Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty jump ahead a day. I just saw
Speaker 3: Senator Marco Rubio.
Speaker 4: Whose confermation hearing is tomorrow for Secretary of State. We'll
Speaker 4: say in his opening remarks that China has lied and
Speaker 4: cheated its way to superpower status at the expense of
Speaker 4: the United States, according to.
Speaker 2: The syllable truth.
Speaker 4: Absolutely man, I love a secretary of state coming in that.
Speaker 4: That's his opening point of view. That's freaking awesome.
Speaker 3: Time to call a spade a spade and a communist
Speaker 3: a communist.
Speaker 2: But for today, makeup America, grow up, stand up, get up.
Speaker 4: For today it pull your socks up. As John Lennon right,
Speaker 4: Pete heggsth is trying to be confirmed as Trump's choice
Speaker 4: for Secretary of Defense. And in cases they don't follow
Speaker 4: this sort of stuff very closely, it's worth knowing that
Speaker 4: for a lot of the media and the politicians themselves.
Speaker 3: It's just yar side or boo our side.
Speaker 4: They just want to shoot down whoever the other side
Speaker 4: nominates with some sort of feeling that if they have
Speaker 4: to go to their second choice, you've won something. Though
Speaker 4: I haven't seen that displayed in my life on any
Speaker 4: level that it really has any lasting impact. But so
Speaker 4: they would feel like MSNBC and the Democrat senators would
Speaker 4: feel like they won something if they could stop Hezeth
Speaker 4: from being nominated. Okay, fine, just more than I think
Speaker 4: than the particular issues of the person that they're growing,
Speaker 4: don't you think.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, it's just posting a win for our side,
Speaker 2: even if, as you indicate, the wind doesn't do you
Speaker 2: any good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just go to a different choice.
Speaker 4: And and and they and they are playing out the
Speaker 4: president's policy anyway as secretary of State or sect deef
Speaker 4: or whatever. If they didn't, they get fired by their boss. Right,
Speaker 4: So where should we start on some of that? They're
Speaker 4: in the third hour of the Hegxeth hearings. That would
Speaker 4: be a grueling day, man, And I I don't know
Speaker 4: how you not lose your temper. That'd be the main
Speaker 4: thing I'd be saying there, don't get angry, don't get angry,
Speaker 4: don't get angry. That's I'd be saying to myself. Stay cool,
Speaker 4: stay cool, stay cool. As they call you all kinds
Speaker 4: of names and try to drag you into not into
Speaker 4: losing your cool.
Speaker 2: That's one of their goals, right, yeah, although it depends.
Speaker 2: You know, some some can get that boil at just
Speaker 2: the right level. But it's a it's a dangerous game
Speaker 2: to play. You don't me.
Speaker 4: I'd go with you, you pizza half, you mother plag
Speaker 4: and try to climb over the table, and then people
Speaker 4: have to hold me back. That's why I said some
Speaker 4: too specific.
Speaker 3: He Hanson, where do we want to start in these?
Speaker 4: Okay, here we go, Here we go, Pete exit being
Speaker 4: questioned by somebody.
Speaker 5: So what we're talking about here specifically is women in
Speaker 5: ground combat roles in jobs like infantrymen or artillerymen or
Speaker 5: special forces. Until about ten years ago, that wasn't the case.
Speaker 5: Under Secretary of Panetta, those roles were opened up to
Speaker 5: women to serve in. As President Trump indicated all that
Speaker 5: he plans to rescind or alter that guidance.
Speaker 6: You're correct to point out, Senator, that these are the
Speaker 6: decisions that the commander in chief will have the prerogative
Speaker 6: to make. He has not indicated me to me that
Speaker 6: he has plans to change whether or not women.
Speaker 2: Would have access to these roles.
Speaker 6: However, I would point out ensuring that standards are equal
Speaker 6: and high is of importance to him and great importance
Speaker 6: to me, because in those ground combat roles, what is
Speaker 6: true is that the weight of the ruck on your
Speaker 6: back doesn't change, the weight of the one to five
Speaker 6: to five round that you have to carry doesn't change,
Speaker 6: the weight of the two forty provo machine gun you
Speaker 6: might have to carry doesn't change. And so whether it's
Speaker 6: a man or a woman, they have to meet the
Speaker 6: same high standards, and Senator, in any place where those
Speaker 6: things have been eroded or in courses, criteria have been
Speaker 6: changed in order to meet quotas, racial quotas, or gender quotas.
Speaker 6: That is putting a focus on something other than readiness, standards, meritocracy,
Speaker 6: and lethality. So that's the kind of review I'm talking about,
Speaker 6: not whether women have access to ground combat.
Speaker 3: R So, what percentage of America would agree with what
Speaker 3: he just said?
Speaker 2: There huge, huge, huge.
Speaker 4: Absolute majority, without a doubt. I'm looking at Byron.
Speaker 2: York from the Washington If you were to poll people
Speaker 2: who served in combat and therefore really know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about, it would be unanimous Byron York.
Speaker 4: Washington Examiner says that Kristen's Jilibrand as her attempts failed.
Speaker 4: She's the demoocratic senator from New York. Let's hear a
Speaker 4: little of her.
Speaker 7: Everything you've said in these public statements is politics. I
Speaker 7: don't want women.
Speaker 3: I don't want moms. What's wrong with a mom?
Speaker 7: By the way, once you have babies, you therefore are
Speaker 7: no longer able to be lethal. I mean, you're basically
Speaker 7: saying women after they have children can't ever serve in
Speaker 7: the military in a combat role. It's a silly thing
Speaker 7: to say. It's a silly thing to say. Beneath the
Speaker 7: position that you are aspiring to to denigrate LGBTQ service
Speaker 7: members is a mistake. If you are a sharpshooter, you're
Speaker 7: as lethal regardless of what your gender identity is, regardless
Speaker 7: of who you love.
Speaker 6: Senator, as the President has stated, I don't disagree with
Speaker 6: the overturn of Donuts Hotel Great.
Speaker 7: Because I don't want you thinking can't serve if your
Speaker 7: mom can't serve your LGBTQ.
Speaker 2: He's like, who are you yelling at? And why?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, then all right, So I would just say, hey,
Speaker 4: Democrats keep thinking that that Twitter worldview is the winning argument.
Speaker 3: Do it go, take it to the mat.
Speaker 4: Just keep pushing it, cycle after cycle. That's all about
Speaker 4: LGBTQ and identity, politics and everything.
Speaker 3: Keep doing it. I'm all for you. I'm on your side.
Speaker 2: Kirsten Gillibrand is the classic mid wit. I think that's
Speaker 2: the term we're supposed to use these days. Hl Menkin
Speaker 2: would have called her a mediocrity. Whichever term searchs you
Speaker 2: suits you the best.
Speaker 4: Maybe I think that's probably true. I remember when she
Speaker 4: ran for president and I wasn't impressed. But she's also
Speaker 4: trying to get re elected in New York where a
Speaker 4: lot of her constituents agree with what she just said,
Speaker 4: and that's her job.
Speaker 3: So staying in office is her job.
Speaker 2: Again, to your point, her job is not to figure
Speaker 2: out who would be the best second f right. She
Speaker 2: probably didn't even consider that.
Speaker 4: So here he is, how do you say the name
Speaker 4: Herno Rono Herono? But this is where they start getting
Speaker 4: into his personal life and questioning him on haven't heard this.
Speaker 8: Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made
Speaker 8: unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or
Speaker 8: physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature. No, Senator,
Speaker 8: have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement
Speaker 8: relating to this kind of conduct.
Speaker 6: Senator, I was falsely accused in October of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: It was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.
Speaker 8: I don't think how completely cleared is accurate, but the.
Speaker 2: Fact is that.
Speaker 8: Your own lawyer said that you entered into an NDA
Speaker 8: paid a person who accused you of raping her some
Speaker 8: of money to make sure that she did not file
Speaker 8: a complaint. Moving on, as secretary, you will be in
Speaker 8: charge of maintaining good order and discipline by enforcing the
Speaker 8: Uniform Code of Military Justice you see in addition to
Speaker 8: the sexual assault allegations. And by the way, the answer
Speaker 8: to my second question should have been yes. I have
Speaker 8: read multiple reports of your regularly being drunk at work,
Speaker 8: including by people who worked with your Fox News.
Speaker 2: Do you know that being drunk.
Speaker 8: At work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ.
Speaker 6: Senator, those are multiple false, anonymous reports pedaled by NBCD.
Speaker 6: You know that directly to the dozens of men and women.
Speaker 8: I worry I'm not hearing that.
Speaker 2: My question.
Speaker 4: I like the question, do you know you're not supposed
Speaker 4: to be drunk at work. Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Mazy Herono is a seventy seven year old progressive crank.
Speaker 4: So I just I've just looked ahead on this. This
Speaker 4: gets into whether or not he'd shoot protesters in the legs,
Speaker 4: So I want to hear this.
Speaker 3: The next one.
Speaker 8: In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former
Speaker 8: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the
Speaker 8: legs in downtown d C.
Speaker 2: An order.
Speaker 8: Secretary Esper refused to comply with would you carry out
Speaker 8: such an order from President Trump?
Speaker 6: Senator I was in the Washington DC National Guard unit
Speaker 6: that was in Lafayette Square during those would you carry.
Speaker 8: Out shoe protest in the legs?
Speaker 6: I saw as the service agents to get injured, b
Speaker 6: rids trying to jump over the fence, se church on fire,
Speaker 6: and destruyer.
Speaker 8: That sounds to me that you will comply with such
Speaker 8: an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg moved on.
Speaker 2: Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. I've enjoyed Hawaii. I've talked
Speaker 2: to Hawaiians. You can do better than that half wit
Speaker 2: elect somebody who's got like two thirds of a wit
Speaker 2: looking up at Senator Warren. Elizabeth Warren, I've been looking
Speaker 2: waiting for her today. She says, I want to pick
Speaker 2: up on the questioning of Senator Herono. So that's exciting.
Speaker 2: So hey, take this further down the road. Well, we
Speaker 2: have more Mazie Herono, who I'm actually enjoying in a
Speaker 2: perverse sort of way. Uh seventy six. I think it's
Speaker 2: clear what she's talking about, but this is this is great.
Speaker 8: President Luck has attacked our allies in recent weeks, refusing
Speaker 8: to rule out using military force to take over Greenland
Speaker 8: and the Panama Canal, and they threatening to take to
Speaker 8: make Canada the fifty first state. Would you carry out
Speaker 8: an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory
Speaker 8: of our NATO ally Denmark, by force? Or how would
Speaker 8: you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?
Speaker 3: Senator.
Speaker 6: I will emphasize that President Trump received seventy seven million
Speaker 6: votes to be the lawful commander.
Speaker 8: Talking about the election, my question is would you use
Speaker 8: our military to take over Greenland or an ally of Denmark?
Speaker 3: Senator.
Speaker 6: One of the things that President Trump is so good
Speaker 6: at is never strategically tipping his hand and so I
Speaker 6: would never in this public forum give one way or
Speaker 6: another direct orders the president in any context.
Speaker 8: That sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out
Speaker 8: such an order to basically invade Greenland.
Speaker 2: Mister he says, was you shoot Greenlanders in the legs
Speaker 2: if you invaded and they protest? Senator, that's a ridiculous
Speaker 2: I can only assume you would shoot Greenlanders in their legs.
Speaker 3: You know what's against the law to be drunk in Greenland.
Speaker 2: But you, having shot a Greenlander in the legs, get
Speaker 2: drunk and come on to her.
Speaker 4: Would you secu pass a drunk Greenlander who was limping
Speaker 4: along having been shot in the leg.
Speaker 3: Have you in the past answer the question?
Speaker 4: I just love how she borderline sounds drunk and goes
Speaker 4: you understand it against the rule to be drunk. I
Speaker 4: realize that's the way she talks. But yeah, she did
Speaker 4: something a little drunk. You know you're not supposed to
Speaker 4: drink the work, right, She got a just a nit
Speaker 4: wit at age seventy seven. Now we're taking ridiculous grand
Speaker 4: standing questions. What do we where's the greatest superpower on Earth?
Speaker 2: Act like it?
Speaker 4: Ninety nine percent of hearings are our grand standing performative
Speaker 4: bs for talk radio to mock one side or the other.
Speaker 3: I do want to hear the Tim Kaine stuff. It's
Speaker 3: kind of long.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: He's the senator from wherever he was Hitlar Glint's running mate.
Speaker 4: You might remember him.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares Virginia maybe.
Speaker 3: Or remember they featured him on Saturday Night Live a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. It was hilarious. Nobody remembered who
Speaker 3: he was. That was the whole point.
Speaker 4: Anyway, he really gets into Hegzeth's personal life.
Speaker 3: And we're going to play that for you.
Speaker 2: Come up.
Speaker 4: The bit on SNL real quickly is they had a
Speaker 4: game show and they played a show to tweet from
Speaker 4: one of the contestants that said, this is the most
Speaker 4: important election of our lifetime.
Speaker 3: Who's with me?
Speaker 4: Back in twenty sixteen for a Democrat who was voting
Speaker 4: for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, And then they marched
Speaker 4: out Tim Kine, the real Tim Kaine. Ones announce said
Speaker 4: who is this? And they had no idea. I had
Speaker 4: no idea as a political junkie. That's how quickly you
Speaker 4: forget the most important election of our lifetime participants. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Tim Kaine, who's still a senator apparently was questioning Pete
Speaker 4: Hegseeth about his personal life and trying to make this
Speaker 4: a reason not to have him be Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: Thank you, mister hegg Seth.
Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to this opportunity to talk. I want
Speaker 9: to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago,
Speaker 9: that he in Monterey, California, in October twenty seventeen. At
Speaker 9: that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct,
Speaker 9: I believe so, And you had just fathered a child
Speaker 9: by a woman who would later become your.
Speaker 2: Third wife, correct, Senator.
Speaker 6: I was falsely charged, fully investigated, and completely cleared.
Speaker 9: So you think you are completely cleared because you committed
Speaker 9: no crime, that's your definition of cleared. You had just
Speaker 9: fathered a child two months before by a woman that
Speaker 9: was not your wife. I am shocked that you would
Speaker 9: stand here and say you are completely cleared. Can you
Speaker 9: so casually cheat on a second wife and sheet on
Speaker 9: the mother of a child who had been born two
Speaker 9: months before, and you tell us you are completely cleared?
Speaker 6: So how was that a complete clear Senator? Her child's
Speaker 6: name is Gwendolen Hope hag Seth, and she's a child
Speaker 6: of God, and she's seven years old, and you cheated
Speaker 6: on the mother of that child less than two months
Speaker 6: after that daughter was born, didn't you?
Speaker 3: Those were false charges?
Speaker 6: Well, no, fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.
Speaker 3: And I am so useful in the marriage. I have
Speaker 3: to decide.
Speaker 9: You've admitted that you had sex at that hotel in
Speaker 9: October twenty seventeen. You said it was consensual. Isn't that
Speaker 9: correct anything. You've admitted that it was consensual and you
Speaker 9: were still married and you.
Speaker 3: Just had a child by another.
Speaker 2: Wow, again, how do.
Speaker 6: You explain your completely false charges against me? You fully
Speaker 6: investigated and.
Speaker 2: I was completely clear.
Speaker 9: You have admitted that you had sex while you were
Speaker 9: married to wife two, after you just had fathered a
Speaker 9: child by wife three.
Speaker 2: You've admitted that.
Speaker 9: Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would
Speaker 9: be disqualifying to be secretary defense, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2: It was a false claim?
Speaker 3: Then in a false claim.
Speaker 9: Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would
Speaker 9: be disqualifying to be a secretary of defense, wouldn't it?
Speaker 6: That was a false claim.
Speaker 3: So you're talking about a hypothetical.
Speaker 9: So you can't tell me whether someone who is committed
Speaker 9: a sexual assault is disqualified from being a Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: Senator.
Speaker 6: I know, in my instance, and I'm talking about my
Speaker 6: instance only, it was a false claim, but you acknowledge it.
Speaker 9: But you acknowledge that you cheated on your wife, and
Speaker 9: that you cheated on the woman by whom you had
Speaker 9: just fathered a child.
Speaker 2: You have ad met at that. I will allow your
Speaker 2: words to speak for them.
Speaker 9: You're not retracting that today.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: Wow oof wow.
Speaker 4: So he's got a very ugly don't approve of it
Speaker 4: personal life obviously.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's been pretty well conceited by all he
Speaker 2: ran around.
Speaker 3: This isn't new information.
Speaker 4: But he could have responded with, so are you arguing
Speaker 4: Bill Clinton should have never have been president? Or I
Speaker 4: know you went to Harvard John F. Kennedy's School of Government.
Speaker 4: Should his name be taken off that building? I mean,
Speaker 4: my lifestyle is not much different than their lifestyle. I
Speaker 4: know you wouldn't say that, but it's true.
Speaker 2: Or yeah and absolutely throw in And I regret the
Speaker 2: way I acted. I was more interested in my desires
Speaker 2: than my responsibilities as the young men. I've changed completely.
Speaker 3: That's some ugly stuff there.
Speaker 4: That his wife's business, but it's current wife didn't really
Speaker 4: dig hearing it either. We had a little more of
Speaker 4: this and other stuff on the way Liz.
Speaker 2: Warren Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: I love my country, Senator, and I've dedicated.
Speaker 2: My life to the war fighters.
Speaker 6: People see me as someone who hosts a morning show
Speaker 6: on television, but people that really know me know where
Speaker 6: my heart's at. It's with the guys in this audience
Speaker 6: who've had my back and I've had theirs. We've been
Speaker 6: in some of the darkest and most difficult places you
Speaker 6: can ever be in. You come back a different person,
Speaker 6: and only by the grace of God am I.
Speaker 2: Here before you today.
Speaker 3: I'm doing this job for them, thank all of them.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting drilled and insulted by a bunch of
Speaker 2: rich halfwits who the most difficult thing they ever done
Speaker 2: is accepted their phony master's degree.
Speaker 4: Mark Levin tweeted out, is herono part of an S
Speaker 4: and L skit agreed, We played that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4: If you missed it, get the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wish there had been more of her.
Speaker 2: She was so funny. Unintentionally speaking. Speaking of unintentionally funny,
Speaker 2: you've got the beer swinging fake Indian from Massachusetts or
Speaker 2: wherever she's from. Elizabeth Warren. She's a Havid academic. She
Speaker 2: is in favor of all things progressive. She has a
Speaker 2: problem with the actual fighting man. Pete Hagsith. I like
Speaker 2: this conversation, though, I'm glad it's taking place. Seventy nine Michael,
Speaker 2: page fourty eight of.
Speaker 1: Your book, you claim that women should not be in
Speaker 1: combat roles meant because men are distracted by women. And
Speaker 1: then ten weeks ago you appeared on the Sean Ryan
Speaker 1: Show and said, I'm straight up just saying should not
Speaker 1: have women in combat rules. Now, I presume you recall
Speaker 1: making all these statements.
Speaker 6: Senator, I'm not familiar with arcle you're pointing to in
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen, but it underscores my argument completely. It is
Speaker 6: in that twenty thirteen argument I was talking about standard.
Speaker 3: I stand up there.
Speaker 1: What it's always been about, you have the same fight
Speaker 1: has always.
Speaker 3: Been about, So did you directly.
Speaker 1: We've got the video. We're happy to show it. But
Speaker 1: I want to be clear here. For twelve years you
Speaker 1: were quite open about your views, and your views were
Speaker 1: consistently the same. Women are inferiors, soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen
Speaker 1: and guardians. And in case anyone missed the point, and
Speaker 1: these are your words from ten weeks ago. Women absolutely,
Speaker 1: straight up should not be permitted to serve in combat.
Speaker 3: And I notice on each.
Speaker 1: Of these quotes those are said without qualification. It's not
Speaker 1: by how much you can lift or how fast you
Speaker 1: can run. They don't belong in combat, period, or your
Speaker 1: words straight up. And then on November ninth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: just thirty two days after your last public comment saying
Speaker 1: that women absolutely should not be in comment, you declared
Speaker 1: that quote, some of our greatest warriors are women, and
Speaker 1: you support having them serve in combat. Now, that is
Speaker 1: a very very big about face in a very very
Speaker 1: short period of time. So help me understand, mister hag said,
Speaker 1: what extraordinary event happened in that thirty two day period
Speaker 1: that made you change the core values you had expressed
Speaker 1: for the preceding twelve years.
Speaker 6: Senator again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my
Speaker 6: comment from twenty thirteen, because for me, this issue has
Speaker 6: always been about standards. And unfortunately, because of some of
Speaker 6: the people that have been in four years, stop have driven.
Speaker 4: Seen you so and I have the answer. Actually, he
Speaker 4: Pete's not going to give it. The reason why he
Speaker 4: change his opinion was Jony Ernst, the female senator from Iowa,
Speaker 4: who is a Republican, who was very unhappy with those
Speaker 4: things that I think he actually believes, and he needs
Speaker 4: fifty Republican votes to get confirmed, and he is.
Speaker 3: Trying to get hers.
Speaker 4: I think he believes that women in combat are a
Speaker 4: distraction and make it more difficult to have an effective
Speaker 4: fighting for us. I don't have any way to speak
Speaker 4: to that. I think it makes perfectly good sense his theory,
Speaker 4: but I don't know that's true or not. I've never
Speaker 4: experienced it myself well and honestly.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's at once a lazy argument an incredibly
Speaker 2: good argument, Senator. For all of human history, mankind has
Speaker 2: not put women into combat except in very, very rare circumstances.
Speaker 2: I mean, the numbers are tiny historically speaking, for a
Speaker 2: number of reasons, including standards, but also because women are
Speaker 2: too valuable to the society. If you want ten babies
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Had this Handmaid's tale, okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: If you want ten babies this year, you need ten women.
Speaker 2: You need a dude.
Speaker 4: By the way, that's the part that made me grown
Speaker 4: out loud. At Gladiator two, they're opening scene they had
Speaker 4: to have a chick warrior who was kicking ass.
Speaker 3: Like, come don it, you're trying too hardier.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness sakes pre historic.
Speaker 3: Back in the Roman days, that wasn't happening.
Speaker 4: It's not hard to imagine it as possibly being true
Speaker 4: that to have one woman in a group of fifteen
Speaker 4: guys presents more obstacles than it's worth. It's not difficult
Speaker 4: for me to understand even if she's.
Speaker 2: Qualified, like physically can do the job right, it's just
Speaker 2: and this is the difference in orientation between Liz Warren
Speaker 2: and her type and more ours and Pete Hexas's is
Speaker 2: the only thing that matters. Well, okay, let me rephrase it.
Speaker 2: The first question must be effectiveness. It must be the
Speaker 2: result period before we discuss anything else. We discuss the
Speaker 2: result of having that woman in a combat unit, because
Speaker 2: it's not always going to be disruptive necessarily, but you've
Speaker 2: got to discuss in terms of combat readiness and effectiveness.
Speaker 2: How does it affect it. Now, if you say it
Speaker 2: affects it significantly, well then that's the end of the discussion.
Speaker 2: Even if it's it affects it significantly a smallish percentage
Speaker 2: of the time we're done talking here. From my point
Speaker 2: of view, Now, if it's a very minor difference in effectiveness,
Speaker 2: then okay, I'm willing to say, all right, what do
Speaker 2: we gain by doing that?
Speaker 4: Well, you gain by in ferry you would double the
Speaker 4: pool of people you can choose warriors from. It's probably
Speaker 4: not double because the percentage of women that can physically
Speaker 4: do it would not be as high as men, but
Speaker 4: you greatly enhance the pool of potential great warriors if
Speaker 4: you allow women.
Speaker 2: Well, I would suggest not to quibble, but if you
Speaker 2: kept the same standards as Pete is advocating, you would
Speaker 2: increase the pool slightly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that the current standards Tom Cotton
Speaker 4: was talking about aren't very strict.
Speaker 3: Running at two miles and twenty two minutes, for instance.
Speaker 2: Can you get off a couch and walk swiftly? Yes? Ah? Yeah, yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: putting aside the fact that a lot of this questioning
Speaker 2: is is blatantly unfair or irrelevant, and not all of it,
Speaker 2: but they got to figure out who this guy is
Speaker 2: and what sort of character he hasn't and there are
Speaker 2: gonna be some embarrassing and tough questions. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: go full on, you know, one sided partisan on this one,
Speaker 2: but I just.
Speaker 4: Feel like you did a bit ago where we got
Speaker 4: to keep the women back to have ten babies each.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Whatever you're talking about, it's just been discussed that roughly.
Speaker 2: That's roughly correct. Yeah. No, I'm glad these discussions are
Speaker 2: being had. Anytime they can be had publicly and have
Speaker 2: America's attention drawn to them, I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Otherwise China is gonna whoop our ass.
Speaker 3: Well, do you agree with me?
Speaker 4: I think Pete believes women shouldn't be in combat roles
Speaker 4: because it doesn't it's more of a negative than a positive.
Speaker 4: But he has he feels like he had to abandon
Speaker 4: that position for whatever reason, for Jony Ernst at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think there could be some clarification.
Speaker 2: I mean, if a woman's like a fabulous drone pilot,
Speaker 2: is that quote unquote in combat?
Speaker 3: Good question.
Speaker 2: You're killed, folks, you're in combat. I would think, so,
Speaker 2: how about a fighter pilot because Joni was a pilot?
Speaker 2: Correct or am I misremembering? I might be thinking of
Speaker 2: somebody else. I apologize. But fighter pilot, okay with that.
Speaker 2: It's when you get into infantry and you know our
Speaker 2: artillery groups, squads, you know that I have problems with
Speaker 2: whish we get again, but again I will leave. I
Speaker 2: will happily leave that to the experts and not just
Speaker 2: civilians spouting off opinions based on their beliefs about you know,
Speaker 2: pie in the sky ideals for society. The military is
Speaker 2: not a social experiment, right.
Speaker 4: It's amazing that we still can't have these conversations without
Speaker 4: just getting to the that group of twenty humans over there,
Speaker 4: are they going to be a more lethal fighting force
Speaker 4: with a woman or two or without the end? And
Speaker 4: then somebody honestly answered that question, and then whichever gonna
Speaker 4: make it the most lethal, Let's do that. If making
Speaker 4: it all women makes it more lethal, let's do that.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I just wanted to beat the Chinese
Speaker 3: when the US HiT's the fan, right.
Speaker 2: I'm reminded of that piece I read earlier, and we
Speaker 2: were talking about about Tanashi Coats and how the romantic
Speaker 2: point of view is just about your feelings and the
Speaker 2: facts and figures and effectiveness. Why are you denying my truth?
Speaker 2: I know I'm right, and I don't care what your
Speaker 2: facts are. We can't have that sort of person running
Speaker 2: our military. That please, the grown ups are required.
Speaker 3: How about that team kine stuff.
Speaker 4: Another thing I'm surprised we haven't worked out by twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five where we've just decided we're not gonna care
Speaker 4: if guys cheat on their wives and that sort of
Speaker 4: stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the job.
Speaker 4: Or do we care? I mean, why can't we just
Speaker 4: figure that out once and for all.
Speaker 2: Oh, we have. If it's the other guys, it matters completely,
Speaker 2: it's incredibly important. If it's our guy, it's irrelevant.
Speaker 4: Seventy seven million people just dond voted for Donald Trump
Speaker 4: knowing exactly what kind of guy is when it comes
Speaker 4: to women.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the difference there is it's a binary choice. Probably, sure, sure, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I absolutely see your point. At the same time, it
Speaker 2: feels kind of case by case ish to me. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a sin to have an unhappy
Speaker 2: marriage and before the paperwork's done, maybe you've got a
Speaker 2: girlfriend or a boyfriend. Well, according to some people, it
Speaker 2: is a sin. But you know, in my world, I
Speaker 2: get that it's fine. If you're like abusive and you know,
Speaker 2: I don't love If I found out a friend of
Speaker 2: mine had, for instance, produced a child with soon to
Speaker 2: be wife number three while still married to wife number two,
Speaker 2: and was stopping strangers in hotels.
Speaker 4: Who was also married. The that woman was married and
Speaker 4: her husband was upstairs with the kids, that's a horrible story.
Speaker 2: You almost need a chart, like we're doing a murder podcast.
Speaker 2: But anyway, story with her kids upstairs and her husband's
Speaker 2: in the host yeah, same hotel room. Yeah, but anyway. Uh,
Speaker 2: if I found that that about a person, I would
Speaker 2: definitely think, oh boy, Okay, I know what sort of
Speaker 2: fell I'm dealing with here, right, case by case basis,
Speaker 2: I don't like his chances at all for a variety
Speaker 2: of reasons. Okay, but I respect Pete hegseeth, and I
Speaker 2: value his voice. Well, I think, just having looked at
Speaker 2: the various like modern Republican senators in which way they're leaning,
Speaker 2: I don't like his chances.
Speaker 4: I think Fetterman hinted he's a yes. So then you
Speaker 4: only need to get to forty nine Republican senators right
Speaker 4: if yes, but there are according to Mark Alprin, yeah, yesterday,
Speaker 4: a dozen pretty close to hard nos among the Republicans,
Speaker 4: which is way more than would doomi, which includes Mitch
Speaker 4: McConnell and a variety of other people whoever replaced Mitt Romney.
Speaker 2: You know who doesn't have a chance. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: next Okay.
Speaker 3: We'll finish strong next day.
Speaker 10: Here, it's looking like the Supreme Court is going to
Speaker 10: uphold the ban on TikTok starting this weekend. If the
Speaker 10: band goes into effect, Americans can still see tiktoks, but
Speaker 10: the apple will stop working due to a lack of updates.
Speaker 3: It's pretty much what happened to President Biden. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: didn't know that till yesterday.
Speaker 4: The TikTok app, it doesn't like disappear from your phone
Speaker 4: or whatever, and you can still get it. It's just
Speaker 4: they're not going to be able to update it or anything.
Speaker 4: And over time it will work, it'll get bugs, and
Speaker 4: your new phone won't be.
Speaker 3: Able to use it, so it'll kind of phase out.
Speaker 4: Interesting again, as Jimmy Fallon said, they're starting this weekend,
Speaker 4: but it's not a hard cut off all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: TikTok dis beers this weekend.
Speaker 2: No, you just can't download the app. You could still
Speaker 2: access it online theoretically. I don't know how that differs
Speaker 2: the experience from having the actual app. I guess people,
Speaker 2: I was listening to a technical explanation of the how
Speaker 2: it develops bugs and win and then eventually it doesn't
Speaker 2: work at all. Stuff. But it was just it was
Speaker 2: a very dry and be over my head.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing there'll be a lot of reporting next week
Speaker 4: about how well it is or isn't still working on
Speaker 4: people's phones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about your youngsters. You get your homework done,
Speaker 2: learn to read and write.
Speaker 3: To go on a date, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, go have a couple of beers by the overpass.
Speaker 2: Don't drive, just go live life. Oh my god. So
Speaker 2: you gave a great it's so cool, it really is.
Speaker 2: Oh that's you gave a great tease.
Speaker 3: And I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 2: Oh it was. Which nominee for the cabinet is absolutely
Speaker 2: not going to make it? And that would be, uh,
Speaker 2: the perhaps highest profile guy, Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at a pretty good list of you know how
Speaker 2: many yes's and no's and maybe's probably there are in
Speaker 2: the Senate, and he has a whole lot of people
Speaker 2: who are barely even able to say, yeah, we'll give
Speaker 2: him a good look. A lot of a lot of Republicans,
Speaker 2: modern Republicans are very hesitant or very skeptical about him.
Speaker 3: So you're predicting he goes down.
Speaker 2: I am. I am indeed, so how I'm not rooting
Speaker 2: for it, per se. It'll be interesting to see. And again,
Speaker 2: he is a very bright guy. So how the hearings
Speaker 2: go nobody knows, but I don't love his chance.
Speaker 3: How will Maha react to that?
Speaker 2: Make America healthy? And yeah, they will react badly and angrily.
Speaker 4: Practically everybody I know who's into that, the sort of
Speaker 4: thing has Maga and Maha in their.
Speaker 3: In their feeds.
Speaker 2: Thought. I'm strong, I'm strong.
Speaker 3: Get ready with Katie Green and.
Speaker 1: Strong.
Speaker 3: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 2: crew to wrap things up for the day. Let's begin
Speaker 2: with our technical director, Michaelangelo. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 2: I agree with you guys. Young people, if you're listening, go.
Speaker 9: Find that cute girl, take her out for ice cream,
Speaker 9: Go to a square dance, Get out.
Speaker 3: There, Get out there.
Speaker 2: Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6: I just came across an interesting fact.
Speaker 4: They've now arrested forty people that were looting these fires
Speaker 4: in LA not one of them from the area.
Speaker 3: They all traveled there for the looting.
Speaker 2: Wow, they hang horse thieves or they used to just
Speaker 2: say stand story. Yeah yeah, indeed, My god, there can't
Speaker 2: be a sanctions severe enough Jackie.
Speaker 4: Final thought, This might be all you need to know
Speaker 4: about politics. One of the Democratic senators who's already announced
Speaker 4: he's a no vote, Senator Richard Blumenthal, for decades lied
Speaker 4: about being a Vietnam vet, then we all found out
Speaker 4: he wasn't, and he's still a US senator and gets
Speaker 4: to grill the potential sect deaf.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: My final thought. I'm looking at the handicapping from the
Speaker 2: various nominees, including Christy Nome, and the first thing they
Speaker 2: mentioned is that she fatally shot her dog. Credit cricket.
Speaker 2: Tell you what you need to shoot your dog, Go
Speaker 2: ahead and shoot it, but don't put it in your
Speaker 2: buck armstrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: I'll see it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Getty. He has to stop like the
Speaker 2: day before yesterday. Yep, absolutely, are you sure? Oh dead shure.
Speaker 2: I've been thinking that we really all need a trendous hug.
Speaker 3: Get the hell out of here. Do you think it's
Speaker 3: a little ot?
Speaker 2: It's one hundred on the crazy meter? Are you shuting?
Speaker 2: So let's go with a bang. I think our generation
Speaker 2: is very aware, like a lot of us are activists,
Speaker 2: and I think that awareness influences our drinking habits. On
Speaker 2: that high note, bye bye Armstrong and Getty.