JD VANCE: THE FUTURE OF THE GOP

0:00Hey guys, it's Jack. I wanted to let you know that we're starting a new push for subscriptions here on human events daily. So make sure that when you're listening to this podcast, you hit subscribe, you download it and you share it with five of your friends. Make sure they're all going and downloading as well because we need to get the signal out as much as possible. Look, we've done so much over the past couple of years since this show started and we're only going to do so much more. Let's get it. You're a weapon. And number two, what we're doing right now is protecting commercial shipping in order to ensure that we don't have a worldwide energy crisis. The only reason, the only reason we do not have a worldwide energy crisis is because of the leadership of the president but also because of the fine work of our military from Pete Hegg's death on down. But the Iranians are doing what the Iranians do. I think that they're losing their capabilities by the day. I think they're realizing by the way that their control over the Strait of Hormuz is effectively

1:00gone and it's a diminishing asset. So if you go back three months ago, how much oil and gas was coming out of the strait under Iranian threats, it was virtually nothing. Now it's almost back to where it was before the conflict even started. So my advice to the Iranians is stop acting like crazy people and stop shooting at commercial shipping. In the meantime, we've got to do what we've got to do despite what a foreign country is going to do in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians say that an attack on a wedding celebration earlier this week killed several people in your dozens of others. I know Sen Com says it's investigating but have you been briefed on that attack and was the U.S. response? So I've been briefed to the extent that I know that we're investigating. I've seen the same public media reports everywhere else. I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what's happened in the conflict as far. So I'm extremely skeptical of this. What I can say with 100% confidence is that unlike the IRGC, the United States never

2:01targets civilians in combat. We never will do that. We never have done that. And unfortunately, obviously, sometimes things happen. But in this particular case, I don't think that we have any information one way or the other. Because obviously we care. We want to know. And if we do make mistakes, again, this is a big difference between us and Iran. When our military makes mistakes, they learn from them to try to get better from them. So we're investigating it very fully. Mr. Vice President, do you share any of the concerns of Secretary Droskull and several Republican lawmakers about the current state of the Army specifically about the departure of so many generals and other top officials? Well, first of all, look, Dan is obviously a very good friend of mine. I think he was a great Secretary of the Army. Pete is also a very good friend of mine. And I think he's an amazing Secretary of War. And fundamentally, where I look, there are a lot of issues where I agree with Pete on. The issue where I'm in the most stride agreement with Pete is that we needed to have a culture

3:02shift at the Department of War. We have to ask ourselves a very difficult question. And it has nothing to do. I want to be clear. This has nothing to do with the amazing troops that we have, the amazing military officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted personnel that we have. But America has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive, 42 years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J. Trump became the President of the United States. What does that say about the culture of military leadership, the way that we did planning? And what does it also say, frankly, about the political leadership that we've had in the White House, at the Department of War, for 40 years of, frankly, military misadventures? What Pete came in wanting to do was revive the warrior spirit in the United States of America. And I think you see evidence of that happening in a lot of different ways. Two important ways is, number one, we have recruitment at all time highs. We had real recruitment problems under the Biden administration because people didn't want to join a woke military. And what I mean is, they don't want to join any military that was geared towards a particular

4:04political narrative. They just wanted to join a military that was willing to defend America's interests and do so at the very highest levels of professionalism and excellence. That is what the military under President Trump's leadership is geared towards doing. The second way that I judge just that is free to core, that warrior spirit that you see at the Pentagon is, when you go out and talk to troops today, they talk about how much better it is, how much prouder they are, how much more they feel supported from Washington, as opposed to frankly oppressed by Washington. We're trying to bring the best and the brightest in the United States military and support them in every way that we can. If you recall under the Biden administration, guys were getting fired because they were making their own health care decisions and the Biden administration was treating them like they were convicted criminals. We're not doing that. We're taking things in a much different direction. So I feel like the military is in a much better place than it was 18 months ago. Of course there's a lot of work still to do. And of course some of that work is going to take years because frankly the rot got so

5:05deep under previous failed administrations. Sorry, I'm always confused a little bit by the chaos here and unfortunately I'm old and blind now. But let's go to Carrie Pickett. President, the public Carlson has called for the presence of impeachment and many accused of trying to jeopardize US Israel relations. What do you say to those who are uneasy with their close relationship with Carlson and claim that you're avoiding addressing a lot of these issues which may be causing divisions within the GOP? Well, look, I'm not avoiding addressing anything. Everybody knows that Tucker Carlson and I are friends and I think it's very obvious that Tucker has said some things that I disagree with. He said some things about the President of the United States that I think are just wrong. I think yesterday somebody sent me a clip that said that he would support El Siet of a Rogers. I think El Siet is a crazy person and I think whatever your views on microaggressive policy prescriptions, I'd like to have a non-crazy person like microaggress representing Michigan

6:05and the United States Senate rather than a crazy person like El Siet. That said, my attitude towards this and I try to practice what I preach. And I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest things for me personally is not when people attacked me but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her heart, who knew what a good person she was. And I remember thinking to myself, what a travesty it is that in the United States of America we let political disagreements define who our friends are going to be and not going to be. So, yeah, Tucker is a friend of mine. Tucker is a friend despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things and I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with him. I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go and if you have a disagreement with somebody politically, even over a deeply held issue, you should still be friends with that person because the whole republic depends on people of different perspectives being able to talk to one another.

7:06That's how I try to live my life and I encourage everybody else to do the same. All right. Let's go to... Well, the problem is, okay, here's the thing, you guys can see the list here. It doesn't, you know, you can take your Zoom-Up lens here. It doesn't, nobody's even circled. Nobody's even circled. If Carolyn Levin was still here, she would have told me who to call upon but clearly that hasn't happened here. I am going to go, I'm going to go to Nick Popley from Time. Thank you. President Trump asked on social media, when are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? Is the administration considering either arming or giving other direct supports for Iranian dissidents? Wasn't Peter Ducey asked this question this morning on Fox News? It's a great question. And what the president said is exactly what I'm going to say, which is, of course, I'm not going to talk about that. There are a lot of things that we're doing. A lot of things that we're doing, of course, to try to apply pressure on the Iranians,

8:10to get them to stop shooting at commercial shipping, accepting that they're still going to try to shoot at commercial shipping. Obviously, we're protecting a lot of ships, which is why we have not had a worldwide energy crisis. I can't repeat this enough. But for the leadership of President Trump and the hard work of our troops, we would have had an energy crisis because the Iranians refused to stop acting like terrorists in the straight of four moves. Now that said, there are a lot of, of course, additional tools that we have at our disposal. Some of those the president will use and so then he won't. But I'm not going to advertise exactly how we're going to engage with the Iranians in the months and years to come because it frankly would take away the president's decision space. But everything that could happen is on the table. Economic pressure, military pressure, diplomatic pressure, covert pressure. Of course, these are things. These are tools in the president's toolkit. But part of the reason they're tools in the toolkit is because the vice president, hopefully, is not dumb enough to stand up before all of you and a million Americans watching at home and say exactly what it is that we plan on doing.

9:12Okay. All right. I'm going to go to Emily. Good in or good one? Thank you, Director. Is it good in? It is good. I wanted to ask you. Why isn't it going to New York on 9-11 instead of the president? Is because it's the 25th anniversary, is there some special security concern? We know the president's been a target before. I don't think it's a special security concern. Actually, I will follow up with Secret Service just to get you an actual answer on that. But that's not what I've heard. I mean, you have a vice president. You have a president. And there are two very frankly, we'd like to be three or four places on 9-11. But you can't have one person be in multiple locations at the exact same time. And so we just decided as a team that I would go to New York for 9-11 and the president would stay here in DC, of course, to commemorate what happened at the Pentagon. Because that was a critical part of the tragedy of 9-11 as well. I will say that as much as it's tragic and it was a terrible day, I am looking forward to it because it's such an amazing honor to be able to go to New York and to share in that moment where the parents and the kids read the names of the people who lost their

10:17lives. I didn't once before, I think, during the 2024 campaign. It's one of the most amazing experiences of my life. And I encourage every American, particularly the people who are young enough to not really remember that day, just to tune in for a couple of hours and see what it meant. And I think that sense of commonality and common purpose that we all had on 9-11, that's something that we should really try every single day to get back to. And if you even just for a day, even if just for a few hours, I would encourage people to tune in. I'm also, as you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure that we'll have many, many intense intellectual conversations. And it'll be great. We'll have a great time with Joe Biden, the other pressmen. Go ahead. Mr. Vice President, thank you. A minute ago, you said that there is not a global energy crisis because US is helping commercial shifts. Given that you don't have diplomatic talks with the Iranians to make them stop shooting commercial shifts, are we talking about an indefinite naval blockade?

11:20Isn't that costly and hamper US readiness elsewhere? And how will the President declare an end to the war if the US naval blockade is still in place? Thank you. Well, first of all, the freeze and end to the war, I want to push back on that just a little bit because major combat operations are currently not ongoing. And they haven't been ongoing in a very long time. In fact, what we did just a couple of days ago is that we made it harder for the Iranians to shoot at commercial shipping again in order to ensure the flow of oil and gas into world energy markets. So we have, again, a lot of tools at our disposal. But what we're talking about here is trying to maintain some basic balance in these world energy markets. Now, you ask about these things. Don't they cost a lot, et cetera, et cetera? Well, look, the alternative, I think, costs a lot more, which is what the Gulf Arab countries have begged us not to do. And what a number of other countries have begged us not to do, including those in Europe

12:21who will publicly criticize us on the one hand, but then privately acknowledge that if we weren't doing what we were doing, nobody else in the world could do it. We are the only country in the world that can ensure, as you heard the President say, the control over the straight-of-war moves, the Iranians would like zero million barrels to come out of the straight-of-war moves. Last night, 15 million barrels came out of the straight-of-war moves. That's because of the United States of America. And if we don't do it, nobody else would do it. And if nobody else did it, we would have a catastrophic world energy crisis. And our message to the Iranians is simple. It's been the same for the very beginning is you've got to stop shooting at commercial shipping. They've got to stop. It's that simple. And your point about negotiations, the President has been very clear. We're not talking to them. And we're not going to talk to them unless they stop shooting at commercial shipping. That's I think Darren. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. So President Trump, he posts on true social, let data rain.

13:24But there's a Fox News poll with 70% of respondents, voters, saying that they do not want a data sensor in their area. So how do you bridge the disconnect there before the midterms in about two months? And also, second part of the question, if Democrats do take control of Congress, then do you lose the AI race to China? Well, look, I think it's a very good chance that if the Democrats take control of Congress, we will lose the AI race to China. But we also lose a lot else. You will see higher energy prices. The Democrats have promised that they will raise taxes on working Americans. The Democrats have promised that everything that we've done to protect American industry and rebuild American manufacturing, that stops as soon as the Democrats have real political power in this country. There's a lot that would go wrong if the Democrats take control of the House or the Senate or God forbid both. But let me just say on the data center question, you asked how do you split the difference or how do you bridge the gap or how do you exactly how you phrased it? But look, man, the simple answer is the way that you bridge the gap is by following the president of the United States' lead.

14:25What was the most important thing that we've done on data centers? He, excuse me, came out and said, we have to have rate payer protection. If you're going to build a data center, you have to feed power back into the grid as opposed to taking power out. I'm a strong believer and I've seen the same polls that you're talking about that the political backlash over data centers, a very large chunk of it, not all of it, of course, but a very large chunk of it is that people associate data centers with my neighborhood's going to get worse and particular, my power bills are going to go up. The way to bridge that gap is for people to do what the president of the United States has enabled. He's made it easier to build a nuclear power plant or any other power plant next to a data center. He's made it easier for people to put power back into the grid as opposed to take it out. There's a broader and deeper issue, I think, that's much bigger than data centers. The United States, what the president is really trying to train, frankly, American industry to do is to build again. We cannot be a country that says we're not going to build more power.

15:29We're not going to build more rockets. We're not going to do anything because the regulations or the costs of the risk are just too high. There's a chart that I'm obsessed with and it looks at the amount of energy generated by the PRC, the people's Republic of China, the amount of power generated by the United States of America. If you look at that chart, and about, I want to say, 2005 is when China finally started producing the same amount of power as the United States of America. That was before that they produced way less. They called up to us and then they passed us. And today China produces three times as much power as the United States of America, the way to get around that is as President Trump's leadership has showed to become a nation of builders again. We've got to build more power plants. We've got to make the regulatory state easier to work with and of course, we've done that. You've got to make it easier to reinvest in the United States of America. That's what we're doing every single day. We cannot be a country that says we're not going to build anything anymore. With this backlash on data centers, I think that it is downstream of the fact that the

16:31United States doesn't build enough power or at least it didn't until about 18 months ago. But obviously that stuff takes a little while to come online. It's going to come online really fast under the President's leadership. Okay. All right. Let's go to... Okay, somebody said left side. Let's go to Joey Garrison. Okay. Mr. Vice President. You're speaking Wednesday night at the midterm convention in Dallas. Several Republican candidates in close congressional races have said they don't plan to attend the convention or they're being non-committal about attending. Why do you think some of them are making that decision? And do you have any concern about their being absences from some of the battleground midterm Republican candidates? No, that doesn't concern me. I mean, so when you're running a congressional race, especially in a very tight race, you have so many things that are local that you're focused on. You've got fundraising, you've got money, you've got to raise, you've got staff that you've got to deal with and obviously give directives to. And then most importantly, you've got to go out there and meet voters and message to

17:34voters. I think the unfortunate reality of the national media for this midterm convention is, like my speech will get covered a fair amount. The President's speech will be covered a ton. We can make the argument as much as possible that if you elect congressional Democrats, you're going to see higher prices, worse energy, higher taxes, and more fraud. The President and I can go and make that argument on national TV. You don't need a congressman in a tight race to be there in all cases. Sometimes it might be better if that guy's out there raising money, but I think people are going to make a determination. What is the best way for me to spend my time as a candidate? Fundamentally, the President and I get one vote each, just like every other American. And what we want is every person in a tight race to go out there and make the best case they can to their constituents so they can get reelected and so we can do more good for the American people. That's the goal. Mr. President, thank you. I've got two questions for you. First, the widow of an airman who was killed in the Iran War says she's having trouble getting some of the benefits that they are, they should have access to because it has not been officially declared a war.

18:36Can you and the President personally ensure that the family of Alex Clinton gets all the benefits that they deserve given he died serving the country? Yes, so what's her name? He said his name is Alex Clinton. He was an airman who was killed in the plane that went down over Weston, Erdogan. So what I'd say, Caitlin, is please, especially if you have the private contact information, we will reach out to her directly as soon as this is over and make sure that she gets what she's entitled to. Obviously, our heart breaks for every single person who lost their lives in this operation. And as much as our heart breaks, I can't possibly fathom a young widow what she's feeling and dealing with it. And so we want to be as helpful as we can and sure she gets everything that she's entitled to. So we will certainly work that on the back end as soon as that. And my message to her would be, we love you. We're grateful for the sacrifice and we very much take very seriously our commitment to get you what you need to get. Yes, she's got three young children. Secondly, in terms of the war and the timeline, given this administration has put timelines

19:38out there before, what you just said about no negotiations happening with Iran, will this war be over by the time of the midterm elections? Okay, let me get it. I don't. I wouldn't call it a war. Right now there is no active shooting. I recognize there has been places where this is flared up. Major combat operations again, major combat operations lasted for about six weeks. And since then, we destroyed, of course, their nuclear facilities with midnight hammer. With epic theory, we destroyed their defense industrial base for producing weapons and also a lot of their conventional military. And then we made it harder for them to rebuild that nuclear program. But when you ask, when will this end? You're asking me a question, when will the Iranians stop shooting at ships? I think the reality is, I don't know the answer to that question. You would have to ask the Iranians. When will the Iranians shooting at ships stop having an effect on world energy markets? And the answer is, it has less effect day by day. So what we're going to do is not depend on the Iranians behaving responsibly or negotiating

20:39a new faith. What we're going to do is use the tools that we have in our disposal to ensure that the American people, one, never have to deal with the threat of an Iranian nuclear program. And two, that world energy markets are properly supplied. But so it's up to the Iranians when this war ends? Well, if the Iranians keep on shooting at commercial ships, again, we have, I think, a responsibility, but certainly the only ones with the capability to ensure that the Iranians are not destroying world energy markets. And our attitude is we're not going to set an artificial timeline because let's just say hypothetically, let's say I told you three months. Let's say I told you three days, okay? And then the Iranians start blowing up oil and gas ships. And the United States is the only country with the capability to ensure that those oil and gas ships get to market. Well, what I would say is it would be irresponsible for us to write out our strategy in our timeline for an Iranian nation that simply cannot honor its commitments and cannot stop shooting

21:43at commercial ships. The President is speaking with the President. You have CMBC. Yeah. And you have Mr. President. James Carvel famously said that what you guys want to be reincarnated is the bond market because you can intimidate everybody. We've seen higher bond yields throughout the year this year. And I'm wondering if you can tell us how the U.S. government thinks about the bond market right now in terms of its impact on U.S. billion, borrowed, and finance, our massive deficits, and also on its impact on your decision making about the Iran War and also American spending. Well, obviously the President cares a lot about interest rates. And I think one of the main reasons he cares a lot about interest rates is because he wants Americans to be able to afford a home. When interest rates go higher, that means that borrowing costs are higher and that's particularly true if you have a mortgage. So our view in this has been a consistent message from the President and the rest of the administration on down is that we believe that the Fed should be lowering interest rates. We feel quite confident that if you look at the inflation numbers, if you look at the

22:45CPI numbers, that it's proper and responsible for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. So that is a very important thing. It's something that we care a great deal about. I would defer like the deeper questions about the bond markets, Scott Bessent, who probably knows more about the bond markets than anybody that I've ever talked to. But obviously we care about this issue. We're doing a lot of things to try to keep those interest rates down, but it would be nice to have some help from the Federal Reserve. Okay. All right. Okay. So does Andrew Feinberg have a question of less than 30 seconds? No? Okay. Then we'll go on to roll call. Roll call. Yes, sir. Mr. President, obviously President Trump has let his frustrations show at times recently with Senator LaJourney, leader John Thune. He worked with John Thune when you were a senator. There will be leadership elections after the midterm elections in the Senate. Today, will you endorse John Thune to be the GOP leader in the new Congress? Man, it's just not my business. It's the business of Republican senators to determine who their next leader will be.

23:48I will say about John Thune that we have a very good relationship. He has a very good relationship with the President of the United States. That doesn't mean you don't disagree with people from time to time or have a preference or a priority. That's going to be different from the Senate Majority Leader. But it's really not my business weeks, months before a Senate election. To talk about who should be the next Republican Majority Leader, I suspect John Thune will run again. I suspect that he'll get the support of a lot of his colleagues. But I would refer to those folks about who their next leader is going to be the most important thing. And I think John Thune would agree with this. I know the President agrees with this is we got to keep the Republican Senate Majority. Because if we elect Senate Democrats, what are they going to do? We all know what they're going to do. They're going to try to raise your taxes. They're going to try to stop us from preventing money going to fraudsters. They're going to try to investigate and investigate and investigate rather than legislate things that are in the best interest of the American people. So I think Senate Democrats taking over would be a nightmare. I think it'd be bad for the American people. But ultimately the American people are going to make that judgment.

24:49And when they do, then we can have a conversation about who's going to be the next Senate leader. Okay, let's go to Libby Dean. Libby? Libby? Sorry. Libby? Yeah, Libby. Can you guys not hear me? Libby. Okay. Libby, go ahead. First question on Iran. But also I want to ask you about East Palestine. On Iran, how concerned should Americans be about these cyber attacks by Iran and the Ackersman? Also on East Palestine, you call for an investigation on Friday into that trained irrelevant. I mean, it's been three years. Newsation has been talking with some of the people who live in that community. They say their health concerns have been suppressed. Would you consider an emergency declaration to give those people the federal health that they need while that investigation that you call for plays out? Well, on East Palestine, I wouldn't commit to something unless I would know that it would do some good. And so having been asked that question, I'll think about it. I've never thought about whether that's necessary to facilitate people getting what they need.

25:51But on the broader issue, what we've learned over the last couple of months is something that I suspected, but frankly, could never prove, which is that the Biden administration radically underestimated the risks to the people of East Palestine and that their environmental protection agency wasn't being honest with the American people about what the consequences of that trained irrelevant were. So yes, we want that to be investigated. We want the Biden administration officials to be investigated about whether they were, you know, hedging, whether they were lying, whether they were doing something malicious, and that's what motivated the led of that Lee Zeldin and I sent. And your first question was about remind me? How concerned should Americans be about these cyber attacks by Ryan? I see, yes. So you know, look, I'll tell you that we are concerned about everything because that's our job. And I think you always have to of course balance when you're an American citizen, you have to balance obviously assessing the real risks that are out there, but also going about and living your life because none of us can be too overwhelmed by risk or by fear. What I would say is that we feel quite confident that Homeland is safe.

26:54We also feel quite confident that the Iranians are going to try to do a lot of things that they don't have the capability to do and that your government, the American people should know that your government is obsessively focused on both anticipating any potential cyber threats, but also responding to them appropriately and ensuring they don't happen. So you know, if you look at the Iranian ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans, I think it's quite limited. It's not zero, but it's quite limited. I'd be much more worried about cyber attacks from other actors, but again, we're doing everything that we can to stay ahead of this stuff. And I think we're the best government in the world at anticipating and preventing cyber attacks. So what I would say to the American people is it is a risk that's out there, but I don't think it's wise to worry about these amorphous risks. You elect a government that's going to fight for you, that's going to defend you, and that's what we're doing every single day. Let's go to Christian Daytok. Why are you calling for a green media job? Thank you. Sir, thank you. Two questions, one for it, one domestic first, sits this economic D-Day, and that's

27:59entertaining to Iran. Has President Trump spoken directly to President Xi, asking him to stop Chinese banks from lending financial services to Tehran? So we've certainly had a number of conversations with the Chinese, and frankly, I think the Chinese have been responsive to some of the requests that we've made. I actually don't know whether the President has spoken directly to Xi, but we will get an answer for you and follow up. Thank you, sir. And then I know you don't want to talk about your own potential 2028 prospects. But Senator Ted Cruz and your good friend, Secretary Headseth, apparently have been privately and publicly, in the case of Senator Cruz, positioning for 2028. Would you see yourself supporting either one of them for a presidential campaign? That's an innovative way to ask the question, but I'm still not going to take the bait. Let me look, first of all, I'd encourage any Republican. If you care about the country, and I think all of us do, you should be focused not on the

29:02job a few years from now. You should be focused on the midterms, and that's the approach that I've taken. I think people sometimes don't believe me because they assume you're the Vice President. You must think about this all the time. What I'm focused on, man, is trying to get as many Republicans as elected as possible so that we can do as much good as possible for the second two years of the Trump administration. That's a long time. There's a lot of opportunity there. And this job is so crazy. Look at this guy's worth the White House. That's the front line of the White House. We get an opportunity to come to work every day and make 350 million people's lives better. That's what we have to be focused on. And so politically, I'm very much focused on the midterm elections. I mean, Pete is a great guy. Yeah, I could see myself supporting a whole host of people, but most importantly, right now, I've got a lot of people that I'm supporting right now to get elected for the November 2026 elections. And on Ted Cruz, I mean, look, man, he's just clearly Ted is a very authentic and likable guy, and I'm sure he'll do great.

30:02News week. News week. Can you tell me my river, the world more just let the Fox News issue going to be the next White House press. I don't know, man. No, I don't think so. You know, I just saw the news literally as I walked out before. I love Maria. I think she's an amazing person, amazing talent. I don't get involved in the personal drama of media stations. In fact, I'd like to invite Peter Newsy to come up here and ask an answer question about what happened to Maria. I think whatever she does, look, she's going to do great, and I wish her all the best. She's a very, very dear friend. I haven't even talked to her, so I don't know the backstory about why she's decided to leave Fox News. I'm going to do a couple more. I'm going to do a couple more. I've got with, okay, on the side here, okay, pink tie. Pink tie. Here we go. That's why I wore pink tie today. That's right. You would see it. Anyway. Nine justices.

31:02What's in grammar school? There are nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Yep. How long does it stay that way based on what happened yesterday in the House? What do you mean? Well, you know, going forward, how confident are you that will remain at nine? Well, look, our commitment in the Trump administration is that we would like to have nine Supreme Court justices. That's the way that it's been for a long time, and we think that's the way that it should stay. We also know that Democrats have explicitly promised that they will pack the United States Supreme Court if they're given additional power. Again, this is why I think that the choice in this election is not between this set of policies that are good and this set of policies that are not so good. The choice in the election really is between crazy people who are trying to rig the game and common sense people who you may have disagreements with from time to time, but at least they're rooted in common sense. The Democrats are saying they're actively bragging that they don't like the rules of the game, meaning Americans vote for House members, Americans vote for senators, and then we all try to make the best government and the best rules and the best legislation in the interest

32:04of the American people. They're saying that they think that the rules don't allow them to run roughshod over the American Constitution, so they want to change the rules. They want to add additional states so that there can be more Democratic senators. Note that they're not proposing to add territories that are heavily Republican. They just want to add the territories that are heavily Democratic. They also, of course, want to pack the Supreme Court. So how long will it last? I think, frankly, so long as Republicans are in power, we're going to have a Supreme Court that is good and honest and fair to the Constitution. It's up in. Is it good? Yeah, you are here. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. You mentioned something very interesting earlier. You said you wanted to—the President was focused on creating a nation of builders. The ISM manufacturing, PMI showed that manufacturing activity in the U.S. expanded for eight consecutive months. When you hit the trail particularly in the Roosevelt, have you noticed the trickle-down effect of the tax cuts and the trade policy of the President having a positive effect on U.S. manufacturing? And does that make ideas like the Foundry School, which you were talking about at the Institute

33:07of Peace, that much more important? Yeah, so let me just take a couple of questions here, but I appreciate you asking that. So what I think President Trump will be remembered by rightfully so is for a renaissance in American building and American manufacturing. That he is the President who said 40 years of bipartisan policy where we ship American jobs, we ship American industry, we ship American pharmaceuticals, we ship everything overseas and hope that it's all going to work out for the American people he said enough. This is a terrible idea and it happened because we were being taken advantage of, both by corporations that were shipping American industry overseas but also by other nations that were getting rich by pursuing policies that the United States leadership was too unwise to pursue themselves. So you're right. The manufacturing index is at the highest level that it's been. By the way, after many left of center economists and many democratic politicians predicted that the manufacturing index would fall to historic lows, it is now at historic eyes.

34:09The tax cuts have been a major part of this, one of the most important data points in the economy. And again, this takes a little bit of time to bear fruit is that you're seeing businesses by capital equipment, buying the big machinery, buying the things that allow them to hire people and build more stuff, they're buying that stuff at a record level. And that's because of the working families tax cuts because we invested in people who are building and making right here in the United States of America. When those pieces of equipment get online and then you got to hire the workers who actually run those pieces of equipment, what does it mean? It means more products and lower prices for American consumers. It also means good middle class manufacturing jobs for American workers, but it's not, if I'm being honest, it's not just the carrot, it's also been the stick. I do not think that you could have the beginning of a manufacturing renaissance where it's not for President Trump's willingness to penalize corporations and foreign countries that take advantage of the American worker. So it's been both. It's been the tax cuts that induce people to invest in our country and it's been his

35:10willingness. And sometimes, him following up with action to say that if you're going to shut down an American factory and put an American worker out of a job, then we are going to charge you a big fat tariff on anything you try to send back into the United States of America. That's done as much as anything to protect American jobs and protect American workers. Go ahead. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. I want to ask you about the announcement made by Secretary Vincent Back on August the 4th, the economic outcast operation since that time. Besides the UAE, as any other country joined in isolating Iran in that way, and secondly, how can that operation be successful if you don't have China coming on board and isolating Iran? Well, first of all, you do have, I think, the Chinese, the PRC being willing to play ball here. And we all know this, and I think it's an open secret for anybody who understands the

36:11people's Republic of China. Say what you will about them. And of course, we have some policy disagreements. The President has a very good relationship with President Xi, but obviously we have some misalignment of interest, some issues where the President has to pursue our interests at the expense of everybody else. Say what you will about them, they are not the sort of nation that shoots at commercial shipping because they're not getting their way in an international dispute. They are in that way, I think, willing to be a little bit more responsible. Again, I'm not saying they're doing everything that we've asked them to do, but I think that the PRC has been much more responsible, certainly than the Iranians, and much more responsible than a couple of other nations as well. But it's not just the PRC. If you look at Turkey, if you look at Azerbaijan, if you look at UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, a lot of the Gulf Arab coalition. If you look all across the world, we're actually seeing a lot of countries. Sometimes they're not willing to say so publicly, but privately they're doing a lot of good things to help us ensure that the Iranians pay a penalty for firing at commercial shipping.

37:15Now, to remind you, it's not just that they're paying a penalty when they fire at commercial shipping, it's also denying them the economic resources to rebuild their nuclear program if they try to do so. Now, so far we haven't seen them try to do so, but part of what we're doing here is having destroyed their nuclear enrichment capacity. We're trying to ensure they don't rebuild it even if they try to do so in the future. And that's why this matters. We're protecting commercial shipping. We're protecting world energy markets, but it's all in the service, all in the service of ensuring that Iran does not become a nuclear weapons power. Let me ask a final question of Mary Margaret Olehan. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I have two questions for you if that's okay. Go ahead. On the first one, were you or the President involved in the deportation of Milo denombalists? And when did you learn about that activity? And then on the second one, could you give us your elevator pitch for why American should choose Republicans over Democrats in the midterm elections?

38:17Yes, so on Milo, I won't speak for the President, but I found out, I think like so many others found out if you can imagine we are because the last administration brought in so many illegal aliens. I don't keep track of every single person that the H.S. deports. So I found out about it, out about it publicly. I'm not sure if the President knew about it beforehand. I'm sure we can follow up with the President and get you an answer to that question. It's interesting. I didn't expect to be asked that. That's one thing I did not talk to him about before I came out here for the briefing. And then look, my elevator pitch is actually, it's very simple. Do you want to live in a country that has safety and security and prosperity? If the answer is yes, and I think most Americans do, then vote for Congressional Republicans over congressional Democrats. On every single issue, the Democrats have taken the side of fraudsters, of criminals, and of far-left interest groups over the side of the American people. Let me choose just a few issues, okay? So on fraud, we are trying to take money out of the hands of fraudsters so that people who rely on Medicaid or people rely on food stamp benefits, they're able to get what

39:21they need because we've ensured that Americans people's tax dollars actually go where it's supposed to go rather than fraudsters. Democrats have fought for the fraudsters and Republicans have fought for the people who deserve these benefits and the American taxpayers who are paying those benefits. If you look at oil and gas policy, Democrats for a generation have gone to war against energy. We've tried to make it easier to build additional energy capacity and we've done that for the past 18 months. If you look at crime, we have had, I think, the most successful anti-crime policy, maybe in the history of, I can't think of a single 18-month period where you've seen violent crime drop so significantly thanks to the work of a single administration. And in every step of the way, the Democrats have fought us to open prisons. They fought us to prevent us from putting people violent criminals behind bars. They fought us on basic things like funding and supporting law enforcement. They fought us on giving tax breaks to our police officers.

40:24So on every issue where we've been successful in promoting law and order, the Democrats have been for the criminals and we've been for the American people. And finally, just one other very, very important issue and that's building in the United States of America. This guy, Abdul El-Sayed, he says that he stands for working people. Well, if you stand for working people, then why have you supported the same policies that for 40 years shipped the Michigan auto industry to foreign nations? We are the people who have been fighting for the jobs of Michigan auto workers. We've been the people, willing to stand up, both to the big corporations, but the big foreign competitors and say you are not allowed to steal American industry anymore. So on all these issues, Democrats stand for somebody else. The Republicans stand for you. My argument to the American people is not that you're going to agree with us on every issue, but they're a bunch of crazy people, elect the common sense people to Washington and we'll keep on doing great work. Thank you all. Good to see everybody. This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

41:47This is human events with your host, Jack Pesovic. Tensions are simmering in the Middle East. Iran is hitting back at American allies and accusing the US of committing war crimes. President Trump told reporters yesterday, Tuesday strikes hit Iran very hard. I'm not affected by the election. Number one, I'm not running. I'm my party's running and I'm going to help my party. But I think my party respects the fact that we're not allowed to rant to have a nuclear weapon. Jers in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial are back deliberating for a sixth day this morning with the possibility of a mistrial now very real. The jury has spent about 30 hours over five days trying to reach a verdict and Jers have told the judge twice now that it's deadlocked. The second time came Wednesday afternoon. That led Judge William Sullivan to give the jury what's known as the two-erud-rega's charge, essentially asking Jers to take another look at their positions and make one more effort

42:51to reach a unanimous verdict. A small, small memorial outside of this home here where a two-year-old boy died his mother hospitalized after police say she herself attempted to self-harm. Germany is now accusing Russia of carrying out a drone attack targeting the airport in life-sick last month. It's ordered retaliatory measures, including closing Russia's consulate in Bonn at a Russian Cultural Center in Berlin. NATO has already responded, saying it will continue to strengthen our ability to deter and defend all allies against any threat. The EU says it will discuss the attack with NATO on Wednesday, adding the EU foreign ministers are working on a joint response. Using government data obtained by the deportation data project along with the latest figures confirmed by our ICE sources, the agency has now made more than 300,000 arrests in the beginning of the 2026 calendar year. Now, it is worth noting that the DDP has questioned who ICE is arresting, challenging

43:52the worst of the worst narrative. Now, this all comes after a arrest dropped earlier this year before beginning to climb again in May, and then surging in June, July and now August. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. Today is September 3, 2026, Anno Domini, JD Vance up there, round Robin interview, just a masterclass in terms of the interview press conference that he gave going from topic to topic, everything from deportations to Iran to his diet. And apparently he's eating a lot of sourcrow these days. And he got a question about that from one of the reporters. I don't know why you'd want to waste time with that when you get a chance to ask a question to the vice president, but hey, that's what we got. And it comes down to a lot folks that clearly the vice president is very depth at doing interviews like this. Clearly he's very able to, as quick on his feet, is able to jump around from topic to topic.

44:59And it really shows perhaps a new forward approach for the press conferences for the White House, where we're going to have a situation where, you know, Carlisle and Levit has stepped out, but perhaps more and more officials will be stepping up and providing that direct information, direct implementation for the White House. So we are coming up on a break, getting back on our clock here, Jack Bissobick, real America's voice. We will return in just a few moments. Do not swipe away. We're back.

46:01I can say confidently, I believe I think Josh Shapiro would be the vice presidential nominee, but wasn't for Jack Bissobick. And that is, I'm not on the list. All right folks, Jack Bissobick back live here, real America's voice, human events daily. Ladies and gentlemen, you may think you slept all night, but let me tell you something. If your body was fighting to get comfortable, you're going to feel it the next day. That's why I sleep on a ghost bed. For me, the difference is waking up feeling like my body actually rested. I sleep cooler, get better support, and I'm not starting today with that stiffness and soreness that follows a bad night's sleep. Ghost bed is engineered to help reduce the reasons you sleep. Error, excuse me, the reason your sleep gets interrupted. And what that means is that every ghost bed mattress is designed to help you relieve pressure, to help you regulate your temperature and support your body. And that's what it's all about folks.

47:02That's what it's all about. And so every ghost bed has this cooling technology built into every mattress. It ghost bed is built right into right here in the USA. Plus ghost bed gives you the 101 night sleep trial. Try it at home because the real test of a mattress is how you feel in the morning. I feel folks, let me tell you something, myself, I feel great every morning. I feel phenomenal. That is how you should feel as well. If you're waking up sore or tired before the day even starts, you need a ghost bed. Just go get yourself one for a limited time during old ghost beds, new Labor Day sale. You can get an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season. Go to ghostbed.com slash post so and use promo code post. I want to bring Rich Barris on here. He is the people's pundit. Hey, Rich, got to say, what did you think? What did you think of JD's really just just, I thought it was a master class, his round

48:06robin interview there. The vice president is just so good at this, Jack. And I'm watching it and I'm thinking two things. One, nobody, there's not a close second on the bench on the right for 2028. There's just not a close second in this. Maybe somebody can come out and know where and emerge, but nobody has the skills to do what he does. And the reason why is because he's a millennial and he's from the Midwest and his life experience put it made him the person he is today. And he's able to do that and come across as believable, jovial and authentic. And the second thing I was thinking was, can we get more of these? Like seriously, seriously. I think it's good when you have an asset that you put it forward as much as possible. And he was bringing up the convention and I know I read the political article and sure a lot of people did. But he gave an answer to that, which surprised me. And it also convinced me, which is that the truth is, it doesn't really matter if how

49:10many congressmen or senators who were running for these offices come up there and speak. It really just matters if president Trump and vice president advance can go and make the case to the American public to vote for Republicans down ticket because let's be honest. The votes that they got in 2024 were not their votes. They were votes for president Trump and vice president vans. And while there's a court constituency that of course, no matter what, we'll go and vote Republican. The fact of the matter is it's not big enough to win national elections. Those to commend it and they can, you know, and what he said is true. And what I'm not saying it's all on them and it shouldn't be. But if they do good, they'll be a benefit. And here, you know, here in it's, it's really because you look at it, look at it in terms of ROI and that's what he's talking about as well. That was his same art. And here's what I'm going to say to, to, you know, to the vice president, you know, publicly here is that, you know, if you look at it in terms of ROI, so okay, the ROI is that you're getting president Trump at a rally. Great.

50:11So wouldn't you make the same argument then for getting the vice president at a daily or, you know, maybe like a couple of times a week, three times a week, press conference. You're ROI is going to be higher. Do you remember during the 2024 election when the president picked vice president vans, now vice president vans as his running mate? And there were a lot of people who did not think that he would be able to fill this role and that he would be a benefit and he turned out to be a huge, boon, huge benefit. I'll never forget the day like walked across the tarmac from the plane to go and speak to reporters about the Tim Walt stories that were coming out. And he could have done what most politicians do, which is just pound and attack. And of course, that still would have been the right move, but he actually didn't. He walked across there. He just started taking questions. He made jokes out of it, but also just made Tim Walt's like stupid, you know, and it was during his questions about whether or not he had stolen valor and some of these other things that had come up. And there was some other stuff that was plaguing, come on, Harris's pick for vice president.

51:13And he just shined at it. And he had, he turned out, of course, to be a huge benefit to the president as his number to on the ticket, not only in his own state, but in that region, which is must win. And again, millennial men, particularly, of course, we can talk about a lot of different groups, but millennial men were so key to Donald Trump's coalition and making some of those states, you know, going from 10,000 vote margins to relatively easy wins. And the vice president, without a doubt, helped appeal to those men because he is one of them. And it's important to remember that. Exactly. Right. And he communicates in such a way. He just communicates in such a way that the under 40 crowd is going to listen to. He noticed, and he knows this rich. Why is that too? And he's making appeals to tangibles. And that is something that's so important for the under 40, for the working class crowd. He's appealing directly to intangibles, not intangibles.

52:15He doesn't say, oh, we need to do it for, you know, for the, you know, the honor of America on the world stage. And he doesn't say, oh, we need to do it. I remember, you know, Obama used to say, oh, if you sit down with Kim Jong-un, you're legitimizing his regime. You're the legitimization of Kim Jong-un. It was like, well, he's the leader of North Korea. Like, what does legitimization mean? What is that? How do you, can you put legitimization into your gas tank and drive your car off of it? No, you can't. So when JD speaks, he'd make sure to talk about, talk about things in those concrete tangibles, which directly impacts voters and these, and these age groups and in the working class areas. Yeah. And I think that's perfectly stated. He gave the first coherent answer on data centers. I've heard out of any Republicans mouth this entire cycle, period. And I look, I may not even totally agree with what he said, but I'm a pollster and I'm looking at the toxicity of this issue.

53:17And Republicans, I have said this now for, I don't know how long, but look, you may be because I'm old enough to remember it, but do you remember the nuclear age and how the construction of nuclear power plants in this country, they were toxic too. And politically, and then it led to us getting behind the world stage when it came to nuclear power. So we had to quickly build power plants and it was just, we were behind and playing ketchup. Today he made an argument that is one that not only is like you said, that's kind of intangible, but he made an argument about how it even could benefit you and why you may need to start to think about this in a different way. Nobody else has said that before, Jack. Nobody else, it's like the China thing and that's it. And I know the president tried to do that and it's true social posts, but I think he could have done that better for sure. I don't, you know, I've tweeted it publicly. I don't think that's the right way. You have to start to make a case to speak to people in their own language about it. I mean, when the prime matter happens. Well, I want to say too, he flipped it around too because that shows that he's actually

54:19listening to people on data centers, understands how unpopular it is and says, okay, the main thing is that people keep saying it's about energy, you know, your energy price is going up. So he said, flip it around, make it so that a data center coming into your area. And by the way, I'm not even saying I agree with this. I'm saying that you, I'm just talking about his technique, his technique, his argument was that you have to make it so that you're providing something to the community. I would, I would go a step further and say you've got to, you've actually build things. I've talked about, you know, they should be building like new town centers. I said, bring back the mall, you know, bring back something, a place where people could just go and enjoy. You should be funding like baseball fields and Friday night lights in the south, you know, for football games and make it so that you're, that it actually becomes synonymous with over getting jobs. No, we're not getting these migrant bombs like Josh Shapiro is doing up in Allentown right now in the new Chobani plant and that your energy prices are going to go down. Rich, unfortunately, truncated show because of the, the vice president because of 48 today,

55:23where people go to follow you or get working to get the new book. Yeah, definitely on locals, people's funding.locals.com and the link is up there. Simon and Schuster, Amazon, go get Burn It Down folks. Thanks all the best Jack. I'll talk to you soon brother. You two man, they just until I'm as always, you have my permission to lay it short.