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Dec. 2, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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Live from the Pentagon: Department of War Responds to Narco Terrorist Strikes Story
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Does the Secretary's office or the Pentagon in general department have a message for Senator Wicker, who as a Republican has now backed this inquiry into Secretary Hagsteth, again, accusing him of war crimes?
It seemed strange to see a Republican going after one of President Trump's own cabinet members.
So I can confirm that the Secretary of War spoke with Senator Wicker and they had a good conversation where he was able to explain to him a lot of the rationale behind these strikes.
And we work closely with all of our partners on the Hill, whether Republican or Democrat, to keep them up to date on what this department is doing in regards to the strike.
So we will continue to do that and we'll continue to brief members of HASC and SASC and we look forward to continuing those relationships.
Quick follow-up.
You mentioned working with partners on the Hill.
Another senator on the Hill, the Democrat side, is Senator Mark Kelly.
Now we heard some reporting about a possible investigation into him regarding his status as a retired member of the United States Navy, still on pension and therefore still under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
And as such, his membership, you mentioned the seditious six.
Would that be grounds for possibly bringing him back to active service for an investigation for NJP or even a full court martial?
So you're correct.
The Department of War received serious allegations of misconduct against Senator Mark Kelly.
And in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other applicable recommendations and regulations, we're doing a thorough review of all of these allegations.
And the Secretary of War has tasked the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, with doing a thorough review, looking into all of these allegations and providing him an update on December 10th.
So we will have more information to come on that.
If Secretary Phelan were to recommend court martial, that could be an option on the table.
All options are on the table at this moment in time, and we look forward to getting the Secretary of the Navy's review.
And the Secretary of War has been very clear in his statements as well that he takes this extremely seriously and it is unacceptable.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
We are live from the Pentagon, the five-sided puzzle palace here on the banks of the Potomac, Arlington, Virginia.
Today is December 2nd, 2025, Anno Domini.
And we're very honored not only to be here in the Pentagon's facilities, but also joined by the Department of War Press Secretary right now, Kingsley Wilson.
Kingsley, how are you?
I'm doing well.
Thanks for having me on the show.
Well, I appreciate you having us here and I appreciate you setting up the briefing today.
This was the first briefing of the sort of the new Pentagon Press Corps.
How do you think it went?
I think it was fantastic.
You all asked much harder questions than the fake news journalists we used to have here in the Pentagon.
So it was a lot of fun.
I think it was great for the American people to hear from outlets and journalists that they actually follow and read and watch.
And it was an opportunity for the Pentagon, I think, to revisit that promise of transparency that the admin has been talking about since the beginning.
We want to be committed to that.
And we're going to continue these engagements so that the American public, through all of you, can be informed.
Well, I just want to let everyone know that Kingsley handed me my question on a script.
Not kidding, Kitty.
We did not do this Biden style.
This is not Biden's style at all.
This was very much, you know, I was not given any, you know, any parameters or any, you know, oh, you should ask about this or don't ask about that.
And in fact, I think someone asked me at one point, there was staffer who asked me what I was planning to ask, and then I didn't even ask that question anyway.
So, no, there's, there was, and I saw people making accusations of that, and it just wasn't true, just wasn't true at all.
Yeah, definitely not true.
We want to make sure that all of the questions that we are getting are authentic.
And I think the benefit of having the new media that we've got here in the Pentagon Press Corps are that they ask the real questions that Americans want to know the answers to.
So we're able as a department to think on our feet and make sure that we get you guys all the relevant information.
But there was absolutely no planned questions today.
I was surprised by all of your amazing questions.
And, you know, some we can't answer due to operational security reasons, some we can, but we're committed to providing as much information as possible.
Well, and I think we broke a little news today with particularly, by the way, not only on what you said about Kelly and the senator and potential investigation, what the status of that is, but also about this phone call between Secretary Heg Seth and Senator Wicker.
Yes, I can confirm that they spoke.
I know you asked about that in the briefing.
And it was a good conversation.
The Secretary felt good about it.
We've been really trying to keep all of the members of Congress informed about these strikes as much as we are able.
We want to make sure that that's a good working relationship on both sides of the House with Republicans and Democrats.
So we'll continue to do that.
We've briefed Congress now, department-led briefing-wise, 18 times since these strikes have begun, and there's been 21 strikes.
So we have regularly been briefing Congress on what's going on, and we want to make sure that we're keeping them up to date so that they know everything that's going on is in the best interest of their constituents, the American people.
Now, can you tell us, was that roundabout when that call was?
Was that last night?
Was that prior?
It was the evening before Caroline's briefing.
Okay, so it was right about when the story broke.
Correct, yes.
And then, and you said it was generally well received.
But that being said, is it your understanding that they are continuing forward with their inquiry?
That I don't know.
That would probably be a better question for Wicker.
But what I can tell you is that we're making sure that from our purview, all of our Congress members who have questions about these strikes, who need additional briefing about these strikes, that we're able to provide that information to them and to the American public.
That's why it's so important to do briefings like we did today and release the strike videos like we've been doing.
I think, you know, it's really historic these strikes and the fact that we're declassifying so much and releasing these videos.
I think it really speaks to the transparency that we're trying to pursue here at the department to make sure that, you know, the American people can feel confident our success in the Southcom region is true.
Well, and, you know, I would, I, you know, I'd recommend to the mainstream media that they could just watch Human Events Daily because you've been coming on here, providing us the video and answering questions about them really since the start of these operations.
So, you know, when I read some of these videos or some of these articles, I said, we talked about that weeks ago, and you guys are just now catching up to where we are.
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The Department of War, the Pentagon, the five-sided puzzle palace here on the banks of the Potomac.
Very honored to be sitting down with the Department of War Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.
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Right, right.
It's not an exciting deal.
I have to ask, I have to ask, do you guys check the Pentagon pizza tracker?
Yes, we have laughed about that account so many times.
It's actually sometimes accurate, which is very funny.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Not all the time.
Not all the time.
Sometimes.
Sometimes it just means we're here working late for no special reason at all.
Had something about President Trump's Oval Office schedule, which, you know, of course, it's somewhat public in terms of his hours.
And they said that most days he's there about 12 hours.
I saw that.
Yeah, that's crazy.
There are definitely a lot of people working crazy long hours in this building as well.
So sometimes they need some pizza.
Right.
So it's just accurate to the fact that people are working.
Yes, 100%.
This building never shuts down.
Even over, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas, there are always people here.
Our enemies don't get to go on holiday break, right?
So we're always here, always protecting the American people.
The mission never stops.
Well, and they have separate holidays to begin with.
So, you know, no, no Thanksgiving.
We have some guys who work on the show that are from Canada.
So I always say, ah, you guys don't get Thursday off.
So a lot of questions, of course, today about Venezuela as well.
Were you expecting that from this?
Because we were told going in, and I read the Washington Post, I read the Legacy Media, they say, oh, this is going to be lapdogs.
They're going to be sycophants.
There's going to be no serious questions.
But you did get a lot of serious questions, I think, on the Venezuela question.
This is something where, you know, when I reach out to our audience and I see, by the way, guys, send in 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.
What do you think the U.S. should do in Venezuela?
And the audience is very split.
Maduro, narco-trafficking, and other people say get out of it completely.
From the Pentagon's perspective, though, and you mentioned it's really more about providing optionality to the decision makers.
100%.
So our job here at the Department of War is to make sure the president has every single option available to him so he can make an informed decision.
So when we get down there, we assess the environment, we make sure that we can provide best military advice and recommendations to him.
But ultimately, he's going to be the one who's going to make a decision about what we do in regards to Venezuela or any ongoing part of our operations in the Western Hemisphere.
So we'll continue to provide him options.
And I think that's been a big part of moving our assets into the region, right?
We brought the Ford Carrier, the carrier strike group down to the Caribbean.
It's there now.
It's the first time in recent memory that that's happened.
And what that does is provide the president a lot of options.
And it provides us opportunities to execute if called upon, right?
If the president wants us to do something at a moment's notice, we're going to be able to follow through on that order very, very quickly.
So that's important for this department to always be ready.
The secretary likes to say nobody waits on the Department of War.
So that's really our approach in the Southcom region for sure.
And to your earlier point, I was really impressed by all of the very tough, very detailed questions that the new Pentagon Press Corps asked.
They were impressive.
The lamestream media was honestly very lazy and they would just ask a lot of regurgitated questions that they maybe saw on Morning Joe that morning about, you know, why are you racist?
Why do you hate DEI?
Just stupid questions the American public doesn't care about anymore.
This was the real nitty-gritty hard facts that the Pentagon Press Corps today asked about.
And that was very impressive.
Well, I mean, I think it's just, you know, coming from my background as a Navy officer, you know, I know that, you know, carry strike group, you had 5,000 sailors just on the carrier itself, not to mention the entire complement of supporting destroyers, cruisers, the air wing, the submarines, et cetera, and all the supply ships and all the rest that you would need.
One thing that actually, and one of my sort of pocket questions that I was thinking about asking just as a guy who's worked in naval warfare is we saw these, and I'm sure it's something you're tracking.
We saw these strikes on oil tankers in the Black Sea that were conducted by Ukraine using UUVs recently.
Is that something, a new threat vector that the department is tracking besides this use of drone warfare against, and by the way, not just the aircraft carrier, but even the supply ships, tankers, et cetera, everything else?
Yeah, absolutely.
We're tracking everything.
That's our job too, in terms of being prepared, is making sure that emerging technologies, we have the best and that we're watching how warfare is happening today.
I think we've learned a lot from just watching the Ukraine-Russia war, especially in terms of drones.
And that's really informed a lot of our focus going forward.
We've launched a lot of initiatives and a lot of investment we've poured into drone manufacturing.
We really want to get fantastic at it and be the best of all of the countries so that we can protect the American people.
So we're learning so much from watching that engagement.
And we'll continue to make sure that all across the world, we're taking notes, we're learning, and we're helping our warfighters get the most lethal weapons they can possibly have into their hands and quickly.
That's something we've really been pushing for as well.
The Secretary gave a great acquisition speech recently talking about reforming that acquisitions process.
There's so much red tape.
I know I don't have to tell you, you're in the military.
No, no, I know.
It's crazy.
Well, that was the other one is the shipbuilding.
Yes.
Because, you know, we look at it in terms of our Navy and the lack of ships that we have.
I think we're less than half where we were during Reagan's Navy during that buildup.
And yet we have a larger force posture around the world and more missions that we're either taking on or at least different parts of the sea that we're, whether it be Somalia, whether it be East China, East China Sea, where the Navy's involved.
And yet we don't have the ships, the icebreakers, et cetera.
Yeah.
And we've even seen the Army launch its Army Transformation Initiative and really just cut a lot of red tape, cut a lot of bloat.
And I think that's a recognition that we're going to have to be putting a lot more funding in the future towards the Navy, towards shipbuilding, right?
We're going to have threats in the Indo-Pacific potentially that we need to counter.
We obviously have a ton of Navy assets.
I think 20% of our naval assets right now are in the Southcom region in the Caribbean.
That's very historic.
So we recognize that this is going to become a lot of sea warfare in the future, and we want to be prepared for that.
And I mean, it's certainly always been America's preeminent domain.
I mean, in addition to, you know, air and army, but our ability to project force on the sea.
It's why I joined the Navy, quite frankly.
It's, you know, no offense to the other branches.
The president always says that, doesn't he?
I would have joined the Navy.
I would have been an admiral.
That's right.
I don't always bring that up because I don't want to rub it in anyone's faces, but I have heard him say that a few times.
Just kind of think in the back of my head that, no, no, if you're looking at what the United States, because look, the United States is, you know, we have our, we're on an island, basically, disconnected from the rest of the world.
And that's why, you know, whether it be the Panama Canal, whether it be the GI UK gap, what by Greenland, whether it be our, of course, our naval borders and what is part and parcel of that, you have the Gulf of America and then the entire Caribbean.
That's why it's so important to secure this because that is our actual best defense as a nation.
100%.
100%.
And I know people like to talk about too, how in the fake news media, they like to talk about, oh, we're putting the homeland before China.
That's absolutely not true.
We're doing both at the same time.
China is all over the Western Hemisphere.
They're all over the Panama Canal.
The Secretary, when he went down to the Panama Canal, talked about that threat and talked about, you know, no longer will China control this canal.
We are going to make sure that American ships, military vessels have first and free navigation.
Well, all the elites across the entire Caribbean are learning Mandarin right now.
Whether you look at Trinidad or you look at GoAf of right off the coast of Venezuela, if you go everywhere, the Chinese are in every single spot.
And I remember going and trying to brief this to a variety of entities in Washington, D.C.
And I said, I wonder if it will take the People's Liberation Army, Navy building a military base in the Caribbean, either off the coast of Cuba or somewhere else, for people to actually wake up and start taking this seriously.
Yeah, it's definitely something that President Trump has always taken seriously and something that this department will continue to take seriously.
And I think the biggest thing we can do to protect the American people from all the threats we face, like you said, is to make sure our homeland is secure.
That's really where it all starts.
If we don't have a nation, what are we even defending?
So securing our border has been a huge part of that.
There's nobody crossing the southern border.
We've got a lot of border patrol down there working with our troops.
We've got almost 10,000 troops down there, I think, now.
So it's fantastic.
And now we're going even further, right, to make sure that narco-terrorists in the Gulf of America and across our shores can no longer threaten our people.
So homeland defense is really how we make sure that America is kept safe.
Yeah, and what we're going towards break, and I suppose I'll have to ask you a little bit more about that narco-terrorist threat.
We have one more segment, right?
Yeah, that's how that works.
And we'll hit that because let's just say that in a previous life, I know a little bit about the drone warfare program and even Admiral Bradley, believe it or not.
Oh, okay.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Navy, right?
Yeah, there you go.
You know, so I'll just say I read that Washington Post piece a little bit differently than I think most people in media because I actually have a tiny bit of a background in that.
And for once, I have to say I agreed a little bit more with the New York Times.
So did I. Jack Posobiec, the Department of War episodes.
These are influencers.
And they're friends of mine.
Jack Bisovic.
All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are live human events daily, the Pentagon episodes.
We're here with Department of War Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson.
By the way, thank you, I should say, for letting us occupy.
We've occupied the Pentagon and we've occupied your studio to use our show today.
We're happy to have you.
Yeah, no, anytime.
Oh, I really appreciate that.
All right.
You might not appreciate my next question because so, you know, look, I asked you about the Senator Wicker question, but, you know, this situation regarding these strikes that took place off the shore of Venezuela, this question about, you know, the order to strike survivors, questions about legality.
Was this something that you were expecting coming from, you know, starting these operations?
I know you and I have been on the show talking about them in the past, but really what's been the department's thought process in terms of responding to this specific allegation?
Yeah, so from the beginning, we've been expecting that the mainstream media would attack the operations in some sense, right?
We saw this with Operation Midnight Hammer.
They said, oh, actually, you may not have obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities.
Of course, we did completely without a shadow of a doubt.
And the president said as much multiple times.
The secretary and the chairman said as much multiple times.
But the fake news has such bad TDS that they would rather root against the success of a military operation than admit that President Trump had a resounding victory as commander in chief.
So we anticipated that there would be some mainstream media attacks about these strikes.
And I think that early on took the form of questioning the legality of the strikes.
And it was really interesting for me, especially to see the mainstream media just carry so much water for these narco-terrorists and really defend cartel members who are trafficking illegal narcotics to our country to kill Americans instead of our brave warriors who are out there doing the tough work, our intel analysts who are out there doing the tough work, making sure that the American people are kept safe from these threats.
So this is something that we anticipated at the department.
To your point, the last time I had you on the show, I specifically asked you this question regarding actual VBSS operations and sending troops onto those boats, potentially for capture, potential, et cetera, et cetera.
And I'll make the same point I made back then where I said, you know, as an intelligence officer, I always want to detain and interrogate.
You know, that's where my mind goes because that's, and having spent time at Gitmo, that's, you know, that's where we get great sources of information for the rest of the Narco network.
That being said, I also understand, and as anyone should, that those are incredibly more dangerous for our, you know, for our special operations forces.
Obviously, it's what they train for.
They're the best of the world, no question.
But it's far more dangerous to ask someone to do that.
And it seems like they're being very glib by just demanding, oh, well, you should just go in and send sailors on those boats.
Right.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
And the president was talking about this a little bit with the Secretary of War in the cabinet meeting I was watching just before I came in here.
And the Secretary was making the point that thanks to President Trump designating these groups as designated terrorist organizations, the kid gloves have come off.
Biden let narco-terrorists into our country through our southern border, gave them free health care, free phones, free housing.
Now we're sinking their boats and they're at the bottom of the ocean.
So that sends a message, right, to all across the region that if you are a narco-trafficker who wants to bring poison into our country to kill Americans, we are going to come after you and we're going to kill you.
That is on the table.
So these lethal kinetic strikes, I think, have been incredibly effective too, in terms of sending a message to the cartels that we're here.
This is not the previous administration.
We mean business.
You know, I forget if I mentioned this to you or not, but I was in a debate with the libertarian presidential candidates last year and Ryan Grimm from Dropsite News, who's not a fan of drone strikes whatsoever.
I kind of like him, though.
And because he's consistent, I'll give him that.
He's very consistent.
He's always been against them.
And he was the moderator.
And I had said, you know, well, what would be a better policy of the war on, you know, the war on drugs?
And I said, well, if we actually wage war on decartels and we just bomb them.
And, you know, it's very interesting that it seems like for a certain range of people, they can't even quite wrap their heads around actually using the military to directly defend the interests of the American people.
Well, that's what's so interesting.
When I would talk with journalists from the former Pentagon Press Corps, they exactly what you said had a really hard time wrapping their head around the fact that these individuals are terrorists.
And it's funny because the same people for decades cheered on 20 years of war in the Middle East, right?
They had no problem going after those terrorists.
But now that we're going after people in our own hemisphere and protecting our own borders and our own shores, they're suddenly very concerned about it.
And I'm not sure where these concerns are coming from.
Your point.
There's a viral clip I retweeted earlier today.
We didn't pull it up for the show where it's Senator Mark Kelly himself is talking about the strikes that were conducted.
It was this retaliatory strike to the Abbey Gate bombing, but it ended up being completely wrong.
And they hit a family.
It was horrible.
It was civilians.
And yet he doesn't seem to have any real problem whatsoever with this.
And wow, you did what you had to do.
And you're like, wait, is that the same guy who's freaking out just because Pete Hegseth is doing it?
But not just that.
It's not just that as Secretary Hayeseth.
I think it has something to do with the theater of operations.
Yes, I think 100%.
I think there was a lot of neoconservative, mainstream media, big business interest in endless war in the Middle East.
And we really focused on that to the detriment of our own country and our own borders.
And President Trump was really the first to come and say, no, we're going to reprioritize the homeland.
We're going to put America first.
And that has been a total shift of approach for this department and for, I think, the administration writ large.
So it's definitely been an adjustment for some of those folks on the hill, like Mark Kelly that you mentioned.
A little bit.
You know, the Unit Party does not like actually having to act in the interests of the American people.
Kings Wilson, I know I'm not going to try to book you for another live segment while we're here.
I know you have places to go, things to do, people to see.
And I just want to say I appreciate it very much the opportunity to be here, obviously to use the facilities and just the opportunity to ask questions and get that kind of transparency back and forth.
Yeah, well, we look forward to more questions from you.
And we're excited that you're here.
Don't worry.
We know they are.
I will not tell you in advance either.
No, I would not want you to.
I will not be the president tweeting out clear the airspace above Venezuela before.
Well, nothing.
I do.
Oh, wait.
Actually, one final question while I'm here.
Do you have a favorite Franklin the Turtle book?
That's a good question.
I can't remember any of the different ones, but I do remember the General Franklin the Turtle from when I was a kid.
But I hear there's new ones that are coming out about narco-terrorists.
New ones that are very good.
By the way, I was looking into that book.
They're super woke.
So did you see the publisher statement?
But go look at the books they've been publishing.
Just the Queer History for Children.
Oh, my goodness.
I'm dead serious.
That's the type of people that are putting them out.
Kings Wilson, absolutely.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for letting us occupy your studio.
Absolutely.
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