March 16, 2026 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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Tyler Robinson Lawyers Attack Human Events & Oscars Attack TPUSA Halftime Show
Jack Posobiec opens Human Events Daily on March 16, 2026, detailing the third week of the Iran war following U.S. strikes on 90 targets at Karg Island and a Marine deployment exceeding 2,000 personnel. He critiques Tyler Robinson's lawyers for attacking Human Events over First Amendment demands for trial transparency while discussing the SAVE Act with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to address voter roll integrity issues in states like Minnesota and Arizona. The episode concludes by contrasting lower Oscars ratings against a Turning Point USA halftime show, suggesting cultural shifts, and analyzing Iran's oil export vulnerabilities through cyber capabilities rather than ground troops. [Automatically generated summary]
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War in Iran, now entering its third week, both sides digging in.
Tehran is now threatening retaliation after the U.S. attacked a critical oil hub.
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Israel congratulating the U.S. on the strikes.
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A letter brief that is online, dated October 28, 2025, from a group called Human Events.
And it's addressed to Your Honor.
And it's in the nature of a brief on the closure issues we've been discussing today.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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Today is March 16th, 2026.
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Now, speaking of other criminal cases, Tyler Robinson had his day in court or one of his days in court on Friday.
And we here at Human Events found ourselves being the ones who were targeted by Tyler Robinson's lawyers.
And by the way, I found this photo of Robinson.
This is not from Friday.
This is actually from the February hearing.
But I want to show you guys this photo because I've never seen it before.
And I sent it around last night.
This is a photo of Tyler Robinson sitting in court while he's looking at a picture of Charlie.
And this is a picture of Charlie from, obviously, from a high angle, looking down moments before Charlie was shot and killed.
And that's Tyler Robinson looking at that picture in the courtroom.
So you're seeing the photo from behind Tyler's over the shoulder, you know, behind his back, and then looking down to see what's on his computer screen.
The reason that you know this one isn't from Friday is because Tyler Robinson was not even put on camera on Friday.
And so we were not.
If you were not in the courtroom, you couldn't see him at all.
And this has become a huge issue.
And it's become such an issue that his own lawyers, Tyler Robinson's lawyers are attacking Human Events for putting an open letter into the court saying that we demand full public access under the First Amendment to these hearings.
And we continue to do so.
The courtroom must have live video throughout the course of the trial.
The right of the public to have access to this case, the murder of Charlie Kirk, the trial of Tyler Robinson is paramount.
It must continue and it must be allowed.
There are already too many questions out there.
There are too many people who have concerns about what is going on.
We absolutely need this.
And so we responded.
We say we stand by our call for transparency in this case and we condemn the misrepresentation of it in court to try to undermine us, to try to intimidate us.
We won't allow it.
And if they so choose, we are more than willing.
And I am personally willing to go to court and argue before the judge with Tyler Robinson sitting right there.
If he wants to, he can look whatever picture he'd like while he's in court.
And we will argue for this right and we will argue that these proceedings need to be public.
Charlie's murder was public.
His execution was on live stream.
The murderer made that decision, not Charlie.
Charlie didn't have a say in his murder, but the murderer did.
And as such, since it was public, so too should be the trial.
Full public, full live stream for the entire world to see.
So let's go.
And if you have a problem with that, I'm more than happy to take you to court.
We'll be right back.
Jack Posobiec.
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By the way, this shot of the White House, I want to draw your attention to those clouds.
Guys, throw the shot out again real quick because I want to draw your attention to the clouds you see there right above the White House.
Apparently, there is a tornado warning in effect for Washington, D.C. today, something that is going to be hitting potentially within the next couple of hours.
So it's something certainly that we're looking at.
I know the president's looking at Congress.
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You know, we're talking about these legal issues.
And of course, we know that in order to go through those and work on those, you got to go to the experts.
And that's why, of course, we needed to get the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from the Department of Justice here once again on the program, Harmeet Dylan.
Harmeed, how are you?
Guys, I am not hearing Harmeet.
Can we work on that?
Something I think a little might be off on there, but oh, there it is.
There she is.
Sorry about that.
Ask you again, how are you?
Guys, I'm not sure what's, can we, let's, let's get Harmeet's audio fixed up there, guys, because I heard her for a second, then it went away, then we got her back.
I want to make sure this interview comes in because she's an incredible guest and we love the fact that she gives us the opportunities that we have with her.
And there's so much that's going on from the Department of Justice level.
And I wanted to get in one of the things that we need to talk about, of course, is the SAVE Act, the Save America Act, because we have to focus on the problem with America's voter roles.
And we know this is coming up and we know that as we go into a midterm election, this is huge.
This is so absolutely important because it's a real simple question.
Are legal aliens voting in our elections?
Have they been voting in our elections?
And what's interesting is that when Chuck Schumer came up last week and he said, well, if we pass the SAVE Act, then tens of millions of people will be kicked off the voter rolls.
And I said, wait a minute.
I thought you said that there ain't no illegals on the voter rolls.
So if they're not on the voter rolls, who's getting kicked off?
It's really as simple as that.
Are we good with Harmie, guys?
We have the audio up?
Harmee, let's try this again.
Okay.
Can you hear me now, Jack?
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, there it is.
Perfect.
All right.
We love when the we love when the technology is fun.
You know, there's this storm that's hitting D.C.
It's actually, funny enough, it's been a bunch of people have been saying they're getting technical difficulties with all sorts of systems today.
So I don't, and yep, our live camera is getting, you can start to see it now.
It's overcast.
The water's coming down.
So I appreciate you being on.
I know there's some issues with weather in D.C. today.
Yeah, actually, our building is shut down now.
So this is my last thing before I head home for safety.
And this is very important.
So happy to discuss it with your audience.
Well, I appreciate that so much.
And I was wondering, though, if I could, if you would indulge me, just given your legal background as well, this question that, you know, we find ourselves in this fight for transparency in the Tyler Robinson criminal case, this issue over cameras in the courtroom.
And now this is a state level case, not a federal case, but I was wondering if you could sort of put into perspective this, you know, this issue, because we're here at Human Events standing for full transparency.
Yes, obviously we have a direct tie to the case as well, but I certainly didn't think that this would be anything that would be brought up by his lawyers, but they decided to name us in court on Friday.
Well, look, I mean, I wasn't really prepared to discuss this particular issue and the DOJ, I don't know, has a particular position on it or not.
Not from an official standpoint, of course.
At a high level, I think there are arguments on both sides.
One of the arguments for is, of course, I've represented numerous media organizations, and certainly I think the media should have the right to comment on things, whether that includes up to the extent of cameras in the courtroom, I think is a separate issue.
But definitely I've gone to court to fight for the right of the media to be able to report on cases.
And I've followed amicus briefs and even gone and represented journalists in that regard.
On the flip side, there's a concern that when you have cameras in the courtroom, it distorts how the judge rules on things and it distorts how the lawyers play to the cameras as opposed to the jury.
And frankly, it intimidates some jurors.
And so I would say the main purpose of the criminal justice system is to obtain justice.
And it then relies on both legislators as well as in some cases on a case-by-case basis, judges to determine whether the prejudicial factor of a blow-by-blow of media reporting, a media circus, if you will, on a high-profile case may be inimical to that goal of justice.
And then you look at the OJ case and you look at some other cases where there have been cameras in the courtroom.
And, you know, I think it is a bit of a mixed bag.
So I'll just leave it at that.
No, I certainly get what you're saying from that perspective.
I think in terms of this case, I'm not sure if there's any way to get it out from being so high profile.
It just, it already is as it comes down.
I did want to ask you, though, about the, because we were talking here about the Save America Act.
We've been talking about it here on the show for months, it feels like now.
You're focused as well on the voter rolls.
And ultimately, yes, I know there's other provisions of it.
This is all about trying to get bites on the same apple.
Would the Save America Act empower you at the Department of Justice to focus on these voter rolls?
And can you tell us what are some of the issues that we are looking at in terms of the voter rolls?
Well, Jack, as you know, for many years before I joined the department, I've been focused on cleaning up our elections and increasing voter confidence, as well as doing that from a partisan perspective.
And of course, now that I'm at the DOJ, we aren't partisan and I don't even particularly take a position on pending legislation.
That said, we already have tools on the books that we're using here at the DOJ, some for the first time, regarding our attorney general's right under the 1960 Civil Rights Act to access and review these voter rolls and then help states comply with their Help America Vote Act federal law requirements.
We're doing that in multiple ways.
We're helping clean up the voter rolls, comparing them with some federal databases, returning returns back to the states to help them do their jobs.
Some of the states are doing that voluntarily.
Some of them are resisting doing their jobs and there are, you know, I think obvious reasons for why they're resisting.
But there's other aspects of the Help America Vote Act.
We're reminding states preemptively that if they don't do certain things, they could be in violation.
Some states have some funky record-keeping loopholes, if you will, like Minnesota's vouching standard that allows one voter to vouch for up to state eight other voters regarding their address, which is Dululu and inconsistent with federal law.
And so, you know, we're in pre-litigation discussions with them to try to get them to drop that.
Some other states have been back and forth with us, including North Carolina, which has a consent decree, and Arizona, who we're talking to regarding some irregularities in their voter registration procedures that have led to people being put on the voter rolls without any form of verification or that they're citizens.
And that's a violation of federal law for federal elections.
And so it's just a lot of record keeping and admin type work that simply prior administrations haven't wanted to do.
To the contrary, prior administrations, particularly Democrat administrations, have actually sued states that have tried to clean up their voter rolls voluntarily.
I mean, Georgia had a, I think, shambolic election in 2020.
And as a result of that, they passed some legislation to clean up their act.
And then, of course, what did Merrick Garland do?
He went and sued them over that to punish them for cleaning it up.
And so states get it on both sides.
And I get why some of them feel whiplash, because in the past, if they tried to take people off the voter rolls because they were dead or hadn't voted for a number of years or maybe had moved, they got punished by the DOJ.
And now the DOJ is simply trying to follow the letter of the law and help states do that and make sure that particularly in this age of ballots being sent en masse through the mails in many jurisdictions, some states vote entirely by mail today, which, you know, maybe they're rural or what have you.
I think that's problematic.
And it's especially problematic when you don't have perfect or near perfect voter rolls.
And so every citizen is entitled to know that the vote they cast is going to count only with other American citizens and only once and only in that one state.
Yet that is not the standard that we've been applying in this country.
And so I'm really proud to be the leader of this effort here at the DOJ and have the Attorney General in the White House's backing on it.
Well, there's no question and you've absolutely been a leader on it.
Thank you so much, Harmeed.
And we'll have you right back over the break here.
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Very excited to have the external director of Early Vote Action, as well as the senior fellow for APP, Paula Scanlon, joins us here at Human Events Daily.
Paula, how are you?
I'm good.
It's good to be back with you, Jack.
Well, it's great to have you on.
By the way, I've got to commend the fact, you know, you guys over at Early Vote Action with Scott Pressler, you're working so hard and have had so much success on the SAVE Act.
I'm sure you're working hard behind the scenes.
Do you have any information for us update-wise on the stave on the SAVE Act as it stands right now?
I know Scott's been putting a lot out.
I don't have any updates, but all I will say is it's something that needs to be passed.
And so I urge the Senate to get that done.
I really don't understand what the delay is.
I think it's disappointing for us as American citizens that have voted for things like this.
But I guess we'll see if it passes, but it's needed and it's necessary.
And I urge, again, all of the people in the Senate to get this done.
It's 100% correct.
And I love what Scott had put out before saying that, you know, it's possible that there's a consortium of House members that are joining together saying that they're not, I saw Congressman Randan Gill tweeting about this, and I quoted him and spoke with him a little bit over the weekend saying that he's not going to vote for any legislation that comes from the Senate that doesn't include the Save America Act.
And we just had Harmee Dylan on.
She was talking about how bad our voter roles are in this country and the fact that you guys have looked at this.
We know Scott has looked at it.
It's something where it's really simple.
Do we want secure elections or not?
We're going into midterms.
We've got a lot coming up in the midterms, a lot riding on this.
We need to be in a situation where only American voters are voting.
It's really simple, you would think.
Yeah, exactly that.
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I mean, this is something that I don't understand why people are against it.
Of course, the Democrats, every time there's an issue that I'm looking at something, thinking it's bipartisan, whether it's what I went through with women's sports or call it anything else, I'm looking at it saying this is a common sense thing.
Of course, only Americans should vote in American elections.
It's the case in pretty much every other Democratic country in the entire world.
Yet Democrats are suggesting that it's misogynistic somehow to say that we need voter ID to be able to vote in elections.
There's so many things you need an ID to do in this country.
Voting should absolutely be one of them.
And for whatever reason, if you can't figure it out and can't find the paperwork, I don't know.
Maybe it's deserved that you can't vote.
It's really not that difficult.
Everyone's able to have one.
It's not racist.
It's not misogynistic yet.
Here we are having no idea why the Democrats keep pushing it.
It's because they want to cheat.
It's exactly because they want to cheat.
There's no question about that.
And the fact that the Senate Republicans, look, I get that the Democrats are going to do that, but what's the deal with the Senate Republicans, though, Paula?
Why won't the Senate Republicans give this the interest, give this the level that it's due?
And it's taking so many people to have to push and put pressure on the Senate Republicans.
And not all of them, to be fair.
There's some great senators like Senator Mike Lee and others that have been fighting tooth and nail for this, but we shouldn't have to go to that level to get something that's so common sense as this past.
You know, exactly that.
I mean, as a voter that voted for and helped campaign for a lot of these people, unfortunately in my home state, there's no Republican senators.
So I can't say that it was my state that did this, but it's really upsetting to see what's going on here.
And I think a lot of voters are very upset with this.
They're feeling like what they voted for to elect these officials is not getting done.
And so the only thing I can say is I just urge them to listen to the American people and to do their job.
I mean, they are there to represent the people that voted them in.
And the lack of effort on this really makes us feel like that's not the case.
No, and this movement, whether you want to call it the MAGA movement, the America First Movement, whatever, if it's going to mean anything, just conservatism in general, it's got to mean that American elections are secured by having only American people voting in them.
And you got Chuck Schumer up there saying, well, he says that tens of millions of people are going to lose access to voting if we pass the Save America Act.
But Chuck, I thought you told me that there were no illegals voting.
So which is it?
Exactly that.
I mean, the story keeps changing.
I really don't understand, again, what the drawbacks are here for them.
But I think it just shows really how corrupt the voting is.
I mean, when I voted in Pennsylvania when I was in college, I saw firsthand what was going on here.
I saw people able to mail in a ballot and vote in person.
I mean, voter fraud is happening across this country.
During the election, I remember back in 2024, we were sitting there all on standby hearing stories of suppression and voter suppression and voter fraud in this country.
And it's something that's really upsetting that we have to look at.
And if we can't trust the outcomes of these votes, how can we trust anything that's going on here?
So I think it's so important we clean this up.
Everyone should want this.
This should be bipartisan, but yet here we are listening to Democrats calling it names, saying it's somehow, again, racist and misogynist is all I keep hearing about this.
I do not understand how that is their answer to everything.
Let's just have secure elections and figure the rest out afterwards.
I don't understand why they're holding back here.
But again, they lack common sense.
And I think that we've seen that over the years.
And I can't say that I'm surprised.
Well, look, this is the time for all the people who are in the grassroots, whether you are someone who is a full-on Trump supporter, whether you're an independent, even if you're a Democrat, doesn't matter.
We will accept you.
This is something that's about being an American.
And you've seen the polls on this thing.
It is an 85-15 issue.
It's a 90-10 issue.
This is something that polls unbelievably.
It's across every demographic.
People want the Save America Act.
And Paula, even you, look at yourself.
Even as a woman, you have found a way to be able to register to vote.
I have.
I know.
It's shocking and surprising.
And also as a so-called minority, I've also found a way to vote.
And I've registered in multiple states because I moved to a different state and was able to re-register and vote.
Wow.
You're able to move and vote again.
Paula Scanlon, hold on a second.
I want to hold you over for we'll have Libby Edmonds joining us here in the next segment.
Human events continues.
Somehow these women just keep registering to revote.
I don't know how it is.
And wow, look at that shot from the White House.
You can see the storm is rolling in.
Wow, this is getting serious.
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Thank you.
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All right, Jack Pesobic, we're back.
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You see there the live shot of the White House, this storm rolling in.
You can see the droplets there on our live screen, the tornado watch in effect for the nation's capital.
President Trump still at work.
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We're going to do a little bit of a panel here, Human Events, three up panel.
We've got Paula Scanlon that we held over, and we're now bringing in Libby Emmons from the Postmillennial and Human Events.
Libby, how are you?
I'm good, Jack.
Thanks.
Oscars Panel Discussion00:06:45
So, Libby, actually, let me ask you this, kind of a non-sequitur from what we had planned, but the fact that, and I'd have to get your take on this, the fact that Tyler Robinson and his lawyers were openly attacking the letter that you and I wrote to the court, which set off in motion this entire chain of events about having cameras in the courtroom.
Erica came out and in an interview and said that she wants cameras in the courtroom.
You then saw multiple media organizations filing motions regarding this.
Why is Tyler Robinson's legal team going after human events by name over this issue?
Because they don't want cameras in the courtroom and they know that we made really good arguments and they don't want anyone to hear those arguments.
And that's why they are really interested in obfuscating this trial as much as possible in making sure that the American people do not see what goes on in the courtroom.
They have been obsessed with preventing press from having any information about the trial.
They really don't like how it's been portrayed on social media and they don't like how it's been portrayed in the press.
And those are things that they can't control.
They can't control the press.
First Amendment rights, and so they're trying to control what goes on in the courtroom and making sure that people can't see it.
That's right.
I think that's right.
And again, we saw that picture of him smirking in the courtroom, and they can't control their client.
And that's why they want to ban him and block him from the cameras.
This smirk that he has on his face, they can't control it.
It's as simple as that.
So we'll do a little bit of a round robin.
Paula Scanlon, I want to ask you now, one of the headlines that we keep getting in over and over: Gen Z and the war, Gen Z and the war, the reaction of Gen Z to the Iran strikes, to the situation in Iran, everything that's going on over there.
Wanted to kind of get your take on that.
You run in these circles yourself.
What are you hearing?
You know, yeah, there's a lot of people who are very against it.
And I understand that.
I think in general, right, when we look at wars, young people are generally less likely to be pro-war because, first, if there's some type of draft, right, those would be the people going in.
They're more concerned about things going on at home because they're young in their careers or they can't afford homes.
And it makes sense why young people generally speaking are against wars.
What I will say on this particular issue is I, as a 26-year-old, will never once imagine to know the level of intel and information that President Trump has as his administration.
Okay.
There's plenty I do not know about Iran.
And I don't think I know enough to have a strong opinion to say, you know, this is what Trump should be doing.
I'm in no position to be, to know more than the president of the United States of America.
And so I will say about Gen Z is that something a lot of people don't consider.
There's a lot that people who are voicing these opinions do not know in specific and are still able to freely say, which they should be allowed to.
But I do understand also that Gen Z people in general, again, are not seeing the full picture here.
They're not the president.
They don't have the same information he does.
And so that can kind of explain this mismatch going on here.
And it's not surprising.
Again, young people are always sort of in this position.
And this does not shock me in the slightest.
And no, it doesn't.
Libby Emmons, you're someone who participated in the anti-war movement in 2003 for Iraq.
What is your take here?
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of foreign wars, and I'm not a big fan of this one.
I wasn't a big fan of Iraq either.
I will say that now that we are involved in this, my primary interest is making sure that the U.S. comes out on top and that our troops come home safely.
And that is really my entire concern here.
And I think that there will be plenty of time after this is over.
Hopefully it's over in a short period of time.
President Trump had said at the outset four to five weeks.
We're coming up on that.
We're, I think, in the third week now.
So we'll see how that goes.
He's also said that it's open-ended.
And we've seen from CENTCOM that they are preparing for this to go through September.
I don't know that the American people have the stomach for a long drawn out conflict in the Middle East.
I'm not sure that that's going to be what people are interested in voting for when it comes to the 2026 midterms.
But I do know that the American people are heartful enough and smart enough to know that an escalation like this is best when America wins and that what's best for our troops is what's best for the country.
Certainly is.
Now I want to jump topics again here on our round robin panel to the Oscars.
And I wanted to play this clip from the Oscars last night.
Let's throw it up, guys.
I should warn you, tonight could get political.
Okay.
And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock.
Yeah.
It's at the David Busters down the street.
A lot of tickets for that.
All right.
So, Libby Emmons, you know, we just, what's up, Producer Fox?
Good to see you on hanging out there.
And Libby Emmons, wanted to ask you, what's going on?
Why is it that Conan O'Brien, just in a few words, is going after the turning point halftime show?
Yeah, I thought it was actually a win for Turning Point that we went after the halftime show.
And if there was a Kid Rock hosted Dave and Buster's award ceremony down the street, I would totally go to that and I would get in some skee-ball while I was there.
Yeah, Conan O'Brien had a laugh at Turning Point's expense and it wasn't really at their expense because Turning Point did such a kick-ass job on their halftime show.
And also, it speaks to the fact that most Americans are not particularly interested in watching these lavish awards ceremonies.
We all know that they're getting like thousands and thousands of dollars in little gift bags backstage and that they love awarding themselves these special prizes, you know.
And I think most of us are not that interested in watching them do it anymore.
Paula Scanlon, when it comes to Gen Z, when it comes to you, do the Oscars still rate the way they used to?
You know, I didn't even know the Oscars were happening, guys, off-screen before we started this segment.
I actually asked, what are the Oscars for?
Is this acting or music?
Because I had no idea.
I might be the exception.
I've never once followed these Hollywood events.
You know what I spent my night doing last night?
Watching Selection Sunday and thinking about what I'm going to be doing in my March madness bracket.
So maybe this is just telling for me, but I think that these out-of-touch Hollywood celebrities doing much of anything is not something I'm interested in.
I looked through the list of winners for this Oscars, and I'm going to be honest, I have never seen one of the movies that were involved.
And I haven't even heard of most of the actors who have won these awards.
And so maybe that's just me, but it's not something that really piqued my interest.
And again, them making jokes like that.
I wouldn't even have known that if you hadn't showed me that clip.
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No, exactly.
And they're just jealous because at the end of the day, we had double, I'm looking at this, we had double the ratings of the Oscars.
We had 40 million in the first 24 hours.
That's households, by the way.
They're lucky if they broke 19.
The Oscars, and by the way, I'm just going to say it.
They've become the award show for the most anti-white woke film that people can make.
Paula Scanlon, Libby Edmonds, thank you so much for joining us here today.
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And folks, guys, leave that shot up.
Look at this.
This is the White House right now.
The flags are down.
Now, we don't have control over this shot, but I want to look at the trees a little bit to see whether or not the trees are starting to whip back and forth.
We know the storm is expected to be hitting the White House with full force here just in the next couple of minutes.
And so you look at what's going on.
That's why the flags are down, of course.
But the president's still at work.
The president could have stayed down in Florida.
The president could have, you know, obviously worked in the Southern White House, the winter White House.
Still a little bit of winter, I suppose, but it's working very, very closely.
The first day of spring is Saturday.
So the president is hard at work while the storm commences there at the White House.
But yes, those large flags, those large flags removed there at the White House.
I wanted to get into something that I discussed while making my media rounds this morning, that one of the things that people have been saying, and I keep hearing this back and forth regarding the Iran situation has to do with boots on the ground.
Where are the boots on the ground?
What's going on?
Is this Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is headed?
So what's currently happening is the Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is the 31st.
They're based out of Japan.
They were conducting operations in Asia.
They are now speeding and steaming at full speed, not quite flank speed, but certainly very quickly through the Strait of Malacca, down through Malaysia, and then up to the Persian Gulf, where they will arrive in about a week's time or so, maybe about a week, week and a half at that speed.
They're going to pick up a couple littoral combat craft and some others to bring them on board, and then they will be on station to be able to provide what the president would refer to in the military community as optionality.
Optionality will be given to the president regarding boots on the ground.
And the biggest piece that everyone's talked about over and over, they keep saying, well, we need boots on the ground, potentially for Karg Island, that Karg Island is necessary to be taken so that the Iranian economy will then be severed from the Iranian leadership.
And Karg Island, why is this important?
Because 90% of Iran's oil flows through this island.
It's an island processing center just off the coast of Iran, where they then have the ability to load and offload their ships.
And those ships then are sent out through the Strait of Hormuz, down through the Gulf, out through the Strait, and then on predominantly towards China.
So this is a key node in China's energy resources.
And why does this matter?
Their Belt and Road Initiative.
Because this entire thing, if you look at Ukraine, you look at Iran, what's it really all about?
China and Russia.
And President Trump has always said that everything is about China and Russia and getting them on sides.
It's also why early this morning you heard what?
Caroline Levitt, press secretary, and then Secretary Besson both sort of came out and said, looks like that meeting that was planned for later this month or in April is going to be postponed.
The meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping, which was meant to take place, by the way, in Beijing, in China.
So president was going to fly to China.
It looks like that at the moment has been taken off the cards.
But I want, it was not in the cards.
But I want to talk about the Karg Island situation and as pertains to the Persian Gulf so that everyone can get some understanding on this.
This is key because it's being presented in the media as some sort of binary situation that either President Trump has to put boots on the ground or he has to destroy all of the oil infrastructure of Karg Island, which is located in the Persian Gulf.
We've got numerous maps on this.
And what we can do then is to say, well, Mr. President, you've got to choose one or the other, either destroy all the infrastructure or put boots on the ground, destroy all the oil infrastructure or put boots on the ground.
Those are only two options.
And obviously the reason being is that they want boots on the ground.
There's a lot of people like Lindsey Graham, who's been jester gooning for a wider war, who wants the mission creep, who wants boots on the ground, who wants to see the U.S. engulfed and entrenched in a much wider war in Iran with those boots on the ground, which of course would certainly come under fire because Karg Island is under, it could potentially be under direct artillery fire because it's within range of Iranian conventional artillery, not to mention drones, not to mention missiles, et cetera, et cetera.
But are those really the only two options?
I don't think so.
And this is something where the tactical and the strategic picture are actually connected.
So let's talk tactics for a second here.
What is the goal?
What's the operational goal?
Well, if the operational goal here is to sever the oil flow, there's a couple options that you could be given that the president of the United States has on his desk today if he wants them.
Number one, the pier itself.
You don't have to be a Navy intelligence officer to know that the U.S. Navy can take out a pier.
We've been doing it for 200 years.
You can take out the pier, and then guess what?
The boat can't park.
If the boat can't park, it's called mooring.
So if you take out its ability to more, then the boat cannot be loaded with its cargo.
In this case, oil.
So there are many ways to neutralize the island without having to take out these wider facilities.
This, of course, could apply to numerous other implements there.
And by the way, then if they try to repair the piers, well, all you have to do is take, is go take out the repair ship too.
I mean, it's really not that hard.
This actually can be done from the air.
There's no.
real necessity for this whatsoever to be done by boots on the ground or for the from like a carpet bombing situation.
So I don't really get why people are trying to say that from a technical perspective.
I know why they're saying it from a strategic perspective because they want something else.
And that's one of the problems that you have in any of these situations that people don't actually say what they mean.
They say something else because they don't want to say what the truth is.
So you don't need boots on the ground to take Cargar Islands, neutralize them and take them out of the fight.
That's number one.
Also, by the way, cyber.
Cyber offensive capabilities could be used here very quickly.
So anything that has a computer in it that has to do with the loading and unloading of oil on any of the ships out of Iran, you could fry it in a second.
Israel themselves did this all the way back in 2010 when they used the Stuxtet virus.
It was sort of a worm to shut down Iran's oil infrastructure and oil, or excuse me, their nuclear research program was easily done and done so overnight by getting this virus into their systems.
Really simple.
You could do that as well for Karg Island.
Now they don't have the ability to load the ships because the computers can't talk to each other.
Now there's other options as well.
So if you're talking about the oil flow, if that's really what you're going after, why target the island at all?
Use the Strait of Hormuz to your benefit because all of the oil that is going to be coming from Karg Island also has to go through the maritime choke point of the Strait of Hormuz.
And so what could you do then?
You could seize the oil.
The same way that we've seen the United States Navy.
Remember, just a couple of months ago, the U.S. Navy was seizing those Venezuelan tankers.
The Russian Ghost Fleet was being seized on, you know, up in the Northern Atlantic and places not too far off the coast of Greenland, by the way.
So many other areas.
So again, this choke point is a problem for the Iranians as well.
It's a risk for them as well.
Seize the oil.
Just seize it.
It's really simple.
And then if China wants it, guess what?
China could cut a deal with the Americans because that's exactly what the president wants.
He wants China to come to the negotiating table.
Now, of course, the president knows this.
The president knows everything that's going on.
He knows that he's using these key leverage points as well as he conducts this operation.
We're now entering week three of it.
So we'll do questions of the day tomorrow.
We didn't do one today, but question of the day for tomorrow will be as follows.
How do you feel about the Iran operation as we enter week three?
And our email is 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.
How do you feel about the Iran operation as we enter week three?
President of the United States clearly has a plan in place.
President Trump is a generational leader.
President Trump is a transformative leader.
And when you have a generational leader or transformative leader, you are going to require, you're going to absolutely require change.
You're going to need change.
And it's through that change that we get great things.
By the way, guys, throw that shot of the White House up again.
I think I actually thought I just saw a lightning flash there.
I'm not sure.
But we know the storm is definitely hitting.
We know the storm is getting hot and heavy there tonight in or today, I should say, in Washington, D.C.
And it certainly will be continuing tonight.
So pray for the president.
Pray for everyone who's in the storms, the storm's way, and certainly pray for our troops who are in harm's way as well as the troops that are on their way to harm's way.
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