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Speaker 1: This is human Events with your host Jack Posovic Christ

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Speaker 3: Chaos in Chicago's federal agents clash with protesters. Authorities are

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Speaker 4: saying protesters also threw bricks and a paint cana their vehicles,

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Speaker 4: calling those in the crowd agitators. After forty one days,

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Speaker 4: Denied at Zellerbach Hall. That is the group Turning Point USA,

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Speaker 4: founded by the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Some COW

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Speaker 7: Our veterans fought and bled to vanquish our enemies and

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Speaker 6: Because of you. America is safe. Because of you. America

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Speaker 1: Why I'm Hard, or today's edition of Human Events Daily.

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Speaker 1: November eleventh, eleven eleven. Today is Veterans Day twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: So if we're going to honor veterans today, if we're

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Speaker 1: Well, folks, today is Veterans Day, and we wanted to

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Speaker 1: What can I say, maybe terms are the best terms,

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Speaker 7: Boys that you talk about influencers, These are influences and.

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Speaker 1: Air Force and Under Secretary Lomyer. You wrote this book,

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Speaker 8: It became the subject of what became the impetus.

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Speaker 1: the capital. And I realized looking at it, saying my gosh,

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Speaker 1: these aren't similar tactics.

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Speaker 8: These are the same tactics.

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Speaker 5: Same playbook, same spirit that motivates that work. There is

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Speaker 5: no enemy on this earth that I mean. I get

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Speaker 5: to see a really clear picture now as the Intersecretary

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Speaker 5: of the Air Force. We've got incredible airmen and guardians,

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Speaker 5: they've got amazing weapons. We've got an amazing leadership right

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Speaker 5: now under Secretary hay Seth and President Trump no enemy

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Speaker 5: on this planet is capable of unseating the United States

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Speaker 5: as the power, the great power on the earth.

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Speaker 9: We can undo that ourselves.

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Speaker 5: However, if we start fighting one another, if we start

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Speaker 5: hating one another and demonizing the other, especially in uniform,

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Speaker 5: because we become ineffective, we're distracted, and the mission that

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Speaker 5: we do in the United States military requires a laser

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Speaker 5: like focus when when you're training to do those missions.

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Speaker 5: I just saw, if we've got time to tell a

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Speaker 5: brief story. My first day back as a public servant,

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Speaker 5: I went downstairs. I'd just been read in and was

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Speaker 5: cap you know, I was able to go in and

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Speaker 5: sit down and receive some good, important information about our

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Speaker 5: military operations. I sat down to listen to the planners

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Speaker 5: and those that executed Operation Midnight Hammer in Iran, the

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Speaker 5: strikes that were so well orchestrated, and I was nearly

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Speaker 5: brought to tears, very emotional about the quality of the

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Speaker 5: quality of work, the professionalism of these young men and

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Speaker 5: women who flew bombers, flu fighters, flu tankers. Did a

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Speaker 5: lot of planning, sacrificed a lot of family time for

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Speaker 5: a number of weeks to bring this together seamlessly and

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Speaker 5: execute a mission that was fraught with peril and it

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Speaker 5: was just done so well. And that's the United States military.

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Speaker 5: We are just excellent and you cannot persist in that

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Speaker 5: excellence if you are beset by distractions like diversity trainings,

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Speaker 5: equity trains. Secretary of Heists has done a phenomenal job

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Speaker 5: since the very beginning of eliminating those things. And I'll

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Speaker 5: tell you it's my sense that our troops are very

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Speaker 5: Excuse me, our troops are very happy that there's a

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Speaker 5: return to a focus on we're fighting.

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Speaker 9: That's why they signed up in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I can remember in the intelligence community on

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Speaker 1: our side of the house before I got out, I

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Speaker 1: can remember them sort of going around with these sort

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Speaker 1: of like mini Pride flags and mini Pride like decals.

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Speaker 8: Wasn't it wasn't the full flag, but like a decal.

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Speaker 1: And it would say, well, you got to put those

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Speaker 1: up at your cubicle or put those up at your desk.

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Speaker 1: And I'd say, in the spaces and I say, what

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Speaker 1: are those for? I'm not you know, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I'm Catholic. That's that's you know. And they would say, well, no,

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Speaker 1: this is if you're in this is for allies. He said,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean allies?

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Speaker 8: What does that? What's an ally? And they said, will

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Speaker 8: you put it up to show your support?

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Speaker 1: And I said, why I don't. I don't really feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable putting something like that up. I just I'm just

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to sit at my desk and focus

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Speaker 1: on China. That's all right with you, guys, I'm really not.

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Speaker 8: I'm just not interested. Just just I'll pass.

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Speaker 1: And you could see how there was this social pressure

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Speaker 1: that was brought to bear that if you that if

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Speaker 1: you rejected the you know, the display of out whatever

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Speaker 1: the cause was, and it wouldn't have.

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Speaker 8: Anything to do about the issue, it's just about the.

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Speaker 1: Cause that suddenly you know, suddenly that's a demerit against you,

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Speaker 1: Suddenly that's a check against you. And suddenly, you know,

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Speaker 1: people start looking at you differently, and people start writing

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Speaker 1: your stuff up differently, and and you're you're sitting there wondering,

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Speaker 1: why aren't we focused on the mission. That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting here doing. That's why I'm learning Mandarin, That's why

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Speaker 1: I focus on all of this, because we want to win.

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Speaker 1: And it seemed like we had totally lost our focus

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Speaker 1: and this is under under Obama during.

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Speaker 8: Those years, we'd write back quick break.

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Speaker 1: Here we're with Lieutenant Coot Matt Lomier, current Under Secretary

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Speaker 1: of the Air Force, Live, Human Events Daily.

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Speaker 6: Betrian say, yeah, where's Jack? Where is he? Jack? I

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Speaker 6: want to see you. Great job, Jack, Thank you. What

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Speaker 6: a job you do.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have an incredible thing.

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Speaker 6: We're always talking about the fake news and.

525
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Speaker 7: The band, but we have guys and these are the

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Speaker 7: guys you're forgetting Bullasushki.

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Speaker 1: All right, JACKI Selberger are back live here, Human Events Daily, Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. We are on with Under Secretary of the

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Speaker 1: Air Force Matt Lohmeyer. He's here and he's walking us.

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Speaker 8: Through his book, The Irresistible Revolution.

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Speaker 1: And it occurs to me, you know, talking about you

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Speaker 1: saw so you were, you were depicting and mapping out

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Speaker 1: the issues that you saw within the force when you

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Speaker 1: were when you were in uniform. You get slapped down

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Speaker 1: for that, You become the first veteran of the Space Force.

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Speaker 1: You go into private life, you come back in this capacity.

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Speaker 1: That revolutionary change that we see all going on within

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Speaker 1: the force. Where is it now and what are the

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Speaker 1: initiatives to.

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Speaker 8: I don't want to say right the ship. I'm going

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Speaker 8: to have to say, I'm gonna have to say, right the.

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Speaker 9: Storm, right, I'm learning navy LINGO.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll get you there. I'll get you there.

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Speaker 5: So I think that your viewers would be well aware

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Speaker 5: of the fact that that President Trump comes back into

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Speaker 5: office issues a number of executive orders that are deliberately

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Speaker 5: targeting these problems within the uniform Services and across all

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Speaker 5: of the federal agencies. In fact, before he left office

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Speaker 5: for his first term in September of twenty twenty, he

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Speaker 5: attempted by executive order to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion

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Speaker 5: trainings from the uniform services, and so there was a

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Speaker 5: short reprieve there before the next administration had come in.

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Speaker 5: Secretary Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense now Secretary of War,

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Speaker 5: has done an outstanding job moving out quickly executing those

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Speaker 5: executive orders in each of the services or the departments,

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Speaker 5: and in my case, the Department of the Air Force

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Speaker 5: have efforts underway and have ever since the beginning of

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Speaker 5: this administration to be very clear in our communication with

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Speaker 5: the Force that were merit focused, that were standards focused.

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Speaker 5: And you know what's really interesting, and I mentioned this in.

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Speaker 9: My book that you brought up.

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Speaker 5: I warn in the book that if we abandon meritocracy

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Speaker 5: and if we abandon a standards based military, we will

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Speaker 5: see our recruitment numbers plummet and our attention plummet. That happened,

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Speaker 5: and as soon as the president this administration, Secretary of

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Speaker 5: Hegseeth re adjusted the focus to be meritocracy based, standards based.

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Speaker 5: What did you see happened with recruitment or retention? It's

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Speaker 5: sort we didn't have a problem for the first time

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Speaker 5: in a number of years meeting our recruiting goals. You've

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Speaker 5: got young men and women all over the country that

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Speaker 5: are excited to come in and serve in the military,

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Speaker 5: and they see that lethality.

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Speaker 9: Matters and nothing else.

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Speaker 5: We're interested in serving our country, keeping the homeland safe,

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Speaker 5: to turning our enemies abroad, and we've got a serious

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Speaker 5: administration that priority tizes those things, and we want to

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Speaker 5: serve again. We want to serve again. A lot of

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Speaker 5: people reached out o the last few years I'm not

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Speaker 5: sure if they should serve and wanted my opinion, And

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Speaker 5: now I don't get those questions anymore, excitedly telling me

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Speaker 5: they're signing up and are so happy with how.

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Speaker 9: Things are going.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I had

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Speaker 1: so many people would when I do the Turning Point events,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we would have college kids come up

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Speaker 1: or even sometimes high school kids come up, and they

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Speaker 1: would say, you know, during and during the previews administration,

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Speaker 1: they would say, you know, I've always wanted to go in.

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Speaker 8: I've always wanted to serve my country.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm just not sure because I hear

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Speaker 1: you talk about these.

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Speaker 8: Things, and you know, I had, you know, heard.

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Speaker 1: Your book here, We've heard about you right, heard of

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Speaker 1: your story, and say, you know, does it make sense

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Speaker 1: for me to go in? And what I would always

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Speaker 1: say is this, I would say do it. I would

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Speaker 1: say go in, and you know, tell me your opinion

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Speaker 1: on it. But I would always say, do in, go in,

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Speaker 1: because we are going to win. Because I believe common

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Speaker 1: sense is going to win. I believe the military will

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Speaker 1: return to form, and I believe that the right answers

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Speaker 1: will once again take the take over the leadership. And

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Speaker 1: when that point comes, we are going to need good

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Speaker 1: people that are already there.

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Speaker 5: Uh, unlike you. I'm not talking about me now, but

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Speaker 5: unlike you there are. You know, one of the ways

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Speaker 5: in which we get young men and women to even

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Speaker 5: take interest in the all volunteer Force in the first

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Speaker 5: place is that they've got moms and dads and grandmas

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Speaker 5: and grandpas who have all served, aunts and uncles. And

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Speaker 5: when you've got they are and when you've got an

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Speaker 5: older generation in particular, that does not appreciate the direction

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Speaker 5: that the country is going, that does not appreciate that

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Speaker 5: the policy changes within the Defense Department now War Department,

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Speaker 5: that that seemed to upend all that they and you know,

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Speaker 5: all that they fought for themselves and the unity that

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Speaker 5: they experienced while they were in uniform. They're not willing

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Speaker 5: to recommend to the next generation military service.

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Speaker 9: And I think we're seeing a.

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Speaker 8: Change that would just shatter the military. That's that is it.

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Speaker 8: It does shatter the recruiting base.

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Speaker 1: And especially because so many of those uh, those kids

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Speaker 1: when they come through the pipeline when they were hitting

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Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen, where those prime recruitment ages. You know, if

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Speaker 1: if they're if they're a mom or dad or active duty,

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Speaker 1: they've grown up in the military. They've grown up on

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Speaker 1: post or on base, they've gone to military schools. They've

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Speaker 1: had you know, they've had uh you know, military healthcare,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. So they're they're familiar with it,

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Speaker 1: they know it, and you know, this has always been

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Speaker 1: the core draw.

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Speaker 8: I was lived on base for in over years, and

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Speaker 8: I always used to make a joke about it.

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Speaker 1: I'd say, you know, it's very interesting to me that

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Speaker 1: here on base we have we have a hospital, we

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Speaker 1: have a daycare, we have an elementary school, we have

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Speaker 1: a high school, we have you, we have we have

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Speaker 1: a MEPs so you can join the military. Then we

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Speaker 1: have our then we have colleges, we have we have

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Speaker 1: higher grad then we have we have the retirement section,

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Speaker 1: we have the RV trailers, and all the way at

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Speaker 1: the other end of base we have a cemetery.

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Speaker 8: It's like the whole.

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Speaker 1: It's the whole community, right, yeah, which is which is

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Speaker 1: what you want, that's right, which is ultimately what you want,

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Speaker 1: and and and and you know, it's with heartbreaking and

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Speaker 1: by the way, obviously a national security crisis if we

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Speaker 1: broke that, if we broke that system and broke that

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Speaker 1: trust for so many of those so many of those

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Speaker 1: generations that you meet people and it's shocking when they say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I've every generation of my family has served back to

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Speaker 1: the revolution.

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Speaker 8: But you hear it all the time. You really do

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Speaker 8: hear it all the time. Everyone deserves know someone like

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Speaker 8: that I had.

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Speaker 5: I'm guessing it was a year. It might have been two.

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Speaker 5: Over the past four years while I was a civilian.

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Speaker 5: I guess I'm still a civilian.

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Speaker 8: But just.

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Speaker 5: When I was in my private life, you know, after

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Speaker 5: I had separated, I wondered, if the trends continued, we

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Speaker 5: might lose our opportunity to have an all volunteer force

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Speaker 5: in this country.

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Speaker 9: And the trends were bad enough.

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Speaker 5: That was my I don't know if everyone would have

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Speaker 5: agreed with that, But as I watched what was happening,

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Speaker 5: I thought, I don't know how many years you keep

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Speaker 5: this up with low recruitment numbers and still avoid a

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Speaker 5: compulsory military service. In this country. We've enjoyed over a

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Speaker 5: half century of an all volunteer force. I think the

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Speaker 5: trend has said in the right direction.

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Speaker 8: I think that's that's incredible.

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Speaker 1: One of the you know, and I have to bring

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Speaker 1: this up because one of the people that I know

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Speaker 1: who were.

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Speaker 8: Who was so focused on that very issue was someone.

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Speaker 1: Who was actually appointed to the Board of Visitors for

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Speaker 1: the United States Air Force and had time to conduct

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Speaker 1: one visit out there in Colorado Springs, and that was

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk.

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Speaker 8: And Charlie and I.

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Speaker 1: Spoke many times about how he was so excited, and

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Speaker 1: you know he had he'd had an interest in serving

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Speaker 1: earlier in his life. It didn't work out. He ended

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Speaker 1: up doing Turning Point full time, and we all know

686
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Speaker 1: the story there. But he always had the utmost respect

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Speaker 1: for the military, and I knew that joining the Air

688
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Speaker 1: Force and even this advisory capacity was so exciting for him. Tragically,

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Speaker 1: he didn't get chance to see that all the way through.

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Speaker 1: But you told me you had a conversation with Charlie

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Speaker 1: right before where he took that visit.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we had.

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Speaker 5: So my conversations with Charlie were after his visit to

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Speaker 5: the Air Force Academy in his capacity on the Board

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Speaker 5: of Visitors, but just a couple of days before his assassination.

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Speaker 5: And we had spoken a couple of times in fact,

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Speaker 5: and exchanged messages. Because I'll share with you the two

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Speaker 5: reasons that he was really interested in talking with me

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Speaker 5: about his love for those cadets. He spent time there,

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Speaker 5: getting a tour at the Air Force Academy, spent time

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Speaker 5: with the leadership there. He got to see what cadet

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Speaker 5: life was like, and he got to interact with the

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Speaker 5: men and women that are the future leaders in the

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Speaker 5: Air and Space Force, and he had great respect for them,

705
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Speaker 5: said they were outstanding and impressive. Wanted to ensure that

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Speaker 5: any barriers to their character.

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Speaker 9: Development and their education were eliminated. That was one thing.

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Speaker 5: And he also took particular interest in the Cadet Chapel.

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Speaker 9: It's a historic building. It was first finished in nineteen

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Speaker 9: sixty two, and he.

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Speaker 5: Was disappointed to see, as are many people, and rightly so,

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Speaker 5: the big white box that sits around the Cadet Chapel

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Speaker 5: because it's under construction. There's a restoration project that's been

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Speaker 5: underway for many years. And Charlie said, hey, I've just

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Speaker 5: called the President. I've spoken with him a couple of

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Speaker 5: times expressing the need to move out faster and get

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Speaker 5: this restoration project done correctly, because we're going to have

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Speaker 5: two generations of young cadets that come through this place

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Speaker 5: and never get to experience or see their Cadet Chapel.

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Speaker 5: And I appreciated that input, and the Air Force appreciated

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Speaker 5: the input. Already thought that, but to see that there

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Speaker 5: was extra attention, and in fact, recently the President even

723
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Speaker 5: put up a true social post about the chapel.

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Speaker 9: He's paying attention.

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Speaker 5: But the Air Force leadership is moving out with alacrity,

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Speaker 5: trying to get that project done as quickly and as

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Speaker 5: wisely as possible, so that we can get our cadets

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Speaker 5: one back in what is the symbol of the spiritual

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Speaker 5: center there of the Air Force Academy. And also all

730
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Speaker 5: the folks driving down Interstate twenty five every day of

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Speaker 5: the week that see just a white box and not

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Speaker 5: the iconic chapel there.

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Speaker 9: So that effort's going well.

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Speaker 5: In fact, I recently took a trip out there to

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Speaker 5: meet with a contractor and Air Force leadership who are

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Speaker 5: in charge of that project, to make sure that we

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Speaker 5: get it right, move it left if possible, save as

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Speaker 5: much money as possible moving forward, and I'm optimistic about

739
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Speaker 5: those conversations. But Charlie cared about getting that right, and

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Speaker 5: that was less conversation I had about with him was

741
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Speaker 5: about that chapel.

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Speaker 1: There's so many touch points and so many fingers and

743
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Speaker 1: so many pots that Charlie had.

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Speaker 8: It's incredible to hear that we're going to carry that out,

745
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Speaker 8: and I know.

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Speaker 1: Charlie would really appreciate That'll be right back to your

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Speaker 1: quick break here Humo Vet's daily.

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Speaker 6: Jack is a great guy.

749
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Speaker 7: He's written that fantastic look and everybody's talking about it.

750
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Speaker 5: Go get it.

751
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Speaker 9: And he's been my friend right.

752
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Speaker 10: From the beginning of this whole blub event.

753
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Speaker 6: And we're going to turn her around and make our.

754
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Speaker 9: Country fay to get him a man.

755
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Speaker 8: All right, Jack Pisobic.

756
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Speaker 1: We are back here and we've been so excited and

757
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Speaker 1: so blessed on this Veterans Day to have had the

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Speaker 1: time to sit down with the Undersecretary of the Air

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Speaker 1: Force with Tennecrol Matthew Lomyer. He is the first veteran

760
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Speaker 1: of the Space Force and he's the author of the

761
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: book Irresistible Revolution, and he's been telling us so much

762
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Speaker 1: about his story and all of the things that he's

763
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Speaker 1: been up to now all the work that he's been

764
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Speaker 1: doing setting aside private life, coming back to government, miss

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Speaker 1: Our Secretary, I just want to say how thankful I

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Speaker 1: am that you were here with us on this Veterans Day.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a final message for the veterans out there,

768
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Speaker 1: the service members out there, just as we go through

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Speaker 1: this Veterans Day about from the administration from your position.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, thank you for having me on, Happy

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Speaker 5: to spend time with you. I suppose my message would

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Speaker 5: be thanks. I already mentioned that, you know, the first

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Speaker 5: day i'd come back in to this position, I had

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to sit and listen to them in a

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Speaker 5: classified setting. The work that our men and women in

776
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Speaker 5: the uniform do specific village, village and no spillage here,

777
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Speaker 5: and I'm locked fault. But I think the only thing

778
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Speaker 5: that there is to say on a day like this

779
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Speaker 5: is thank you to the men and women in the uniform.

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Speaker 5: We've got a great administration. We've got a great Secretary

781
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Speaker 5: of War who's laser focused on the things that matter.

782
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Speaker 5: And I'm focused on those things too, and grateful for

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Speaker 5: the opportunity to come on and thank them and thank

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Speaker 5: you for your time.

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Speaker 8: Secretary.

786
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Speaker 9: Thank you, absolute honor, Thank you so much for joining us.

787
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Speaker 8: Thanks Jack, folks.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very rare when you when you get a

789
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Speaker 1: situation like that, and I know that he's he's not

790
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Speaker 1: able to you know, talk about it in his official capacity,

791
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Speaker 1: but will we'll let you know that he is the

792
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Speaker 1: subject of this new document enery that's just come out,

793
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Speaker 1: and it's over on Salem Now and we give everyone an.

794
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Speaker 8: Opportunity to go and check it out.

795
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Speaker 1: It is called call Sign Courage and it's at salemnow

796
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Speaker 1: dot com. And it's an incredible just an incredible look

797
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: not just through his career, through his story, but also

798
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: at the history of communism itself, the history of what

799
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: communists have done all around the world, and in fact,

800
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Speaker 1: I guys, I mean, I'm just gonna say it. Let's

801
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 1: let's hit the trailer again, because this thing was too good.

802
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 8: What do you say? Do we have it lined up?

803
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 8: Can we just hit the trailer again?

804
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Speaker 5: Being spied on the chaplain snooping around my office and

805
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,760
Speaker 5: my house, being broken into, things like that don't happen

806
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Speaker 5: on military basis.

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Speaker 9: The man I'm.

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Speaker 5: Interviewing today has twelve hundred hours of flying to T

809
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Speaker 5: thirty eight, and I'm followed by the F fifteen.

810
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Speaker 4: Second Colonel Matthew Lomier, Matthew Lomyer.

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Speaker 8: Matthew Lomyer.

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Speaker 9: This is not just anybody we're talking that served the military.

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Speaker 5: Historically, we've been the best in the world because we've

814
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Speaker 5: always cared about merit, and it's what made the American

815
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 5: military the most letho military on the planet.

816
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Speaker 1: So the entire military is preparing for a fight against China.

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Speaker 4: President g is the most ideological leader that China's had

818
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Speaker 4: since Chairman Mao.

819
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Speaker 2: Mao said, it doesn't meet military people. He has an

820
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Speaker 2: army of indultrinated kids.

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Speaker 1: They asked me what my pronouns were, and he thought

822
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Speaker 1: it was incredible to see that inclusion and change.

823
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Speaker 5: We were starting to be divided by political discourse.

824
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Speaker 8: I want to understand white rage and I'm white.

825
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 9: That's what diversity, equity, inclusion is all about.

826
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Speaker 6: Inclusion, a quality or and what's important.

827
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Speaker 8: That's how we'll win our nation's wars.

828
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Speaker 9: We are trained Marxists.

829
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Speaker 10: Because of forces coming from Marxism within our own government,

830
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Speaker 10: it becomes not a foreign threat, it becomes a domestic threat.

831
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Speaker 5: The base commander was the ideologue who was pushing a

832
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Speaker 5: particular political agenda.

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Speaker 9: If you're white, you're part of the problem. Biggest tariff

834
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Speaker 9: in this country is white men.

835
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Speaker 8: Violent white supremacy.

836
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Speaker 9: One of the.

837
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Speaker 5: Greatest obstacles to the success of a Marxist revolutionary cause

838
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Speaker 5: is a strong united military force.

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Speaker 9: Someone needed to speak up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at this, folks, you look at

841
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Speaker 1: the history of the division, and this is what Marxism does.

842
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 8: Marxism comes in to divide.

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Speaker 1: Marxism takes a stable situation, takes a stable group, takes

844
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Speaker 1: a stable country, a stable military force, and it comes

845
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Speaker 1: in and divides.

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Speaker 8: It, or should I say, even a stable.

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Speaker 1: Movement like the Conservative movement, and they divide, They pit

848
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Speaker 1: one side against another, they draw false binaries and they

849
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Speaker 1: begin their attacks. This is the essence of Marxism. But

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00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: people have to understand it is a Marxist tactic because

851
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Speaker 1: then once the Marxist divides, the Marxians conquers. So we

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00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: wrote about this in Unhumans last year, and we be

853
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: very clear about it. We said, first they observe, then

854
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: they orient, they decide, they act, and these are all

855
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Speaker 1: stages of the revolution or the intelligence preparation of the environment,

856
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: the IP or the OPE.

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Speaker 8: The operational preparation of the environment.

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Speaker 1: And when they run through this, it's so obvious because

859
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Speaker 1: you see them doing it again and again and again everywhere.

860
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Speaker 8: It is their only.

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Speaker 1: Tactic, and it's obviously what they were doing to our government.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously what they were doing to our military, and

863
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: it's obviously what they were doing with our administration. But

864
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Speaker 1: I gotta say something else. So yesterday was the two

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Speaker 1: month anniversary of the murder of Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: was murdered by a lilent leftist. We now know through

867
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Speaker 1: through the investigation, we know through leakers, we know from

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Speaker 1: many others that this violent leftist was involved with the

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Speaker 1: transsexual community, was involved with the furry community. And rather

870
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Speaker 1: than focus on the violent left and these trans groups

871
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Speaker 1: and these furry groups and this subculture, which, by the way,

872
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Speaker 1: if you go and look, we have the exclusive footage

873
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: here on Human Events Daily that we can show you

874
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Speaker 1: that was provided to us by Turning point front lines

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Speaker 1: of another ANTIFA furry that was out there last night

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Speaker 1: on the Berkeley campus. Some people say, post so why

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Speaker 1: are you asking about that?

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Speaker 8: Posts?

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Speaker 1: So, why are you talking about this? This stuff is gross,

880
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Speaker 1: This stuff is weird. Well guess what, Guess what. Charlie

881
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Speaker 1: Kirk is dead because of this stuff. Charlie Kirk was

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Speaker 1: murdered because of this stuff. Erica and those kids will

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Speaker 1: not have their life loving husband and father come home

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Speaker 1: because of this stuff.

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Speaker 8: So I'm sorry if you're a little bit grossed out.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry if you're a little bit uncomfortable when I

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Speaker 8: talk about it. But guess what.

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Speaker 1: To know the enemy, you must understand the enemy. And

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Speaker 1: to defeat the enemy, you must know the enemy. It

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Speaker 1: is as simple as that. And what do I see

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Speaker 1: out across conservative media? Do I see people focused on this?

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Speaker 1: Do I see people trying to understand the violent left?

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Speaker 1: Do I see people trying to understand the Marxist revolution? That,

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Speaker 1: By the way, let's just go down the scoreboard. All right,

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Speaker 1: New York City just fell to Marxism. The state of

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Speaker 1: Virginia just elected a violent Marxist who said that he

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Speaker 1: wants to kill all of our children. One point seven

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Speaker 1: million people in Virginia. These liberals all voted for him, okay,

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Speaker 1: And we're told to you, unite behind a guy like that,

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Speaker 1: Unite with people like that who.

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Speaker 8: Said one point seven million. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So all this is happening. All this is happening in

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Speaker 1: New York City, Virginia, Charlie Kirk's murder. And what do

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Speaker 1: I see across the right, across the conservative movement, I

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Speaker 1: see bickering. I see infighting, I see e drama. I say, oh,

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Speaker 1: you gotta argue with the comments. You gotta look at

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Speaker 1: this comment. I gotta argue with it. I've got to

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Speaker 1: argue with that comment. Or I got to argue with

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Speaker 1: the internet trolls. I gotta argue with you know these

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Speaker 1: people online, these people are mad online. I gotta respond, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you got to get your head on straight. We are

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Speaker 1: in a war for Western civilization. The patriots in the

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Speaker 1: United States of America did not die, did not give

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Speaker 1: their lives, did not sacrifice everything, their families, didn't sacrifice

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Speaker 1: everything so that we could go down bickering and complaining

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Speaker 1: instead of fighting back. It's time to fight back. So

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Speaker 1: it's time to get your head on straight. It's time

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Speaker 1: to lock in, and it's time to march forward. It's

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Speaker 1: as simple as that. We have to get it going.

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Speaker 1: Charlie deserved it, Charlie's family deserved it, Charlie's children deserve it.

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Speaker 1: We will lose our country if the patriots do not

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Speaker 1: hold together.

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Speaker 8: It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: So on this Veterans Day, when we talk to the veterans,

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Speaker 1: when you think about the veterans, think about yourself too,

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Speaker 1: and think about what you're doing to honor that which

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Speaker 1: they fought for the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: as always you have my permission to lay ashore