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Jan. 8, 2026 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec

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MINNEAPOLIS MAYHEM, MAHA WINS, OIL OPS

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	We're cabinet-level officials and related officials in our government, and we kept this operation secret for a very long time.
	I'm very proud of that.
	I think it suggests that the team works very well together.
	Looking ahead, what is my role?
	Look, my role is going to be whatever the president asks me to do.
	Well, every single, or I should say every other day, I'm chairing the meeting that we do on this among White House principals to talk about next steps to try to ensure that Venezuela is stable.
	And as the president has directed us to do, to ensure that the new Venezuelan government actually listens to the United States and does what the United States needs it to do under our country's best interest.
	So I'm going to be as involved as the president wants me to be.
	So far, that's been very involved, and I'll keep on doing that so long as the president asked me to do it.
	Mr. Vice President, even Iran, the war powers is a leader.
	We'll go purple and then we'll go wherever that is in front.
	Are there any indications you talked about the network?
	Are there any indications that the lady who was shot?
	I know there are different reports from there.
	Her wife said they were new to the area.
	Are there any indications she may have been a paid agitator and maybe that there are others that were brought to the area considering everything that's going on in Minneapolis?
	I wouldn't say that she was paid.
	I don't have the evidence to say that one way or the other.
	What I do know is that she was violating the law.
	And if you just look at the eyewitness accounts, they were saying she was there to prevent the enforcement of the law.
	She was trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation.
	That much is obviously clear.
	The rest of it, of course, is part of the reason why we investigate this stuff.
	Yes.
	Mr. Vice President, even beyond the war powers resolution today, Congress has bucked President Trump on issues like tariffs.
	Are you concerned that President Trump is losing his grip on Republicans and Congress?
	And what are you going to do about it?
	No, I'm not concerned at all.
	First of all, you know, we talked to some of the senators who were going to vote the wrong way in my view on this resolution today.
	Much of their argument was based more on a legal technicality than any disagreement in policy.
	If you look at the people who actually voted, every single one of them have supported the administration's plan.
	Second of all, as the president, I believe himself has already said, every president, Democrat or Republican, believes the War Powers Act is fundamentally a fake and unconstitutional law.
	It's not going to change anything about how we conduct foreign policy over the next couple of weeks, the next couple of months.
	And that'll continue to be how we approach things.
	Go ahead.
	Thank you very much, Vice President.
	So we are seeing regarding Iran, we are seeing the protests in Iran these days.
	The cities are begging for help from the U.S. and Israel, naming streets in the city after President Trump.
	It seems there is an opportunity here that may not come again.
	Will the United States stand by the citizens of Iran and if Israel decides to strike again the nuclear sites in Iran, is the U.S. expected to take part?
	Well, look, we certainly stand by anybody who's engaged in peaceful protests, anybody who's trying to exert their rights for free association and to have their voices heard.
	Obviously, the Iranian regime has a lot of problems.
	And as the President of the United States has said, the smartest thing for them to have done, it was true two months ago, it's true today, is for them to actually have a real negotiation with the United States about what we need to see when it comes to their nuclear program.
	I'll let the president speak to what we're going to do in the future.
	But we certainly stand with anybody across the world, including the Iranian people, who are advocating for their rights.
	I'll take just a couple more questions.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President.
	Concerning Venezuela, how would you assure the Caribbean region that they will remain a zone of peace?
	Because some member states in the region are concerned.
	Well, look, the president had a very productive phone call with the president of Colombia yesterday, and we continued to talk at all levels of government with a number of our friends in the Caribbean region.
	I actually think this is really good for peace in the Caribbean because when you take away a major source of illegal cartel revenue, which is the cocaine trade, the fentanyl trade, other sources of illicit revenue, you actually remove the power of one of the main destabilizing forces in Latin America and in the Caribbean.
	I really do think, look, we say it all the time, this is the president of peace.
	One of the ways that you establish peace in your own hemisphere is to make it clear that the United States is going to be respected, that the United States is willing to take power away from criminal cartel organizations and give it to legitimate governments.
	That's how we see the future of the Western Hemisphere, and we think it's going to be much more peaceful than it was, certainly under Joe Biden.
	I'll take one more question before we go ahead.
	Mr. Vice President, thank you.
	On Greenland, do you have a message for European leaders?
	Many in Europe reject the idea that the island can be forsaken.
	Well, first of all, Secretary Rubio, I believe, is meeting with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland next week.
	I want to say it is, but maybe it's the week after that.
	We'll continue to deliver some of these messages in private, some of them in public, but I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the President of the United States seriously.
	What has he said about Greenland?
	Set to the side the crazy overreactions that I've seen from the press and from certain people in Europe.
	What has the president said?
	Number one, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense, but to the world's missile defense.
	Number two, we know that there are hostile adversaries that have shown a lot of interest in that particular territory, that particular slice of the world.
	So what we're asking our European friends to do is to take the security of that landmass more seriously, because if they're not, the United States is going to have to do something about it.
	What that is, I'll leave that to the president as we continue to engage in diplomacy with our European friends and everybody on this particular topic.
	And again, thank you all for listening.
	Thanks for taking questions.
	And I just ask you: look, this is politics, and often Republicans and get in arguments with the press about things.
	I understand that.
	I think it's really irresponsible for you guys to go out there and imply or tell the American people that a guy who defended himself from being rammed by an automobile is guilty of murder.
	Be a little bit more careful.
	We're going to talk about toning down the temperature, which I know the president wants to do, and I certainly want to do.
	One of the ways we tone down the temperature is to have a media that tells the truth.
	I encourage you all to do that.
	God bless you.
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	Christ is king.
	President Trump says he wants to slam the door on Wall Street investors buying single-family homes.
	Trump announcing plans to ban institutional investors from snatching up real estate and driving up housing prices, saying for a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream.
	That American dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people.
	A woman in Minneapolis is dead after an ICE-involved shooting.
	President Trump has weighed in.
	He wrote, I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis.
	It is a horrible thing to watch.
	The woman screaming was obviously a professional agitator.
	And the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense.
	The situation is being studied in its entirety.
	But the reason these incidents are happening is because the radical left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis.
	Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on federal officers by the ramming of vehicles.
	Three of them happened here in Minneapolis.
	We've seen over 100 of these vehicle rammings happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.
	In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June.
	He sustained injuries at that time as well.
	My primary responsibility as governor is the protection of the people of Minnesota.
	And you can be assured whether it's the state patrol or whether it's the National Guard, their deployment is there to protect Minnesotans from whatever it is.
	If it's an act of nature, if it's a global pandemic, or in this case, if it is a rogue.
	In accordance with President Trump's directive, Brooke and I will release the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025 to 2030.
	The most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.
	These guidelines replace corporate-driven assumptions with common sense goals and gold standard scientific integrity.
	These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation's food culture and make America healthy again.
	Today, the Trump administration is proud to announce the United States of America's updated childhood vaccine schedule.
	This schedule is rooted in the gold standard of science and widely agreed upon by scientists and experts all over the world.
	Effective today, America will no longer require 72 jabs for our beautiful, healthy children.
	We are moving to a far more reasonable schedule where all children will only be recommended to receive vaccinations for 11 of the most serious and dangerous diseases.
	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
	We're here live in Washington, D.C. Today is January 8th, 2026.
	Anno Domini.
	I knew I would get the 26 eventually.
	I nailed it today.
	I just want to pat myself on the back a little bit there.
	I'm not going to, don't worry, I stretched.
	I stretched before I did that.
	No, so we just saw JD Vance go in there, full buck wild, full hillbilly energy, as we like to call it around here, defending the ICE agents against this lawlessness that we saw in Minneapolis.
	Look, we don't want anything violent to happen.
	We don't want anything like that to happen at all.
	But the best way to do that is simply to tone down the rhetoric, to tone down the activism.
	And these agitators, they were following ICE.
	They were harassing them.
	They were blocking traffic.
	And the same agent had been drugged himself earlier in the year, earlier in the administration.
	So it's been crazy to see the response for all that.
	And we're going to go to a special live report from the ground in Minneapolis.
	We're also going to be talking to a use of force expert, self-defense expert, coming up in a little bit to walk us through what that means.
	But earlier today, I had the opportunity to take part in an incredible forum, a panel, and an event over at the Department of Health and Human Service put on by Secretary Bobby Kennedy himself, RFK Jr., all about the new dietary guidelines, the new vaccine schedule, everything that they're doing over there.
	And we're so excited that sitting down, joining us here live in studio is Callie Means, the new senior advisor, if I understand correctly, over at the Department of Health.
	Thanks for being here.
	Oh, it's great to be here.
	Big day.
	Big day.
	So what can you tell us about, we've seen the new, do we call it the inverted pyramid, the Maha Pyramid?
	The new pyramid, the new pyramid.
	The new period.
	Okay, well, go with new pyramid.
	I like Maha Pyramid.
	That might work.
	That might work.
	So we've seen the new period.
	It's totally inverted.
	And I've gone through it a little bit.
	My wife, Tanya Tay, she was there at the event.
	She loves it.
	She absolutely loves the way that you're framing all of it.
	But something that's really interested to me is that we are not seeing the type of backlash that we kind of thought that we would be seeing from a lot of different groups out there.
	And in fact, surprisingly, a lot of the main health groups in America have come out and endorsed it.
	How did you guys get that done?
	At the highest level, this guidance from the Trump administration, we believe is the most significant public health guidance in modern history.
	We are the sickest country in the developed world.
	Every mom watching knows, you walk into a classroom, we have five times higher obesity rates than any other developed country.
	We have 38% of teens as pre-diabetic.
	There's something very wrong happening.
	Every mom knows that's because of the American diet.
	And the reason I think we're seeing such resonance, you go on social media, you see such excitement about these guidelines, is because finally an administration had the ability and had the courage.
	And this was led directly from President Trump to his directives to Secretary Rowlands at the USDA and Secretary Kennedy.
	He said, I want Americans to know the truth.
	And this document is very simple.
	It's a simple statement, but it's a radical statement.
	Eat real food.
	And the headlines from this document is we should fill our plate with whole food grown by American farmers.
	And we should cut added sugar.
	We should cut highly processed crap.
	That's the majority of school lunch right now.
	That's the majority of kids food right now.
	And we should cut added sugar.
	So highly refined carbohydrates, highly processed food, added sugar.
	These are very simple points.
	But the key is, and the reason this is so radical and the reason this is so important, the USDA spends $400 million a day on food procurement.
	There's hundreds of billions of dollars a year that the federal government spends on food.
	The majority of that funding, the majority of those hundreds of billions of dollars, food for our soldiers, for our kids, for SNAP, it goes to junk food.
	The number one item on SNAP is sugary drinks.
	The number three item is potato chips.
	It's crazy.
	And by the way, I just can remember having served in the military when we would get MREs, when we would get food on the ship in the Navy, you're getting this stuff.
	And you could tell, I'll put it this way.
	It was not what I was expecting would be coming from a government mess hall or a galley or a DFAC.
	Our farmers have been shafted and big multinational food companies have seen military food, they see it as a piggy bank.
	Okay, this is not a funding problem.
	We spend a lot in America on food procurement.
	It's been a political will problem.
	But when you have SNAP, when you have $10, $15 billion of SNAP, just go to soda companies.
	This is a very, the dietary guidelines are a huge procurement document.
	And because of the Maha Moms, because of President Trump, because of the courage of Secretary Rowlands and Secretary Kennedy, they said no to the junk food companies.
	They said we are going to put a mantle in the ground for real food and make sure our soldiers make sure our kids make sure our veterans at our VA hospitals get good American food.
	And this is going to have massive, massive impacts on the affordability and really the nutrition of food served.
	I'll just say one thing, talking to many members of the military, there's been this war that we have absolutely ended with this guidance.
	There's been a war on fat.
	They basically said if you don't eat saturated fat, you're going to be healthy.
	And that led to the preponderance of refined carbohydrates, which has been a disaster.
	We've ended that war, but it's actually led until today.
	You can't actually serve steak to soldiers because of this denigration of fat.
	Because it's too much.
	Soldiers are emailing us.
	They're like, we're eating soyburgers, right?
	They're literally serving the soldiers, you know, beyond meat or, you know, just fake artificial crap.
	And they're not allowed.
	It's not a funding issue.
	They have been prevented, the military procurement, from reaching out to American ranchers and putting steak on the soldier's plate.
	So for all the enlisted members watching, we are going to be getting more steak on your plate.
	We are going to be getting more high-quality protein on a child's plate.
	We are going to be getting whole grains, fruits, vegetables.
	I mean, this is basic stuff.
	But no administration in the history of modern American civilization has had the ability to stand up to the big food companies, say, your time is over.
	We're going to recommend whole food.
	We're going to recommend real food.
	And we're going to work.
	And this is happening starting today.
	And the U.S. government is getting whole food to government compared to the people.
	And what's so key here is that people don't realize, sure, you see the inverted pyramid.
	We all love it.
	Can't wait to see that in schools, by the way.
	But what's so key, and this is what, you know, certainly I didn't understand when I was a kid, you know, seeing the original pyramid, et cetera, is that, and what I do understand having worked in the government, is that the guidelines set the money.
	The guidelines are what all of these procurers, all the S, you know, the special, you know, the special service, all the GS employees have to go on.
	When they go for their procurement, they have to match it to the guidelines.
	So the guidelines set the way the government contracts and the government money is spent.
	There's two principles that the administration has with Maha.
	Americans want to be healthy.
	This is a free country.
	They should make their own decisions.
	But the U.S. government does have a responsibility to tell Americans the truth, and they have a responsibility to spend money efficiently.
	So there's two big, I think, successes and important parts of this dietary guidelines.
	Number one is it is important what the federal health authorities say to the American people.
	And growing up, I think, you know, us as kids, my mom thought she was doing the right thing by giving us the crackers, the low-fat stuff, the refined carbohydrates.
	And they were, you know, we were an educated family.
	We were trying to do the right thing.
	My mom ended up getting a metabolic addition, cancer very tied to food, died.
	And I saw your tweet about that.
	And we really do.
	She's pretty diabetic, dealt with obesity.
	I mean, this is the average American.
	Americans are dying much younger than people in any other development.
	In the country, you know what, actually, just thinking back to my memory on this, is the thing that made me start to question whether or not the science, the experts, all of this had it straight was eggs.
	And do you remember this?
	Because I couldn't tell: are eggs good for me or are they not good for me?
	And it felt like they couldn't make up their mind and they said, eggs are bad for you.
	Then eggs are good for you.
	Then only part of the egg was good for you.
	And now it's like, no, actually, it's just eggs are good for you.
	The fact that the elite medical groups have been suggesting eggs or high-quality protein is the problem with American health is a scandal.
	I mean, you've had these groups funded by food companies, funded by pharmaceutical companies.
	You mentioned at the beginning, I think this is very positive, the White House extended an open hand to groups that have made big mistakes in the past, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is suing Bobby Kennedy on many others, suing the administration.
	We welcomed them to the White House, and to their credit, they came in, they acknowledged that we have lost our way, and they have put out statements commending the courage, commending the bravery of the Trump administration.
	And we made it very clear to them, and we're going to be working in very good faith.
	And everyone watching, the Trump administration has extended an open hand to every medical group, to people across the political aisle.
	We have to solve this issue.
	And yes, the food procurement is huge.
	Hundreds of billions of dollars of government procurement is going to be impacted by this document.
	If you're a mom watching with a child in school who eats one of those 45 million meals a day that's funded by the federal government, those meals are going to improve as this gets implemented.
	If you're an enlisted military member, you're going to see better food on your plate.
	It's going to have real-world impacts.
	But most importantly, we are shipping this pyramid to every single school in America.
	And we hope to change the culture for kids, for parents, like my mom, thinking the low-fat was the right way to go.
	The right way to go is eating real food, protein, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and a little bit of whole grains.
	That's the message of this document.
	And I think one of the great legacies of the Trump administration is that we are going to turn this around, improve the American diet, and that's the key to really getting our budget under control.
	You know, food-based illnesses, about 40% of U.S. tax dollars just go to paying health care on chronic conditions.
	That's exactly what we do.
	We do this calculation.
	15% of issues that other parts of the world simply don't have.
	You look at Europe or other, and I always bring this up, just, and I don't try to be like, yeah, yeah, but my wife is from Europe, and each of your specifically, they have issues, of course, but not these issues.
	These issues are things that are totally foreign to them because they just eat real food.
	I was in Italy recently.
	I love the Italians, but they live seven years longer.
	They're all healthier.
	And I look at that, I'm like, Americans aren't worse people than Italians.
	We're not lazier than Italians.
	The statement from the Trump administration this week is: Americans are doing well.
	They want to be healthy.
	They don't want to be sick.
	The government has let them down.
	The government has not told them the truth.
	And that's been corrected.
	And I think these guidelines, the courage of them, the courage to stand up against special interests, stand for American farmers, really revise common sense things that have been backwards for decades.
	It just shows to me what the administration is doing on every front.
	President Trump sits at his desk and calls the cabinet secretaries.
	I see this, and he says, go big, go hard, I've got your back.
	And for the first time, a president with the dietary guidelines, which, as you noted, it is one of the most important procurement documents in the federal government.
	Hundreds of billions of dollars flow from this document.
	It is so lobbied.
	There's so many calls coming to the White House on this.
	President Trump says, do what's right.
	Well, this was the story.
	This was the story of the original food pyramid that everybody thought, oh, there's the pyramid.
	These are the top, this is at the bottom, this is what you eat the most of.
	But it then came out that the way it was constructed wasn't doctors and dietitians and nutrition all sitting down together.
	No, it was massive lobbying efforts.
	Yeah, and unfortunately, that legacy of corporate-funded research was represented in the Biden nutrition report that we got.
	And people are asking the press, why did we turn over the Biden Nutrition Report?
	The majority of the people who wrote that report had conflicts of interest with big food companies.
	And the report in 2024-2025 did not call out added sugar, did not call out highly processed food, which is 70% of a child's diet.
	You want to talk about the difference between us and Europe?
	70% of a kid's diet is ultra-processed crap in the United States, and it's 10% in France, Spain, and Germany.
	That is the core difference.
	And the Biden document, heavily corporate influenced, did not have the bravery to call that out.
	Additionally, it said the word health equity in a scientific document 178 times.
	What do you do when you get health equity in a scientific document?
	The whole thing was an excuse to keep our crappy food system because it would be against CEI principles to recommend healthier food to lower-income people.
	This document puts a mantle on the ground.
	It says we must have a real food diet.
	We must support farmers with our federal procurement dollars.
	And we have the political will.
	Well, I should mention, by the way, that Secretary Brooke Rollins was right there in full support of it.
	She was there today.
	I didn't mention that.
	She was there.
	And it was just incredible.
	Although I did notice, by the way, that at one point, was there a challenge that went out?
	I think the Department of Agriculture challenged the Department of Health to a dodgeball tournament, apparently.
	Well, we have a massive haul at HHS, so I think they're going to have a dodgeball tournament.
	But I think it's worth noting.
	Secretary Rowland's there just giving incredible comments.
	And the partnership between the entire government, the partnership between HHS and USDA that puts this document together, was historic.
	And Brooks said this, great agriculture policy and great health policy are the same thing.
	When 90% of our healthcare costs in America are tied to diabetes, obesity, really food-based illnesses, the best thing we can possibly do for our country is get more of that money to farmers, get more of that money to real food.
	And we think Americans are ready for this.
	It's been unbelievable to see the reception.
	It's really impossible to criticize.
	I even ran in at the event today.
	There was a soda lobbyist there who said, great job, and we want to work with you guys.
	Like, this document is impossible really to argue with.
	All of us know we have to improve the American diet.
	To their credit, a lot of food companies are working to take sugar out of their food.
	Even Coca-Cola, they're moving more and more to no-calorie beverages.
	Like, society is changing.
	The market is changing.
	But there's a role for the federal government.
	There's a role for the Trump administration to put good public health guidance forward.
	And we should never be sending federal taxpayer dollars to sugary drinks, to Doritos, to ding-dongs.
	That happens right now.
	Snap, you can buy.
	And those companies are great.
	This is a free country.
	Those companies should, I hope they thrive.
	No federal taxpayer dollars.
	That's the message of this document.
	And that's why it's going to have a real world impact.
	So again, this is one representation.
	I know there's a lot of Maha listeners out there, but whether you're tracking this issue closely enough or not, President Trump is doing this throughout the administration.
	He is urging people to go bold.
	He has their back against special interests, and we're doing the right thing.
	I mean, this is just the right thing to do for the American people.
	And I think it's really resonating.
	Amen to that.
	Kelly Means, I can get you on and do, we'll have to do a special where we go into this.
	We have a ton of, unfortunately, we have a ton of other stories to get to today.
	Where can people go to get more information specifically on these guidelines and a follow-up?
	Oh, realfood.gov.
	Joe Gebia, the founder of AirbnbFood.gov.
	It's so founder of Airbnb joined the government and is leading design for the whole government and has designed the greatest government website in history, realfood.gov.
	You're lying at the great government website.
	It's absolutely thinking about the Obamacare.
	Kelly, thank you so much for being here, man.
	I appreciate you spending the time.
	Good, man.
	Thank you.
	All right, folks.
	Callie means go give him a follow.
	Check it out, realfood.gov.
	I want to bring on now, so I'm going to switch gears a little bit.
	We talked a lot about this yesterday, and we got into the specifics of the energy markets, the world energy markets.
	I was drawing on my background as a naval intelligence officer, understanding how world energy flows work.
	And I wanted to bring on Daniel Turner from Power the Future because he's someone who absolutely understands all of this.
	Daniel, how are you?
	Hey, Jack, great to be with you.
	Thanks for having me.
	Hey, good to be back on, man.
	Look, I was thinking of you when I saw this stuff with the Venezuelan, the tanker, all of the oil, all of the energy, the LNG that flows through that North Atlantic.
	The fact that the president and JD Vance, you just heard him talking about Greenland, talking about the tanker.
	What does all of this mean?
	Why is the president so focused on this?
	And what is the role of energy here?
	I think the president understandably sees oil as a huge leverage.
	It's the world's most important asset.
	And we can wish it were otherwise, right?
	There are the folks out there who say the world should run on solar or run on wind, but it doesn't.
	It runs on oil and it runs the world's economy and it runs the world's military.
	Go back almost a decade, that very famous photo of President Trump in Europe where all the European leaders, Macron and Angela Merkel, are leaning across the table, wagging their finger.
	And Trump is on the other side of the table with his arms crossed, right?
	That was the moment that he told them they had to stop buying Russian oil and gas.
	It was making Russia rich.
	And then when Russia gets rich, you're going to come to us to bail out your problems.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	And now they come to us and they say, well, America, you have to clean up the mess we created.
	So President Trump sees oil as preemption, right?
	Let's conquer the oil now.
	Run the world's oil markets, dominate the world oil markets so that then when the bad guys don't engage, you don't come to America and say, now you have to clean up the mess we created.
	Iran invaded Israel with oil on October 7th, right?
	Russia invaded Ukraine with oil.
	Venezuela releases havoc in American cities with oil money.
	So control the oil, control the world.
	And I love the president is this bold and brave on it.
	Well, I think it's incredible.
	Now, talk to me a little bit about, if you can indulge me a little, that North Atlantic Sea route.
	I mean, this is a key route for Northern Oil, isn't it?
	And all LNG.
	It is.
	It's a very important route.
	And that's why Greenland is so important.
	And the Arctic is incredibly crucial.
	We know there's a lot of oil in the Arctic, but we're not sure exactly how much because it is very vast and it is very remote.
	But Russia is engaged very heavily there.
	Norway, of course, is engaged very heavily there.
	So Greenland is strategically important.
	And why would we acquiesce?
	Why would he give up this land and this area to the Russians, to the Chinese who are drilling there when America can dominate this region?
	So yes, it's very important for shipping.
	It's very important for military and space exploration, but it's very important for metals and minerals and oil and gas.
	And again, my earlier point, we can wish we didn't need these things, but that's silly, right?
	Wishing Platonic, you know, that famous Raphael photo in the Vatican of Plato pointing to the way the things should be, but it's not, right?
	Next to him is Aristotle, who's pointing down saying this is reality.
	And reality is oil and gas and rare earths and metals and minerals control the world.
	And if America is a force for good and we control them, then we control the world.
	And that is America first.
	Right.
	And so this is an example right here of we're not saying that, you know, it's that America is going to go and do another Iraq war for oil or that America is going to go do another Afghanistan or one of these things.
	No, it's basic economic leverage.
	It's using economic leverage, but also with that with that little extra taste of, yes, we might use a little group called, oh, I don't know, the United States Navy, the world's finest Navy, by the way, to make sure that everybody out there understands that the rules of the road will be enforced.
	Absolutely.
	And, you know, you can go back about 25 years to a document that the great Milton Friedman put together outlining what should happen in those Gulf states after the invasion, how you can privatize the industries there and how you can build prosperous community and why that would hasten the end of the war and stability.
	Well, you know, you ignore Milton Friedman at your own peril and we didn't do that.
	The Bush administration didn't do that.
	China basically controls Afghanistan at this point.
	You know, President Trump is looking at the- And the Panama Canal.
	China understands that if you want to control the world, all you have to do is control the world's naval choke points, the sea choke points, which is where all the energy of the world flows through.
	So if you control those strategic points, like, oh, I don't know, Greenland, if you, oh, I don't know, the Panama Canal.
	And to your point, Afghanistan, which is, of course, the key terrain right there at the center of the place where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet, this is why it's so important.
	And yet we don't look at it that way.
	We somehow look at it as, oh, well, they're just going to be good players and we can have them in the United Nations and that's certainly going to work.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that's why this blueprint that Milton Friedman designed for us is what we're doing in Venezuela.
	And I love the fact that the president said very clearly: when these companies reimburse themselves, then it will be good for the Venezuelan people.
	This is not charity, where this is not nation building.
	Only America knows how to do this.
	And we've built the world industry.
	It's something that gets under my skin.
	If you know your history, which I know you do, but it was Americans who helped the czar 140 years ago develop his oil industry in Russia.
	It was Americans that built the Middle East's oil industry, Venezuela's oil industry, the entire North Sea industry.
	Americans gave the world this industry, and almost all of those people have used it now against us.
	So I like the fact that we are going back and reclaiming what is ours.
	And through this, we will bring peace and we will bring stability.
	It's really as simple as that.
	You don't have to do the regime change, Iraq war type stuff.
	Daniel Turner, where can people go to follow you in everything that Power of the Future is putting out?
	PowerTheFuture.com, or you can follow me on X at Daniel TurnerPTF.
	Thanks, Jack.
	Thanks so much, Daniel.
	Really appreciate you being there.
	I want to go now to David Zier, who's on the ground in Minneapolis.
	No, he's not dodging Antifa.
	He's actually there to preview some of the work that our Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, is doing on the ground.
	David, how are you?
	I'm great, Jack.
	We just followed Scott Besson over here from the Metropolitan Ballroom on economic accomplishments and going forward and expanding the pocketbooks of the average American in a new golden age, according to him, and all the accomplishments of Trump's first year in office for the economy, like cutting the trade deficit in half.
	But we followed him over here to the Providence Academy K through 12 here, and he is going to be giving a speech on financial literacy through Trump-era economic principles to the ninth graders on up the importance of smart saving,
	strategic investing, and responsible financial decision making and how personal financial and fiscal discipline strengthens the future of the natural economy and empowering America's younger generation to contribute to long-term economic success here in the United States.
	Now, David, we understand that the Secretary is going to be there for a couple of days.
	This new fraud department that's just been opened up by the Department of Justice, do we know if the Secretary will be playing a role specifically in this investigation into the fraud?
	Obviously, he'd be at the Treasury.
	He's got all of IRS underneath him.
	Right.
	Now, he's the acting IRS commissioner, and Breitbart reported that $700 million in cash, what cash was shipped out to Africa, Somalia in particular, and Middle Eastern countries without anybody blinking an eye.
	So he talked about some of that fraud in the Metropolitan Ballroom.
	By the way, he appeared with Charlie Kirk there last April here in Minneapolis.
	But yeah, it's very front and center to them.
	The largest scandal maybe in U.S. history going on here.
	Money laundering, tax fraud in Minnesota.
	And yes, he's taking it head on and he's taken an express interest in there.
	And he wants to know how much of this misused money potentially went back to al-Shabaab.
	You know, maybe the biggest scandal ever.
	Well, thank you so much.
	I really appreciate that, David.
	And we'll go back to you for more.
	I know you'll be covering that for RAV throughout the day, as well as other coverage that'll be going on, not just with Secretary Besson's trip, but also with the riots and the protests that are going on there in Minneapolis.
	We're going to cut to a little bit more of that in a minute.
	I want to go now, though, to another RAV correspondent.
	We have Benny Ray Harmony.
	We've got people all over the place today.
	Benny Ray Harmony is traveling with Secretary Hegseth today on a trip to see the new Arsenal democracy.
	Hey, Jack.
	Yes, we are here at Joint Base Andrews here in Maryland, awaiting Secretary of War Hegsteth to arrive so we can depart to head to California.
	Now, this is the Arsenal of Freedom tour, Jack.
	Now, you know this, being a former service member yourself, the strength that it takes from America to compete on a world stage is astronomical.
	Now, this tour that we are on, we'll be traveling right on this plane behind us today and tomorrow.
	We will be meeting with defense leaders in the industry.
	Now, this evening, we are going to be going to Mets to re-enlist and enlist some recruits where the Secretary of War will be doing that, as well as heading to Divergent Technologies.
	Now, this company creates the AI and the technology behind our tankers and behind our sonic missiles and things like that.
	This technology makes it so efficient to do what we do.
	Now, Jack, I know you talk a lot about Venezuela, a lot about Greenland, and it's important to note in a time like this with what we saw on this trip, we will most likely be getting to see some of those incredible machines that we used against our adversaries just in these past couple weeks.
	So, we will be here on the ground, heading to California, departing DC here shortly.
	Back to you.
	Watch Benny Ray Harmony there, original producer here on Human Events Daily.
	Now, she's traveling with the Secretary of War.
	All right, folks, I wanted to get into, of course, everyone's talking about it: the Minneapolis ICE-related shooting of this agitator who, to my view, appeared to be ramming the agent.
	And I said, guys, clear the decks.
	You got to call one guy, the man who wrote the book on the law of self-defense.
	Well, it is law of self-defense himself, the host of the Andrew Branca show, Andrew Branca.
	How are you, my friend?
	I am awesome, man.
	Living the dream.
	How are you doing?
	I'm doing it.
	I'm doing well.
	Look, I'm sure you knew that I would be calling when all of this came out.
	And I said, just I think you and I got to know each other really through the Kyle Rittenhouse situation, a couple of other cases that you've weighed in on.
	And I wanted to go to you directly to get the go to the horse's mouth for the expert analysis on this video because there's a lot of armchair, you know, Twitter lawyers and ex-lawyers out there, but you're actually an expert in use of force and in the law of self-defense.
	Yeah, so this isn't a complicated legal analysis.
	Anyone telling you that this officer shooting of that driver was unlawful is simply propagandizing people.
	It's a very clear-cut case.
	This woman pointed a deadly weapon at this officer, pointed the wheels of her car at this officer, spun the wheels on the street.
	And it wasn't until that moment that the officer drew his pistol and then she charged her deadly weapon at him from feet away.
	Clearly an imminent threat of deadly force harm.
	The shooting was completely and utterly justifiable.
	So, Andrew, when you talk about the imminence, can you walk us through some of the elements of self-defense and what makes an instance, a use of deadly force, applicable in a self-defense argument?
	Sure.
	So, any claim of self-defense is really pretty straightforward.
	There's only five legal elements that exist, up to five legal elements that exist in any claim of self-defense.
	One, you can't be the unlawful aggressor.
	This officer was not the unlawful aggressor.
	The woman was.
	Second, you have to be facing an imminent threat, meaning not a past threat or a future threat that might never happen, but a threat that's either actually occurring or immediately about to occur.
	Here are the threats of the car.
	The wheels are spinning.
	It's pointed at the officer.
	It's clearly an imminent threat.
	Third, if you're going to use deadly defensive forces, this officer did, you need to be defending against a threat that could kill you or cause you serious bodily injury.
	Not only is that obviously true, this same officer only six months ago was hit by a car driven by an immigration protester.
	He had to get 33 stitches for that injury.
	So he's well aware of the serious bodily injury and death risk here.
	Fourth, Minnesota is one of the 11 states that does impose a generalized legal duty to retreat before you can use force in self-defense.
	But first of all, law enforcement officers are excused from that duty or they wouldn't be able to do their jobs.
	And second of all, you only have a duty to retreat if it's possible to do it with complete safety, which obviously was not the case here.
	And four, your perception of the threat has to both be genuinely believed and objectively reasonable.
	So you're not imagining it.
	It's not something that's something speculative.
	And that's clearly the case here.
	The officer's perception of the deadly force threat here was objectively reasonable.
	All the elements he would require for a claim of self-defense are present, substantial, and the prosecution, any prosecution would have to disprove them beyond any reasonable doubt.
	That's simply not credible here.
	And we can see these videos.
	And in fact, there's some people that I've seen.
	And of course, just people analyzing the video saying that perhaps it was snow or ice on the ground that created this loss of traction when she was spinning the wheels in the first place.
	So it may have been that she was attempting to drive into the officer directly.
	Then she had to chalk the wheels to be able to get that traction.
	And that's why she only side swipes him.
	She may have been able or have been attempting to actually hit him head on, which of course is where he was standing.
	Or she may have been trying to just safely drive away.
	I mean, who knows?
	We can't read her mind, but it doesn't matter from a legal perspective.
	What she was intending to do is completely irrelevant.
	All that matters is the officer's reasonable perception of what was happening.
	Her intent is irrelevant to the legal analysis.
	Well, that's exactly right.
	And to be sure, we've seen a number of these incidents involving ICE agents, including the very same ICE agent.
	Christy Noam, the Secretary of Homeland Security, said there were four just yesterday in Minneapolis.
	Yeah, so this is obviously, this is all orchestrated, of course, completely.
	This is totally spoken.
	Right.
	This is an industrial level type of protest happening.
	And these officers are well aware.
	They're informed every time there's a vehicle ramming or an attempt to do a vehicle ramming.
	And it's not unlawful for them to be able to recognize a pattern.
	So they're not dealing with some isolated individual criminal suspect.
	They're dealing with an organized seditious conspiracy against the federal authority of the United States, which they are tasked with enforcing.
	And they're well aware of this.
	So now, one of the things that I have also heard, and I suppose could come up, you mentioned Minnesota, of course.
	Minnesota is the state that prosecuted and currently has in prison Derek Chauvin.
	So we certainly know that Keith Ellison and the legal infrastructure there is decidedly, just for lack of a better term, they're anti-cop, they're anti-police.
	As Tim Waltz, the governor, mentioned, he said, we are looking at potential charges for the officer.
	What kind of levels of perhaps issues of your federal government versus state government rules of federalism would any of that come into play there?
	Can the state of Minneapolis charge a federal officer here?
	No, they can't.
	So, I mean, I guess technically they could bring a charge if they wanted to, but it would be immediately removed to federal court and the charge would be dismissed.
	The states are not having authority over federal officers in the course of their duties as a federal officer.
	Now, if a federal cop is driving drunk or he's committing some drug offense, obviously that's not within his legal duties.
	He could be prosecuted at the state level for that.
	But if the challenged conduct is conduct he's engaging in within the duties of being a federal law enforcement officer, he is not subordinate to any state governor or any state prosecutor.
	He is answerable to the federal government, period.
	And that's it.
	Right.
	And so, you know, you do have an issue of, you have a different issue of separation of powers.
	You have a different issue of levels of government, of federalism.
	And this is a supremacy clause.
	I was just going to say, the lawyer got there before me.
	I'm the Twitter lawyer here.
	So, yes, this is.
	What is the supremacy clause for the constitutional scholars and the other Twitter lawyers like myself?
	It really, it simply says that if the federal government has law in some area, their federal law is supreme over any conflicting state law.
	That's why, for example, federal officers, FBI agents, they can carry concealed weapons in states where it might not be legal for me to do as a civilian, because the state might have a law against concealed carry.
	That state law has no effect on the federal officer in the conduct of his official duties as a federal officer.
	He doesn't need to get a concealed carry permit from New Jersey to carry a gun concealed in New Jersey as a federal officer.
	So when we hear these things like the mayor of Minneapolis say, ICE, get the F out of our city, or Tim Wald saying, you're not welcome in our state.
	Does that even make sense from a legal standpoint?
	Because the last I checked, both the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota are U.S. territory.
	Yeah, no, it's utterly meaningless from a legal perspective.
	They say these things for purposes of political capital, right?
	They're on the same team as the protesters.
	So they're saying these things so their team will like them.
	But it has zero legal effect.
	Right, it has zero legal effect.
	Andrew, I could go through with this so much more on you with you because, you know, these cases, and you hear people will argue these things over and over and over without even understanding the basic elements of the law.
	If people do want to learn more about the law of self-defense, where can they go to follow you to get your book, which I read cover to cover?
	It's such an easy read.
	And every time one of these things comes up, it will just give you a basic primer to understand what it is that you're looking at.
	The best place to find me is on X or YouTube at TheBranca Show, B-R-A-N-C-A, The Branca Show, and see if you like what I have to say about stuff.
	Go and check it out, folks.
	Go look what he has to say.
	He's got some hot, spicy takes on other things as well.
	But when it comes to law of self-defense, there's no one better than Andrew Branca.
	Thanks so much for joining us, my friend.
	Thanks, man.
	I appreciate it.
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	All right, in our final couple of minutes here, I wanted to go down live because, as promised, we've got the great Nick Sortor is on the ground in Minneapolis.
	Nick, what do you have for us?
	Yeah, well, we have a bunch of people with waving foreign flags out here.
	Plenty of border patrol agents right behind the fence line here on the right.
	It's you've got, it seems like a growing crowd.
	The road is now blocked out here.
	No chance of being able to just get, let me say, there's probably 30 border patrol agents right here right now.
	But I mean, keep in mind, there are thousands of these guys out here.
	And Christy Noam actually said that she's considering sending more to the area because Tim Waltz won't enforce any of the laws out here, won't assist these guys if they call for help because somebody is chasing them erratically down the road, sort of like that woman yesterday from Missouri that was, that ended up, I guess, effing around and finding out, driving around.
	If the local police would have intervened in that, and because she was going the wrong way down one-way streets, doing 60 and a 25, and that's a local police issue.
	If they would have intervened and pulled her over, she'd still be alive today.
	I'm just saying.
	Well, so when you're digging into this, you were out there yesterday, you're out there again today.
	What more have you learned about the woman, about this group that was out there?
	Because we're hearing that the same agent was drugged before.
	We're hearing there were four incidents throughout the day.
	This seems to be, for my mind, staged, coordinated, orchestrated.
	Yeah, that also, the other part that came out about her wife being there on the scene, just happened to be standing there outside of the vehicle filming when the entire thing happened.
	How did she get to that point?
	Why was she outside of the vehicle filming?
	You're like, so what's the story behind that?
	How did she get out of the car that quickly?
	And it's almost like this was a coordinated effort.
	They were trying to create some sort of content with a confrontation with ICE.
	However, I don't think they believed that that wife would have been stupid enough to run over an ICE agent or attempt to run over an ICE agent and end up with a bullet in her head.
	But they were definitely, definitely attempting to stage some sort of confrontation and a confrontation they got.
	Well, and there's so much, you know, you can comment on this.
	I certainly have been talking about this that, you know, I saw a TikTok video that my friend Cassandra Fairbanks posted up where a woman was saying, oh, I was driving around Charlotte recently, also looking to do the same type of behavior.
	And so they're using, you see these women who are using Instagram, who are using Facebook to reach out to one another saying, hey, go, go and block ICE, go and impede an ICE operations.
	And if you take someone who's never actually faced consequences for anything in your life or had to be held to account for anything and tell them that, oh, this is just another thing you can do for, I don't know, social media clout or something, they may not even realize the severity of their highly illegal and violent actions.
	Right, absolutely.
	And you think a lot of these things have been going on and they've made martyrs out of the people that have rammed ICE vehicles and stuff and touted them as heroes.
	You saw that happening a lot in Chicago, right?
	And a lot of these people were able to get off on these charges as well because they weren't, there was no Chicago jury that would even indict them because, you know, attacks on ICE agents are encouraged.
	And one of the things that they do is they've tainted the jury pools at this point where they coach them through this and tell them that even if the person you know is guilty, you can still nullify it.
	You can still refuse to indict them.
	Just stand your ground and do so.
	You're doing the right thing for the world.
	It's all these usually liberal white women for whatever reason are the easiest to brainwash.
	You know, before I even knew, and I knew pretty quickly, I'm actually the one that broke the story about her being a white U.S. citizen, female, and a lesbian.
	And so we got that out quickly.
	And none of that was surprising, right?
	I don't know what's going on in the white women world, Jack, but somebody needs to do some research into that.
	Yeah, no, I'll hit you up offline about that because I've been, let's just say that I know someone who is conducting some very, very close research on that right now.
	But again, at the same time, this is an act of violence against federal law enforcement.
	This is Bolshevism.
	And we see the Bolsheviks do this every single time.
	They want martyrs.
	They want these false martyrs.
	They want these false heroes to be able to prop up and say, oh, look, look what is done, because what do they do?
	So the basic technique is called Darvo.
	And I talk about it all the time.
	So deny attack and then reverse victim and offender.
	Deny what was done.
	Attack the person who defended themselves.
	And then you reverse victim and offender.
	So you always must reverse victim and offender.
	This is key to a Darvo attack.
	And that's exactly what we're seeing here every single time.
	And once you know what the key elements of a Darvo attack are, you will begin to spot them over and over and over because the media constantly does it, the left constantly does it, and the Bolsheviks have been doing it for over 100 years.
	Yeah, and Tim Waltz and Fryer are using that to their full advantage because unfortunately there's only so much time in the day to talk about a story and they have now made this the largest story.
	The only thing that they're hoping is going to happen more that hasn't happened yet is maybe we have to sacrifice a few innocent people's homes, maybe a couple dozen of them, a few businesses.
	Jack, you go out to George Floyd Paza, which is only less than a mile away from where the shooting occurred yesterday.
	And it's still charred to a crisp.
	It's still pretty much a no-go zone for police officers, like half of the city is at this point.
	And it'll never be rebuilt.
	Why would you build your business in that area?
	Nobody's going to insure you in that area, especially when cops don't respond.
	And I figured that that's going to happen to Mornerson people this weekend because it only takes like one Antifa activist, agitator, really, to go and start setting things on fire.
	And then the rest of them join in.
	They're like sheep.
	And they've always been that way.
	It's very easy to get this crowd to.
	Nick, what can you tell us about violence, chaos?
	Are you seeing anything happening?
	How did last night go?
	Are we seeing anything kick off tonight or today?
	And do you think things will get hot again tonight?
	Yeah, I definitely think things will get hot again tonight.
	I think they spent a lot of the morning building barriers out of stolen goods that they were taking off of front porches and people's trash can who be in Easy Creek Berry because they think, I guess, that ICE can't, you know, just knock over their pallets or whatever and keep driving through.
	I mean, they have this false sense of power, these leftists out there that really have nothing to lose.
	And last night I went out there.
	I think I made it about two minutes before I got spotted.
	And we very quickly got overwhelmed and started walking down the road.
	I didn't want to walk straight to the car, right?
	because I didn't want them knowing what vehicle I was in and being able to follow us because I had a feeling that Minneapolis police wasn't gonna help us.
	I had two security guards at the time, and they like told me to pull out almost immediately because they just could not cover me.
	And so we called 911 for 20 minutes.
	They were telling me they were responding to a place that's not very far from downtown Minneapolis.
	There are cops everywhere.
	And then 20 minutes later, they call me back and tell me they're not coming.
	And good luck, you got to try to get to a different location.
	So that is now a no-go zone for police officers.
	That's exactly what you saw at the start of Chaz and Chop out.
	Yeah, I was just going to say, it seems like when you look at the barriers, you look at the drop to police, George Floyd Square, the exact same thing happened.
	What we're seeing is another type of Chaz zone, another autonomous zone where you're going to see them try to set this up and try to essentially take this territory away from the confines of U.S. government and the ability to actually enforce the law there.
	It's really as simple as that.
	So you're saying that they're starting to set up these barricades.
	Have you seen or do you have any indications at this point?
	Certainly, you know, I would be cautious of this, but do you have any indication that any of these protesters are out there, these agitators are armed?
	I would imagine they probably are.
	It's a pretty dicey area to begin with, right?
	And so, I mean, they've had a problem with murders out there for quite a while, especially among the illegal community.
	And so, do they have guns out there?
	I'm sure they do.
	And they're just, a lot of these people don't have anything to lose, Jack.
	And I think they're heroes by going out and taking one of us out.
	They would love to be able to take that trophy.
	And that's why it's so freaking dangerous for us to go down there.
	You know, you try to be as secure and safe as you can, but there is a huge risk that you're running every time.
	And a lot of security companies won't even touch it for that reason because it is so hot down there, especially the ones that were here in 2020.
	They know what is possibly coming.
	And that's why they're bringing in a lot of DHS, at least my sources within DHS, are worried about what's going to happen this weekend in particular.
	People coming in from out of town, the weather is not warm, but it's not nearly as cold as it usually is this time of year.
	It's like 40 degrees right now.
	When I first got here, it was negative one, if that gives you any idea.
	My goodness.
	Much nicer.
	Winds are low.
	And so that's the same thing.
	And that temperature is going to drop in the evening.
	Well, Nick, I remember you mentioned yesterday that you were asking for some security.
	You were asking for some backup.
	Well, I just want to let you know that we here at Human Events heard what you had to say, and we have reinforcements on route to you right now.
	We got some backup for you.
	Let's not say exactly what the plan is, but reinforcements are in route.
	Nick Sortor, where do people go to follow you?
	Follow me on X at Nick Sortor, N-I-C-K-S-O-R-T-O-R.
	Appreciate you having me, Jack.

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