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Speaker 1: You talked about General Marshall, who may be one of

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Speaker 1: the finest Americans he's ever lived. There's only ever been

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Speaker 1: seven hundred million of us half of all Americans who've

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Speaker 1: ever lived or alive right now, but General Marshall, this

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Speaker 1: figure of towering humility, judgment, probity, rectitude, titanic figure. And

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Speaker 1: in eighty years time, whatever river we've gone down from

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Speaker 1: Marshall to Pete Hegseath and so Pete hag Seth regardless

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Speaker 1: of we calls himself secretary of war or a kangaroo,

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Speaker 1: he is the Secretary of Defense under statute, under laws.

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Speaker 1: That's what he is. When he walked into a room

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Speaker 1: of eight hundred generals in front of a giant American flag,

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Speaker 1: strolling the stage reenacting the opening scene from Patent, which

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Speaker 1: is exactly what it what it was. There is a

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Speaker 1: there is a training right in the military that you're

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Speaker 1: familiar with, of course, that you know, young officers NCOs

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Speaker 1: are taught that you get out of your fox hole

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Speaker 1: and you go to your men, uh, not the other

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Speaker 1: way around. So a leader goes into the field, to

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Speaker 1: the front and goes to where the men are, and

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Speaker 1: not the other way around. So eight hundred generals at

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Speaker 1: great expense are gathered in one room at a set

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Speaker 1: hour to listen to Pete Hagsath and to listen to

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And I just wonder how you processed that

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Speaker 1: as you saw it. There's a lot of stuff that

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Speaker 1: goes on that isn't necessarily visible to delay person. If

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Speaker 1: you have a expert fly fishermen, they can see something

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Speaker 1: on the river that my naked eye doesn't see. If

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Speaker 1: you're watching a baseball game, there's a lot going on

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Speaker 1: between the pitcher and the catcher and the batter that

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Speaker 1: the casual fan doesn't see.

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Speaker 2: What did you see in that room?

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Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I saw was I wondered, in

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Speaker 3: advance of it if the generals would get together and

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Speaker 3: decide together not to respond to Trumps and excess attempts

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Speaker 3: to bait them into into either applause or buoy. To

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Speaker 3: be frank with you, and it was pretty obvious to

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Speaker 3: me that they had agreed, probably by email or on

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Speaker 3: a signal chat or something like chat, that they would

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Speaker 3: not respond, not applaud during either excess speech or Trumps

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Speaker 3: And so of course we saw that they didn't. They

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Speaker 3: most of the people that wrote about that disaster described

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Speaker 3: them as stoneface, and they were or every single one

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Speaker 3: of them said and did not react to what either

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Speaker 3: hag Saith or Trump said to them. The thing that

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Speaker 3: kind of amazed me was that these those generals, most

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Speaker 3: of them came from commands. They were not staff officers.

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Speaker 3: The staff officers, the staff generals from the Pentagon were

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Speaker 3: not there in that room. It was all the commanders

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Speaker 3: from all over all over the world who reported there

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Speaker 3: to to Guantaco. But even the staff generals, the staff

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Speaker 3: officers had been commanders before that, and all of those

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Speaker 3: generals understand what it means to command the military that

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Speaker 3: we have today, which is so diverse. I mean, seventeen

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Speaker 3: percent of the military it is female. About seventeen percent

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Speaker 3: of the military is black, About thirteen or fourteen percent

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Speaker 3: in the army and in the Navy and the Air Force.

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Speaker 3: There are Buddhists in the Army, in the Navy and

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Speaker 3: Air Force, there are Jews. There are people from every religion,

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Speaker 3: every background you can possibly imagine. And you know, it's

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Speaker 3: a it's an open society in the military because of that,

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Speaker 3: and yet it still has to be commanded that all

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Speaker 3: the stuff that peg Seith and Trump and the rest

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Speaker 3: of these fools referred to as woke is the stuff

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Speaker 3: that made the army what it is today, freeding people, equally,

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Speaker 3: celebrating everyone's background, equally, allowing people to practice the religion

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Speaker 3: that they have and the way they want to practice it,

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Speaker 3: allowing black soldiers to celebrate Black History, mott in all

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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. All the things that Headseeth is

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Speaker 3: now canceled, are the things that made the military what

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Speaker 3: it is. And all those generals know that. Those generals

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Speaker 3: know that they can't get up in front of a

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Speaker 3: platoon or a company or a battalion or a brigade

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Speaker 3: and say racist things, act like a racist because the

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Speaker 3: soldiers that they command would not be disposed of followed them.

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Speaker 3: You know what Frump doesn't get and what I think

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Speaker 3: even though Hagsith was in the Army as a lawyer,

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Speaker 3: I think he was, and he was in the Civil

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Speaker 3: Defense Court and the National Guard. What those guys don't

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Speaker 3: get is why all of these soldiers, including the generals,

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Speaker 3: joined the Army and Navy and Air Force and Marines

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Speaker 3: and Coast Guard. They want to serve their country. They're

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Speaker 3: not in there to make a lot of money. They're

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Speaker 3: not in there to get a bigger house or buy

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Speaker 3: a better car. My father used to say that the

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Speaker 3: army has always been underpaid and overworked and not housed properly,

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Speaker 3: but they are the most powerful force that the world

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Speaker 3: has ever known. Trump doesn't understand that you can't give

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Speaker 3: somebody a raise or promise somebody a bonus to get

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Speaker 3: roughly or most on the other extreme, to charge a

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Speaker 3: machine gun nests in a war. You don't hand out

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Speaker 3: raises and bonuses in combat. You don't hand them out

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Speaker 3: in peacetime. In the middle of all those generals knew that,

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Speaker 3: and all those generals understood that they were listening to,

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Speaker 3: especially with Trump, a man who just has no understanding

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Speaker 3: of that. Whatoever, and also they all understood from holds

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Speaker 3: them in contempt. They know that he said that the

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Speaker 3: fallen soldiers in Arlington and the soldiers who fell and

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Speaker 3: were buried overseas in France were suckers and fools. They're

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Speaker 3: contemptuous of that, and they're contemptuous of the man who

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Speaker 3: said those words. And they could sit there while they're

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Speaker 3: in that room, and look at Trump's face and listen

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Speaker 3: to him and know that when he was quoted as

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Speaker 3: saying those things, the quotes were accurate. Trump's speech was

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Speaker 3: a fire hose of braggadossio. And I think I wrote

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Speaker 3: and substact that when generals get up to be the

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Speaker 3: only thing that they brag about is what the soldiers,

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Speaker 3: sailors and marines under them have accomplished, not what they've done.

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Speaker 3: They don't get up and say I won this battle,

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Speaker 3: or my recruiting goals were met, or anything else. They

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Speaker 3: get up and say, Lieutenant so and so, who's in

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Speaker 3: charge of the reup of re upping this battalion hit

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Speaker 3: his recruiting goals this month. Let's hear it for Lieutenant

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Speaker 3: so and so. Let's give it him a cheer. When

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Speaker 3: I was in Iraq in two thousand and three as

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Speaker 3: a reporter, I literally heard of battalian commander give a

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Speaker 3: speech where he said that he also recognized another first

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Speaker 3: lieutenant who was in charge of You're gonna love this

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Speaker 3: garbage pick up in Moses, and he had recreated the

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Speaker 3: whole garbage system in Moses. And the battalion commander got

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Speaker 3: up and said, lieutenants, don't so stand up. We want

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Speaker 3: to give you a cheer for what you've done to

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Speaker 3: solve the garbage mess in Moses. They didn't stand up

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Speaker 3: and say I solved the garbage mess in Mooseel or

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Speaker 3: I did the recruiting thing. They said that the lieutenants

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Speaker 3: did it. So when those generals were listening to a

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Speaker 3: Trump brag about everything I won the election, I ended

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Speaker 3: these wars that the generals, every one of them knew

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Speaker 3: he didn't end. They had to have been sitting there

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Speaker 3: and just saying, what planet is this kindamo? And what

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Speaker 3: makes a man beat his own drama like that so

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Speaker 3: incessantly in front of an audience of people who had

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Speaker 3: accomplished things that Trump can't even imagine.

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