let them say it.
These are average folks in France and the UK and across Europe.
We're just sick and tired of leftists wrecking their countries and they're sticking up for it.
So hopefully it is a preview.
I mean, we've got the same thing.
What is it, 10, 12, 15 million?
We're not even sure.
Into our borders from all around the world, we're importing the third world, everyday Americans across A lot of different demographics are saying enough is enough.
Hopefully it's a preview of what's happening here.
And that's exactly what we just saw in the CBS YouGov poll.
62% say deport all undocumented immigrants.
Now, of course, that's the CBS language, undocumented immigrants.
I'm like, well, an immigrant means you went through a process.
So number one, you're not an immigrant.
But, you know, something you just said about London reminded me that Richard Dawkins, so Richard Dawkins, who's like the leader of the New Atheist Movement, a guy who's By no means on the right, you know, an arch figurehead of the left, if you will, even he came out and responded that when he was looking around the United Kingdom and he saw the new Islamic holidays and the new mosques and the fact that they were taking precedence over Christian feasts and cathedrals,
For people who don't remember, this was something that, like, Bill O'Reilly and him used to go at it years ago, and he was, like, the big leader of sort of the anti-Christianization movement that was the New Atheists.
Even he came out this year and said, well, I do consider myself culturally Christian, and I'm like, Dawkins!
What did you think you were doing for all those years, man?
Because even he sees this and says, wait a minute, no, I didn't mean for all this to happen.
He's kind of like, Maybe questioning some of the things that may have led to this point.
You mean Western Christian civilization created the kind of aura of normalcy and wonderful quality of life that allowed even atheists to sort of spout off their nonsense and then they look around and realize, oh, real religious authoritarians are here and they want everyone to conform or pay a tax or die.
Maybe I'm not in for that.
So I mean, it's the same mentality of people who Wave the flag and say queers for Hamas.
They've lost their mind.
They don't understand what that means until some of them with common sense wake up and say, wait, they're coming for me next.
So life actually wasn't so bad in a real pluralistic society.
Well, and then there was this idea, right?
I guess there was idea that they had that if you can just completely remove God from the public square, completely remove the power of public Christian morals.
And the United States, I keep saying this to people, it shouldn't be controversial to say that the majority of Americans are Christian and the majority of Americans have always been Christian.
It's always been the majority in America since our founding, predates our founding.
In many ways, it is intrinsically related to our founding, because of fleeing religious oppression and things like that, that led to the original founding of the Thirteen Colonies.
And so, to come out and say that, wait a minute, if we start taking the crosses down from the Empire State Building, and the skyline of New York City on Easter weekend, or on Good Friday, and then suddenly they start getting replaced by things like the pride flag, or like, as you say in London, more so the Islamization, there's always going to be something that fills that vacuum.
And it feels like a lot of these guys didn't see that coming.
They just thought, like you said, like it would all just be horseshoes.
I was about to say horseshoes and rainbows, but we do have the rainbows.
I mean, you're right.
And we're living off of the residual of the goodness and the fortitude of those times when there was clarity about what we believed in.
Christians were willing to stand up and say, this is who we are and this is what we believe.
in a country like the United States.
And Europe lost that a long time ago.
I mean, their churches are empty.
Their welfare states, they've bloated their welfare states by gutting their militaries, and they left their borders wide open.
And now they've imported North Africa and the Middle East, people who have no desire to assimilate, let alone be a part of the historic Christian civilization that existed there.
And they wonder why their culture is absolutely imploding.
And it started here in a far more subtle way, Jack.
I know we're talking about my book, War on Warriors, but the book before that was called Battle for the American Mind.
And it was about the K-12 takeover by the left.
And what's the first thing they do?
They did.
They took the Bible and the cross out of schools, intentionally.
They took faith out of public schools in America because then it was much easier.
The minds of kids is far more malleable when they think society is perfectible.
A So it's always good.
You say this a lot and you're right.
I mean, it is a spiritual battle and we've kneecapped ourselves, especially Europe, in so many ways that we're not capable to fight against a new religion, a new woke religion or Islamist religion that's very aggressive and evangelical.
Well it's amazing to see and we've got a quick break coming up here and I want to get into because I mean this book is incredible because you're revealing things about January 6th that I think people have guessed but we'll get into that in a second you know now you're coming forward with the full story but something that a lot of people don't realize is that
Even after all of this, even after the secularization of Europe, which, you know, used to be referred to as Christendom, even after 60 years of indoctrination and, you know, public school teaching, government teaching about egalitarianism and everyone has to be equal and diversity is straightened out, even after that, even after that, you can't break You can't break the spirit of history.
You can't break the spirit of tradition.
You can't break the fact that people want to live their lives and have their cultures the way they always had.
And look, you know, I go back to, I'm Polish.
I talk to my Polish family members over there all the time.
They lived through the Nazi, the Nazi invasion.
They lived through the Soviet invasion.
They lived through 60 years of communism and they always maintained their language, their faith, and their culture.
The only way that Poland ever survived all of that was maintaining it all the way through.
And so even if Nazism and Joseph Stalin himself couldn't wipe out religion in Poland, this is the key.
If you maintain your spiritual roots, you cannot be defeated by anything.
Stay tuned.
Be right back.
Yes, and again.
Pete Hegseth, we're talking about the butterfly effect.
We're talking about the elections coming out of Europe and now revelations from January 6th that will rock the 2024 election in his new book.
I'm out of here.
All right, Jack, so back live, Human Events Daily.
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Pete Hegseth, your new book is The War on Warriors Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.
Talk to me a little bit.
In this book, it's racing up the charts.
I think I saw you were number two on Amazon, number two, number one on Amazon over the weekend.
You're still in, I think, the top ten.
What led to the genesis of you writing this book?
Because you've always been extremely pro-military, but there's a difference between being pro-soldier and pro-service member and being pro-Pentagon brass, and I kind of feel like that's where this book is coming from.
Walk me through it.
You're exactly right, Jack.
First of all, congratulations on your book, by the way, on humans.
I ordered it.
It's coming.
I look forward to it.
Congrats, and I hope we can help promoted as well.
Such an important message.
And a lot of those themes are creeping into our own military, which is crazy.
And we can get into that.
But yes, this book is not a book about how the military went woke, to your point.
It's a book about how the military allowed itself to go woke.
And so a lot of this story is about the brass and the leadership class that catered to political ideologues who are pushing social justice, politically correct gender, DEI, CRT stuff into the ranks.
And leadership never stepped up to say, you know, our only oath is to defend the Constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic.
And this doesn't make us more merit-based, more lethal, more capable, more ready.
And as a result, we're going to push back in a very real basis.
And the story is, it's not that long of a story, meaning that my last book was over 100 years.
This one, it's...
Yes, there's things that happened in the 90s, Clinton, and 2000s, but it really is an Obama-Biden story of political ideologues who wanted to bring the most powerful meritocracy in the world to heel.
And they put their own political people in senior positions in and around the Pentagon, and then started to shape the force in a way that like-minded generals, or at least people willing to play the game and jump through the hoops that they know are antithetical to supporting the warfighter,
That's how you get promoted up through the ranks to the point where in a Biden administration, which is really Obama's third term, they're on hyperspeed and accelerating all this social justice, gender, climate, patriot extremism nonsense alongside the vaccine mandate stuff.
It's filtering out patriots and war fighters and helping the people that are willing to conform to that ideology.
Up and through the ranks, which changes the ethos and the capability of the entire military.
Guys like you and I live through this.
We signed up because we love the country and we want to do our part.
I write this book with frustration because I love this institution, but it's not like the education or tax rates.
You can't move away from this problem.
There's only one Marine Corps, one Navy, one Army, and if we give it away or it's captured by political ideologues, we're going to find ourselves in a very bad position very soon.
And we already are.
One one thing that I've always said that Obama did during his time in and something that so I joined right kind of as he was getting in getting into office and one of the initial changes that I started to notice in the officer corps and then really the flag corps going into the flag corps and so for anyone who puts on that star general admiral depending on your service branch
You always go through the war colleges and it what I started noticing was that in the war college system under Obama they use it's the same way they use the right the civilian colleges by the way they went to the war colleges and then returned those into these political indoctrination centers so that's where they send if you're on your way up to leaders military leadership you go to the war college and then you know you might even masters you go there for a PhD etc something like this but then that's kind but what they and what it's supposed to be for by the way is to teach you how to make war
how to defend the country, how to hurt people and break things in other countries.
You know, if we go to war with China, here's what you do.
Here's it.
You're going to have to fight them at sea.
So here's how it is.
We go to war with Russia, you know, God forbid we go to war with Russia, but if we were, this is how that would play out, et cetera, et cetera.
That's the point.
But what Obama started doing is they would find the, find the officers who already agreed, or as you say, were willing to kind of regurgitate the party line on whatever the political correct, you know, cause of the day, the current issue of the day was.
And they slowly started shaping the officer corps to fit those interests, not the interest of what we just outlined, the actual, I don't know, safety and security of our nation.
God forbid.
I know, crazy thought there.
Real conspiracy theory that we should protect our borders and our people, and that's what the point of the military should be.
And our interests, obviously.
And so then you also notice that I would see these officers, you know, 05, 06, they'd go to the war colleges.
And these were some of the most, you know, locked down, buttoned up, you know, in the Navy, we say Joe Navy type guys.
And they would constantly, they wouldn't make rank.
They wouldn't get the star.
They wouldn't make flag.
And you're like, what's going on?
And then you see the dirtbags that do, and it was either the biggest, I'm just gonna say it, the biggest brown nosers, or the most woke, you know, we didn't have the word woke back then quite yet, but the wokest, DEI-ist types would always be the ones that made rank fastest.
Yes, I saw the same thing, both at home, but also forward deployed.
The generals who are willing to peddle the societal makeover, build every school, heroic restraint, we're going to win every heart.
Like a lot of us, I learned a lot of things in real time.
And there were a lot of things when I was an infantry platoon leader where, you know, we were torn between kinetic action and counterinsurgency operations and the different debates going on.
But it became very clear those who actually wanted to kill the enemy and lead their men to be as violent in their action as possible so as to, you know, secure their battle space and achieve their objective.
And there might be a mistake here, a mistake there, because it's war and war is impossible to conduct in a clean nature.
They were always the guys who were under the gun from the lawyers in the Pentagon and elsewhere who were pulling them in, reining them in, putting even more restrictions on them.
And those who would not take risks, those who prolonged the war, those who peddled PowerPoints that talked about gender breakdowns and racial breakdowns, and they were the ones just sort of easily spiraling to the top.
And that matters.
Now, under Trump, a lot of those generals kind of put their head down.
Now, we saw at the end of Trump them willing what game they were playing, but they just kind of went underground and played the game.
And I don't think the Trump administration knew the extent to which it had been burrowed into the DOD.
They do now, and they'll do something about it now.
And then once that cap was off, especially after George Floyd in January 6th, then they just ramped up the targeting, not just of who would be promoted.
But those mid and junior levels, will you conform to our ideology?
Otherwise, you're not going to find yourself getting promoted.
Look, and this is how you cause the destabilization of a system.
And, I'm just going to say it, this is classic Marxism.
This is Marxism the same way you would use... It's dialectic warfare.
So the dialectic warfare of shape people so that the incentive structure is set up for you to be following a political institution and a political set of ideals and a political set of these correct values, ideologies, etc.
to get you to the top.
Where as, you know, I'm sure when you were in uniform, when I was in uniform, I didn't talk politics.
I wasn't interested in talking politics.
It isn't about politics.
It's about what are we doing to accomplish the mission and achieve the commander's intent.
That's it.
Because that's what we signed up for.
So we don't care, liberal, democrat, whatever it is, but you start to see these things along the way that they politicize the military the same way they politicize any institution.
And then once they've conducted institutional capture, once they've achieved institutional capture, it's like running a military operation on the military itself.
That's when you go, so Biden, full institutional capture, now you go top down, and now we can go to the And that's why you saw most of the more aggressive actions of the Obama administration happen in the second half of the second term.
He didn't do it right away because he knew institutionally he could not.
So take something like women in combat roles, for example, which rolled out in 2014 into 2015.
That would have been an extremely controversial topic eight years before that in the middle of a shooting war when there was a recognition that men and women are different and that bone density and lung capacity and muscle mass are different.
And, oh, adding the variable of women into all male units in the front lines might add some complicating factors.
But by 2015, 2016, you had a secretary of the Navy in Ray Mabus and other services.
Especially the Air Force and the Army.
They just laid down.
They didn't even try to fight.
They said, okay, at least the Marine Corps conducted a study and they studied 400 male Marines versus 300 male Marines and 100 female Marines.
And no surprise, after months of study, the all-male unit massively outperformed the mixed gender unit.
But what did the Secretary of the Navy do at that point?
Because he knew who his handlers were.
Threw the study out and said, I don't care.
Integrate every single billet.
And that's the type of mindset that takes hold everywhere.
It's not about standards and lethality and accountability and meritocracy.
It's about what do my political handlers demand based on some societal objective that does not align with the most effective fighting force.
And that's where they abdicate their responsibility.
They abdicate their oath.
But they've been well placed to be the types of people that already want to abdicate or are willing to because they're cowards with stars on their shoulders.
And they go along to get along.
They want to make the next rank, and then they want their spot on the board of the defense contractor after that, and they want to be liked by the chattering class.
So there's a careerism problem involved in all of it, too.
But it was set up by systematically creating, as you said, different types of incentives.
And now here we are in Biden, and it's a straight-off CRT, DEI, gender-based, right out of a Marxist playbook if you wanted to remake an institution.
Look, it's almost a make-work program for leftists and their social-engineered class at this point.
It's not the military that it's supposed to be, that, number one, is supposed to fight our wars, and number two, which hopefully we don't have to do, but also number two, to keep us safe should war come.
Pete Hegseth is our guest.
This book is fascinating, The War on Warriors.
Stay tuned, because he's gonna talk a little bit next about January 6th.
Jack, where is Jack?
Where's Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting policies.
Alright, we're on live with Pete Hegseth.
His book is The War on Warriors.
We're walking through this, and they say news is the first draft of history, so if we don't put out current events and modern history on our own, we know that the libs and the left are going to write their version of it.
Pete, not everybody, you know, everybody knows you from your day job, shall we say, but until very recently you were also a member of the National Guard.
Talk to me about what your life was like on that side through the events of 2020 and then leading up to January 6th.
So yeah, I did a tour like you in Guantanamo Bay, did one in Iraq and did one in Afghanistan, took a break in service, came back in and just wanted to serve, kind of had the itch still.
I include this in the book and I'll just give it a glancing blow.
I tried to serve in the New York Army.
I'm constantly threatening my wife with that, by the way.
Are you really?
Not in the current military, but we'll see.
We'll see in the future.
Who knows?
And I tried to get into the New York card because I lived in New Jersey.
It was a unit.
Anyway, it was a layup.
I was definitely going to be in that unit and it was going to be, you know, right in the city.
And I was denied because who was the governor of New York?
It was Governor Cuomo.
His tag denied me having a slot in a unit that needed a major in the slot.
So it started there.
So that was one level of political interference.
Then I went down to the D.C.
Guard because I've heard about a unit that was there that could use me.
I had a little bit of flexibility with my schedule because of my day job.
And the D.C.
National Guard is inherently a very political unit.
It's where it is.
But you also have more control from the Secretary of the Army directly to the D.C.
Guard because it's not a state.
It's federalized.
So whatever.
It's all fine.
But then the George Floyd stuff happens, and I find myself in D.C.
in early June 2020 holding a riot shield.
We didn't have enough guys, so here I am, a major staff guy, but I'm out there with a bunch of other majors and captains and lieutenants holding a riot shield outside the White House.
We were out there For, you know, three, four days, night after night, Antifa, BLM, all that.
That happens.
This is something, this is something that I don't know if people realize that when we look at those videos and the burning of St.
John's Church out there that Antifa was conducting, this is a huge thing.
The Biden campaign hits Trump over it all the time.
They say he gassed peaceful protesters.
Like, no, they were burning down a church and it was tear gas, which is a pretty common riot dispersal, riot dispersal implement.
So you were actually one of the guys out there.
I was there the next night.
I wasn't there that night.
The next night, okay.
I was there the next four nights, where it was still Raucous, you might say.
But the reason we were kind of called in is because of what had happened that night before.
And that was, you know, I think there were 60 or 70 Secret Service agents that were injured or park police that were there.
I mean, it was really bad.
They were jumping the fence of the White House, totally defaced Lafayette Square, burned the church.
Trump goes out with the Bible.
Millie's all ashamed that that happened.
Anyway, night after night, we're out there after that.
Feeling that white rage.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, by the way, I've never heard more vile, racist stuff than what the BLM folks said to our soldiers, our black soldiers, especially.
Of course, every time.
We've documented this a million times, 100%.
That's how it works.
So then, fast forward, I'm still in the unit.
January 6th happens.
I was actually there that morning reporting for Fox and Friends, but I left right after the show and blah, blah, blah.
That happens.
We can talk about Millie's role in some of that because Millie is a central character in this book because of how his role played out and how he played into the hands of so much intentionally.
And then after January 6th, of course, the inauguration of Joe Biden was coming, which means And you remember Nancy Pelosi's parking lot and how all of the National Guard in D.C.
in the five-state area was deployed.
I think there were 25,000 National Guard troops.
I mean, it was an occupation.
It was an occupation.
Absolutely.
The fence is up, everything.
I could not get to my, I could not park in front of my office building because I was at 101 Constitution back then.
And I could not get to my, just park in front of my building because number one, the fencing was there.
And if I wanted to get downtown, I had to go through three military checkpoints just to go to work.
So you describe it accurately, completely.
And so I had, you know, I work on weekends so I can get there during the week and my job, So I had orders, like everybody else, like everyone, to go defend the inauguration of Joe Biden.
And they were cut.
I was ready to go.
And then about a day before I left, I got a call from a senior leader in my unit.
And he said, Major, you can stand down.
We don't need you, we're good, we're good.
I said, what do you mean?
Everybody's going.
I have orders.
He goes, no, no, no, you're good.
And he refused to tell me.
He couldn't tell me at the time.
He just said, You know, you're good.
You know, you're you've got a busy schedule.
You got, you know, you're we're good.
Everybody's got busy schedules, of course, that and I had a sense in that moment.
So I actually submitted my resignation letter on January 20th, 2021.
It's sort of my own statement, but I didn't know for sure.
And so as of the writing of this book, Jack, I called back to one of the senior leaders in the unit who was willing to talk to me.
And he said, hey, I know for certain because I was on them in the meetings and on the phone calls and the emails.
And even has some of them, that you were identified as a domestic extremist or a white nationalist because of a tattoo you have on your chest.
And I said, sir, that's, it's a Jerusalem cross.
It's a very straightforward Christian religious symbol.
He said, I, some of us tried to say that, but they didn't want to hear it.
They deemed you an extremist and it was approved higher up the chain of command.
And so you were disinvited and your orders were revoked.
To come to the inauguration.
Now, was it because of a Christian tattoo?
Was it because I was a Trump supporter?
Was it because I work at Fox?
I don't know.
None of those are acceptable answers.
But it was, as you've pointed out, I was not alone.
And it was because of political ideology.
And they were in the process of identifying people they did not want in the ranks, at least for that.
So I wasn't kicked out of the whole military.
But my orders were revoked for an important mission that was mandatory, which told me, you're not welcome here.
Well, and I remember, so people will remember a couple of things that at the time, in real time, I was up reporting on this very same situation that I was getting word from my friends who were in the Guard, and I've got friends in the Pennsylvania Guard where I'm from, and others who were saying, hey, they're starting to vet our Facebook pages.
What do you mean they're vetting your Facebook pages?
What is that?
What are you even talking about?
Like, for criminal stuff?
Like, are you guys involved in gangs?
Like, what are you doing?
It is Philly, after all.
So, they go, no.
Which, by the way, we could talk about gangs and ranks, as if that doesn't happen.
Gang tats and things like that.
As if that doesn't happen.
Sorry, folks.
It is what it is.
welcome to the new American military, that they were saying the Facebook pages of the National Guardsmen were being vetted for what pages you were liking, what content you were posting.
They were looking, and I don't mean like, as you say, extreme content.
I mean like Turning Point USA and the NRA and CPAC and the Gadsden flag, which remember they used to always say the Gadsden flag was an extremist flag.
Now we're on to appeal to heaven and the pine tree is an extremist flag.
So this all started back then.
And to your point, there was this sort of chronic changing of the guard in the military during the Obama years.
Then it just catalyzes around this January 6 cauldron.
They come in, boom, with the, you know, with going for extremist symbols.
And by the way, you know, if anyone, you want to know what the Jerusalem cross is, go to Jerusalem.
It's the cross that you see on every single church and like every single shop and the friars are all wearing it.
It's literally the Jerusalem cross.
You know, it goes back to the Crusaders, the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
I mean, it is the main cross that's associated with the Holy Land, if you've ever I don't know if we have the B-roll of it, but it's like one of the most ancient crosses that we have in the Christian faith.
It's very common.
People have seen it all over the place.
Also a popular tattoo, I might add.
Yes, indeed.
And they knew exactly what it was.
I mean, it was a rationale.
It was an excuse.
And just like they know exactly what the Gadsden flag or the appeal to heaven, these are all excuses.
I mean, and rationalizations and reasons to crack down on under the guise of an artificial extremist threat of political opponents.
And that's where the phrase then after that patriot extremism came from.
Then you get Austin with Bishop Garrison and you get the extremism working group and you get leaked memos about from DARPA with these new categories that That give commanders and DEI advisors and everyone else in these units a rationale to be checking out social media or looking at bumper stickers that are on people's cars.
Complete and utter purge.
They're shaming them to take them down or change their view.
It is a patriot purge.
I talked about it at the time.
That's precisely what it is.
And it's straight up intimidation about who you are.
You should be ashamed of who you are and what you represent.
If you disagree, there's the door.
This was a patriot purge of what should be the most patriotic institution in America.
Pete Hegseth revealing the truth about the real insurrection on January 6th, The War on Warriors.
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I'm buzzing in my ear about the boring people at your office.
I'm trying to listen to the new human events with Jack Posobiec.
All right, Jack Posobiec, we're on live with Pete Hegseth.
He's walking through the War on Warriors book, this incredible piece that people need to know because it is a history book, but it's current events.
And so I hope it's a book that people will understand that when they read the history of January 6th, and they read the history of, for sure, a very tumultuous era that we're were in that they look to personal eyewitness firsthand accounts from inside the military of the things that were being done.
And I, and just by the way, on personal level, I appreciate the fact that you are using your platform to do this because you wouldn't have to.
And it would probably be a lot easier for you to not go public with these things and, you know, just let it go.
And, uh, and, and thank you, seriously.
Thank you for writing this.
Appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
I mean, I, and the response, let me respond just real quick before we get to the question, the response has been insane because there haven't, you know, this, I mean, you're, you and I, and a few others are, there's a handful and we're not patting ourselves on the back.
It's just kind of a nature of media.
There aren't many vets in the media.
And so it is our responsibility when there are tough moments to speak as clearly and forcibly as we can, because there are so many guys and gals out there who never even get remotely a chance to speak out.
And they're inside an institution where you can't speak out.
It's always something I've taken very seriously.
I get messages every day just, you know, from guys who are still in, and this is on the IC side, but, you know, keep going, Jack.
Just keep going.
The stuff you, you know, the stuff you're saying, it's 10 times worse than you really think.
And I'm like, oh, gosh, you know, don't do anything.
Don't reveal anything.
Get yourself in too much trouble.
But that being said, I do have a ProtonMail account, guys.
I'm just saying.
Let me ask you though about this new piece of reporting Julie Kelly had up over at Declassified and I think it was it wasn't actually written by her but it was it was all about General Milley and this is a piece of it that I don't that I think has come out through some of Milley's interviews later than and his testimony that's come out his depositions other interviews and what they've pieced together and understood why was the Patriot Purge going on this is what's what's so interesting to me is that apparently General Milley
And this is the picture that's come out, actually believed that, and people said, okay, why did Trump not call in the National Guard?
And then Cash Patel comes out and said, wait a minute, he did call in the National Guard.
And Chris Miller, who was acting DOD at the time, backed him up and said, that's absolutely right.
He did call for 10,000 National Guardsmen, not after January 6th, but on J6.
The order was already there.
But Milley is the one who gums it up.
And now I think we know the reason why and the reason why he was looking at going after people like you is because he actually actually was brainwashed into thinking that Trump was going to declare martial law and try to in Millie's own words create some kind of a Reichstag moment.
What is your response to this, that this is the reason that the Patriot Purge was going?
The highest level of our military, the leader of the military, could have been so completely snowballed by the Democrats into believing, making him essentially turn against his own force and the sitting commander-in-chief.
I mean, it was great, great reporting by Julie Kelly.
Folks should check it out alongside the rest of the stuff that she does.
Yeah, he had convinced himself he was a savior of the republic, that his job was to stop Trump inside the institution.
He declared, he says in a lot of these different, and we were able to read a lot of these, these are books that were written and different articles that were written.
He said it was because he believed he was one of the only ones that could prevent the worst possible outcomes, which would be a foreign war being started by Trump as a rationale to crack down.
Or an internal incident that he would use to put martial law in place and maintain control permanently.
So he was in touch with the not just the foreign policy establishment, which is a famous, you know, swamp uniparty in D.C., but straight up Democrats.
I mean, it's Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Susan Rice and Liz Cheney.
And these are the people he's talking to as we're approaching January 6th to try to get a sense of How he should use his power to plant flags, as he says, that will prevent Trump from getting what he wants.
And one of those, according to this reporting, is that he changed the reporting structure of what the Secretary of the Army, whether or not the D.C.
Guard could be mobilized by its commanding general, or whether it takes the Secretary of the Army, and then never facilitated a conversation about how that would happen.
So when it came to January 6th, even though there were troops, National Guard troops authorized to be there or respond, When the call came, which never actually came, it was delayed by hours intentionally.
And it's because, or at least that's the sense.
The committee blames it on reporting difficulties and confusion.
But the sense you get when you look at all the evidence is that Milley didn't want the guard to be there because he thought Trump would use the guard.
To federalize this and put martial law and lock up Democrats in Congress?
He had a fanciful view of what was going to happen.
And as you say, I wonder who planted that idea in his head, and then you read the Circle of Confidence, and this is, Hayley McLean is the author of this, I want to give her due credit, and it says he was in discussions with Speaker Pelosi, okay, Democrat leader Chuck Schumer, okay, they're in office, I understand that from one perspective, that at least you want to talk to them, but then it says he was also in discussions with
Obama's former National Security Advisor, Susan Rice?
And Obama's Defense Secretary, Robert Gates?
Wait a minute.
Those guys are nowhere near the chain of command.
In fact, they're adversarial to the chain of command.
So the idea that he's getting, potentially, advice from people who are in direct opposition to the current Commander-in-Chief and going to them, I think that raises a lot of questions that absolutely need to be answered.
Final minute, Pete Hagseth, just get your reaction to that and let people know where they can get the book.
We think we live in a world where when the commander in chief is facing a crisis, he calls up this best and brightest and they figure out how to, you know, get it done.
When in actuality, Millie was a part of a group of people who were there to stop Trump and that existed across multiple different departments.
So the War on Warriors is, I wrote it.
As someone who loves our military, wants to see it strong and ready, wants to prevent more wars by having a strong military, Donald Trump can change that.
When he's elected, he'll have the ability to choose a Secretary of State and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who aren't trying to undermine him, but are trying to restore the military to what it ought be.
Writing the War on Warriors was part of an attempt to expose people to how bad it's gotten.
So that we get a chance to fix it, because you've got young kids, I've got young kids.
Right now, I'm questioning whether I would want them to serve.
A lot of vets feel the same.
Unless this institution is changed, you're going to break down that family connection that people have, and then you have a real recruiting crisis on your hands, Jack.
So, I just want to end by saluting, again, Unhumans.
It's a great book.
I look forward to reading it.
I appreciate what you do.
Keep being bold.
Appreciate that, Pete.
And by the way, stop by any time.
We'd love to have you here.
These are important stories.
People need to hear it.
Check out the book, guys.
The War on Warriors.
Pete Hegseth, a warrior himself.
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